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 What will a director do if he finds it increasingly difficult to fund his movies? The director of Swapnamalika, which stars Mohanlal in the lead, will give answer this question - IDBI (Industrial Development Bank Of India). IDBI, which has earlier supported around 80 Hindi and Tamil films, has agreed to provide the film with finance of four crores at minimal interest rates. This makes Swapnamalika the first Malayalam film to receive financial support from IDBI. K.B. Devaraj, director of Swapnamalika, said that it is better to approach IDBI for financial assistance than going to private financiers. Shooting for the film has already started at Ernakulam. The film will also be shot at Varanasi, Allahabad, Delhi and Ottappalam. Mohanlal appears in a dual role in the movie which features Israeli actress Elena as the heroine. Meera Jasmine , Jagathy and Nedumudi Venu will play pivotal roles. Ace singer M.G. Sreekumar has composed the music.
Related StoriesDevaraj-to-direct-Mohanlal  Filmmaker K.A. Devaraj will be directing Swapnamalika starring Mohanlal, Meera Jasmine and Prithviraj in the lead. Mohanlal plays the role of a magician for the first time. Devaraj’s daughter is a lyricist for the film; she has penned three romantic songs. Before the director starts working on this Mohanlal starrer, he has plans to make another movie, Paribhavam, starring newcomers Abhilash and Kripa in the lead. &nb more MSR-supports-strike! Trust the maverick senior congress leader to come up with the most audacious and embarrassing statements. He not only comes up with statements that put the congress government a mat but also creates hurdles for the rulers. M Sathyanarayana Rao has been appointed as the chairman of APSRTC recently. An employees union of the RTC has now given a strike call notice. What has come, as a surprise is that MSR now says that their strike call is justified! The union is against the move by the corporation to acquire about 1,500 buses on hire. The RTC has no money to buy new buses and hence wants to take some buses on hire. The unions are opposed to this as they feel that this is actually a ploy by the government for moving to more Is-Chiru-going-to-make-a-Mega-blunder-  Is Chiru going to make mega blunder of his political career? The latest developments indicate the same. Today, Chiranjeevi meeting with senior congress leader Botsa Satyanarayana at Visakhapatnam Air port for more than half an hour indicates the swing of his mood towards Congress party. This is further strengthened with the statements by Hari Rama Jogayya and other leaders. Though, no one yet clearly spell their intentions, it seems every one prefer to keep their doors open for alliance, till the Government forms. If, he is more Diretor-is-the-Real-Hero--  Dasari who always supports Technicians, once again supported them by saying ”Now a days Directors are listening to Heros. In Gold olden days even big actors like NTR, ANR always used to listen to what director says. Now trend has changed. Hero’s are getting into directors job and giving away unwanted suggestions and making director’s job tough. I always believe in technicians, with out technicians there is no space for artists. Hope artists will go behind technicians in coming days… “ more Jagan-loyalists-face-the-axe  The pro Jagan camp is now a worried lot. Many camp followers who have staged a high pitch battle to make Jagan CM are now slowly fling in line. The decision of the high command not to entertain Jagan’s plea at this juncture and send out a signal that it supports Rosaiah fully has come as a big blow to them. Some of the stanch loyalist are worried that they may be dropped from the cabinet. Some of them have already started lobbying with Jagan to ensure that they are not dropped from the cabin more PRP-supports-TDP-MLA  The Praja Rajyam party has decided to come out in support of the TDP MLA from Kovvur TV Rama Rao. The MLA has been booked in a case involving students in his college. The MLA was arrested and later released on bail. Rama Rao is now on a hunger strike demanding the dropping of the case against him. Rama Rao says that he has been wrongly implicated in the case. The PRP has decided to come out in support of Rama Rao. The PRP leaders say that if an MLA is subjected to s more Ram-Charan-didn’t-say-like-that:-Allu-Aravind  PRP leader Allu Aravind said that, ‘Some news papers which directly supports Congress and TDP, intentionally misinterpreted Ram Charan’s statement about BC Candidates of our party. Actually, he said that out of 104 BC candidates, 17 candidates are rich. But, the media misinterpreted his words to campaign against us. When asked to comment on Parakala’s criticism about bogus BC candidates in the party list, Allu Aravind said that,’ it’s the old story again and again repeated by him. He is nothing to us now, and more Superstar-Mohanlal-to-play-reel-life-magician  Veteran Malayali superstar Mohanlal is all set to play a magician in his next film, the songs for which have been penned by a Class X student. The muhurat of Mohanlal's latest film, titled 'Swapnamalika', was held at his Vismaya Film Studio here. Speaking to IANS, Mohanlal said this is the first time that he is playing a magician in a film. Another highlight of the film is that the three songs of the film have been written by Class X student Aparna Karimpil, who is daughter of film's direc more John-supports-Jahnvi-in-AIDS-awareness On a Sunday evening, John Abraham took some time out from his schedule on to help create AIDS awareness. 29 yr old Jahnvi Goswami is HIV positive and since past 11 years, she has been working to create awareness about the disease in North East India. She is a big fan of John Abraham and when he agreed to join the campaign, she was more than happy. John said we might be heroes in films but people like Jahnvi are the heroes in real life. John was completely relaxed during the event and made everyone around have a good time. There were discussions about safe sex, to create awareness among teenagers and also dance performances to send out the message. John Abraham’s upcoming releases include Ravi Chopra’s Baabul and Nikhil more -Nag-supports-Jagan-as-CM  Hero Nagarjuna paid rich tributes to the late YS Rajashekar Reddy who passed away in a chopper crash. Nagarjuna had been a great fan and admirer of the chief minister and his pro poor policies. Nag said that he was shocked with the sudden demise of a dynamic leader and the state has lost a stalwart. Nagarjuna dedicated the film Josh to late YS Rajashekar Reddy. Nagarjuna said that it would be in the interests of the state to make YS Jaganmohan Reddy, son of YSR are as the next chief minister. Nag more |
