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Gautham Menon seems to have taken on a huge task in attempting a tri - lingual, that from the beginning appeared to have hiccups. 

Ram was supposed to be the male lead in the Telugu version but he opted out and had to be replaced with Nani.  Now the Hindi version of the film has run into troubled waters.

Apparently the Hindi version does not have any takers because Gautham's recent release 'Ek Deewana Tha' failed at the box office. 

Besides producers feel that Aditya Roy Kapoor who had supporting roles in Guzaarish and Action Replay is not bankable as a solo hero. So the film has been stalled. 

Gautham has maintained that Aditya had some date issues so the Hindi version is delayed but work is proceeding smoothly in Tamil and Telugu.

Little-known Tamil actor Dhanya Balakrishna, who hails from Bangalore, has become an "issue" between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu after she allegedly hurt Tamil sentiment by posting certain messages on her Facebook account.

Dhanya's facebook post regarding the IPL playoffs has almost cost the budding actor her promising career in Kollywood.

The actor's remarks ignited a fierce backlash on social networking sites, rattling the tinsel world damsel so much that she has decided to shun the Tamil film industry for good.

After the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) entered the playoffs, the young star gave vent to her feelings at local team Royal Challengers Bangalore's defeat turning out to be a gain for CSK.

Referring to the decades-old Cauvery river water sharing dispute she wrote,

Samantha Ruth Prabhu remains a hot and happening actor ever since she made her debut with the Gowtham Menon directed 'Ye Maaya Chesave (2010)'.

The 25 year old actor who is currently busy with Gautham Menon’s Neethane En Ponvasantham with Jiiva and Mani Ratnam's Kadal opposite debutante Gautham is still awaiting release of film directed by S.S Rajamoulu, a bilingual titled 'Eega' that is being made as 'Naan Ee' in Tamil.

Meanwhile, the actor has hit the headlines with reports confirming her part in Vikram's next film following 'Thaandavam' better known as director Shankar's big venture about the issues in election.

The Endhiran director is all set to start his work for Therdhal, with Aascar Ravichandran producing the film. P.C Sriram will crank the camera and A.R Rahman will compose the music for the film.

According to our sources, the film might also have another heroine apart from Samantha and this role would most probably go to an actor with Bollywood influence.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu celebrated her 25th birthday on April 28th,2012.

The Chennai girl was first seen in Gowtham Menon's 'Ye Maya Chesave', the Telugu version of Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa that also earned her a Nandi Award and a Filmfare Award along with millions of hearts. In Tamil, Samantha debuted with 'Moscowin Kavery' written and directed by cinematographer Ravi Varman. Since then it’s no looking back for the glossy girl.

Samantha is now one of the most sought after actresses in both Tamil and Telugu industry. She is currently shooting for Gowtham Menon's Neethane En Ponvasantham with Jiiva and its Telugu version with Nani. She is also shooting for Mani Ratnam’s much anticipated 'Kadal' with Gautham Karthik.

Apart from these films that is currently under production, Samantha has a number of Telugu projects in her kitty.

Celebs Factory wishes the demure darling for all the luck and a beautiful birthday to keep rocking forever as she does today.

Yohan: Adhyayam Ondru is the next film that Gautham Menon is going to start his work on.

The film will be an espionage thriller, the first of its kind starring Vijay as the lead. He would be playing the title character 'Yohan', an Indian spy and the story would revolve around his adventurous missions across the globe.

But why Yohan? Why not something like Kandasamy or Velayudham that regional people can relate to?

"Yohan is one of the most used names in the world. I strongly believe that the film would have a wider reach with this title," said Gowtham Menon, the ace director of his theory for having chosen his unique title.

From what we understand, Gowtham is probably trying to take this film international.

The film is expected to go on floor from May.

Gautham Menon was utterly saddened by a report made a famous newspaper that said he blames his actors for his failure in bollywood.

In a letter to the editor of the newspaper, the Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya director said, “It's unfair for a reputed newspaper to put out an article based on hearsay and constructed out of another article that itself didn’t quite report the exact words I had used.” He also added, “All it takes is a phone call and you would have got my views on the same before putting out the article.”

