Maniratnam's Nayankan in TIME's All time 100 best films :
Nayankan (Nayakudu in Telugu) starring Kamal Hasan and directed by Mani Ratnam is listed among TIME Magazines "All Time 100 Best Films". The list compiled by Richard Corliss and Richard Schicke (both film critics for TIME) has films like Godfather 1 & 2, ET, Star Wars, Psycho, The good bad and the ugly etc. Indian films that made it to the list include - Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, Apur Sansar and Aparajito, Guru Dutt's Pyaasa and Mani Ratnam's Nayakan.
Sarat Kumar in Sumanth, Samudra's film :
RS Productions, which produced Subbu with NTR in the past, is launching a film with Sumanth in the lead. V.samudra will direct this one. Shooting will start from 21st of May. Heroine of this film is a popular herione who already acted with Sumanth in the past. Tamil actor Sarat Kumar will play a key role in this film. Harikumar and Srinivas are the producers.
Devisri reuses SD tune, Kollywood cinema Sachin stalls??
It is not a new thing that music composers reuse their tunes in different languages. Ilayaraja reused his hit tunes in different languages. Manisharma, in the recent past, reused his hit tunes in Tamil viz. tunes of Kushi and Annayya for Vijay's films. A case filed by Gemini Film Circuit for the use of their Shankardada tune in Tamil film Sachin came as a beamer. Tamil boxoffice is gearing up with 3 big films for this Tamil newyear (14th Apr) - Rajanikanth's Chandramukhi, Kamal's Mumbai Express and Vijay's kollywood cinema Sachin. Kalaipuli S. Thanu is the producer of Vijay, Bhipasha Basu starrer Sachin. Devisri Prasad composed music for this film. Devisri Prasad used the tune of "Naa Pere Kanchanamala" song from Shankardada MBBS. Gemini Film Circuit, the production banner of Shankardada MBBS, filed a case saying Devisri Prasad has copied the tune, music track of the song. Gemini Film Circuit, which paid 30 Lakhs to the composer, is reportedly planning to use the tunes in their future films. The complaint also claims that producer of Sachin, S.Thanu, committed copyright violations. Following the case, the highcourt issued restraining orders for the release of the film Sachin. Just one day to go for the release, Sachin film faced the crisis. Sachin's producers were very concerned since the prints to US were already dispatched and the local prints are to be released anytime now. The crisis came to an end with Madras High court clearing the film to release for 14th April. The court agreed on the pact with Sachin's producer that the song will be screened only with visuals and the song will not be used. As the producers told the media, a different song will be composed and will be inserted in a weeks time. Till then only a background score will run for the visuals of the song. Apparently, the song is a sizzler, filmed on Vijay and Bipasha Basu. Well! The film is opening up tomorrow. Thats good news for the producers.
Vijay's Tirupachi` creates a new record! :
Vijay’s Tirupachi produced by Super Good Films, R.B.Chowdary has created history even before the release of the film with a new record of 207 prints! It is the highest ever prints taken for a Tamil film beating the earlier record set by Vijay’s Ghilli of 180 prints! No Tamil film has released with so many prints worldwide. In Tamilnadu every 10 Kilometre you travel there will be a theatre screening Tirupachi! .The producer recovered the cost and made a small profit before release
Recording for Rajnikanth's film to start on 16th :
Rajni Kanth is a trend by myself. After Baba in 2002 there is quite a gap in his movies. After about 2 years he is acting in a film to be directed by P.Vasu. The film will be a bi-lingual and P.Karunakara Reddy and Pardha Sarathi are producing this venture in Telugu on Lakshmi Narasimha productions. S.Ramesh Babu is presenting this film. Songs recording will start on 16th of this month. Vidyasagar is composing music for this film. Prabhu, Jyothika, Vijayakumar and others are roped into play other important roles.
