Before Sayanora, Malayalam cinema has had just two female music composers – Usha Khanna, who worked predominantly in Bollywood but composed music for a few Malayalam films such as Moodal Manju (1969) that features popular songs such as Nee Madhu Pakaru and Manasa Mani Veenayil; and playback singer and live performer Neha Nair, who turned music composer (along with Yakzan Gary Pareira) for 5 Sundarikal and Iyyobinte Pusthakam.
The 35th Jerusalem Film Festival will start today with the screening of The Unorthodox. Here’s all that you need to know about the festival which will run till August 5.
Unlike other dons in Tamil cinema, Vijay Sethupathi plays a goofy “budget” don in Junga. This don slays villains, mouths punchlines, romances but is also a goofball. Produced by Arun Pandian, the film also stars Sayyeshaa, Madona Sebastian, Saranya Ponvannan, Yogi Babu, Suresh Menon and others.
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Music composer and singer Anirudh Ravichander will be a part of his friend, Harish Ram’s first directorial venture, which is pegged to be a fantasy adventure film.
Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam 2, which has been long delayed, is up for release this year. The sequel marks Haasan’s first film after his political plunge. The trilingual film, releasing in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi, is expected to be faster paced than the first installment.In the sequel, Dhanush reprises his role of the eccentric local gangster while Sai Pallavi plays the female lead, taking over from Kajal Aggarwal. Tovino Thomas plays the villain in the film that also features Varalaxmi Sarathkumar and Kreshna in pivotal roles.
Amitabh Bachchan has been complaining about his decreasing Twitter followers. He even joked or threatened – take your pick – to quit Twitter. After his rants, the Twitter team met the actor to ensure that the star with over 30 million followers doesn’t quit the platform.
There are laws to protect the interests of these child artistes so that their education is not hampered and that they are protected from any kind of abuse or harassment and adult content on the film sets. In fact, many films are made memorable because of the powerful performances of the child actors – Darsheel Safary in Taare Zameen Par, Shweta Basu Prasad in Iqbal, Partho Gupte in Stanley Ka Dabba – there are so many examples.
An eight-year-old minor from Jammu’s Kathua district was abducted, held hostage in a temple, drugged, repeatedly raped and finally murdered to scare the Bakerwal community out of the village. What followed after the brutal act was a concerted effort to obstruct justice. Bribes were paid, evidences destroyed, people were intimidated to cover the heinous crime that took place in January this year. Film personalities, Opposition parties and people in general have expressed shock and demanded justice for eight-year-old Asifa. Expressing outrage on social media accounts might perhaps be considered an easy way to react to the crime, but at moments like this, staying silent is also not an option.
Cinematographer Jigme Tenzing, who has worked with Nirmal in short film projects in New York, has handled the camera for Ranam. Tenzing’s filmography includes a number of critically-acclaimed Bhutanese films such as Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait and Vara.After graduating from the film institute, Nirmal worked on several short films, and served as an executive producer and actor on Brown Nation, a Netflix comedy drama series directed by Abi Varghese.
Kollywood actor Vikram who’s busy with his upcoming projects, Dhruva Natchathiram and pre-production of VS Vimal’s project on Karnan, shared some new stills of Sammy 2.
Article 19 of the United Nation’s The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
It helps that the city is home to many historic buildings and monuments such as Vivekananda House, War Cemetery, Egmore Museum, Freemasons Hall, Kamaraj Memorial House and Ripon Building. And also, the Napier Bridge where the ‘Sodakku Mela’ sequence in Thaanaa Serndha Koottam was shot; University of Madras against which Siddharth, Madhavan and Suriya pose in Mani Ratnam’s Aaytha Ezhuthu, and the Karl Schmidt memorial in Besant Nagar that features in Raja Rani.
Writing a tribute for Sridevi is not an easy task but three popular 90s Telugu entertainers come to my mind when I think of her: Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari, Kshana Kshanam, and Govinda Govinda.Raghavendra Rao (director of Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari) and Ram Gopal Varma (director of Kshana Kshanam, Govinda Govinda) agree upon is that they place Sridevi as the epitome of beauty.
After nearly two decades, Gautham Vasudev Menon and R Madhavan will team up again for the sequel to the 2010 romantic drama Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya, which featured Simbu and Trisha.On working with Shoojit Sircar for the romantic drama October, he said, “We are not trying to break any stereotypes (of romantic Hindi films).
Not many know that Prakash and Hindi director Anurag Kashyap share a very warm relationship — the young composer worked on the BGM of the director’s ambitious two-part Gangs of Wasseypur and lent his voice for Ugly. @gvprakash hello .. what have you been doing little genius.. you look so different and so good.. having done a “Bala” film .. @gvprakash this is freaking surprising..
KJR Studios that produced Aramm and Gulaebaghavali last year have announced their next project featuring Nayanthara in the lead. The movie is touted to be a horror-thriller.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s epic drama, which was scheduled to release on December 1, officially released on January 25, with premiere shows on January 24. The film earned Rs 56 crores in India within three days, making Rs 5 crores on Wednesday, Rs 19 crores on Thursday, and Rs 32 crores on Friday. In New Zealand, the film made Rs 76. 10 lakhs on the first two days.
Rani plays the character of Naina Mathur – a teacher with Tourette’s Syndrome, who is tasked to teach 14 children who hail from the slums studying in an elite school under the Right to Education Act.Rani Mukerji’s Hichki, which was earlier scheduled to release on February 23, will now release on March 23.
Madura Veeran, a Jallikattu-inspired movie which was earlier set to release during Pongal, will finally hit the screens on February 2. Written and directed by cinematographer PG Muthiah, the film stars Shanmuga Pandian and Samuthirakani in the lead roles.Vijay Sethupathi’s first release this year, a revamped Shanmuga Pandian, Trisha’s Malayalam debut, and a few others are set to release, with nothing major from the Hindi film industry.
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After essaying the lead role in Thenmaerku Paruva Kaatru in 2011, Sethupathi’s 2012 movies also included Karthik Subbaraj’s Pizza – yet another low budget film that was received well. “He was well-built and muscular then” says Premkumar, “so he had to lose a few pounds to play me. ” The actor, Premkumar declares, was spontaneous, breezily, organically working in some of his mannerisms into the character. “I would pet almost every stray dog on the road, randomly practice bowling with pebbles on the road… he’d weaved all of that into Prem that you’d seen on screen.
Calling his political entry a necessity [“kaalathhin kattayam“], Rajini declared that democracy is dead in the state and that a few political events that had happened the past year in Tamil Nadu have shamed its citizens. “If I don’t enter now, I will feel guilty,” he said, “All my preparations have been done.
Amid the Jallikattu protests, the strike called by the FEFSI and protests against Mersal and trolling, celebrities did put their best foot forward and attended several events held across Chennai.What these stars wear, the way they choose their looks, the people behind the scenes planning their each and every move and how they use the events to reveal a part of themselves – everything has a story to tell.
Prakash Raj has confirmed that he is a part of the Traffic Ramaswamy biopic that stars SA Chandrasekhar. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, the actor said that he was delighted to be part of such a film.