VEER- A big failure at the boxoffice

Salman Khan's ambitious period drama Veer has fallen flat at the box office despite having an extended weekend for business, thanks to Republic Day. The movie has not gone beyond an average 45 per cent occupancy over the initial weekend.

Released on Friday, the film was a solo release, but has failed to attract masses.

Made at a budget of around Rs.44 crore, Veer has been directed by Anil Sharma and marks the big screen debut of Zarine Khan, who is said to have a close resemblance to Salman's actress girlfriend Katrina Kaif.

Arjunan Sakshi - Pritvi in Renjith Shankar film

The most promising debutant director of 2009 was Ranjith Sankar, who directed the fantastic movie passenger.

In 2010 Ranjith Shankar is going to tell another different story with Arjunan Sakshi starring Prithviraj.
Story ,Screenplay ,Dialogues ,Direction : Ranjith Sankar
Prithvi is going to play an architect named 'Roy Mathew', who was born and brought up outside Kerala and had only very little knowledge about Kerala.
Roy Mathew arrives in Kochi for his new job with hopes of a peaceful life in his hometown.
But in contrary to his expectations a burning city welcomed him, dominated with media, corruption, political goons and bureaucracy . People were skeptical about everything and afraid to react to these atrocities.
In middle of all these he meets a simple man - Arjunan, who has a different story to tell, which can change an entire generation...

Hollywood Makes Ramayana- Aamir Khan playing the role of Hanuman

The Hollywood version of Ramayana will be directed by Chuck Russell who is famous for directing fantasy thrillers like The Scorpion King, The Mask and Mandrake, The Magician.

Ramayana was to be directed by Luis Mandoki but now zeroed on Chuck Russell.

Earlier, the producer wanted a Japanese actor who is an expert in martial arts, to play Hanuman since the role requires a lot of action. Now, the producer has approached Aamirs representative in Los Angeles. The role might require Aamir to develop the eight pack abs.

Aamir Khan has shown interest in playing the role of Hanuman but will take final decision only after reading the script. Aamir Khan has proved many times that he is good at choosing the movies that he wants to work. Role of mythological character Hanuman will be the most dramatic role he would have ever portrayed.

Hanuman, the powerful and fearless monkey god from Ramayana is known for loyalty to lord Ram.

Matrix star Keanu Reeves is set to play Ram in the Hollywood version of this great epic.


Shooting for the film is expected to start in December in Rajasthan, India, while the rest will be made in Hollywood.

Son of Alexander-Mammootty with Amal Neerad

Mammootty is famous for prioritizing his projects. He switches his projects, with the best story that he listens. The Mega Star will be seen sooner playing the lead in Amal Neerad's new venture Son of Alexander.

Amal Neerad, best known for Big B and Sagar Alias Jacky has worked with Ram Gopal Varma in James, Darna Zaroori Hai, Shiva and the Malayalam film Black as cinematographer; he is a product of Calcutta film institute.

Fans expect this to be the most stylish character ever played by Mammootty. Son of Alexander is the sequel of the movie Samrajyam released in late eighties in which the star played the role of an underworld don called Alexander.

Samrajyam was one of the biggest hit and had run in theatres for around 250 days and is dubbed to many languages.

Shah Rukh Khan lands 11,000 fans on debut Twitter day!

Shah Rukh Khan has joined Twitter, and has amassed a following of 11,000 followers on his very first day on the microblogging website, which is currently a hit with celebrities.

Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra and Mallika Sherawat are the Bollywood stars on Twitter, but Khan is set to be the most popular 'tweeter'.

"Being extremely shy, I never thought I would be here (on Twitter). But my friend Karan Johar insisted that I should learn to share my life," Shah Rukh posted on his page. "Thanks everyone, this is really sweet, didn't expect such a warm welcome. Love to you all," he added.

The actor shared his daily routine with his fans, tweeting, 'kids and life calling, watching Tim Burton's 9 with them, last holiday, so up late, catch up later. sleep or be awake well. love to all(sic)."

Khan who will be seen on the big screen again this year in the much-awaited My Name is Khan explained his absence saying, "Injury has kept me away from making more films, will work my back off to be around more, the shoulder feels strong and so do I."

3 Idiots- review- book yourtickets thru sms @ 52627

Let’s face it: this film is all about expectation. There is Rajkumar Hirani coming out with a film after three years and teaming up with Aamir for the first time; the Rang De Basanti cast reunion with Aamir, Madhavan and Sharman and, add to that, a creatively empty year with hardly any worthwhile films. Whoosh, you can actually cut through the pressure with a knife.

You can hardly help yourself as you watch the film - you’d expect the best from the best, right? Not always, as you learn here. The film’s a good watch, but not great. And worse, you may be entertained, but you’re unlikely to internalise its core message. The film doesn’t convince you enough.

