Vijay fans get Jealous about Surya?

Director Shankar learns from Vijay

Rajini Birthday Special - 10 interesting things about Superstar

1. Though Superstar was born in a Marathi family, he has not acted in a single Marathi film yet.


2. Before venturing into films, he worked as a bus conductor for the Karnataka State Transport corporation.

3. He joined the Madras Film institute in 1973 with the help of a friend and then started his career with the Kannada film Sangama in 1975 but the film's release was delayed.

4. Rajni's Muthu was the first Tamil film to be dubbed in Japanese as Muthu: The Dancing Maharajah.

5. He had sung the song 'Adikkuthu Kuliru' in his film Mannan.

6. Rajni's 50th film was Tiger (Telugu), 100th film - Shri Raghavendra, 125th film - Rajathi Raja and 150th film - Padayappa.

7. Apart from Tamil, he has also acted in Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, English and Bengali films.

8. After the release of Mullum Malarum, Rajni received an appreciation letter from his mentor K. Balachander, which he still considers as the most valuable thing in his life.

9. Superstar's favourite colour is black and favourite place is the Himalayas.

10. It is said that Superstar still travels in his white Ambassador and has also preserved his first car, a white Fiat, which he bought during the early days of his career.

Rajni’s birthday as ‘World Style Day’?

Ask any one of Rajinikanth’s scores of fans what they like most about their ‘Superstar’ and chances are that they’d flip their hair back, laugh with descending intonation and say ‘style’.

Now, as if those ‘style’ statements hadn’t become synonymous with Kollywood’s numero uno actor, his fans are clamouring for something bigger to mark his birthday. About a month ago, a post appeared on the wall of a Rajinikanth fan page on Facebook that said ‘We should celebrate Thalaivar’s birthday as World Style Day’ and this set the virtual juggernaut rolling.

“Once that started, every online fan thought it was a great idea and has been garnering support to make World Style Day a reality,” explains Vinodh K R, an ardent fan and virtual fan club moderator. “More and more people have begun spreading the message through word-of-mouth as his birthday (December 12) comes closer,” he adds.

With the backing of close to one lakh fans online, you’d think that World Style Day might actually become a reality by the time the Superstar completes 61 years of age. But there are bigger plans afoot, claims Vinodh, “Everything we do for him has to be big. Next year’s birthday (12-12-12) will be a landmark day in the history of the universe and by this time, we will have managed to have his birthday declared officially as World Style Day.”

Till then, posters, publicity and petitions to everyone from the Chief Minister and the President of India will be sent.

Birthday bash

But for ‘Rajini 62’, plans for a grand bash have been in the works for almost a month. This time, a unified bash for the superstar has been planned on December 13 at Valluvar Kottam. The best part is that everything will have a ‘62’ twist to it, says an excited Saidai G Ravi, office bearer of the Chennai district and head of Rajinikanth Fans Welfare Association.

“If 62 people are given free clothes, then students’ fees amounting to Rs 62,000 will be donated... there will be 62 everywhere,” he says and adds excitedly, “We will also set off 62 sky decorators (rockets) that will fire 240 shots in the air around Valluvar Kottam, so that it can be seen at his (Rajini’s) residence.”

And they’re a stickler for crowd control too.

“Only 40 invites have been sent to each district fan club,” says K Thayumanavan, President of the Fans Welfare Association in Tiruvarur. “No one will be allowed in without the invitation bearing the 3-D hologram,” he adds.

But there’s a reason why they don’t want to open the floodgates and allow fans to witness industry bigwigs like SP Muthuraman and Kalaipuli S Dhanu felicitating their hero. “When we invited Thalaivar, we were told that if the programme was under control and to his liking, he would come and greet us as a surprise,” said an organizing committee member.

Latest on Kolaveri de song!

Day by day Dhanush’s ‘Kolaveri De’ song becomes popular. With a single track itself the movie also get popularized. 'Why This Kolaveri Di' goes Live for the Grand Finale round of Star Va Rockstar show.

The song already got many applauds among north Indians while telecasted in Zee tv. Now the show has come to an end and the team wanted it to make big it seems.

Yes, they are thinking that the team also wanted to come live on the stage for the show. Kolaveri fame Dhanush and Anirudh are expected for this event.

The show will be telecasted live on December 10th at 8:30 pm in Zee tv. It is surely expected a record break.

Now, the debut director Aishwarya Dhanush, wants the visuals to be extraordinary because the song has become immensely popular throughout the world.

They planned to shoot the song from December 15th onwards. Aishwarya is taking extra care to shoot this song and is involved in discussion with several people.

Why This Koalveri Di will be shot on 3’s lead pair Dhanush and Shruti Haasan, reports sources close to the unit.

Surya leaving to Italy for maatran in 2012

Suriya’s upcoming movie Maatran in the direction of KV Anand is busy with hectic shooting schedules abroad. Suriya is pairing up with the pretty actress Kajal Agarwal in the film. This is the first time Suriya is romancing Kajal for a film.

