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VIKRAM COMES UNDER BHARATHAN

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BY, N.THYAGARAJAN For the success of the Azhagiya Tamizh Magan, Bharathan was also an instrumental. Keeping this in my mind Vikram wants to act under the director after finishing his Kandasamy. Soon the work of the new film will be started. For the success of the Azhagiya Tamizh Magan, Bharathan was also an instrumental. Keeping this in my mind Vikram wants to act under the director after finishing his Kandasamy. Soon the work of the new film will be started.

VALI WRITES LYRICS FOR PA.VIJAY

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BY, N.THYAGARAJAN Lyricist Vali has written a lyric for Pa.Vijay for the film Thai Kaaviyam. In the film the lyricist Pa.Vijay is introduced as hero. He wants a nice song when he is introduced in the film. Though he himself capable of writing lyrics, he wanted Vali to pen the lyrics. He knows very well, that if Vali writes the lyric, then it would click his role in the film. So with the idea Pa.Vijay approached Vali on the previous night, say around 9 PM, and requested him to write the lyric for him. Vali though old, promised him the song will be ready the next morning. As promised on the next day early morning, a phone call came to Vijay's house, and informed the lyric was ready. Startled by the phone call, Vijay hurried to the house of Vali and gratefully took the lyrics from him. There is a proposal to film the song scenes in China.

SOME REAL FACTS ABOUT RAMAN THEDIYA SEETHAI

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BY, SAI VIGNESH Chean after Pirivom Sandhippom is acting in Raman Thediya Seethai being produced by Moserbaer.Besides Pasupathy, Manivannan, Nitin Sathya, Vimala Ramanan, Thoothukudi Kaarthika, New face Ramya Nambisan and many others are acting in the film. Kodambakkam and Pudhiya Geethai fame Jaganath is writing the story, screen play, dialogues and also directing the film. According to information, recordings of all the songs of the film is over and the shooting of the film will be commenced this month. It is a moral story to admire one's inner beauty rather than carried away by the outer deceptive appearance. To shower his love to someone, one should take into consideration of the inner beauty of the person alone. The film also talks about the problems faced by the Middle Income Group people and how those problems could be tackled. There are five heroines in the film. For five songs of the film, Vidya Sagar had done the music. According to the director, the film is narrated wi...

PULI VARUDHU - REVIEW

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BY, T.AISHWARYA Produced By : ELK Productions - Antony Story, Screen Play & Direction : G.V.Kumar Cinematography : Rajasekar Music Direction : Srikanth Deva PRO : Mounam Ravi Actors : Jithan Ramesh, Mallika Kapoor, Karunas, Manivannan & Saranya. Story : Whether a dream will become true? Review : Manivannan and Saranya wanted their son Ramesh to follow their foot steps of loving a girl and getting married. But Ramesh refused to do so. He put the onerous risk of seeing a bride for him on to their parents' shoulders. In the meanwhile, Ramesh goes to his friends marriage in a bus. On the way he dreams that as if he loves a girl Mallika K...

PUBLIC PROTEST SATHYAM SHOOTING

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By, T.AISHWARYA The shooting of the film Sathyam was protested and stopped by the general public for sometime, after the stunt men literally beat a tempo driver on the National Highway near Maduravoyal. According to sources, while the shootings of the film's fighting scenes were in progress, a tempo driver who was on his way to his house, hit one of the vehicles of the film's unit. The film unit had parked a lot of vehicles for its fighting scenes on the National High way without giving any provision for other vehicles to pass through. The innocent tempo driver when wanted to take his tempo to other side hit against one of the vehicles belonged to the film unit, it was learnt. On hearing the hitting sound, the film's stunt men, immediately pulled the driver out from the tempo and beat him indiscriminately. The driver who could not tolerate the beatings of the stunt men, literally cried for help to save him. A mob who had been watching the pathetic incident at the shootin...

THALAI KEEZH FEBRUARY RELEASE

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N.Thyagarajan Madha Creations Thalai Keezh is the story of a village boy who becomes student in a city college falls in love with a girl. Immediately, after his love the entire life changes and a lot of incidents take place and his life become miserable. This is the outline story of the film. Dharmarajan produces the film on behalf of Madha Creations and Rex Raj directs the film. In this film Rajesh is introduced as the hero of the film with Tejomaye and another heroine Niveda. Adhish Uthiriyan does the music of the film. The film is likely to be released on February 14 next year.

