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Mani Ratnam’s Kadal is progressing well and actors are beaming about the scenic beauty of the location, Manapad, the sea village in Thoothukudi. Isai Puyal Rahman is scoring the music for the film and the musician has shared a rare picture, featuring him along with the ace director Mani Ratnam. AR Rahman has updated about the picture, “While brainstorming with Mani Ratnam in the middle of the sea, down in the south of India.” In...

Arya has bought a swanking new flat located in Greams Road, Chennai and had invited his close friends from the film fraternity for the house warming ceremony.Surprisingly, Nayantara was present and she was the person to light the auspicious Kuthuvilakku in the flat. Others present include Vishal and Udhayanidhi Stalin.It's only the second time that Nayantara is visiting Chennai after her much-publicized breakup with Prabhudeva happened....

Trisha has been shooting for her Telugu film with Jr. NTR and Vishal's Samaran without taking a break for almost 3 months.Trisha was forced to slow down when she came down with a severe viral flu. Doctors advised bed rest for a week, so Trisha returned to Chennai and her home to be nursed back to health by her mother.Fans started drowning her in messages enquiring about her health and Trisha was deeply touched with the love and warmth.Trisha...

Kamal Haasan has done it again!The actor's film Viswaroopam has been wrapped up in record time and has made the deadline for Cannes, the prestigious film festival. The powers at Cannes extended the deadline so that Viswaroopam could be entered in the competitive category and Kamal did not let them down.Word is that Viswaroopam will also be played at the Singapore Film Festival.The cast of Viswaroopam includes, Rahul Bose, Shekhar Kapoor,...

Nayanthara's big comeback film is Vishnuvardhan's film with Ajith and Arya.This film is most likely to be released in Telugu as well since the director and the stars have a big market there.Nayantara will also be part of a bilingual to be released in Tamil and Telugu directed by Boopathy Pandian which has Telugu star, Gopichand as the hero. Gopichand can be recalled as the actor who played villain in Jeyam.In addition to this big film,...

There is no business like show business and stars make insane amounts of money.Bollywood stars make full use of their star power to deliver super hits and many like Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan have taken the plunge into production and help themselves to a hefty chunk of the profits.A recent survey found that for 2011, India's highest paid actor for any one film is none other than Rajinikanth!No surprise there?Stars...

Selvaraghavan is proceeding full steam ahead with his Arya and Anushka film, Irandam Ulagam.For the first time ever, the ace director is teaming up with Harris Jeyaraj and insiders have opined that it is the pairing of the decade. Great things are expected from this duo and they are keen to deliver.Recently, a track was recorded sung by Karthik and with lyrics by Vairamuthu. Selva is in love with this song and said that the music director,...

Madhavan's hectic schedule had taken a toll on his health especially his knees.Having wrapped up work, Maddy is taking a break pottering around at home, relaxing and doing physiotherapy to get his troublesome knees back in shape. It is painful going and Maddy said that he should not have put off treatment for so long as he has wound up slowing down the healing process.Maddy has taken up gardening and is also cooking up a storm at home....

STR AKA Simbu is probably the most eligible bachelor in the South. He is always being peppered with questions about his love life and marriage plans.Work has been his partner for quite a while now and he has been powering ahead on the career front with back to back movies and has even recorded a music album for Sony.Deciding to put an end to the speculation, STR has said that he has given in to parental pressure which he has resisted for...

Early in the morning at 4 a.m. might not be a time when the airport is abuzz with reporters trying to get a few bytes. But, it was so on Saturday morning as the principal team of Kochadaiyaan arrived to board their flight to London.Rajinikanth was in high spirits and said a few words. He said that the team was off on a 20-25 day long schedule during which they will be shooting a couple of songs and some talkie portions. The next schedule...

Music can do wonders and music director and singer George Peter has utilised the power of music to create unity in the country.George Peter along with his friends has come up with a multi-lingual song and the final mixing and mastering of the same is happening in A.R Rahman’s studio. The major attraction of this song is that several big stars and singers have joined together to promote brotherhood and unity in diversity.Going by the video...

Anushka and Trisha are have been two of the leading divas of South Indian cinema for quite sometime now and there always is a rift competition when it comes to signing of an endorsement deal.Recently Anushka got an endorsement deal for a toothpaste brand that Trisha had been endorsing for the last three years.Press hounds immediately reported that Trisha was very unhappy with this development.Trisha however is unfazed according to sources...

Director Sasikumar of Subramaniapuram fame makes acting debut in Malayalam with Masters that has Prithviraj, Ananya and Piaa Bajpai in the leading roles.Masters, directed by Johny Antony is an upcoming Malayalam action thriller film that revolves around the friendship of two childhood friends who join hands to unravel the mystery behind a horrendous incident despite having landed in two separate careers. Prithviraj plays ASP Sriramakrishnan,...

