Nikhila Vimal dance with Dilip creates a storm / Rajini Jailer 2 in Kerala / Mammootty - STR in news

 

Nikhila Vimal ( Kidaari, Thambi, Por Thozil , Vaazhai ) shaking a leg with Dilip at a stage show in Doha, Qatar. Has angered many of her fans and movie goers. In her interviews she comes across as a girl with strong ideals and minces no words. Her family is a leftist one and her father was a Naxalite. Her joing with Dilip an accussed in a the actress assault case has angered many online. Her major role came in Love 24x7 (2015), in which she was paired with Dileep, played the role of Kabini, a trainee reporter, directed by Sreebala K Menon who happened to be an associate director in Bhagyadevatha. Dilip case happened in 2017.

While their video dancing to the song Karthave Nee Kalpichappol from the movie Christian Brothers went viral, it started getting backlash from netizens in no time. Many called out Nikhila for sharing the stage with Dileep, who is among the accused in the Malayalam actor assault case from 2017.

Many took to X and reacted to the video. One user wrote, "This just enraged me in particular because this man is accused of a particularly vile crime." Another one added, "Nikhila Vimal is a thug only in front of nobody interviews. A looking coward and an enabler now, what else?"

A furious netizen commented, "how the f is this sex pest still getting platformed and everyone including 'outspoken' nikhila vimal happily dancing with him as if nothing happened?"

 

Jailer 2 starring Rajinikanth in the lead is an upcoming sequel action written and directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, and produced by Sun Pictures. MovieCrow learns that the makers are currently planning a shooting schedule in Kerala, where massive sets are in the works of being erected. Jailer 2's Kerala schedule begins on April 10, 2025 at Attappadi. Rajinikanth’s portions for the Kerala schedule are expected to be completed within 15 to 20 days.  (moviecrow)

Mammootty will be back  in Kochi before Bazooka release on April 10 th and will take part in promotions. He is expected to visit the FDFS at 6 AM. Mahesh Narayanan film set work is going on and Mammootty will join the uunit after Vishnu.

Dragon fame Director Ashwin is directing STR for AGS Productions. Ashwath Marimuthu (who directed the blockbuster Oh My Kadavule) is gonna and Dragon is to direct Simbu in his third film. AGS will be bankrolling the film and possibly Yuvan Shankar Raja or Anirudh Ashwath is a huge fan of Simbu and he brought back the vintage look of STR.  Adhik Ravichandar and Ashwath Marimuthu bringing the vintage style and image of their idols Ajith and Simbu respectively. Will they join the lines of Atlee (Theri, Mersal), Karthik Subbaraj (Petta), Lokesh Kanakaraj (Vikram) with a perfect fanboy tribute to their idols or will they join Directors Siva (Annatha), Nelson (Beast) in terms of ruining their idols with crappy and haphazard screenplay. Let’s wait and watch!! Asks AROK

Sivakarthikeyan - Arya in AGS Jude Anthany film / How Nirosha landed Mani Rathinam film ?

Jude Anthany of 2018 film fame directs Sivakarthikeyan- Arya in an AGS Production is the buzz. We reported about Sivakarthikeyan joing Allu Arjun- Atlee read : https://dhakshinscreen.blogspot.com/2025/03/sivakarthikeyan-to-join-atlee-allu.html The film project was last with STR and he had to finally drop out as the budget was too high and AGS was game if any co- producer joined. Now we hear that Sivakarthikeyan has come aboard as co-producer. AGS is striking gold with big ticket films with Vijay and Pradeep Ranganathan and now that Thalapathy is not going to be around, next choice is Sivakarthikeyan. Given SK commitments, the project will not start soon.

How did Nirosha land in a bikini for Mani rathinam’s Agni Natchitram ? How did she and Ramki fall in love ? Nirosha first film was Oru Muthassi Katha directed by Priyadarshan. There were two heroines and they were Nirosha and Lissy. Nirosha is sister of actress Rashika and currently wife of actor Ramki. Lissy married Priyadarshan and has two children. Her daughter Kalyani is a famous actress and son is a VFX specialist. A few years back Lissy and Priyan separated legally. It seems Mani asked Priyan whether Lissy would wear a bikini for his film and it was a role opposite Karthik. Priyadarshan said that Nirosha was willing to do and the song Oru Poonga vanam, became a hit. Nirosha went on to be a big hit and it was during the shooting of Senthoorapoove that she met Ramki. At first she did not like Ramki habit of touching her without reason and she pointed out that even a great actor like Kamal Haasan asked her permission to touch her. She had a scene in the film where she had to run on the platform to board a moving train and Ramki was standing at the compartment steps. Nirosha slipped while running and would have fallen under the train wheels, if Ramki had not grabbed her and pulled her inside. She suffered injury and Ramki took care of her. Love blossomed and they got married. The couple do not have any children. Nirosha is busy in Tv serials and Ramki in films. ( source Allepey Ashraf in his YouTube channel)

Thalapathy Vijay's Sun TV interview v/s STR Bigg Boss Ultimate Finale

As `Beast' release date ( April 13 ) draws near, Star Vijay is readying for a live telecast of Bigg Boss Ultimate on April 10th and simaltenously have it run on Disney Hotstar to take on Sun TV that is telecasting Vijay interview on same date. Bigg Boss Ultimate Finale will strea on Disney from 6.30 PM in Disney and a few minutes gap the event will telecast on Star Vijay at the same time. STR a confirmed Thala fan has had direct clashes with Vijay at the box office. In 2004 Diwali- Kathal Ayivithuley of STR- Charmi v/s Vijay Bhagwati. Both ran for 100 days but latter was termed a hit. Next was Pongal 2006- Vijay's Aaadh v/s STR's Saravana. STR won.Incidentally both were Telugu remakes. Last direct clash was in November 2012 when Vijay's Thupakki and STR's Poda Podi released. Poda Podi was Vignesh Shivan's ( Nayan's BF) first directorail and Varalaxmi Saratkumar's first heroine film. Thupakki was a block buster. Later during the release of Vaalu, Vijay publicly supported STR in a dispute with te producer. After that STR called Vijay his Anna and TR attended Vijay's film audio launch. Coincidentally, both actors were launched by their father - director and in 1984, both the actors made their debut as child actors. STR was then 6 yrs old. As Vijay is coming with the interview on Sun TV and a first publicised after 10 years for a channel, it will have a captive audience. So far Vijay's film's audio release function would be coming on TV. Promos show Vijay answeing some questions not related to Beast like Why did you come on a cycle to vote when you have four cars at home ? . Why did you stop meeting press in the past few years ? As far as I know the reason being that the press meet that Vijay convened last was to celeberate Velayudtham ( Telugu remake) sucess meet. He gave a one gm coin to all press members who turned up. I was not present and instead my reporter was present. Next day, a group that were down riding Vijay's films on twitter by putting box office figures to show it was a flop got annoyed. Reason being that one of the invitees was a self styled industry tracker who put out figures according to the money he got from the producer. He took money and put out figures to show that Vijay film was a record breaker.Here again, he had a package deal by which he got publicity for the hero in a website that was fairly popular then. Result was that tweets came out that box office figures that came out were bought by Vijay for one gm gold coin and even a photo of the coin was posted. Since then Vijay shut doors to the press ( public meetings, I mean).