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

Shama meets with an accident!

Actress Shama Sikander met with an accident this week when her car was hit by a truck. Though she escaped injuries, her vehicle was badly damaged. "I was returning from the premiere of the new Bond movie ‘Quantum of Solace‘ late in the night when this huge Tata truck in front of my Scorpio suddenly took a sharp turn and banged my car," she says.
Though Shama admits she was a bit shaken up as it happened, she got out of her car and managed to stop the truck driver from fleeing. "I almost fought with him on the road, and for the first time in my life; ekdum filmi style. I didn’t let him budge from the spot," she adds.
Later, the cops turned up and Shama took the driver to a Police Station in Goregaon, Mumbai, and filed a TAD (Traffic Accident Data) complaint (number 104-08). This was also for the first time in her life that Shama actually entered a Police Station. "I had only seen them in movies, but I realised a real Police Station looks quite different," she quips.
"On hindsight, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I am myself surprised at my guts. I still cant believe that I actually got out on the road to face the truck driver. I was even about to hit that guy for his negligence when the cops landed on the spot. Since I’d just seen the James Bond movie, it seems I was in a full-on Bond mood while everyone was staring at the fight on the road," she laughs looking a bit embarrassed and a little proud of her retaliation.
Asked if she enjoyed the Bond movie as much as her road fight, Shama giggles, "I love Daniel Craig. I think he is the best Bond ever, different and stylish. He’s stronger than the others, quite a dude."
After winning accolades for her participation in the popular dance reality-show ‘Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena‘ on Colors last month, the actress is doing a film with Rohit Roy Productions. She has also signed two other feature films to be made by the renowned short film writer-director Kamlesh Kunti.
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realbollywood.com

Madhur Bhandarkar in Vaishnodevi after success of `Fashion`

High on the success of his latest film "Fashion", film director Madhur Bhandarkar today visited the shrine of Vaishnodevi in Jammu and Kashmir.

"I am here to thank the Goddess after the success of `Fashion`. It is the biggest hit of my career. It is a great moment for me," Bhandarkar said.

The director said he was slightly apprehensive as the subject of the film was totally different and the film did not have any lead actor in it.

"It was a great risk for me to make a film on the background of fashion but I am happy that the public has accepted my film," Bhandarkar said.

The film`s theme is based on the story of a small town girl`s experience in the glittery world of fashion through the story of Meghna Mathur, a role played by Priyanka Chopra.

The movie ran into trouble after Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) objected that Kangana Ranaut`s character in the film had a striking resemblance to Delhi`s former model Geetanjai Nagpal. The movie was later passed with an `A` certificate.

Bhandarkar`s latest offing was a follow up of his trademark movies based on real issues and people. His earlier films like "Page 3", "Corporate", "Traffic Signal", "Satta" etc were also based on similar issues.

The movie stars Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Mugdha Godse.
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Mallika Sherawat over stressed with Hisss

Mallika Sherawat recently completed a schedule of Jennifer Lynch’s Hisss in the jungles and backwaters of Kerala. It was almost as if she was holding on for the schedule to end. On her return to Mumbai, the actress collapsed. Says Vikram Singh, Mallika’s brother and co-producer (along with Govind Menon and Ratan Jain) of Hisss, “Mallika has been suffering from extreme exhaustion and very high fever ever since she returned from Thekkady, where we were shooting. She’s resting at home but is still very weak. She had high fever on the sets but she chose to shoot through it. We had doctors and medical aid on the sets around the clock.” Though Mallika had doctors on the sets, she refused to take too much medication. Vikram adds, “Though there were doctors on standby Mallika doesn’t believe in medication. She’s a naturalist and believes getting cured the natural way or through yoga, so severe exhaustion hit her once the shoot got over.” The actress is suffering from exhaustion and high fever because of the rigorous schedule. “She was shooting every day from 5 am till late evening for the last 15 days. And it would rain heavily every day.
Also the jungle was infested with insects and leeches which crept inside her snake suit and would make it difficult for her to remove. The leeches, especially, were all over her body as she had to lie down on the ground,” confirms her brother.
But before she took ill, Vikram, Jennifer and the unit of Hisss had a Diwali celebration in the jungle. Vikram says, “We called a pandit who only chants Sanskrit hymns to do a puja. We had idols of Lakshmi and Ganesh. It was very nice and a different way of celebrating.”
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www.bollywoodz.net

Reema comes clean on Selva

The demure and ravishing beauty Reema Sen who is currently busy with the shooting of her film 'Aayirathil Oruvan' has come out into the open and gave her thoughts regarding the buzz that director Selvaraghavan has been putting the stars into torture to come up with best performances. Reema said that there is no truth in such news and added that Selva has been quite friendly and many artists would love to be a part of his movies. Well that's a clean slate for you Selva!!!
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bharatstudent.com