SHANKAR DIRECTS A FILM FOR A.M.RATHNAM

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Director Shankar who has become popular by virtue of directing A.M.Rathnam's Indian recently met the producer. During the meeting Director Shankar promised that he would direct Ratnam's next film after the release of the Bheema. Shankar also knows, due to financial problems of the Suriya Movies AMR, the Bheema could not be released on time. Shankar wants to reciprocate his gratefulness by directing a film for AMR. Hence, he promised that he would do his next film with Ajith as hero of the film. Earlier, Ajith andA.M.Ratnam had some misunderstandings and this was wiped out by Director Shankar and Ajith himself had given his acceptance to act in the film. Hence, the release of the Bheema for the coming Pongal festival is certain.

PULI VARUDHU - REVIEW

N.Thyagarajan Produced By : ELK Productions - Antony Story, Screen Play & Direction : G.V.Kumar Cinematography : Rajasekar Music Direction : Srikanth Deva PRO : Mounam Ravi Actors : Jithan Ramesh, Mallika Kapoor, Karunas, Manivannan & Saranya. Story : Whether a dream will become true? Review : Manivannan and Saranya wanted their son Ramesh to follow their foot steps of loving a girl and getting married. But Ramesh refused to do so. He put the onerous risk of seeing a bride for him on to their parents' shoulders. In the meanwhile, Ramesh goes to his friends marriage in a bus. On the way he dreams that as if he loves a girl Mallika Kap...

POOCHANDI LOVES CHILDREN

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POOCHANDI LOVES CHILDREN Insight Cinema and Sachin Creators jointly produce a film Poochandi. Poochandi is a person who loves children who has no parental guidance. The children too love him. 'Poochandi', the Tamil word normally is used to threaten children when they do mischief. But this film is entirely different. Insight Cinema who has been doing business all these years by buying audio and video rights of various films, is entering its production business through this film. The film, is to be produced with a lot of new faces including old time actors. Vijay Raj is going to music direct the film for the lyrics of Snehan, Vairamuthu, Punniya, Kurunanidhi. The shooting of the film likely to commence in the near future. On the subamuhurat day of this film inaugural function, many orphanage children were brought to the studio and a magic show was performed for them to enjoy. V.T.Janardhanan, Sai and Ganesan all produce the film. The one-time-assistant of Praveen Kanth an...

PIRIVOM SANDHIPOM BRINGS GOLDEN ERA IN TAMIL FILMS

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N.Thyagarajan Pirivom Sandhipom is a film has no violence and no fights. For the first time, in the history of Tamil films, Producer Karu Palaniappan in his fourth film has handled the film's story in such a way that no one should raise questions for not showing calamities or anything that might wound the minds of others. Sometime, the history of films called Golden Era and Karu is heading for this era through non-violence though he does not belong to the Gandhism. Pirivom Sandhipom has no vulgar scenes and no one shown as bad character in this film. How then the film will be success? ask many. But, Karu has the knack of producing such films which could be viewed with family members and making the audience to sit tightly in their chairs without making them move for a puff of air or for coffee. According to the producer, the life itself is a complicated one. In this life, all are good and no one is bad. But according to circumstances they caught in the web of problems. But viewin...

PADMA MAHAN TO PRODUCE CHILDREN FILM

N.Thyagarajan Ammuvaagiya Naan fame Padma Mahan is going to produce his next film with children's subject. He says the film will have the contents only for the children and most of the children will be acting in the film. He says in order to make the children as the gliding stars in their character, the film is produced.

MUMAI KHAN RETURNS TO HER DANCE

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N.Thyagarajan Mumai Khan after acting in Dr Rajasekaran's Udambu Eppadi Irukku film as Mysamma Police Officer role, expected that the character would bring her luck to do a lot of character roles in her next films. She got a role in a Telugu film Mysamma and did her best in the film. For some reasons, the film did not run well. Upset by the failure of the film, she wanted again to become an item-song-dancer, because, many of her fans expected her dance in films. Recently, Mumai Khan danced for Vambu Sandai for an item song.

