Jigarthanda comes to an end

Karthik Subbaraj of Pizza fame is wrapping up the shoot of his next film, titled ‘Jigarthanda’ in Madurai. The film has Siddharth and Lakshmi Menon in the lead and the crew have been shooting in Madurai for the past couple of months. Produced by Kathiresan, who earlier produced the National Award-winning Aadukalam, ‘Jigarthanda’ is a city-based action drama in Madurai.

Siddharth who is riding on the success of ‘Theeya Velai Seiyyanum Kumaru’ has expressed his happiness of being a part of the film terming it a special film and also said that he had an unforgettable two months in Madurai shooting for the film. The cast also includes Simhaa, Karna, Guru Somasundaram and Pratap Pothen with music by Santosh Narayanan

Is Ramya Nambessan in love?

If a recent report in a Malayalam film magazine is to go by, action hero Unni Mukundan has fallen in love with actress, Ramya Nambeesan.

Both the actors had played lovers in the recently released Ithu Pathiramanal, which bombed at the Box Office.
Though Ramya is not in the top league in Malayalam and Tamil, she has a few hits in both the languages (including the recent Pizza).

Unni Mukundan is an upcoming star and is known for his well-known body and has films like Mallu Singh to his credit. Now we have to wait and see if the news is indeed true or not?

Premji mass number

The Settai team recently filmed for a song at a huge set erected near the airport. The song which is a mass number has been written and sung by Gaana Bala who sang ‘Ninaikuthey’ from Pizza. Premgi has gone retro for the song and newcomer Nakshatra has acted opposite Premgi.

Director Kannan says the original song in Delhi Belly was “vulgar” but this song will be a one that can be viewed by the family audience.

2 Tamil Films in 1st SAFF in Paris

Tamil films are gearing up to make it big internationally. 2012 has seen the screening of many Tamil movies in Film Festivals and latest we hear is Vazhakku Enn 18/9 and Pizza are chosen to be screened in 1st South Asian Film Festival taking place in Paris.

The 1st SAFF happening in Paris will screen movies from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Organizers have planned to monitor films from five different countries, as they want to show that South Asian Film Festival is not only for Bollywood movies.

Along with Balaji Sakthivel’s Vazhakku Enn 18/9 produced by Lingusamy’s Thirupathi Brothers banner and debutant Karthik Sunnaraj directed Pizza starring Vijay Sethupathi and Remya Nambeesan, other films namely Gurvinder Singh’s Anhey Ghore Da Daan, Ajay Bahl’s B A Pass, Bangladeshi film Udhao by Amit Ashraf and Nepali film Loot by Nischal Basnet are the other contenders.

Onir’s My Brother Nikhil, AR Murugadoss-Suriya’s 7am Arivu – The 7th sense and Abhinay Deo’s Delhi Belly are the 3 other Indian films to be screened under special sections during 1st SAFF in Paris, taking place from 16th to 20th January 2013.