First Look of ‘Lock’ gets phenomenal reception

 

"Lock" is crafted and is getting materialized as an out-and-out psychological thriller on par with Hollywood standards.

‘Attu’ movie fame filmmaker Rathan Linga’s next directorial ‘Lock’ First Look creates sensational impact. Written and directed by Rathan Linga, the movie is produced by Bamboo Trees Cinemas, RPG Royal Phnompenh Groups, and Sakthivel Pictures at a whopping budget. 

Every person on this planet has a dream and never ceases to walk away from that lane that leads them to accomplish it. Few are lucky to have their dreams come true. For a few, they achieve it partially, and there are misfortunate ones whose dreams remain unfulfilled till the end. It’s our responsibility to discern the good and bad people, for only we can save ourselves from every evil in this world. In case of not doing so, we have to face the consequences. This is the core theme of “Lock”. 

Social miscreants and evil spirits always hamper the dreams, which are adored as flowers by many. This dream flower gets trampled and decomposed even before it becomes a reality. 

The story revolves around five psychotic-lustful murderers infiltrating the city. They cannot stop craving for a beautiful girl Julie and want to quench their lustful thirst from her. Does Julie escape from the cruel hands of these beasts? What happens to the psycho killers? It forms the crux of the ‘Lock’ story laced with unexpected twists, turns, and surprising events. 

Sudhir plays the protagonist. Madhu performs the female lead character, and Harini is the second heroine. The others in the star cast include Bharathi, Srinivasa Varadhan, and a few more familiar actors. These actors have already been appreciated for their groovy performances in their previous movies. 

Rathan Linga, director of this film has already grabbed everyone’s attention for his previous directorial outing titled ‘Attu’. Lock features cinematography by Nandha, musical score by Vikram Selva, and editing by Mahendran Ganesan. 

Lock is a full-length psychological thriller that will keep the audience at the edge of their seats from beginning till the end for its unexpected twists and turns laced with surprise elements. 

The movie is all set for its release soon, thereby endowing audiences with a gripping experience. 

The first look of Lock unveiled today has created a tremendous lease of expectations, and is garnering good appreciation.

Mina Swaminathan creator of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is no more

Mina Swaminathan (née Bhoothalingam), school teacher, educator, educationist, and child care expert, who chaired the committee that recommended what became the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), died on March 14 at her home in Chennai. She was 89. She was one of the founders of the Mobile Creches, a former chair of the Delhi Social Welfare Board, an Emeritus Trustee of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, a founding member of the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, and an international consultant with UNESCO and UNICEF on Early Childhood Care and Education. She also worked in the field of theatre as a means of social and women's empowerment.

She is survived by her husband, M. S. Swaminathan, three daughters, Soumya Swaminathan, Madhura Swaminathan, Nitya Rao, five grandchildren, and her brother, Ravi Bhoothalingam.

As Chair of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) Committee on The Preschool Child she steered the development of the Report on the Preschool Child (1972) which led to the setting up of ICDS,  the largest and most comprehensive child care service in the developing world.  Her contribution to ICDS, particularly in Tamil Nadu, is notable after she moved to Chennai in 1989, setting up mobile training teams – a unique innovation, travelling widely across the state, working with ICDS frontline workers and providing practical guidance and encouragement.  

At a time when it was not publicly recognized she played a significant role in getting professional, political and national attention focussed on the rights and needs of the young child and women of the underprivileged and marginalized sections of the population. A fiery advocate and practitioner, she devoted with passion and conviction, five long decades to childcare and education and gender equality. Communication, especially the innovative use of creative and educational drama was critical to her work.

She was the national President of the Indian Association for Preschool Education and the editor of its journal, BALAK.   She spearheaded the introduction of early childhood care and education (ECCE) into the National Policy on Education 1986 as well as its Plan of Action, 1989 and was chair of the Focus Group on Early Childhood of NCERT, which prepared the National Curriculum Framework in 2005.  She was a founder and leader of the Alliance for Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD).

