Amala Paul opposite Ilayathalapathi?

Now that actor Vijay and director Vijay are all set to join hands together for the first time, a guessing game is on as to who will be the heroine of the project?

It is said that Amala Paul will be the leading lady of the yet to be titled film. “As of now nothing is confirmed, but chances are bright for Amala Paul,” say sources.
This is going to be the first full-fledged commercial film of director Vijay, who is known for entertainers with a difference, such as ‘Kireedam’, ‘Poi Solla Porom’, ‘Madrasapattinam’ and ‘Deiva Thirumagal’.
The director is currently giving finishing touches to his much awaited ‘Thaandavam’, which has Vikram in the lead. Meanwhile, Vijay is busy with the last schedule shooting of ‘Thupakki’, directed by A R Murugadoss.

Dulqar Salman & Vikram Prabhu

Bilinguals are the way to go especially in south cinema, thanks to the dual benefit the makers can cash in on by starring actors who are popular in both the industries.

It is now said that Vikram Prabhu, grandson of thespian Sivaji Ganesan, who is foraying through Kumki will be seen in a Tamil – Malayalam bilingual with Dulqar Salman, son of ace actor Mammootty! Remember Dulqar has been keen in debuting in Tamil?
While Vikram Prabhu will be foraying in acting through ‘Kumki’, Dulqar has acted in ‘Second Show’ and ‘Ustad Hotel’.
The yet to be titled venture will be helmed by JD – Jerry.

Kamal next film with Fahad Fazil

As Fahad Fazil is getting ready for a hat trick of big hits with his new film ‘Friday’ scheduled for this Onam-Ramzan season, the news is that senior director Kamal has decided to cast him in his next movie. The actor who is currently busy with his character in the new Rajeev Ravi film ‘Annayum rasoolum’ will join this project by the end of this year.
Meanwhile, Fahad who has been selected as the second best actor of the year for his roles in ‘ChappaKurisu’ and ‘Akam’, is also enjoying the big success of his recent two films. Interestingly both of them ’22 FK’ and ‘Diamond Necklace’ is celebrating hundred days back to back,.

Actress Bhavana to act in Trivandrum Lodge

Actress Bhavana, who has done a cameo in the Malayalam film ‘Trivandrum Lodge’ is quite excited about the project.
Bhavana admits that her role is a short one, but maintains that she truly had a blast shooting her portions of the film. The reason for this was the helicam that had made much news during the shoot.
This was the first time a helicam was being used for shooting a Malayalam film, and the few scenes that Bhavana has in the film have been shot using the helicam. No wonder the actress sounds quite upbeat whenever she gets to talk about ‘Trivandrum Lodge’.

‘Amen’ Lijo Jose Pellissery’s new film

Director Lijo Jose Pellissery, has made a mark for himself in the Malayalam film industry with his first two films.
While his first film ‘Nayakan’ starred Indrajith in the title role, his second film ‘City of God’ had both Prithviraj and Indrajith doing key roles. Both the films were applauded by the critics, though they did not do too well at the box office.
His new film, ‘Amen’, says Lijo would be different from his first two films, and would be a musical set against the background of a church. Fahad Fazil and Indrajith play the lead roles, while Swati Reddy would be the heroine.

Sunny Leone has been invited as chief guest for Dahi Handi

Sunny Leone has been invited as chief guest for Dahi Handi by a local NCP leader Kiran Dagade PatiL. Earlier NCP has raised objections to Sunny Leone’s posters of Jism 2 on buses and bus shelters. But when it is a question of pulling the crowd, the same leaders see nothing wrong in inviting Sunny Leone as chief guest for Janmashtami celebrations! The NCP leader is reported to pay Sunny Leone Rs five lakhs for this appearance.

Poster Showing Sunny Leone As Chief Guest For Dahi Handi

So in Mumbai, NCP workers were tearing posters of Sunny Leone’s Jism 2 from bus shelters, in Pune the same party workers were busy putting up the posters of porn actress on the various hoardings.

Kiran Dagade Patil told media, “We have a group called Akhil Bavdhan Dahihandi Mandal and every year we celebrate the festival on a big scale. This year we decided to bring Sunny Leone and through one of our friends, we managed to rope in the Jism 2 actor and decided to pay Rs 5 lakh for her presence.”

Though inviting Sunny Leone to dahi handi is not without any opposition. NCP MP and former city party president Vandana Chavan said, “There is a drought-like situation in the state and it is surprising to know that people are ready to spend Rs 5 lakh to invite a celebrity as a chief guest.”

