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Superstar Rajnikanth might don the mantle of Tamilnadu's celebrated saint poet Tiruvalluvar (First or Second century AD) in a forthcoming Rs. 50 Crore Hollywood flick titled Saint Thomas. This Apostle was widely believed as the initiator Syrian Christianity in Kerala and parts of Tamilnadu. The actor who played Jesus in Hollywood film Passion of the Christ is being approached to play the Jesus role in this film. Dr. Paulraj Loudhuswami has scripted the subject. Kollywood stars Ajit, Vikram and Vijay are set to do the guest roles. Tamilnadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi is expected to inaugurate the film soon. There is a controversial belief that both Tiruvalluvar and Saint Thomas were contemporaries. This is a Rs. 50 Crore budget film.

Rajasekhar to play Mohanlal in comedy
After much-hyped pre-production hungama of Satyameva Jayate, now hero Rajashekar has signed his next for producer Maganti Gopinath in the direction of Ramprasad. Ramana Gogula is roped in for the music. It is the remake of a Malayalam hit movie titled Hello. Kajal was tried as the female lead, which didn't happen for lack of dates. Her parents had even watched Hello, expressing their satisfaction. Latest, Suhasi is under consideration. The story is about a lawyer (played by Mohanlal), an alcoholic, who leaves his practice and hits the bottle after his family disapproves of his love. In Malayalam, Parvati Melton did the heroine. We have to wait and see how the angry young man will fit into this out and out comedy genre.

2 July 2008

Chandra Siddarth-Sharwanand film in Aug
Critically acclaimed director Chandra Siddarth is going to direct Sharwanand in a new film to be produced by the Zee TV concern, reliable sources told Idlebrain. This is said to be a family entertainer, completely away from action and vulgarity. Heroine hunt is underway for a new girl. It will be officially launched in August, it is further learnt.

13th September 2006

Jyothika retires fr films
In a press meet held of Chennai after her wedding with Surya, actress Jyothika said tat she was
planning to retire fr acting of films. She would like to confine herself to d role of housewife. Her
last film was going to be Nuvvu Nenu Prema. Surya n Jyothika are going to Europe 4 Honeymoon.

Doondy to head Nandi awards committee
Popular producer P Doondeswara Rao (Doondy) was appointed as chairman of Nandi Awards selection
committee 4 films released of 2005. d other members of d team include Tripuraneni Maharathi, Mada
Venkateswara Rao, Geetanjali, Kondapaneni Uma Maheswara Rao, P Sambasiva Rao, Sathi Babu, DVS Raju,
TVS Raju, Raghavi Eluri, Uday Kumar, Bhaskara Raju, K Muthyam Reddy n MKR Ashalatha. IAS officer C
Partha Sarathi was selected as convener 4 tis committee.

Magadheera of October
Kamal Hassan’s latest Tamil flick Vettaiyadu Villaiyadu turned out to be super hit. tis film was being
dubbed n released of Telugu of October. Jyothika n Kamalinee Mukherjee play female leads. Srihari
plays important character. Harris Jayaraj scored music. Gowtam Menon directed tis film. D Raj Varma
was going to dub tis film of Telugu on Sri Venkateswara Cine Enterprises banner.

12th September 2006

Stalin censor on 16 September
Chiranjeevi’s latest film Stalin was all set to release on 20th of tis month all over d world. Stalin
film will go 4 censoring on 16th September, as per d reports available today. Since Stalin was going
to be released with 400 prints, this was difficult 4 any individual film lab to process n print so
many copies of such a short span of time. Hence d producer was using all d prominent labs available of
Hyderabad to make sure tat prints are of place 4 distributors to carry a day before d release of d
film.

Fire measures might affect ticket hikes
The Government issued two different GOs (Government Order) last year. One GO gives d exhibitor to hike
d price of ticket 4 d first two weeks of d film release. d second GO asks d exhibitors to guarantee
tat fire prevention measures are of compliance with d standard. But most of d theaters of AP does not
meet d standards as these fire prevention specifications were not available when these theaters were
built. d exhibitor should get a document signed by joint collector of order to hike ticket prices 4
each of d film. d sources of idlebrain.com say tat d joint collectors are insisting on fire prevention
measures of order to sign on these ticket hike permission documents. Stalin film was releasing on 20th
of tis month. n some of d exhibitors are worried about getting permission fr joint collector smoothly.

Rakhi film on 22nd December
NTR’s latest film of d direction of Krishna Vamsi was expected to release on 22nd of December. Ileana
n Charmme are playing female leads. d unit recently completed a song of Phuket Islands. Devi Sri
Prasad scores music. KL Narayana was producing tis film on Sri Durga Arts banner.

Ravi Teja as Khatarnak
Ravi Teja’s latest film of d direction of Amma Rakasekhar (Ranam fame) was titled as ‘Khatarnak’.
Ileana was paired up with Ravi Teja. MM Keeravani scores music. Prakash Raj, Pradeep Rawat n Biju
Menon (Ranam fame) play important roles. BVSN Prasad who recently produced Chatrapati was producing
tis film on Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra banner.