Pritviraj's Thanthonni cut to size!

Prithviraj’s Thanthonni has been cut by 15 minutes after release! The film's length has been reduced to make it a bit more racy.

The trouble with Thanthonniis that the director George Vargheese has etched it from several earlier films of Mohanlal. This has led to comparisons among the fans which has put the young actor in an embarrassing situation.

The film which was crucial for Prithvi is pretty lukewarm at the Kerala box-office. Now with Ghost House Inn and Pramani releasing next week, it will be a uphill task for Prithviraj’s Thanthonni to fight the battle at the box-office.

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Jayasuriya in 20, 35

After completing his first portion as an young lad aged 18, Jayasuriya has now started shooting for his other makeovers in the much eagerly awaited action thriller ‘Nallavan’.

The movie which resumed its second and final schedule at Pollachi will have the actor in other make-ups and hairdo in the age of 35 and 20. The character of Jayasuriya in the movie titled as Kochu is said to offer the best full length character ever presented by this promising actor.

Debutant director Aji John calls the shots of the movie which feature ‘Palery Manickyam’ fame Mythili as the heroine. Siddhique and Saikumar appear in very different get ups for ‘Nallavan’ which may get into theatres by the first week of May.

Produced by Bathestha Productions, a lot depends on the success of this movie for Jayasuriya.

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Bobanum Mollyyum to screens

Hardly could any Keralite forget the cartoon characters Boban and Molly, sketched by cartoonist Toms, which appeared for three decades in popular weeklies. Thereafter, Toms took initiatives to publish its compilations in magazine format which was also very popular. The biggest success with its characters like Appy Hippy, to President and Unnikuttan and the entire package were its sharp criticisms on the society and on Malayalee attitudes. Now the good news for the fans of the series is that the cartoon characters are expected to be presented as a full length feature film in a short while.

Vijayakumar Thiruvalla is the director of this venture which will be scripted jointly by Toms and the director. The movie will present the arrival of the entire group of characters to a village and will depict how they progressively interact with the societal problems of the village. To be produced by Kiran Varma and Shyja Vijay, the movie will be cinematographed by Nambyathiri.

The director and his crew is presently in the lookout for the apt artists and fresh faces who can adequately present the mannerisms of some of the best known cartoon characters of Malayalam.

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Katha Thudarum: the new Sathyan movie

‘Katha’ seems to be a lucky word for filmmakers in Mollywood, as they are going on creating newer movies with similar titles attached with the word ‘Katha’ (story).

At least two dozen movies had been made in Malayalam with the word in the title including 'Katha Parayumbol', 'Kathavasheshan', 'Kathanayakan', Katha, ‘Kathanayaki’, 'Kathakku Pinnil', 'Kathayariyathe', and 'Iniyum Katha Thudarum', to mention a few.

The latest movie to announce such a title is Sathyan Anthikkad's Jayaram movie which is in the final days of its production.

Sathyan has stuck to his routines of naming the movie, just a couple of weeks before its release. Titled as ‘Katha Thudarum’, the movie is a satirical look on the lives of Urban Malayalees. While Jayaram plays the role of an upright auto driver, Mamtha will don the role of the heroine playing the young mother of a five year old, who is deserted by her husband.

Planned to get into theatres by the 30th of April, the movie will feature all the regular's of Sathyan cinema including Mamukoya, Innocent, K P A C Lalitha, Lakshmi Priya, cinematographer Venu and Music director Illayaraja in the crew and cast list.

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Anwar Rasheed with Prithvi

Young star Prithviraj who has given a green signal for a dozen new projects has given a positive nod to one more big project.

Superhit director Anwar Rasheed with an impressive track record of hatrick superhits will call the shots to the new Prithviraj Movie tentatively titled as ‘Vei Raja Vei’. To be scripted by Benny P Nayarambalam, the movie will be a colourful thriller laced with plenty of humour. ‘Vei Raja Vai’ will get into sets much before many projects of Prithviraj which are presently in the preproduction stages.

