Ananthabhadram becomes Sivapuram in Tamil

Cinematographer-turned-director Santosh Sivan's directorial venture Ananthabhadram is the first Malayalam feature film screened using a satellite feed instead of conventional prints. It stars Prithviraj, Kavya Madhavan, Manoj K. Jayan, Riya Sen, Kalabhavan Mani, Biju Menon, Revathi and Cochin Haneefa.

 

Now, this film is to be dubbed and released in Tamil as Sivapuram. The Tamil version will be produced by Sathish Kumar. Marutha Bharani has penned the dialogues and lyrics are by Piraisoodan. The movie is expected to grace theatres in Tamil Nadu soon.

 

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Sunil Parameswaran, Ananthabhadram won five awards in the Kerala State Film Awards 2005 and was a commercial success as well. In a year when most Malayalam films failed to recover costs, Ananthabhadram was one of the few commercial successes, along with Rajamanickam, Chanthupottu, Naran, Thommanum Makkalum and Udayananu Tharam.

 

Its song 'Pinakkamano' became the top hit among Malayalam film songs in 2005. The director used three paintings of Raja Ravi Varma as an inspiration to picturize this song, rendered by M.G. Sreekumar and Manjari.

 

Produced by actor Manian Pillai Raju, Ajaya Chandran Nair and Reghu Chandran Nair under the banner of Sri Bhadra Pictures, Ananthabhadram is set in the backdrop of black magic and martial arts. The story is about Ananthan (Prithviraj) who returns to his ancestral village of Sivapuram from the US to light the lamps at Shivakavu, a dark and mysterious temple of Shiva, to fulfil the long-standing wish of his dead mother.

‘Crazy Gopalan’ confirmed for Dec 24

The latest news for this Christmas is that Dileep’s ‘Crazy Gopalan’ has been confirmed for 24th of this December. The movie which was earlier planned to make a release on the last 19th was shifted due to non completion of its DI works. The movie which fall under the heist genre will be a hilarious comedy thriller’, according to Deepu Karunakaran, the debutante director of the movie.
Crazy Gopalan has almost all comedy stars of Malayalam. Dileep appears in seven different get ups in this movie, donning the character of a hi tech thief. New comer Radha Varma is the heroine of the movie whose funny and different posters has already started a talk in the town.
Ullattil Sasidharan is producing the film under the banner of Bhavana Media. Script is by the director himself. D. Kannan is the man behind the camera. Music is by Rahul Raj and lyrics by Giresh Puthencheri and Anil Panachooran. Other cast members include Biju Menon, Jagathy, Hari Sree Asokan, Salim Kumar, Janardhanan, Kochu Preman and others.