3 Idiots is a film that appears borrowed from too many sources and the haphazardness shows. Editor-director Rajkumar Hirani can’t seem to shake Munnabhai out of his system and appears to have replaced the actor and the setting, while retaining the core formula. Unfortunately, 3 Idiots lacks the effortless simplicity, sweetness and honesty of the Munnabhai films. Though a bit too calculated and designed, 3 Idiots is still an ok option for the significant message, interesting cast and scattered breezy moments.

Ividam Swargamanu - Review- tickets thru SMS balconny @ 52627

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With its virtuous intentions and inherent honesty Ividam Swargamanu is a gutsy and good attempt by Rosshan Andrews and script writer James Albert to bring about a change.

The film talks about a crisis situation that happens in the life of a farmer who loves his land and is committed to thwart evil designs of the land mafia.

Rosshan and James has dealt with a topical subject about fly by night real estate dealers who are trying to push up land prices and forcing people to convert farmland into real estate and resorts.

Mohanlal has been shown as a green farmer who cultivates organic vegetables and runs his farm using traditional methods and thereby director Rosshan Andrrews has tried to bring in some difference.

But the immediate feeling that one gets while coming out of the theatres after watching the film is that things could have been even better with a tighter script.

The story meanders almost aimlessly especially during the first half but things get more interesting during the second half. The last 20 minutes of the film is what holds it together.

Mathews (Mohanlal) has become a farmer by choice and has set up a rather impressive farm. He is a chronic bachelor, who is a nice human being and very attached to his family especially his father Jeremiah (Thilakan).

A wealthy land grabber Aluva Chandy (Lalu Alex) wants to purchase Mathews land and he convinces the villagers that a big township will be set up there.

Now the story gets some pace and Mathews has to deal almost singlehandedly with the “real estate mafia” and the corrupt system. When the going gets tough, he decides to use some wily tactics to handle Chandy.

It is Prabalan (Sreenivasan), a lawyer who has been appointed as the ‘amicus curiae’ in the case, who helps Mathews in this.

As the common man who is no invincible superhero and with his heart in the right place, its vintage Mohanlal looking refreshingly good as Mathews.

His on-screen chemistry with seasoned actors like Thilakan, Sreenivasan and Jagathy Sreekumar is a treat to watch Lalu Alex has come up with one of the best performances in his career, as the wealthy, scheming but idiotic Aluva Chandy.

There are three heroines in the story, Betsy (Priyanka Nair), a channel reporter, Sunitha (Lakshmi Rai), a lawyer and Maria (Lakshmi Gopalaswany), the manager of the State Financial Corporation, who have done their brief roles pretty well.

The rest of the cast like Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma and Sukumari has nothing much to do, as the whole story is centred on Mathews and his agonies.

The story reminds us of the last year Bollywood hit Khosla ka Ghosla at times, especially during the latter part of the second half. But one gets the feeling that if the whole story was paced like those moments in the climax, then the film would perhaps have been in a better shape. At around two hours and forty five minutes, the film is a bit too lengthy as well.

James Albert, who has earlier written films like Classmates and Cycle, has succeeded this time, in parts. Rosshan Andrrews, who made Udayananu Tharam and Note Book earlier, has tried in bring in some freshness to the theme.

Divakar's camera and Gopi Sundar's background score in this film which has no songs.

For those who are looking for something different, Ividam Swargamanu scores with the sincerity in the subject that is being told.

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Chattambinaadu - review

For this Christmas, once again you have a movie plotted at a remote Tamil Nadu border, with all that colorful camera friendly costume worn dumb village people, two strong families at war for more than two decades, the entry of the hero to settle the war with some mysterious personal interests, the loud mouthed villain with that big moustache and another hundreds of regular features that you come across in almost all the hits of decade. Yes, this is an overall idea of ‘Chattambinaadu’- the new Mammootty movie in theatres, strictly made on the formula stuff with that very old wine story in another new bottle. What really makes a difference is the megastar adorning another sharply different look and slang for his protagonist character, who amuse, confuse and impress the viewers with dialogues that are more Kannada than Malayalam.

n a potpourri of recent hits from Rajamanickayam, to Madambi and Mayavi, the racy narratives and fast cuts has managed to hold the movie without any big harm atleast till interval. But the final hour becomes increasingly predictable, with not much fresh surprises in store. But it is the one-man show of Mammootty, the megastar who really shows how he can hold a movie with a regular lame storyline with his charismatic performances. Even with a regular singular white pajama- kurtha dress code, he is eminently handsome throughout, with his acting credentials once again coming to the fore. Watch out for the two sentimental scenes where he manages to impress everyone, even with heavy Kannada dialogues. Vinu Mohan as his trusted aide Murugan, is in another role that the youngster can treasure. Lakshmi Rai and Mythili manages through the characters they are in while others from Vijayaraghavan, Manoj K Jayan, Siddhique, Janardhanan and Co are all in their regular roles.