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BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN After breaking up with Simbhu, the new man in gorgeous Nayanthara’s life is non-other-than dancing king Prabhu Deva. Though married, Prabhu Deva is said to be in a serious relationship with the actress. The two came close to each other while shooting for Villu in foreign locations when Nayanthara’s parents were not there to keep an eye on her. This has upset Nayanthara’s father Kurien Kodiyatahm and mother Omana a lot as they were seriously looking for a suitable alliance for their daughter with the help of the brokers. They have warned Nayanthara to stay away from Prabhu since he is already married. But Naynathara is said to be so deeply involved in the relationship that she is paying no attention towards her parents warning.

BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN After breaking up with Simbhu, the new man in gorgeous Nayanthara’s life is non-other-than dancing king Prabhu Deva. Though married, Prabhu Deva is said to be in a serious relationship with the actress. The two came close to each other while shooting for Villu in foreign locations when Nayanthara’s parents were not there to keep an eye on her. This has upset Nayanthara’s father Kurien Kodiyatahm and mother Omana a lot as they were seriously looking for a suitable alliance for their daughter with the help of the brokers. They have warned Nayanthara to stay away from Prabhu since he is already married. But Naynathara is said to be so deeply involved in the relationship that she is paying no attention towards her parents warning.

BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN Even after acting in more than 400 films, Vadivelu feels that he isn’t getting the kind of respect he deserves. Recently, while speaking to media he stated that he wouldn’t be doing any lead roles in the future, “I have decided not to act in hero roles because I am being blamed if the film fails.” He added, “so far I have acted in 490 films. My 490th film is Adhavan. Since I am bulky I am not able to dance. So I have reduced my weight by 5 kgs by doing rigorous exercises and diet. I have decided not to do hero roles in future. If a film flops, they are blaming me. If I say there can be little more salt in the food, they say that I am interfering in the production.” “During the dubbing if I say that the lines can be changed they immediately comment that I am interfering with the editing,” rues Vadivelu. He further adds, “If I say that the shirt button is not proper they quip that I am interfering with the costumes. The hero has no right over anything. If at all I...

BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN Glad tidings to all! Actor Narain– The Charming guy of South Indian Film Industry has become a father now. His wife Manju gave birth to a girl baby on july 22nd afternoon at 1.30 p.m. in Baby Memorial Hospital, Calicut. Actor Narain entered into nuptials with TV Anchor Manju Haridas on August 26, 2007. It’s noteworthy that both of them fell in love while encountering each other on a TV interview for a Satellite Channel. In his early days, actor Narain was a cinematographer and graduated from Adyar Film Institute. He assisted Rajiv Menon in various projects including Morning Raga. He made his debut as an actor with Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s ‘Nizhalkuthu’ and shot to fame with ‘4 The People’. He made his debut in Kollywood with Mysskin’s directorial ‘Chittiram Pesuthadi’ We convey our heartiest congratulations to Narain and Manju and wish them success in future.

BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN Yesterday was a very intriguing day for film lovers in Malayalam Film Industry with news about their popular star Kavya, planning to call it a day from her married life with Nishaal. Kavya Madhavan has also tried her hand in Tamil with a couple of films like ‘En Mana Vaanile’. The news spread like fire after it appeared as a cover story in the midday newspaper, which also stated that after having problems with her husband Nishaal, the actress is back to Kochi with her parents. The actress who got married five months ago, even while she was in the peak of her career was said to be regularly mentally tortured for the rumours about her relation with a top artist of Mollywood. The TV channels all over the state then tried far and wide to get backing sources for the story and the people from every corners of life in the state were discussing about the chances about this developments in the life of their favorite actor. By the evening, many of the channels flashed tha...

BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN From 27th July monday to friday at 9.30 pm AVM's new soap 'avazh oru minsaram'.It is going to be a different story says the story writer Devi Bala. Produced by M. Saravanan M.S. Guhan, ArunaGuhan and AparnaGuhan. Music ByRamani Bharathvaj and directed By R.K. Watch this soap from Monday at 9.30P.M.

KAMALHASSAN WITH NEWLY MARRIED MEENA AT A RECEPTION ACCORDED AT CHENNAI.

