Prithviraj injured

Youth icon Prithviraj suffered minor injuries while shooting for the Amal Neerad movie ‘Anwar’.

The actor who was admitted to a private hospital was discharged after first aids and was advised rest. ‘Anwar’ which deals with a story about the life of an educated young man who is forced to become a terrorist and has plenty of action sequences. Scripted by the director with the help of Sreejith D Pillai and R Unni, the movie shows the young star in a different look.

Produced by Celebs and Red carpet, the movie will resume its shoot in a day.

It may be of interest to remember that megastar Mammootty also escaped from a big accident while he was shooting for Amal Neerad’s debut movie ‘Big B’.

I enjoy my work: Tamannah

“Having tasted both success and failure in my career, I know how to go about my work, and I enjoy doing it”, says Tamannah, whose second innings in Tamil cinema has made her the numero uno actress of south India.

While everyone attributes their success to hard work and dedication, the petite beauty says, “I am lucky. Fortune has come calling and it has helped me be where I am today”.

The girl from Mumbai had a jinxed start to her career when she made her debut in Kollywood with ‘Kedi’. However she overcame all odds with a spirited performance in ‘Kalloori’. Also, the success of Telugu film ‘Happy Days’ propelled her career.

“I consider myself lucky to have made it big. There are umpteen number of actresses who also work hard, but success has been eluding them. Hence I am fortunate,” she says.

About her forthcoming releases, she says, “I play an interesting role in ‘Paiyaa’. The moment director Lingusamy narrated the story to me, I fell in love with it. Vijay’s ‘Sura’ features me in an interesting role, while rarely an actress can come across a role like the one I am doing opposite ‘Jayam’ Ravi in ‘Thillalangadi’.”

Vimala Raman to star opposite Salman Khan?

With most of the reigning actresses in South Indian film industry flying down to Bollywood, actress Vimala Raman doesn’t want to be an elision. Yeah! The actress is now all set to make her debut in Bollywood with Ambapali, which is a remake of yesteryear flick with the same title.

The original version had actress Vyjayanthimala Bali performing the lead role of a princess and is now enacted by Vimala Raman. According to the sources, the film will be directed by Ashutosh Gowariker (director of Hrithik Roshan-Aishwarya Bachchan starrer Jodhaa Akbar and Aamir Khan’s Lagaan).

It seems that Salman Khan has been approached to do the lead role and rest of the star-casts will be finalized shortly. Closer sources of Vimala Raman have mentioned that the actress is very much elated with this big offer as the producers have paid her a big sum.

Malayalam actress Vimala Raman has been winning rave reviews for her spellbinding performance in almost all her films including recent release in Kannada titled Aaptha Rakshaka.

Dileep turns scriptwriter in Superstar

Dileep plays the role of scriptwriter Nandhagopan in his upcoming movie Superstar. The movie is directed by Sanjeev Raj and script by S Suresh Babu. Kalabhavan Mani plays the role of a superstar Sooryakiran in the film which will deal with the in house stories of the tinsel town.

Dileep will play the role which represents a group pushed away to the outskirts of the city slums, thus making place for the wealthy biggies to be more comfortable. At this point of time he writes a script with this in the backdrop and which later becomes the talk of the town. The movie also cast Muktha, Ramba, Jagathy Sreekumar, Vijayaraghavan, ‘Thalaivasal’ Vijay, Ramachandran, Ganga, Salimkumar, and Ashokan.

Dileep has two releases this year, Bodyguard with Nayantara and Aagathan with Charmi. But the latter was kicked out from the thaeters after five weeks but Bodyguard is giving somewhat a relief not to the actor. Bodyguard made the comeback of the actress Nayantara to the industry.

Shahid and Anushka in ‘Badmaash Company’

The promo of Yash Raj Films’ next release ‘Badmaash Company’ starring Shahid Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in lead roles was unveiled last week and going by the looks of it, the film promises to be a complete entertainer. Directed by Parmeet Sethi, the film tells the story of four friends (Shahid, Anushka, Chang and Vir Das) who want to make it big in life.

For both Shahid and Anushka, this is the second film with the coveted Yash Raj banner. While Shahid starred in the fairly ordinary Dil Bole Hadippa alongside Rani Mukherjee, Anushka made a super debut opposite none other than SRK in Aditya Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

In Badmaash Company however, both Shahid and Anushka would be seen in a young, fresh and altogether new look. Anushka, who in her first film, was mostly seen sporting Indian wear has gone glamorous for this role wearing cool and funky tops and hot pants. Shahid on the other hand too seems to be sporting a new cropped spiked look compared to his long hair look in Dil Bole Hadippa.

Apparently, both Shahid and Anushka had a great time shooting for the film. There were a few sequences in the movie where the cast needed to shoot some water sports and games. Shahid and Anushka took this sportsmanship very seriously and carried on playing games like badminton and beach volleyball even after pack up. To everyone’s surprise, Anushka turned out to be the better player and beat Shahid everyday.