Though state NCP leaders are distancing itself from Sunny Leone’s appearance as a chief guest for Dahi Handi. State NCP spokesperson Madan Bafna told media, “NCP has nothing to do with the invitation. It is not a function organised by the party but by the legislator in his personal capacity.”

Till now Sunny Leone has not told anything to media whether she will attend the Dahi Handi festival. Sunny Leone is the Indo-Canedian born porn star. She participated in the reality TV show Bigg Boss. Mahesh Bhatt entered the Bigg Boss house to ask Sunny Leone to work in Jism 2. THE REST IS HISTORY!

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Julayi First Day Collections

Allu arjun and trivikram created magic with julayi yesterday. The film was released in 1200 theaters and opened to a positive talk all over.

As per the early estimates the movie should have collected around 6.5 crores share in AP alone. We will update as soon as we receive the exact figure.

Going by the trend the film is all set to register a hit at boxoffice. 2012 turned out to be a golden year for mega family and fans.

Update: Here is the area wise breakup of the shares:

Nizam – 1.85 Cr
Ceded – 1.40 Cr
Vizag – 0.55 Cr
Guntur -0.80 Cr
East Godavari – 0.49 cr
West Godavari – 0.42 Cr
Krishna – 0.41 Cr
Nellore – 0.40 Cr

Ramcharan to Nayak

Ramcharan is currently busy in shooting of three movies simultaneously. VV Vinayak is directing one of the film. The film is titled as Nayak. This was confirmed by none other than Thaman, the music director of the film.

The movie was recently shot in Kolkata and a few action scenes are canned. The unit will be heading to Greece and Italy next month for the picturisation of songs.

Kajal aggarwal and Amala Paul were romancing charan in this flick. Makers are planning to release the movie for sankranthi 2013.

Krishna Mukunda Murare?- Mahesh Babu

Mahesh babu is currently busy in shooting of Seethamma vakitlo sirimalle chettu movie and Dil Raju is producing the film.

Recently Dil Raju has all praise for Mahesh babu and officially announced that he will be a producing a new film with Superstar Mahesh babu.

As per the sources, the film will be titled as Krishna Mukunda Murare and the movie will be directed by vamsi pydipalli of brindavanam fame.

The movie may be launched in the later part of the year or in the first quarter of 2013. Stay tuned to know more details about the film.

Simhasanam Movie review

Director Shaji Kailas’ Simhasanam is at best a spoof of some of his own earlier hits.The film doesn’t work because it’s hard to empathize with any of the characters and the lead actors fail to rise above the flawed script.

With larger than life characters seen in umpteen films, awful situations, melodrama and irritating dialogues, this one mostly turn out as unintentionally funny. Shaji, who has scripted the film as well, has made some kind of a curious compilation of some of those already popular scenes from a few select movies.

Madhava Menon (Sai Kumar) is the patriarch of the wealthy Chandragiri family. This “feudal fascist” (as described in this film by one of the villains) is so powerful that the state chief minister comes to his doorstep to solve some political crisis and the natives in the area are being considered his ‘praja’ (subjects). His son Arjun (Prithviraj) is a daredevil as you would have guessed by now and the father-son duo takes on their rivals in true heroic style.
Lakshmi (Vandana) and Nanda (Aishwarya Devan) play the heroines who involve in some sort of a catfight that reminds of the Manju Warrier-Priya Raman tussle in ‘Araam Thampuran’ to get the hero’s attention.
The secular mind of the landlords, their faithful confidants, the quintessential ‘utsavam’ in the temple, the elephants, the kalari experts, the corrupt cops, the wily politicians… you name it and it’s all there aplenty. Worse still, even the dialogues are mimicry versions from the old movies.

Were the makers of this film sleeping for a decade or so, to suddenly wake up to make this old fashioned misadventure? That is the feeling the viewer gets while sitting through this tiring ordeal, as it is a total misfit during the current times. At almost two hours and forty minutes, the film never seems to end!

With nothing new to offer, Prithviraj looks ineffective and disinterested. Now, it is quite a mystery on why this hero selects some pathetic movies so often in his career!

Most of the other actors have been cast to suit their branded tags. The less said about the two heroines, the better and they seems to compete with each other to come up with the worst performance.

When DVDs of old blockbusters are available and when those classic scenes and dialogues are being aired on TV, do we need a hotchpotch of it all? It’s a mystery how films like this get made.