June 15, 2010: With just three days left for the release of Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Raavanan, cast and crew of the film including the director were in Hyderabad on Monday to promote the film’s Telugu version, titled Villain.

Mani Ratnam, along with wife Suhasini and the stars of Raavanan, Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Priyamani [...]

June 15, 2010: Young music composer Thaman has said that he enjoyed scoring music for actor Adhi’s films. ‘We are like the combo of Harris Jayaraj and Suriya. Hope all our songs rock’.

He was speaking at the audio launch of Ayyanar, a movie starring Adhi, Meera Nanadan, directed by Rajamithran and produced by P L [...]

June 15, 2010: The two-day executive meeting of the All India Film Employees Confederation (AIFEC), which ended in Chennai on Monday, passed various resolutions aimed at the welfare of technicians and junior artistes.

The conference decided to fix a common wage scale and standard working hours, a move which is expected to benefit over six [...]

Jan 5, 2010: The Art of Living will observe ‘Celebrating Life Week’ from January 5 to 10. During the week, Art of Living workshops will be conducted in 40 locations in Chennai.
Akhila Srinivasan, State president of the Art of Living, said, “We are offering early morning, mid-morning, afternoon and evening batches.”

At the workshops, participants will [...]

Jan 5, 2010: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday announced the selection of eminent Tamil Scholar Iyravatham Magadevan for this year’s ‘Thiruvalluvar Award’ and journalist ‘Nakkeeran’ R Gopal for ‘Thanthai Periyar Award for Social Justice’.

According to an official release, the ‘Arignar Anna Award’ would begiven to Tamil scholar Avvai Natarajan and ‘Ambedkar Award’ to Socialworker [...]

Oct 14, 2009: Achamundu Achamundu, a Tamil film directed by Arun aidyanathan with Prasanna and Sneha in the lead roles, has been selected for screening at the 33rd Cairo International film festival.

The movie already made rounds in international film festivals like Garden State film festival, Shanghai International film festival and Digital cinema film festival, [...]

Oct 8, 2009: Suriya revealed some secrets about his forthcoming film Aadhavan at a media meet in Chennai today. ‘I am playing a 10-year-old for a flashback portion. Those 20 minutes in the movie would be the high point of it,’ he said.

Throwing more light, he said, ‘Initially we thought of shooting the portion with [...]

Universal hero, Universal theme
At a time when the whole world is trying to find a solution to
terrorism, Kamal Hassan has tried one in ‘Unnaipol Oruvan’, by driving
home a message that an eye for an eye would at least save the vision
of others.

The 1 hour and 47 minutes thriller is a faithful yet fresh remake of
Hindi [...]

Sep 17, 2009: The Madras High Court today granted permision to actor Kamal Haasan to release Unnaipol Oruvan as scheduled tomorrow.

In his interim order, Justice Rajasuriya directed the actor to pay half the sum of money that he allegedly owe to Pyramid Saimira before 30 September. He observed that failure to pay the money [...]

Sep 11, 2009: Jayam Ravi celebrated his birthday with the inmates of Little Flower Convent in Chennai on Thursday. ‘It is happy to share the joy with others, especially with children,’ he says.

The actor, who is waiting for the release of Peranmai directed by S P Jananthan, says, ‘I was impressed when Jananthan narrated the [...]