Lingusamy to make Telugu debut with a Top League Star # Bala

Vishal is presently busy shooting for 'Marudhu' directed by Muthiah of 'Komban' fame and it was expected that he will report to Lingusamy's camp after finishing 'Marudhu'.

But now there seems to be a change of schedule as Lingusamy will be directing his first direct Telugu film with Tollywood star Allu Arjun before 'Sandakozhi 2'. This will be the director's first direct Telugu film while many of his previous films have been either dubbed or remade in Telugu and have registered success at the box office.

Sources reveal that the Telugu film will be the next directorial of Lingusamy after 'Anjaan' that released in 2014.

The official confirmation on Lingusamy-Allu Arjun project, cast and crew details and the details as to when the film will go on floors etc are awaited soon.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/lingusamy-to-direct-his-first-telugu-film-with-allu-arjun-before-sandakozhi-2-tamil-news-152753.html

Popular Producer starts wearing the Director's Hat from Today #Bala

Famous Producer C.V.Kumar's debut directorial has gone on floors today. The shooting of the film starring Sundeep Kishan and Lavanya Tripathi in lead roles.

The film had an auspicious beginning with the shoot commencing at Tirupathi, the abode of Lord Sri Venkateshwara.

The yet to be titled film is being produced by C.V.Kumar under his Thriukumaran Entertainments banner and K.E.Gnanavelraja of Studio Green banner.

Kamal Haasan's present favourite composer Ghibran is teaming up with Kumar for the first time, to score music for this film. Gopi Amarnath is handling he camera while Leo John Paul will take care of Editing.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/cvkumar-directorila-film-with-sundeep-kishan-and-lavanya-tripathi-goes-on-floors-today-tamil-news-152738.html

Interesting info about 'Theri' technician promotion in 'Vijay 60' #Bala

Vijay’s next after ‘Theri’ is in hectic preproduction and director Bharathan has started signing on the cast and crew with Keerthy Suresh set to romance Illayathalapathy.

Interestingly Sathya the costume designer of ‘Vijay 60’ actually worked only for a photo shoot for ‘Theri’ but the hero was so much impressed that he recommended him for the entire movie. Sathya has done movies such as ‘Raja Rani’, ‘Maan Karate’, ‘Rajini Murugan’ and the upcoming ‘Pokkiri Raja’.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/illayathalapathi-vijay-keerthi-suresh-vijay-60-shooting-stills-gallery-tamil-news-152737.html

High Court orders Simbu to go to police # Bala

In the Beep Song issue the Chennai High Court has ordered Simbu to appear at the Coimbatore Race Course Police station on the 24th of this month. It may be recalled that after similar orders twice given by the court the star did not appear and had instead approached the court for anticipatory bail and also a plea that the same case should not be filed in two places

The Judge who heard the case has adjourned it for the 25th of this month and has also stopped the Q Branch from proceeding with the case till that time Simbu appears in Coimbatore.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/high-court-orders-simbu-to-appear-at-coimbatore-police-station-beep-song-controversy-tamil-news-152732.html

Leonardo Dicaprio - Kate Winslet win at BAFTA #Bala

At the 69th British Academy Film Awards help at the London Royal Opera House yesterday the 14th of February ‘Titanic’ pair Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet won the Best Actor and the Best Supporting Actress awards respectively for the ‘The Revenant’ and ‘Steve Jobs’. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu bagged the Best Director Award for ‘The Revenant’ which also was adjudged the Best Film.

The other notable winners Brie Larson – Best Actress (Room), Mark Rylance – Best Supporting Actor( Bridge of Spies), Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer - Best Original Screenplay (Spotlight), Adam Mackay and Charles Randolf – Best Adapted Screenplay (The Big Short) Emmanuel Lubezki – Best Cinematography (The Revenant) and Ennio Morricone - Best Musical Score ( The Hateful Eight). ‘The Revenant’ with 5 wins and ‘Mad Max Fury Road’ with 4 were the frontrunners.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/leonardo-dicaprio-hot-actresses-kate-winslet-brie-larson-win-at-bafta-2016-tamil-news-152730.html

Jayam Ravi makes Suriya's role as his own # Bala

Actor Jayam Ravi's 'Miruthan' directed by Sakthi Soundararajan is all set to hit the screens this Friday. The film is touted as the first Zombie film in Tamil and it has generated a huge positive buzz thanks to the recent stint of success of Jayam Ravi films including the phenomenal 'Thani Oruvan'.

After 'Miruthan' Jayam Ravi will be acting in a film to be directed by Gautham Menon. Nothing except the teaming up of Gautham and Ravi have confirmed about this interesting project. Shooting of this film is expected to start in the second half of 2016 after Gautham finishes 'Achcham Yenbathu Madamaiyada' with Silambarasan and a quickie gangster project with Dhanush which is yet to be officially confirmed.

