Sunday 25 March 2012

First 3D stereoscopic comedy launched

AK Entertainments India Pvt Ltd, one of the prestigious film production companies in Tollywood is entering the Tamil industry with a film titled Ace Raja Rani Jackie and Joker.

It has Shaam,Vaibhav,Allari Naresh,Raju Sundaram and others in the lead. A grand function was held for the puja with Tamilnadu governor Rosiah as chief guest and Silambarasan gave the first clap..

It is touted to be stereoscopic 3D movie and first comedy 3D movie in India. Sneha Ullal, Neelam and Kamna Jethmalani have been roped in to act in this bilingual big budget movie. The film is directed by Anil Sunkara who produced Dookudu, Tollywood's biggest hit and is produced by Ramabrahmam Sunkara.

Father-son duo Bappi Lahari and Bappa Lahari will give the music to the film. Stereography is done by the 3D Film factory of USA. Action sequences will be composed by action specialists from Hong Kong. The film will be picturized in Chennai, Hyderabad, Goa and Bangkok.

Vetrimaran cans a scene with Nakul

Ace director Vetrimaran shot a scene of the Nakul starrer, Naan Raja Aaga Poren, on Friday in a busy roads of Tiruvanmayur in Chennai.

People on the roads were pleasantly surprised to see the Aadukalam director shooting as a guest director! The film, Naan Raja Aaga Poren is produced by Udhayam VLS Cine Media and is by director Prithvi.

Vetrimaran is penning the dialogues. Nakul has joined the unit recently.

The scene was between Chandni and Nakul. Vetrimaaran visited the unit in the evening and stayed on to can some shots for the film.

An excited Nakul described the whole experience as ‘very intense and a huge learning experience’. Says Nakul, “I love working with Prithvi and getting to work with Vetrimaran was an added bonus for me.”

GV Prakash is handling the music while Velraj is the cameraman.

Rajinikanth & Sarath Kumar bond in London

Superstar Rajinikanth is in London shooting for his Soundarya Rajinikanth directed Kochadaiyaan under the supervision of KS Ravikumar. Two days back,Sarath Kumar flew in from Chennai and joined the shoot.

The shoot is taking place at the famous Pinewood Studios in London where all James Bond movies have been shot. The film, being shot with motion capture in 3D is using the latest technique.

Today morning Radhika Sarath Kumar and her son accompanied her husband to the shoot. During the break Radhika caught up with superstar and her husband.

Rajinikanth was in his elements and is said to have bonded well with SarathKumar and family.

Later Radhika tweeted: “Had some great laughs with Rajini, reminder of days when no caravan was in use, and we would sit together chatting, eating & sharing warm moments. There is great camaraderie between the actors, all down to earth, humble and refreshing to watch.”

Radhika also tweeted that AR Rahman visited the sets two days back and had lunch with all. The shoot of Kochadaiyaan is making brisk progress in London and the schedule will continue till the end of the month.

Sneha to play Vidya Balan’s role?

The beautiful actress Sneha, who is busy with her new project Haridas directed by GNR Kumaravelan with Kishore in the lead, will be playing Vidya Balan’s role in the Tamil remake of her latest release Kahaani.

Kollywood tinsel town is abuzz that Sujoy Ghosh directed Bollywood film Kahaani that is making good in the box-office will be remade in Tamil with Sneha in the lead. Kahaani revolves around a pregnant NRI lady searching for her husband, who is missing in Kolkata city. Sneha is touted to be replacing hot actress Vidya Balan in this yet to be confirmed venture.

The Punnagai Desam actress is waiting to screen her latest film Vidiyal with Sarath Kumar in the lead. This untitled thriller would go on floors after the diva got married with her love Prasanna on May 11th.

Nayantara offered prayers at Tirupati

The star actress Nayantara, who has come back to films after a while offered special prayers to lord Venkateshwara in Tirupati.

Nayan has taken the early flight to Tirupati and drove back finishing up her darshan. The temple committee seems received her on Wednesday, as were intimated before. Being the mid-week there was no crowd and Billa actress reported to have performed special pujas in the temple.

The diva is currently busy signing the dotted lines and reading various different scripts. Nayantara is going to enact in Nagarjuna’s film that will be directed by Dasarath in Tollywood. Coming to Kollywood the actress has signed Ajith and Arya starrer with director Vishnuvardhan and a film with Boopathipandian that stars Gopi Chand, baddie of Jayam in the lead.

