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This latest movie of Balakrishna seems touching sky as per acting, direction and popularity is concerned. No doubt it will be a big blockbuster from here onwards.
Here is the complete team responsible for this epic saga fulfilling the fans appetite.
Banner: United Movies
Producer: Parachuri Sivarama Prasad, Parachuri Kiriti
Direction: Boyapati Srinu
Hero:Nandamuri Balakrishna
Heroines:Nayantara, Sneha Ullal, Namitha
Villain: Kota & Saikumar(Malayalam artist)
Supporting Cast:Kota,Brahmanandam,Ali,Venumadav,K R Vijaya,Krishna Bhagawan, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Saira Bhanu,Sai kumar,Raghu,Aditya Menon,Jeeva
Cinematography: Arthur Wilson
Music: Chakri
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Action:Stun Shiva Lakshman (Ram-Lakshman) Ram (Ram-Lakshman)
Rating – **** star ( 4/5)
Review – So here is the characters in brief. Balakrishna has played a double role in this film as Narasimha(Sr/Father/Doctor) , Sri mannarayana(Jr/Son/Professor).Nayanathara as gayatri wife of Narasimha. Sneha ullal as janaki lover of jr..Kr Vijaya as mother of sr balayya,Brahmi as a compounder.
Good action packed drama at first half with few instances of comical scenes with a main focus on introduction on Balakrishna. The actresses Nayanthara, Sneha Ullal and Namitha build to make others gape, gawk and gaze and their aura full of grace or in a word otherworldly. Few skin show of Namitha as well.
One day while balayya fighting with villain gang to save Janaki( Sneha Ullal), at that time janaki's dad attacked on balayya as he thought that ballayya also in part of villain gang and so and so.
In a nutshell, Choreography is the best that he can. Action undoubtedly reminds me blends of few old Hollywood extreme movies.
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Hai Vijay Fans… Vijay's Sura has released worldwide with nearly 500 prints. In chennai alone Sura has been released in 16 screens.
At Fan Speak section here is an oppurtunity for all Vijay Fans to write you own review about Vijay's 50th movie Sura. You can also write what you like and don't like in the movie.
It's time to Share your views here at comments Section…
Movie Review Of "Phoonk 2"
Starring Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Neeru, Amit Sadh, Ahasaas Channa
Directed by Milind Gadagkar
Rating: **
In one of his multitudinous interviews to promote this intended shiver giver Ram Gopal Varma said the scariest film he had seen in recent times was Karan Johar’s Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna.
Now that’s a scary thought. Because Johar’s film didn’t belong to the horror genre. Phoonk 2 does.And it is definitely NOT the scariest film we’ve seen. Varma’s terror theme has clearly run its course. What we see here are the remanents of another Friday. And definitely not Friday The 13th.
Perched somewhere between crowing (ahem ahem) about the supernatural and crying over the nerve-wracking disruption of domestic harmony by a ghost which just won’t go away Phoonk 2 is like that promised rollercoaster ride which gets aborted in the first lap because of a short circuit.
It’s not really Varma or his director Milind Gadkar’s fault. It’s the nature of the material.
Ram Gopal Varma’s love for horror has never extended beyond the there’s-something-under-the-bed kind of unwarranted foreboding that we all feel in a new environment.
In a majority of his horror films a family moves into a new haunted home and experiences the eerie.
Ironically Varma’s best effort in the horror genre was Kaun where the victim of terror (Urmila Matondkar) was stalked by unseen forces in her own familiar home. The terror, it turned out was not under the bed, but in the mentally disturbed girl’s head.
There wasn’t much terror let alone horror in Phoonk. Under the bed, or in the head.
In Phoonk 2 the characters’ screeching plea to have us believe they are under immediate peril is sadly not communicated to the viewers . We remain tragically detached from the trauma of Kannada star Sudeep’s family.
Haven’t we seen it all?
By now the trademark Varma camera movements, here manoeuvred with emphatic energy by cinematographer Charles Meher, and the intricate cluttured but effective sound design (Jayesh Dhakkan, Jayant Vajpayee) do nothing to suck us into the plot.
The technique remains unfastened to the characters.Their desperate attempts to get away from the supernatural remain desperately detached from the audience.
At the end of the 2-hours into the zone of error-terror we are left wondering why Varma threw open a contest inviting any viewer to undergo an ECG to check his heartbeats.
It is this film that needs a respiratory system. Varma’s last horror outing Agyaat with its spooky ominous wide-open jungles was far more gripping.