Anwar Rasheed is the only director in recent times who had been able to convert his first three movies ‘Raajamanickyam, Chotta Mumbai and Annan Thampi’ into mega blockbusters.

He has even surprised his critics with the short film 'Bridge' which was rated the best in the 'Kerala Cafe- a collection of short movies'.

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Pramaani with a clean ‘U’

The latest Mammootty movie is released this month 'Pramaani' was censored yesterday with a clean ‘U’ certificate. The preview reports are very positive as most opine the movie to be a good family entertainer with a heartfelt rendering of the title character by the megastar Mammootty.

Sneha is the heroine of this movie which is scripted by the director himself. The movie will make a big release on the 26th of this month.

Produced by B C Joshy in the banner of Surya cinema, ‘Pramaani’ will be brought to the theatres by Mammootty's “Playhouse”.

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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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Actress Bhama debuts in Kannada

Actress Bhama who debuted in 2007 with the ace director Lohithadas’ Nivedyam will make her debut in Kannada films with ‘Modhala Sala’. Produced by Karnataka Talkies and directed by Purushottam the film has already completed its first schedule in various place in Karnataka and for the second schedule the team moving to the picturesque Kerala.

Yash, who won accolades and awards together for his ‘Moggina Manasu’ plays the hero opposite Bhama. Other cast includes Rangayana Raghu, Avinash, Thara, Sharan.

With this Bhama is left with Telugu films still to be explored. She has already done one film in Tamil ‘Ellam Avan Seyal’.

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Vinu Mohan-Bhama again

The duo of Vinu Mohan and Bhama who made a sensational debut with the movie ‘Nivedyam’ will be seen once again together, for the new movie ‘Koottukaar’. This movie to be produced by Paul Co films will be on the sets by the mid of April. Prasad Valancherry who been the director of movies like ‘Highway Police’ and ‘Perumal’ will direct this feature. Satheesh Babu is the scriptwriter while S P Venkatesh handles the music department. After ‘Nivedyam’ which came out three years ago, the duo had been paired once again last year for ‘Cycle’ which was a commercial success. Vinu Mohan had another break in the year's hit ‘Chattambi Naadu’, while Bhama had been part of some hit movies like ‘Ivar Vivahitharayal’ and ‘Oru Black And White Kudumbam’. Tags: malayalam films, upcoming movies, vinu mohan, bhama, new malayalam movies

Jayaram and Prithviraj are together!

It is the season of multi starrers in Malayalam cinema. Director Shafi is bringing Jayaram and Prithviraj together in Makeup Man, a comedy riot produced by leading production manager turned producer M Ranjith of Rajaputra Films.

Lakshmi Rai has been signed up as one of the heroines, and Shafi is on the lookout for another heroine. Sachi-Sethu (Chocolate fame) has written the script of this film which has Jayaram playing the role of a makeup man in films.

The others in the cast are Innocent, Suraj Venjaranmoodu and Salim Kumar. The shoot of the film will start from April first week.

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In Ghost House Inn opening big on March 25!

All eyes are on In Ghost House Inn produced and directed by Lal under his Lal Creations and releasing on Thursday, March 25 in nearly 85 screens in Kerala.

The film with a running time of 2 hours and 12 minutes has been censored on Monday (March 22), with a clean ‘U’ certificate and there is a positive buzz about the film.

It is a sequel to last year’s mega hit 2 Harihar Nagar, which itself is a sequel to the all time super hit Harihar Nagar. In Ghost House Inn has the same star cast like2 Harihar Nagar, consisting of Mukesh, Siddique, Jagadish, Ashokan, Rohini, Lena, Reena Basheer, Rakhi, and Harisree Ashokan, Music is by Alex Paul.

The movie will contain the same characters Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindan Kutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadeesh) and Thomaskutty (Asokan). Apart from them Rohini appears as Mahadevan’s wife, Lena as Govindan Kutty’s wife, Fabi as Appukuttan’s wife and Rakhi as Thomas Kutty’s wife.