The 'Bhooloham' star in a recent interview has opened up about his film with Gautham Menon for the first time. He has confirmed that he will be acting in the highly anticipated 'Dhruva Natchathiram', the detective thriller script written by Gautham for Suriya.

Stay tuned in this space to get instant updates about the Gautham-Ravi film.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/gautham-menon-jayam-ravi-to-team-up-for-dhruva-natchiathiram-with-suriya-tamil-news-152726.html

Shah Rukh Khan's car attacked #Bala

Bollywood Badshah SRK is shooting for his upcoming ‘Raees’ in and around Ahmedabad and in an ugly incident stones were pelted on his cars damaging it in front of the hotel he was staying in. Fortunately Shah Rukh was not in his car during the incident.

Seven people were arrested by the police and it is reported that the attack was related to SRK’s statement regarding the growing intolerance in India and the VHP has owned up responsibility. Shah Rukh promptly reported to the sets and continued shooting unperturbed by the incident.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/raees-fan-shah-rukh-khan-car-attacked-in-ahmedabad-tamil-news-152718.html

Kamal Haasan's friendly gesture for his long time colleague # Bala

Veteran actor Delhi Ganesh's son Maha is making his acting debut playing the lead hero in the film Ennul Aayiram. Debutante Krishna Kumar is directing this flick and Delhi Ganesh has produced this film and this his maiden production venture. Marina Michael is acting as the female lead.

The music album of 'Ennul Aayiram' composed by music director Gopi Sundar has been released by none other than Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan on Sunday. National award winning lyricist Na.Muthukumar has penned all the songs in this film.

Speaking after unveiling the music album, Kamal Haasan said he "My long time friend Delhi Ganesh wanted me to be a part of this film out of his friendship and affection for me. I am happy that I could do this for him. I watched the trailer of the film and it is good. I hope the film retains the same quality."

Delhi Ganesan's first film with Kamal Haasan was 'Simla Special' that released in 1982. The long journey of the duo includes classics like 'Nayagan'. 'Aboorva Sahodharargal', 'Michael Madhana Kama Rajan', 'Avvai Shanmugi', 'Thenali' and many other films. Delhi Ganesh played Kamal's father-in-law in last year's super hit thriller 'Papanasam'.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/kamal-haasan-releases-the-music-album-of-delhi-ganeshs-maiden-production-ennul-aayiram-tamil-news-152715.html

'Sethupathi' gets 'U' # Bala

The much awaited Vijay Sethupathi starrer 'Sethupathi' reported to have cleared Censor formalities with a clean 'U'. And now it is all geared up to release worldwide on February 19 - with premiers on Feb 18 in USA - on a grand scale. Incidentally this is the first movie apart from superstar Rajinikanth's films to get released in Japan.

Post his debut film 'Pannaiyaarum Padminiyum', Arunkumar is back with 'Sethupathi'. Remya Nambeesan yet again is paired with Sethupathi for second time, after 'Pizza'.

'Sethupathi' grabbed enough attention through its trailer - which is already a hit with punchlines like "Police thaan Hero, Police thaan Gethu'. There is a lot of hype surrounding this cop movie and it promises to have Vijay Sethupathi's trademark style entertainment, blended with family emotions and sentiments.

Nivas K Prasanna's music has been well received and songs "Hawa Hawa", "Konji Pesida Venaam" and "Hey Mama" are already a rage on radio and music channels.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/vijay-sethupathi-and-ramyanambeesan-in--sethupathi-gets-u-tamil-news-152711.html

After Harvard, Kamal Haasan leaves footprints in Google # Bala

Ulaganayagan Kamal Haasan made a global mark with his eloquent speech about Freedom of Expression as a Guest speaker in the India 2016 Conference held at the prestigious Harvard University last week.

Recently he visited the Google Headquarters at San Jose, along with Chandra Haasan, his elder brother and the co-owner of Raajkamal Productions. Chandra Haasan's son Nirmal Haasan and grandson Siddharth Haasan also accompanied the Haasan brothers to Google.

The multi-talented actor had an interactive session with the Indian techies working in Google and he has released the pictures of his visit in his official Twitter handle.

On the filmy front, Kamal Haasan is expected to start shooting for his next film directed by Rajeev Kumar from April. The film have Shruti Haasan, Ramya Krishnan and Bollywood actor Paresh Rawal sharing screen space with the legend.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/kamal-haasan-visits-google-head-quarters-in-san-jose-usa-tamil-news-152703.html

After 'Theri' Vadivelu loses one more biggie to Rajendran #Bala

It is common knowledge that director Atlee had approached Vadivelu to play the comedian in Illayathalapathy Vijay’s ‘Theri’ but after he refused signed Mottai Rajendhran for the role.

