‘Mallika I Love You’ all set to hit screen

Nayanatara and Ajit are playing the lead roles, while Navadeep is playing a key role in “Mallika I Love You’ directed by Raju Sundaram. Basically it is a Tamil film, and Vagicharla Muralikrishna is dubbing it into Telugu.
The producer says, “A father wants to see his children in high position and in that process, he chooses some wrong paths to satisfy the needs of his children. Learning this, the children distance themselves from their father. What happened later has to be seen on the screen. We have completed the dubbing process and we are making efforts to release the film during this month.”

Rambha in the remake of ‘When a stranger calls’

These days, Kollywood seems to be much adhered to continuous remakes as the producers consider them as the safest bet. Now followed by Ninaithale Inikkum (remake of “Classmates’), Kamal Haasan starrer “Unnai Pol Oruvan’ (A Wednesday) and Dhanush’s “Kutty’ (Allu Arjun’s “Aarya’), its turn of Rambha to get along with the same formula.

The actress seems to be elated for praiseworthy laurels won for her performance in “Quick Gun Murugan’. Instantaneously, the actress gets ready for next release “Vidiyum Varai Kathiru’ featuring her in lead role.

The film is about a young girl, who has to spend an entire night alone in her uncle’s home. Things are fine until she receives anonymous calls from a stranger harassing her over the phone. The ominous voice threatens about killing her over the night. With no options left the girl calls up the cops who in turn trace the call. But it’s really appalling to know that the stranger is calling from nowhere, but within the house.

Viyas has handled screenplay, dialogues and direction while Tan Joor has tuned melodies to lyrics of Pa. Vijay. Panneer Selvam has cranked the camera and Pallavi has produced under the banner of Pariyaj Creations.

The film also features Prakash Raj and Riyaaz Khan in prominent roles.

Prakash Raj gets Rs.4 mn for brief appearance in Kannada film

Versatile actor Prakash Raj returns to Kannada films after a long gap with “Dhool” for which he has reportedly been paid Rs.40 lakh. He is also set to direct his first movie in the same language.

A remake of Tamil film “Thiruvilaiyaadal Aarambham”, which had Dhanush and Shriya Saran in lead roles, “Dhool” stars Yogi and Aindrita Ray in lead roles. Prakash Raj will be seen as Aindrita’s rich brother in it.

The actor will also feature in Crazy Star Ravichandran’s “Manjina Hani” in a negative role. He has already finished seven days shooting for the film and is busy with another schedule that started Sep 5.

“When I started writing the role for the new version of ‘Manjina Hani’, I only had Prakash Raj in my mind. I could not think of any other actor to do that role,” said Ravichandran who had to wait for Prakash Raj for nearly a month before starting the second schedule of the film.

Prakash Raj, who is producing the Kannada remake of his much acclaimed Tamil movie “Abhiyum Naanum”, will wield the megaphone for the first time for it. The Tamil version was produced by Prakash Raj and Radha Mohan had directed it.

Kamal Haasan to sign deal with Mysskin

Finally, Kamal Haasan puts an end to the rumors on-air about his working with filmmaker Mysskin. Earlier, reports stated that Kamal had resent Mysskin’s offer of remaking “Swing Vote’. But it was a sort of surprise, as the actor himself made official announcements on the occasion of “Unnai Pol Oruvan’ audio launch.
Addressing the media channels, Kamal said, “Yes, it’s true that I am working with Mysskin next year. Since, it’s a historical subject, a lot of research work has to be done. Meanwhile, I am directing a film that will feature me, Kamal Haasan and K. Balachandar in lead roles.
” According to the sources, Mysskin seems to have penned a script based on the real life incident that took place after the death of Buddha.

I want to do more films like ‘Kanchivaram’: Prakash Raj

“Kanchivaram”, set in the pre-independence era, has bagged top honours - best film as well as best actor award for Prakash Raj at the 55th National Awards, announced Monday. The actor says he is inspired to do more such films, while director Priyadarshan feels it will change his image.