MIRUGAM CREW OBSERVES FAST

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N.Thyagarajan Following the Censor Board removing the bull-fight scenes due to the Animal Welfare Board of India's force in the recently released Mirugam film, the entire film unit observed a fast on Tuesday,opposing the ban of the scene. The film, Mirugam, revolves around a village macho ruffian who ends up becoming an AIDS patient, not because of the bull-fight but due to his own nefarious activities with various innocent girls. Aadhi, the hero of the film along with producer Karthik Jai and director Samy and other crew members, observed a fast before the government guest house in Chepauk to mark his protest. Karthik Jai told reporters that there should be "no ban of any kind on portraying a sport like jallikattu. Jallikattu is a local sport of bravery and there should be no ban on showing it in films in the future" he said. The hero and the producer, furious over the Board's action, had threatened to take out a half naked protest march on Christmas day but it was...

MALAYALAM INDRAJITH AS VILLAIN

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N.Thyagarajan Malayalam films' Indrajith is introduced in Kandasamy as the villain who fights equally with Vikram. Indrajith brother Prithiviraj is also an actor who had done a lot of Malayalam films like his father Sugumaran who has been a hero. When talking to news men Indrajith said that he adores the challenging role of the villain in Kandasamy and expected that there would be many more openings in Tamil films after its release.

MADHUMITHA ACTS IN VARIOUS FILMS

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N.Thyagarajan Kudaikul Mazhai fame Madhumitha keeps silence these days. No one knows in which film she has been acting. Now she is acting opposite Ameer in the film Yogi. Further she does a weighty role in Arai En 305-L Kadavul. Not only that. She is acting in Nal Varavu and Kadhal Meipada. Who knowsabout Madhumitha? Soon all her films likely to be released in all theaters.

LOVE TAMIL SIGN IN TAMIL ALWAYS

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N.Thyagarajan Director Sreeman in his recent address in a function has appealed to all the film artistes to sign in Tamil, since, most of the artistes were acting in Tamil films but signing in English had disturbed his conscience. When he produced the Tamil film Thambi, he used the actor R.Madhavan name as Ra.Madhavan in Tamil. Sreeman used Madhavan's initial denoting his father's name Rangasamy. On coming to know that his name appeared as Madhavan in Tamil, he told the director the very fact that the film would be flop, since, he used the Tamil in the title card that too his initials as 'Ra'. But to his suprise, the film ran successfully, said the director. He also wondered that most of the artistes who had acted in Tamil films, were signing in English. He said, the artistes should cultivate the habit of signing in Tamil language for the upliftment of the language.

KALOORI - FILM REVIEW

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N.Thyagarajan Director Balaji Sakthivel's Kalloori is no exception for emotional love and sentiments attached. It is about a group of school friends in a village in Madurai who join the same college and the emotion shared by them forms the crux of the story. A modern girl, (Tamanna) highly qualified also join in the bandwagon of the village friends. The film is bereft of comedy but it revolves around the story that happens inside the campus of the college. The film is catapulted to the success ladder with the matured performances of the new entrants as actors in weighty roles. Even small characters like hero's sister, moslem girl who lost her father, and the hero who though not making friendship with the idea of loving the girl, and incourse of thick friendship, there is every chance that friends become husbands and wives are shown beautifully in the film. Balaji has pinpointedly had shown where the neck of the bottle for love and intercaste marriages. However, it is sad on th...

ILAYARAJA MUSIC FOR AYYAPPA ANIMATION FILM

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N.Thyagarajan Music Maestro Ilyaraja is going to music direct for an animation film on Lord Ayyappa. The animation film will tell the entire history of the Lord Ayyappa so as to assimilate the story of the Lord from younger generations to old. The subamuhurat of the film was recently inaugurated by the Kerala Education Minister M.A.Baby, by lighting the kuthuvilakku in the function. If Ilayaraja music directs this animation film, it will be his second animation film. Earlier he did music direction for Inime Nangadhan. Kerala film industry's famous writer Krishna Kumar wrote the Screen Play and dialogues of the film while Reji Shine directed the film. The film was produced by Sai Raksha Entertainment, a Bangalore based company.

