Sivakarthikeyan or STR for BB Tamil - Vijay Sethupathi is OTT hot favourite

It’s not official but will be. Simbu aka Silambarasan STR #Atman or Sivakarthikeyan will be new Bigg Boss Tamil Season 8 host. Our BB trackers say that before Kamal Haasan issued the signed letter, he and Banijay, the Producers of BB show had a talk about the next replacement.. We all know that STR is signed for a film with Rajkamal banner. It will start sometime in March next year as STR is soon to sign a mega project. Details later. Sivakarthikeyan film Amaran with RajKamal is releasing next month. Kamal and Mahendran co- producer Turmeric Media had said that STR or Sivakarthikeyan are good choices. STR already hosted BB Ultimate and got good response. So Banijay is comfortable with STR.

However information that we got was that R Mahendran has asked Banijay to seriously consider Sivakarthikeyan for BB host. R Mahendran, ex VP Star Vijay and co – producer of Sivakarthikeyan film Amaran and Thug Life has put forth this idea. It seems that Mahendran and SK friendship dates back to the days when the latter was a participant in reality show Kalakaai Poovathu Yaar. Apart from this SK and Director Atlee are friends and former had worked in latter’s short films Mugaputhagam. Atlee and Mahendran are cousins. Turmeric Media of Mahendran is partner to RajKamal films ventures. For one day at BB sets for the 100 days of the show, Kamal was reportedly paid Rs 150 crores. So SK should get at least Rs 100 crores ? SK’s Amaran is releasing on September 27 and has Sai Pallavi in it. Also there is a report that Lokesh Kanagaraj will play a pivotal role in SK film with Sudha Kongara.

Viduthalai 2 is most expected film now. For one it is a Vetrimaaran directorial and secondly it has Vijay Sethupathi. Till the other day, it was because it has Soori whose Garudan is a hit. Now Maharaja has changed all this. Film is a Rs 100 crore film and for Sethupathy a first. After streaming on Netflix, for four weeks in a row, the film rated among the top ten non-English films globally. Maharaja movie has got 15.5 million views and 36.4 million watch hours to date. Our Kerala box office guy informs that Vaika has got Kerala theatrical rights. It has Manju Warrier in main role.

Ayalaan copy of CJ7 Chinese film - Vijay Sethupathy film below Mahesh Babu in Tamil Nadu

As Pongal releases first day shows are fixed by Tamil Nadu theatre owners, it looks like Mahesh Babu’s Guntur Kaaram’s ticket demand is on par with Dhanush Miller and Sivakarthikeyan Ayalaan. All the three films have a 9 AM shows booking window. Surprising part is that Vijay Sethupathi and Arun Vijay are on the same page as far as theatres are concerned and so they have pushed to 11 AM show for Pongal dates, Teja of HanuMan is a new entity for Tamil viewers and so this too is slotted for 11 AM. Interestingly no Tamil films have got theatres for Sankaranti in Telugu speaking States. Chiranjeevi is a subtle way hinted that Dil Raju of the producers trade body had allotted less theatres to Hanu Man. Yet another website reported that Dil Raju was going to release Ayalaanin Nizam for Pongal. Raju clarified that it was Venkatesh and Nagarjuna films that got lesser theatres and not Hanu man and said that no Tamil dubbed films are coming for Pongal. In Tamil Nadu, Telugu films got theatres because Lal Salaam pulled out. There is a terrific demand for Hanuman premieres in Telugu states. Sun TV Network Gemini bought the Guntur Kaaram rights at last minute. NetFlix bought the OTT. Coming to Ayalaan, some whispers coming in after censoring is that the film is an adaptation of Chinese film CJ7 . The plot is - Single father Ti (Stephen Chow) works tirelessly to earn enough money to keep his son, Dicky (Xu Jiao), enrolled in a private school, hoping the education will lead to better career options. Dicky studies diligently, but his threadbare clothing prompts the derision of his affluent classmates, making him feel like an outcast. Unable to purchase an expensive toy Dicky wants, Ti finds a glowing ball in a junkyard and gives it to him. Soon, the orb turns into Dicky's new best friend -- an alien. It was directed by Stephen Chow and released in USA by Columbia and Sony in March 2008.

On the occasion of TV star Rakksh Ram's birthday, a special poster of director Chetan Kumar-Raksh Ram's film 'Burma' has been released. In this, actor Raksh Ram's blood-soaked appearance has attracted the fans. Director Chetan Kumar is directing the movie 'Burma'. For this movie V. Harikrishna composes the music. The alliance has previously worked together in hit films like 'Bahadur' and 'Bajrangi'. Now they have teamed up again for the third time for the movie 'Burma'. Apart from 'James', all of director Chetan Kumar's films start with the letter 'pa' which is his winning style of cinema. All the movies like 'Bahadur', 'Bajrangi', 'Bharathe' were successful at the box office and made it to the hit list. Chetan Kumar is gearing up for another box office hit with his latest film 'Burma'.

Hanu Man to fly on Ayodhya wave - Katrina Madurai link - Kamal Senapathy on R"Day

It is not Dhanush and Sivakarthikeyan for Pongak race. Vijay Sethupathy and Katrina Kaif film directed by Sriram Raghavan is too coming on January 12th. In Chennai, Katrina said that her mother worked for nine years in Madurai as a teacher nut for the film Merry Christmas which has Hindi and Tamil versions, Katrina took help of actress Deepa Venkat who is a leading dubbing artist. Vijay’s knowledge of Hindi was his talk with his boss while working in Dubai. Add to this the Director who is a Tamilian and wants to direct a bilingual. Yuga Bharathi who has written the Tamil lyrics said that he did not write according to Hindi song meter and instead understood the situation and adapted into native Tamil environment and Pritam composed it

Hanu Man is the dark horse of the Pongal/ Sankranthi race and after seeing the two trailors of Captain Miler and Ayalaan, the general opinion is that Miller is for the action crazy viewers and Ayalaan is for the family and that means all those who don’t like guns- bombs and bloody gore, As both are of different genres, theatre owners fel that both can co- exist under one roof. Meanwhile there is a talk that in North India, with Ram Ayodhya temple function on January 22, there is a Ram wave that is sweeping the northern art of India. At this juncture comes Hanu Man and will not the Ram Bhakths embrace this film ?. If so, it will be first Pan Indian hit from Telugu in 2024. Added to this every Hanu Man ticket that is sold will get Rs 5 for Ram Ayodhya mandir. Chiranjeevi announced. as one of the invitee to temple inauguration is going with entire family. We don’t know whether Rajinikanth is going with entire family. As Lal Salaam is releasing soon, Aishwarya might seek Ram’s blessings.

Now we hear that Republic Day being a patriotic even for all Indians, nothing more memorable than to announce the release date of Senapathy, the man who fights corruption coming to theatres. We mean Indian 2 release date all over India and Worldwide. Now we also hear that Indian 3 release month will be too announced. R Day double treat from Ulaganayakan to fans. Rajinikanth is going to do back to back films in 2024. It confirmed that Nelson will once gain work with Thalaivar. Only thing is that it will not be a sequel to Jailor but a standalone film. This film is after Superstar finishes Vettaiyan and moves to Lokesh Kanagaraj. After that he is all excited to be working with Mari Selvaraj of Maamman fame as he has narrated a subject that tackles a social issue.