This time, the story moves from Kochi to Ooty as the four friends decides to spend a vacation in the big bungalow, purchased by Thomaskutty with the money that he has got in the climax of 2 Harihar Nagar. As they celebrate a ghost from their past surfaces unleashing horror and more fun for the audiences.

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Mathilukalkkappuram: Vidya Balan is Mammootty's pair

For artists it is always challenges in work that attracts them. Reigning heroine Vidya Balan is to make her debut in Malayalam with Megastar Mammootty.

Vidya will be first seen in Malayalam with the film, Mathilukalkkappuram.

It is not a new affair for Bollywood ladies to appear in southern screens. North stars were seen in South Indian films when they get aged or they loose popularity. But this is not the case with Vidya Balan. She is young and sought after in Hindi. This will be her first venture after her performance in Ishqiya.

Mathilukalkkappuram will be directed by Prasad who had compleated the script a couple of years back. The film will continue with Vaikom Muhammad Basheer's story. Noted director Adoor Gopalakrishnan made Mathilukal in 1989.

The story will take off from where Adoor finished.

Ravi K Chandran directs the camera while the sound department will be headed by Resul Pookutty. Mammootty's production company, Playhouse, will produce the film.

Vidya Balan is not considered a typical Bollywood heroine who shows skin and goes the dance and gym routine. She is known for her beauty and acting performance. Her stuff can be sampled in films like Parineeta, Munna Bhai MBBS, Paa and the recent Ishqiya. Vidya was born in Palakkad, Kerala, in a south Indian Brahminical family.

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Upcoming Malayalam Movies

The summer of 2010 is going to be exciting, as a lot of big and small films are due for release.

The Malayalam film industry is not bothered about the IPL tournament which is clashing with school holidays, Easter and Vishu festivals.

Here is the tentative list of films due for summer. The below-mentioned release dates have been given by the producers and distributors of these films. It may change depending on factors like availability of theatres, censor and other production issues.

1.March 25- In Ghost House Inn- Mukesh, Asokan, Jagadish. Director: Lal.

2.March 26- Pramani- Mammootty, Sneha, Prabhu. Director: B Unnikrishnan.

3. April 1- April Fool- Sidique, Jagadish, Jagathy. Director: Viji Thampy.

4. April 1- Pulliman- Kalabhavan Mani, Meera Nandan. Director: Anil K Nair.

5.April 2- Janakan- Suresh Gopi, Mohanlal (Special Appearance). Dir: NR Sanjiv

6. April 9- Paapi Appacha- Dileep, Innocent, Kavya. Director: Mammas

7. April 14- Alexander the Great- Mohanlal. Jagadish. Director: Murali Nagavalli

8. April 30- Pokkiri Raja- Mammootty. Prithviraj. Shriya. Director: Vaisakh.

9. April 30- UNTITLED, Sathyan Anthikad directed film with Jayaram and Mamta.

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Kochi and Pune are two new IPL teams

Sahara Group and Rendezvous Sports, a consortium of business houses, pipped three other corporate biggies to win the bids for two new Indian Premier League teams from the next season.

Sahara Adventure Sports Group was the highest bidder at $370 million (Rs.1,702 crore) and bagged Pune as the host city. Kerala-based consortium Rendezvous Sports bid $333.33 million (Rs.1.333.33 crore) to get Kochi as the other franchisee to make the IPL a 10-team affair from 2011.

"There were five qualified bids and the bidding was extremely competitive. I hope they make good business," IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said, announcing the bid results here Sunday.

In the first IPL auction three years back, eight teams were sold for Rs.2,840 crore while this time the two new teams fetched an astronomical Rs.3,035.53 crore.

"It only shows there is no recession for the IPL and it is in the upswing," Modi said.

Two other bidders in fray, Adani Enterprises and Videocon, who were part of the cancelled bidding process March 7, lost out.

Modi said the Sahara Group had the option of choosing from Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Pune as their home. The corporate from Lucknow picked Pune as its host city.