BY KARPAGAM RAJAN Aadavan the host of Amuda Ganam on Mega TV is keen to make his show more interesting in the coming episodes. The show has Tamil old melodies along with interesting information about them. The show has compleated 600 episodes and is being watched by people of all age groups. The theme based songs are a great hit among the viewers. A lot of interesting things are on the anvil in the near future says the director of the show. Watch Amuda Ganam Daily at 8 to 9 am and 9.30pm to 10.30 pm on Mega TV. - Sampurn Media

Soon Rajshri Media will be launching Rajshritamil.com in four 4 regional content video websites like Bengali , Tamil , Telgu , and Marathi . This they had analysed before they foray into regional/vernacular video content. They have also launched a youtube channel each for these regional sites. On the youtube front Rajshri became the number one most viewed YouTube channel in India with more than 100 million viewers. Rajshri Media part of 60 year old Rajshri group which is one of the oldest and largest entertainment group has leveraged its offline content repository and even made tie ups to scale its online presence. Rajshri Media has a huge collection of movies,archived TV content,original content on its website Rajshri.com . It also hosts content of various other languages like Bengali , Tamil , Telgu , Marathi which makes it N0 1 media channel with a huge audience base. What makes them hit in India is their content repository which includes all time hit epics like Ramayan...

“I will not do glamour roles. That means I will not wear revealing clothes in films. I know that taking the glamour route is the easiest way to stardom, but you will not last long. I do not want to mention names, but where are the stars who wore revealing costumes? What are they doing today? The life of a glam girl is very short in cinema, while actresses of substance have a longer run, depending on the performance of their films at the box-office,” says Valmiki Telugu film Meera Nandan. The actress has decided to act in the film in de-glam roles. While talking about her role in Valmiki she said that her character was very strong in the film and the film's director Anantha Narayanan had brought best things from her. She hoped that audience would appreciate her role in films. Ilayaraja has done quite a fab job with the music; let's hope the story and screenplay is as great as the music.

Small screen actor Chetan has become director for a Tamil movie to be produced by Sathya Jothi Thyagarajan. " Earlier I was working as assistant director for some films and I was waiting for an opportunity to be come a fullfledged director for a film. But my schedules with acting for small screen serials did not give me enough time. I told my own story to the director, who promised me to go ahead with the production of the film. Now I am writing the script and will soon start writing of dialogues of the film" said the small-screen actor Chetan.

By N.Thyagarajan This is the title of a Tamil film to be produced by Daya Nidhi son of Minister M.K.Azhagiri. It is the story of making fun on the films produced in Tamil for commercial purposes. Mirchi Siva has taken a vow to find out various idiotic that are going on among the producers to make their films successful. Wait for the day when this film will be released, if it is released then it will be a veritable tamasha among the people of Tamil Nadu.

BY N.THYAGARAJAN Ilaya Thalapathy Vijay and a leading film actors of younger generation will be announcing about starting of his new political party on his birthday. His father, S.A.Chandrasekaran who is also an actor, producer and director is the stickler for starting the party. Vijay who is acting in his 49th film Vettaikaran would yield him a good result and his earlier films were flopped. The actor who claims that he has more than 20 lakhs fans would be joining or supporting his new political party from outside. Following the foot-steps of MGR , Sarath Kumar and Vijaykanth this young artiste will be heading a political party. There have been vast connections between Kodambakkam film studios and the young film heros to start a political party, but Vijay's political party would not contest in the coming elections. Like Rahul Gandhi who did not like to become a minister, but at the same time woo youngsters in the Congress party, this young Vijay would strive to do several welfare ...

It is after the success of Slumdog Millionaire Music Maestro A.R Rahman has reached new pinnacle in his career. Now Rahman is all set to compose his magical Tunes for the next 23rd James Bond film which will be produced by Barbara Broccoli with the co-producer is Beach film fame McDougal. The film was produced with the joint effort of Danny Boyle. Danny Boyle is well aware about the talents of AR Rahman.

