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by Rinku Gupta The Nayanthara starrer Kolaiyuthir Kaalam is readying for release.   Shot majorly in England the film is a thriller produced by Etcetera Entertainment and StarPolaris Pictures LLP.  The film is directed by Chakri Toleti who could not attend the press meet as he was in the US. The heroine Nayanthara, though absent at the event, came in for much praise from the guests present. Dignitaries present included Radha Ravi, Sai Priya Dev, Suresh Kamatchi, Pravin Kanth, Karu Palaniappan, Durai,  Rajshri Ponappan and producer V Mathialagan amongst others. After several speeches and counter replies regarding the problems within the  producer council by Suresh Kamatchi, Pravin Kanth and Durai, Karu Palaniappan  and Radha Ravi tried to lighten the tense mood and urged producers not to bring these  issues to a film event in the public eye. Said producer V Mathialagan who has made films like Appa,  ' The film's Karnataka rights hav...

by Rinku Gupta M Seraphin Raya Xavier's  production Kee directed by Kalees and with  camerawork  by Abhinandan Ramanujam is ready for release after a long wait. The director has researched the techno thriller project for 5 years.  At a press meet,  apart from a song, a clipping of an important part of the film was shown. The main villain is Govind Padmasuriya, an actor  from Kerala. Said he, ' Its an intense character and the best I've done  so far. When Kalees called me he said it will be  different image from your Kerala films. He had great clarity before shoot and made a teaser and showed me. His confidence impressed me along with the clarity of vision. Working with Jiiva changed from fan moment to friend moment! Nikki I knew as I had hosted shows before. But she didnt recognise me on sets since Kalees had changed me so much for this character. ' Anaika Soti has done an important role of a press reporter in the film. Said Jiiva ( click ...

by Rinku Gupta After the superb public response to direcror Selvakannan's Nedunalvaadai, the team held a succes meet recently. Poet Vairamuthu who has written the much appreciated songs, was present at the event, as was heroine Anjali Nair and hero Ilango. Both the hero and the director recounted how they had met Vairamuthu earlier on in thier lives and how he was an inspiration to them to pursue their  film dreams, with his encouraging words. Heroine Anjali thanked her parents along with the team and recounted that  she never imagined that the film would achieve such kudos from the public. Ilango also thanked Mime Gopi, who had shown his photo to the casting team due to which he was finally selected for a role and a career that has changed his life forever. Director Selvakannan said he was thrilled to have Vairamuthu's lyrics in his film which for him was the biggest achievemnt in his life.     

by Rinku Gupta Agni Devi stars Bobby Simhaa in the role of a cop called Agni. He is pitted quite by chance against  a powerful  and ruthless politician  Shakuntala Devi ( Madhubala) after a murder happens at a public place in broad daylight. Agni manages to join the dots after a series of clues and witnesses keep appearing and giving him leads to solve the case  However, his boss ( Bose Venkat) is eager to wean him off the case which somehow leads up to the corrupt , scheming and greedy politician Devi,  who will quell any insubordination with an iron hand. Agni is unstoppable and vows to expose the baddies. In this game of one upmanship, who will win and at what cost? While Bobby Simhaa fits effortlessly into his syern, thinking cop look,   Madhubala' s expressions go mostly over the top, both distractin, and bordering on unintentionally comical at certain places. Her body language doesnt manage to convey the fury of her dialogue somwhow. But...

by Rinku Gupta The story revolves around a girl Rashmi ( Dhansikaa) who by accident captures a murder on her phone at a resort on New Years Eve. When her fiance Aditya ( Thakur Anoop Singh) returns to the room he finds her missing. Tense moments later he manages to reach her on the mobile and she  reveals that  shes caught in the trunk of a moving car  while escaping from the goons who spotted her filming thier crime and want the proof back. From then begins a cat and mouse game of a chase between Aditya searching for his love, who gets into the clutches of the evil kingpin Dharmendra ( Kabir Duhan Singh). Several forest chases and stunts later, the hero and villain meet only to find that Aditya has an old score to settle with him as well.Who will win ? The stunts are many and at every few minutes a powerful  muscled baddie enters the scene, with Anoop Singh fighting them all. Lots  of blood, gore, flying knives and screwdrivers inflicting  deep wou...