"Sahara bid for Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Pune and was asked to settle for one city. The franchisees is given for the next 10 years," Modi said.

He said the base price for bidding was $225 million. He also said that the franchisee fee for the two new teams was for 10 years.

The two new teams will join eight franchisees that have been part of the IPL for three years: Mumbai Indians, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab.

With 10 teams, the next edition of the IPL will have a total of 94 games under the existing format, which now has 60 matches involving eight teams.

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Thanthonni Vs Nayakan-brothers for a duel

The weekend will feature the Box Office clash between the films of two star brothers of Mollywood-Prithviraj and Indrajith. While Prithvi will make his first release of the year tomorrow in ‘Thanthonny’, Indrajith will present his big movie as an action hero ‘Nayakan’ in the same weekend.

‘Thanthonny’ directed by George Varghese has been in the news for its techno savvy making and its posters claiming the arrival of the new generation hero. The posters feature Prithvi in two faces, giving reminiscences of the characters like what Superstar Mohanlal played in his hit movie ‘Ustadh’. Scripted by T A Shahid, the movie has Sheela Kaul as the heroine. A couple of the songs of the movie were shot outside India. The other highlights includes the brilliantly choreographed action sequences and a song rendered by Prithvi.

The Indrajith movie ‘Nayakan’ is directed by young director Lijo Jose Pellissery, the son of late comedian Jose Pelliserry. The movie presents Indrajith as a multifaceted character named Varadan who is on a revenge spree. The movie is said to offer Indrajith a lot of space to prove his acting capabilities.

While ‘Thanthonny’ goes for a wide release ‘Nayakan’ will make a limited release. Both the movies are crucial for its stars, as their success will elate the heroes to another space and position in Mollywood which is going to last for long. Let's wait and see which of the brothers will win, in this ultimate fight for a place in the bigger league.

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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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Rajat Kapoor replaces Thilakan

Dam 999, a English film produced and directed by NRI Sohan Roy has been in the news for the wrong reasons. After Thilakan was removed from the film, a compensation of Rs 7 lakhs had to be paid to him.

Now the latest we hear is that .Bollywood actor and model Rajath Kapoor has replaced Thilakan in Dam 999. The movie is directed by Sohan Roy. Buzz is that Rajath has already started shooting for the film.

Another new addition to the film is Thampi Antony, whose performance in Sufi Paranja Katha, has been critically appreciated. Thampy will be joining the next schedule of the film in Hyderabad in May.

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Mohanlal revives Pranavam Arts!

After 11 years, Mohanlal has revived his home banner Pranavam Arts. Some of the best movies ever made in Malayalam like- His Highness Abdullah, Bharatham, Kamaladalam, Vanaprastham, were made under this banner.

Pranavam Arts and a Mumbai based corporate will jointly produce Major Ravi directed Kandahar. Suresh Balaji, brother-in-law of Mohanlal will look after the production. Suresh has been doing outsourcing works for Mumbai producers making Tamil films and is a professional production man.

Mohanlal is clearly going for a total restructuring of his priorities in production. It also clearly means that Aashirwad Cinemas of Antony Perumbavoor will be put in the backburner. Will the star distance himself from Antony his right hand man for many years, remains to be seen?

Meanwhile the star is going all out to make Kandahar happen in the next six months. Major Ravi is doing research and also trying to get permissions to shoot the film in high security areas. Amitabh Bachchan has given dates for the film towards the end of the year.

Now it is almost certain that Tamil superstar Suriya will not be a part of the film. He has called up Mohanlal and has cited “lack of dates” as reason for not doing the film. The producers are now on the lookout for a Tamil action hero to step in as Suriya’s replacement.

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Kudos to Dr. Mohanlal!

The Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit has conferred honorary doctorates to pride of Indian cinema Mohanlal, and Oscar winner Resul Pookutty at a special convocation held at the Kalady University campus, near Kochi on Tuesday March 16.

