Bhagwan to be shot in 12 hours !

The pooja of Bhagwan, a film to be shot in 12 hours using about 10 cameras and five units, was held at Kochi on Thursday last week. To be produced by Vijesh Mani under the banner of Anaswara Cinemas, Bhagwan is based on the evil effects of terrorism.
During the pooja function, a cheque of Rs. one lakh was handed over by the hero Malayalam superstar Mohanlal on behalf of Anaswara Cinemas to the Inspector General of Police Winson M. Paul to be given to the family of police officer Mohan Chand Sharma, a Delhi Police officer who was killed during an encounter with terrorists at Jamia Nagar in Delhi on September 19.
Mohanlal is playing a gynaecologist in Bhagwan by debutant director Prasanth Mambulli will be completed in a single schedule at a hospital in Kunnamkulam, Trissur. Bhagwan presents five lyricists and five debutant music directors. Tamil actors Prakashraj and Nasser will appear in meaty roles in the film which is expected to be released on January 26.
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entertainment.oneindia.in

Queen of Yesteryears, Sumalatha is back

Sumalatha, one of the most popular actresses from the mid eighties to the nineties, suddenly disappeared from films after she got married to politician turned Kannada superstar Ambareesh in 1991. Debuting in films at age 15 after winning a beauty contest in Andhra Pradesh, she had acted in almost all types of roles from character to high action movies like Thoovanathumpikal, Thaazhvaram, Newdelhi, Izabella and Ee Thanutha Veluppan Kalathu.
With a stunning capability to handle six different languages, Sumalatha literally ruled Southern films of her generation. Now, she is all set to make her comeback into Malayalam with the upcoming Prithviraj movie Calendar to be directed by debutant Mahesh. In this film, Sumalatha will appear as a character named Thankom George, a widowed professor who lives for her only daughter Kochu Rani. Planned as a hilarious comedy, the movie will have Prithviraj in the lead as Sojashan Olikkara, who brings a dramatic twist in the lives of mother and daughter. Navya Nair is the heroine.
Other cast members include Mukesh, Jagadeesh, Jagathy Sreekumar, Vijayaraghavan, Mallika Sukumaran and Sooraj Venjaranmoodu. Babu Janardhanan pens the script for Calender, which has already started shooting at Kottayam last week. Calendar will be Prithviraj's Vishu release.

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Vijay with his political moves

Actor Vijay launched his party flag before couple of months on his birthday and preferably, it was a smart move by his dad S.A. Chandrasekhar on political terms. Later, he took up the hunger protest for genocide killings in Sri Lanka as a token of expressing monopoly over his fans. Yup! The actor requested his fans to post telegrams to the office of governor as a single person. If you believe, according to the sources it has been revealed that around and above 50,000 telegraphs has reached the Governor's office. Now to up the back on the Sri Lankan issue the star and his fans are conducting a one-day fast and protest at the Chepauk Guest House in Government Estate in Chennai on November 16. Let's see how the stars keep striding with their own political parties. Already there have been many leading actors floating various political parties and let's see who's gonna top-the-chart….

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cinema.anytimechennai.com

Sanjay Dutt in Arasangam remake

Earlier, we had reported that Arasangam (which starred Vijaykanth and Sheryl Pinto in the lead) will soon be remade in Hindi. Now, it is said that shooting for this remake will start in the beginning of 2009 with Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt reprising Vijakanth's role. Arasangam did quite good business throughout Tamil Nadu. Bollywood veteran Sanjay Dutt, who became famous for his work in Munnabhai MBBS and Lage Raho Munna Bhai, has also decided to produce this project.Director Madhesh said that he is quite happy to do a film for an esteemed actor like Sanjay Dutt and feels more responsible as he is working for his budding production company. Though this is his first Bollywood film and he has a big task of adding value to Sanjay Dutt's production company, he says that he does not feel any pressure or stress, but is fully charged up to do justice to the faith the actor has in him.The director also said that he is involved in the brainstorming sessions of a Tamil action film, which he will direct soon. He said he will come out with the details shortly.

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starboxoffice.com

Kushboo is now a playback singer!

It seems to be the season for actresses turning playback singers. Recently actress Sandhya sang a song for a movie titled Manjal Veyyil. The movie has a musical score by Bharadwaj.

