Kollywood Hotshots

If one has to go by reports, within two hours of the song’s release, it was downloaded more than 7,000 times. As Rahman croons ‘Khelo, jeeyo, hey-o, let's go…’, the rousing chorus takes the song forward, thereby giving an emotional appeal.

On Saturday, the Oscar-Grammy winner sung the song for around five minutes in front of a gathering which included Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, her Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda and CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi.

“I feel honoured to get the opportunity to compose the theme song for the mega-event. It was not an easy task. I had started composing it six months ago and finished just last night,” the Mozart of Madras said.

A beaming Kalmadi hailed the launch of the theme song as a good beginning to the hosting of successful Games. “A well beginning is the half job done. Now onwards you will listen this song day in and day out,” he said.

“It’s my longtime wish that celebrated novels be made as films. I am happy that Gowthaman has come forward to film Neela Padmanabhan’s much acclaimed ‘Thalaimuraigal’. He is a great writer whose work should be celebrated by one and all,” the veteran actor said.

He added: “Literature should be mixed with cinema. Only then meaningful movies could be made. Kudos to Gowthaman and his team for his honest attempt. I am literally happy about Magizhchi.” Expressing gratitude to Kamal, Gowthaman, who is also one of the lead actors of ‘Magizhchi’, says, “It is a movie for everyone. This is one novel that impressed me and I read it over and over again. I actually spent 12 years writing the screenplay for this movie.”

Director Seeman and Prakash Raj have played crucial roles in this movie. Anjali and Karthika are the two heroines. According to the director, Vidyasagar’s music plays such an important role that it has taken the form of a character in the film.

Meanwhile the director held a special screening of the film for directors Abhavanan and P. Vasu (father of Sakthi) recently.

“Abhavanan sir is close to both Vasu sir and the producer. He was so impressed with the film that he sat with me for two hours and shared his views on film making. He also said that he would take care of the film’s promotion and even gifted me a ring,” Krishnaraam said to a leading English daily. There are also reports that P. Vasu has offered to produce Krishnaraam’s next venture.

As the young stars realised the association meant business this time hurriedly applied and became members. 'Angadi Theru' Magesh, 'Kalavani' Vimal, Genelia, Hansika Motwani, Sameera Reddy and many others have become members for the first time. So far 32 new members have been added to Nadigar Sangam

But all eyes were on Aishwarya who has been doing only the biggest of the biggest Tamil film at a time. Even Radha Ravi publicly requested her to become a member of Nadigar Sangam at the Endhiran audio launch in Malaysia. But even after the deadline of August 15 passed there was no word from Aishwarya.

But when we enquired some sources they said Aishwarya has agreed to become a member and has requested to send in the application to Mumbai and she will submit it at the Nadigar Sangam office when she is in Chennai next.

And now on the eve of the big day, he has hit the jackpot.

Prakash and his Duet Movies, the producers of Inidhu Inidhu - a film with newcomers (and a remake of Shekhar Kammula’s Happy Days) - was finding it difficult to sell the film to distributors. However, Prakash was bailed out of a difficult situation by leading producer Kalpathi S Aghoram and his AGS Entertainment, who have purchased all theatrical rights of the film.

Remember Prakash and the Inidhu Inidhu team, despite aggressive promotions in malls and college campuses in Chennai, Coimbatore and Tiruchi, soon realised that they will have to spend more money to release the film on their own.

It was at this time Prakash managed to work out a win-win deal with Aghoram. The trade believes that it is the best wedding gift that Prakash can ever get.

Prakash can now take it easy and let the film do all the talking when it releases this Friday. The award winning actor can now make preparations for his marriage next Tuesday, and later enjoy the honeymoon in Kulu Manali with Pony.

The latest buzz is that Vijay will wield the megaphone for Ajith Kumar’s 51st film. The actor has now signed Venkat Prabhu for his 50th movie, Mankatha, and the film will go on floors from September 8th of this year. Since, this will be a long project extending up to Jan-Feb 2011; the project involving Vijay may take off only in March.

Meanwhile Vijay has been signed to direct Vikram’s next movie, yet to be titled. According to the sources, Vikram was very much impressed with Vijay’s storyline and agreed to work with him.

Vijay has now made a place for himself with a successful hat-trick Kireedom, Poi Solla Poram and the recent release, Madharasapattinam.