Atlee silent on Kamal in Kalki - PRO NOC must for Kerala Film Portals

Atlee and Kamal Haasan were in talks when the latter was in Mumbai for Indian 2 promotion and yes they were discussing about the Salman Khan film that Atlee is doing. Talks apart, Atlee did not see anything striking by Kamal in Kalki. He has showered praises on all except Ulaganayakan. We expected a story as soon as Atlee was the Indian 2 Mumbai press meet as Atlee was said to be hunting for a South mega star to join his Salman project. The photo we published was taken when Atlee had just directed and released Raja Rani which is an ulta of Mani’s Mouna Ragam. At that time no body speculated about Atlee and Kamal joining hands. Apart from this our tracker tells us that Tamil film Theri that is remade as Baby John in Hindi with Varun Dhawan is to have a special action sequence by Salman and reason for this addition is that one of the Producers is Atlee. As Indian 2 is releasing and third part ready, Game Changer is only in hands of Director Shankar. So what next ? He has three storylines. One is a historical and other two on lines of James Bond and one of them is an sci-fi subject. Who is the Producer ? Anyone who will have money for VFX says Shankar. No plans to make a film like Avatar he says.

Vettaiyan makers are going ahead with dubbing the portions of other actors except Rajinikanth. Rajinikanth is leaving for Lokesh film shoot in Hyderabad. As we told you, 20 days work remains and it involves Rajinikanth. Trade tells us that Vettaiyan makers Lyca has not told them that the film is coming for Diwali. All the same it could join Diwali, if they get Rajini to complete his portions in time. From what we hear, Lokesh has already commissioned a set in Chennai and after Hyderabad, it will shift to this set.

Malayalam Producers Association has said that trade body FEFKA should grant accreditation to online portals and given a lit of criteria that these portals should have. If they do not have an accreditation, tey will not get paid promotional material and not get invited to any press meet or any actor – technician connected with the film can speak to the non-accredited portal. A major document that the portal has to qualify to get FEFKA accreditation as per Producers body is a clean chit from a reputed PRO. Now this brings to a scenario where Manorama, Mathrubhumi and other newspaper houses waiting for ` reputed PRO” clean chit to have their film portals accredited with FEFKA. Secondly has Amma pledged the members freedom of expression ?