Manorama hospitalized

The veteran actress Manorama, who was lastly seen in 2011 released, Prashanth starrer Ponnar Shankar, was hospitalized due to breathing problem.

Achi Manorama was joined in St. Isabel hospital, Chennai due to chronic breathing disability yesterday. Doctors shifted her to ICU, as they came to know she has stones in her kidney as well. It is also reported that a doctor will fly down from Australia to treat Manorama.

Speaking to the media her son Mr. Bhupathi said, “She was admitted due to breathing problem, doctors have diagnosed with stones in the kidney apart from this she is absolutely fine.” Doctor at St. Isabel says, Manorama will just be fine within a couple of days treatment.

Aadhi & Sarath Kumar to join Rajinikanth

The happening actor Aadhi of Aaravaan fame, has taken an early flight to London today along with Sarath Kumar, to join Superstar’s Kochadaiyaan team.

As way2movies reported viewers prior, Kochadaiyaan is the debutant directorial of Soundarya R Ashwin that casts Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone in the leads, which will commenced its shooting in London and will be shot for about a 20 to 25 days there, while the remaining movie will be filmed here in Chennai. The cast and crew of the movie has fly down to London for the shoot.

Radhika Sarath Kumar said, “Off to London with Sarath and Rahul. Rajini’s ‘Kochadaiyaan’ to hit the floors from tomorrow.” Kochadaiyaan also casts veteran actress Shobana, Nassar, Jackie Shroff and Radhika in the pivotal roles. Director K.S.Ravikumar will be supervising the movie that has music scored by AR Rahman. Sunil Lulla will be producing Kochadaiyaan under Eros Entertainment that has Rajiv Menon cranking the camera, which will entertain audiences in four languages Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Japanese and English.

Vijay’s producer grabbed Urumi Tamil rights

Kalpathi S Thanu, who is waiting to screen Vijay and Kajal Agarwal starrer Thuppakki directed by AR Murugadoss, is all set to release his Malayalam flick Urumi in Tamil.

Urumi has Arya, Prithvi Raj, Prabhu Deva, Vidya Balan, Nitya Menon, Genelia in the lead roles. This multi-starrer movie was helmed by Santosh Sivan, which will hit the screens of Tamil Nadu soon and the makers are planning to release this high budgeting film before they theater Vijay’s Thuppakki.

The movie has music by Deepak Dev, Editing by A. Sreekar Prasad, which will showcase the top notch stars in a never seen before way. Urumi is the period flick that is set in the backdrop of the fierce warrior of northern Kerala on the Malabar Coast, India in the sixteenth century.

Dhanush joins WWF to promote Earth Hour

The national award winner has joined his hands with [WWF] World Wildlife Fund to promote Earth Hour in Tamil Nadu.

Dhanush, who is busy with the promotions for his forthcoming movie 3, has come forward to support Earth Hour along with World Wildlife Fund. The Aadukalam actor seems to be following master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who is the brand ambassador for WWF. It is to be noted that Rana Daggubati is promoting this Earth Hour in Andhra Pradesh.

Shruthi Hassan is pairing opposite with Dhanush in the movie 3, the debutant directorial of Aishwarya Dhanush. Kasthoori Raja is producing this trilingual film releasing big in Tamil and Telugu on March 30, while the Hindi version will be released later. 3 has Velraj cranking camera, editing by Oscar winner Resul Pookutty and Anirudh Ravichander has scored the music tunes in the technical crew.

STR says Will you be my girlfriend

Simbu, who has recently come back from Los Angels after recording his Love Anthem-For World Peace has released one more teaser from his album.

The Manmadhan actor has revived his most waited projects Podaa Podi with Vignesh Shivan that has Varalakshmi Sarath Kumar playing Silambarasan’s love interest, which also marks her film debut, following with Vettai Mannan with his childhood friend and debutant director Nelson and Vetrimaaran’s directorial Vada Chennai.

Besides these Simbu is also touted to be crooning a track for Siddharth, Shruthi Hassan, Hansika and Navdeep starrer film ‘Oh My Friend’ being dubbed in to Tamil as ‘Sridhar’, which is sung by Siddharth and Shruthi Hassan in Telugu. The lastly released teaser goes with 'Will you be my girlfriend?' lines, which is another peppy number that has vocals of STR.