Dil Se of Mani Ratnam and Hey Ram of Kamal was edited without Director's knowledge !!!

For Dil Se of Mani Ratnam featuring SRK, Priety Zinta and Manisha Koirala when released had audience walk out after 15 minutes of the show as they came to see Chaiya Chiya song featuring SRK and Malaika. Here again Bharat Shah was the presenter along with Ram Gopal Varma. Shah wanted the song to come gain second place and that too after a bomb blast scene. RGV told Mani and the query he got back was ‘How can Shah Rukh Khan hug Manisha Koirala and imagine Malaika Arora?’. Bharat Shah answer was that audience will not ask this and only to see the song again. Shah was worried as samosa sellers in theatres complaied that audience walked out after Chaiya song coming in 15 minutes after the start. ( source Bollywood Hungama) How one of the most iconic songs, "Chaiyya Chaiyya" came to be. The lyrics of "Chaiyya Chaiyya" are based on the Sufi folk song "Thaiyya Thaiyya" with lyrics by poet Bulleh Shah. Singer Sukhwinder Singh originally suggested the song to A.R. Rahman who was looking for a Punjabi devotional song to include on the soundtrack of Dil Se... Gulzar subsequently rewrote the lyrics and changed the name to "Chaiyya Chaiyya". The Tamil Version of the song is still called "Thaiyya Thaiyya". Source; Videowala, FB

Did you know that Hey Ram Hindi version was cut short by 20 minutes and that too without the Knowledge of Director Kamal Haasan ? Did you know that Uyire’s Hindi version Dil Se had the song Chaiya Chaiya two times and it was done despite objection from Director Mani Ratnam. Hey Ram completes 25 years and on this occasion a flashback. Bharat Shah who presented the film Hey Ram in Hindi felt that it was too long. He called Rajkumar Santoshi to see the film and trim it by 30 minutes. Santoshi who follows Tamil as his mother is a Tamil lady and was born in Chennai has directed superhit films like Damini, Ghayal, ghatak , Pukar and earned several awards after seeing it knew that from Kamal’s viewpoint, all shots were important but for North audience it was not digestible. He cut it by 20 minutes and did a fine balancing job between two versions.

Rajini- Chiru join Kamal at Indian 2 audio - Santosh Sivan gets Cannes homour

Indian 2 audio launch will be the mother of all audio functions. Our trackers swear that Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan have confirmed the presence on June 1 at Nehru Stadium Chennai. Yet another stunning news that trackers say is that Rajinikanth too would be on stage. It means that Kamal Haasan- Chiranjeevi- Rakinikanth on stage and in Chennai, a place where Chiru and Thalaivar were classmates in the Film Insitutute run by South Film Chamber. Anirudh live performance included. Meanwhile Paara m single from Indian 2 has touched 2 million views. Many feel that it is not enough for the most awaited film of the year. Meanwhile RajKamal has wrapped Amaran the biopic on Major Mukund with Sivakarthikeyan in the main role with Sai Pallavi. Directed by Raju Periasamy.

Santosh Sivan Dil Se speech at Cannes We at southfilmy blogspot get hyper excited when a Thiruvanthapuram gguy gets homoured. Now Santosh Sivan who got honoured at Cannes Film Festival and became the first cinematographer from Asia to get an honour delivered what we say is a one from Dil Se ( from heart). Priety Zinta debut film Dil Se prsenyed the award instituted in name of Pierre Angenieux the inventor of the zoom lens that revolutionised cinematography./ The speech : Sivan was dressed in a tuxedo with a felt hat to complete his look for the occasion. Upon receiving the award, he said: "It is the most awesome time I have had in my life. It is an amazing place to receive this ... for the Cannes Film Festival is the most beautiful festival I have attended." He added: "Like Preity said, I also don't want to say too much except that I am hoping my father, mother, brother, who are no more, are smiling." Admitting that he had been "a really bad husband because I have been filming all the time", Sivan said his family was with him and that "they must be really happy". ( source IANS)

Salman Khan- Prabhu Deva - Pooja Hegde for Veeram remake - Priety Zinta to produce Mahesh Narayanan film

Salman Khan and Prabhu  Deva are coming back with the remake of Veeram , the Tamil film starring Thala Ajith.  Pooja Hegde is tipped to be the heroine. In yet another development , Priety Zinta is to produce a Hindi film with Malayalam director Mahesh Narayanan whose Malik - C U  Soon  was released on OTT and were hits.  

Sources say that Prabhu Deva after giving a dud with Radhe, had packed his bags and come back to Chennai. He immersed himself in completing some Tamil films and signed a new one. He is said to have told his friends that his innings in Bollywood was over after Radhe. To his surprise, he got a call from Salman Khan office to come and meet him. Khan asked Prabhu Deva to get over Radhe and direct Tamil film Veeram in Hindi, Sajid Nadiadwala who holds the rights too agreed to Salman's suggestion. Sajid is already remaking Tamil film Jigarthanda in Hindi with Akshay Kumar. Veeram is about four brothers and has a Hindu- Muslim  angle to it. The trust that Salman has reposed in the choreographer- director is something rare in filmdom. This will be the fourth time that the duo is teaming up.

Priety Zinta who has produced Talwar, Razi and Badai Ho is to produce a film based on a screenplay by award winning investigative Journalist Josy Joseph and Mahesh Narayanan. The film is an expose of the health sector in India. Mahesh Narayanan is to direct a Tamil film with screenplay by Kamal Haasan ( who will also act in it). He was to remake Take Off ( Fahad Fazil- Parvathy) in Hindi. The dubbed version is available on OTT.

The remake plan was dropped after many scenes and incidents had similarities in Salman Khan's Tiger Zinda Hai.  Take Off's Hindi version was to be produced by Jet Airways. Ironically, Josy Joseph ( who is collaborating with Mahesh) was sued for Rs 1000  crores by Jet Airways for writing  that Naresh Goyal ( founder) had links with Dawood Ibrahim in his book Feast of Vultures.