"I AM A COMMERCIAL PRODUCER" HARI

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by.N.Thyagarajan "I am a commercial producer and I love to produce films only for commercial success" says director Hari. The director says there are a lot of directors like Mani Rathinam, Shankar, Bala and Ameer who take the films to give them a new lease of life. But Hari wants to produce only commercial films and he says that there was not even a single person to produce commercial films. " I always wanted to produce commercial films with my own screen plays for the success of my films", says Hari. Hari has confidence to produce commercial films with his brother-in-law Arun Vijay. He says, that if the time comes for it he would be joining with Arun Vijay to produce his own film.

FILMS OF MGR & SHIVAJI INSTILLED DESIRE IN ME

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by.N.Thyagarajan "After seeing MGR and Shivaji Ganesan in historical films, a desire had settled down in me to do those roles. And now the Indira Logathil Na.Azhagappan had given me the chance to fulfill those desire" said Comedian Vadivelu at the audio cassette release function of the Indira Logathil Na.Azhagappan. In his address he said, he had put on more weight to do three roles in the film to be released soon. He also said, he had worn costumes with heavy weights to earn good name. " I was wandering here and there, but I have made as hero. The more the weightage of role I have, I started to fear that I must keep my good name" said Vadivelu. Earlier the cassette was released by Vijay, Suriya, Rama Narayanan, and Simbhu was received by a group of children. During Sneha's speech, she vouched that Vadivelu was a good actor and whenever she went abroad, she used to carry the CDs of the actor to enjoy in those countries. Suriya in his speech said, that Vadiv...

DIRECTOR SAMY STILL NOT IN TALKING TERMS WITH PADMA PRIYA

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by N.Thyagarajan Mirukam film director Samy who was barred from directing Tamil films for a year's time is not in talking terms with Padma Priya who had brought a dispute against the director. When contacted, the director told, that Padma Priya had done her role well and he said that her acting in Mirukam was 90 percent appreciable. However, the director said, had she listened to his instructions without any infights the film would have come up well. But, the director is happy over the outcome of the Mirukam release and he said that many people wanted his direction in the Tamil film and expected that soon his punishment would be waived by them. When talking about the film's story, that once he saw literally a pregnant woman was beaten up by her husband. The incident, he said, had settled down all those years and he wanted to utilise the scene when the opportune knocks him. Similarly, he was moved by the Ratha Kanneer film. That was also his second incident, which he wanted to ...

AYERATHIL ORUVAN CROSSES BEYOND BUDGET LIMITS

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(By N.THYAGARAJAN) What is the reason for the delay in filming the Tamil film Ayerathil Oruvan ? Ayerathil Oruvan director Selvaraghavan says, the film could not be completed as per the budget. The expenditure of the film had gone beyond the allotted money to produce the film. In the film, Paruthi Veeran Karthik is the hero. Recently, the shooting unit went to Kerala forest area to shoot the film. More than 500 film unit members participated in the schedule. But, due to incessant rain in the forest the scenes of the film could not be shot and the producer had to burn his fingers heavily, since, he had to make payments to all those who did their work. Says the director," Even before, the shooting commenced, I have narrated the story to the producer, who had accepted that the shooting be carried out in forest area. Hence, for the heavy expenditure, I should not be blamed. It was due to the nature calamities, the shooting did not take place for more than 15 days". Many say tha...
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Former Miss World and Bollywood actor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Thursday said all the actors in the movie 'Jodha Akbar' have done the film with 'full passion' and hoped that the movie would be a hit. The actor, who was here to launch the Nakshatra New Winter Wedding Collection of diamond jewellery here, told reporters after the launch that movies like Jodha Akbar, were very "tricky" with regard to audiences accepting it. Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan are playing the leadroles in the movie. Responding to a query that films like 'Asoka' have not gone onto become hits in recent times, she said "At certain times certain films do well...certain films do not do that well. It's a very tricky thing." The daughter-in-law of Amitabh Bachchan, said working for the Hollywood movie 'Pink Panther' was a 'fantastic experience'. "There were so many stars...it was really anamazing experience," the actress said. Aishwarya, who...