The Kerala Governor RS Gavai awarded the doctorates to Mohanlal and Resul Pookutty. The governor in his speech said- “Mohanlal is an excellent performer the world over. He has an inborn flair for spontaneous acting. Ranging from that of a rustic, innocent lover to a crafty villain, from a devoted patriot to a passionate father, Mohanlal has essayed a rich variety of roles with equal ease and poise.”

Mohanlal dedicated the award to his late father Viswanathan Nair. He said his father a bureaucrat wanted him to go for higher studies but never stood in his way once he decided to become an actor. The actor said: “I would like to dedicate this honor to my late father". Mohanlal’s mother Santhakumari, uncle Radhakrishnan Nair and wife Suchitra were present on the occasion.

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Mammootty to take a break!

Megastar Mammootty has been having a torrid time this year after the colossal failure of Drona and Thilakan’s wild accusations against him.

Mammootty the cool guy that he is, did not get into a slanging match with Thilakan, though the veteran actor tried to needle him unnecessarily. Now leaving all that behind, Mammootty is going to take a one month break, where he will just chill out. He wants to keep his holiday plans under the wrap.

The star is pinning a lot of hope on his two summer releases. B Unnikrishnan directed Pramani will release first on March 26. The film is said to have shaped out well and after a long time you can see Mammootty doing a role with negative shades.

Five weeks later his multi starrer Pokkiri Raja is scheduled for release on April 30. It is a mass action film with Prithviraj and Shriya doing the supporting roles. Both these films are sure to work big time at the box-office.

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4 Idiots to start in Malluwood!

If Bollywood can come out with 3 Idiots, Malluwood is coming out with an additional idiot in a new film titled 4 Idiots!

The four idiots are- Mukesh, Jagathy, Siddique and Suraj Venjaranmoodu. And the film is directed by Pratheesh, a debutant director. The director is on the lookout for four girls to be cast opposite the 4 Idiots.

The shoot of the film starts in Pollachi from next week, and it would be a quickie that will be over in a month

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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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Thanthonni Trailer

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Mammootty's 'Pokkiri Raja'

After the super success of AMMA's magnum opus 'Twenty:20', ace scriptwriters Sibi K Thomas -Uday Krissna will once again team up with the megastar Mammootty for the film titled 'Pokkiri Raja'.

Mammootty will don the title role in this movie which will be the debut venture of young director Vysakh.

The movie which will be produced by Tomichan Mulakupadom in the banner of Mulakupadom Films will also have Jassie Gift making a comeback to Malayalam cinema ,after a couple of years. The movie will feature four songs from Jassie.

Vysakh, who has been the assistant to hit director Johnny Antony, was also the associate of ‘Twenty:20’.

Direction: Vaishak

Script: Udaykrishna - Siby K. Thomas

Music : Jassie Gift

Lyrics: Vayalar Sharathchandra Varma

Producer: Tomichan Mulakupadam

Exective Producer: Thankachan

Produced & Distributed by: Mulakupadam Release

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Mohanlal Bounces back

Mohanlal, speaking exclusively to CT, on the sets of his new film titled Oru Naal Varum (A Day Will Come), said, “I’m honoured to be conferred a doctorate. Cinema has given me everything in life and I will continue acting till the end.” This movie, written by noted writer, director and actor Sreenivasan and directed by TK Rajiv Kumar, also marks the coming together of the successful combination of Mohanlal and Sreenivasan. In the movie, Sreenivasan plays a corrupt Town Planning Officer, who tries to demolish a house built by Mohanlal. Sameera Reddy plays Mohanlal’s wife, an IT professional.

About being cast as one of Priyanka Chopra’s seven husbands in Vishal Bhardwaj’s next film Saath Khoon Maaf (which is said to be based on Ruskin Bond’s Susanna’s Seven Husbands), Mohanlal said, “I would have loved to do the film. Vishal came down to Kochi and narrated the story to me and I was hooked. But after that, he didn’t get back to me to discuss the dates or sign me up. Now it’s too late, as I have other commitments.