Maatran is being made lavishly with a whopping budget by the AGS Entertainment Production house. Harris Jayraj is zeroed in by the makers for the musical scores for the film.

Kollywood tinsel town is at buzz that Maatran film unit are in plans to can risky action stunts of the film in an unrevealed locations in Italy.

Italy trip will take of three weeks it seems. Some flash back scenes, a song sequence and some stunts scenes are planned to be shooted there.

As per the sources Suriya will be seen in four get-ups in the film. After wrapping up hi-end action stunts in Italy the director will shoot the climax portion of the film.

These stunts are to be picturised in 2012 under the supervision of stunt master Peter Heins.

Asin, vidya balan, Anushka shetty ,sneha in kochadaiyaan

Rajinikanth kochadaiyaan hunt for female lead continues two leading heroines are being considered for the rajinikanthstarrer kochadaiyaan. While one is vidhya balan, fresh from the success of the dirty picture, the other is Ghajini gal Asin. Along with the actresses. anushka shettyhas also been approached to team up withrajinikanth .

Actress Sneha has been signed to playRajinikanth’s sister in Kochadaiyaan. As far as the technical department is concerned, Oscar Award winner AR Rahman and cinematographer Rajiv Menon have been signed.

Kochadaiyaan is loosely inspired by Pandya king, Kochadaiyan Rana Dheeran. The movie directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth is being made by the 'motion capturing' technique.kochadaiyaan expected to hit the screens in August 2012.

Director Murugadoss’ brother to act

After the huge success of 7am Arivu and his own production Engeyum Eppodhum director A R Murugadoss is all set to introduce his younger brother as hero in his next venture. The director of the film is none other than his own assistant director Thiru.
All necessary arrangements are being made in this regard and an official announcement is expected soon.

"NANBAN" IMAGE GALLERY

Lingusamy not afraid of Nanban?

The film Vettai directed by Lingusamy is being released on Pongal day. This has been officially confirmed. Lingusamy who had earlier directed films like Anandham, Run, Sandai Kozhi, Bheema and Paiyya is now directing a film titled Vettai.

This film has Madhavan, Arya, Amala Paul and Sameera Reddy in the lead roles. Lingusamy’s brother is producing this film under the banner Tirupathi Brothers. This film is based on the emotional struggle between two brothers and two sisters. The shooting of the film commenced in Karaikudi and continued to take place in various cities.

The shooting of this film is in final stages. There was already news that the film is to be released on Pongal day. Now this has been officially confirmed. UTV Motion Pictures who are releasing this film have officially announced that they are releasing the film on Pongal day. Vettai will be an action packed entertainer like Lingusamy’s earlier films. It is expected that Shankar’s ‘Nanban’ is also scheduled to hit screens on the same festive occasion.

Will Vijay and Ajith work together for Selvaraghavan?

Selvaraghavan’s recently released film “Mayakkam Enna” Starring Dhanush and Richa is doing very well in the box office.

Selvaraghavan had recently mentioned that he has already readied a story which can have Vijay and Ajith in the lead roles.

He said that he is interested in doing of different genre films instead of ordinary commercial films. He proved that too through his films.

His next film is Erandam Ulagam which has Arya and Anuska in the lead roles. Next he is going to direct "Aayirathil Oruvan" part 2 by next year.

Yuvan Shankar Raja is his best music director in his opinion. He said that both will work together for his next film soon.

Selva says to the media, “Many are asking me that when I am going to direct Vijay and Ajith. I have decided to cast both of them in my film. The script for that film is also ready”.

Eventhough Selva has no immediate plans to direct Ajith-Vijay and he is concentrating on his next venture, we can expect only that it will happen soon.

This News Was Published at Tamil Murasu dated on 2-12-2011

VIJAY SHOULD SING FOR OUR FILM:G.V.PRAKASH

Ilayathalapathy Should sing'-G V Prakash has plans of making actor Vijay sing in his upcoming film 

For fans of the Ilayathalapathy,here's some good news.We understand that Vijay might croon a song in his upcoming film with director A L Vijay,the music of which will be scored by G V Prakash.Says the composer,"Vijay should sing for the film;I adore his voice and would love to use it." 

Now much has been disclosed about this project,which is likely to kickstart once the Ilayathalapathy gets done with Thuppaki and Vijay with Thandavam.Prakash is the latest to join this crew,who has confirmed that he's thrilled to be composing for this prestigious project. 

Interestingly.the composer has a track record of making his heroes sing in their projects and it's expected that he'll get the Ilayathalapathy to sing as well.After getting Vikram to sing a song for Madrassapattinam,he made him croon in DeivaThirumagal as well.And,for his latest film with selvaraghavan,he got Dhanush to sing a couple of numbers,both of which have become a huge hit among audiences.