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE PICTURES OF STAR NITE THAT TOOK PLACE IN MALAYSIA ON DECEMBER 21.

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(By N.Thyagarajan) More than hundreds of leading film artistes from the Tamil Nadu left for Malaysia to perform Star Nite in on December 21. Another Star Nite is to be held on December 23 in Singapore. Some artistes feared that due to the Tamils' unrest in the Malaysia, some worst might happen if the Tamil film artiste come over there to perform Star Nite. But nothing had happened, and a visitor who arrived this morning said, the Star Nite was happy. The stars staged drama, dances and mimicory shows and the Tamils living in Malaysia were happy. There are more than 40 dancers under Dance Master Kala had the training to perform it on the stages of Malaysia and Singapore. Except Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan other leading participated in the function.

KADHAL SANDHYA TO ACT IN KANNADA FILM

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Mrs.Karpagam N.Thyagarajan Kadhal Sandhya will be acting for a Kannada film to be directed by Shoban. He has been a Telugu film director who directed the Telugu Film Varsham in which Sandhya had acted. In Kannada she is doing the role with Punit Rajakumar. The shooting of the film starts from January next in Bangalore. Says Kadhal Sandhaya that she wants to speak the Kannada language and has been practising the language with proper diction.

SIDDHARTH TO MARRY PATAUDI DAUGHTER SOHA

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(By N.Thyagarajan ) Boys fame Sidharth is going to marry cricket player Pataudi's daughter Soha Ali Khan. The one-time assistant of Mani Rathinam who has become an actor through the film Boys and Ayudha Ezhuthu. From Tamil films he switched over to Telugu films and did acting in several films. He also acted in Hindi Rang Te Basanthi during which time he fell in love with Soha who is sister of actor Saif Ali Khan. During his career in Hindi in Mumbai Sidharth and Soha moved closely and became intimate friends and attended several functions. The news of their intimacy came to known to public in the recent past. Though Soha told her parents that she is in love with Sidharth, her parents opposed the proposal. There is one more reason why there was protest from her parents. Sidharth , according to information, was married person. He married Magna. But according to Sidharth, the two were separated. Now the parents have given green signal, and soon the marriage of Soha and Sidharth will b...

TRISHA EAGER TO ACT WITH NAGARJUNA

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The bathing beauty Trisha wanted to act with Nagarjuna. She told her desire to act with the actor quite a long time before. Now, the time has come to act with Nagarjuna in a Telugu film. The shooting of the film will begin from June next year. Trisha had acted with a lot of leading heroes in Telugu earlier and now her dream is becoming true.

MADHAVAN TURNS DIRECTOR

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N.Thyagarajan Actor Madhavan who recently released the most successful film Evano Oruvan is going to do direction for a film. Madhavan has got the capacity of directing film, only after he had directed nearly 90 percent of the Evano Oruvan. Soon,the work of his new film will be started.

ILAYARAJA IN MALAYALAM SMS - Cine Sprinkles

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Ace Music Maestro Ilayaraja is music directing Malayalam film SMS with different music touch ups. The title for the film was branded by the music director himself in which Navya Nayar is acting in the film.

PIRIVOM SANDHIPOM- A FILM WITHOUT ANY VIOLENCE

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By N.Thyagarajan Pirivom Sandhipom is a film has no violence and no fights. For the first time, in the history of Tamil films, Producer Karu Palaniappan in his fourth film has handled the film's story in such a way that no one should raise questions for not showing calamities or anything that might wound the minds of others. Sometime, the history of films called Golden Era and Karu is heading for this era through non-violence though he does not belong to the Gandhism. Pirivom Sandhipom has no vulgar scenes and no one shown as bad character in this film. How then the film will be success? Ask many. But, Karu has the knack of producing such films which could be viewed with family members and making the audience to sit tightly in their chairs without making them move for a puff of air or for coffee. According to the producer, the life itself is a complicated one. In this life, all are good and no one is bad. But according to circumstances they caught in the web of ...