In Phoonk 2 you wonder what the fuss is about. These people have nothing to fear except fear itself.
And yes, Ramu was right. The crow does come up with the best performance. And that’s nothing to crow about.
Movie Review Of "Paathshala"
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Nana Pateka, Saurabh Shukla, Sushant Singh, Swini Khara, Dwij Yadav, Avika Gor, Anjan Srivastava
Director: Milind Ukey
Rating: **
There are few films, a star does for friendship and some with the lure of working under a big banner, irrespective of their content.
An extremely choosy actor Shahid Kapoor after giving big hits like Vivaah, Jab We Met and Kaminey has been giving duds like Dil Bole Hadippa (Yash Raj Films), Chance Pe Dance (UTV) and an equally bad follow up with Paathshaala.
Shahid’s friendship with producer of the film, ace choreographer Ahmed Khan is well known. But still we wish, he should have not blindly trusted his buddy when it came to a film!
Shahid plays Rahul Prakash Udyawar the new English teacher joining Saraswati Vidya Mandir, a school established in 1941. Since the school doesn’t have a music teacher, he ends up being one as well.
He gets help in this from the school's nutritionist-cum-admin girl, Anjali Mathur (Ayesha Takia). School principal Aditya Sahay (Nana Patekar).
Anjali ends up falling for Rahul during this process. Sahay who has nurtured the school for 32 years, cannot see it going down financially. So, he gives in to the management's demands of generating more revenue by commercialising the operations of the school.
This is met with intense opposition from the teachers, but they eventually have to comply to save their respective jobs. The school management even decides t hired PR experts to change its image.
Thus began, film and ad shoots happen on campus wherein students are used as extras. And before they know it, all kids have to now keep aside studies for 10 days and prepare for a reality show audition.
The rest of the film is about how the reality show thing tortures the students and how Rahul stands against it.
Director Milind Ukey who gave us the very lovable animated film Hanuman has got a good topical subject on hand but falters big time in the script written by producer Ahmed Khan himself.
While it identifies the problems perfectly, a proper solution is not offered in the end. Also what happens to the school finally is also not made clear.
Bad dialogues are made only worse by loud acting by most of the cast. Certain emotional scenes leave you either bored or end up making you laugh. Hanif Sheikh’s music barring the Lucky Ali number Aye Khuda is nothing much to praise about.
In an attempt to showcase how education goes for a toss in private schools as the managements aims to earn the extra buck the makers also don’t lose out a chance to make a satire out of the media, shifting focus from his original aim.
The pathetic climax is unintentionally hilarious with no conclusion to what happened to the villains of commercialization and all suddenly become well!
Shahid Kapoor and Nana Patekar are the only saving graces of the film with their well nuanced performances. The rest including Ayesha Takia don’t really make a difference. The child stars are just about okay.
Avoid this Paathshaala if you are in no mood for a badly written gyan giving film.
Movie Review Of "Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai"
Starring Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ruslaan Mumtaz, Vishal Malhotra Written & Directed by Milap Jhaveri
Rating: ** ½
They don’t make ‘em like they used to. Those wholesome take-home-to-Mama type of chicks.And they don’t make such innocent yeh-kahan-aa-gaye-hum rom-coms either.
So naturally, or not so naturally, writer-turned- director Milap Zaveri gets his heroine, the toothy, endearing wholesome and fetching Jacqueline Fernandez to fly down to earth from Venus.One-way, business-class.
Women we were always told, were from Venus. Now we’ve proof of that.
Many of this pleasant film’s most likeable moments send out inoffensive echoes of Hollywood comedies about ladies from another world, like Splash and My Girlfriend Is An Alien. The final brew is aromatic in scent and minty in taste. The effect lasts fleetingly, though.
The situations that crop up once the alien beauty lands range from the predictable to the strained. No one in this film is in it for posterity. It’s a film done with a wink and a chuckle that communicate itself to the audience effectively.
Everyone in Zaveri’s film is looking for love. Riteish Deskhmukh more so than others. Apparently love has been eluding his character since infancy. Baba’s searching.
There’s a touch of Ram Gopal Varma’s Rangeela in the way the vagaries and eccentricities of the film industry are brought into play.
Strangely Milap’s writing skills, so much on display in many of the most successful comedies in recent times, is missing in the scenes set within the Bollywood film industry.