She consolidated her life-long experience into the project Action for Child Care and Education Strategies and Services (ACCESS), a programme for networking of stakeholders to support training, research and advocacy on ECCE at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF). Her work in this field, prescient at the time, brought to focus the need for all-round development of the young child, in particular attention to underweight, malnutrition and low birth-weight, all of which has adverse impact on the cognitive abilities in later life. The results of this unique project were summarized in the book titled As the Salt in the Seas, compiled by her and L.S Saraswathi.

An activist with strong political commitment, she acted fearlessly, speaking out on behalf of the marginalized. She never cared for personal power or positions.  In her early years, soon after returning from Cambridge, she resigned from her Planning Commission job to take up her passion for teaching children.  

A writer and planner as well, her high levels of innovation, the ability to think pragmatically and most importantly, learning from her own and others’ mistakes spoke of her versatility. Through her ability to bridge different disciplines, she inspired and converted professionals, non-governmental organizations, child care workers, policy and decision makers to become champions for child rights and early childhood development. 

Among her numerous books, articles and papers, are three popular teachers’ manuals in ECCE entitled Play Activities For Young Children published (1984), The First Three Years (1989) and Play Activities For Child Development (2008). These were based on her experiences with the youngest age-group, first at the Nehru Experimental Centre at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, in Mobile Creches and in Asian countries.  She also authored Who Cares? (1985) a study of day care services for low-income working women and The First Five Years (1998) a state-of-the-art review of child care services in India. Some of these publications have been widely translated into other Indian languages and went into many editions.

Anirudh releases video music album 'Amour'.

Amour' is a video music album produced by Dongli Jumbo on behalf of P Ready Films for Sarigaama. In this video music album, musician Aditya R. who sang with Anirudh in Sivakarthikeyan's 'Dawn'. K. And actress Alia Hayat. Aditya RK has sung Sanjay Prasad's youthful lyrics in his own voice. Sankarrajah and S. Cinematography by Naveen Kumar. It is directed by SBN Satyanarayana.

Director SBN talks about 'Amour' video music album. Satyanarayanan said, “In the dream world of young people, the thought of love is always on the wing. 'Amore' means love. In this music album, the boyfriend meets his girlfriend and tells her to accept his love. The girlfriend, who has accepted the man's love, by his graceful honesty, considers the lover as her possession. Thus causing division between lovers. Did they then reunite by the force of love? Isn't it In the background of the pleasant music, we are saying through the beautiful scenes. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Anandaraman and Sivapalan of Sarikama for making our fantasy work about love accessible to audiences and fans alike. ”

Meanwhile, P Ready Films, which has produced the video music album, is continuing to produce and release video music albums, with the aim of introducing musicians and playback singers such as Aditya RK as actors on the video music album.

ACTRESS SHRIYA CHARAN IN A PAN-INDIAN MOVIE

 KABZAA produced by Sri Siddeshwara Enterprises in association with MTB Nagaraj. features the Kannada film industry’s reigning superstar Upendra in the lead role alongside the most-celebrated Pan-Indian actor Kichcha Sudeep in another lead role. Both these actors have created a huge fan base for their spellbinding performances. With these stars coming together for sharing the screen space, the expectations have sky-rocketed to the peaks. Actress Shriya Charan plays the female lead role in this movie. 

R. Chandru is wielding the megaphone for this movie, and he has already directed blockbuster movies with leading actors of the industry. Kabzaa marks his 12th directorial venture. He has already won a couple of State Government Awards and two Filmfare awards. While Upendra is playing the role of a Shadow King, Shriya Charan appears as the queen. Shriya has already got a huge fan following in the Kannada industry for her blockbuster movie with Puneeth Rajkumar. She is now making her comeback into this industry with this movie as Upendra’s pair. The announcement pertaining to the other heroine in this movie will be made soon. 

Kabzaa that is made in 7 languages will be celebrated and extolled in the Tamil territories as well

Foreign Sarakku : From Gujarat to Tamil Nadu

 Foreign Sarakku ( cargo) is a film produced and directed by ex sailors. It tells about a cargo that  travelled from Gujarat to Tamil Nadu and the aftermath. Teaser has been released and entire crew and cast are new , except for sound engineer Sivakumar who works with A R Rahman. Vigneshwaran, Gopinath and Sundar, who worked together on the ship, have made 20 short films, both during their studies and during their tenure, due to their interest in cinema. After watching their short film and being praised by many, those who decided that they should stop filming left their work and turned their full attention to cinema. Accordingly, the three friends have produced and directed a film with the money earned from working on the ship.

