Shankar's 'Nanban' and Lingusamy's 'Vettai’ Pongal Release!

There are two big films waiting to release in just a few days time, right in time for Pongal. They are Shankar's 'Nanban' and Lingusamy's 'Vettai.' Both the films have a huge star cast and are expected big time by the film buffs across the state. Now there are rumors going around that 'Nanban' has been lapped up by Sun Pictures.

While there is no official confirmation on these reports, some media gurus have urged the rumor mongers to wait till an official confirmation has been made by the people concerned. There are also some insiders who are doubtful about Sun Pictures bagging the rights for 'Nanban' because of Vijay's presence and their political differences.

There are also a few insiders who feel that only the TV rights might have been bagged by Sun Pictures. Director Shankar with 'Nanban' has stepped out into a new arena of remakes, contrary to penning his own projects. The film which released as '3 idiots' in Hindi had Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor and was one of the biggest hits of the year it released.

With Shankar helming the remake version in Tamil and with the stars involved with the movie, there are a lot of expectations banking on 'Nanban.' Now it will be just a matter of a couple of days to know the fate of the movie with the audience.

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Shankar's 'Nanban' and Lingusamy's 'Vettai’ Pongal Release!

There are two big films waiting to release in just a few days time, right in time for Pongal. They are Shankar's 'Nanban' and Lingusamy's 'Vettai.' Both the films have a huge star cast and are expected big time by the film buffs across the state. Now there are rumors going around that 'Nanban' has been lapped up by Sun Pictures.

While there is no official confirmation on these reports, some media gurus have urged the rumor mongers to wait till an official confirmation has been made by the people concerned. There are also some insiders who are doubtful about Sun Pictures bagging the rights for 'Nanban' because of Vijay's presence and their political differences.

There are also a few insiders who feel that only the TV rights might have been bagged by Sun Pictures. Director Shankar with 'Nanban' has stepped out into a new arena of remakes, contrary to penning his own projects. The film which released as '3 idiots' in Hindi had Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor and was one of the biggest hits of the year it released.

With Shankar helming the remake version in Tamil and with the stars involved with the movie, there are a lot of expectations banking on 'Nanban.' Now it will be just a matter of a couple of days to know the fate of the movie with the audience.

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Vijay,Srikanth,Jeeva Nanban Audio Launch!

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Jeeva’s ‘Rowthiram’ gets climax change in Telugu

 

Jiiva – Shriya starred ‘Rowthiram’ was released in Tamil and the film was not well received by Tamil audience. The film is now being dubbed and released in Telugu as ‘Roudram’.
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Shankar ordered - No Nanban news without my permission

After the stupendous success of Endhiran, director Shankar is directing the film titled Nanban.

Now Shankar has informed that no news regarding Nanban should be released without his permission. He comes out with this command to cast & crew may be because of the wide spread news of Nanban rights has been bagged by Sun Pictures.

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Jeeva launches GV Prakash's MUK single track

 

After the stupendous success of Ko, RS Infotainment offers its next film, titled Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal. The single track audio with music by GV Prakash Kumar was launched in Chennai.


Vega Music enters the market with this film, which is produced and directed by Elred Kumar and stars Atharva and Amala Paul. The single track was launched by Jiiva and has lyrics by Thamarai who was also present.

"It's a song about a lover giving presents to his lady love. But the lyrics I wrote were obsolete since the gifts I imagined are not in vogue with the youth these days! So the producer arranged for a day out at the malls for me, and I went around Citi Centre, Express Avenue, etc to see for myself what all the items on sale are and what the youthful trend is these days. It's only after that outing that I re-wrote the lyrics and modernized the gifts!" said Thamarai

Jiiva praised the skills of Elred Kumar, saying that he had a flair and eye for spotting good scripts and was a man of many talents. "This script is a different and very contemporary one and is about mind games," Jiiva disclosed.

GV Prakash added, "This is a great year for me with the films I have done so far. This film is special because for the first time I have done a youthful album, for people my age, whereas usually I do folk or period films! It's a first romantic musical for me."

Kumar disclosed that since the story and screenplay were by him, after he had a fall out and difference of opinion with the original director, he decided to part on friendly terms and direct it himself.