The daily had quoted that the director pointed out Madhavan’s obesity and Prateik’s lack of lusture as the causes for his two Hindi films’ to fail. However, the director in his letter has washed off this article as “wrongly reported”. He also made it clear in his letter that as the daily is writing articles that has no base, he wouldn’t be willing to share any details or even talk to their reporters anymore.

Gautam Menon is presently busy shooting Neethane En Ponvasantham starring Jiiva and Samantha.

In an interview Gautam shared his experience working with Isaignani Ilayaraja who has composed the music for the film.

Gowtham said that when he approached Ilayaraja and told him the story and mentioned of his requirement, the maestro immediately came up with a number of tunes. The director said he was totally awestruck and asked Ilayaraja to take it slowly as it was too much for the director to take in. But the maestro was in no mood to stop.

"The maestro composed all the eight tracks with his Harmonium and made Na. Muthukumar write the lyrics. He then made the singers sing the songs and took the tracks to London. In a matter of 16 days, he completed recording all the 8 songs along with the Hungarian Symphony group in an ultra modern studio," said Gowtham Menon adding that the songs have come out beautifully and assured that the album would be a chartbuster.

The buzz around the tinsel town is that ace director Gautham Menon might start his next project with Dhanush in the lead. 

The Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya director is said to have met up with the Kolaveri boy recently to discuss his next script. We also hear that Dhanush will be signing on the dotted lines soon. The official announcement about the project is expected anytime.

The actor is presently busy with his Bollywood Debut Raanjhnaa that is being directed by Anand Rai. He is being paired up with Sonam kapoor and Kangana Ranaut. He has also accepted a project with the Bharath Bala Productions.

Gautham Menon is presently shooting for his Neethane En Ponvasantham with Jiiva and Samantha in the lead. He also has Yohan Adhyayam Ondru in his kitty.

Gautham Menon is determined to bring out unknown talents in Jiiva and Samantha, the lead pair in his film, Neethane En Ponvasantham.

According to sources, Jiiva and Samantha will be singing the title track in the film that is derived from one of Ilaiyaraja's hit songs of the same name.

Incidentally, Ilaiyaraja is also doing the music for this film, and Gautham has promised fans a fantastic album.

Jiiva and Samantha felt honored as they had been given the opportunity to sing for Ilaiyaraja but they were also very nervous. Gautham Menon had to cajole and push them into singing and finally they managed to pull it off.

Now the entire team is waiting for the audio launch and for the fans to hear the great music Ilaiyaraja has composed for Neethane En Ponvasantham.

Director Gautham Menon had approached Karthi with a one liner for his forth coming soft romance. But Karthi has a habit of going through the entire script before accepting any project. Therefore, Gautham has supposedly given the actor his script.

The buzz is that Karthi who is currently busy with the shooting of Saguni and Alex Pandian, has promised Gautham that he would get back soon with a reply after going through the entire script.

Gautham Menon who is right now busy with Neethaane En Ponvasantham starring Jiiva and Samantha, will soon be working with Ilayathalapathy Vijay in Yohan: Adhyayam Ondru.

Gautham Menon has released the promo trailer of Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham. The trailer, which runs for about one minute, has the Ilayaraja number from Ninaivellam Nithya which begins with the lyrics Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham…

Interestingly, the maestro has been signed up to score the music for this film and being a soft romantic flick, the king of melodies is expected to spin magic with his music baton. Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham stars Jiiva and Samantha in the lead roles and the film is being made in Telugu and Hindi as well with Samantha being the leading lady in all the three versions.

Gautham Menon's Ek Deewana Tha has turned out as something very unique because the director has revealed that the film will be released with two very different climaxes.

It may be recalled that Gautham Menon's Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya and Ye Maaya Chesave, the original Tamil and Telugu versions respectively had two different endings.

In VTV, STR and Trisha part ways whereas in the Telugu version the lovers Naga Chaitanya and Samantha are united. Since both were very successful, it was wondered what the ending could be for its Hindi version.