KARAN AS ARRACK SELLER OPPOSED BY HIS FRIENDS

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Mrs.Karpagam N.Thyagarajan In Kathavarayan, Karan who appears as the Arrack Vendor was opposed by many of his friends. Being Karan is an action oriented hero, his friends fear, that appearing as the arrack vendor would disrobe his image. " Even then, I am acting in the role, because I want to prove that I could do role like this. I have realised the difficulties of the arrack vendors in their real life to sell their product, despite there was pucca postings of police are made. In a shooting, I was dragged by police on seeing which the public began to weep as if it was a real happening. The story explicitly describe the sad part of the vendors" says Karan. Videesa is the heroine of the film

PRIYA MANI IS NOT POLICE IN THOTTA

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"There was a wide-spread speculation that I am acting as a police in Thotta. But I act as a woman who fights for certain cause" says Priya Mani to our Blog. Despite that she appears as an activist, there are scenes in the film for love and songs. Says Priya Mani," I want to always give my voice for dubbing. In Paruthee Veeran I appeared as Muthuazhaghi, and getting the character like this will happen once in a blue moon. In Telugu I act with Kalyanaraman for an untitled film. Still I am waiting for a good role with good story in Tamil".

TRAILORS OF BILLA AND AJITH TO BE SCREENED IN THEATERS

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BY MRS KARPAGAM N.THYAGARAJAN The trailers of Billa and Bheema will be shown in 72 theaters througout the world. Ajith's Billa is getting released on the December 14, however Bheema will be released for the Pongal festival falling on Janaury next year. In Billa Ajith, Nayantara and Namitha are acting under the direction of Vishnuvardhan. In Bheema Vikram has done his role with Trisha directed by Lingusamy. The trailer of the Bheema is being released by Ayengaran Film Production.

KARUNAS IS HERO IN THE MALAYALAM REMAKE

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Comedian Karunas will be hero in the Malayalam film remake Vadakku Nokki Yandhiram. In Malayalam it was done by Srinivasan and Parvathi. In Tamil, the comedian wished to do the role. The story of the film was a beautiful woman marries dark-skinned person. Hence,the film producers are on the look out for some good looking girls who are willing to act with the comedian. Talking to news men Karunas said, that the role in the remake film was a good charcter one and he himeself wished to do that role. It is expected that Simran will be acting with Karunas, if not some fair complexioned artiste with a beautiful look will act as heroine.

RAJINI'S BIRTH DAY IN BANGALORE

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Super Star Rajnikanth's 57 birthday is being celebrated by his fans in Tamil Nadu today. But Rajini is celebrating this birthday with his family members in his native place Bangalore. Rajni Fans Association which had undertaken a lot of beneficiaries for Rajini's welfare are carriying out the various welfare measures today, according to sources. After celebrating his birthday Rajini will arrive in Chennai to discuss about his new film's story.

REMAKE OF KALYANARAMAN

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( By N.Thyagarajan ) P.A.Arts Kalyanaraman was a super hit film with Kamal in duel role with Sri Devi and Radha. With the very same title, Director Vishnuvardhan's father S.G.Sekar is going to remake the same film through his newly launched production office. Dance Master Lawrence is going to do the duel role of Kamal. The selection of heroine in full vigorous going. Panchu Arunachalam is rewriting the story. The film is to be directed by A.Venkatesh with cinematography by Sambath. A.Venkatesh will take over the direction of the film after he finishes Singa Kutti and Durai. The Kalyanaraman is liketly to be released in June next year.

SINGER MANO BECOMES MUSIC DIRECTOR

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( by Mrs Karpagam N.Thyagarajan) Playback Singer Mano who has been in the field of music for over 25 years and lent his voice in 20,000 songs in all languages is turning as music director through the Telugu film Somberi. Sorna Nithula, a lyricist, is directing the film. Says Mano, " Any one can understand the lines of the lyrics in my music direction. I won't allow the music overlap the lines of songs". When coming to know about Mano's interest in music direction, many more producers have come forward to music direct for their films and Mano has entered into agreement for music directing three Telugu films. "I want compose for Tamil film songs too. When this Telugu film's cassette is released, I hope I may be able to get chances in Tamil" says Mano