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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