Now the buzz is that actor-director Raghava Lawrence recently met Vadivelu offering him the main comedian in his upcoming ‘Mottai Siva Ketta Siva’ directed by Sai Ramani which again the veteran comedian refused and the team had gone straight to Rajendhran and have brought him on board.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/vadivelu-role-in-raghava-lawrence-mottai-siva-ketta-siva-goes-to-rajendhran-tamil-news-152700.html

10 Wolves to act in C.V.Kumar's first Big Budget film #Bala

Producer C.V.Kumar is presently busy with 'Kadhalum Kadandhu Pogum' and 'Iraivi' under his Thirukumaran Entertainments banner and both the film are expected to hit the screens in the month of March.

At this point Kumar has announced about his next production venture. This will be his first big budget flick and also the costliest film to emerge from his banner. .

This yet to be titled film is the debut directorial of Krishore Selvam, who has worked as AD in Kumar's earlier production 'Pizza 2: The VIlla'. The film comes under adventure thriller, a rare genre in Tamil cinema.

The USP of the film would be that it will have as many as Ten real wolves along with human artists. The film will be entirely shot in Canada and it will have intense graphic works and a lot of Hollywood technicians have been roped in for the project for this purpose.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/producer-cvkumar-first-big-budget-film-to-have-10-real-wolves-hollywood-technicians-tamil-news-152697.html

Keerthy Suresh's next gets a title # Bala

Young and bubbly actress Keerthy Suresh became sensation in Kollywood ever since he release of 'Rajini Murugan' the family entertainer comedy film in which she shared the screen space with Sivakarthikeyan.

Now Keerthy is the heroine of Ilayathalapathy Vijay's 60th film that is going to be directed by Bharathan and the shooting of this grand project is all set to begin within Summer this year.

To cash in on the growing popularity of Keerthy among Tamil movie buffs, one of her Malayalam films is getting dubbed in Tamil and it is going to be released. Keerthy had acted in the Malayalam horror-thriller 'Geethanjali'. This film released in 2013 had Keerthy playing dual roles as twin sisters and one of them was a negative role. Mollywood superstar Mohan Lal acted in an important supporting role in this flick directed by Priyadarshan.

The Tamil dubbed version of the film has been titled as 'Vennila Minnala' and it is expected to hit the screens soon.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/vijay-60-keerthy-suresh-malayalam-film-with-mohanlal-dubbed-in-tamil-as-vennila-minnala-tamil-news-152695.html

'Kadhalukku Mariyadhai' cinematographer Anandakuttan passes away # Bala

Veteran cinematographer Anandakuttan passed away today suffering a cardiac arrest. It is reported that he was fighting cancer and was undergoing treatment.

Anandakuttan has worked in more that 150 Malayalam films and in Tamil he has shot ‘Kadhalukku Mariyadhai’, ‘Friends’ and ‘Oru Naal Oru Kanavu with Vijay and has also done ‘Poovizhi Vasalile’, ‘Varusham 16’ and ‘Arangetra Velai’ and other films regularly collaborating with director Fazil. He is survived by his wife Geetha and three children. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Anandakuttan’s family.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/kadhallukku-mariyadhai-cinematographer-anandakuttan-died-after-fighting-cancer-tamil-news-152692.html

'Iraivi' Theatrical Release date is here # Bala

Young director Karthik Subbaraj's third film 'Iraivi' easily tops the list of most expected films of the year for two reasons. One is that the director's first two films 'Pizza' and 'Jigarthanda' have been critically acclaimed super hits. The second reason is that this film is a multi starrer with Vijay Sethupathi. S.J.Suryah. Bobby Simha, Anjali and Kamalini Mukharjee playing lead roles.

Last month the first look teaser of the film film was released and it has rightly served its purpose of increasing the anticipation over the film. Musical score has been done by Karthik's regular partner Santhosh Narayanan. The shooting of the film has been completed and the team is presently busy with post-production related works.

Now we learn from reliable sources close to the 'Iraivi' unit that the makers are planning to release the film on March 25 and the audio release function will be held by the end of February.

Already two biggies in the form of Karthi's 'Thozha' and Silambarasan's 'Idhu Namma Aalu' are expected to release on March 25 and the addition of 'Iraivi' is just going to make the day super special for Tamil movie buffs.

However we will have to wait for an official confirmation from the makers. 'Iraivi' is being produced by C.V.Kumar of Thirukumaran Entertainments and K.E.Gnanavelraja of Studio Green.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/vijay-sethupathi-anjali-sj-suryah-bobby-simha-iraivi-to-release-on-march-25-2016-tamil-news-152689.html

WOW ! Maddy and Vijay Sethupathi to share screenspace # Bala

We had reported earlier that after the blockbuster ‘Irudhi Suttru’ Madhavan is acting a new film to be directed by husband and wife duo Pushkar and Gayathri to be produced by YKnot Studios Sashikanth.

