Vijays Pagalavan a boon for his political image

layathalapathy Vijay’s Nanban and Velayudham seem to be the most probable releases for 2011, now here is some latest news from the actors much talked about flickPagalavan(Another name of Sun in Tamil). The movie has already created much furore among fans for Vijay teaming up with the controversial director Seeman for this new flick. Sometime back there was news that the actor will be playing a doctor providing relief to the Eelam

Tamils in the movie, but now close sources reveal that the actor will is all set to don the role of a social revolutionary.

Moreover Seeman has scripted some real chest-thumping vociferous dialogues that will see Ilayathalapathy Vijay breath fire onscreen.

Vijay heard the final take on the movie from Seeman who has completely sketched out all the scenes and on hearing the script coupled with those punchy nerve racking punch lines the actor was so pumped that he himself expressed a keen interest to kick start the project soon.

The only hindrance on the road being whether it will be Kalaipuli S Thanu or Super Good films banner producing the movie, as the former seems to have shown a disinterest in funding the project. Vijay recently completed his Velayudhamshoots and is putting up with Director Shankar’s Nanban team in the river valleys of Dehradun. All production deals relating to Pagalvan will be sorted out soon as the project will kick start as soon as elections are done with.

30000 warriors and 3000 horses for Ponnar Shankar battle sequences

Ponnar Shankar a multi-crore Kollywood movie, based on a novel penned by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhiin a weekly magazine has unleashed some new figures to make your eyeballs pop right out those sockets. The flick is being produced by Thiagarajan who has son Prashanth in double lead with Pooja Chopra playing lead heroine.

We are now told that the movie will have chief officerPrashanth commanding an infantry of a mammoth 30000warriors and a proud cavalry of 3000 horses who will succumb to the demands of their master.

The movie is filming it’s final scenes which is being monitored by the special VFX team set up by Prashanthhimself in the desserts of Rajasthan.(suddenly desserts seem a cool place to hangout).One of our local messengers who visited the sets told us that the sets erected are never before seen ones, extensive in both size and style.

Divya Parameswaran, Prakash Raj, Sneha,Rajkiran, Napoleon, Kushboo, Vadivelu, Vijayakumar, Lakshmi and Seetha are the lucky few to be part of this project.Maestro Ilayaraja will be tapping in on all the right notes for this mega offering scripted by our honorary Chief Minister.

Gautham Menon issues statement against Nadunisi Naaygal protestors

Gautham Menon

Gautham Menon’s Nadunisi Naaygal has been receiving a lot of criticism with its bold representation of a hard hitting subject. On February 27th around 20 men from the Hindu Makkal Katchi were arrested as they tried to stage a demonstration rallying with somestreet dogs to the director’s house in Kaanagam, Chennai. The rally came to a halt as the protesters were stopped before reaching Gautham’s house by the police officials. Howsoever a response was awaited from Gautham to the statements made byHMK secretary  Kannan who demanded that the scenes portraying a weak relationship between an adopted mother and the mentally instable youth need to be deleted from the movie as they were ‘objectionable’ and are against the values instilled in us through Hindu epics like Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Gautham in return said, “The movie has been passed by the censor Board with an ‘A’ certificate and all the scenes are an essential part in the portrayal of the idea.It’s based on a true story and the mentally challenged person has been shown as an instable character, I certainly dint have any intention to cause harm to anyone’s sentiments.”

Mani Ratnam signs Mahesh Babu for a new flick

Here is some official news from the Mani Ratnam camp. Tollywood star Mahesh Babu has now been signed up by Mani Ratnam for one of his upcoming movies after the former met Mani Ratnam at his residence in Chennai. Earlier the Kollytalk team had disclosed that the hero will be playing an interesting role that of Uththama Chozhan in the movie with the 3V team of Vijay,Vikram and Vishal playing pivotal roles.

Mahesh Babu confirmed the reports himself saying, “Now for some big news. I met the legendary Mani Ratnam sir this Sunday (Feb 27) and I am really happy to share the news that Mani sir and I will be working for a new movie very soon. This day will go down as one of the most memorable days in my life and it’s such a dream come true to work with sir.”Mahesh sounded really kicked about his new project, as he had just recovered from viral fever a few days back.