 Nayanthara starrer ‘Airaa’ is all set to have a worldwide theatrical release on March 28. At this juncture, the crew comprising of Music director Sundaramurthy KS, actor Kalaiarasan and director Sarjun were present for a short and crisp media interaction with press and media. Here are some of the excerpts from the event...  Music director Sundaramurthy KS has wowed  music lovers with his mellifluous and enjoyably packaged album. However, he rendered very few words of appreciation with just thanks to everyone in the team for giving him an opportunity to be a part of this film. Of course, best musicians have always been people with few words , for their songs speak aloud about their hard work.  Next it was actor Kalaiarasan, who said, “Soon after my film ‘Madras’, many have been consistently asking me why I am not doing any movies as such. Of course, I am unceasingly looking for such projects. Soon after Madras, I started working on films with m...

by Rinku Gupta  Embiran is a love story directed by Krishna Pandi and produced by Panchavarnam Films. The story centres around a young girl Jaya ( Radhika Preethi) who falls love with a doctor called Priyan ( Rejith Menon) though he has no clue about it. She lives with her granddad ( Mouli) who is s temple priest. By the time she is able to declare her love for Priyan, tragedy strikes. Her grandfather dies and she goes into a comatose state. In the meantime Priyan finds strange  dreams recurring daily and troubling him. Does he find a solution to his problem? How is it linked with Jaya? Do the youngsters unite ? Radhika Preethi looks pretty and  innocent just as she is meant to be. She fits the role well. Rejith as the doctor does justice to what is required of him. The both of them make a goid pair. The camerawork by  M Pugazhenthi gives pleasant visuals though at times the camera lingers too long on close ups. A lot of time is spent focussing on phones, ...

Producer Boney Kapoor who launched director Amit Sharma has now bought the South Indian language rights of the filmmaker's recent blockbuster Badhaai Ho. The sleeper hit jointly produced by Junglee pictures & Chrome pictures had a dream run at the box office with 100 glorious days in theatres,not to mention Global collections of more than 200 crores. Boney Kapoor who put his faith in the director and launched him in Tevar ,has now bought the rights of Badhaai Ho directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma, to remake it for the South market. Sources reveal that the producer also collaborates with Amit for his next with Ajay Devgn , a biopic  based on football player and coach Syed Abdul Rahim. Keerthy Suresh is making her Hindi debut with this film. Says a source , " Producer Boney Kapoor was the first to put his faith in Amit who at the time was a celebrated ad filmmaker . Now that his recent film Badhaai Ho went on to achieve a blockbuster status , Boney will be ta...

by Rinku Gupta Produced by RBK Entertainment, Aghavan is directed by APG Elumalai with camerawork by Bala Palaniappan and music by C Sathya. The film is set in a village giant temple which is at the periphery of a village. The caretaker Marugavel ( newbie Kishore Ravichandran) and his co worker Ezhuthu ( Thambi Ramaiah) fund strange sounds and movements at night, around them. When Murugavel begins to investigate, he finds a link to his past, namely the mysterious death of his brother and disappearance of a friend's wife. When he begins to find clues and follows up on things, a whole plot of stealing temple wealth is revealed. The developmentsAghavama  takes him  back to mythology and history in an intriguing manner. Who are these powerful people  and does Murugavel find a way to stop them is the story. The first thing that strikes you about thr film is the fantastic camerawork with its rich visuals of amcient temples and aerial shots of various locations.  ...

