On Friday, several National Award-winning actors, directors, producers, and editors of the Tamil film industry made an appeal to Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javedekar requesting the Government of India to honour actor-director-producer Padma Shri awardee P Bharathirajaa with the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award. They said that they collectively believe that the award, which is the highest award in the field of cinema, would be a fitting tribute to the legendary director who has contributed to Indian cinema for over 43 years.
On the other hand, think of Tabu in Andhadhun, a bored and cynical murderer who simply can’t understand why men are so daft at such jobs! Horror when combined with the comic and set in a rough and tumble small town with men saying, ‘gaand fat rahi hai, main kaise bolun? ” gives you a remarkable film like Stree.
In 2017, however, his wish finally materialised after a chance encounter with Ishan Siddique, then a 20-year-old media student at University of Leeds. “I was visiting my family in Nagina, my ancestral village,” says Ishan. “I heard about a man in the neighbouring village who wanted to meet me after he found out that I was studying film.
On this day in 1976, Ilaiyaraaja’s first film Annakkili released. He had started his career at the age of 14 when he joined a travelling music troupe and later came to Chennai to work in films. In his 43 years in cinema, the composer, to whose songs many generations have fallen in love, pushed the boundaries of background and film music and composed close to 7,000 songs for over a thousand films in many languages.
Directed by J Mahendran, the film also stars Sarath Babu, Fatafat Jayalaxmi and Shoba.Here are five films we are watching on the star’s birthday, that celebrate and showcase Rajinikanth the actor.The film also stars Kamal Haasan and Sripriya.The film also stars Sridevi and Kamal Haasan.A remarkable film that remains unsurpassed in its cinematic originality, language and grammar.
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram and Mehreen starrer Entha Manchivaadavuraa has been in the making for a while now. The team has reportedly completed shoot and is gearing up for the film’s release next year.
Here’s a list of songs from an esteemed career that we think captures something unique about Kamal Haasan, the artist, in his early years, on his way to becoming the biggest icon of Indian cinema.In both, Indian cinema’s history and Kamal’s own journey this is an important film that bridged what we call North-South sensibilities.
Manam Koththi Paravai fame Athmiya (Mathangi in the film) plays the next door Srilankan girl well and the antagonist Alex (Lucifer in the film) does a decent job essaying a psychopath. Syam’s background scores fail miserably and the action sequences by Stun Siva do not justify the action-thriller genre.
Director H Vinoth’s (Sathuranga Vettai, Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru, Nerkonda Paarvai) film with Ajith Kumar that was called Thala 60 until yesterday is officially Valimai. It joins the list of Ajith movies that start with the letter V — Vivegam, Visawasam, Veeram and Vedhalam.
Starring Charmme, Jagapathy Babu and Shashank in the lead, this is a stunningly understated mystery film from Chandra Sekhar Yeleti.Starring a group of famous actresses in a gender-bender of a film from Prashanth Varma, Awe strikes a superb balance between the experimental and the entertaining.Bharat Kamma’s directorial debut Dear Comrade is noteworthy because even as the rest of the Indian film industry is championing and or rehabilitating abusers outed in the #MeToo movement, here’s a film that is squarely on the side of the women.
Social media has been abuzz with rumours that actor Ajith might reprise Ayushmann Khurrana’s role in director Anubhav Sinha’s latest hit Article 15. The rumours gained credence when it came to light that producer Boney Kapoor had bought the remake rights of the film. However, a source close to the actor clarified to Silverscreen that this was a mere “rumour”.
Actress and Bigg Boss 3 contestant Reshma Pasupuleti is reportedly in talks for Ajith’s next, directed by H Vinoth and produced by Boney Kapoor.
Actress Nayanthara is reportedly in talks to play the role of Sita in an upcoming multi-lingual film based on Ramayana, written by Sreedhar Raghavan and directed by Nitesh Tiwari and Ravi Udyawar.
Producer Boney Kapoor has clarified that reports of his three-film deal with actor Ajith are not true. They will work on an action film, also directed by H Vinoth, after the release of Nerkonda Paarvai.
The makers of Nerkonda Paarvai have released the lyric video of the second single ‘Kaalam’, an EDM song featuring Kalki Koechlin. The Ajith Kumar and Shraddha Srinath-starrer directed by H Vinoth is slated for release on August 10.
On director K Balachander’s 89th birth anniversary
Priya Prakash Varrier has signed her first Kannada film with debut director Raghu Koti, co-starring newcomer Suraj Kumar. The film is likely to begin shoot in August.
Telugu actor Mohan Babu has joined the sets of Suriya-starrer Soorarai Pottru, directed by Sudha Kongara of Irudhi Suttru fame. The actor is making his Tamil film comeback after 40 years.
The trailer of H Vinoth’s Nerkonda Paarvai is out. The film stars Ajith, Shraddha Srinath, Abhirami Venkatachalam and Andrea Tariang in the lead. Music is by Yuvan Shankar Raja, cinematography by Nirav Shah and editing by Gokul Chandran. Boney Kapoor is the producer of the film.
Tribute to TM Soundararajan on his birthday
H Vinoth may direct Ajith Kumar in his next after Nerkonda Paarvai. Various reports suggest that this film too is likely to be produced by Boney Kapoor.
Tribute to Balu Mahendra on his birthday
Actress Priya Prakash Varrier has signed her second Bollywood film after Sridevi Bungalow. Titled Love Hackers, the movie is about cyber security and crime, by and directed Mayank Prakash Srivastava.
Kalki Koechlin will make her Tamil debut with the Ajith starrer Nerkonda Paarvai, a remake of the Hindi film Pink. The movie is slated to release on August 10.
In Kuppathu Raja, these elements have made the journey into full-blown cliches. It doesn’t help that the lyrics of the song “Enga Area Engaludhu” from Kuppathu Raja feel like a watered down version of the Pudhupettai “Enga Area Ulla Varaadhe” – which is somewhat of a classic now.And this feeling of employing all the cliches to make a film never left me while watching Baba Bhaskar’s Kuppathu Raja. It felt empty, there were all the elements but they felt like a parody.