Jayam Ravi in the next move with "Peraanmai"

Canning the naturalistic beauty of coastal area in Iyarkai and exposing Chennai in a different tone, Director Janananathan is now geared up with Peraanmai. The film starring Jayam Ravi in lead roles has five heroines as mentioned earlier. According to the sources, the film’s script has been revealed. It is about a forest officer who is brought up in a tribal community. Being a great macho man of boldness, he has five different beautiful girls coming across his life. Well, the major portion of the film revolves around a specified problem faced by the tribal community and how the protagonist solves the issue forms crux of the story.

With most part of the film shot across the dense forests, a special camera named Helicam will be used where it will fixed to a miniature helicopter.
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Arjun in the next race of kollywood with his next film " Bommalattam"

It is now the season of film directors from Tamil cinema making merry at the Bollywood. Joining the long list of directors venturing to do Bollywood movie is veteran Bharathiraja. He has directed Nana Patekar for a gripping thriller titled Cinema. The movie is simultaneously being released in Tamil as Bommalattam.

Bharathiraja and Nana Patekar have worked together tirelessly for over a year to complete the movie.

Nana Patekar, whom Bharathiraja considers a different actor, plays the lead role of a director in the film. It may be recalled that Bharathiraja, who is acclaimed as a trendsetter in Tamil cinema with several hits under his belt and introduced many actors and actresses, made his debut in Bollywood with a Hindi film called Lovers, a re-make of Tamil original Alaigal Oyvathillai, which was released in 1983.

Cinema is remade in Tamil under the title Bommalattam meaning Puppet Show.

Sarath Kumar in a new action picture

Starring: Sarathkumar, Meghna Naidu

Direction: Vidhyadharan

Music: Srikanth Deva

Production: Annamalai Films Private Limited



The theme of rebirth and reincarnation seems to be reigning high in tinsel town now. First it was Shah Rukh Khan's Om Shanthi Om, followed closely by Sila Nerangalil. The latest to join the bandwagon is Vaitheeswaran, directed by debutant Vidhyadharan.

The story is very simple. While on his mission to plunder jewels from a temple, Sayaji Shinde kills a small boy who happens to spot him. Being a witness to this dastardly act and at the same time powerless to counter Sayaji (because of his clout), the boy's mother vows that Sayaji will be killed by her son in his next birth after thirty years on a new moon day. The rest of the film deals with the fears and trepidations of Shinde, and how he goes about combating his death threat. Will Shinde be killed as per the curse?

Talking about performances, Sarathkumar as the psychiatrist has allowed the director to completely mould his performance. He looks much younger and has delivered a very cool and nonchalant performance. In fact among his recent releases, this film showcases Sarath in a fresh and revitalized fashion. Meghna Naidu seems to have understood what is expected from her and has followed a liberalization policy with her costumes! Her glamorous looks is one of the selling points of the movie. Manobala and Santhanam provide the comic relief while Sayaji has put in an earnest performance. As the astrologer, veteran Vijaykumar delivers the goods perfectly.

The pre-interval session of the film proceeds linearly on track, but the first twenty minutes post interval is a little grueling for the audience. However, the film picks up momentum soon after. Reincarnation is a widely debated issue, evincing varied opinions. But this aspect has been discussed in the film back and forth and the director's apprehension on which side to fall is clearly evident. A unique feature of the film is that the hero meets the villain only in the climax sequence. The twists and turns of the movie are enjoyable to an extent.

Srikanth Deva's music is ordinary. But what is different about the songs is that there are only two. Both songs feature a very sexy Meghna Naidu. Cinematography and editing are just passable.

Twin roll by Malavika in " Kattuviriyan"

Starring: Ram, Malavika, Alex

Direction: Kalaipuli Sekaran

Music: G.Sekhar

Production: Mathu.K

Horror is not often explored in Kollywood, but of late there have been a few who have shown courage to venture into the genre of fear. Such attempts certainly draw some attention but ultimately it is to the quality of the movie itself that brings in the crowds. Kaattuviriyan is the latest Kollywood horror/thriller experiment and deserves mention for being one among the rare attempts at exploiting the ‘fear factor’ in Tamil cinema. Sivi was the last successful one to do so.

Kaattuviriyan is full of mystery and drama surrounding a bungalow and the spirits that supposedly haunt the place. The story revolves around a man (played by Dr. Raj) who grows up believing that women cannot be trusted, all due to his experiences of a troubled childhood after his parents’ failed marriage and his father’s suicide. The incident creates a deep wound in his mind and he suspects every woman he comes across to have a questionable character. This leads to him walking out of his marriage that was fixed with Malavika, who plays a double role for the first time in her career in this movie. Years later, they happen to meet each other and share their experiences in life. Malavika is now a Deputy Commissioner in the police force, and has a daughter (Malavika again) while Raj has become the Chief Secretary. Malavika wants to get to know Raj’s family well and during her visit along with her daughter to Raj’s house happens to see certain very disturbing and then highly confusing sights. She smells a rat and says so to Raj who

blames all the bad occurrences on a ghost that supposedly haunts a bungalow that they lived in and how that ghost still continued to haunt that place terrifying people in its vicinity at very particular times every day. Being a police officer, Malavika is not fully convinced and wants to get to the bottom of the matter. She just about begins to get her teeth into the matter when the evil powers at work bring about her death after a rather fearsome encounter with ghostly creatures.