The latest update is that the film is titled ‘Vikram-Veda’ and will have Vijay Sethupathi as a gangster and Madhavan as an encounter specialist and the film is about the cat and mouse game between the two. The coming together of these two dynamic heroes is enough to send fans’ pulse racing and we will have official confirmation in the coming weeks.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/irudhi-suttru-madhavan-iraivi-vijay-sethupathi-in-next-new-movie-vikram-veda-tamil-news-152686.html

Rajinikanth Does it for the First time in Malaysia #Bala

Superstar Rajinikanth who s presently shooting for his upcoming film 'Kabali' in Malaysia did something that he has never done in India.

Rajinikanth took part as the chief guest in the inaugural of a new shop and also inaugurated the shop by cutting the ribbon. It was a showroom of his fan Datuk Abdul Malik Dasthageer who is a Rajini fan and also the distributor of 'Kabali' in Malaysia. The brand new showroom is located in Jalan Tun Tan Siew Sin.

The Superstar has never endorsed any private product or took part in inaugural functions of commercial establishments in Tamil Nadu or any other part of India. This is a rare gesture by the Thalaivar for his ardent fan.

Meanwhile the shooting of 'Kabali' directed by Pa.Ranjith is fast nearing completion and is expected to be wrapped up within this month. Rajinikanth will return to Chennai and join the shoot of '2.0' directed by Shankar, which will recommence in March,

http://www.indiaglitz.com/superstar-rajinikanth-opens-a-showroom-of-kabali-distributor-in-malaysia-tamil-news-152684.html

Jiiva ahead of Vijay and Suriya # Bala

Actor Jiiva's delayed film 'Thirunaal' has finally got a release date it seems.

The film directed by K.P.Subramaniyam has Jiiva and Nayanthara in the lead roles and it is a rustic action entertainer in which Jiiva plays a rural rowdy and Nayanthara a brave teacher. The film also stars Karunas, Meenakshi and popular Television anchor Gopinath in supporting roles. With the musical score by Srikanth Deva, 'Thirunaal' has been produced M.Senthilkumar.

Reliable sources close to the film's unit confirm that 'Thirunaal' will be hitting the screens on April 1, 2016.

It is worth noting that Vijay's 'Theri' and Suriya's '24' are expected to hit the screens on April 14 on account of Tamil New Year festival.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/jiiva-nayanthara-thirunaal-to-release-on-april-1-2016-tamil-news-152683.html

Popular heroine of Suriya and Karthi escapes Deadly accident #Bala

Young heroine Pranitha Subash who has acted in a few Tamil films, including Karthi's 'Saguni' and Suriya's 'Masss Engira Masilamani' met with a severe accident as she was returning to Hyderabad in her car, after attending a function at Kammam in Telangana state.

Pranitha who is a top actress in Telugu and Kannada language films was travelling along with her mother and a couple of aides in the car which suffered the accident. The mishap occurred when the driver made a cut to avoid colliding with the bike that was going in front of the car on a highway. This lead the car to fall down in a pit at a depth of 10 feet, on one of the sideways of the road. All the passengers escaped with injuries and were taken to a near by private hospital through an ambulance. After administering First Aid, they were taken to a hospital in Hyderabad where they have been admitted and undergoing treatment for the injuries.

We pray the almighty for the speedy recovery of Pranitha as well as the other victims of the unfortunate incident.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/actress-pranitha-met-with-accident-and-admitted-in-hyderabad-hospital-tamil-news-152680.html

Veterans and Trainees from Judiciary Praise Vetrimaran's 'Visaranai' # Bala

Director Vetrimaran's 'Visaranai' which released a couple of weeks back is doing good business at the box office thanks to the phenomenal word of mouth it has generated. The film released in the local theatricals after screening in International film festivals and special screening for film industry celebrities and special guests from other walks of life.

On Sunday a special screening was arranged to eminent personalities from the department of Judiciary. A press release from the desk of Vetriamaran states "Honourable justice P. N. Prakash, Judge, High court of Madras/ Member, Board of Governors, Tamil Nadu State Academy, Chennai, watched 'Visaranai' with trainee civil judges. Director Vetrimaaran and writer Chandra Kumar were present for the screening and addressed the gathering after the screening. Justice Prakash appreciated the film and its crew."

Writer Chandrakumar was also present along with Vetrimaran during the screening. The film's first half was based on a Tamil novel 'Lockup' written by Chandrakumar aka Auto Chandran about his days of Police custody and the tortures meted out to him during the police interrogation.

Starring Dinesh. Anandi, Samuthirakani, Kishore, Aadukalam Murugadoss and many others, 'Visaranai' has been produced by Dhanush under his Wunderbar Films banner and released by Lyca Productions.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/madras-high-court-judge-p-n-prakash-watches-visaranai-in-a-special-screening-tamil-news-152679.html

Madras High Court recreated for Udhayanidhi Stalin's next # Bala

After turning as a action hero with his latest film 'Gethu', actor Udhayanidhi Stalin is presently acting in 'Manithan' which is his first remake film. This film is the Tamil remake of Bollywood super hit 'Jolly LLB' and the film is being directed by I.Ahmed of 'Endrendrum Punnagai' fame.The film is being produced on a grand scale by Udhay under his Red Giant Movies banner.