For Atharva, this is his second film after Bana Kathadi and he has maintained a six pack look for the stunt scenes by Rajsekar. The camerawork is by Sakthi of Renigunta fame.

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Ram walked out of Gautham Menon’s movie

 

Gautham Vasudev Menon’s romantic entertainer Neethane En Ponvasantham (NEP) which is simultaneously made in three languages has hit the rock.

It is well known that the film is being made with Jeeva in Tamil, Ram in Telugu and Aditya Roy Kapoor in Hindi. Now we hear that the hero of Telugu version Ram has walked of the film leaving Gautham stranded. Sources revealed that Ram has a problem in waiting for his shot until Jeeva and Aditya complete their shot before his chance comes. Gautham has decided to shoot the film as per the order of seniority of the actor or his star ratings.

This process of waiting has irked Ram after shooting for ten days for the film and finally opted out of this romantic entertainer as doesn’t want to waste his time.

The next big thing for Gautham is to replace Ram by another charming actor and lets us wait and see on who will be the lucky star to join Gautham’s camp.

Meanwhile, the shoot of the film might be put on hold as he is filming for all the three languages simultaneously.

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Vandhaan Vendraan Movie Review, Rating (2/5)

Banner:	Vasan Visual Venture
Cast:	Jeeva Nandha Taapsee Pannu Sapan Saran Santhanam
Direction:	Kannan
Production:	Srinivasan
Rating:

Review: Vanthaan Vendraan  disappoints

After he made promising films such as Jeyamkondaan and Kanden Kadhalai, it's natural to expect a lot from director R Kannan. This time, he has chosen to do an action-adventure-thriller of sorts, (He came, he conquered), under the aegis of Vasan Visual Ventures. Unfortunately, what may look good on paper doesn't quite work the same way on screen.

The film begins with two young boys, half-brothers, who are constantly at each other's throats. Small events lead to bigger ones and eventually the older one throws the younger into a well and runs away.

Cut to Mumbai some years later, and the dashing, suave Ramana (Nandha), a man of few words, flaunting designer-wear and a host of goons and looking every inch a hero -- except that he isn't. He is, in fact, very much the villain with his own set of enemies and ruling, a la Varadharajan Mudaliar, almost the whole of Mumbai courtesy several Mumbaiites who speak Tamil fluently.

Enter our hero Arjun (Jiiva), a would-be boxer but currently lover, who moves heaven and earth for an audience with the much-feared don, and gets it. Once he's allowed to outline his problem, though, he embarks on a long story about his ambitions and his girlfriend Anjana (Tapsee), with whom he sings numerous duets to Thaman's music while frolicking beside some truly beautiful waterfalls (courtesy P G Muthiah's camera-work). In the end, Arjun has just one proposition to make, which comes as no surprise and all hell breaks loose.

Unfortunately, the screenplay falls apart spectacularly. The mildly engaging first half, with the antics of Santhanam, works slightly, but in the second half with its supposed cat-and-mouse games, silly plot twists and melodramatic climax, you can do little but sigh with disappointment. The sudden change of heart of various characters adds to one's dismay.

Pattukkottai Prabhakar's dialogues don't really add much pep. Jiiva more or less sleep-walks through his role while Tapsee mostly smiles and smirks through hers. Nandha comes off as the most stylish of them all and appears to be enjoying his role. The rest -- Malavika, Nizhalgal Ravi, Rahman et al -- have practically no part to play.
As for the hero, he does not, unfortunately, conquer much.

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Gautham Menon makes Neethaane En Ponvasantham in 3 languages

Gautham Menon, who simultaneously made Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa in Tamil and Telugu (Ye Maaya Chesave), is making his next movie Neethaane En Ponvasantham, in three languages. The director, who had told before that the movie was a bilingual, has decided to make it in Hindi as well.

The filmmaker, who signed Jeeva and Ram for Tamil and Telugu versions of the same movie, has roped in Aditya Roy Kapur to play the lead role in Hindi version. Gautham Menon has retained Samantha to play the female lead role in all three versions.

