Indian Regional Cinema

The ‘Khatta Meetha’ debutante Trisha Krishnan who will next be seen in Hindi with Pratik Babbar has become embroiled in a drug scandal. A report on a Telugu channel claims Trisha’s name features in the list of clients of a Nigerian drug dealer. All because she has a very close friend of African origin, the dress designer Sidney Sladen!

Namita the curvy actor of Telugu film industry has stayed away from the camera for a long time now. The actress has not released a single film since last year and she has cut off all her contacts, with the industry people and the media as well. The actress has reportedly secluded herself to a close circle of friends and does not want to share her personal life with anyone. A few days back she was seen at the Chennai Airport, where she explained the reasons for her absence from Tollywood.

The beautiful actress Aishwarya Nag, who has acted in several Kannada films in her initial days in the film industry, went ahead to try her luck in other regional films. But now, the actress is back again to the Kannada film with ‘Vigna’, which is being produced by Wasim D under Riyan Enterprises.

The Telegu Superstar Ram Charan Teja is working on a new love story called ‘Orange’. The film is being produced by the renowned Naga Babu under the banner of Anjana Productions. The film will be directed by the maverick director Bommarillu Bhaskar.

The actress Ananya, who played the role of Nallama in the film Nadodigal has bagged a new project in Mollywood. The talented actress will grace the screen in the upcoming Major Ravi film ‘Kandahar’. This movie is poised to be the biggest hit in the box office throughout India as it will have a huge star cast in the form of Big B Amitabh Bachchan, Mohanlal and Ganesh Venkatram.

It is a time for celebration as director Vinayan’s latest directorial venture Yakshiyum Njaanum is going to hit theatres tomorrow. Initially, he was denied permission to release the movie and was almost on the verge of shelving the project. However, the gain of the requisite permission has relieved him of the disturbing concerns.

Renowned Bengali movie director Prabhat Roy has signed two leading ladies Rituparna Sengupta and Raima Sen for his next venture titled Bhorer Alo. Interestingly, these two actresses play sisters again in this movie after Nishijapon by Sandip Ray.

Superstar Rajnikanth will be visiting Mumbai after 15 long years for the music release of his upcoming movie Robot. The Tamil audio was launched in Kuala Lumpur a couple of weeks ago, which happened to be a grand affair. Recently, the Telugu version The Robot too was launched at Hyderabad as superstars Chiranjeevi and Mohan Babu released the album.

The dance picturization for a song in the film Super took quite some time. It even extended the scheduled lunch break time. Actress Nayantara did not make her appearance in the media meet. She did not even permit media cameramen to get close to her.

Despite carrying favorable conditions to strike gold at box office, few films remain unreleased due to some constraints. Indeed, cinematographer Ravivarman’s debut directorial Moscowin Kaveri can be regarded as the best illustration. The film’s shooting was completed nearly a year ago and yet it is sealed inside the cans due to financial reasons.

Telugu movie Komaram Puli is again in the news and this time for the record-breaking success of its music. Sony BMG, which released the audio music album of the film, said that it has sold over 3 lakh audio CDs and about 6 lakh cassettes of the music within one month of its launch. This figure has set a new record in Tollywood music.

South Indian superstar Vikram has agreed to work in filmmaker Roshan Andrews’s next Malayalam flick for free. The Raavanan star wants to pay back to his audience for showing so much of affection to his movies.