Mohanlal is also excited about his forthcoming Kandahar which is to be directed by Major Ravi and produced by the actor himself along with a Mumbai-based corporate. It is based on the hijacking of the flight IC-814 in 1999 by five Pakistani militants who forced it to land in Kandahar with 186 hostages on board. Amitabh Bachchan has an important part as the father of one of the passengers while Mohanlal role will be that of a commando involved in the rescue act.

Said Mohanlal, “Kandahar will be an action-adventure film. We have to get permission from the army and home ministry to shoot in different locations; we will start the shoot in a few months.” On doubts being raised about Suriya doing the film, Mohanlal said, “Suriya had agreed to do the film initially but later, called and said he had reservations as Prakash Raj was said to be making a film with a similar storyline. I assured him that both the films were different, but if he was still not convinced, he didn’t have to do it.

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Manisha Koirala in Malayalam!!!

After top heroines Shriya Saran and Sameera Reddy, now another Bollywood beauty Manisha Koirala is making her debut in Mollywood.

Manisha, who had done films like Bombay, Indian, Muthalvan and Baba is now making a comeback in Tamil as Dhanush’s arrogant mother-in-law inMaapillai.

The pretty actress has signed on the dotted line in noted art house Malayalam director Shyamaprasad’s next film tentatively titled Electra! She will play the role of Nayanthara’s mother, a very crucial character.

The film is based on a Greek play, and has Nishan, the hero of Shyam’s earlier film Rithu playing the male lead. When Manisha was contacted in Mumbai, the actress said: “I‘m really happy to do a Shyamaprasad film, in which I have a very crucial and meaty role”.

Shyamaprasad’s Electra produced by Vindhyan will start rolling in April. Prakash Raj plays Manisha’s husband and Nayanthara’s father in the film. National award winning music director Ousepachan will provide the music.

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Mammootty new look-walrus moustache!

Mammootty has a new deadly new look in debutant Vysakh’s Pokkiri Raja!

For the first time the actor is spotting a handlebar walrus moustache known in local lingo as “Pandi Kapada Meesa”.

The Walrus moustache worn by Kamal Hassan in Thevar Magan became famous all over Tamil Nadu at that time, and even now top actors love wearing it.

Take a look at Tamil actor Ajith’s latest film Aasal and Suriya’s yet to be released Singam. So can Mammootty be far behind?

In Tamil Nadu this type of moustache indicates a macho tough look. In the film Pokkiri Raja Mammootty’s plays Raja son of a disciplined school master, who ran away from home and becomes a powerful local dada in Madurai.

His younger brother Surya played Prithviraj too follows him and becomes another dada!

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NAYAKAN TRAILER

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JANAKAN TRAILER

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Sufi Paranja Kadha Movie Review

With his new movie ‘Sufi Paranja Katha’, Director Priyanandanan has once again proved that why he is at the helm of award ceremonies in the previous years. Continuing with his characteristic ease in selecting and presenting themes with maturity, the movie is a simple poignant story based on writer K P Ramanunni’s award winning novel.

The movie has Sharbani Mukherji, whom you had seen before in movies like J P Dutta’s Border and Priyadarshan’s Rakkilippaattu. Karthy, a beautiful girl born into the prestigious Meleppullara Tharavadu, she shared a more than curious relationship with her Uncle Shankunni Menon. Later when she gets attracted to a handsome Muslim trader Mammootty, they decide to elope to his place. Karthy converts to Islam and their happy married life often gets into problems as she finds it tough to renounce her original beliefs. With the consent of her husband, she builds a temple near their home. But gradually this became the talk of the area igniting communal issues.

Sharbani Mukhrejee proves that the choice of finding her for the role was extremely a right one, and oozes enough sensuality as the character demands. She is meticulous in playing the complex character. Prakash Bare, the producer of the movie, who is a techie based in Hyderabad plays Mammootty with remarkable ease and performs as if he is a seasoned actor . And together they form a glorious pair often competing to steal the scenes from each other. While actor Babu Antony plays the role of Sufi (a Muslim mystic), his brother Thampi Antony impressively emotes the turmoils of Sanku Mamu. Another special role is of Jagathy sreekumar who plays Avaru musaliar. Vineeth kumar, Samruvatha Sunil and Indrans also play to the demands of their roles.

