Kollywood Hotshots

Directed by popular Bollywood filmmaker Bejoy Nambiar (Of Shaitaan fame), the film has Vikram and Jeeva as the lead actors. Lara Dutta has been paired oppostie Jiiva in this film.

Writing on her microblogging page, Lara posted: ‘Off to shoot for Bejoy Nambiar’s David. Being shot in Hindi and Tamil simultaneously! Unique experience of shooting in two languages!’

Jeeva is playing a musician in David, while Vikram a fisherman. Interestingly, the name of both of them is David.

The shooting is almost complete and the post production works are now in progress. The film is expected to hit screens across Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh simultaneously in the last week of August.

The film is produced by Gemini Film Circuit. Harris Jayaraj is scoring the music. Others in the cast are Sathyaraj, S.J. Suryah, Sathyan, Kishore, Anuya Bhagvath, Lawrence Raghavendra, Manobala and Uma Padmanabhan.

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.

Simbu also revealed that his much-awaited film Vaanam will grace theatres on April 29, 2010 and he assured his fans this film 'will not let them down'.

Anand, whose last film ‘Ayan’ starring Suriya & Tamannaah broke many box-office records, is planning to film a song for the film in which leading actors and actresses of the Tamil film industry might be seen. Sources close to the burly filmmaker say that he has been in touch with the stars he intends to rope in for a song in the film.

In Bollywood movies, songs featuring multiple stars isn’t a rarity. In superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Naseeb’ which released in the mid-eighties, legends like Raj Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra and Shammi Kapoor featured in a song sequence. The same was the case with contemporary actress Deepika Padukone’s debut film ‘Om Shanti Om’ which released a couple of years back and had a song featuring the 70-plus Dharmendra, Hrithik Roshan, Govinda, Priyanka Chopra and Kajol Devgn.

Efforts were made in the past in Kollywood to bring together leading stars for a single song but in vain. The song that Anand has in mind is likely to feature Suriya, Vijay, Aarya, ‘Jeyam’ Ravi, Bharath, Dhanush and Jiiva, the hero of the film. Talks are reportedly going on between Anand and the concerned heroes and some heroines in Tamannaah, Shriya Saran and Poonam Bajwa.