Atlee - Vijay Sethupathi next - Chiyaan Vikram- Kamal are OTT flops - Lost Ladies out of Oscars

Atlee said during the press meet that he will be the producer for the Vijay Sethupathi starrer which will be directed by Balaji Tharaneetharan who is best known for the film ‘Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom’. Vijay Sethupathi will be playing the lead character in this untitled project. The filmmaker and Vijay Sethupathi had earlier joined forces for the 2023 film Jawan. A6 the Hindi film is with Salman Khan in the lead.

Kanguva: Flop in Theatres, Hit on OTT!

Suriya’s Kanguva may have struggled in theatres, but it’s now a sensation on Amazon Prime. Within just one week, the movie crossed 1 billion streaming minutes, setting a major record on OTT.

It’s surprising how audience preferences work—what fails on the big screen can become a blockbuster on streaming platforms. Times are changing, and so is the way we enjoy movies.

Thngalaan miserable OTT flop

Chiyaan Vikram this year had only one release, Thangalaan, that had a disastrous run at the box office, earning 71.45 crore worldwide. The film arrived on Netflix unceremoniously on December 10. However, it had a lukewarm response on OTT as well.

In the debut week of its OTT run, the Tamil action drama as per Netflix’s data from December 9 to December 15, garnered a viewership of 1.5 million. This is one of the least viewed South Indian films in its debut week on Netflix.

Here are the least viewed South Indian films in their debut week when they arrived on Netflix.

1. Kondal: 1.7: Million
2. Indian 2: 1.7 Million
3. Bagheera: 1.7 Million
4. Thangalaal: 1.5 Million
5. Mr Bachchan: 1 Million

Why LOST LADIES LOST in OSCAR Before Race started?

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@TheAcademy

Oscars shortlist is out. #LaapataaLadies is a very well made, entertaining movie (I enjoyed it), but was absolutely the wrong choice to represent India for the best #InternationalFeatureFilm category. As expected, it lost. When are we going to realize.. year after year.. we are choosing the wrong films. There are so many excellent movies made, and we should be winning the #InternationalFeatureFilm category every year! Unfortunately we live in a "Mainstream Bollywood" bubble, where we cannot look beyond films that we ourselves find entertaining. Instead we should just look for good films made by film-makers who are uncompromising in their art.. low budget or big budget.. star or no star.. just great artistic cinema. Below is the poster of #LaapataaLadies, I am sure most academy voting members dismissed the film just by looking at these.

Also read : https://southfilmy.blogspot.com/2024/09/ffi-bets-on-aamir-khan-to-get-oscars.html

Modi- Stalin vie to host Rajini 50th year event - Indian Woman film Director film is France Oscar entry

It seems Central I&B ministry and Tamil Nadu State Government are vying to conduct an event to honour Rajinikanth as he enters the 50th year of his career in 2025. From what we hear is that Kamal Haasan has been roped in to lead the State event and instead of handing over the event to any of the bodies like Nadigar Sangham, an seperate body will be formed and it will include Producers- technicians who have worked with Thalaivar. Central Government that had conferred on him the Dadasaheb Phalke award and other central government honors like Padma VBhushan and Padma Vibhushan is planning to honour him with a special citation and have it conducted on a Pan Indian level. in the year 1975 actually before KB film , Rajinikanth acted in Kannada film directed by Puttana Kanagal and later came Apoorva Rangangal. The first Hindi film was Andha Kanoon with Big B in a cameo and released in 1978. It was a remake of Sattam oru irutuaarai, the Tamil film directed by SAC ( father of Thalapathy). T Rama Rao was the Hindi version Director. Rajinikant has Lokesh film Coolie and followed by Jailer 2 that will releasing next year.

Rana Daguubatti has bought the Indian theatrical rights of the film All we Imagine as Light Directed by Payal Kapadia. It won top honour at Cannes Festival. This film produced by French company and directed by an Indian woman Director is entered for Oscars are entry from france !. Three other French films too have been shortlisted by France for Oscars. India that celeberated it's win in Cannes will not be anywhere this film at Oscars. Anurah Kashyap had at that time cut straight to the matter and said that it was not an Indian win at Cannes and that we have long back stopped backing such films from Independent film Directors. Malayalam film Vanaprastham produced by Pranavam Arts International owned by Mohanlal and Pierre Assouline that was last entry from India in Cannes. NFDC and other bollywood Production houses run by corporates had long back stopped backing such films. Directors like Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalkrishnan to Shaji N Karun who grew with such backing are last of their tribe.We can now get ready to celeberate that Indian woman Director film is a France Entry at Oscars. We can forget that Kapadia as FTII student had to stage a dharna to get her stipend as she was branded anti- establishment.Rana would wait to release it theatres after Oscar 2025 results.

Kanguva of Suriya is all set to lock November 14 th as release date, says out trackers. After shifting from October, now the prouducers see that in Tamil and Bollywood there is no major films. As Kanguva has reached an agreement to release the film 8 weeks after theatre release on OTT, multiplex theatre chains have agreed to screen the film along with South theatres. So far no Tamil film has agreed for a 8 week window and so national chains in North India have not taken them for screening. Raid 2 was the only November release but the producers have changed this Ajay Devgn date to Febuary. In Andhra, Vijay Devarakonda film JGM might come.on November 3 rd .