Noted Malayalam actress Mamtha Mohandoss rendered a couple of songs in Telugu that were set to tune by Devi Sri Prasad. Joining the list is Kushboo.
The dream girl of youth in 1990s, Kushboo has sung a racy number for Maganae Marumagane. The movie, produced jointly by Muthulakshmi Movies and Raj TV, is directed by T P Gajendran. Starring Vivek, Mithun and T P Gajendran in the lead roles, the movie has a musical score by Dhina.
Kushboo rendered a song Natchatram natchatram boomiyilae paaru....Dhinam rathiriyil un kanavil varuvadhu yaaru?.... , penned by lyricist Snehan. The song was recorded at Dhina's music studio in Chennai on Saturday. Kushboo, who made her debut as child artiste, shot to fame with Chinnathambi. She went on to become a popular heroine acting opposite almost all prominent artistes including Rajnikanth, Kamal Haasan, Sarath Kumar, Prabhu, Karthick and Vijayakanth.
After her marriage to director Sundar C, she decided to reduce her acting commitments. She ventured into production churning out movies and mega serials.
Speaking about her debut as playback singer, Kushboo said, ' I was extremely thrilled when director T P Gajendran urged me to sing a song. Initially I was hesitant to sing. However Dhina and Snehan helped me a lot and made me feel comfortable. I understood the difficulties involved in playback singing. I am confident that this song will top the audiocharts for it has a catchy tune and the lyrics are hilarious, she added.
Vivek will be doing an important role in the film, touted to be as significant as the hero’s himself. He is paired with Yamini Sharma, who shared the screen with Vadivelu in Indiralohathil Na Azhagappan.
Speaking about the movie, Gajendran says, ' it is about a son and son-in-law who create a ruckus within a family. It will be a hilarious entertainer and the whole family can sit and watch the film.'
Journalist Krishna Davinci has penned the dialogues and Rajarajan did the cinematography.

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Gautham Menon thrown out of Ajith's film

Director Gautham has been removed from Sivaji Productions' next film with Ajith Kumar.
According to the latest news, Dharani, the director of Vijay's Gilli and Kuruvi will direct this venture and the shooting would start sometime in December. Dharani has been asked to complete the script in an appealing way; a typical masala film for Ajith fans.
Sources reveal that the rift between Gautham and Ajith has been the main reason for the termination of the director from the project. Gautham wanted to try out something different with Ajith, a realistic thriller based on Abu Salem-Monica Bedi affair. But Ajith did not like the narrative style. He wanted something aggressive, an action oriented plot as against Gautham's present script. It is said that Ajith is impressed with the one liner narrated by Dharani and has requested him to pep it with interesting twists.

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entertainment.oneindia.in

Arjun carries heavy burden alone

The audio release of the film 'Sindhanai Sei' was recently held at Chennai. The chief guest of the function was Action King Arjun. Producer A M Rathnam, Amma Creations Siva and Kottai Sekar had released the first cassette and gave the same to Dharani, Venkat Prabhu and Boopathy Pandian respectively who in turn gave the audio cassette to
Arjun amidst huge applause. The occasion was dotted with some interesting anecdotes.Music for the film is composed by Sai Thaman who was one of the 'Boys' discovered by director Shankar. Songs of the film were rendered by the singers (on stage) who had sung the same in the film. Each number was different and the speakers who spoke on the occasion said that the songs are sure to be chartbusters.
When Venkat Prabhu spoke, he said that Thaman was the first choice for Premji's character in Chennai-28 and he used to play drums in their band. He adds, "Our performance used to bring the roof down. After one of our performance, a newspaper has reported the picture of only Thaman and all that I can say was 'enna kodumai sir idu'. Anyway, when I wanted to cast him Chennai-28, he was on his way to UK with Mani Sharma and that's how Premji came into the picture". Further on, Venkat Prabhu wished the new music composer all luck and success.
When Arjun got up to speak, he had some interesting information to share about Rajashekhar, the producer of the film. He says, "One day when I was casually flipping the channel, a dance movement in a Kannada film caught my attention. When I enquired I came to know about Rajashekar and then I brought him in as dance choreographer for Chengottai. He is such a hard working person who works without expecting anything." He also said that this producer cum director cum choreographer is sure to reap success.
A heavy garland with six feet height was adorned on Arjun without any support along with a flower crown and the poor actor had to pose with it for quite some time. The burden indeed was very heavy.
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behindwoods.com