Kanthaswamy: Malayalam rights sold for 2 crores

The Malayalam rights of Tamil actor Vikram's much-anticipated super hero Tamil film Kanthaswamy (also spelt as Kanthasamy or Kandasamy) have been reportedly sold for Rs. 2 crores and its satellite broadcast rights have been secured for a stunning amount of Rs. 4.5 crores. Produced by Kalaipuli S. Thanu and directed by Susi Ganesan, Kanthasamy will have its global release in the summer of 2009 (April to June).
Kanthaswamy, filmed in five countries, is reportedly being dubbed into Spanish, Italian and English. It is learnt that Kanthaswamy is a superman-like story with a logical twist. Fantasy and realism are mixed in the plot to make it a commercial entertainer.
The movie has been under production for almost a year. The post-production work is now going on in full swing. All that remains is a flashback scene and a song that will be shot in Italy. Director Susi Ganesan reportedly claimed that another Kanthaswamy would be needed to challenge the might of this film.
Shriya plays the female lead. Vivek, Santhanam, Vinod Raj, Y.G. Mahendran, Arun Mathavan, Vinayak and Alex will be seen in supporting roles. Vikram’s father Vinothraj and Malayalam actor Indrajith (elder brother of actor Prithviraj), play important roles in this film which has music by Devi Sri Prasad

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.

Ranbir-Asin for a Sci-fi Dhamaka

She has been the luckiest missy fetching best offers on the line. Much before her debut flick 'Ghajini' could hit the screens, Asin is there fleeting across seventh heaven in Bollywood. The actress is close on the heels of completing her 'London Dreams' with Salman Khan and Ajay Devagan. Meanwhile, talks are going on to sign for the biggest projects with Disney and Warner Bros.
Known for churning out best flicks, GV Films of South Indian Film Industry have geared up for their Bollywood endeavor. The untitled film would be simultaneously made in Tamil and Hindi with Asin as female lead in both the versions. With few days left for completion of furnished script by newcomer, neither lead roles nor a director for the film has been confirmed. Meanwhile producers Usha Venkataramani and Mahadevan Ganesh of GV Films have finalized it would be Ranbir Kapoor playing lead in Hindi version. Getting on with the film, they've just said that it would be based on science-fiction like Rajnikanth starrer 'Endhiran'.
GV Films has now successfully completed remaking John Abraham-Nana Patekar starrer 'Taxi No 9211' in Tamil. Also the producers have stated they are planning to make 4 multi-lingual animation films in 2009.

Pandiarajan to direct Saidapettai

Actor – director Pandiarajan is gearing to wield the megaphone after a long gap. The man, who rendered several hilarious entertainers a decade ago, will be directing a film that will star his son.
Pandiarajan introduced his son Prithvi in 'Kai Vandha Kalai'. Though the movie managed just a lukewarm response at the box office, Prithvi managed to leave his mark on screen. The young actor is currently acting in a film titled 'Vaidehi' opposite Karthika.
Buzz is that Pandiarajan is gearing up to direct his son for a film titled 'Saidapettai' starring Prithvi. Search is on for a heroine. Interestingly Pandiarajan has quite an affinity with Saidapetti as it was the place where Pandiarajan lived during his struggling days before he made it big.

Lollipop from today

Latest offering from Malayalam film industry, Lollipop that features almost all of the leading youngsters in the industry have released in about 80 centers today. The film was scripted by Benny P Nayarambalam and directed by hit maker Shafi. Lollipop features Prithviraj, Bhavana, Jayasurya, Kunchakko Boban and Roma in the leading roles. The film was produced under the banner ABS combines by Shafi, Benny P Nayarambalam and Anto Joseph.
The movie has been carrying good preview reports. This is yet another youngster movie from Shafi after the much accomplained hit Chocolate. But with the initial reports, the film have miserably failed to grow upto the expectations. Everyone will be wondering, how could a director like Shafi direct this movie and a script writer like Benny can write it, because the film is really boring in it's way. The film could have rated an average flick, but the unexpected twist in the climax have made the movie even worse. It was continuos booing in almost all theatres after that strange climax.
The movie has Prithviraj as Franco, who runs an automobile workshop at Fort Kochi. He shares a special bonding with his only sister Jennifer(Roma), who are more like friends .Franco and Jennifer have lost their parents at very younger stages of their life, and to avoid being left lonely at any further stage of their life, they have even decided to find their match in life, only after mutual approval.
Kunchakko Boban plays Aby, a junior Doctor of the hospital near Franko's workshop. Jayasurya is Francis, a mechanic at Franco's workshop. He was an expert in pick pocketing and fraudulent ways, till he met Franco. But now Francis, called as Panchy is a different man with all good maneuvers. Film features Bhavana as Rosebella franco's love interest. Since both of them, Rosebella and Jennifer are great rivals, the film features how Franco manages to make them friends in order to marry himself to Rosebella.
This film also features Rajan P Dev who plays Rosebella`s dad, Chandikunju, who runs a finance company. Sreekumar plays Kunchakko Boban's father, who was a former partner to Chandikunju is now an enemy to him. Others in the cast are Shafi's regular comedians like Salim Kumar, who plays Fr. Kuriakose, who is not just a priest but also a lawyer. Suraj plays Jabbar, a mechanic in Franco's workshop who is still ailing in the loss of his lover, who got married to his elder brother. Thus Lollipop is thus a celebration of brotherhood, friendship and love, told in the scripts of hit scriptwriter Benny P Nayarambalam.
On the basis of performance, all of them were excellent by themselves. The main reason for the film's drawback was it's untied script. The story of the film was really nice but the approach by the makers of the film towards it have really amazed me. Both Benny and Shafi were considered as hit makers since their films remains to be profit earners in terms of collections. But this time they failed miserably to make it a nice entertaining film.
Director Shafi as well as script writer Benny have let down everybody, though they were considered to be the reliable persons in the industry, according to the box office reports. In the technical part, cinematographer Azhagappan has done a descent job, especially with the song sequences in Banghok. Remaining all other parts too have done nice except the department of music which really let down the movie. The team of Alex Paul and Sarath Vayalar may have done some works but not in this film. Except one song 'Jeruselemile...' all other songs are really dud. Also these songs features some sort of resemblance with Alex's previous some combositions.
All in all, Lollipop definitely failed in some qaurters of making which indeed will cost the film very badly. I will prefer all of you to watch the movie if you are really on the way to kill your time. There is nothing new in this film so that i can say, you must watch it. I am feeling this film is a below average by it's way of making.