Sure. we get a good dekko at well-known stars. But they aren’t woven into the script as they were in other films about the film industry like Guddi and Rangeela.
The scenes where Riteish courts the delectable ingénue from outerspace lack subtlety but get marks for grace.
Riteish Deshmukh, a competent performer in any given circumstance, is engaging in the comic moments, but a little awkward doing the full-on roses-and-moonlight stuff. Matinee idol making girls faint, Deshmukh ain’t. 
Ruslaan Mumtaz as his adversary in love is a pleasant surprise. Over the handful of films that this young actor has done he shows a definite growth as an actor.
He plays the ‘superstar’ as a stereotype but with a dash of the human quality. Could we see more of Ruslaan in forthcoming films, please?
Jacqueline’s is more a presence than a performance. She is that mermaid with wings who flies at an altitude where the desi rom-com is comfortably positioned as a family affair.
Absence of vulgarity and double-meanings is not always a virtue in cinema. In Jaane Kaahan Se Aayi hai, it is the papier-mache pristine quality that props up the pleasant proceeds.
Don’t expect to be swept off your feet. This one is meant to tickle your fancy. And it doesn’t fall short.
Movie Review Of "The Bounty Hunter"
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston
Directed by Andy Tennant
Rating: *
After Gerard Butler’s last rom-com The Ugly Truth we really thought it couldn’t get uglier.
We were wrong.
The Bounty Hunter is the armpit of rom-coms. It takes us a while to figure out a film this awful can contain stars so saleable and supposedly unassailable.
But there you have it. A romantic- comedy plot written into a project featuring the overrated stars and their most invisible off-screen chemistry, packaged in a plot that seems to have been written on a day when inspiration was at an all-time low for the writers.
The Bounty Hunter begins with Butler cruising in a convertible with Aniston locked in the dickey.
Before we begin to wonder if Butler, who plays a guy appointed to nab people who jump bail, can be called Dickey Tracey (there are multiple puns tucked into that one) the plot jumps the gun in more ways than one as the unbelievably-bizarre situations crowd the couple on the run.
This is Bonnie & Clyde without the biting wit or the acerbic twists. Yes, there is basic sacrcasm in every line. But beyond a point who the hell cares whether this hysterical pair loves or hates each other? Butler and Aniston don’t make a great pair.
They just look like two travelers who could do with a wash. Sure enough during the second lap of their fun-run-gone-phut the couple reaches a honeymoon resort run by a giddyheaded couple who sniff around Butler and Aniston and say, something smells like the cesspit.
We can’t smell anything. But we know exactly what it feels like to watch a film that really and truly stinks in every department.
Aniston and Butler are given to play characters straight out of a late-night risqué sitcom. Tragically they’ve no love-making to do on screen.
That might have been more interesting than watching the couple snarl and snipe at each other in canine fashion. The only use they make of their lungs and mouths is to shout abuses expletives and recriminations at one another.
Finally the anything-but-wholesome twosome get what they deserve. One another.
A word on the performances. Aniston plays all her screen parts as extensions of her prolonged tenure on Friends. She’s flat and spaced-out in most of the scenes. As for Butler, what is all the fuss about? The actor insists on playing every character as an aggressive modern-day Viking with no respect for the fair sex.
The boor is a bore.
Movie Review Of "The Japanese Wife"
Starring: Rahul Bose, Raima Sen, Chigusa Takaku, Moushumi Chatterjee
Written & Directed by Aparna Sen
Rating: **
The final lap in this lyrical but contrived tale of unfufilled love shows two women coming together after the tragic death of the man they both loved. One, the Japanese wife of the title, the other a silent widow of meagre means.
By then it's too late. "The Japanese Wife" has lost its claims to its director's fame.
This story of a long-distance 'marriage' between a Bengali bhadra-lok from rural Bengal Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and his Japanese pen-pal Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) suffers from an incurable disease known as Inherent Silliness. Based on a true story by Kunal Basu, this is the ultimate non-romance between two people who thoroughly deserve each other.
They're both so annoying and outdated in their naivete, you see! The couple married to each other for over 15 years never meets and barely speaks to each other on the phone a few times (talk about phoney relationships, this one takes the cake).
When Miyage falls ill in Japan Snehmoy goes to the doctor in Kolkata with her medical reports. The doc's expression when he hears why the patient can't come personally to be examined is exactly the way we feel about this long-distance marriage.
