We all have 24 hours for a day but looking at the number of films Shriya is acting in, looks like 48 hours for a day is not enough.
In Tamil, she has 'Kandasamy,' 'Azhagiya Thamizh Magan' and a new film with Ajith. She has 2 films in Telugu. Her Hindi films include 'Ek' with Bobby Deol, 'Mission Istanbul' with Abhishek Bachchan. There's also the Hollywood film and a song with Vadivelu.
Shriya's list does not end here. For many months Simbu's 'Silambattam' has been gathering dust and the project is being revived again. Saravanan turns director with this film. There was great speculation earlier about whether Simbu would be acting in this film.
Now it has been confirmed that he is. They have approached Shriya to do the heroine role and it seems as soon as she heard that her quote was agreeable, she immediately okayed without even hearing the story.
Simbu has first complete 'Kaalai' and then 'Kettavan.' It would be hardly surprising if Shriya has by then become a Hollywood dream girl!
It is not enough to have talent alone. One also needs a lot of luck. Lingusamy's'Ji' and now'Bhima' are having inordinate delays for getting released.
But Lingusamy is busy getting his next script ready. The news about this are varied. One is, he is to direct Chiranjeevi's son Ramcharan Teja. The other is, the hero is Karthi of'Paruthiveeran' fame.
The smart Lingusamy has made both news come true. The Tamil film produced by his company Tirupathi Brothers has Karthi as hero. He is directing the same film in Telugu at the same time and Ramcharan Teja is the hero in that. Two mangoes with one stone!
The Telugu film could be produced by Tirupathi Raja. After Karthi completed his work in'Aayirathil Oruvan,' he will start work in Lingusamy's film.
We all know that Ajith's 'Aegan' is set for a Deepavali release. But, the question that lingers is, what's the next venture of the ultimate star? Talks and buzzes are going around that Ajith has joined hands for the first time with Gautham Vasudevan Menon for Sivaji Productions.
Ajith will don the role of a gangster, which he's poise in doing after 'Billa' and Sameera Reddy has been roped in to play the role of his girl friend. As usual, Gautham's Chief Marksman Harris will score the music. Nirav Shah, the man behind the grand looks of 'Billa', will wield the camera once again for this flick.
Director Gautham has suggested an attractive title 'Surangani' for the film. But the same title has been registered for another film which is under production. Sivaji Productions is currently making negotiations with the producers to acquire the same, catchy title.
The film will go to the floors in November and is slated to be released on April 14, 2009.
Things are not what they were between actor Madhavan and his mentor Mani Ratnam. The one time favorite of Ratnam, now finds himself replaced in the director's favor by none other than Abhishek Bachchan. In his latest film, which is being made in Hindi and Tamil, he does not have any role for Madhavan.
Madhavan owes his career in the South to the ace director. The two of them have notched many successes in Tamil. But it seems that during the making of Yuva, Ratnam took a great liking to Abhishek and that showed in his role in the film. Subsequently, Ratnam made Guru and Abhishek was given the lead role while Madhavan was reduced to playing second fiddle and how. Now that Ratnam is making his next feature in Hindi, which is apparently based on the Ramayana, he has again opted for the Abhishek Aishwarya pair, as he did in Guru. Govinda finds a role in the film and so does southern star Vikram. The Tamil version too does not have any role for Madhavan. In fact, Vikram who is playing the role of Ravan in the Hindi version will be playing the role of Ram, with Ash as his Sita in the Tamil version. But for now, in the Hindi version, we have Abhi Ash as Ram and Sita. And poor Madhavan is out in the cold.
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During the past day or so, I’ve been in the mood to see some really good bharatanatyamand. I was very much interested in reading an Articles regarding, and I thought it would be fun to look for some dancers whom I didn’t know all that much about yet. That’s how I learned about Kamala Lakshman. Reading up on her a little (and finding two good bios as well as an informative interview), I learned that she was one of the first great popularizers of bharatanatyam. (I’ve been reading a little on the dance’s history, too, about how, back in the ’30s, when it was still most commonly called “sadir,” it was basically saved from ill repute and near-extinction by a dancer and teacher named Rukmini Devi Arundale - another interesting story to write about sometime soon.) Kamala started making public appearances as a dancer in 1938, when she was four years old. She became a child star (as “baby Kamala,” of course) and soon started dancing in the Hindi cinema (though originally as a kathak dancer, from what I gather). She was in the huge film Kismet (1943) and a bunch of other Hindi films; then she made her big breakthrough in Tamil cinema, as a bharatanatyam dancer, in the 1944 film, Jagathalaprathapan, where she did her famous snake dance. So, at age ten, she was well on her way to becoming the first big star of bharatanatyam in Indian cinema, five years before the film debut of Padmini (who was actually two years older) and close to ten before Vyjayanthimala (who made her film debut at about the age of 15, which had sort of seemed impressive to me when I first read about that). (By the way, I also noticed that Kamala and Vyjayanthimala shared the screen in Kath Putli (1957), but by then they were both already in their 20s.)
The streaming actress Asin carved a niche for herself in the Tamil film industry with her good acting skills and cherubic looks. She further forayed into Bollywood with the Hindi version of Ghajini and it has been reported that with the release of this film, she is sure to go places there. Ghajini is nearing completion and there are a couple of song
Asin sequences yet to be shot before finally signing up up the project. Though she has a few films in Bollywood, the actress had made it clear that she prefers to star in Tamil films if good roles came her way.
Rumor mills now have it that Asin may be roped in to star with Kamal Haasan under the direction of Bharat Bala. Yet another buzz doing rounds in Kollywood is that she may also star opposite Vijay in an untitled film.
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