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By Rinku Gupta Neeya 2 was a much awaited multi -starrer given the success of the original few decades ago. The story is not a sequel but quite different from the original though the vengeance angle is common. Malar ( Raai Laxmi) a rich pannaiyar's daughter, falls in love with a middle class boy Vikram ( Jai) but due to opposition from her family they flee the town. On the way they find a thali hanging from a statue and use it to marry in a remote spot. But that unleashes a series of tragic events since the thali was intended for the wedding of 2 snakes in love ( Varalaxmi in a brief appearance, being one of them). Malar is cursed to turn into a snake and pine forever for her lover. Cut to the present, Malar finds that Vikram is now in another birth and had forgotten her completely and is going to marry his lady love ( Catherine Teresa). A desperate Malar then tries to make him recall her lovers previous birth and unite with him. Does she succeed? Raai Laxmi as Malar is th...

by Rinku Gupta Jumbo Films A Sridhar's Neeya 2 is ready for release. The film stars Jai with 3 heroines, Raai Laxmi, Varalaxmi and Catherine Teresa. The film is directed by L Suresh. A large part of this film has VFX which has been done in lot of detail with special close -ups of snakes. The cameraman is Rajavel Mohan. GN Murugan has done the stunts. Said comedian Bala Saravanan, ' Suresh sir is one of the best people I have met. He would treat big and small actors equally and knows how to extract work from his actors. This film is totally commercial with love, comedy and specially concieved snake episodes.' There are 5 fights in the film which were challenging said stunt master GN. The most challenging was the screen fight between 2 heroines. Heroine Raai Laxmi revealed that it was very difficult to shoot with all the CG work. She also had to work with a live snake. ' I was excited about this script which was very different from all the horror scripts...