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...

Aishwarya Dhanush's directorial debut starring Dhanush and Shruti Haasan was expected to release on March 30th and then later pushed to April 6th.The much awaited film now appears to be postponed again to release on April 12th on the eve of Tamil new year weekend when everybody will be in holiday mode.The Telugu version will be released on the same day and both versions will be facing the censors soon.The Hindi version will be released...

Bringing her gorgeousness to the Land Down Under, Kate Beckinsale nabbed the cover of the April 2012 issue of Men's Style Australia.The "Underworld" actress heated up publication's pages while also speaking about topics such as not being too caught up with her looks and married life with husband of nearly eight years, Len Wiseman.Highlights from Beckinsale's interview are as follows.On not placing too much importance on her looks:"I've...

Amala Paul has been signed up to romance Jeyam Ravi for Boologam that is to be produced by Aascar Ravichandran.Jayam Ravi plays a kick - boxer in the film and Amala Paul will be his love interest.Jayam Ravi is currently shooting for Ameer's Aadhi Bhagawan and once it is done he will begin work on Boologam.Jayam Ravi is sharpening his kick - boxing skills that he picked up while shooting for M Kumaran s/o Mahalakshmi.After Vettai, kadhalil...

Recently released cheeky number 'Pyaar Ki Pungi' from 'Agent Vinod' is creating a lot of buzz."It was a very liberating experience. Dancing is generally a liberating experience. It's a lot of fun. I don't normally dance very much but it's easy when you have a song like that. I don't see any other way of dancing to that song. We made up some steps ourselves also. And we shot it in one night which was quite remarkable," said Saif being thrilled...

Kalki Koechlin is finally moving into the commercial movie zone. After Daayan, she has been roped in for Ayan Mukerji's Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, which stars Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles."Yes, I have signed for Ayan Mukerji's Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani and I am leaving for the shoot tomorrow," said Kalki Koechlin to a tabloid.'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani' is Ayan Mukerji's second film as a director after Wake Up Sid, which...

Yash Raj Films released the first trailer of Ishaqzaade introdicing Boney Kapoor's son Arjun Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra's cousin Parineeti Chopra, who was last seen opposite Ranveer Singhin YRF's Ladies vs Ricky Bahl.Ishaqzaade directed by directed by Habib Faisal has now peaked the interest in the film billed as a "love story of a passion ignited by hatred".Sonam Kapoor presented the trailer of her cousin's debut film and she tweeted:Meanwhile,...

Yash Raj Films (YRF) officials says that their next production, directed by head honcho Yash Chopra, is not titled "London Ishq", as has been reported in certain sections of the media."Despite repeated confirmations that Yash Chopra`s film still remains untitled, large sections of the media continue to call it `London Ishq`. This is completely baseless, inaccurate and detrimental to the film," said an official statement from YRF.The yet-to-be...

Jiiva is staying up nights shooting for his upcoming superhero film 'Mugamoodi' with director Mysskin.The makers of the film have splurged about the outcome of Jiiva's superhero costume and word is that it looks absolutely awesome on the Superhero of the script.Jiiva however finds his costume to be uncomfortably heavy and hot shooting in summer and joked that he feels like a chicken wrapped in aluminium foil to be grilled slowly to death."Jokes...

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...

Shooting for Selvaraghavan's film, Irandam Ulagam with Arya and Anushka in the lead, resumed yesterday after a gap of three months and the director couldn't help but blame the strike for the delay."Arya and Anushka share a good chemistry together as they enact two well-etched characters that I can't wait to see on the big screen," said Selvaraghavan updating the progress of his upcoming film 'Irandam Ulagam' collaborating with Harris Jeyaraj...

There has been a flurry of reports that Andrea and Sunder, seen recently in Selvaraghavan's Mayakkam Enna are dating.It has been recently reported that Sunder has said that Andrea is a special friend and there is every chance of a romance blossoming between them."Sunder and I go back a long way and we have been and always will be good friends. There is nothing more between us. Such rumors are stupid and they just make things awkward,"...

Everybody knows that Rajinikanth is Asia's biggest star and he has fans across the world so it has been decided that Kochadaiyaan should be a truly international film.After months of pre-production and groundwork Kochadaiyaan went on floors recently. It is touted that the film is going to be released in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, English, Japanese and other international languages meeting the demand that has aroused for the Superstar towards...