'Mountain' is a courtroom drama dealing with social political issues and the script is loosely based on true incidents. Udhayanidhi plays a lawyer in this film.

Hansika is the female lead in this film while Prakash Raj, Aishwarya Rajesh and Vivekh have acted in prominent supporting roles.

The film has musicals core by Santhosh Narayanan, who has given four songs for the flick. Madhie cranks the camera.

The art direction for this film highly challenging as they had a replicate the Madras High Court and a street in Mannady a locality in Chennai with complete details. Selvakumar the art director seems to have done a brilliant job in this regard and these sets will be highly realistic that the audience wont be able to identify them as sets.

The movie has been shot in Pollachi and Karakudi and presently the final leg of shooting is taking place in Chennai and Challakudy

http://www.indiaglitz.com/udhayanidhi-stalin-hansika-aishwarya-rajesh-manithan-final-leg-of-shoot-in-chennai-tamil-news-152666.html

Sasikumar's heroine in C.V.Kumar's debut film #Bala

As we had reported earlier famed producer C.V.Kumar will be making his directorial debut with a Tamil film soon. This film is going to be produced by Studio Green banner.

Now we have news about the hero and heroine of Kumar's first film as a director. This film will have Sandeep Kishan and Lavanya Tripathi in the lead roles. For Lavanya this will not be the first film in Tamil as she has acted as heroine opposite Sasikumar in the film 'Bramman'.

Tapsee was the initial choice for the heroine of this flick and talks were initiated. Bu the 'Kanchana 2' actress could not allocate dates.

The shooting of this yet to be titled film is expected to begin soon and we can expect an official announcement from C.V.Kumar about the project and important details like the genre of the film, details of the technical crew, etc..

http://www.indiaglitz.com/cvkumar-debut-directorial-film-to-have-sandeep-kishan-and-lavanya-tripathi-in-lead-roles-tamil-news-152665.html

Mysskin to direct a sequel of his Super hit Thriller # Bala

Producers Hitesh Jhabak and Nemichand Jhabak and the highly acclaimed director Mysskin teamed up back in 2008 to deliver the critically acclaimed super hit cop thriller 'Anjathe'. Now the duo is going to team up again that too for the sequel of 'Anjathe'.

Reliable sources close to the production house reveal that initial talks have already started with the director about 'Anjathe' 2'. Official announcement and the cast and crew details about the project can be expected soon.

Mysskin is presently busy with his production venture 'Savarakkathi' in which he plays the lead negative role.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/mysskin-hitesh-jhabak-to-team-up-again-for-anjathe-2-tamil-news-152663.html

Superstar Rajinikanth's heroine speaks about JNU controversy # Bala

Actress Shriya Saran has criticized those who three days ago reportedly held a cultural event in which the participants allegedly glorified terrorists and even raised anti-India slogans at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.  She is one of the few celebrities in the country to have boldly expressed her opinions on the controversial issue.

"Protesting against Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in 2013. Omar Khalid, ashamed of you !" she said in a tweet.  "Students like Omar study on Indian tax payers money but support terrorists who harm our existence.  Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in 2013 is a terrorist. Period! Supporting him is violation of freedom," she wrote, echoing the views of crores of Indians.

Coming out in support of Anupam Kher, the Bollywood actor with roots in Kashmir, she said, "Why not talk about Kashmiri pundits like @Anupamkher ! Why support terrorist like bloody Omar Khalid!shameful!" she outraged.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/superstar-rajinikanth-s-heroine-speaks-about-jnu-controversy-tamil-news-152662.html

V'Day Special: Creators for the Resurge of Romance Films # Bala

V'Day Special: Creators for the Resurge of Romance Films Tamil cinema has provided so many classic romance tales right from the days of 'Haridas' which completed three years of theatrical run and 'Devadas' the character and story that has become the eternal identities of true love. Sridhar, Balachander, Bharathiraja, Balu Mahendra, Mani Ratnam and all the directors who have ruled the roost in Kollywood have been masters of handling romance in the silver screen with their unique style which have ended up as sumptuous treat to young lovers. In the recent years the horror-comedy genre is seen as the easy way to success which led to a plethora of such films hitting the screens. Superstars and wannabe super stars have considered action films as a indispensable tool to retain their larger than life image in the minds of fans and this has ensured the continuance of this genre. But it has to be said that Romance as a genre of films has taken the far back seat in the recent years. It will be hard to list even a handful of romance films that have either succeeded or made a critical impact though there have been attempts by new or less known directors and actors in this genre which have backfired. Still there is a strong ray of hope. The success of young director Atlee's debut film 'Raja Rani' and vetreran Mani Ratnam's 'O Kadhal Kanmani' prove that there are enormous takers for love films if they live up to the expectations. On this Valentine's Day we bring you the list of filmmakers on whom we can rely upon to keep the genre of love alive and relevant in Tamil cinema. http://www.indiaglitz.com/valentines-day-special-of-directors-who-can-revamp-romance-genre-in-kollywood-tamil-news-152659.html-slide1 < PrevNext >