Now rumors are afloat that the particular project will be based on a social drama theme as surprisingly it is just Mahesh Babu who has hopped in, and confirmations from Vijay,Vikram,and Vishal are yet to be made for Ponniyin Selvam.Veteran composers AR Rahman and Ilayaraja are yet to announce thier participation for the 200 crore mammoth project.

Is this signup for Ponniyin Selvam or not is still to be decided

SEEDAN MOVIE REVIEW

SEEDAN MOVIE REVIEW

Cast: Dhanush, Krishna, Ananya, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Vivek Reddy, Deva

Producer: Amit Mohan

Director: Subramaniya Shiva

Music: Dheena

Cinematography: Srinivasan Devamsam

Editing: Ramsudarshan

Studio: Myth Productions

Art Direction: Jakki

Lyrics: Pa Vijay, Yugabharathi

Ananya portrays Mahalakshmi who is an orphan and a devotee of Lord Muruga responsible for the day to day activities at a home in Palani that belongs to Amritavalli(yesteryear actress Sheela). Though an orphan she holds a special place in Amritavalli’s heart as she considers her nothing less than her own daughter and treats her the same way too.

Gradually the movie moves on and witnesses the arrival of a new character Mano played by debutant Krishna who is planning for further studies in US. Mahalakshmi reluctant at first falls for him to cut it short it is the old love at first sight phenomenon .Mano happens to be Amritham’s grandson.

Now, Mano’s mother Thangam (Suhasini) won’t let things go as smoothly as you would expect and she definitely has grand plans for her son’s marriage to a friends daughter, little did she know about her son’s intent and as expected she is quite disturbed when her son reveals details about his new found obsession, but how could she allow her son to get married to some maid and that too an orphan?

Ta daaaaaa! Dhanush rather Saravanan arrives as a cook to add spice to great taste.

The big question lies unanswered yet will Krishna against his mother’s wish to marry Mahalakshmi forms the climax, as is he certainly has all the qualities of the most obedient son a mother could have on this planet.Will he go against his mom’s will?

CAST REVIEW:

Ananya surely is the highlight of the movie be it her devotional outbursts with Muruga or her housekeeping role well she has carried it off well. With a stunner in just her second movie appearance she seems promising.

Krishna too is not behind in the race and will surely pick up with pace if given more chances in the future, good effort for a debut.

Dhanush, has tried to be as delicious as rasam. Then he surely was the crowd puller.

Vivek as he mentioned in his interview plays a fake saamiyar playing Kumbidiswamy. Though the movie is barely got good fillers except for a ton of songs we thought Vivek could have stepped up a bit.

PLUS POINTS:

Thanks to Dheena, the only thing we could take back was Hariharan’s rendering of Saravana Samayal which left us mesmerized and we are planning to steal an mp3 player as we have run out of battery mid-way to back home.

We enjoyed the backgrounds. Thanks to Cinematographer Srinivas who has also brought out the village scenes and other complimenting elements in a new getup.

Now, don’t worry about the positive points much, let us move on.

MINUS POINTS:

Every effort has been made to capitalize on the pitiful state of the devotee and pull it of as an out and out emotional drama and honestly speaking we know what is going to happen, it was so predictable and add to the monotony a movie that pushes along like a snail mind you there were moments when we were yawning and really felt like taking a nap as we really were getting good at predicting the coming 20 scenes.

We enjoyed a nice song in the movie but why do they have to throw at us 3 songs within the first 45 minutes, come on we were not here to dance were we?

A perfect case of too much salt and too less pepper as we waited to really see what Dhanush was up to and you bet wasn’t he disappointing.  That was the last thing on our mind but It happened unfortunately.

VERDICT:

Looking at this effort we think the director has aimed at pulling off remaking a hit of the original version in Malalyalam(Nandhanam) with a bit of changes as the trend is these days. Think of the script and it reminds us of only one thought did we really need to back to the 60’s now?