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Shahrukh Khan's new movie titled 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' is set to release on Diwali day. The first look posters have been released too. The King Khan's market pervades all over the world and his films open strongly even in Tamil Nadu.


Over the years, by some coincidence or the other, Vijay's films also release on Diwali day and they invariably clash with the films of Bollywood's Baadshah Shahrukh Khan.

It was Vijay's 'Azhagiya Tamil Magan' vs SRK's 'Om Shanti Om' in 2007. In 2011, it was 'Velayudham' vs 'Ra. One'. This year, history repeats itself yet again as SRK's 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' will compete with Vijay's 'Thuppakki' for a share of the Diwali box-office pie in Tamil Nadu.

A super battle ahead! Shahrukh has Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif for company in this movie and both these stars are popular with TN audiences as well. A.R Rahman scores the music for this SRK starrer and the Mozart of Madras commands his own opening. For Thuppakki, Vijay has a strong technical team backing him with Kajal Aggarwal for company. On the whole, Diwali day is going to see fireworks on the cinema screen as well.

There is a buzz in the industry that the story of K.V Anand's upcoming Suriya starrer 'Maattrraan' has been revealed online including the twists and turns in the film.

If sources are to believed, this unfortunate event might incur huge losses to AGS Entertainments, the makers and distributors of the film.

It is often witnessed that videos, songs and working stills are been unveiled in social networking and microblogging websites by a few unauthorized members who somehow get their hands on it. This consequence finally ends as the producers loss and now the Suriya and Kajal Aggarwal starrer 'Maattrraan' is also facing the same problem.

It can be recalled that K.V Anand's previous film 'KO' also was a victim of such lawless activity, but the film emerged as a box-office hit despite of all odds.

Is this another form of a publicity stunt, we wish we could tell.

Amala Paul is embracing her glamorous side of late for her future films like the bilingual 'Nimirndhu Nil' with Jayam Ravi and her Telugu movie 'Naayak' opposite Ram Charan Teja.

To materialize the actor's objective to look glamorous than ever, Amala Paul has hired a personal trainer and has started following a strict diet regimen. The pretty actor has been hitting the gym regularly and is optimistic that her fans would love her new look.

"Apart from 'Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal', I really haven't had a chance to play glamorous roles in my films so far. But both 'Nimirnthu Nil' and 'Naayak' are pucca entertainers. I play a highly fashionable girl with groovy dance sequences and I want to look my best in them," said Amala Paul with a determination to look even more dashing and toned than she is now.

Meanwhile, Amala Paul has become the talk of the town for the recently shot number 'Subhaleka Rasukunna Eppudo' along with Ram Charan in Iceland. This remixed yesteryear hit-song along with the pretty actor's look is mentioned to be the highlight of the V.V Vinayak directed 'Naayak' that also co-stars Kajal Aggarwal in the lead.

Of late, Jiiva is the most happening young star in the industry and he not only has an enviable lineup of movies, the heroines that work with him are also hot and happening to say the least.


In Endrendrum Punnagai, he has Trisha for company and in Yaan, Kajal Aggarwal is almost confirmed as his pair. As if that wasn't enough, now the young star has expressed his wish to work with Tamannah in his forthcoming films as he is a fan of her work and wished for a suitable script and proper dates.

Actor Jiiva shared is admiration for Tamannah in one of his press meets to promote Mugamoodi which released all over the world on August 31st, 2012.

As reported earlier Kamal Haasan’s magnum opus Vishwaroopam will hit the screens in October.

Now we hear that the film will release on October 12th, K,V Anand’s Suriya starrer 'Maatrraan' is also expected to hit the screens on the very same day.

Kamal Haasan plays a Kathak exponent and a secret agent in Vishwaroopam. Pooja Kumar and Andrea Jeremiah play the female leads and Rahul Bose, Jaideep Ahlawat, Samrat Chakrabarti, Nassar and many others play character roles.

A major portion of the film was shot in Chennai and New York and the post production is being carried out in Los Angeles.

Coincidentally, Harris Jayaraj is the composer for both the films that are highly expected to release this year.

The shoot for Thuppakki, starring Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal is on full swing.

A.R Murugadoss is using everything that is only the best in the industry, starting from the lead actors to the technicians.

The latest news is that the ace cinematographer Santosh Sivan, who recently joined the prestigious American Society of Cinematographers, is not using the usual 35 MM camera to shoot the film.

It has been recently evealed that he is exploiting the latest ARRI digital technology that was introduced later last year.

Even the Hollywood technicians, who are usually the first to introduce latest techs in the industry, have just started using this technology.

The makers have assured that the picture quality in this film will be something nobody has experienced yet. The film is expected to hit the screens during the last quarter of the year.

K.V Anand's Suriya starrer 'Maatraan' is closing completion but for a song.

While the shoot for the film is yet to be wrapped, sources confirmed that the director's penchant for hunting new locations is the reason behind the song still being pending.

K.V Anand, a filmmaker in perfection best known for his work in 'Ayan (2009)' and 'Ko (2011)' is still on the lookout for unseen locales to shoot the one remaining song with Suriya and Kajal Aggarwal.

Meanwhile, Eros International bought the distribution rights of the film for an astronomical 43 crores even before the final product is complete. With this 'Maatraan' becomes one of the year's most expensive movies to be released.

Harris Jayaraj who is composing music for the film, recently revealed that the songs of 'Maatraan' were composed in 6 different countries.

The action thriller is expected to release for the Independence Day weekend in August.