by Rinku Gupta Produced by Kaviya Entertainment and directed by KC Sundaram, July Kaatril is a refreshing take on love in the age of social media and modern work-life pressures. The story revolves around 3 youngsters ( Anant Nag and his two girlfriends at different stages in his life,played by Anju Kurian and Samyukta Menon). Sathish plays his comic friend and confidant, with the witty one-liners and gyaan on women and their wily ways. The hero is a an IT guy and finds himself interested in a psychologist ( Anju Kurian) whom he meets at a party. One thing leads to another and soon they even decide to get married with the blessings of their families who feel they are ideal for each other. However, our hero finds that the spark is missing from his love life. Its when he meets a photographer (Samyukta Menon) that he begins to feel that she is the ideal one for him. He decides to break his engagement. But to his surprise, he finds that despite a mutual  attraction and compatib...

by Rinku Gupta Nedunalvaadai is a rural saga directed by Selvakannan and produced by B Star Productions. The film revolves around the story of a farmer Selaiyaa (Poo Ram) who has to support his  daughter and her two kids, after she is estranged from her abusive husband. His son resents his father's decision to take her back thus, as he feels she has lowered his social standing and also may end up  getting a share of the family legacy. This resentment puts a great fear of the future and pressure on Selaiyaa whose only goal becomes raising his grandson Ilanga (Ilango) and educating him in a way that would ensure he gets a good job and is able to support his mother and  sister. Though Ilango tries to fulfil his duties as per his grandfather's wishes, there comes an obstacle in his path, when he finds himself in love with his childhood sweetheart, Amutha (Anjali Nair).  Try as he may, he is unable to shake off the emotion. Her family is against the idea of their...

By Rinku Gupta Gili Bambaram Goli is a story revolving around a group of 3 boys and a girl who are from India and work in Malaysia to earn a living to support thier families. The foursome ( Prasath, Naresh, Tamil and Deepthi Shettty) meet by chance and end up becoming friends, all sharing a common history of having to support thier families.  Due to a series of circumstsnces they run into a local don called Chandra ( Santhosh Kumar) who lusts after the girl in the group. He threatens her to give herself up to him. Unable to put up with the gang of baddies and their constant atrocities, all four  friends end up losing their jobs. With big families to support back home, they have to find a way out of the mess.  It is then that they come up with an idea that offers a glimmer of hope, namely the game of Gilli Bambaram Goli. Do they succeed in escaping the don and his henchmen and return to pursue their dreams forms the story. Directed by D Manoharran the film is p...

Based on true events in producer PN Balaram's life, Krishnam is directed by  Dinesh Baboo who has also cranked the camera. The story revolves around the life of loving parents who dote on thier only child, Akshay ( Akshay Krishnan, son of producer Balaraman). The parents are ardent devotees of lord Guruvayurappa. The son is a carefree college goer who loves his parents very much. In the midst of a wonderful life tragedy befalls Akshay one day when he falls ill. The doctors in the hospital declare he needs urgent surgery and has only 1 percent chance of survival. What happens after that,  a miracle, is what is revealed in the film. Thr film is based on the real events in Akshay's life and how he survived imminent  death just be by his father's  sheer faith in lord Guruvayoorappa and divine intervention. ' It happened in my son's life and I wanted to tell this story to the world,'said the producer. The filming is well done and the interest in  the story ...

by Rinku Gupta The second film of director Ranjit Jeyakodi, IRIR centres around the story of a young man and through his life, explores the meaning of true love . In brief, its about a youngster Gowtham ( Harish Kalyan) who has anger management issues due to his latent anger at his mother having eloped with another man, abandoning him when he was a child. Even as a grown-up he cant come to terms with this and all his rage comes out on others when he is provoked, or in order to defend his friends ( Makapa Anand and Bala Saravanan). One day a series of events lead to his meeting a girl Tara ( Shilpa Manjunath) whom he eventually falls in love with slowly. Letting her into his world bit by bit he is still afraid she too might leave him one day. But even though she assures him she never will, circumstances  and communication  gaps due to mainly his insecurities,  become obstacles in thier path. His worst nightmare comes true and she does leave him for another man. Fru...