Aparna Sen, in what is arguably her most disastrous film to date, intersperses the over-sweet ridiculously idealistic relationship with quaint post-picture images from Snehmoy's rural home life with his aunt (Moushumi) and widow (Raima Sen) who moves into the schoolteacher-hero's home with her son.
Snatches of changing times such as Bipasha sizzling to "Beedi jalayle" on television remind us of how outrageously old-fashioned the basic storyline is.
While Rahul's Japanese connection makes you want to run and cover your face in a kimono, the actor's rapport with the widow's son (Rudranil Ghosh) conveys a natural warmth and grace.
Aparna Sen has always shown a keen eye for visual detail.
The scenes from Snehmoy's home life, the architectural details, the scenic landscape, incidental characters encountered in the toasted-brown lanes, and the boats riding the swelling rivers are done with heartwarming tenderness.
Full credit to cinematographer Anay Goswami for using the screen space to create picture-post card scenes of rural Bengal echoing images from Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali".
The art-direction, sound and most specially the composition of the frames once again shows Aparna Sen's glorious mastery over visual detailing and her skill as a celluloid storyteller so evident in her earlier works. 
This time Aparna Sen is let down by the basic implausibility of the material. What could have been a poignant and haunting tale of love, understanding and marriage between two people from different cultures and countries ends up being just a misconstructed series of verbal exchanges on the soundtrack between Rahul Bose and the Japanese actress whose individual accents are as grating on our nerves as any put-on accent we've ever heard in cinema.
Bose, who has repeatedly proved himself a skilled actor, is unable to take his character to a level beyond the irritating. What is supposed to be moving and emotional often turns out to be unintentionally laughable.
Watch Rahul masturbating frantically in a boat after he promises his chitti-biwi from Japan to remain sexually faithful to her. This is Rahul's second masturbation scene on screen after Dev Benegal's "English August".
The first time his character was bored. This time he's just desperate. So are we.
To keep a straight face while the characters talk to each other in thick accents about love and togetherness without ever meeting (or mating). This is stretching the imagination. Sorry, it just doesn't work.
As for the long kite-flying sequence it puts you off kites forever. Sorry, Hrithik and Barbara.
Rahul Bose's vast abilities to get into character here fight a losing battle. His performance never goes beyond the accent. Raima Sen is as usual, lovely and in-character. Wonder why she continues to be sidelined! 
And it's a pleasure to watch Moushumi Chatterjee return as Rahul's goodhearted but scheming aunt. But as Rishi Kapoor always says about his performances in failed films, 'Faiyda kya hai?' (What's the use)
If you are a fan of Aparna Sen's work (as I am) you would be deeply disappointed by her descent into this self- important but frustrating film about a couple which deserves each other for all the wrong reasons. Arjun Sablok did long-distance love much better with Hrithik Roshan and Esha Deol in "Na Tum Janon Na Hum".
Movie Review Of "Chase"
Starring: Anuuj Saxena, Udita Goswami, Tarina Patel, Samir Kochhar, Rajesh Khattar and Gulshan Grover
Director: Jagmohan Mundhra
Rating: *1/2
It was just last week, with the release of Jagmohan Mundhra’s Apartment we spoke about Bollywood filmmakers destroying the thriller genre by only coming out with blatant rip offs of foreign flicks or non exciting plotlines.
After watching this week’s new release Chase yet another misdirected venture by Mundhra, we wish to plead to the makers that stop murdering this genre! A couple of pathetic twists and sleazy sequences don’t necessarily make a thriller.
Justifying its title, the film begins with a chase. Cops are chasing a terrorist, one Sohail Ansari (Anuuj Saxena). Though they eventually capture him, he gets injured in the proceedings.
He is diagnosed with an illness called locked in syndrome and is sent to a neurological research centre so that he gets cured and spews out the names. An attractive nurse Nupur (Udita Goswami) wants to prove that Sohail is faking his illness and acting.
She therefore tries to wake him up with her strip tease act. She even pushes him into the river which results in Sohail finally waking up. The rest of the film is all about what truth Sohail is carrying about a political murder and how he manages to prove his innocence to everyone.
If Jagmohan Mundhra’s direction is pure bad, the script of the film is plain ridiculous.
Anuuj Saxena’s hard work is noticeable and he succeeds in impressing. One just wishes he gets a good script to justify his talent. Udita Goswami yet again exposes (apart from her body) her limited acting range.
Playing Anuuj’s journalist girlfriend in the film, Tarina Patel’s cleavage gets more scope than her acting prowess. Samir Kochhar and Rajesh Khattar provide adequate support. Gulshan Grover despite getting limited scope leaves his mark.
