Black Dalia: Coming Soon

Black Dalia, the upcoming debut directorial venture of popular Malayalam villain and character actor Baburaj (husband of actress Vani Vishwanath), is a thriller starring action hero Suresh Gopi as a forensic psychiatrist named Dr. Aadikesav. It revolves around a gang of ten NRI girls studying in Sacred Heart Medical College.

Unlike other college gangs, these girls have some special skills. They are highly interested in hockey and basketball and have won several university matches. They are together from the very first day of their college admission and have developed an unique intimacy without any ego clash or differences in opinion. Normally, they do not create any issues with other students, but things turn upside down when one among them is struck by an unexpected event. The story develops from this point.

Srilankan actress Tami Dushyantha, Tamil-Telugu actress Suja Naidu, Malayalee actresses Teena Ponnamma, Ruksha, Jisna Ali, Althara, Kavitha  Nair, Pavithra, Thegika from Hyderabad and Sherry Minhas from Punjab are the ten heroines. Vani Vishvanath, in the role of DIG Daisy Wilfred, begins her second innings in films withBlack Dalia. 

Produced by M.K. Muhammed under the banner of M.K. Productions, the film is scripted by the director himself. Also in the cast are Sai Kumar, Jagathy, Vijaya Raghavan, Siddique, Devan, Skantha, Niyas, Johny, Abusalim, Kollam Thulasi, Saju Kodiyan, Seema, Ambika Mohan and Usha. P. Sukumar wields the camera. Sayan Anwar sets music for lyrics written by I.S. Kundoor, Jeofi Tharakan and Dr. Deepak Sneh. Shooting has started at the locations of Bangalore, Dehradun and Malaysia.

A festival without super stars

This Christmas season will be very special one for Mollywood, with no superstar movies around the corner. In fact this is the first Christmas season after a decade, without a super star movie. Mohanlal's Shaji Kailas movie ‘Red Chillies’ expected for this Christmas, couldn't reach the theatres because of the delay in the completion of Digital intermediate works while Mammootty's bilingual ‘Vande Matharam’ earlier charted for the season still has got some parts to get canned . Sureshgopi's ‘Boss' was the other movie that was expected for the season, but failed to make a release due to distribution problems.
The movies that are left in the final contest for emerging the winner of the season are Shafi's ‘Lolipop’ and Dileep's ‘Crazy Gopalan'. ‘Lolipop’ which was released couple of days ago, already has got mixed reports from the initial viewers.
News is that Director Shafi has already edited out the new presentation styles that he has attempted for the story telling of ‘Lolipop’. And now you will never find the movie as one that is told by the ghost of the Character played by Jayasuriya. The drastic cut that the crew has made after the release of the movie has also left the movie with much inconsistencies and scene jumps.
‘Crazy Gopalan’, the Dileep starrer that is getting released today carry good preview reports and chances are that the movie may become the biggest earner of the season, ending his long drought of hits.
Any how, AMMA's multi starrer ‘Twenty:20’ which is still continuing in more than 50 centres all over Kerala will get the maximum benefits of this situations and the movie will garner in even more revenues in the next couple of weeks

Navya back with a bang

After going through torrid times in her career for a year, actress Navya Nair seems to be back with a bang.
She has suddenly become busy with a number of films under her sleeve. She is the heroine of the Suresh Gopi movie 'Violet' which has completed the shoot for its first schedule. Navya is presently in the sets of 'Calender' the debut movie of actor Mahesh as a director Prithviraj is the hero of Navya in this movie.
Navya has also bagged a meaty role as the heroine of Sarathkumar in the new untitled Tamil movie directed by Sanjay Ram. This movie will also feature Mammootty in a prominent role.

Unni Krishnan's I.G.

B. Unnikrishnan, the scriptwriter who turned to direction with the Suresh Gopi starrer Smart City in 2006, has recently directed the box office blockbuster Madambi, starring Mohanlal and Kavya Madhavan together for the first time. Much impressed by the basic plot of Madambi, Mohanlal had immediately accepted the film, which later turned to be a huge hit in Kerala as well as in other states.
Now, Unnikrishnan is all set to direct another film titled I.G. with Suresh Gopi in the lead. As the title I.G. indicates, the film would probably be a cop story. The producer is Mahi. More details are waited.
Currently, Suresh Gopi is busy shooting debutante director Ajmal's investigative thriller Ring Tone, which is about an investigation into a series of mysterious cyanide-caused deaths that take place in a tribal community. Suresh Gopi plays the role of Ninan Koshi, the CBI officer who investigates the case. This is the first time in his career that Suresh Gopi, who is almost synonymous with the police officer roles on screen, is donning the role of a CBI officer. Bala plays an important role along with Suresh Gopi; Telugu actress Megha Nair is the heroine.
Produced by Sree Kumar, Swaminathan and Prabhu Kumar under the banner of Panchajanyam films, Ring Tone has Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajan P. Dev, Sai Kumar and Anoop Chandran in major roles. Saneesh and Arafath make their debuts as script writers. Bejoys wields the camera. Music director Shan scores music to the lyrics written by Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma.