Ishwarya Menon in Valimai villain Karthikeya film

Ishwarya Menon has signed two Telugu films - one opposite Karthikeya who played the baddie in Ajith film Valimai produced by UV creations and another opposite new comer Nikil directed by Gaury under ED Entertainment. She is popular in Tamil after Naan Sirithal opposite Hip hop Thamizha.

Vaaitha marks CPI leader Mahendran's son debut in Kollywood

Produced on behalf of Varaha Swamy Films. the movie 'Vaaitha' is produced by Vinod Kumar. The film is being released by Om Films across Tamil Nadu. One of the leading leaders of the Tamil Nadu Communist Party of India c. Mahendran introduces his son as the protagonist of the famous Mahendran story. He is paired with actress Pauline Jessica. Professor M. Ramasamy has played the lead role with them. R. J. Sethu Murugavel Angaragan has done the cinematography for this film. Lokeswaran has composed the music.producer C. V. Kumar, the producer of the film Q. Vinod Kumar, director Mahivarman, newcomer Pukal Mahendran, songwriter Umadevi, Saranya, a representative of DIPS, which owns the rights to publish the audio of the film, Pauline Jessica, the heroine of the film, Jackie, the art director and Naresh Gunaseelan, the cinematographer were among those present. producer C. V. Kumar, the producer of the film Q. Vinod Kumar, director Mahivarman, newcomer Pukal Mahendran, songwriter Umadevi, Saranya, a representative of DIPS, which owns the rights to publish the audio of the film, Pauline Jessica, the heroine of the film, Jackie, the art director and Naresh Gunaseelan, the cinematographer were among those present.

Is RRR really a Pan Indian film like Baahubali 2 ?

Why did RRR not cross or touch the Baaubali 2 box office figures ?. One reason is that those who saw Baahubali in OTT - TV channels apart from the theatere goers, were all keen to know Why Katappa killed Baahubali ?. This sparked a massive opening in all non Telugu markets and took it to a historic box office record. Baahubali dubbed in many languages was like a curtain raiser for the sequel. For RRR, the track record of director Rajamouli and Baahubali was the only opening card. Another factor was that the postpontment of release dates worked aginst it in many other languages. In Tamil, it did beat Suriya's ET hollow but the first date could have doubled the collection. It was the case in Kerala and Karnataka. The box office in these three States show that the Baahubali 2 still stands tall. In Hindi heartland, the film should have doubled the collections but it did have only a big opening but not the kind of eupheria that was expected at the booking windows. The audience reaction to RRR was more of a wait and watch and not a must see at all costs. Only after the word spread that RRR is a theater experience did box office started lifting up dramatically. RRR banked on US market and postponed the release for this region. Here Baahubali 2 tally is $20 million plus and RRR is $12.65 million. Reason being that audience or the non Telugu movie goers saw it as a big budgeted Telugu film from the makers of Baahubali and nothing more for them to rush and book tickets. Baahubali 1 and 2 were truly seen as a Indian film and not a Telugu film made good. RRR was a Telugu film made good and a paisa vasool. Going by Baahubali 2 experence, Pushpa could be the next real Pan Indian film. KGF 2 does appear to bring in the first part connect but how far it will tug at the viewrs heart has to be seen.

Grandpa Vijaykumat- son Arun Vijay and grandson Arnav Vijay in Oh My Dog

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).

Vimala Raman and Vinay Rai to tie the knot

Vimala Raman and Vinay Rai are to tie the knot. Vinay second innings as villain in Thupaarivalan , Doctor and ET has got him more roles. His films Unnale Unnale, Jeyam Kondan' and 'Endrendrum Punnagai'. as hero were hits but his baddie avatar is more popular.Vinay’s upcoming film 'Oh My Dog' is being produced by Suriya while it stars Arun Vijay and Arnav in the lead roles. Vimala Raman, a model from Australia, was introduced by K Balchander in Poi. She acted with Cheran in Raman Thedia Seethai and found fame in Malayalam films with Mohanlal -Mammooty Dilip in films like 'Pranayakalam,' 'College Kumaran,' 'Time,' 'Oppam,' and 'Romeo.' The lovers had posted photos of holidaying in Maldives. -

Sunainaa as Regina in thriller

Sunainaa who wowed us all with powerful performances in films such as “Neerparavai” and one of her most recent effort in the anthology “Sillu Karupatti”, is making her comeback with a multilingual movie titled as “Regina”, touted to be a female-centric film. The movie is bankrolled by debutante producer Sathish Nair of “Yellow Bear Production LLP” from Coimbatore.

The feature is directed by Domin DSilva, who has in the past, thrown his weight behind films such as “Paipin Chuvattile Pranayam” and “Star”. Elaborating on the film, DSilva says that the movie will be a female-centric stylish thriller. “It is about an ordinary homemaker achieving extraordinary things, just like a fish moving against the flow. Regina will be an engaging thriller,” he said further. Sathish Nair is the music composer for the movie. He will be scoring music for the feature, banking on his earlier experience of working on singles that have been released through his label “SN Musicals”. The lyrics for the songs are penned by Yugabarathi, Vivek Velmurugan, Vijayan Vincent and Ijaz.R Pavan K Pavan is the director of cinematography while Kamarudin is the art director. Toby John will do the editing while the costumes will be by Aegan. Regina is a multilingual shot in Tamil and released in Hindi, Malayalam and Telugu.