Shammi Kapoor’s son Aditya Raj Kapoor doesn’t share the acting talent his rest family members have.
None of the technical departments impress much. Vijay Verma’s music too has no recall value. The title song seems to be lifted from BEP’s Pump It.
Chase is one of those utterly forgettable films that keep releasing at regular intervals in Bollywood and are the reason why the flop ratio in the industry is so high. So just don’t even bother to waste your efforts of going to the cinema hall for this one.
Sindhu Menon's Wedding Got Unnoticed
It's a real surprise that media channels seem to have rather ignored the wedding of South Indian actress Sindhu Menon, which was held last Saturday in Bangalore.
Hailing from Kerala, the actress made her debut in the Tamil film industry with Bharathiraja's 'Kadal Pookal' and shared screen space with Murali in K.S. Ravikumar's 'Samudram'. Off late, the actress became busy with other regional film offers including Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
Her comeback in Kollywood with Shankar's supernatural thriller 'Eeram' won her rave reviews and indeed endowed with Hollywood offers.
Last Saturday, the actress entered wedlock with UK based IT Professional Prabhu in Bangalore with several celebrities from the film industry gracing the occasion. 'Eeram' filmmaker, Arivazhagan, and actor Nanda were also present for the marriage.
Movie Review Of "Apartment"
Starring Neetu Chandra, Tanushree Dutta, Rohit Roy, Anupam KherDirected by Jagmohan Mundhra
Rating: * ½
Long before Director invented Perversity, Billy Wilder made that tender film The Apartment…not knowing that some day far away in that madness on the look-out for method called Bollywood Jagmohan Mundhra would use that title and little else from Wilder’s gentle movie.
Mundhra’s Apartment reads like a frighteningly disembodied episod, neither passionate nor bloody enough to qualify as a genuine slasher flick, of a television mini-series built around the theme of suburban loneliness.
We’ve seen many films on the theme of what Mumbai does to the outsider.
This one, by its own subverted logic, shows the outsider, a mentally disturbed girl from rural Maharshtra, creating havoc in a neatly-arrange spick-and-span apartment block somewhere in downtown Mumbai.
Neetu Chandra is the life and death of this surprisely-relaxed almost inert suspense thriller. She acts strange and with reason.Her character suffers from acute insecurities. Neetu Chandra makes her home in chic air-hostess Tanushree Dutta’s home and resents the city girl’s debonair boyfriend (Rohit Roy, seeming to enjoy his part).
The build-up is a little too slow for a slasher-movie (apartment gone to the devil!). By the time the payback is on, we are much too distracted by the trivial atmospherics and incidental characters played by guys and women who seem to have been rejected in fashion shows in the first round itself. These are people probably pronounce ‘champagne’ with the gee.
The four principal characters hold together the unhurried plot. Anupam Kher as Tanushree’s poet neighbour is an engaging diversion. Other distractions like a tacky item song and intermittent song breaks choreographed like a high-school function, are a huge impediment.
It’s Neetu’s show all the way. The girl knows how to hold an expression without looking like she was doing it for effect. Wish there was more to hold up her performance. Most of the time she performs in a vacuum.
Lately Jagmohan Mundhra made film like Provoked and Shoot On Sight which had a point to make. In Apartment he strolls back into the province of the pointless.
Movie Review Of "House Full"
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Arjun Rampal, Ritesh Deshmukh, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Boman Irani and Randhir KapoorDirector: Sajid Khan
Rating: ***
After a long painful drought (thanks to the exam season and IPL matches) of plain boring to irritating films arrives Sajid Khan’s Housefull. While in totality it does fall short of being the big great summer entertainer that it is been claiming to be, it however manages to bring many laughs for you. However, eventually it settles down in familiar territory.
Housefull narrates the tale of Aarush (Akshay), a perpetually unlucky bloke and a loser in life who moves into the house of his best buddy cum another loser, Bob (Ritesh) and his wife Hetal (Lara). But things continue to go wrong for Aarush.
Convinced that true love can fade away his bad luck jinx, a desperate Aarush enters into many complicated situations while seeking it. Thus enter Sandy (Deepika) and Devika (Jiah) in his life.
Things complicate further with the arrival of Sandy’s angry brother Major Krishna Rao (Arjun Rampal) and Hetal’s estranged dad Batuk Patel (Boman Irani).
