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 Director Nemam Pushparaj's Vineeth-Kavya Madhavan starrer Banaras, which has completed its second schedule in Thiruvananthapuram district, is all set to grace theatres in January 2009. Vineeth acts as Hari, a research student on folk dances; Kavya Madhavan plays the role of Amritha, a classical dancer. Most of shooting was in Banaras. Banaras is an offbeat love story, flowering in the backdrop of pilgrim centres in and around Banaras, the religious capital of India. Hari, the only son of a Malayalee professor who has been working in Banaras University, was born in Banaras, but brought to his father's native place in Kerala after the death of his mother at the time of Hari's birth. Later, his father married another woman to look after Hari. His parents want Hari to marry his niece Devu who is in love with him, but Hari's ambition is to return Banaras for higher studies in folk dance. In Banaras, he meets Amritha, a classical dancer, during a function conducted by a Malayalee association. They became friends and eventually fall in love with each other. This is the first time Kavya Madhavan plays a classical dancer in her career. Produced by M.R. Nair under the banner of Kashi films, the film gives equal importance to music. M. Jayachandran sets music to lyrics written by Giresh Puthencherry. The singers include K.J. Yesudas, Sadhana Sargam and Shreya Goshal. Camera is handled by M. Sukumar. The other cast members include Jagathy Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu, Devan, Bineesh Kodiyeri, Harisree Asokan and Suraj Vejaramoodu. Scripted by Cheriyaan Kalpakavaady, Banaras will be brought to theatres by Minerva Release.
Related StoriesBanaras,-an-offbeat-love-story  Shooting of actor-dancer Vineeth starrer Banaras, directed by Nemam Pushparaj of Gowri Sankaram fame, is progressing in Benaras, also known as Varanasi, one of world's oldest living cities and the religious capital of India. Banaras is an offbeat love story, flowering in the backdrop of pilgrim centres in Varanasi. The film gives equal importance to music as well. Produced by M.R. Nair under the banner of Kashi films, the film presents Vineeth as a research student on folk dances and will have some more Marital-bliss-awaits-Kavya-Madhavan  Popular Malayalam actress Kavya Madhavan has announced that she would be getting married soon. Introduced to the film world as a child artiste, Kavya Madhavan shot to fame after her first role as heroine in the Malayalam film 'Chaddranudhikkunna Dikkil'. She became a huge name to reckon with after movies such as 'Thenkasi Pattanam', 'Thillakkam', 'Perumazhakkalam', 'Naalu Pennugal', 'Anandabhadram', 'Meesa Madhavan' and 'Classmates'. The actress was introduced to Tamil movie audiences with the movie more Kavya-to-marry-soon-!  Leading Malayalam actress Kavya Madhavan disclosed during an interview that this is the right time to begin a married life. She has announced she would be getting married soon but nothing has been finalized yet. "There have been rumours at least a hundred times that I was getting married. But this time, it is true. I'll be getting married before this December. My parents are looking for a groom who is not part of the film industry," Kavya Madhavan said. However, Kavya Madhavan didn"t reve more Vineeth-in-Benares  Vineeth hogged the limelight playing the lead role in 'Uliyin Osai'. His role as sculptor Iniyan in the film has won the admiration of one and all. A happy Vineeth says, ' I was thrilled to act in Karunanidhi sir's movie. To speak his dialogues was a big gift.' On his next film, Vineeth, says, ' I am in no hurry to accept all offers that come my way. I am getting good offers but I am listening to scripts very carefully'. Vineeth says' I am currently working in a Malayalam movi more Vineeth-Shrinivasan-becomes-hero!!!  Until now Vineeth Shrinivasan had confined himself to only playback singing. But now he is getting ready to make his onscreen debut. Vineeth's dad, Shrinivasan himself is a very talented actor/director/screenplay writer and singer. Its now the son's turn to reveal his talents. In an earlier interview, Vineeth had expressed his desire to act. Coincidentally, Shrinivasan too had made it very clear that he believes in giving space for his son to make his own mistakes and learn from life. The father therefore had no objections more Kavya-is-a-professor-now  After playing a student in Classmates, Kavya Madhavan has now been assigned to play a professor for Nasrani. The movie starring Mammootty in the lead role is being directed by Joshy. Scripted by Ranjith, the film also sees Kavya starring opposite Mammootty for the first time. Her role is very matured and Kavya is confident that Joshy will certainly do full justice to her role and appease her fans. The film will start rolling soon. more Kavya-out-of-Prithvi-film  Kavya Madhavan, the busiest heroine of Malayalam cine industry has decided to quit Prithviraj's new film 'One Way Ticket' because she is convinced that she wouldn't have callsheets to star in the film. As of now, Kavya is involved in two films- 'Maadambi' with Mohanlal in the lead. Next month, shooting of AMMA's 'Twenty 20' will begin too and she is going to be immensely busy with both these shootings that will be on simultaneously. She has therefore chosen to withdraw herself from this film. < more Kavya-walks-out-of-Nasraani  Joshy's new film Nasraani was much in the news for the specialty of its lead, which had Kavya Madhavan playing the female lead for the first time opposite Mammootty. The latest news is that Kavya has backed out from doing the film. The presence of a strong second heroine seems to be the reason for Kavya for not doing the film. No one has suggested earlier about the presence of another heroine in the film. But now after the pooja, Ranjitheettan made clear about my role in the film which has less prominence compared to more Kavya-in-music-album  Kavya Madhavan, who recently captured headlines for having written a Mappilapattu (a song sung by Muslims during their religious and other joyous occasions) which was later adapted to the new film One Way Ticket by film-makers Babu Janardhanan and Bibin Prabhakar, is now planning to bring out an exclusive album of her songs. Another highlight of the album is that one song will be set to music by Kavya herself. It is learnt that she may even sing a song for her untitled album, which will be released more Bad-talks-about-Kavya-Madhavan...  So many heroines have come and gone in Malayalam but Kavya Madhavan continues to remain as popular as ever. Once in a while, she stars in a film or two in Tamil. That has now landed her in a very bemusing controversy. Some sections of the Tamil media have claimed that Kavya is an actress who has completely abandoned her career in Malayalam in order to concentrate on Tamil. They also say that she isn't happy with the fact that she isn't getting plenty of offers and that her previous film had happened more |
