Gangai Amaren The multi-facted, younger brother of Maestro Ilaiyaraaja and who done many hats of lyricist, playback singer, actor, director, producer and music director. A father of successful director of Venkat prabhu.Recently A weekly magazine poratray a article about rajinkanth successful carrer, in this…

Filmmaker Halitha Shameem's upcoming Tamil-Malayalam bilingual "Minmini", a tale of friendship and sacrifice, won't feature any songs."The film has no songs, but we're planning to acquire the rights of a Hollywood track and use it. We want to credit the original composer. It will…

Finally, Venghai seems to have managed to come out unscathed from the legal wrangle that was imposed on it. The film ran into trouble with a wannabe director, Kalai Selvam claiming that the title belonged to him as he had it registered.This created a…

Here is one more entrant to filmdom from Tamilnadu's first family. Dayanidhi Azhagiri, son of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's Madurai based son M K Azhagiri has acquired the release rights of Varanam Aayiram.He has started a production company 'Cloud Nine Movies', which has bought…

'I like doing villainous characters with a touch of humor' says Pandiarajan, who can never be forgotten for his radiating performances and the laughter he evoked in films like 'Aan Pavam' and 'Nethi adi'.He has directed 9 films so far and acted over in…

It seems like the world is turning towards period films. Be it up North or down South many directors are hunting for as well as filming period stories.Impressed with the filming of the film 'Periyar' there is one more film going to be made…

Music Director Deva is known for his simplicity. The musician, who has the reputation of having composed music for so many films within a very short period, looks very simple. He is also quite humble when he talks about his achievements. He attributes his success…

The up-and-coming young music composer G V Prakash is slowly climbing to stardom.After a scintillating debut in Veyyil, produced by Shankar and directed by Vasanthabalan, Prakash came up with hit numbers in Kireedom and Oram Po.He is now a busy man scoring music…

Sarath Kumar, who quit his post as the president of the South India Film Artistes Association, has been asked to continue as the honcho of the association for the next two years.It may be recalled that Sarath had quit as the president of SIFAA…

Pandiarajan's son Prithvi made his debut in Kai Vandha Kalai. His next film is Naalaya Pozhudhu Unnodu.Karthika, who made her debut in Thoothukudi, is the heroine. The film is directed by K Murthy Kannan, an assistant to P Vasu. The film is produced by…