How Aarush and Bob in an attempt to hoodwink Krishna Rao and Batuk go on creating more confusion leading to a mirthful chaos forms the rest of the plot.
Much was expected from Sajid Khan who has been literally claiming from rooftops for weeks now that he has made the year’s biggest blockbuster. Though he has not entirely let us down, you do wish he could have opted for a more innovative plot.
The second half ends up being more of an Anees Bazmee film what with characters trying to hide identities and going on a lying spree.Sajid Khan also seems to have taken the slap stick humour bit quiet seriously what with so many slaps happening within the film. A ‘slapathon’ sequence reminding of his Heyy Babyy takes place too.
The film loses its tempo with the introduction of Jiah’s character. But thankfully gets it back right in the second half where Akshay and Ritesh’s histrionics to hide the truth from Arjun Rampal and Boman Irani.
To give Sajid due credit, he has created many rip roaringly funny situations that are further elevated by his actors. Amongst the most hilarious sequences are most of the scenes featuring Akshay and Ritesh together. They share terrific chemistry.
The climax set in the Queen of England’s Buckingham Palace is a laugh riot (literally). The film is high on glamour quotient what with three attractive bodied heroines (Deepika, Lara and Jiah) parading in skimpy outfits most of the time.
Akshay Kumar is back in terrific form, evoking huge laughter with his poker faced humour. Ritesh Deshmukh is another great comic talent who often gets his timing right. Arjun Rampal suits the part and looks dapper.
While Deepika looks sizzling hot, Lara manages to score over her in the comedy department. Jiah tries hard and ends up being just about passable.
Boman Irani goes over the top as usual. Making a come back on screen after a long gap, Randhir Kapoor playing Jiah’s Sindhi dad doesn’t get much scope. Chunky Pandey is plain irritating playing Akhiri Pasta an Italian hotelier. His fake Italiano accent grates on your nerves.Shankar Ehsaan Loy’s music perfectly syncs in with the mood of the film. Mika sung foot tapping number Apni To Jaise Taise featuring Jacqueline Fernandez is a sure shot chartbuster and is fun to watch on screen.
The editing could have been tighter especially in the first half. Vikas Sivaraman’s camera work is good especially while capturing the Italy locales.
Finally, what makes Housefull a watchable film is the fact that it aims to entertain and succeeds in doing so irrespective of its negative points. Go watch Housefull if you seek pure no hassles entertainment.
A.R. Rahman Picked New Singers for Raavan's Tamil Version
Finally, the listing of audio tracks for 'Raavan' Tamil version has been officially released by Sony Music. The title song 'Veera' ('Beera' in Hindi) has been crooned by the same singer Vijay Prakash of 'Hosanna' fame along with Keerthi Sagathia.The Additional African vocals are rendered by Mustafa Kutoon. Karthik's 'Usure Pogudhey' is expected to be the Tamil version of 'Behene De' and A.R. Rahman has picked Shreya Ghosal for 'Kalvare' (Rekha Bharadwaj's 'Kili Re').
The other tracks are – 'Kodu Poatta' (Benny Dayal), Keda Kari (Benny Dayal, Bhagyaraj, Rayhanah and Grammy winner Tanvi Shah) and Kaattu Sirukki (Shankar Mahadevan, Anuradha Sriram).
Vairamuthu has penned lyrics for all the songs and the stunning response for the Hindi version has already raised everyone's expectations in Tamil Nadu and Hyderabad.
Both the Tamil and Telugu version 'Villain' will be released on the same by first week of May.
Salman Khan & Katrina Kaif The Hottest Couple
Bollywood actors Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif may be tight-lipped about their relationship status, but they have been voted the hottest couple of the decade in a poll by MSN India that also declared superstar Shah Rukh Khan the actor of the decade. The two have beaten the likes of Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai, Bipasha Basu-John Abraham and Saif Ali Khan- Kareena Kapoor.
MSN India had conducted an online poll and invited its readers to vote for their favourite Bollywood actors under various categories as part of their Decade Special for Bollywood.
Of the 38, 648 readers who responded for 'Hottest couple of the Decade' category, 36 percent opined that Salman and Katrina made for a greater couple than Abhishek-Aishwarya who got 27 percent votes, followed by Bipasha and John with 13 percent votes while Kareena and Saif got only six percent votes.
