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.

In the opening weekend, Thuppakki had earned Rs. 1.18 crores at the UK Box Office. The Tamil film has collected Rs 50 lacs in the second weekend on 11 screens. The total collection of the film in the UK and Ireland region is Rs 1.68 crore. The per screen average collection stands at Rs 2.11 lacs.

When it comes to the UK Box Office, Thuppakki has made Rs. 2.51 crores in 13 days. In the opening weekend, the film had collected Rs 1.76 crore and in the second weekend, the film managed to add Rs 75 lacs to its total. However, the Telugu version of the film has got decent response, as it has earned Rs. 14.49 lacs.

In the Australian Box Office, Thuppakki, which had earned Rs 37.99 lacs, has raked in Rs 8.74 lacs in the second weekend on five screens. Meanwhile, the movie starring Vijay and Kajal Aggarwal has the crossed 100-crore mark at the Tamil Box Office. It is the second Kollywood film to reach the feat after superstar Rajinikanth’s Endhir

”Biriyani firstlook will be out in exactly 17 days from now, in a very special n important event. If I am not wrong,” said Vasuki Bhaskar. Confirming the reports Venkat Prabhu tweeted “so we can expect BIRIYANI 1st Look at KLIMF  15th Dec BUKIT JALIL STADIUM” may be.” Hansika, Premgi Amaren, Prasanna et al are playing lead roles in this Biriyani along with Karthi.

Interestingly, Biriyani also records the 100th movie for Yuvan, who has composed for almost 900 tracks so far. The music composer Yuvan is gearing up for performing live for the first time in Malaysia on 15th December, at the Bukit Jalil Stadium, Kuala Lumpur. The curtain raiser for this Yuvan’s concert is happening today [Nov 28] at Sathyam Cinemas.

Udhyanidhi Stalin who made his debut with Oru Kal Oru Kannadi is working on his next with director Prabhakaran who made his directorial debut with Sundarapandian.

The film is said to be a comedy laugh riot with Santhanam teaming with Udhayanidhi once again.

Udhayanidhi Stalin had tweeted, "Nayanthara is playing the female lead role in my next film directed by SR Prabhakaran sir! Nd DOP is Balasubramaniem sir:)"

The film will commence its shoot January 2013 and the music score to be taken care by Harris Jayaraj as Udhayanidhi feels him to be his lucky mascot.

Interestingly it was Nayanthara who was supposed to do OKOK with Udhayanidhi, as she had worked with Director Rajesh earlier in Boss Engira Baskaran. As she was not signing any new films at that time, she had politely refused and then Hansika Motwani joined in.

Nayan is currently busy working on Ajith-Vishnuvardhan's untitled film, Krishnam Vande Jagatgurum with Rana Daggubati and Raja Rani with Jai.