Indian Regional Cinema

Kamal Haasan’s Manmadhan Ambu has completed 65% of the shooting in Venice. With few scenes and songs pending to be shot, producer Udhayanidhi Stalin is sure about releasing the film for Diwali. The other big ticket scheduled for Diwali release will be Vijay’s Kaval Kadhal.

One of the India’s most glamorous babes, Namitha, couldn’t find a perfect reason to rejoice as almost all her previous films had been a debacle at the box office.. But, the actress is now, on top of the world as her recent Telugu release ‘Simha’ has successfully completed 50 Days. The actress, who was in Mumbai for the past couple of months, is now flying back to Hyderabad for the success meet of the ‘Simha’ Team.

Actress Nayanthara is currently busy shooting for ‘Boss Enginra Bhaskaran’ that features Aarya in the lead role. Rajesh, who made his directorial with ‘Siva Manasula Sakthi’ is handling the story, screenplay, dialogues and direction of this film.

S Shankar is coming up with the highest budget Indian film ever, which was likely to be titled as Robot earlier. This film has surpassed the budget of the Bollywood high budget film Blue (2009).

There was recently news that all over place that ‘Tamannaah’ is to make her debut in ‘Mollywood’ this year. It was a Malayalam daily that first reported the news. It went on to say that the actress was offered a huge sum to act opposite Mohanlal in a film to be directed by Anil and produced by Thomas Sabastian.

Karthik, who has gained popularity for his super hit Tamil debut movie Paruthiveeran, celebrated his birthday on 25th of May amongst the underprivileged people.

Saratkumar and Namita played the lead in a successful Tamil film, which is now being dubbed into Telugu as ‘Mosagallaku Mosagadu’. Vasireddy Padmakara Rao is bringing out the Telugu version on the banner of Jayaprada Pictures.

Manchu Vishnu, is playing the hero in a film to be produced by Dr M Mohanbabu on a new banner of 24 Frames Factory. The shooting of the film was formally launched at the production office in Hyderabad recently.

Tamil superstar Vikram, who makes his debut alongside Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the three versions of Raavan in Hindi, Tamil and (the dubbed) Telugu, got to share the most daunting experiences in the jungles of Kerala with Aishwarya, including dancing high above water-level on "the most slippery rock God had ever invented."

Gautham, son of popular comedian Brahmanandam, is playing the hero again in a movie by introducing Kalyan Manthena as director. The movie is being presented by Tulasi and produced by Maheswara Rao on the banner of Movie Miracles.