Kollywood Superstars in Love - Valentine's Day Special # Bala

< PrevNext > 1 of 28 Kollywood Superstars in Love - Valentine's Day Special Valentine's Day is here and Love is in the air and to keep up with the mood we are bringing to you the most memorable love films of the Superstars of Tamil cinema over the years, which can be remembered or viewed again with your loved one according to your age groups. Here we go. < PrevNext >

http://www.indiaglitz.com/kollywood-superstars-in-love-tamil-news-152650.html

Chiranjeevi's daughter remarriage date fixed # Bala

Megastar Chiranjeevi's younger daughter Srija is going to enter wedlock on February 25 to be held in Tirupati, to Chittoor born US businessman Kalyan who is a former classmate of the bride.

It may be recalled that in In 2007, Srija, then 19, got married to her college sweetheart Sirish Bharadwaj and has a daughter with him, but in 2011 obtained divorce due to harassment from her in-laws demanding dowry.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/megastar-chiranjeevi-daughter-srija-second-marriage-date-fixed-on-february-25-tamil-news-152658.html

Husband and wife to direct Madhavan's next # Bala

After the tremendous success of ‘Irudhi Suttru’ there is great curiosity among fans as to what would be Maddy’s next in Tamil. The buzz is the producers of the film YKnot studios have signed Maddy for their next also to be directed by husband and wife duo Pushkar Gayanthri who helmed ‘Oram Po’ and ‘Va Quarter Cutting’. Official announcement is expected sooner rather than later.

Maddy meahwhile is doing an important role with Dulquer Salman and Dhanshika in the Malayalam flick ‘Love in Angengo’ directed by Prathap Pothen.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/irudhi-suttru-madhavan-next-new-movie-directed-by-pushkar-gayathri--tamil-news-152656.html

Venkat Prabhu returns to the 22 yards this March # Bala

Director Venkat Prabhu was one of the pioneers of New Wave cinema in Kollywood way back in 2007 when he made heads turn with his low budget cult classic ‘Chennai 600028’. VP went on to helm projects with the bigwigs of Kollywood like Ajith, Suriya and Karthi.

Now comes word that Venkat Prabhu is ready to begin his next which will be the sequel to his ‘Chennai 600028’ and will reunite Jai,Shiva,Premji Amaran,Aravind Akash,Nithin Sathya,Vijay Vasanth,Ajay Raj, Prasanna,Ranjith,Arun,Karthik,Vijayalakshmi,Sampath Raj,Ilavarasu,Kristine Zedek and Inigo Prabakaran. Yuvan Shankar Raja is scoring the music and Gautham Vasudev Menon is producing under his banner Ondraga Entertainment and shooting is set to begin in March this year.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/venkat-prabhu-next-new-movie-chennai-6000028-2-with-jai-shiva-vijayalakshmi-tamil-news-152628.html

BJP MP to act in Kamal Haasan's next film # Bala

As reported earlier actor Kamal Haasan's next film will have his elder daughter and leading heroine Shruti Haasan playing his daughter and Ramya Krishnan as his wife. This film to be directed by Rajeev Kumar of 'Chanakyan' fame is expected to start rolling from the month of April.

Now we have a news about a notable addition to the star cast of this flick.Famed Bollywood actor and BJP MP of the Ahmadabad constituency, Paresh Raval has signed up to play an important role in this flick which will be made in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.

We will keep you posted the details about this big ticket project as and when we get then. Keep a tab in this space.

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GVP joins Simbu and Adhik Ravichandran # Bala

It is now confirmed that Simbu’s next film is directed by Adhik Ravichanran of ‘Trisha Illana Nayanthara’ fame in which he plays triple roles. The film is produced by Dheepan Boopathy under the banner Rebel Studios. The team is on the lookout for three leading heroines.

Meanwhile, it is reported that G.V. Prakash Kumar has been signed on music director for this project and this will be his second film with Simbu after the ‘Kaalai’ which came out in 2008. The rest of the cast and crew details will be out soon.

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Writer confirms Thala Ajith's Next Big Role #Bala

A few months ago director Vishnuvardhan had revealed that he was working with senior Tamil writer Balakumaran for a period flick set in the 9th century AD.

Ever since the news came out, there were widespread speculations that Ajith Kumar will be acting in the lead role in this film. These speuculations were based on Vishnuvardhan's closeness and track record with Ajith and also on the assumption that such a huge project would require a star like Ajith with tremendous market value. There were also speculations that this film will be about Raja Raja Chola and the Big Temple in Thanjavur built by him and hence Ajith will be acting as the king Raja Raja in the film.

