The first-look poster of Pazhanjan Pranayam, the upcoming Malayalam film, starring Rony David and Vincy Aloushious in the lead, was released by the actors on social media on Friday.
Vaathi / Sir is the title of actor Dhanush’s upcoming Tamil-Telugu bilingual film that will be helmed by director Venky Atluri. The actor released the title motion poster of the film on social media on Thursday.
Silverscreen India termed this hour-long film “short in length, long in depth. ” Starring actor Vijay Sethupathi, his daughter Sreeja Vijay Sethupathi and actor Regina Cassandra, it is helmed by debutant filmmaker Karthik S and revolves around a family and the dog that they adopt.In an earlier conversation with Silverscreen India, Ashwin said that the film first took form as a seven-minute short called Ward Enn 325 in 2011 before he decided to explore it further as a feature. “Films don’t create revolution, but they are thought-inducing,” the filmmaker added.
Films this week have continued to follow the hybrid model and have release in cinemas as well as on OTT platforms this week. Box office collections have picked up mostly over the weekends.
Actor Dhanush, who will be next seen in the Hindi romantic drama Atrangi Re, is set to collaborate with director Arun Matheswaran for a Tamil film, a source in the know confirmed to Silverscreen India on condition of anonymity.
Aside from the prologue, which describes the real-life situation of Kaveri Nagar – the housing board colony in Thoraipakkam, Chennai, where the film is largely set – and some throwaway, extremely surface-level lines strewn about the movie, there’s almost nothing here that even touches on the issue, let alone digging into it in any meaningful way.
Filmmaker Mari Selvaraj, who last delivered the hit Tamil film Karnan (2021), is set to join hands with actor-politician Udhayanidhi Stalin for an upcoming project, which will also star comedian Vadivelu and actor Fahadh Faasil, a source in the know confirmed to Silverscreen India on condition of anonymity.
Vil Vitha, the upcoming Tamil film, is a psycho thriller based on the 2018 Ayanavaram sexual assault case, in which a minor was assaulted by multiple men, says the film’s writer-director Hari Uthraa.
Doctor, the Tamil dark comedy film starring Sivakarthikeyan, that released in theatres on Saturday, has emerged as a box office winner, say theatre owners. The film collected around Rs 24 crore over three days in Tamil Nadu, a source in the know told Silverscreen India on condition of anonymity.
Love Story, the Telugu film starring actors Sai Pallavi and Naga Chaitanya, which is written and directed by Sekhar Kammula, has seen the eighth best opening among Indian films released since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report in Box Office India.
The Tamil Nadu theatres, that were allowed to reopen from August 23, received only a lukewarm response from moviegoers during the first weekend. Theatre owners in the state are now awaiting the release of new Tamil films, which they hope will revive the big screens.
Web, the upcoming Tamil film starring cinematographer-turned-actor Natarajan, is a psycho-thriller that revolves around the IT industry, says director Haroon. The title poster was released by the actor, who is popularly known as Natty, on Friday.
Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas, the Telugu actor, announced on Wednesday that his next project will be Stuartpuram Donga, a biopic on notorious thief ‘Tiger’ Nageswara Rao. The upcoming film is set to be helmed by debutant filmmaker KS, who has previously assisted director VV Vinayak. It will be produced on a large scale by Sreenivas’ father, […]
Thiruchitrambalam is the title of actor Dhanush’s upcoming Tamil film, the makers of the film, Sun Pictures, revealed while releasing its motion poster on Thursday.
Maaran is the title of actor Dhanush’s 43rd film, the production house, Sathya Jyothi Films, announced while releasing a first look poster from the film on the occasion of the actor’s 38th birthday, on Wednesday.
“There is no genre called horror in Tamil cinema,” says film historian Theodore Bhaskaran.
Dhanush, the National Award-winning Tamil actor, is set to collaborate with Telugu filmmaker Sekhar Kammula for an upcoming trilingual film, announced Sonali Narang, who will be presenting the project, in a press release on Friday.
S Elayaraja, a prominent Tamil painter known for his realistic oil paintings of rural women, died due to Covid-19 complications at a private hospital in Egmore, Chennai during the early hours of Monday. He was 43.
Actor Dhanush, during a Twitter Spaces interaction along with the crew of his upcoming Tamil film Jagame Thandhiram, revealed that despite the limited number of days to shoot his portions in The Gray Man, he had to stay in the US for over four months due to the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Several Telugu films, which were in various stages of production, have come to a grinding halt after state governments announced lockdowns due to the sudden spike of Covid-19 cases in the country. While some films were still being shot, like Liger (starring Vijay Devarakonda) and Adivi Sesh’s Major, films like Mahesh Babu’s Sarkaru Vaari Paata, Maestro (the Telugu remake of Andhadhun) and Prabhas’s untitled film directed by Nag Ashwin were in the initial stages of production.
With several states going into lockdown, several films that released in theatres during the initial stages of the Covid-19 second wave will release on OTT platforms.
All theatres in Tamil Nadu will remain closed from April 26 as per the new set of guidelines issued by the state government on Saturday to tackle the second wave of Covid-19. The new guidelines were announced after the state reported one lakh active cases of Covid-19 on Friday.
Mandela, the Tamil political satire directorial debut of Madonne Ashwin which earned positive reviews, first took form as a seven-minute short film called Ward Enn 325 in 2011 when he participated in the third season of reality show Naalaya Iyakunar, the filmmaker told Silverscreen India.
The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday announced that standalone theatres and multiplexes will have to operate at 50% occupancy. The revised guidelines were announced as a part of the state government’s revised guidelines in the wake of a spike in Covid-19 cases in the state.
Dhee, the Tamil film singer, and Casteless Collective rapper and songwriter Arivu’s new single Enjoy Enjaami was launched on Saturday.