Katrina also topped the 'Hottest Body of the Decade' poll with 33 percent votes and proved that her curves are more attractive than Bipasha, who got 13 percent votes, Aishwarya Rai Bachcan (10 percent) and Priyanka Chopra (9 percent).
For the 'Actor of the Decade' poll, Shah Rukh topped with 29 percent votes followed by Aamir Khan with 26 percent and Amitabh Bachchan with 16 percent votes.
Ram Gopal Varma's 'Aag' was voted 'Flop of the Decade' and it won hands down with 48 percent votes followed by 'Drona', 'Love Story 2050' and 'Tashan'.
For the 'Hottest Lip Lock of the Decade' poll 39 percent thought that Emraan Hashmi and Mallika Sherawat's kissing in "Murder" was more sincere than Hrithik-Aishwarya in "Dhoom 2" (21 percent). It was followed by Saif-Kareena in "Kurbaan" (16 percent) and R. Madhavan-Vidya Balan in "Guru" (7 percent).
Reena Kapoor's Husband Will Attend Her 6th Wedding
Reena Kapoor is getting married for the sixth time in Sahara One's Woh Rehne Wali Mehlon Ki, as we reported earlier. One would think that even getting married on-screen would get boring the 6th time around, but apparently, the occasion was made special when Reena's husband, Karan, trooped in with few of his firangi friends to catch the action live.
The actress remained unavailable for comment as she's said to be on a trip to Jodhpur.
An actor requesting anonymity confirms the news, “Yes, Reena's husband did come along with few of his friends from abroad. He's a very nice man. He does keep coming to our sets.
Reena is getting married for the sixth time, so I guess it's nothing new for him. This is the first time that he's brought few of his friends, though. Perhaps, they wanted to see the shoot, or maybe they were interested in the rites and rituals that take place during an Indian Wedding Ceremony, and what better to showcase our traditions than a TV Soap, right?”
Meanwhile, it wasn't an easy day for the actors. First, the shoot was delayed by three hours after Suhasini Mulay's car was towed away by the traffic police while she was on a coffee break enroute to the shoot.
A subsequent power failure only added to their misery as the shoot was further delayed by four hours. And then, just when the director was about to call "Action" for the first shot, Karan arrived with his friends.
Well, Mr. Kapoor and his coterie arrived at the right time as they were saved from the early morning blues.
Little Dancing Stars Clash On Small Screen
Small screen is set for a clash between Zee TV's "Dance India Dance L'il Masters" and Colors' "Chak Dhoom Dhoom" - both of which are children's reality dance shows.Both go on air Friday. While "Dance India Dance..." features ace choreographers Farah Khan and Sandip Soparrkar on the judges' panel, "Chak Dhoom Dhoom" will see Saroj Khan, Ahmad Khan and actor Vindu Dara Singh pointing out the pros and cons of the performers.
This is Zee TV's first children dance reality show -- and expectations are high.
"We expect 'L'il Masters' to be bigger than the last two seasons of 'Dance India Dance'. We visited 18 cities for auditions to select and bring talent from the interiors of the country. The audience will ultimately watch a show that will have better talent. So we will let them decide about competition, " Akash Chawla, marketing head of Zee TV, told.
Post the success of "Dance India Dance", Zee TV is seeing children's reality show as its brand extension.
"For us, 'L'il Masters' is a natural brand extension of 'Dance India Dance'. In the past two seasons of 'Dance India Dance', we built up an identity of the show. Now we are taking off from there just the way we did with 'Sa Ra Ga Ma Pa' to 'Sa Ra Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs', " said Chawla.
Colors' "Chak Dhoom Dhoom" too is expecting to hook audiences with its quality of talent.
"We are pretty confident that 'Chak Dhoom Dhoom' will do very well given the calibre of talent we have on the show. Also, these children will be trained by none other than choreographers to the stars themselves, Bosco-Ceaser, which is a first, " Ashvini Yardi, programming head of Colors, told.
"The jury is yet another plus point. Sarojji's experience as a dancer, teacher and judge is sure to add to the charisma of the show, while Ahmad and Vindu will definitely bring in fresher perspectives, " she added.
The small screen is set for another dance battle on STAR Plus' with "Zara Nachke Dikha", starting Saturday. Nine female celebrities (Masakalis) and nine male celebrities (Mastkalandars) will compete with each other.
In its second season now, the show is aimed at getting as big as it could with Bollywood stars Shilpa Shetty and Arshad Warsi and National award winning choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant in the judges panel.
But the big question is: who will win the larger battle of TRPs Friday?
