Tuesday 10 July 2012

Thandavam wraps up with party!!!




Thandavam starring Vikram, Jagpathi Babu, Anushka, Amy Jackson, Lakshmi Rai has been wrapped. Directed by A.L. Vijay the film has been shot in 3 months. Major portions of the film were shot in London for almost 60 days. The film is a high action entertainer packaged with style. The Thandavam team had celebrated the completion with a wrap-up party similar to Bollywood films. All the lead actors and the entire team of Thandavam were present at the party except for the leading ladies Anuskha and Amy Jackson.

The team members recalled interesting and funny moments during the shooting. The day had been a memorable one for all of them. Thandavam is set to hit the screens in September and the audio will be released in the first week of August. G.V. Prakash has scored the music and the film is produced by UTV.

Monday 9 July 2012

Shankar fixes a deadline for Vikram






Shankar’s I is probably the hottest thing in Kollywood right now. The team’s tactic of revealing things now and then is proving to be very useful in building up the much needed curiosity. The latest news is that the film’s lead Vikram has two get ups in the film. For one of the roles he will have to look slim and fit and for the other he must put on weight to look fat.

Shankar will shoot one half of the film with Vikram looking slim now and will give him three months time to gain weight. After that, the director will shoot the rest of the film. The director is also planning to shoot major portion of the film in China.

Vikram as fisherman in David




Vikram’s second Bollywood flick David, directed by Bejoy Nambiar (of Shaitan fame) is progressing briskly. The film is trilingual made simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. Now Jiiva himself has confirmed that he will play an important role in David but only in the Tamil and Telugu versions.


The latest is that the film will narrate two different stories. So there will be two Davids Vikram will be seen as a fisherman and Jiiva will play the role of a musician. Rathnavelu will shoot the story of the fisherman while Sejal Shah will shoot the portions involving the musician. The star cast also includes Nasser, Tabu, Rohini Hattangadi, Lara Dutta, Isha Sharvani, K.P. Nishan, John Vijay and Saurabh Shukla. The film is produced jointly by Gateway films and Reliance Entertainment while music is composed by Anirudh supported by Prashanth Pillai, Remo, Modern Mafia and team.

Shankar`s Vikram film titled I




It`s official. Top commercial director Shankar has announced his new big budget film with Vikram titled I for leading producer Aascar Ravichandran.


I with phonetic sound of Tamil alphabet have many meanings like beauty, king, vulnerability, musical notes etc.

I has Vikram, Samantha, Santhanam and Malayalam actor Suresh Gopi in a pivotal role. Legendary Sivaji Ganesan`s son and actor Prabhu`s elder brother producer Ramkumar will be debuting as an actor in an important role.

AR Rahman will be providing music while ace cinematographer PC Sreeram will be the cameraman. Hollywood costume designer Mary Vogt of Men in Black fame will be the costume designer. The action scenes will be choreographed by Peter Ming of China along with Anal Arasu.

Australian company Rising Sun Pictures who were associated with Harry Potter are in charge of the VFX. Srinivas M Mohan is the VFX supervisor and he will also be helped by some Hollywood technicians.

Already AR Rahman has tuned one of the songs written by Kabilan and sung by Vijay Prakash. The dialogue twins Shubha are writing dialogues for a Shankar film for the first time.

Shankar clarifies about 'I'


Director Shankar took it to the social networking sites to disclose details about his upcoming magnum opus ‘I’, starring Vikram. There were reports that the film will be a political drama. But the ace director has washed off these speculations and disclosed that it is a romantic thriller.

He also officially announced his cast and crew. He said, “Starring Vikram, Santhanam, Malayalam super star Suresh Gopi, Ramkumar (Nadigar Thilakam Sivaji Ganesan’s eldest son) and many more. It’ll be my first venture with veteran DoP PC Sriram & writer duo SuBa. Under A.R.Rahman’s baton, written by Kabilan, a song was recorded recently which was sung by Vijay Prakash.”