Produced by Gopinath on behalf of Neptune Sailors Productions, the film is directed by Vigneshwaran Karuppusamy and stars Sundar and Gopinath in the lead roles.Gopinath and Sundar to play the protagonists, with Hussain and Surender Sundarapandian in the lead roles. Also, three women, Abrina, Ilakia and Harini, have been cast in the lead role.

Filmed by Sivanath Rajan.S and composed by XPR, Prakash Raj.P has done the editing. TM Sarathkumar has written the songs.
Only one technical artist is popular in the film, which is made up entirely of newcomer artists. He is the sound mixer Sivakumar. Sivakumar, who works at AR Rahman Studio, has been working on sev ral hit films like 'Charpatta'. He is in charge of the sound mixing of the film.
It is noteworthy that Trent Music has acquired the music publishing rights for the film 'Foreign Cargo', which has been shot in Gujarat, Namakkal and Madurai.

Pa Ranjith 's Kuthiravaal to get a theatre release - Anjali Patil lauds democratic 'film making way

 Kuthiravaal will get a theater release on March 4th and prior to that the film's audio was released. Pa Ranjith , producer- director who backed this experimental film which deals with magical realism said that such films need to come out and hoped that the audience would come to grips with it. He said that subjects that challenged him intellectually always fascinated him and that is why he agreed to produce it and Vignesh joined him.

Film as the title says horse tail is about a bank employee who wakes up to find him having a horse tail and a horse without it.. He sees a sky  where the Sun and Moon appear at the same time. Kamal Haasan's Aalavandhan & Irandam Ulagam.of Selvaraghavan had tackled this theme of magical realism. 

Main lead Kalaiyarasan as Freud Sarvanan  sees several peculiar characters like a transient woman and Van Gogh. Anjali Patil is known to Tamil audience for her role in Kaala ,  the Pa Ranjith- Rajinikanth film. At the audio function, she said that she was in tears to hear that the film is coming to theaters. ( it was screened way back in 2021 at IFFK ). She said that the film showed her that film making can be democratic and not discriminated by the numbers or status.

Co-directed by Manjoy Leonel Jahson and Shyam Sunder , music is by Pradeep Kumar.

Yogi Babu as Lord Ganesha to up controversy element

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 Yogi Babu is currently shooting in minus degree temperature at Jaisalmer ( Rajasthan) playing Lord Ganesha in the upcoming film Yaanai Mugathan ( a remake of Malayalam film Innu Muthal ). Urvasi and Ramesh Thilak are playing important roles with veteran Hindi actor Uday Shankar ( he plays the same role of a villager from Jaisalmer - Thar desert)Shooting is going on in border areas near Thar. The director says that if one climbs atop a hill, one can see Pakistan.

Director Rejish said that he was scouting for locations for his second film. At that time, Yogi Babu called him and told him that he was keen to play the role of Lord Krishna ( played by Suraj Pops) and as he was deeply a religious man, the film made an impact. Rejish  then reworked on the script as now the budget was big. He changed Lord Krishna to Lord Ganesha. He said that instead of narrating the story from the protaganist view, he changed it to Lord Ganesha instead.

The landlord is landlady here and Urvasi plays the role. Urvasi has also been helping Rajesh with the Tamil script. In Malayalam it was a OLA cab driver and here it is an auto driver played by Ramesh Thilak. Bharath Shankar who scored for Mandela starring Yogi is the music director. Music of Mejo Joseph for Malayalam was a hit, especially the Hindi song Mausam sung by Javed Ali ( singer of  Hindi Srivalli song in Pushpa). Kartik S Nair is cameraman. Says director - While the Malayalam film was centered around the driver and his discovery of the meaning of God, here the story is told from the point of view of Ganesha, with an important backstory based on Urvashi’s character. This film, like my earlier one, is also about the presence of God and the questions around this, but is more massy and I’ve made it slightly more controversial"