Kollywood Hotshots

But interestingly, the latest update is the versatile actor Prakash Raj will be replacing Surya as the host!

A source close to the channel informs, “Surya will not be hosting the second season. Prakash Raj has been approached to take over as the host this time. An official confirmation will be sent out in January.

When Surya was quizzed he also told media, “I am unable to accommodate time for this season. I enjoyed working on the first season of the show.”

Though Prakash Raj was not approachable, his wife Pony Verma confirmed that the channel has approached him and the decision is yet to be made final.

The ads are already up in the channel and the questions are being shown for the audience to participate in the quiz game show.

Arvind Swamy, who opted out of film industry to continue his business career, made a special appearance in Mani Ratnam's 'Alaipayuthey'. He will be seen playing a key supporting role besides Lakshmi Manchu and Thambi Ramaiah, Pasupathy and Ponvannan.

The film is also talked about for its technical crew which includes AR Rahman for music, Rajiv Menon for cinematography and A. Sreekar Prasad for editing.

This new project will be Gautham’s home production and it will focus on international issues. A majority of the film will be filmed in international locations to gel with the subject.

Suriya is currently busy completing Singam 2 and he has also signed on for Lingusamy’s next with Samantha as his pair.

It was said that Dhanush will be making a guest appearance in the film and now it has been confirmed that it will be an item song titled 'Kuthu' featuring Nayanthara too. The song will be choreographed by Bhaskar. This will be Nayan's third item song in Kollywood after “Kodambakkam area” in Sivakasi and “Ballelakka” in Sivaji.

Dhanush has also written and sung a song under Anirudh Ravichander's composition. The film's audio launch will be held on the 14th of December in Chennai and the audio rights have been bagged by Sony.

Ethir Neechal has Sivakarthikeyan, Priya Anand and Nandita in lead roles. Velraj is handling the cinematography, Noor Azwan is editing the film and Dhanush's Wunderbar films is bankrolling the project.