Now part of this speculation has turned out to be true as the veteran Balakumaran has confirmed that he is indeed penning a story for Ajith and the story is about a Chola king. However the writer clarified that the story is not about Raja Raja, the most famous king of the Chola clan and the highly prestigious Big Temple.

Vishnuvardhan for his part has stated that the project is presently in scripting stage and he will make the official announcement as soon as things get finalized.

This will be Thala Ajith's first period flick and that's surely going to be a mammoth treat for Thala fans as well as Tamil movie buffs.

Balakumaran has penned the dialogues for Ajith's 'Ullasam' that released in 1997.

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Dhanush breaks silence about Anirudh # Bala

Ever since Dhanush announced that Santhosh Narayanan will be scoring music for his upcoming film 'Kodi' there were widespread rumors pointing that as a result of a rift between Dhanush and Anirudh Ravichander who has scored music for most of the films acted and produced by the former.

But Dhanush broke this rumor in style with a affectionate gesture for Anirudh's upcoming foreign live music concert.

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Ilayathalapathy Vijay's surprise for 'Vijay 60' Team # Bala

Ilayathalapathy Vijay's upcoming film 'Theri' is going to be the next big release in Kollywood. The teaser that was released last week has been shattering all the records set by Tamil film teasers so far.

Meanwhile the actor's name is hitting the headlines also for his 60th film to be directed by Bharathan of 'Azhagiya Tamizh Magan' fame. The shooting of this film is expected to start after the release of 'Theri' which is likely to happen on April 14, 2016.

However the pre-production work for 'Vijay 60' has started a few weeks back with the film's music composer Santhosh Narayanan starting the musical score for the film.

'Vijay 60' is being bankrolled by the prestigious Vijaya Productions and Keerthy Suresh of 'Rajini Murugan' fame has been roped in as the female lead.

Vijay who is presently busy with the post-production work of 'Theri' has recently paid met the important crew members of 'Vijay 60' including Santhosh Narayanan, director Bharathan, cinematographer Sukumar and editor Praveen K.L.

An elated Santhosh Narayanan has posted a photo taken during his meeting with Vijay in his Twitter page and has thanked the top league star for the "wonderful time" spent with him.

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Illayathalapathy Vijay's 'Theri' is now India's best # Bala

Right from the time Vijay forged an unlikely combo with relative newcomer Atlee in ‘Theri’ the project has become the most talked about in Kollywood. Produced by Kalaipuli S Thanu the film boasts of an ensemble cast comprising of Prabhu, Samantha, Amy Jackson, Radhika Sarathkumar, Rajendhran and veteran director Mahendran as the main antagonist.

The fifty second first look teaser of ‘Theri’ released on the 5th of February has gone on to break many records including the fastest to 1million, 2,3,4,5, and 6 million views and similarly the fastest to 25000 likes in 5 minutes to 200000 likes in 50 hours.

Now ‘Theri’ has become the first Indian film teaser to touch the coveted 2,50,000 likes and the record has been achieved in exactly 7 days. Well looks like there is going to be an unprecedented huge opening for ‘Theri’ when the film hits the screens on the 14th of April.

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Bobby Simha moves to Ajith's place #Bala

As we all know National award winning actor Bobby Simha is currently has multiple films in his kitty and one among them is 'Vallavanukku Vallavan' which is his maiden production venture. Another special feature of this film directed by debutante Vijay Desingu is that Bobby will be appearing in 15 different getups in the film. Shwetha acts as the female lead in this film and Karunakaran acting as

If these are not enough here is another special feature for this film. The shooting of the film was recently held in Pulicat, a lakeside locality in the outskirts of Chennai. 'Vallavanukku Vallavan' is the only film to be shot here after a huge gap of 15 years.

Earlier the Athipatti sequences of Thala Ajith's 'Citizen' was shot in Pulicat.

So can we say Bobby Simha has taken over Thala's place??.

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Gautham Menon replaced # Bala

It was reported that Gautham Vasudev Menon is debuting as actor in Vineeth Sreenivasan’s ‘Jacobinte Swargarajyam’ starring Nivin Pauly and Renju Panickar, but the director has just posted in his facebook page that GVM is no longer part of the project.

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Anushka mastering the Wrestling sport # Bala

Anushka Sharma's name has been hitting the headlines in the recent days for the sudden breakup of her love relationship with Indian cricket star Virat Kohli. here is an interesting bit of information about her professional life which is going rock steady.

The actress who never shies away from experimenting will be pairing up with the superstar Salman Khan for the first time in the upcoming sports drama flick 'Sultan'. In this film directed by Ali Abbas Zafer

Anushka plays the role of a wrestler in this film and the professional in her is getting trained rigorously for to get into the skin of the character. A special team of wrestlers from Delhi are training her four hours a day for a period of six weeks.