Shahrukh Khan is in London shooting for Yash Chopra’s untitled film with Katrina Kaif. The actor also got his family there for the vacations and is enjoying thoroughly. Despite being busy Shahrukh Khan does find time to read what Amitabh Bachchan writes on twitter.The legendary actor is at his home recuperating from his illness after going through abdominal surgeries, and is advised rest.Shahrukh Khan, who is in London, has expressed his...

Neil Nitin Mukesh is one actor who is really active on the social networking circuit! Be it promoting his movie, or showing his emotional side, Neil has consistently used Twitter as a medium to express himself! This time around, he has revealed his fondness for Amisha Patel.Ameesha Patel's home production Shortcut Romeo seems to be on in full swing. A major schedule of the film starring Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ameesha and Puja Gupta was recently...

Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan are excitedly waiting for March 23. Sorry, it’s not their engagement day, but the release date of Agent Vinod.Actor-producer Saif recently admitted that his second home production, Agent Vinod, is along the lines of some of the films like the Bourne series, The Adventures Of Tintin and James Bond. The sleek promos of the film have shown that the movie is not going to fall short on glamour quotient, credit...

In a bid to grab as much attention before the release of his much touted action thriller Agent Vinod, Saif Ali Khan is now coming up with the graphic novel of the film.The novel has an unusual (Germanic) name The Jungfrau Encounter, and its first look shows the silhouette of a goggled, gun-toting man, presumably the story’s protagonist based on the clever spy with multiple identities.Agent Vinod has Saif Ali Khan playing a covert intelligence...

Again in March, Bollywood divas went a step ahead and posed for some daring photoshoots.Since the month clearly belonged to Vidya Balan as her film Kahaani opened to a good response, it didn’t come as a surprise that she is the FHM girl for the month, posing backless in a lungi.Another cover which we found too sexy was of Maxim. Yes, It was Mallika Sherawat who was scorching the March 2012 issue of Maxim as the Maxim girl of the month.So,...

Agent Vinod, an action spy thriller has got a U/A certificate from the censor board after a screening Wednesday and Saif Ali Khan is happy with this.Directed by Sriram Raghavan, the film has Saif Ali Khan in the title role and is releasing March 23. Kareena Kapoor plays the female lead in it."Our film has a lot of action but we have worked on keeping it more realistic and less violent. And after censor board's screening, we have got a U/A...

One of Mallika Sherawat's long time dreams to pair with Ajay Devgn recently came true as she got to perform the sizzling item number in Tezz with Ajay Devgn."On the sets, Mallika had eyes only for Devgn. In fact, before the shoot, she even walked up to Ajay, introduced herself and chatted with him for quite some time," said sources from the industry."Ajay is my favourite actor! I love Ajay's work ever since 'Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai'...

Mallika Sherawat is back and this time she is the sultry Laila!The sex bomb and also a fabulous dancer Mallika agreed to do an item song in the upcoming film Tezz, and the oomphilicious first look of her hot avatar from the song Laila is out.After her delectable Jalebi Bai act or the racy Razia Gundon Mein Phas Gayi, what’s new Mallika Sherawat has to offer in Laila? Well, the first look of the song sees her dressed in the skimpiest of...

Andrea will star in Pudhiya Thiruppangal, a hard-hitting movie about child trafficking, directed by Saradha Ramanathan whose 2007 movie Sringaram won three national awards.Saradha's upcoming film 'Pudhiya Thiruppangal' will deal with a 13 year old who becomes a victim of Human Trafficking and is sold to the sex trade.The young girl is portrayed by Dharini and the director was in all praises of the role that has been performed to perfection.Andrea...

Actor Saif Ali Khan feels that his upcoming action-thriller Agent Vinod with Kareena Kapoor has the potential to become a successful franchise.Though the actor says it is too early to talk about sequels, he does admit that the idea has crossed his mind already.Saif, 41, has produced the film through his Illuminati Films banner besides playing the central character of a RAW agent in the movie, which hits screens on March 23. It has been...

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and actor Abhishek Bachchan, who worked together in Naach, Sarkar and Sarkar Raj, will join hands again for the remake of the Telugu film Businessman.Jagannath has also written and directed the original movie, which starred Mahesh Babu and Kajal Agarwal in the lead roles.Varma is currently working on Department where southern star Rana Daggubati will be seen as a grungy policeman - a role that was earlier reserved...

"I love theatre, and as long as I have time. It's great to be able to go back to it and give time to it," said Kalki Koechlin, the Indian actress of French descent who had featured in several plays before trying her luck in Bollywood.When she is not busy shooting films, actress Kalki Koechlin goes back to her first love - theatre."I am happy doing theatre, and it's been film after film for a while...so it's nice to get back to theatre,...