Ajith calls on stranded Aamir and Vishnu - Sai Pallavi- Nayanthara and Rashmika in news

 

Vishnu Vishal and Aamir Khan are staying in a gated community in Karapakkam , suburb of Chennai. Two days rains in Chennai flooded the area and Vishnu posted on X the situation. Minister TRP Raja send a NDRF team and rescued them. A common friend told Ajith and he turned up at the community center and met Vishnu and Aamir and made arrangements for smooth transportation. Aamir is camping in Chennai for his mother’s treatment.

On the heroine front, we got information that Nayanthara has agreed to act as heroine’s sister in a film directed by her hubby Vignesh with Pradeep Ranganathan as hero. Her solo heroine oriented film Annapoorani released last Friday is a washout primarily for the predictable content and heavy rains lashing Chennai. It collected a mere Rs 1.68 crores.

Meanwhile Sai Pallavi has very big projects. First is a film with Yash of KGF and directed by Geethu Mohandas. It is an offbeat film. Secondly the coming together of Premam team . She is once again with Nivin Pauly. She has a film with Naga Chaitanya too. In Tamil she is teaming up with Sivakarthikeyan.

Meanwhile we saw Ritika Singh post injuries on her hand and wrist. She seems to have smashed her hand on a glass sheet. She said that though the unit warned her of the glass, she lost her momentum and added that though it is not paining , she is is going to take an injection and will leave from set to hospital. She did not say which set this happened and many think it is at Thalaivar 170 sets.

Trisha who got slammed for calling Animal as a cult film and iconic had to with draw the post after netizens felt that it was in wrong taste to hail a film that is showing heroines as mere objects to satisfy the carnal desire of the hero. After this no South celebrity has come to comment on Animal. Only in two Telugu States, the film is doing well. All the same Rashmika Mandaana is basking in the success of Animal and she is now in sets of The Girl Friend directed by Rahul Ravindran of Chi Low Saw fame. She saw her Instagram followers grow to 40 million followers. She has Pushpa 2 and a Vicky Kaushal film .

Rajini in Thiruvanthapuram - Ajith in Azerbaijan - Kangana - Nayanthara films fail

According to information got, Rajinikanth is in Thiruvanthapuram to be there for three weeks for filming of Thalaivar 170. Fahad faazil, Manju Warrier, Amitabh Bacchan along with other actors would join him. Shooting will also take part in Nagercoil. At time of writing Ajith and crew of Vidamuyurchi is in Azerbaijan . It was earlier reported that shooting schedules have been planned in Gulf countries. It is not known whether Trisha who is holidaying in Ney York has joined Ajith. We had reported on August 5th about the shoot of Rajini film to be on Kanyakumari fishermen back. Read ;https://southfilmy.blogspot.com/2023/08/rajinikant-next-on-kanyakumar-fishermen.html

Much hyped Chandramukhi 2 directed by P Vasu after 6 day weekend collections has netted Rs 31 crore in India and Rs 6 cr in overseas. Starring Raghava Lawrence and Kangana , the film received negative reviews but had a very god opening in Tamil Nadu. The film got advantage of five day holiday and so managed decent numbers. After the holidays are over the collections on 6th day is at Rs 1.36 cr in home market and very dismal in other States. Despite having Kangana as female lead the total gross in Hindi is only Rs 1.6 cr. In overseas market Malaysia gave big numbers of Rs 4 cr gross. Telugu States and Kerala , the figures were dismal. Estimated budget of the film is Rs 50 cr and is likely to be a loss for Lyca Productions. The surprising factor is that Iraivan which had Jeyam Ravi first release after PS 2 and Nayanthara post Jawan released along with Chandramukhi 2 had a poor opening and did not get the response that it deserved as it was a better made film. According to Sacnik the film got Rs 2 cr opening while Chandramukhi 2 got Rs 8 cr. Total net after 6 days is Rs 10 cr net. Chithha which had Siddharth along with Nimisha Sajayan got positive reviews and got good publicity with Kamal Haasan releasing a video in which he praises the film. According to Times, the film grossed Rs 11.5 crores in five days and the film will release in Telugu States in coming Friday.

Latest update on Thalaivar 170 and Thalapathy 68

Latest on Thalaivar 170 and Thalapathy 68. Vijay film began today with a pooja and shooting commences tomorrow. Kolai girl Meenakshi Chaudary has come on board for the Venkat Prabh film is what we know. Lyca the producers of Thalaivar film directed by T J Gananvel says that Dushara Vijayan has come board and already Ritika Singh last seen in Kolai is on board. Rajinikant plays a Muslim cop tackling a sensitive case. It is a true story is what we hear. Lyca put out the entire crew details on their x page. Lyca also put out the news that Aishwarya Rajinikanth film Lal Salaam is to release on Pongal next year. In this Rajini plays Moiden Bhai. It is a sports drama based on cricket and Kapil Dev make a cameo. Vishnu Vishal plays the lead. Sivakarthikeyan Ayalan and C Sundar Aranamnai 4 are coming for Pongal. Meanwhile Tamil Film Producers Council is trying hard to get State Government to increase the number of shows from four to five shows. As per law four shows from 9 AM to 1.30 AM are allowed. The contention is that in neighboring States Tamil films are releasing before 9 AM and thereby camera prints make way to piracy sites. The pressure is on because Leo producer and distributors want to increase shows and take maximum money out in first weekend. Even for Jailor only four shows were allowed. Producers point out that four shows rule was in force 50 years back as runtime was more than what is today.

