Adiye kolluthey is perhaps the first Tamil song ever played over Channel [V]. It’s a honor to Tamil cinema folks (???). Normally Channel V is dominated by Bollywood songs and they don’t give a shit about South Talents.
The scenario has changed with Vaaranam Aayiram’s ‘Adiye Kolludhe’ breaking the jinx of “no southern songs on [V]”. Vaaranam Aayiram stars Suriya, Sameera Reddy, Divya Spandana and Simran. Harris Jayaraj has composed its music. Sony BMG owns the audio rights of Vaaranam Aayiram.
Last week I watched the movie. You can watch the movie for surya. Sameera Retty is so damn cute. Many of my friends Criticized this movie, but why do they compare this movie with the movies made for awards. Its purly a commercial film and it has all the essence that is necessary to a commercial movie.
Adiye kolluthey is my favourite among the songs.
Trivia: ‘Adiye Kolludhe’ was sung by Kamal Haasan’s daughter Shruthi (male voice: Krish) and it was released by Rajinikanth’s daughter Soundarya!
Check out the video “Adiye Kolluthey” (hey, it’s killing me)
Making of video
Early days I hardly see a site to download Tamil movies, but today there are enough sites offering Tamil movie downloads. Just like music pirate (in MP3 format), Tamil movie pirate also very hot in the internet these days.
I’m sure Dham Doom songs are going to hit the top chart very soon. I usually enjoy Harish Jeyaraj’s melody. He owns his unique style. From Minnale, Vaseekara he has shown his colors in several movies and songs. This is going to be another mile stone for him. Read more
Recently Jackie Chan came to Chennai, Tamil Nadu for the audio release of the movie Dasavatharam. I was watching the programe in Isai Aruvi TV. He was very humble and nice. I’m sure he was lost, because he can’t understand a word in the program as it was conducted in Tamil Language. Read more
Dasavatharam is a forthcoming Tamil feature film currently being directed by K. S. Ravikumar, who with Dasavatharam, pairs up with Kamal Haasan for the fourth time. Haasan acts in ten different roles, breaking the record for an actor’s portrayal of the most different characters whilst Asin Thottumkal in a dual role and Mallika Sherawat also play lead roles in the film. The film, which has been under production since mid-2005, has Himesh Reshammiya as the music composer and Oscar Ravichandran as the main producer. The film, made with a budget of 80 crore Indian rupees, is set to be released in the summer of 2008.
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After having wowed audiences in the Hindi belt, Ashutosh Gowarikera’s magnum opus Jodhaa Akbar, starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai, is now to be released in Tamil. The music for the film is by maestro A.R. Rahman, who has come out with some grand numbers. The Tamil lyrics have been written by Na. Muthukumar. The audio, released recently, has been doing well, say sources.
The film has turned out to be a super-hit, especially in the overseas market where it is doing terrific business aided by favourable reviews from the foreign press. The domestic revenue too has been above average considering that the film has not been released in Rajasthan and has been banned in Madhya Pradesh and certain other areas. The Hindi version, released two weeks back, has so far collected 65 lakhs from Chennai alone. This is indeed quite a feat, considering the film’s running time of 3 hours and 30 minutes. However, UTV is planning to release a more tightly-edited version. The dubbed version will release across Tamil Nadu on March 6.
Look at history. If you want to live, to survive, you can kill any number of people, for any reason. This is the summery of the following Trailor
With some of my friends last week I went to see the Tamil film Billa. It was a fantastic, dazzling movie. I should also tell you the root of this Film.
It all started with Amitha pachan when he did his Don in 70s. Then the Tamil superstar Rajini Kanth acted in the Tamil version of the movie. As we know Sharuk remade the DON and now Kollywood (Tamil movie industry) took its chance to remake Billa in Tamil.
Unlike other movies, this movie gained high level of expectations from the audience. As the results the movie makers forced to make a high budget movie. Another reason why this movie has gained lots of attention was because; it
It is India’s most expensive film ever made and stars a 57-year-old cult regional star.