"Raavan" Inspired Aishwarya Rai To Do Hindi
He is a southern superstar. As Vikram steps into Bollywood at the age of 44 with "Raavan", he is acutely aware of going where perhaps no Indian actor has gone before - playing the hero in the Hindi version and the villain in the Tamil edition.He admits to being initially scared to be part of the Hindi version of director Mani Ratnam's "Raavan" but says his co-star Aishwarya Rai's brilliant performance in the Tamil venture boosted his confidence.
"Initially, I was very scared because I had this mental block. What kept me going was that Ash didn't know Tamil and she was doing so well," Vikram told in an interview.
"Had I been only doing the Hindi version, I would have been really worried. But it is also in Tamil and everyone made me feel quite comfortable," he added.
Vikram is perhaps the first actor who is doing a film in two different languages and playing two different characters in them. In the Hindi version he will be seen in the positive role as Aishwarya's husband while in Tamil he will play Beera, a negative character being essayed by Abhishek in the Hindi version.
"No one in the world has done the same film in two languages and with a different role. I think that was something that got me hooked," said Vikram.
"For many days I had to shoot simultaneously in both the languages. It was amazing. I would do a sequence then I would go and change the make-up, take out all the dirt and blood, put another design of dirt and blood and do a sequence for the second language.
Usually make-up takes an hour, but for this film here I had to get ready in 10 minutes to finish the fight sequences," said Vikram.
Reports say "Raavan" is a modern interpretation of the epic "Ramayana". Commenting on that, Vikram said "every film has taken something from the epic".
"It's not Ramayana. When you see the film, you may find the main character is like Rama. But the way he (Ratnam) has designed it, the perspective is totally different."Whatever film has been made so far, they have something from 'Ramayana'. So when you will see the film, you might find parallels. I think it's very contemporary. He (Ratnam) just wanted to experiment," said Vikram.
Vikram said he had been wanting to work with Ratnam for a long time.
"We had been planning to work together for the last couple of years, but it didn't happen. The dates didn't match, scripts didn't work out. Finally, for this he called me," he said.
Asked whether he would cast a spell on Bollywood, he said: "I guess forgetting everything and coming here (Bollywood) and working would have bothered me. They called me and I really liked the script...
"I, of course, loved the thought that my audience was going to be much larger. There are lots of people who watch my films. Now those who don't speak Tamil even they will watch my films. That's something that excites me."
A co-production of Madras Talkies and Reliance Big Pictures, the much awaited "Raavan" is scheduled for a June 18 release.
Frieda Pinto Will Be The Next Bond Girl?
Slumdog Millionaire" star Dev Patel says Frieda Pinto will be amazing as a Bond girl in the next installment of spy thriller."She is stunning. There have been rumours about her being a Bond girl on the next film. I would love her to get the role, she’d be amazing," dailystar.co.uk quoted Dev as saying.
"I’m not sure I could ever play 007 though. I’m too much of a wimp," he added.
Why Nana Patekar Become Angry
 And Nana Patekar has done it again. On Sunday, he was supposed to be interviewed by some journalists. Though he is an unpredictable person, no one expected him to put a stop to all activities of the day.The journalists came on time on the respective day in order to interview him for Raajneeti. Nana came there on time, but first went into one room with the director Prakash Jha, who was probably informing him about the interview. Nana then came out five minutes later and Jha went into another room to look after some editing work. The actor greeted the journalists very warmly and then walked straight out of the office. When Jha came back, he was shocked to find Nana, who was supposed to be interviewed, missing. He was left red-faced and couldn't explain why he had left to the journalists. Jha is clueless as to why Nana left and thinks it may be because he was annoyed with something or because he had a prior commitment. He is yet to speak to him. Meanwhile, Ajay Devgn who happened to be around spoke to the journalists and saved the day. |
Come! Meet Aamir Khan
Bollywood star Aamir Khan has decided to catch up with his blog fans in Paris when he is there on Sunday. "I am going to be in Paris on May 2 and would very much like to meet up with those of you who are interested. Will restrict the group to five," Aamir posted on his blog.
"Each one of you can bring one more person with you. If you happen to be below 18 years of age, you will have to accompanied by an adult."
The actor also asked his fans to enter their contact details on his blog page.
"Please post your contact details so that I can reach you, but remember that this is a public space, so only if you are comfortable with putting out that information," wrote the actor.
After Paris, Aamir plans to go to London May 5.