Thalaivar 170 on Koodankulam protest - Mammooty in Jeyam Ravi film

Rana Daggubatti of Bahubaali and Dushara Vijayan have joined Thalaivar 170 is latest buzz. Already Faahad fasil and Manju Warrier are in the cast. Gananavel the director has planned the shooting in Chennai from September 19th for ten days. According to sources, the subject is on the shooting incident in Tuticorin and the Kudankulam protest by fishermen in Kanyakumari. A few scenes will be shot in Kanyakumari and moved to Thiruvanthapuram .

Mammootty is tipped to play the antagonist in Thani Oruvan 2 starring Jeyam Ravi and directed by his brother Mohan Raja. The first part had Aravind Swamy play the baddie. Mammootty was to play Vinayakan role in Jailer but Rajinikanth had reservations about getting into fight scenes with Mammootty and told the actor about it. In fact Mammootty had agreed only because of Rajinikanth asking him.

Rajinikant next on Kanyakumari fishermen - shoot in Trivandrum and new launches

Thalaivar 170 is centered around the life of fishermen in Kanyakumari. Celeberated hair stylist Hakim is working on this film with Rajinikanth. Manju Warrier after working with Ajith in Thunivu is once agin to appear in Tamil in T170 and Fahadh Faazil who got praise allround for Maamannan is teaming up with Rajinikanth in Gananvel film. Shooting of the film will be around Kanyakumari and Thruvanthapuram sea shores. Amitabh after 26 years is joing with Rajini in upcoming project. Both last acted in Hum. Telugu actor Nani has been signed as Vikram opted out since he felt that he did not have much of a role. The synopsis given to online booking site is that Jailer is about an Madia syndicate planning a jailbreak to get the arrested Don out and Jailer with help of other criminals out foxes them. Malik who was to distribute Jailer in Malaysia has not picked up the film as he facing curbs in banking after his arrest and release by Malaysian police. Instead Lotus Cinemas the biggest theatre chain in that country has bought Jailer rights. In another related news, Rajinikanth who saw the Lal Salaam portions shot by his daughter Aishwarya has told her to go in for reshoot. In USA Jailer advance booking has crossed $400K and Bhola Shankar of Chiranjeevi releasing on same day is only $100K says trade reports. Bhola songs are not catchy as Jailer and as it is remake, there is no suspense for viewers.

ilm Good Night producers Million Dollar Studios and MRP Entertainment have started rolling their second venture. Prabhuram Vyas who made the sensation web-series LIVIN is stepping his way for his debut feature film here. Manikandan plays the male lead again for the production house. Lalagunda Bommaigal from Modern Love Chennai fame Sri Gouri Priya. Promising actor Kanna Ravi plays an important role. The film carries a strong technical crew. The music is scored by Sean Roldan, Shreyas Krishna will be behind the lens, Barath Vikraman will handle the edit, Rajkamal will head the art department and the lyrics are penned by Mohanrajan. Nazerath Pasilian, Magesh Raj Pasilian and Yuvaraj Ganesan are bankrolling the project. The director promises that it will be a trendy romantic story which will speak values, he adds that the screenplay will be interesting and is bound to bring discussions about modern day love. The shooting has been planned in Chennai and Gokarna which is near Goa. The filming is happening now at a brisk pace in Chennai. It was none other than Makkal Selvan Vijay Sethupathi who hit the clap board for the first shot on the very first day of shooting for the movie.

Nanban Group honoured Cheran and P C sreeram at the Nanban awards and Nadigar Sangham President Nassar launched their Entertainment division. Big Boss winner Aari Arjuna is brand Amabasador. A dance performance by Tammannaah was the highlight. GK founder of the Group and Nanda co founder spoke. Drums genius Sivamani, Veena Rajesh Vaidya and Piano Lidian Nathaswaram gave a concert together. Following this, stage comedians Bala-Qureshi joined the stage and enthralled the audience with their action-packed parodies.

S.K.M. Cinemas, the newly launched production house arrives with the motto of encouraging fresh and young filmmakers, by introducing them in the Tamil film industry. Actor and producer Akil has decided to line up more projects with debut filmmakers now. The production house’s maiden project is directed by debutant Vijay Anandhan, who took part in the ‘Nalaya Iyakkunar’ reality show, and got recognised for his slew of short films based on different genres. With the deepest and insatiable passion for cinema, he self-learnt the art of cinema without assisting any filmmakers. He is now embarking on a journey as filmmaker in Tamil film industry through this project. The yet-to-be-titled film is a gangster crime drama set against the backdrops of North Chennai. Thenma, who earned wonderful recognition for his unparalleled works is ‘Irandam Ulaga Porin Kadaisi Gundu’ and ‘Pothanur Thabal Nilayam’, and ‘Natchathiram Nagargiradhu’ is composing music. Aari is handling cinematography and Ram (B.Lenin sir Assistant) is taking care of editing works. Dharma and Suresh Sugu are overseeing the PR works for this film. Five budding actors, who have an impeccable acting skill are playing the lead roles in this movie, and a familiar actress is performing the female lead character. The special occasion, marking the launch of ’S.K.M. Cinemas’ and its maiden project tentatively titled “Production No.1” happened with the presence of eminent personalities from the film industry today (August 4, 2023), who conveyed their wishes to the production house and film crew.