2011 Audio Songs
All songs →Related News
More news →Dasavatharam shoot from August 18
Shooting of the much-awaited film of Kamal Haasan 'Dasavatharam' would begin on August 18. The prestigious film in which Kamal is going to play 10 different characters is being directed by K.S. Ravikumar to be produced by V Ravichandran on the banner of Oscar Films Pvt Ltd. Besides Asin, Mallika Sherawat, three top heroines are expected to play opposite Kamal. The budget estimated for a song in it projected at Rs 3 crore, which hints the massive budget with which the film is being produced. These songs would be picturised with over 5,000 artistes in the backdrop of huge sets. The film is most likely to hit the screen in the next summer. It is said that the film would remain as a heavy budget film not only in the career of Kamal Haasan but also will remain as a memorable film for producer Ravichandran.
Box office analysis-January 18 , 2007
Pokiri leads the pack It's battle royale at the box-office now. The Pongal releases are out and it is a stiff competition between them. The harvest festival witnessed the release of director Mani Rathnam's Guru, Vijay's Pokiri, Ajith starrer Aalwar and Vishal's Thamirabarani. According to initial reports, it looks likely that this Pongal absolutely belongs to Pokiri. The action-packed entertainer starring Vijay and Asin and directed by Prabhu Deva has emerged the clear winner. The movie has opened to 100 per cent collections all over the State. Similarly, it is collecting huge revenue in overseas markets too. A typical Vijay-film, Pokiri with action-romance and humour at the right mix, has won rave reviews too. Also Mani Sharma's music and Nirav Shah's slick photography have helped the movie's cause. Ajith's Aalwar is not far behind. The actor's movie, known for drawing grand opening, has been witnessing good crowds. However, predictable sequence of events and cliched storyline has not helped the movie's cause. The movie starring Asin, Vivek, Manorama and Lal among others, has been doing decent business in rural areas. Vishal's Thamirabarani too is drawing good crowds. Directed by Hari, the movie has a racy storyline with Prabhu and Nadhiya giving Vishal good company. Mani Rathnam's Guru, which caters to the niche audience, is collecting well in the A centre. The Hindi version is running to packed houses. Director Ameer's Paruthi Veeran, which stars Karthi (Suriya's sibling) and Priya Mani in lead roles, will be out on 25 January. Expectations are high on Paruthi Veeran, since Ameer rendered an engrossing movie in his last - Ram. Meanwhile, Irandu, which has Madhavan in the lead role, has reportedly managed a decent outing this month especially in the B and C centres. Among films released for Deepavali, Varalaru and E managed to complete a successful 75-day run last week.
Kuselan' for July 18
'Kuselan'- Rajinikanth's remake of the Malayalam super hit 'Katha Parayumpol' will grace the theatres on July 18. The interesting thing about the movie is that Malayalees will get an opportunity to compare it with its original, as the movie will be released in Kerala by Seven Arts International, one of its producers. The movie will get released in at least 80 centers of the state. The Tamil and Telugu rights of the movie was grabbed by Pyramid Saimira at more than 60 crores. As the production cost of the movie will come to just under 40 crores, the movie will prove to be a profit to its producers even before its theatrical release. Rajini will play himself in this film with Kavithalaya producing the film in Tamil and Ashwini Dutt producing the film in Telugu. Nayantara, Pasupathy, Meena, Vadivelu are also in the cast. The same film is being filmed in Hindi with SRK playing the lead role and titled 'Billu Barber'.
18 films for UTV
UTV Motion Pictures opened 2008 with blockbusters like Jodhaa Akbar & Race that have been ruling the box office charts. The 18-film slate includes an all-encompassing mix of genres across comedy, action, thriller and romance, in Hindi and English, with dubbed versions in Tamil, Telegu, French, German and other languages. The films include a heady mix of experience and youth, including Academy nominated directors M. Night Shayamlan's 'The Happening', Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra 'Delhi 6', Shyam Benegal 'Mahadev', Aziz Mirza 'Kismat Konnection', Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Fashion', Shoojit Sircar 'Shoebite' starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dia Mirza and Sarika. The company is also presently working on a slate of 4 animation films, which makes it the largest animation slate out of India.
18 killed in Nigeria violence
At least 18 people were killed and seven injured in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria’ s restive Plateau state, police said. The attack on Belle village took place Tuesday morning, Xinhua reported. Some of the invaders also were killed during the attack, police spokesperson Apev Jacob said in Jos, the state capital. “The attackers fled before the security operatives arrived at the scene,” he said. The Plateau state is situated in Nigeria’s middle belt where the Muslim-dominated north and the Christian-majority south meet. It has seen years of ethnic tensions and is a major potential flashpoint ahead of the April presidential elections. The state capital was plunged in a pool of blood March 7, 2010, when members of Muslim and Christian communities fought each other in revenge for previous killings. More than 100 people were killed in the clashes.
18 new planets discovered
Using twin telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, astronomers have discovered 18 new Jupiter-like planets orbiting massive stars. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), surveyed about 300 stars, and focussed on those dubbed “retired” A-type stars that are more than one and a half times more massive than the sun. These stars are just past the main stage of their life hence, “retired”, and are now puffing up into what’s called a subgiant star. “It’s the largest single announcement of planets in orbit around stars more massive than the sun, aside from the discoveries made by the Kepler mission,” John Johnson, first author on the paper, said. The Kepler mission is a space telescope that has so far identified more than 1,200 possible planets, though the majority of those have not yet been confirmed. To look for planets, the astronomers searched for stars of this type that wobble, which could be caused by the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet. By searching the wobbly stars’ spectra for Doppler shifts, the lengthening and contracting of wavelengths due to motion away from and toward the observer, the team found 18 planets with masses similar to Jupiter’s. According to Johnson, this new bounty marks a 50 percent increase in the number of known planets orbiting massive stars and, provides an invaluable population of planetary systems for understanding how planets, and our own solar system, might form. The researchers say that the findings also lend further support to the theory that planets grow from seed particles that accumulate gas and dust in a disk surrounding a newborn star. According to this theory, tiny particles start to clump together, eventually snowballing into a planet. If this is the true sequence of events, the characteristics of the resulting planetary system like the number and size of the planets, or their orbital shapes will depend on the mass of the star. In another theory, planets form when large amounts of gas and dust in the disk spontaneously collapse into big, dense clumps that then become planets. But in this picture, it turns out that the mass of the star doesn’t affect the kinds of planets that are produced. So far, as the number of discovered planets has grown, astronomers are finding that stellar mass does seem to be important in determining the prevalence of giant planets. The newly discovered planets further support this pattern, and are therefore consistent with the first theory, the one stating that planets are born from seed particles. “It’s nice to see all these converging lines of evidence pointing toward one class of formation mechanisms,” Johnson added. The study has been recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.