Sun Pictures bagged the theatrical rights of Vedi

 

One of the biggest market leaders in Kollywood Sun pictures has reportedly snapped the theatrical rights and all other rights of Vedi.

Trade is at a buzz that Sun pictures have bagged the rights for an undisclosed high amount. This will be their next big release after Ajith's Mankatha. The team is currently canning songs in Ladakh and with this the Vedi's shoot gets completed pos which the team will be heading to other pending works.

Vedi is the remake of Telugu film Souryam, Vishal plays the role of a cop while Sameera Reddy will play his heroine in the film. Vivek as comedian and Poonam Kaur is playing Vishal's sister. The music give by Vijay Antony received mixed response.

Vedi is an action packed entertainer which is going to release on September 29th for the big Vijayadasami holiday weekend.

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Sun Pictures gamble with Mankatha

 

Mangaatha is a high-stakes card-game popular in the gambling dens of Tamil Nadu.

With a big ticket Tamil film titled after this game, Sun Pictures, the film production arm of Sun TV Network, is taking a calculated gamble to re-establish itself as a front-runner in releasing big budget movies in the state.

Sun Pictures has taken over the entire rights of Ajit-starrer, Mankatha and is releasing it today (Already released in few countries), to cash in on the long-festival five-day weekend starting with Ramzan. “It is going to be a very very big release in both the domestic and overseas markets. This is also the first film of Ajit, which Sun Pictures will be distributing,” Vijay Kumar, CEO, Sun TV Network Ltd told Financial Chronicle.

This will also be the first time; Sun Pictures is directly releasing a movie, after the AIADMK, under chief minister J Jayalalithaa, came to power in May this year. Soon after, Sun Pictures COO, Hansraj Saxena was arrested and jailed, following a series of police complaints — for cheating and threatening from a few distributors and producers.

Until a tiff in mid-2007 with the then ruling DMK’s first family, Sun TV Network had limited itself to buying satellite rights of Tamil movies. However, starved of fresh content, the leading Tamil television channel was forced to enter film production and distribution business, as a natural extension, soon after and had acquired and released several big budget movies since then.

Sensing a business opportunity, two grandsons of former state chief minister, M Karunanidhi — Udayanidhi Stalin, son of former deputy chief minister, M K Stalin, and Dayanidhi Alagiri, son of Union Minister, M K Alagiri, also forayed into film production under the banners — Red Giant Movies and Cloud Nine Movies, respectively.

Sun Pictures, Red Giant and Cloud Nine were very active over the past couple of years and all big films came into their kitty, independent of each other. With assured supply of big film content, each one of them also held sway over a chain of theatres across the state, which lend credit to a debate over the ruling family’s control over the Tamil film industry.

“With negotiations and settlements resulting in withdrawal of a few complaints, Sun has put in a new team in place to get back into film distribution. It is also a fact that no other film banner in the state has the money power or a 360-degree marketing capability as that of Sun Pictures,” an industry insider said.

Interestingly, Dayanidhi Alagiri’s Cloud Nine is the original producer of Mankatha. However, fearing opposition from theatre owners, who might force their way to off-set part of their losses accrued from Cloud Nine’s earlier movies, Dayanidhi handed over the rights to Sun Pictures.

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Mankatha rights : What happened between Gnanavel Raja's Studio Green & Dhayanidhi Alagiri

 

In the last 48 hours, we have witnessed some strange developments on Mankatha distribution rights and release. Producer Dhayanidhi Alagiri, who sold the theatrical and satellite rights of the Tamil movie to Gnanavel Raja's Studio Green, changed his mind at the eleventh hour and took back the same after signing the deal in a quick succession, which left the audience wondering about the reason.

On the weird developments, a source claims that Dhayanidhi Alagiri decided to take back the rights of Mangaatha, when he came to know that Gnanavel Raja was planning to sell it to Jaya TV. Initially, he was not worried about the deal but he was blasted by his family members for allowing Studio Green to sell it to the television channel, which is run by Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalitha, who is the arch-rival of DMK family.

Later, Udhayanidhi Stalin intervened and resolved the issue by buying back the rights and selling the same to Sun Pictures. Now, it is planning to release the movie on August 31.

However, Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Arjun Sarja starrer Mangaatha has been censored. The movie directed by Venkat Prabhu has passed the test with U/A certificate.

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Update on Mankatha theatrical rights by Radaan Media Works [Video]

 

It is Kollyinsider who first posted the news that Radhik's  Radaan Media Works got the theatrical rights of Mankatha. Here are the few more updates on it...

The theatrical rights of the film, which was acquired by Sun Pictures, has been sold to Radhika Sarath Kumar's Radaan Media Works. The movie, which has been passing from one hand to other from a few days, seems to have finally come to an end.

A couple of days back, Mangaatha was sold to Gnanavel Raja's Studio Green but within 24 hours but Dhayanidhi Alagiri took back the rights, as the latter was planning to sell the movie to Jaya TV. Later, it was said that Sun Pictures sealed the deal after Udhayanidhi Stalin intervened and resolved the issue.

However, Sun Pictures, which has not released films in the recent past after its CEO Hansraj Saxena was arrested on various charges, was planning to release Mangaatha. But now it is revealed that it has only bagged the satellite rights, leaving the distribution rights to Radhika Sarath Kumar's Radaan Media Works.

Radhika confirmed the news in her twitter page. Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Arjun Sarja starrer film is reportedly hitting the screens with 300 prints.

Here is the video of Mankatha Promo in Sun TV

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Mankatha release delayed in Kerala

 

The expectations around Mankatha are sky rocketing and all the fans of Thala are eagerly waiting for August 31st as the film is hitting the screens across the world but looks like Kerala state might not see the release on the same day.

The team of Mankatha is putting all efforts to release the film for the big weekend; meanwhile to reduce some of the anxiety and eagerness of the fans they have released the sleek teasers as well as posters. It is well known that Tamil stars enjoy a very special place in Malayalam market. The theaters in Kerala are said to be booked to the hilt, with a large array of Malayalam films hitting the screens during the Onam hols!

So, Mankatha is all set release big on across Kerala only as late as September 9th. Radaan Media Works who bagged theatrical rights of Mankatha in Tamilnadu have sold out all areas in Tamilnadu at a fancy price.

The hype around the film is getting bigger and bigger with the latest involvement of Sun Pictures, Radaan Media Works Cloud Nine.

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Radikaa's Radaan media joins Sun Pictures in Mankatha distribution

 

Mankatha is making all news due to the political names that has been linked with the movie. After the news stories about Mankatha being taken by Studio Green for Distribution, later came the news that Sun Pictures has bagged the Tv satellite rights, while the movie will be distributed by Dayanidhi's Azhagiri's Cloud Nine movies itself, who has produced the movie. Finally it is said Sun Pictures got the theatrical & satellite right for the movie.

Meantime we hear from Radikaa Sarathkumar in her social network page,

Radaan media works acquires tamilnadu theatrical rights of "MANGATHA" frm Sun pictures.God bless, Thala to rock on the 31st.

In reply Dhayanidhi Alagiri wished her good luck

Radikaa, heard u are doing the distribution... all the best ! Good Luck !

 

The poster though does not announce and has Coming Soon, we hear that all efforts are being made to release the movie by the 31st of August.

Thala Ajith's fans are eagerly awaiting for this multi starer film that has Ajith in a negative role, directed by Venkat Prabhu and has music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

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Mankatha fever across the world!, Sun Pictures Mankatha poster [Pics]

 

Thala fans! Get ready to play Mankatha on August 31, 2011! It celebration time for all Ajith fans and to make you more happy, we have some interesting titbits about Mankatha's release. The film, produced by Cloud Nine Movies, will have a grand worldwide release.
Mankatha will be released in Singapore , Malaysia , Sri Lanka , Gulf, UK, USA, Europe and Australia. That sure is pretty big, isn't it?
Mankatha is an action thriller which is rumoured to narrate the story of match-fixing sagas in international cricket matches. Arjun will play the role of an investigative officer who takes up the task of exposing the bookies. Thala Ajith will play the role of a gambler; then the cat and mouse game begins. Music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja are already topping the charts and Thala Ajith's salt and pepper look in Mankatha is the latest talk of the town! The film also stars Trisha, Lakshmi Rai, Premji Amaren, Arjun and Vaibhav in prominent roles

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Police arrests Sun pictures Saxena

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