Kollywood Hotshots

The latest buzz is that due to going over budget, producer Aascar Ravichandaran is finding it difficult to distribute the film. So Aascar films has decided to distribute the film under their own banner. There is widespread speculation that Velayudham is the remake of Nagarjuna's Telugu film Azad. Sony Music has bagged the music rights of Velayudham, composed by Vijay Anthony, for a whopping price. Vijay is said to be doing a typical Rajinikanth's Annamalai type milkman role, who bashes baddies with the help of an investigative television reporter (Genelia).The buzz is that there will be a lot of punch dialogues in the film, in a bid to hit out at Vijay's detractors. There are 15 villains and 30 comedians in the film, which will have five songs and six choreographed action scenes.

Meera had approached the Kerala High Court saying that she should be granted exemption from making a personal appearance in the court, on the summons issued by CJM.
However, the High Court has rejected her appeal and asked her to be present at the court on or before August 8.

Malayalam producer and director KA Devarajan had filed a case against her that she had taken an advance of Rs 5 lakhs from him to do the film Swapnamalika, but failed to honour her commitment.

Meera's argument in the case is that after signing the contract, Devarajan had changed the story and started making the film with another heroine.

Meera was recently seen in Tamil films like Penn Singam and Ilanjian, both written by former chief minister M Karunanidhi.

The Malayalam actress is no longer doing films in her mother tongue and has two films to be released in Tamil, Mambattiyan and Adhinarayana.

The producer had re-shot some important scenes in the film because he wanted Jiiva to hold on to the success that he got in Ko. This has certainly upped the expectation levels for Rowthiram.

The film has Shriya Saran playing Jiiva’s arm candy. The music for Rowthiram has been scored by newbie Prakash Nikki.

Here we got some exclusive stills of Rajinikanth who was in the Singapore Mount Elizabeth hospital taking treatment for his health and took rest before returning to Chennai, is now staying with his son-in-law Dhanush, and grandsons in an apartment in Alwarpet, till his Poes Garden House gets renovated for Rajini to move to a infection free zone.

Vettai is about two brothers - Maddy and Arya and will devote itself to action, romance, and family values. Maddy is playing a cop and has worked hard on his physique so that he looks convincing. Yuvan is doing the music. Cinematography is by Nirav Shah.

The film is being produced Wide Angle Creations Suresh Balaji and George Pious, while the presenter of the film will be Sunir Khetrapal of IN Entertainment.

Chakri Toleti has clearly said in an earlier interview that Billa 2 would be a prequel. Says Chakri : "Billa 2 would focus on how David, an ordinary man from coastal Thoothukudi in South Tamil Nadu, becomes Billa, a dreaded underworld don".

A debutant Mumbai based theatre actor and model Huma Qureshi will play the female lead. From the previous film, the producers had made it clear that apart from Ajith, Prabhu and Rahman, most of the other characters would not be retained.

Television actor KK who starred in sympathetic roles in Kaavalan and Deiva Thirumagal,is playing a 'dirty cop' in the film. Sudhanshu Pandey and Vimala Raman will do cameo special appearances. Y

Yuvan Shankar Raja, a part of the original Billa is the music director. Rest of the technical crew being finalized in the following weeks.

Leading Bollywood cinematographer Hemant Chaturvedi, was originally chosen as the cinematographer but due to shoot getting postponed, he opted out.

Now the latest we hear is that RD Rajasekhar is the cameraman for the film. The crew also announced the film would become the first Indian production to be filmed with an RED EPIC Camera, being shot at 5K resolution.

It is heard that the lead role went to Prakashraj due to his immense popularity in the South. Notably, the film is a multilingual to be made in all South Indian languages by politician-cum-producer Hari Rama Jogaiah.

Presently, selection of the cast is in progress. Vasu is the cinematographer and Jonnavithula is the lyricist. Dialogues are by Rajendra Kumar. The songs will be recorded in July and the shooting will commence shortly. The makers are planning to release the film worldwide on November 23, which marks Baba’s birthday.