At the end of the day as long as the movie turns out to be victorious at the Box Office, Shahid couldn’t care less. What say?

Opposition stages walk out over Smart city issue

Thiruvananthapuram, Tuesday, March 30, 2010: Chief Minister V. S Achuthanandan in the assembly, told that the relations between the state government and the TECOM in connection with the Smart City project in Kochi is weakening. He told that the Tecom Company is not speaking the matters open-mindedly.

V.S added that the government has not taken severe measures to break up the treaty with Tecom Company. V.S was replying to the adjournment motion brought forward by K. Babu from the opposition side. Minister added that the government would take immediate steps after the reply is given by Tecom Company.

The opposition enquired about the delay of the smart city issue and brought forward the adjournment motion. This adjournment motion was rejected by the Speaker. The Smart city project chairman S. Sarma told that the dispute matters were not discussed in the director board meeting, which was held yesterday.

The Tecom CEO Fareed Abdul Rahman expressed that the company was not interested to leave the Smart city project. The next meeting would take place on June 28th. Fareed expressed that the company had received the letter from the government seeking explanation on their stand in this issue.

Swami Nityananda quits as head of his ashram

Bengaluru, Tuesday, March 30, 2010: Self-styled godman Swami Nityananda, who was purportedly caught in a sleazy video footage, today announced his decision to resign as head of his Dhyanapeetam ashram and from all trusts associated with it, living a life of “spiritual seclusion” for an indefinite time.

“I have decided to live a life of spiritual seclusion, for some indefinite time…and to enable the Dhyanapeetam to function with such amended agenda as may be necessary, I am resigning as the head of the Dhyanapeetam and from all the trusts associated with it,” he said addressing his followers on his official website.

“In view of the developments in the last three weeks following the media reports about me as the head of Dhyanapeetam, (located at Bidadi near Bangalore), I had met some of the leading acharyas of Hindu Dharma at Haridwar Kumbh Mela,” Nityananda, facing criminal cases, including that of rape, said.

‘Solution to infiltration problem lies with neighbour’

New Delhi, Tuesday, March 30, 2010: Noting that infiltration attempts by militants from Pakistan will continue, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor today said the solution to the problem lies with the neighbour as it was helping them to sneak into Indian territory.

“The solution to this problem lies with our neighbouring country as they provide support to these terrorists for infiltration,” he told reporters here after handing over the charge of Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee to Air Chief Marshal P V Naik here ahead of his retirement tomorrow.

Kapoor was asked if there was any solution to the problem of terrorists infiltrating from Pakistan into India.

He said the militants would continue to infiltrate in future also as they had the support of the “organisation on the other side.

Simbu – Lingusamy ready

Lingusamy’s ‘Paiyaa’ starring Karthi and Tamannah will see the light on April 2 and Lingusamy will start work on his next starring Silambarasan. Silambarasan joins the team of Lingusamy for the first time with this film.

It was expected that Silambarasan will start his directorial ‘Vaaliban’ before Lingusamy’s film because Lingusamy was busy in releasing ‘Paiyaa’ and did not reveal any dates or plans for his film with Silambarasan.

But Tirupati Brothers sources say Lingusamy will start shooting with Silambarasan in first week of June and the new project is a romantic action film much suiting the image of Silamabrasan. Brinda Sarathy is expected to pen the dialogues for this film also.

Sathyaraj who reduced his work load voluntarily for the past few years is again back to full form. The veteran actor is who accepted very selectively has nine films for release this year. Sathyaraj is a man who takes things very sportily shows no ego in doing any role of importance. He also gels very well with the young stars of today, which make him one of the favourite co-stars.

Sathyaraj’s immediate releases would be ‘Sinam’ and ‘Guru Sishyan’. In ‘Sinam’ Bhoomika and Navdeep are his co stars. Then is the laugh riot ‘Guru Sishyan’ in which Sathyaraj teams up with an equal ‘lollu party’ Sundar C. In ‘Kalavadiya Pozhuthugal’ Sathyaraj appears as Periyar in a few scenes.  Prabhu Deva and Bhoomika are the other stars.

In ‘Aayiram Vilaku’ Sathyaraj co stars with Santhanu and Sana Khan. In ‘Kulasekaranum Koolippadaiyum’ he is a part of the big star cast that includes Prakash Raj, Natraj, Keerthi Chawla, Udhaya Thara, Vadively, Seetha and others.

In ‘Gouravargal’ he is with Vignesh, Yuva Rani, Ranjith and Monika. In ‘Irandu Mugam’ Sathyaraj teams with Karan for the first time.

Then there is the biggest costume drama ‘Ponnan Shankar’  In this historical Sathyaraj leads the cast comprising Prashanth, Jayaram, Sneha, Prakash Raj, Napoleon, Raj Kiran, Vijaya Kumar, Vadivelu, Riyaz Khan, Ambika, Kushboo, Seetha, Manorama, Ponvannan and others.

To add more Sathyaraj has also a handful of film in Malayalam and Telugu.