 ‘Telugu film producers council (TFPC) has decided to avoid going to Australia for film shootings, in protest against racial attacks on Indian students. TFPC president Tammareddy Bharadwaja announcing the decision said that, despite Indian government’s appeals, the Australian government fails to control the racists. We have decided to avoid shootings in Australia till the situation improves. |
 The homely image girl Sneha is trying to shrug of her image, and like to be identified as another glamour doll in the industry. Her attempt to expose her luscious figure in Tamil film, ‘Simbhu’ proved to be big success. She even created a sensation with her lip lock scene with the hero Simbhu. The success inspired her and the Producers to remake the film in Telugu also. The new invented hot girl is now coming as Bhavani IPS. During a break, when she is asked about her affair with Tamil actor Simbhu, visibly irritated with the media question, she harshly replied, ‘Guys, don’t you have some other questions than these vulgar questions? What makes you peep into our personnel lives?’ She also refuses to answer the media questions about her exposing and lip lock interests in her further films. Its surprise that when she is eager expose herself in front of cameras, then why should she feel shy to say the same to media? |
 Puri Jaganath and Ravi Teja combination film “Neeninthe” could not reach the expectations of their fans, and proved to be another failure in their record. Puri and Ravi Teja are very hopeful about the film before release of the film, but the first talk and the film critic’s reviews disappointed them very much. Especially Puri, who wants to promote his brother Sairam with his next film, dropped his plan immediately after the latest failure. He once attempted with a film ‘143’ in which he introduced his brother Sairam as hero, which was also promptly rejected by the viewers. Ravi Teja, the best friend of Puri said to be suggested him that he should try with Prabhas, which may create a great combination in the film industry. Prabhas, who is long waiting to act in Puri Direction, accepted his proposal with out second thought. He not even asked him what is the base line of the story, and in return, he suggested a name ‘Bujjigadu’ for the film. Puri Jaganath quite happy with the development, immediately left for Bangkok along with his story-team to finalise the story. |
 The film and the director for Ajith's next film have been finalized. Ajith and Charan team up for the fourth time. Ajith's 49th film is produced by Sivaji Films. Gautham Vasudev Menon was to have directed the film but he insisted he would first complete 'Chennayil Oru Mazhai Kaalam' before starting on Ajith's film. Since Ajith was not agreeable to this, Gautham opted out of the film. Vishnuvardhan was to direct but he is busy with 'Sarvam.' Dharani was the next choice but that also did not work out. So the director of Ajith's film was a big question mark till now. Charan's story was agreeable to Thalai, so it's all finalized. Ajith-Charan have worked together earlier on 'Kaadhal Mannan,' 'Amarkalam' and Attakasam.' Trisha or Asin are being considered for the heroine role. 'Asal' shooting will start from Feb 2009. |
 Trisha who was in the news headlines for wrong reasons recently expressed her bollywood debut soon. She revealed that she is waiting for a Hindi film which has a nice story, big hero like Salman or Akshay Kumar and a neatly carved movie which will be a family entertainer. Speaking about the media reports that she is not willing to leave Kollywood, she revealed that she desires to act opposite a top hero, but will never let her ethics to subdue in this process. She spoke that she e ready to touch the glam doll mark, but will never over head it which will make her parents embarrassing. |
 Choreographer-Actor turned Prabhu Deva is so distressed now with his son passing away after fighting privately with cancer. Prabhu had married to Latha and they were parents to three boy children named Vishal, Rishi and Aditya. Amongst them, elder son Vishal aged 13 was suffering from cancer for a very long time. Unable to resist the painful disease, he breathed his last today early in the morning around 3.30 a.m. Actor Vijay immediately rushed to Prabhu Deva’s residence consoling him. Also present were Arun Pandian, Sriman, Actress Kushboo, S.A. Chandrasekar, Tarun Gopi, Cinematographer Ravi Varman and many others from film industries conveying their commiserations. Kollywood Today conveys its heartiest condolences to the entire family of Prabhu Deva who are drenched in sorrows with a great loss. |
 ‘Trendsetter’ is what Kollywood calls and many adore him as their inspiration. Yeah, it’s Parthiban a filmmaker who keeps making shifting paradigms with different themes in each of his films… He has mass audiences getting to watch his film without fail. But due to certain reasons and followed by great disaster with his directorial ‘Kudaikul Mazhai’, he had shelved his task of making films. After a long sabbatical gap, we’ve him completed his script for next film that has a gripping storyline. Like many NRIs, Parthiban is on great hunt of a good looking girl to get her posed as his heroine and he is browsing through various models based websites… |
 After staying away from Malayalam cinema for as long as three years, glamour queen Nayantara is returning to her home turf. It was in the Mammootty starrer Rappakal in 2005 when Nayanatara last played a significant role in any Malayalam film. She recently did a cameo in director Joshi’s ‘Twenty: 20’ but the role was too brief. Now, Nayantara is reported to be returning to Malayalam cinema with director Padmakumar’s upcoming film ‘Bombay Dreams’ starring actor-script writer Anoop Menon in the lead role. The film’s story revolves around a married couple who are compelled to stay together even after getting divorced. The script is written by K. Gireesh Kumar and camerawork will be done by Manoj Pillai. ‘Bombay Dreams’ is set to roll in January next year. Meanwhile, Nayan has got a couple of Tamil projects in her kitty as well. She is already doing ‘Aegan’ with Ajith and is set to do ‘Paiya’ with Karthi. |
 A unique movie will be launched with a customary pooja on the 5th of this month at the AVM studios. Titled Maayandi Kudumbathar, this film has created quite a bit of interest within industry circles because it will have more than 10 directors in front of the camera, playing big and small roles. The bulk of the spotlight will be on Tarun Gopi (Timiru, Kaalai fame) who will be playing the lead role. He will be accompanied in key roles by Manivannan and G M Kumar. The heroine, however, will be a new face which suggests that there are not enough lady directors in Kollywood, V. Priya being the only name that comes to mind. Other directors who have agreed to be part of the project are Nantha Periyasamy, Ravimariya, Rajkapoor, Seeman, Jaganath, Ponvannan and Singampuli. It cannot escape one's notice that most of these directors are established actors in their own right but the point of interest is the coming together of all of them in one movie. Ironically, for a movie featuring so many directors in front of the camera, the director of this movie, Raju Mathuravan has chosen to stay away from the screen. The film will have music by the Sabesh Murali duo. |
 Jayam Ravi Roland Kickinger, a world renowned bodybuilder who has acted in a number of Hollywood movies, plays a villain in a Tamil film. Kickinger recently shot for the Tamil flick ‘Peraanmai’ which stars Jayam Ravi in the lead role. In the movie, Ravi plays a forest guard who is faced with a dreaded international terrorist and gun runner (played by Roland) who sneaks into India through a forest with the aim of unleashing terror. Kickinger, Ravi and other actors shot the film’s action sequences in the Vagamon forest in Kerala last week. The movie’s director Jhananathan and producer Arun Pandian first approached Kickinger in Los Angeles and convinced him to play the role in ‘Peraanmai’. The bodybuilder reportedly allotted 20 days to shoot for the film. Kickinger is a popular face at bodybuilding competitions and in fitness magazines. He has acted in television series ‘Son of the beach’ and he played the lead role as Arnold Schwarznegger in ‘Run Arnold Run’. He is also playing a pivotal role in the upcoming Terminator movie ‘Terminator Salvation’. |