Looks like an 'azhagu rani' has been zeroed in for Karthi Sivakumar's forthcoming film 'All In All Azhagu Raja', to be helmed by Rajesh M, who tasted hat-trick success with 'Oru Kal Oru Kannadi'.

If sources are to be believed, Kajal Aggarwal has been roped in for the film for which the script work is yet to be completed. This venture is still in its pre-production stage and would be a comedy caper quite typical to Rajesh's earlier ventures.

Santhanam, the inevitable part of Rajesh films, is doing a crucial role in 'All In All Azhagu Raja'. It may be recalled that the duo (Karthi and Santhanam) delivered a firebrand performance in 'Siruthai' and their chemistry was much talked about.

Likewise, Karthi and Kajal, considered to be one of the cutest onscreen couples after pairing together in 'Naan Mahan Alla' is expected to recreate the magic again in 'All In All Azhagu Raja' that was recently seen in a television commercial for Bru Instant Coffee.

Kajal is thrilled with the way her career is shaping up as she now has films like Thuppaki with Vijay, Maatraan with Suriya and now her second time with Karthi.

'All In Azhagu Raja', to be produced by K.E Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green, is expected to hit the floors soon.

Eros International Media Ltd. has acquired the Tamil theatrical rights for the K.V Anand directed Maatraan starring Suriya, Kajal Aggarwal, Vivek, Sachin Khedekhar and Isha Sharvani. Produced by AGS Entertainment, the film has been widely shot in Pakistan borders, Jodhpur, Maharashtra, Hyderabad, Russia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania and Macedonia.

Commenting on the acquisition, Sunil Lulla, the Managing Director of Eros International said that with Maatraan, Eros continues to explore and establish its presence in the regional film markets. He also added, “The film promises to be one of its kind action thrillers and we are happy to associate with AGS Entertainment Private Limited to release this much awaited film with the hugely popular Suriya”.

Kalpathi S. Aghoram, Director, AGS Entertainment said, “There exists a huge potential for AGS Entertainment and Eros International to synergize given our experience in Tamil film production and their global presence with content spread across most leading Indian languages.”

A social activist, V Selvakumar has filed a complaint against A.R Murgadoss' Thupakki  that has Vijay starring as the lead with the beautiful Kajal Aggarwal opposite him. Its not the movie but its poster showing youth icon 'Vijay' puffing a cigar that has made the news now.

The Ministry of Health and the Government of India has banned any public display of smoking and the posters of A.R Murgadoss' Thupakki showing Vijay smoking a cigar violates this. This objectionable poster has been displayed all over Chennai and in the print media as well.

"In regard to the above mentioned violation of the Indian Tobacco Act, I have filed a complaint on 04 May 2012 with the Commissioner of Police, requesting to take necessary action against the violators," informed Selvakumar.

Recently, Shah Rukh Khan was pulled up for smoking in public and now it is Vijay's turn. The makers of the film are yet to comment on this situation.

Kajal Aggarwal is currently very busy shooting for multiple films and was last seen in the Puri Jagannadh directed Mahesh Babu starrer 'Business Man' that broke the highest opening day collections record and became a critical and commercial success.

The actor's next release will be 'Tiger Vishwa,' the Tamil version of 'Dhada that apart from Naga Chaitanya and herself also stars Srikanth, Samiksha, Brahmanandam, Rahul Dev and Mukesh Rishi.

Though 'Dhada' being an action film didn’t succeed at the Telugu box office, the makers are trying their luck among the Tamil audience. Directed by Ajay Bhuyan, 'Dhada' has music by composer Devi Sri Prasad and shots canned by cinematographer V.S Gnana Shekar.

Following Tiger Vishwa's release, Kajal would be seen as the heroine of Suriya's Maatraan, directed by K. V. Anand and in A.R Murugadoss' Thuppakki opposite Vijay.

K.V Anand's Maatraan starring Suriya and Kajal Aggarwal has reached its last leg of shooting. 

The director of the film has been shooting for the film in the exotic locations of Russia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Albania. The director and his crew are now in Jodhpur for the last schedule.

 In his social networking page, K.V Anand blogged, “Shooting the last phase of Maatraan in Jodhpur with 500 junior artist & Suriya. It's very hot here (around 41 degrees).”

Maatraan, that is being produced by Kalpathi S Aghoram also stars Vivek, Isha Sharvani and Sachin Khedekar in supporting roles. With cinematographer Sounder Rajan handling the camera and Anthony, editing the shots,  the film would have music composed by Harris Jayaraj.

Actor Vijay has crooned a number composed by Harris Jayaraj for the A.R Murgadoss directed Thuppaki.

The entire cast and crew are in love with the peppy number rendered by Vijay and has flown to Bangkok to shoot the song in some stunning locales, to make sure they do justice to the song.

Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal are dancing up a storm under the tutelage of Bollywood choreographers and Vijay already famed for his dancing skills has reportedly done an outstanding job.

Insiders swear that the song is going to generate a huge craze across the country!

K.V Anand and Suriya have stolen a march on Rajinikanth's daughter Soundarya Ashwin.

Maatran will feature the much vaunted Performance Capture Technology (PCT) introduced by Steven Spielberg with The Adventures of Tin Tin - The Secret of the Unicorn.

Srinivas Mohan, a three time national award winner for special effects who has worked on the visual effects for Maatran implemented Spielberg's PCT (Peformance Capture Technology) in some of Maatran's super slick action scenes.

Shooting for Maatran is almost complete whereas Kochadaiyaan recently started rolling. So ultimately Maatran would hit the screens first becoming India's first film to feature the much hyped Performance Capture Technology.