Television actor Karanvir Bohra will produce and act in a short bilingual film titled Ijazat, about the love story between former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and current President of the Congress party Sonia Gandhi. The film will be a bilingual in English and Italian, and will star Priya Banerjee (Jazbaa) as Sonia Gandhi.
Director PA Ranjith is all set to bankroll his first film. The project has Mari Selvaraj as the director, and has actors Kathir and Anandhi in the lead roles. The film will go on the floors later this month.
Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar’s Toilet–Ek Prem Katha may run into legal trouble for allegedly breaking with local tradition by depicting a romantic relationship in violation of custom. The film is being shot in villages near Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. Lawyer Gokalesh Katara has threatened to serve a legal notice to the film’s director if the story does not endorse tradition in the Braj region, according to which, people of Nandgaon village aren’t allowed to marry people from Barsana village.
Director Leena Yadav is gearing up to direct Secret Sky. The film is based on the true story of two teenage boys growing up in Iran, where homosexuality is illegal and punishable by the death penalty. It follows the two teens as they’re put in prison, go to trial and pay the ultimate price for their crimes. A female lawyer attempts to fight for their freedom.
Anushka Sharma plays the lead female role in the movie opposite Punjabi actor Diljit Dosanjh of Udja Punjab fame. Suraj Sharma from Life of Pi will be paired with model/actress Mehreen Pirzada.Diljit Dosanjh has tweeted that the movie co-produced by Fox Star Studios, is “colourful, crazy and emotional love story”.
Debutante director Nagarajan’s film Azhagendra Sollukku Amudha is a love story revolving around Murugan, an ardent Rajinikanth fan played by Rijan. After several attempts Murugan eventually succeeds in wooing Amudha, played by Arshita. The story follows what happens next. Director Nagarajan is a former associate of Suseenthiran.
Debutant director Sathyasaravanaa says Manjal is a typical village story revolving around a social issue. According to the director, love and relationships are taken for granted today, and he is keen to depict how love was perceived 10 years ago. Shot in villages surrounding Madurai, the film will highlight the innocence of village dwellers.
Parthiepan, director of the well-received Kathai Thiraikathai Vasanam Iyakkam, has reportedly approached Nivin Pauly to play the lead in his next film, a love story. According to sources, Parthiepan narrated the script to Nivin in Kochi, and the actor was quite impressed.
While this epic love story might have started on the sets of their upcoming film Brahmastra, Bhatt may have been planning her wedding to Kapoor for a long time now.From cute PDA (Public Display of Affection) to being vocal about the respect they share for each other, RK and Bhatt quickly earned a place in people’s heart with their ‘straight out of Bollywood’ romance.
Kani (or Karthika) launched her YouTube Channel Theater D, during the lockdown. The first feature on the channel is the web series, Oru Oorla Oru Raja. The show delves into Indian history in the form of storytelling, which is produced, shot and edited by Thiru. The filmmaker is married to director Thiru and is also the daughter of National Award-winning filmmaker Agathiyan.
The film opens with old-worldly music and Scar Jo looking lost on stage. (She looks just as lost in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but here she’s carrying the weight of a marriage in which she does not feel seen).The lawyer who represents Nicole (Laura Dern as Nora Fanshaw who mouths some of the best lines in the film; sample this “his genius was an intangible asset built during the marriage”), explains this in a meta speech in the film.
The fuel that the film runs on is this yet unformed bond and the bond that slowly gets forged between Bejoy and Dilli, Dilli and Kamatchi, or Napolean and the college students.A song from another PC Sreeram’s film — Meera — Pudhu Routeuladhan plays just as Dilli (Karthi) takes a detour with the lorry, now working for Bejoy on a mission.
Including gate crashing a wedding in Pondicherry to kidnap the “Christian” only to realise that Sugi’s lover is a woman called Christina, have further adventures in which they beat up Kajal’s adulterous husband, escape from the police in a kuppam off the beach while in search of weed, give Paru enough confidence to divorce her husband, rescue Thamarai’s husband from the clutches of the gang boss, and more.
Directed by debutant Murugesh, the film Sagaa is a crime drama which is expected to hit the screens sometimes later this year. The trailer of the film was unveiled on Friday.
Directed by S Vijyasekaran, Evanum Buddhanillai is an action thriller starring Nabi Nandhi, Sarath, Swasika, and Niharikka in the lead.
In Vaashi, however, Vishnu Raghav only toys with the possibility of larger, unredeemable chaos and limits the film to the minor tribulations the professional conflicts cause in Emil’s and Madhavi’s marriage.There are the usual villains ﹣A brother-in-law who pokes his nose into their affairs more than he should, a mother who is afraid the new relatives would steal her daughter away from her religious faith, and the swelling ego clashes between the couple that turn their bedroom into an area of tension.
With fresh content releasing every other week, K-drama keeps growing in popularity amongst the international audience. This month, the highly-anticipated Korean remake of Money Heist, Money Heist Korea: Joint Economic Area is set to premiere on Netflix. Given the popularity of both the original show and Korean content on the streaming platform, we may be in for yet another global hit.
This week, the titles available to stream on OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ Hotstar include Mammootty and Parvathy Thiruvothu-starrer Puzhu and Modern Love: Mumbai, the Mumbai chapter of the Indian adaptation of anthology series Modern Love.Directed by debutante Ratheena Sharshad, the film also stars the late Nedumuni Venu, Malavika Menon, Swasika, Indrans and Jaffar Idukki, among others in pivotal roles. “Puzhu cannot be classified as a film belonging to one specific genre.
Muthu Ganesan, Anand’s assistant on Ayan and Kavan, and an additional dialogue writer of Kaappaan, remembers how the later filmmaker gave those working under him the freedom to explore their interests.Director Deekay, who began assisting Anand with Kanaa Kandein, and later co-directed Maattrraan, Ko, and Ayan, recalls his own experience with this aspect of the filmmaker, when filming the Amali Thumali song (from Ko) in Norway. “We had found a beautiful place with boulders while scouting for locations.