The DTH service of BIG TV group of the Reliance ADA Group, is expanding its channel with the addition of ten more new channels. These channels would be made available from June, according to a release of the company. The channels would include KBS and WB and English entertainement channels. The rest of the eight channels include leading regional channels in India; DD Podhigai (Tamil), NE TV (Telugu), India Vision (Malayalam), Star Jalsa (Bangla), Star Pravah (Marathi), Mahua (Bhojpuri), DD Kashmir (Urdu / Kashmiri), and TV99 (Rajasthani). BIG TV would be offering these channels across various subscription packs.

BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN Univercell Vijay Awards in its third year has kicked off well and the audience participation has increased this time around. The publicity van ‘Rasigan Express’ that traveled across various districts of Tamil Nadu was received well. The year 2008, witnessed some great works in the Tamil film industry and the 118 films which were released during the year captivated most of the Tamil audiences. Like in the past, this year too viewers will get a chance to cast their vote for their Favorite stars under 5 Category - Favorite Hero, Favorite Heroine, Favorite Film, Favorite Director and Favorite Song. The Jury Members, Actor/Director Prathap Pothan, Popular Writer/Director/Producer Yugi Sethu, Film Critic/Cartoonist Madan and Lizzy Priyadarshan will be introduced on Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 2pm on Vijay TV. The Jury will discuss the various parameters under which they are to analyze the movies that would be nominated. They will speak about the 27 categories that are tak...

BY KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN This year’s biggest release, Sushi Ganesan’s Kandhasamy, will now release on June 12, more than a month after its initial release date. The film’s audio release will now take place on May 10. Kandhasamy is Tamil cinema’s first superhero movie and sees Vikram, Shreya and the late Raghuvaran in the lead roles. Producer S Dhanu has spent a small fortune in marketing the movie in a huge way through a series of slickly packaged trailers and teasers. Kandhasamy will be the first Indian film to release simultaneously in the major Indian languages as well as Italian, Spanish and English

The Sun TV Network has bagged the Tamil version rights of the Hindi language Police Police which recently received A from the Censor Board. The film with Prithviraj and Sri Ram in the lead and Kamalini Mukherjee as the heroine was cleared by the Censor Board. Manmohan has directed the film and Chandu is the producer. The film is produced in Tamil and Telugu. The post-production works are now going on. The film will be released in Telugu and Tamil on the same date. The producer and director claim that the film is quite different from the many police films that have been made so far. The film will enthrall all sections of the audience, claim the film makers.

The audio release of Cheran’s Pokkisham was held on Sunday, the 19th April at Kalaignar television studio in Chennai. The event was telecast live on TV and was attended by many of the industry’s top directors who expressed their faith in Cheran’s ability to mesmerize the audience with his creations. The CD of Pokkisham was formally released and two songs were screened for those present. Cheran spoke and said that the film is all about love. The story is set in the 70s and the love will have all the charm of that era; when love happened slowly but steadily where a strong emotional chord was formed between the two lovers even before they confessed their love to each other. The film will take us through the myriad emotions that two such lovers go through. Cheran plays the role of a marine engineer (Lenin) based in Calcutta and Padmapriya plays a Tamil literature student (Nithira) from Tamil Nadu. Their love takes form even as they are separated by distances and that is said to be the beau...

The shooting of the Unnai Pol Oruvan, being produced in Tamil and Telugu, began at Hyderabad with Kamal Hassan and Venkatesh appearing in the films. The film is the remake of the Malayalam film Wednesday started its shootings at the Ramoji Rao Studios. In the film Venkatesh is playing the role of Mohanlal and Kamal does the same lead role in Tamil. Originally, Unnipol Oruvan was the title of a Tamil film produced three decades ago. Kamal’s daughter Shruthi Hassan is given the job of directing music. Earlier, the film bore the title as Thalaivan Oruvan Irukkiran and now it has changed. However, the launch of the UNNAIPPOL ORUVAN TOOK HERE IN CHENNAI ON FRIDAY WITH MOHAN LAL AND ULAGANAYAGAN KAMAL HASSAN HAVE DECIDED TO PUT THEIR VALIANT ACTING. THE INAUGURAL CEREMONY OF THE FILM TOOK ON FRIDAY. PHOTO COURTESY: THE HINDU.