And now Sivaji – The Boss, a Tamil film starring Rajnikanth, is raking in money at the box office and playing to packed houses.
It cost 650 million rupees ($16m) to make and brought Rajnikanth a pay cheque of 200 million rupees, making him the highest paid film star in a movie-mad country.
Since being released on 15 June, some 800 prints of the film have flooded theatres across India and other parts of the world with large Tamil populations – North America, the UK, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
Tickets worth 17 million rupees were sold out in the southern Indian city of Madras (Chennai) alone within days of the film’s release.
At the core of Sivaji’s success is obviously Rajnikanth, lovingly called Rajni by his fans, in what is his 100th Tamil film.
A Rajni film offers what comic super heroes like Spiderman do – goodwill and hope
Film maker KV Anand
“A Rajni film remains a selling proposition,” says Tamil film historian Anandan.
Sivaji is a colourful spectacle, awash with the razzmatazz of whirling song and dance sequences and comic acts.
In the film, playing on the current flavour of middle-class India, Rajnikanth plays an altruistic non-resident Indian who does not forget his humble roots and returns home to Chennai to set up educational institutions for the underprivileged.
The local bureaucrats and greedy businessmen thwart his good intentions. Rajnikanth wreaks vengeance on the villains’ ill-gotten wealth and emerges victorious. His noble intentions are hailed and he gets the girl in the end too.
Rajnikanth’s female fans love his goofy antics
Typically, a Rajnikanth film is a celebration, a roller-coaster ride into the fantasy world of riches, improbable designs in plot, silly gags, volatile dramatics and the undying goodness of spirit.
“A Rajni film offers what comic super heroes like Spiderman do – goodwill and hope,” says filmmaker KV Anand.
Sivaji follows the successful formula of the star’s capers that made him a super star.
These were stories of Rajnikanth playing a working-class hero, irascible and ready to avenge the wrongs visited upon his family and friends by rich and cruel villains. He would win the beautiful heroine using traditional macho methods.
Rajnikanth’s films often show him taking on the might of a powerful and domineering women opponent, a hint at his open political confrontations with the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalitha.
His unique style gives him a momentum to perform unthinkable feats. Youth and kids want to participate in his identity
“Just as James Bond’s questionable brand of machismo has its followers in Britain, Rajnikanth’s chauvinism and bravura stokes the fire in Tamil youth,” says Chennai-based analyst D Narayana Reddy.
No wonder he remains one of India’s biggest super stars, often overshadowing his Bollywood counterpart, Amitabh Bachchan.
His fans tattoo themselves with his name, write his name in their blood and have opened some 15,000 fan clubs all over the country.
They worship him like a demi-god when he appears on screen, performing Hindu rituals of showering him with flowers, garlanding his billboards, even bathing his visage in milk in the halls.
Rajnikanth’s dramatic deliveries and comic gestures appeal to children too, who are enthralled by his antics on screen.
Sivaji is Rajnikanth’s 100th Tamil film
“His unique style gives him a momentum to perform unthinkable feats. Youth and kids want to participate in his identity,” says Rajan Krishnan, who teaches anthropology in Columbia University.
Despite his fame, Rajnikanth as a person remains somewhat enigmatic.
He guards his privacy fiercely, unlike other stars who advertise and endorse products.
His larger-than-life screen presence has also spawned political ambitions – there has been widespread speculation that he would opt for a career in politics one day.
Tamil Nadu has a prolific film industry – it produced 126 films in 2006 and has had some 62 films released in the first half of 2007.
The state has a history of three film stars turned chief ministers, including Jayalalitha.
Critics say that in trying to appeal to a new audience, Rajni’s tale of social vendetta is turning stale.
But for his adoring fans, he carries a profile similar to that of a rap star – a bling master in outlandish costumes, whose chutzpah and appeal transcends the ghettos of Tamil Nadu.