The shooting of the all three versions was started last week. Jeeva, Ram, Aditya Roy Kapur and Samantha are taking part in the first phase. The multilingual is being shot simultaneously without any issue, says a source.

Neethaane En Ponvasantham is a romantic film, where Jeeva plays the role of an engineering student and Samantha as a gal, who is pursuing a career in psychology.

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Vandhaan Vendraan passed censors with clean 'U'

 

Jiiva's forthcoming 'Vandhaan Vendraan' is much-expected by fans and the film is touted to hit the screens on September 16. Today, the film passed the censor board and was given a clean 'U' certificate. It is said that the board members thoroughly enjoyed watching this film.


The film directed by Kannan has Jiiva and Taapsee Pannu in the lead roles with Nanda playing the baddie. Santhanam is on-board to provide comic relief and tunes are set in by Thaman.

Jiiva plays a boxer and it is said that Taapsee plays a chirpy young girl in the first half whereas there's a drastic change in her character as the film progresses. With a promising director who believes the script to be his first hero and young talents, 'Vandhaan Vendraan' is definitely one wholesome entertainer to look forward to this month.

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Ileana injured in the sets of Nanban

 

It is well-known news that Sexy Siren Ileana is reprising the lead role in the remake of Bollywood’s biggest hit 3-Idiots by reprising the role of Kareena Kapoor in the original. In this regard, Ileana has injured her leg while rehearsing for a song in the film.

As per the sources reports, Ileana is said to be practicing for few distinct steps for a song in the choreography of Farah Khan and the actress has slipped and broke her leg. Ileana has earlier suffered an ankle injury too. Doctors have advised her to take rest for few days and so Ileana will be out of action till she gets recovered.

Titled as Nanban in Tamil, Shankar is wielding the megaphone for the film and has Vijay, Jeeva and Srikanth in the lead roles. The film will also get dubbed in Telugu and have a simultaneous release with the Tamil version.

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Jeeva - Director Kannan to work together again

It looks like luck is working overtime for Jeeva rather than fulltime. After the success of KO, Jeeva turned out to be the most happening star of Tamil cinema. He is going on doing or signing the projects with the most promising directors of Kollywood, the list includes Shankar, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mysskin, S P Jananathan and Kannan.

Latest buzz in the tinsel is that Jeeva is yet again in plans of working with director Kannan after working in Vandhan Vendraan. The talks between the duo are on preliminary stage and a positive decision will be made soon regarding this project. If talks turn out to be positive the film will move on to the floors by February next year as the start is currently working for Neethane En Ponvasantham with Gautham Menon. Once he completes this project he might take a leap Kannan’s project.

In Neethane En Ponvasantham, Jeeva plays the role of a 21-year-old engineering college student where he shares the screen space with Samantha.

Vanthaan Vendraan is set to hit the screens on September 23, 2011 and this will be Jeeva’s fourth outing this year.

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Jai says Jeeva is my friend too

Jai was in the news recently after the 'Subramanyapuram' actor reportedly came down heavily on Jiiva for his comments against Silambarasan. However, Jai now says Jiiva would not take his words in wrong sense.

"I knew Simbu very well for the past 10 years and more and that's why I spoke about my good friend's character. But Jiiva too is my friend and I hope he doesn't take my remarks in wrong sense," he says.

Admitting that he took wrong decisions by accepting few films that didn't do well at the box-office, Jai says, "However, I am now choosy and careful. I think twice these days before signing on the dotted line."

 

Jai is currently acting with Simbu in 'Vettai Mannan'. His other project 'Engeyum Eppodhum', which happens to be the maiden production venture of A R Murugadoss, is ready for release.

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Shankar completed 98.8888% of Nanban

Director Shankar is very happy with the way the film is progressing.

Director Shankar wrote in his blog: "We've successfully completed 98.8888% of Nanban, and the rest 1.1112% - one song and a quarter of another song - will be shot in the first week of September.”

He also expressed that the film has shaped out very well in all aspects. The highlight of the film will be its characters and their excellent performances. It’s going to be a treat watching Vijay, Jeeva, Sathyaraj, Srikanth, Sathyan, Ileana altogether. Each and every scene is edited and dubbed till date.

