Pappi Appacha is a Super Hit!

Dileep is back with a bang! His Pappi Appacha is turning out to be the biggest hit of summer of 2010. The star has made a fantastic comeback to mainstream commercial cinema.

Anoop, Dileep’s brother has produced and distributed Pappi Appacha, directed by Mamas with Innocent and Dileep playing father and son, along with Kavya Madhavan doing the female lead. The film was scathed by critics and industry people as “crass and crude comedy”, but the common man seems to like this masala entertainer.

But Dileep’s lucky streak started after he did “pooja” at Guruvayoor temple before the release of the film. And the ongoing fight between distributors and theatres resulted in no new releases for the last three Fridays. This helped Pappi Appacha as there was no opposition and the summer special family audiences lapped it up, making the film a super hit.

The trade feels if Pokkiri Raja and Alexander the Great had released, the Dileep comedy would not have been such a big hit. Plus the fact Lal directedIn Ghost House Inn, collections started dropping after a fantastic opening.

The film has taken a distributors share of Rs 2.82 crore from 73 releasing stations in 23 days (up to May 5). Says Anoop: “It is my biggest hit till date. The film has been made at a cost of Rs 3.5 Crore and it looks like it will make around Rs 4 to 4.5 crore from theatrical collections alone.”

Remember there are other revenue streams like television and Home Video rights which will fetch the producers another Rs 2 crore. In short Pappi Appacha, has given Dileep a new lease of life at the box-office.

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Dileep with Gautham Menon

Though Dileep is finding it hard to be amidst hits, he still has plenty of promising projects that may workout for him in the immediate future. The most promising offer that has came his way, is from popular Tamil film maker Gautham Menon.

A Malayalee by himself, Gautham has been for quite sometime trying to start off in Malayalam. Dileep who sensed his interest in doing one such project, has discussed with Gautham about the chances and the project was finalised.

This movie yet to be titled will be a bilingual, also made in Malayalam. A R Rahman will be the music director of this movie which will kick off in a couple of months.

Meanwhile Gautham's latest movie ‘Vinnaithandi Varuvaya’ is now acclaimed as a hit in Tamil Nadu and also in Kerala as well. The movie which was shot in Kerala, is continuing with its success run in select centres in the major metros. The songs by A R Rahman are also big hits among the youth.

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A busy Vishu in Mollywood

This Vishu will be one of the busiest seasons for the Mollywood movie viewers and film buffs. The season will see the release of at least dozen films, which is sure to cause a fight for release centres for smaller films.

The first to get to theatres will be Prithvi's ‘Thanthonny’ which stands scheduled for this 18. Lal's ‘In Ghost House Inn' will get into theatres by the 25th of March. Mammooty's ‘Pramaani’ will be the wide release scheduled to be in theatres by the 26th of this month.

The weekend just before Vishu will have many multi-starrers including Mohanlal –Suresh Gopi movie ‘Janakan’, Viji Thampi's ‘April Fool’, Kalabhavan Mani's ‘Pulliman’, Shebi Chavakkad's ‘Plus Two’, Dileep's 'Pappy Appacha' and Mohanlal's 'Alexander The Great'.

Anyway it's sure that Malayalee film viewers will be having a hectic time, attending all these movies coming up in gap of two weeks.

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Christian Brothers postponed!

The big budget Joshy directed multi-starrer Christian Brothers featuring Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Sarath Kumar, Dileep, Kavya Madhavan and Lakshmi Rai has postponed it’s release.

Christian Brothers was to release along with Mammootty’s multi- starrerPokkiri Raja on April 30, as the big summer releases. But now Mohanlal’s action movie has been pushed to July 9, and theatres have been informed about it.

A song has to be picturised on Mohanlal and Lakshmi Rai in Scotland, and the best time to picturise the song is May, when summer begins and ice melts in those parts of the world. A few more combination scenes of the main artists have to be shot hence the delay.

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