Kollywood Hotshots

The convention will also feature Harris Jeyaraj’s musical evening with prominent singers from the Tamil industry. Entertainment skits and other programs are also planned by various US based Tamil Sangams, according to a press release.

Akshara is in Mumbai and is said to be on the sets of Bollywood producer Smita Thackeray’s production titled ‘Society’, which in fact features her mummy Sarika and other veteran actors like Dimple Kapadia, Randhir Kapoor, Seema Biswas and Om Puri.

According to sources, the 19-year-old gal is there to assist the director of the movie, Rahul Dholakia. Story goes that when mom dearest Sarika came to know about her love for filmmaking, she said to have suggested Akshara to the filmmaker. Sarika earlier had worked with Dholakia for his ‘Parzania’, which was well-acclaimed.

Sarika thought that he would be the best mentor for her daughter and requested him to take Akshara as his apprentice. So here we go, Akshara has joined the sets and she’s now in the ‘Society’, the movie we mean!

“It is to be noted that Ash has not made any public appearance after the film and her PR machinery has been asked to remain silent regarding her whereabouts. This is to avoid any uncomfortable questions from the media,” a source reportedly said.

“The former Miss World was extremely excited before the release of the film since she played the heroine in both Hindi and Tamil versions. Ash thought that she and her husband Abhishek would win accolades from all quarters. But the output was different and this has depressed her a lot,” the source added.

Amitabh Bachchan himself is not happy about the film and he wrote on his blog taking a dig at the editing process. “Lot of merited film edited out, causing inconsistent performance and narrative. Abhishek's erratic behaviour was due to symbolic 10 heads visually appearing and each giving him different attitudes to adopt for a situation, he would then finally shake them off and decide,” he said.

It may be recalled that Anu was married to Vikas about 10 years ago but later divorced him on grounds of incompatibility.

She has acted in a number of Tamil films including Indira in which she was the leading lady. The film was directed by Suhasini Mani Ratnam, her cousin. Anu is also a popular television host and has modeled for a lot of commercials.

The tradition is being followed by his descendants too and the temple had its consecration this morning which was a grand affair. This function was attended by Super star Rajinikanth, Ajithkumar, Radhika along with other family members of Sivaji household and from the film fraternity.

Gautham’s quickie is an edge-of-the-seat thriller and Sameera plays a character called Sukanya. On the recent controversy on her not being a member of Nadigar Sangam to do films in Tamil Sameera clarifies that registering with the Nadigar Sangam was the first thing she did when she got her first offer in Kollywood. She says she is a member of Nadigar Sangam even before her first mega success ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’.

On the personal front Sameera is still single and the pretty babe feels the status of being single is very boring at the moment. That’s some food for thought.