Abbas with a new heroine in 'Manasthan
One of the films that remained incomplete and stranded with the untimely
death of the actress Pratyusha is 'Manasthan' - a film starring
Sarathkumar and Abbas. The film is a village-based subject. Pratyusha was
supposed to play the lead pair opposite Abbas is now being replaced by
newcomer Radha who has made her debut in the film "Sundara
Travels". The scenes with Abbas and Radha are being shot in Pollachi
and the film is slated to be released after the Sarath Kumar's 'Thenkasi
Pattnam' release in June. This is second village-based role Abbas is doing
after his hit movie 'Anandham'. The other heroine in the film opposite
Sarathkumar is Sakshi.
|
Arjun and Amitabh in "Yudh"
Action king Arjun is doing a Hindi movie called "Yudh". The big
B who seems to be in a spurt of making guest appearances is also making
one in Arjun's movie. The movie is directed by Sunil Bohra. The inaugural
function of the film took place in Mumbai at a star hotel. Most of the
Bollywood film dignitaries were present for the function while Ambitabh
was all praises for Arjun regarding his feeling of patriotism and how much
Arjun always focussed on patriotism in all his films.
|
A Baba back up
Baba and his 21-member crew, which includes Manisha Koirala, had gone to
the Swiss Alps for the film shooting. They had an extra luggage apart from
the usual apparatus necessary for the film shooting. It was an 800 kg
luggage. It was a banyan tree, an artificial one, that was needed as a
prop for the movie. The tree could be dismantled and packed into 40 wooden
boxes. The news around the industry is that tree is also a part of the
nucleus of the movie. While we are hoping those hanging roots of the
banyan tree really bear the weight of the high expectations that are
running high around Baba the latest update around Baba is that there was
an entire stunt scene which was choreographed in way where Rajinikanth
used only his right hand alone.
|
First Tamil movie in South Africa
Wealthy NRIs abroad always are lured to invest in films or drawn to make
their debut in the Indian film industry. Following the lines is Dees
Pillai a Tamilian living in South Africa. Pillai's daughters Priyaloshini
and Karasi have finished their studies in the Film Institute at Chennai.
The daughters and father have now completed a film project called "Naalai".
Karasi Pillai is the heroine of the film 'Naalai' while Khushboo's brother
Abdullah Khan is the hero in the film. This is the first Tamil movie to be
directed by a South African. It's the story of how a girl from South
Africa comes to Tamilnadu and become a top leading personality. The movie
will be making its release in the month of June in South Africa, Malaysia,
Singapore, Canada and Tamilnadu
|
An O-Podu season for Vikram and Kiran
People are cashing on the unexpected success of everything and anything
related with "O-Podu" of Gemini. While a Telugu movie starring
Simran and Reema Sen is now released in the name of "O-Podu" in
Tamil. Kiran, Gemini's heroine is replacing Aarthi Agarwal who was
supposed to act opposite Prashanth in the movie "Winner". Aarthi
Agarwal was removed from the film following an inconvenient date schedule
that did not suit the Director Sundar C of the film "Winner".
While Chiyaan Vikram is still basking in Gemini's success his earlier
films he made in Telugu are now being dubbed in Tamil and released. His
film Telugu film "Aadala Majaka" is now being dubbed as 'Vahini'
in Tamil and is due to be released. Co-starring with him is "Uha",
it is none other than our Sivaranjini. The film 'Thrill' starring Vikram
and 'Laila' is also a Telugu re-make
|
Panchathanthiram - Round up
While Panchathanthiram is getting already to be released on June 14th
2002, the movie rights have already been sold out in Singapore, Malaysia
and other foreign countries. While here back at home, the producer
P.L.Thenappan of Sri Raja Lakshmi Pictures who is seen as the marketing
guru in the industry, a man who sees every hurdle as an opportunity has
already sold the movie rights here in Tamil Nadu to a popular cable
channel at a cost that any box office hit film would make. According to
Yuhi Sethu, of Vijay TV's Nayandi Durbar who plays the role of a forgetful
chemistry professor in Panchathanthiram says the film finally marks the
beginning of comedy movies coming of age in the Tamil Industry. Kamal and
his team are doing a road show promoting the Panchathanthiram movie. The
road show that got over at Madras is now set to happen in Bangalore. The
contestants are required to give a one-liner as to why they consider
themselves lucky to dine with the Panchathanthiram stars. The winner gets
to dine with Kamal Haasan and the other cast of Panchathanthiram |
|
|