Director Priyanadanan even while sticking to his conventional ways of film making, proves that he can create the mood and set the balance in narrating even without much experimentation. In the technical front K G Jayan's cinematography and Mohan Sithara's music adds to the quality of the movie

‘Sufi Paranja Katha’ comes at a time when the Kerala society, heavily immersed in discussions of love-jihad and communal segregation, truly demands such a topic. The honesty with which the director and crew handled it definitely makes it a must watch for the connoisseurs of good cinema.

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Pramaani Preview

After the big Mohanlal hit ‘Maadambi’, the same team of producer and director are coming together for a Mammootty flick ‘Pramaani’. Directed and scripted by B Unnikrishnan, the movie is presently in the final stages of post production.



Mammootty plays Viswanatha Panikkar, a corrupt panchayat president of the Kuttanad area. Mammootty is acting in a role speaking Kuttanad slang after 12 years, the last being 'Thachiledathu Chundan' which was a big hit. In this movie, he is nicknamed as Pramaani, as he is the keeper of many land documents in his name. Occasionally he is also called as America, as he shows a penchant to play a big brother whenever there is a situation. Not only he makes louder opinions in such spaces, but also finally take charge of the lives of the affected. The movie goes on to tell how he mends ways, repent and turn a new leaf at certain point of his life.

Sneha is the heroine of the movie who plays Janaki, the newly arrived upright panchayat secretary, who becomes one of the reasons behind the transformation of Viswanatha Panikkar. The movie with plenty of punch lines and powerful dialogues will also takes a satirical look at the present day politics.

Janardhanan plays Castro Vareeth, the leftist president of neighbouring panchayat who is at constant clash with Viswanatha Panikkar, Suraj is Mao Murugan, a hardcore revolutionary and ardent fan of Che Guevara. Tamil actor Prabhu and Fahad Fazil also have two prominent roles in the movie. Also in the cast are Siddhique, Saikumar, Suresh Krishna, Sreelatha, Salimkumar, P. Sreekumar and Lakshmi Priya.

While Shyam Dutt is in charge of camera, M Jayachandran handles the music. Manoj does the editing. Produced by B C Joshy in the banner of Surya Cinema, ‘Pramaani’ will be in theatres by the end of this month.

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Mammootty’s ‘Big B’ in Telugu with the Same Title

Malayalam Super Star Mammootty’s sensational hit ‘Big B’ is coming in Telugu with the same title. The film stars Mamtha Mohandas in the female lead role. It is a mass, action entertainer co-written and directed by Amal Neerad, a student of Ram Gopal Varma. Sri Varalakshmi Narasimha Productions banner is releasing the film in Telugu.

Mammootty has done the role of mafia don in the film, which is set in the backdrop of Mumbai. Film release is expected on March 19. Other star cast includes Manoj K Jayan, Nafisa Ali, Bala, Sumit Naval, Pasupathy, Sherveer Vakil, Lena and Vinayakan.

Music is composed by Alphons, cinematography by Sameer Tahir and editing by Vivek Harshan

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Anwer plans two project

Anwar Rasheed, who is enjoying the huge success of his movies ‘Annan Thampi' ‘ Rajamankyam’has started planning for his next two projects.

The director, who has been immensely successful in all his three ventures, is planning immediately a new movie titled ‘Brothers’ with Mammootty and Dileep in the lead. Anwar is planning to present a new subject through this movie.




After this project he will team up with Prithvi Raj in ‘Vey Raja Vey'. The movie will Produced in the banner of Marikkar Films and scripts by the hit writer Benny.P. Nayarambalam , who hit big time with his 'Annan Thampi & Chattampi Nadu'. This new project will start rolling by the month of December, after the release of 'Mammootty – Dileep film ‘Brothers’..

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