Gautham has decided to go with a popular version and a director's cut which will be played in elite screens. Theatre listings will reveal which ending will be played and the ticket - buying audience can choose accordingly.

The rumor mills have been circulating news that Amy Jackson and her Ek Deewana Tha co - star, Prateik are seeing each other.

When asked about the actors affair, Prateik cheekily said that they will be spending Valentine's day together before adding that they will be promoting their film on Valentine's day that is to release on February 17th, the same week following the Valentine's day.

Prateik and Amy Jackson have denied of their romantic involvement off-screen, saying that they were just good friends. So it looks like they will be working on Valentine's day. Prateik joked some more and said it was going to be a fun day as he gets to spend it with a hot girl.

Gautham Menon’s Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham has come to a standstill with the film technicians in Hyderabad refusing to work until the FEFSI issue is resolved.

Director Gowtham Menon was planning to complete a schedule in Hyderabad and had made all the arrangements to shoot with Jiiva, Samantha and others stars who were ready for the shooting to commence. But the technicians refused to work in the film despite Gautham insisting that it is a trilingual and he wants to at least shoot the Telugu and Hindi versions.

The technicians were adamant in their stand and hence the shooting had to be cancelled, say sources close to the Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham team.

Gautam Menon who has successfully teamed up with Harris Jeyaraj and A.R Rahman to create some of the most beautiful numbers of all time is all set to make magic yet again.

Gowtham has recently roped in none other than maestro Ilaiyaraja this time around for his trilingual, Neethane En Ponvasantham. The two held discussions and have decided to go ahead and work together.

Excitement is high on the film sets and everybody is eagerly awaiting Ilaiyaraja's compositions for the film. Jiiva especially can't wait to hear the tunes, we are told.

Jai and Abhinaya will be the lead pair in Gautham Menon’s next. This film will be produced under Gautham’s home production Photon Kathas and will be directed by Prem Sai who had apprenticed under choreographer, actor and director Prabu Deva.

According to sources close to Gautham Menon, it was decided to sign up Abhinaya for the role of a garment sales girl as the crew felt that she would fit in the character.

Gautham apparently was very impressed with Jai’s performance in last year's hit Engeyum Eppothum that he decided on having him on-board.

Santhanam will play the comedian in this film which is yet to be titled.

“Hosanna is a prayer in the Bible and used by both Jews and Christians, referring to God or Jesus Christ, with strong reverential and religious connotations. So to make a song and dance out of it where a guy is professing his love to the girl by using this term is utterly unacceptable,” said Joseph Dias, General Secretary of the Christian Secular Forum.

Gautham Menon’s Hindi version of Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaya, Ek Deewana Tha features a song that begins with the lyrics Hosanna. This has created a huge controversy as the CSF has said that the term is used only in hymns and its usage in films is objectionable.

Interestingly, the Tamil version also began with the lyrics Hosanna but no objection was raised at that time.

Gowtham Menon's Vettaiyadu Vilayadu that starred Kamal Haasan and Jyothika in the lead is being remade in Hindi. The director is considering either Shahrukh or Salman Khan to play the lead in the remake.

Gautham is currently busy directing Nee Thaane En Pon Vasantham with Jiiva and Samantha in the lead and has Yohan – Adhyayam Ondru with Vijay in his kitty.

The director is also on the verge of releasing Ek Deewana Tha, the Hindi version of Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaya very soon. In all probability, the Vettaiyadu Vilayadu remake is expected to take off once Yohan – Adhyayam Ondru is completed.

Good news for all A R Rahman fans!

Celebs Factory brings to you the curtain raiser of yet another musical of A R Rahman, made by acclaimed film maker Gautham Menon.

Ek Deewana Tha is the Hindi remake of the 2010 Tamil romantic drama film 'Vinnaithaadi Varuvaaya'.

Gowtham Menon's 'Vinnaithaadi Varuvaaya' starred Silambarasan Rajendar and Trisha Krishnan in the lead roles and went on to become one of the best romantic flicks ever seen in the Indian film industry

Ek Deewana Tha is highly expected to recreate the magic with A R Rahman joining hands with Gowtham Menon having Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson in the lead roles.