“This is what my production house Duet Movies is striving for. The joy of doing such films is great. I want my contemporaries in the industry to experience it,” Prakash Raj told IANS.

Prakash Raj gives credit for the film’s success to his director.

“All credit should go to Priyadarshan and his team. He was hitherto called as commercial filmmaker. Had he wanted, he could have gone ahead and done some commercial ventures and made enough money. But he had the guts and conviction to do meaningful movie. I dedicate this award to Priyan, our art-director Sabu Cyril and cinematographer Thiru.”

Priyadarshan is equally thrilled with the award and said: “People call me comedy director. From now on, they can call me ‘comical serious’ director. We made the movie with a purpose. All the artistes, crew and technicians gave their best and the result is here to see.

“Doing such films gives one immense satisfaction. When it is recognised with such awards, it motivates and encourages one more.”

The director, who is known widely for his comedies like “Hera Pheri”, Priyadarshan said: “‘Kanchivaram’ is a movie that is straight from my heart. Wish I do many more in future.”

‘Ninaithale Inikkum’ lacks flair-Review

Film: “Ninaithale Inikkum”
Cast: Prithviraj, Priyamani, Sakthi, Anuja Iyer, Karthik, Bhagyaraj, Jeeva; Director: G.N. Kumaravelan
Producer: Gemini Film Circuit, Sun Pictures; Music Director: Vijay Antony; Cinematographer: Balasubramaniam
“Ninaithale Innikkum”, a remake of recent Malayalam hit “Classmates”, was touted to be a campus movie loaded with lot of fun. Unfortunately, it not only fails to recreate the same magic, the movie was far from being impressive.

The story goes like this - Siva (Prithviraj) returns to attend his college reunion. He beats up Vasu (Karthik Kumar) for misbehaving with a girl and his friend Sakthi (Ajmal) supports him. Jealous of Siva’s popularity, Vasu is on a prowl and looking for an opportunity to take revenge.

Meera (Priyamani), daughter of local MLA who studies in the same college and falls in love with Shiva after he saved her from a police lathicharge, provides him that chance.

Vasu convinces Meera to contest against Shiva in the college’s union elections. This affects their relationship. After a sequence of unfourtunate events during the election, Siva packs his bags and leaves Mumbai without informing anyone.

The problem with the movie is that almost everything is predictable and most of the incidents are packed in a dull manner. Even the romance between the lead pair isn’t executed with zest.

The beginning seems interesting, but it fails to live up to the expectation. If the first half stutters and staggers, latter half too fails to impress despite some interesting twists and turns.

While the director has handled the flashback technique well to make the narrative interesting in the second half, it has proved to be inadequate to save the movie.

One fails to understand why the political overtones of “Classmates” are mysteriously missing from the Tamil version.

Music composer Vijay Anthony and cinematographer Balasubramaniam deserve complements for their work. While the former has come up with some delectable tunes, the latter has captured them well.

Prithviraj, Priyamani and Sakthi play their respective parts well.

Despite good story “Ninaithale Inikkum” fails because it’s executed in a dull manner.

When Kamal Haasan took to the mike for Shruti

Kamal Haasan’s multi-faceted daughter Shruti Haasan sure has an ear for music and how Currently composing music for her dad’s film “Unnaipol Oruvan’, the Tamil remake of “A Wednesday’, this young lady convinced her immensely talented father to sing for her

Now it’s not for the first time that Kamal Haasan took to the mike, but it’s definitely for the first time that the proud father sang for his daughter.

According to our sources, Shruti wanted to infuse something different in the songs. Having a cult status down south, Kamal Haasan’s voice is one that people identify with immediately

Shruti had a clear idea of what she wanted and she experimented with her father’s voice in a way that’s never been tried before. She has made her father sing not just one but two songs for the film, each of them belonging to a different genre. One is a mellow soft Sufi based song and the other is a commercial song with elements of hard rock in it

Shruti also had a great time with her dad doing voice warm-ups where she was the one bossing him around

Well, the outcome of this role reversal sure looks spectacular and the father-daughter duo seem all ready to rock