Here is the video of Anushka's first tryst with the Wrestling sport and you can view for yourself how, the beauty has mastered in this art of brawn.

Produced by Aditya Chopra under the iconic Yash Raj Films banner, 'Sultan' is scheduled for a Eid 2016 release.

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A Veteran joins Vikram's 'Iru Mugan' Team # Bala

As we had reported earlier the first schedule of actor Vikram's spy thriller 'iru Mugan' directed by Anand Shankar has been completed in Malaysia and the second schedule has begun in Chennai

The Chennai schedule has begun on Thursday that is on February 11. Veteran actor and Nadigar Sangam President Nasser has joined the 'Iru Mugan' unit from this schedule. The young filmmaker will be canning important sequences involving Nasser in this schedule.

'Iru Mugan' stars Vikram, Nayanthara and Nithya Menen in lead roles. Thambi Ramiah and Yugi Sethu are part of the supporting cast. Harris Jayaraj is in charge of the Musical score while RD Rajashekhar cranks the camera. The film is being produced by Shibu Thameens of SKT Films banner .

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Karthi roped in for Another Election Duty#Bala

For a large part of 2015 Actor Karthi was busy campaigning and other election related works for the Nadigar Sangam elections which finally resulted in the sweeping victory of the team he represented.

Now the young actor will do his bit for the election which will affect the entire population of Tamil Nadu state. The Nadigar Sangam Treasurer has been roped in by the State Election Commission to create awareness among the public to get registered in the electoral and vote in the impending State Assembly elections., 2016. '

The 'Komban' actor has shot for an awareness video which will be released within a fortnight from now.

Other celebrities who have been selected for the same purpose are cricketers Ravichandran Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik and Squash champion Deepika Pallikal.

The election commission CEO has also requested the celebrities to follow their Twitter handle @TNElectionsCEO and retweet their tweets to ensure wider reach and more public engagement.

http://www.indiaglitz.com/karthi-shoots-for-election-commission-video-to-increase-public-awareness-about-elections-tamil-news-152590.html

Varalaxmi Sarathkumar acts with a Superstar

After the spellbound performance in Bala’s ‘Tharai Thappattai’,chirpy actress Varalaxmi Sarathkumar is going to act in a Malayalam film directed by Nitin Panickar.

Varalaxmi in her official Twitter handle has said that she will be teaming up with Malayalam superstar Mammootty in the Nitin directorial and she has expressed her happiness towards the once in a lifetime opportunity.

This is a huge development in the career graph of the beautiful actress. Way to go Varalaxmi.

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Silambarasan's next film title 'Adangathavan'?

As we all know multi talented actor Silambarasan's 'Idhu Namma Aalu' is ready to release in March and 'Achcham Yenbathu Madamaiyada' with director Gautham Menon is expected to release in Summer 2016.

Apart from this the young star has committed himself for a new film to be directed by Aadhik Ravichandran of 'Trisha Illana Nayanthara' fame.

Though the title of this film is yet to be fixed, sources reveal that the film may be titled as 'Adangathavan'.Simbu's home banner Chimbu Cine Arts has just registered the title 'Adangathavan' with the Film Chamber.

We will keep you posted as soon as we receive an official confirmation in this regard

http://www.indiaglitz.com/silambarasan-aadhik-ravichander-next-film-may-be-titled-as-adangathavan-tamil-news-152579.html

Shah Rukh Khan has been fined! Know Why

King Khan-Shah Rukh Khan is in big trouble this time, he also had to pay a fine of Rs.1,93,784 by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation. The reason behind the fine is constructing an illegal ramp outside his bungalow 'Mannat' in Bandra.

Activist Anil Galgali with the help of various citizens and activists initiated action and a notice was slapped on Shah Rukh on February 6. He demanded that the cement concrete ramp constructed outside the actor's bungalow which was used for parking his vanity van cannot be encroached by the actor. Soon after the notice period ended, BMC started the demolition on February 15 of the ramp which falls outside the bungalow.

It was not just demolition but also a demand notice of Rs.193,785 on the actor as costs towards the razing of the illegal structure. Sources say that, Shah Rukh Khan has made the payment through a cheque for the entire amount.

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Vijay Antony's 'Pichaikkaran' release date is here

Actor cum music composer Vijay Antony's 'Pichaikkaran' has been confirmed to hit the screens on March 4, 2016. The film directed by director Sasi of acclaimed film like 'Sollamale' and 'Poo' is the fourth film with Vijay Antony as the lead hero.

The film stars debutante Satna Titus as the female lead. Vijay Antony has rendered the musical score and cinematography is by Prasanna Kumar.

'Pichaikkaran' has been produced by Vijay Antony's home banner. Saravanan of KR Films has acquired the distribution rights of the film and will be releasing it along with Sky Lark Entertainment.

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