Sameera Reddy had to be rushed to a private hospital after she fainted on the sets of the untitled film directed by Prabhu Deva starring Vishal. Doctors treating Sameera have advised a week’s rest as Sameera is suffering from fever.
Sources close to the actress say that she has been working round the clock for the past several months as she has committed to a Telugu and Hindi film apart from several stage shows and this has taken a toll on her health.
After the stupendous success of ‘Siruthai’, Karthi is taking his time to decide on his next. While the production house is almost confirmed to be his Green Studios, the director has not been decided yet.
As per latest news available with us, directors Boopathy Pandian and Jagan are trying their best to convince Karthi.
Boopathy Pandian was fairly successful in his combination with Dhanush. Their films together like ‘Devathayai Kanden’ and ‘Thiruvilayadal Arambam’ were big boosts to Dhanush in his early days. However Boopathy Pandian’s last film ‘Kadhal Solla Vandhen’ failed to evoke interest in spite of some good music from Yuvan Shankar Raja.
On the other hand Jagan is waiting for another good one to prove his mettle after his decent debut in ‘Raman Thediya Seethai’. Even the almost there ‘Ilaignan’ missed his hands last year.
The Nanban team, including Vijay, Jiiva, Srikanth, Sathyaraj, director Shankar, is now in Dehradun to shoot a major portion of the film there. The director had initially planned to start the shooting of Nanban in Dehradun but changed the location to Ooty where he shot the first schedule.
With Vijay joining the Nanban team, the entire unit had left for Dehradun recently. On the sets yesterday, Srikanth, who plays an important role in the film, celebrated his birthday. Vijay, Jiiva, Shankar and others made the occasion special by arranging a small party for the actor.
Kollywood is importing its newest item girl from Bollywood via Ajith’s 50th film ‘Mankatha’.
She is the gorgeous Kainaat Arora who wooed the audience in the song 'Aila Re Aila' from ‘Khatta Meetha’ directed by Priyadarshan. Yes, the same film that introduced our Trisha to Bollywood.
Kainaat Arora is just back from doing an item song in ‘Mankatha’. She shot for the song with Ajith for four days. So what was it like dancing along with Thala. Kainaat has no words to narrate it. She raves about him and says” he is not only a great actor but a great human being too.”
Ajith on his part surprised the bombshell with his customary culinary skills too. During the four days, one day Ajith surprised Kainaat with boiled chicken, on another day he made lovely dosas and chicken soup for her.
All said and done, Kainaat is sure that her hot item song with Ajith in the film will be a visual treat to all. Let’s hope so.
Poonam Kaur has been signed up to do the all-important second heroine role in Prabhu Deva directed untitled Vishal film.
This Punjabi kudi had made her debut in SAC's Nenjirikkum Vare and also seen in a small role of an air hostess in Radha Mohan directed Payanam.
The pretty Poonam had also done the same role in the Telugu original with Gopichand and Anushka.
She is now all-excited to be a part this Prabhu Deva directed action entertainer.
Recently, Poonam was in the news, after being dropped from a Malayalam film titled Thriller after a two-day shoot as B Unnikrishnan, the director later said that she could not act for nuts!
Indian music maestro A.R. Rahman missed getting the Oscar in the 'Best Original Score' and 'Best original Song' categories. The Oscar for Best Original Score went to the duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for their soundtrack in Inception. The Oscar for Best original Song went to to Randy Newman for ' We Belong Together'.
A.R. Rahman and British pop singer Florence Welch performed 'If I Rise' from 127 Hours at the prestigious Academy Awards ceremony. Notably, this is the second time Rahman is performing at an Oscar awards ceremony. Earlier, Rahman performed at the Oscars in 2009, when he won two Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.
The big breaking news in south cinema is Mani Ratnam signing Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu to do his next bi-lingual film in Tamil and Telugu.
Mahesh Babu popularly called 'Prince' in Tollywood has tweeted on Sunday (Feb 27): "Now for some big news. Met Mani sir this morning, yes the legendary
Mani Ratnam. My dream is coming true finally. I will be working in a Mani Ratnam film. One of the happiest days in my life."
The buzz in Kollywood is that veteran director Mani Ratnam is working on making a period film Ponniyin Selvam with Vijay, Vikram and a third star. So is Mahesh Babu the third actor in the film?
Kalki's epic novel Ponniyin Selvan is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written in Tamil. It deals with the fortunes of the Chola Empire during the 10th century.
The story revolves around Vandiyathevan, a charming young man who comes to the Chola land to deliver a message from Crown Prince Aditya Karikalan. Meanwhile sources in Hyderabad say Mahesh-Mani project has nothing to do with Ponniyin Selvan. It is a different film which will be shot in Europe!
Will the secretive Mr Mani Ratnam please clarify, so that the media can stop their guessing game and report the actual truth?
Dabangg is setting new records not only in Bollywood, but also in Tamil and Telugu. With Dabangg opening to an overwhelming response, the enthusiasm to acquire the Tamil and Telugu remake rights has increased overnight. In fact, producer Arbaaz has already received several lucrative offers for the same.
The latest buzz is that Kollywood producers Mohan Apparao and T. Ramesh have purchased the remake rights of Dabangg for a whopping amount, the highest ever paid for a remake. Sources say that they are in talks with Karthi and Simbu to play the role of Chulbul Pandey. But the grapevine has it that Simbu is likely to star in this comedy-action musical entertainer.
It is almost confirmed that one time bitter foes now good friends Dhanush and Simbu will clash once again. Yes, two of their eagerly awaited films Maapillai and Vaanam respectively are scheduled to release on April 8, 2011!
As per our trade sources, Sun Pictures have told their regular set of theatres and distributors to take Maapillai booking from April 8. Meanwhile Ganesh the producer of Vaanam feels that April 8 is one of summer 2011's best dates to release a film.
The world cup finals would be over on April 2 and the IPl would just have started and interest on cricket will be low after the world cup. The Tamil Nadu 2011 assembly elections though dates are yet to be announced are likely to be in the last week of April.