Now, it is left to Malavika, the daughter to find out the truth. Now enters another character claiming to be the lover of Raj’s daughter. His revelations make matters far more complicated and confusing. The matter is thrown wide open and the jigsaw becomes harder to piece together. They discover the death of far more people than they had even thought of and trace it all down to the haunted bungalow. How they get to the bottom of what or who haunts the big house forms an interesting climax.


Well, a movie like this rides entirely on the tightness of the script and the director’s abilities to keep us on a knife’s edge. The script and the story are sadly a let down. For a plot that looks interesting from the outset, the script ought to have been better. However, the movie has some positives, the main element being the director’s handling of certain scenes that were aimed at raising our heart rates. The director has been successful in evoking fear wherever he has intended to and the element of suspense too has been maintained. The graphics and special effects must come in for special mention here, especially in the scenes where Raj narrates the haunting in the house, the faces and figures shown during these episodes send chills down the spine.

That almost sums up a movie that could have been much better. All factors except the horror element are pretty mediocre. Director T.Shekaran and King Kong try their hand at some comedy but do not pull it off effectively. Art by Sundarajan and sound effects, very important in horror films, have been well taken care of.


Music doesn’t hold a place of prominence and the score provided by director T. Shekharan again has nothing special. T. Shekharan seems to be another T. Rajendar, handling story, screenplay, dialogues, direction, music and lyrics himself. Hats off to his versatility but one feels he would have been better off leaving the music and lyrics to specialists and paying more attention to the script, which is where the movie suffers.

On the business front, the movie might draw crowds in the B and C centers owing to its pretty strong horror content. However, the basic story is pretty unsuitable for family viewing. Kaattuviriyan does evoke memories of some yesteryear Tamil thrillers- we leave you to do guess which ones. Also, the title (which refers to the mythical snake with photographic memory and an unfailing thirst for revenge) is a bit misleading.

Barath first time acting with Meera Jasmine in "Nepali"

According to V Z Durai who directed Nepali with Bharath and Meera Jasmine as lead stars the response to the film has been satisfactory and he owes this success to his entire crew from the lead actors to editor to music director Srikanth Deva. Durai was much pleased with Meera Jasmine’s cooperation in the intimate scenes with Bharath. On a different


note the director reveals that he is very much interested in music and has sung a song in Nepali. He also adds that he has even worked in front of the camera in a few films.

Meanwhile Joint Commissioner of Police of Chennai Mr Ravi had written a letter to the director that the film had portrayed police force in a very cheap vain and he wanted those scenes to be removed immediately. A letter in this regard has also been sent to the censor board. When the film was released the duration of it was for 3 hours and 10 minutes which was reduced by 20 minutes due to public demand. Now if few more police sequences are also removed, Nepali might further be shortened. Director’s response on this will be known soon and we will keep you posted.

Dhanush following the style of Rajinikanth

The shooting of Danush, Tamanna starrer is commencing today. The legal heir N.Veerasami of Easwri Productions the producer of Rajnikanth’s Padikathavan (1985) has agreed to part with the title and now Danush and Tamanna will be seen in the movie. The movie will be directed by Suraj for producers Vijaya Productions. Music is by renowned musician Mani Sharma.

Danush’s Yaaradi Nee Mohini is also hitting the screens today. Tamanna is super excited about the film Padikathavan and is looking forward to playing the role that has shades of humor to it as well. This film will also star Vadivel in a crucial role.

shooting for the film Dhaam Dhoom directed by Late. Director Jeeva

Finally, shooting for the film Dhaam Dhoom directed by Late. Director Jeeva is completed and post-production works have kick-started. Today, the entire team of Dhaam Dhoom met the media channels sharing their experience. Harris Jayaraj, music director of the film, speaking to the occasion, said that Jeeva right before commencing the project had told him that even if he is not there, Harris should complete the musical scoring successful. Addressing this to the gathering, Harris shed his tears praising Jeeva as the best technician and director of all times. Also added that, though he has demised in body, his soul will remain amidst with his enchanting contribution to not just Tamil Cinema, but the Indian Film industry.

Jayam Ravi, then defined the title of Dhaam Dhoom as Jeeva had earlier briefed it to him. Since, first half of the movie will move slowly and cool with an ambience of family in the nativity and so it is Dhaam. Sooner, in the latter part, the film will pick the pace with different location in Russia and even the technical aspects will be fast-packed. Henceforth, it can be categorized under Dhoom.

Namitha in new style

Indira Vizha’directed by K Rajeshwar. ‘Indira Vizha’hero Srikanth has heroines - newcomer Hemamalini and Namitha.Raghuvaran and Vivek are also in the cast.The music director is Yadhish in ‘Indira Vizha’.


Srikanth is busy with’Ettappan’ and’Poo.”Indira Vizha’ will be his 3rd film. After’Bambarakannale,’ Namitha teams up again with Srikanth in this film. The film is produced by the producers of Hindi film’Garam Masala.’ Vivek has an important role.

Audio launch of " dhasavadaram"

Dhasavatharam climax song penned by lyricist Vairamuthu, 'Ulaganayaganae…', and set to music by music director Himesh Reshammiya will have Kamal in all the 10 avtars.

Director K.S. Ravikumar will make an appearance, and shots of the process Kamal went through for the different guises have been included. Sony is said to have received orders for about 50,000 copies of the music CD.
The audio launch will take place on April 25th at the Nehru Indoor Stadium, will also have leading actors representing other film industries in India. Hollywood actor Jackie Chan will release the audio CD.