by Rinku Gupta After a long gap, director Selvakannan's Nedunalvaadai is now ready for release. ' The film took several years to make due to many issues. But we are happy its finally releasing,all thanks to my producer, ' says Selvakannan. ' In everyones life there will be somebody who would have sacrificed a lot so that thier loved ones could live a good life. This film is about such people who sacrifice for us. Everyone will be able to identify someone like that in thier lives.' The theme of the film seems to  highlight the pain of separation of a grandfather with his grandson. Starring Poo Ram, Mime Gopi, Elvis Alexander and Anjali Nair, the folm has music is by Jose Franklin. The film has  lyrics by Vairamuthu and is produced by B Star Productions. The movie releases on March 15th.

Captain Marvel  is the story of an extraterrestrial, a Kree warrior, who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrulls. She keeps having visions about her past but is unable to sort out the meaning of it all. She has recurring memories of another life as U.S. Air Force pilot Carol Danvers. Thanks to a series of events, she lands up on Earth and  with help from Nick Fury whom she runs into,  she manages to    unravel   secrets of her past. In this journey she realises who her real friends are and learns to harness  her special superpowers for peace. Brie Larson manages to bring out both the strength and vulnerability of Carol and Captain Marvel. Samuel L Jackson as captain Fury is a solid support and thier screen time together makes for some tense, entertaining and  interesting moments. Her transformation into Captain Marvel and the galactic fight scenes are to watch out for. So too...

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...

by Rinku Gupta Ispade Rajavum Idhaya Raniyum ( IRIR )  is a love story which will hold you emotionally is the gist of what the speakers said at the press meet today.  Said music director Sam CS ,' All ages will connect to this story. This is my first full love story. I am very satisfied after doing this film. Theres lots of scope for Harish Kalyan's acting in several facets. The story revolves around Shilpa and Harish. Bala Saravanan and Makapa Anand have done a good job at comedy.' Director Ranjit Jeyakodi gave a lot of freedom to us revealed Bala Saravanan who described  himself as the joker in the film. Shilpa Manjunat of Kaali fame thanked Harish Kalyan for making her comfy in the intimate scenes. 'I have gained a good friend now' she said. She also gave credit toBala Saravanan for helping her and teaching her Tamil during  the shoot. The heroine has also dubbed for her role. The director said , ' After the release of Melissai I got this opportunit...

by Rinku Gupta Produced and directed by R Kannan, Boomerang is an entertainer espousing a cause.  Story in brief: Shiva ( Atharvaa) injured in a fire, undergoes a face transplant. But his life changes rapidly after that, as he discovers that people are out to kill him. He reckons it must be a case of mistaken  identity,  confusing him because of the face of   Shakti ( previous  Atharvaa whose face was transplanted on him). As the attempts increase, Shiva is now determined to find the truth and let the perpetrators know that he is not who they mistake him for. This task  leads him to Trichy. There he unravels the past of Shakti, an IT guy turned farmer, who had tried to link rivers and help the village farmers. But vested interests ( Upen Patel) had him killed. Does Shiva avenge the murder? The film has no lags and the screenplay  moves swiftly.  The entire cast ( see list below) has done a good job including Atharvaa in a role cut ...

by Rinku Gupta RFI Films' Spot is produced by VRR who is also the director. The story revolves around a group of young boys ( Karate Kaushik, Rehaan and others ) who go to a disco to celebrate a birthday. There they run into a young girl ( Agni Pawar) who is being chased by goons hired by a henchman ( Nasser) who are out to kill her. The youngsters pull her to safety in thier car during the attack and what follows is a long car chase right up to Karnataka. As the goons threaten them with death and even kill one of the boys who goes to fetch diesel, the young lady reveals the reason behind the chase and how she landed in such a dire situation. Hearing her story, the boys vow to help her even at the risk of their lives. Do they manage to take on the dangerous gang? What happens next is the story. The young hero, Karate Kaushik has done a good job especially in the stunt sequences. With a good voice modulation he has carried off the emotional scenes as well. Wat...