The final editing of the film is also under progress and Shankar has asked Harris Jayraj to complete the songs for the audio release. It is also known that the director has thoroughly enjoyed the relaxing time in Vijay’s party.

In all aspects the film has chances to release for Diwali.

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Jeeva - Mysskin's Mugamoodi will have sequel (2 parts)

 

UTV's first superhero project in Tamil, Mugamoodi, which is to be directed by Mysskin, is going to have a sequel as well. Mugamoodi carries a long tale that it can be split into two parts.

Mugamoodi shoot is going to start soon and the first part would be canned by using state-of-the-art technology. The film is all about a super hero who attempts to eradicate corruption in the society. Though it carries a message for the society the film is said to be an action – adventure family entertainer. Jeeva is going to share screen space with hot-looking Mumbai girl Pooja Hegde. Actor Narain plays the role of a baddie in the film.

Mysskin is engaging stunt men from Hong Kong and a Los Angeles based company is going to give the latest special effects for the film. K, who worked for Yudham Sei is going to score the music.

Jeeva confirming this said “Yes, we are planning to make the film in two parts as it is larger than life story which has ample extent for action and romance”.

Mugamoodi will be Jeeva's big summer release in 2012.

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Nanban re-shoot due to technical problems?

This is something unusual which is taking place in Shankar’s Nanban. Buzz is that some portions of the film which are shot already might go for a reshoot as they looked out of focus.

Yes, some scenes shot involving Jeeva, Ileana and Vijay using the lens S51 looked out of focus. But the team is not clear as how many scenes were shot using this lens. The director is taking care of this issue and since a reshoot may not be possible, just because big stars are involved apart from huge budget. Shankar is looking for ways to make those scenes look in spotlight with the post production which will not consume much time and the film will release as planned.

The same scenario took place with Simbu’s Vettai Mannan but they have not witnessed such errors. Billa 2 is also in the list as there in plans of using this lens but when they came to know about the errors they cancelled the use of S51.

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Jai jumps into ongoing Jeeva - Simbu Controversy

 

Jai has intervened in the ongoing spat between Jeeva and Silambarsan. The actor, who has worked in both the stars' films, has urged the Ko actor not to talk against Simbu in public.

Jai questions Jeeva's claims, where he indirectly said that Silambarasan backstabbed him. They were never friends and how can one stab in the back, when they are not good pals, fumes the actor. He urges the Rowthiram star to take cue from the Bollywood actors, where they support each other. His words send wrong message to the public that the Tamil stars are not united, he further adds.

Talking about the nature of his good friend Simbu, Jai says that he has been a good friend of him since 10 years. Indeed, the Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa star has been his pillar of strength during his bad phase and has helped him to get roles in his films.

It was all started after Silambarasan and Bharath fight came out in public. While the latter accused the former of limiting his role in Vaanam, the former hit back him by saying that the movie bosses know the market and what sells in the Kollywood. Based on that formula they might have chopped his scenes. Later, Jeeva entered their controversy and took potshots against Simbu.

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Vanthaan Vendraan sees trouble from Mankatha

Jeeva is all set to hit the screens for the fourth time this year with Vanthaan Vendran. Though the film is ready to hit the screens but the release dates of the film are not finalized as they are waiting for Mankatha’s release. In fact the team doesn’t want to have a clash with Mankatha and wanted to release only after a gap of 2-3 weeks.

Meanwhile the Telugu version of the film which is titled as Vachadu Gelichadu is going see an audio launch tomorrow in Hyderabad. Jeeva is going to grace the audio launch in Hyderabad. The actor is slowly hitting the Tollywood market with a line of releases of his films. His film Rangam was well accepted by Telugu audiences and also hit 100 days mark.

Vanthaan Vendraan is an action entertainer, written and directed by R. Kannan and features Jeeva, Nandha and Taapsee Pannu in lead roles.

Jeeva tweeted “Vandhan Vendraan ready to hit the screens jus waiting for Mankatha release dates. Will release VV after 2-3 weeks from release date of Mankatha”

 

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Is this Jeeva's Rowthiram Story Line ?..

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