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Tanvi Lonkar, who played the teenage Latika, will appear in a lead role in the Tamil movie Kadhal Theevu. The

Kadhal Theevu is produced by Studentstudio.com production company and Sathyaraj introduced the cast of Kadhal Theevu's leads - Tanvi and Ramcharan, who played the young Parthiban in Azhagi - was held in Fame National Multiplex in Chennai.

Tanvi, in her address, revealed how hard it is to make it big in Bollywood. "Although I am from Maharashtra and speak Hindi, it's impossible to break into Hindi films because Bollywood prefers people with some film background. But Tamil cinema is different and I am hoping to do more projects here," she said.

Nanban is all set to be released on January 12th, and there has been a sudden outbreak of news alleging that Sun Pictures have snatched up the rights to Nanban. However, there has been debate about whether Sun Pictures has bagged the distribution and theatrical rights or merely the satellite rights if any.

What makes it interesting is that prior tussles have been reported between Vijay and the family that controls Sun Pictures owing to different political allegiances and other issues. Insiders are waiting for official confirmation.

Nanban, an upcoming Tamil comedy drama film directed by S. Shankar features an ensemble cast that includes Vijay, Jeeva, Srikanth, Ileana D'Cruz, Sathyan and Sathyaraj with music scored by Harris Jeyaraj.

Harris Jayaraj, the music director of Nanban, has said that the final mixing of the audio is currently on.

The musician is now focusing on Nanban’s music album as the plan is to launch the music during the first week of December.

With the deadline been set for the audio launch, Harris is concentrating on completing this within the expected time frame.

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"Nanban will hit the screens for Pongal 2012," stated director Shankar, who is very busy with the post-production work that is expected to be wrapped up soon.

The film’s dubbed version in Telugu, 3 Rascals, was originally planned to be released along with Nanban but now we hear the release has been postponed.

Though Vijay’s penchant for mass masala themes is a common knowledge, the actor is consciously trying to change his image.

Choosing Gen Y directors like Shankar, Gautham Menon and Murugadoss for his future offerings after completing half century in Tamil cinema is proof of the same.

Reacting to this, Vijay said, “Whatever came my way I accepted it. Even now, these directors approached me with suitable scripts and I was too happy to be a part of it.”

Can we expect a new Vijay from these films?

“I also hope that they will project me differently,” mused Vijay.

The Velayudham star could not stop raving about director Shankar. “I will call him the Spielberg of India. His technical expertise simply amazes me. He acts out each and every scene including minute details, which made our job easier. I simply go to the spot without any preparation.”

Now that Vijay’s ‘Velayutham’ is released the next release of Ilayathalapathy Vijay is the Shankar directed Nanban. The film has high expectations amd is much awaited as Vijay has teamed up with Shankar for the first time.

Nanban is expected to release during Pongal 2012.

‘Nanban’ is a remake of Bollywood blockbuster ‘Three Idiots’ with Vijay, Srikanth, Jiiva, Ileana D’ Cruz, Sathyaraj in lead roles with Anuya Bhagawath and S J Suryah playing pivotal ones. Harris Jayaraj has scored the music and the post production work for the film is full on.

Vijay plays an engineering college student, whose ideas are always out of the box. Jiiva and Srikanth are his friends. A major portion of the film was shot in Darjeeling and Ooty. Surprisingly Shankar has completed Nanban in a record time unlike the usual Shankar films that take at least a year to complete.

Shankar himself has said that Nanban has shaped out very well in all aspects and the highlight of the film will be its characters and the excellent performances of the stars.

Looks like Nanban will be a superb film to look out for . . .

Shankar's forthcoming multi-starrer featuring Vijay, Jiiva, Srikanth and Ileana will see an audio release this December and will have five songs like its original, '3 Idiots'.

The music for 'Nanban' has been composed by Harris Jayaraj who is currently busy with his music tour, On The Edge.

The shooting has been wrapped as reported earlier and currently the dubbing work for the major portions has been completed as well.

The posters of 'Nanban' all confirm that the movie will see a Pongal 2012 release and the creative designs are unique by themselves, apt with the film's plot as the trio will be seen as college students and Sathyaraj as a taskmaster for a college head.

The Tamil version of the super hit film 3 Idiots has been named ‘Nanban’. Sources say, Vijay will play the main lead, which we know without saying. Jeeva who will play Sharman Joshi’s role is super excited about it. And the role played by Madhavan will be done by Srikanth.

The powerful role of Boman Irani as Virus has gone to Sathyaraj while Sathyan will be stepping into Omi Vaidhya’s shoes. Director-actor SJ Suryah will make a cameo in Nanban and play Javed Jefri’s character. Ileana is the leading lady and Anuya will play her sister in the film.