Prithviraj and Vikram in Maniratnam’s New Project

Legendary filmmaker Mani Ratnam selects actress Priyamani to play second heroine in his next project. The film, which is to be made simultaneously in Tamil and Hindi, will feature Vikram as hero in Tamil, while Abhishek Bachchan will feature in the Hindi version. Aishwarya Bachchan plays heroine in both the versions.

Prithviraj will be playing the role of villain and Priyamani has been chosen to pair up with him. It may be recalled that in Ayutha Ezhuthu, Mani shows Maddy as a baddy and Meera Jasmine as his wife. Though the roles are in negative shade, Mani’s style of character designing won rave reviews from critics.

Knowing this well, both Priyamani and Prithviraj are waiting eagerly to enter as members of Mani’s Crew

Hindi Remake Of Ghajini

After completing his children’s film ‘Taare Zameen Pe’, Aamir Khan has begun shooting for the Hindi remake of the Tamil hit Ghajini .

The Hindi remake is called Kajri and is being directed by A R Murugadass, who directed the Tamil original.

The mahurat of ‘Kajri’ was held in Mumbai a few days back. At the mahurat Tamil filmstar Surya (hero of ‘Ghajini’) was present along with Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi who struck the clapper for the opening shot.

Director AR Murugadoss canned the shot while producer Allu Aravind looked on.

‘Kajri’ has south Indian actress Asin playing the lead opposite Aamir. Asin was also the heroine of ‘Ghajini’.

The role of Aamir’s heroine in ‘Kajri’ was previously offered to Ayesha Takia who declined the offer for the reasons better known to herself.

The movie will also have a second female lead who is yet to be finalized.

Twenty:20

The much awaited Malayalam movie Twenty:20 by the Malayalam Artists Association (AMMA) has almost finished 85 percent of its shooting. The film, is directed by Joshi.

Except Meera Jasmine ,the movie will have all Four Malayalam superstars, three frontline heroines, 67 top line actors, 17 playback singers, maximum release centers, One film-‘Twenty:Twenty’, the biggest multistarrer ever to be made in India.This film expected to change the Malayalam film industry in a different way.
The song written by Gireesh Puthencherry starting with ”Ushasssil” is set to music by Berny Ignacius is a five minute song will be sung by 17 leading singers of Mollywood including Dr.Yesudas and Jayachandran, which will be also a record in Indian music industry.
It is reported that Mammootty plays an advocate opposite Gopika.Mohanlal plays a businessman.Bhavana plays Dileep’s heroine.Meera Jasmine is not appearing in the movie.
This multi-starrer film is supposed to release in 118 theaters, the biggest ever release in Malayalam.

Kandaswamy

Cast: Vikram, Shreya

Direction: Susi Ganesan

Production: Kalaipuli S Thanu

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Its Vikram’s Tamil film ‘Kandasamy’ that is getting dubbed into Telugu as ‘Mallanna’. Vikram will be playing 5 different roles in the film as per the theme. Make up artistes from Hollywood are working on Vikram for this film. It is hard to make out Vikram in some roles, say the makers of that film. The shooting will be completed in 3 months as per the talk but Dasavataram may take further time to complete shooting , PP, RR and release as per the grapevine. Apart from this Bollywood actor Kay Kay Menon is acting in 14 roles in a Hindi film. So, it appears to be a trend to play multiple roles in single film.
Kandaswamy was originally was to be shot in Kenya, but due to the on going political problems in Kenya, the location was changed to Mexico. But new location landed Susi for it has led him to direct a Indo-Mexican film in Spanish. Mexico is more famous for Bull fights and now Susi has added this to the script since it demands for. Now Vikram in undergoing training for the bull fight.

Vikram’s bull fight will be one of the highlights of the movie. It is not only Bull fight, but Vikram will also be seen fighting with a wild elephant and taming it. These are the two new developments in Kandaswamy. The shooting is going on is a brisk face. Vikram wants to finish this and start with his other projects, which are lined up for him. keep reading about the new developments.