(IANS) Tamil star Suriya is one happy man these days as his latest release "7aam Arivu" has done good business and the actor says the film is a bigger grosser than "Singham".
"Singham was my biggest commercial hit but '7am Arivu' has collected that amount in the first 10 days itself," said the actor adding that, "People across the world has seen it and responded overwhelmingly."
"Theatre owners told me that there were segments of audience who returned to theatres after many years, just to see the film," he said.
Talking about mixed reactions to the film he said that he had faith in the director's concept. Apparently, Rajinikanth saw the film and complimented him on his hard work and asked him to keep it up.
During the making of the movie, Suriya gave his inputs and said: "I did say what I felt at various points and they took suggestions, which were feasible."
Talking about the portions that had been censored in Sri Lanka, the actor said: "The censor boards in different countries have different rules and everyone has to abide by it."
He also said that his father, who usually does not comment on his films, told him, "This is the first time you have done something like this."
In "7am Arivu", he romanced Shruti Haasan, daughter of Kamal Haasan, and he joked that he was scared of her only for the first three days.
"It was like watching Kamal sir coming at first, but I soon got over it."
The actor is currently busy with K.V. Anand's "Maatran" and said that his character will be unique something never seen before.
2011/11/2 21:55:15 Kollywood No.1 hero Suriya who won the hearts of Telugu audiences with his superb performance has impressed the Tollywood producers also after the release of his latest movie 7th Sense. Therefore, Bellamkonda Suresh during the 7th Sense success meet has announced that, he will make a straight Telugu movie with Suriya in the lead role. However, this film may go to sets some time in the next year as both of they are busy with their commitments. Suriya's 7th Sense has collected Rs.12 crores during the first week of its release, which is a new record in dubbed films history in AP.
His Deepavali release Vel is his second film with director Hari. The two had earlier come together for the film Aaru. Wel also brings Suriya and Asin together on screen for the second time after the stupendous success of Ghajini.
The film has Suriya playing a double role. This too is a second time for the actor, who earlier played a dual role in the film Perazhagan. His role in the film won him rave reviews as well as awards.
Kollywood hero Suriya and Shruthi Hassan starrer bilingual movie '7th Sense' audio was released on Friday at Hyderabad. The Tamil version of the film which is named as '7am Arivu,' audio was released one day prior to Telugu version release. Mega super star Ram Charan Tej, Stylish star Allu Arjun, Sharwanand, Suriya’s brother Kaarthi and directors SS Rajamouli, VV Vinayak, producer Allu Aravind and many others have graced the audio release function of 7th Sense. Ram Charan Tej has released the 1st copy of the CD and handed it over to Allu Arjun. Speaking on the occasion, Ram Charan has said he is very much amazed with the six-pack body that hero Suriya has been maintaining since a long time. He said he admires his style and films.
Heroine of the film Shruthi Hassan has surprised everybody by talking in Telugu, where as all the other heroines normally jumps into English after uttering one two words in Telugu.
This film is directed by Murugadas.Both versions of this movie will release on 26th of October that is on Diwali festival.
Genelia is the hottest babe in town. The success of her recent films has catapulted her to the top slot. She has signed a couple of films in Kannada and now she has signed a film with Suriya in Tamil. The film titled ‘Varanam Aayiram’ will be directed by Gautam Menon.
2011/10/29 3:23:33 "Normally, I don't take the gossips serious because I have joined the industry only after knowing about all those silly things. But, even if I ever feel they are damaging my reputation or family bonds, I won't spare such gossips. I very well know how to handle such gossipmongers," said Shruthi Hassan will full confidence.
Speaking about her latest film '7 am Arivu,' (Tamil version of 7th Sense) "In fact, I am bit nervous while doing that film, because so far I have not played lead role in any of Tamil movies. I believe it is very difficult convince your own people than the others. I did two Tamil films earlier, but in the guest roles only. This is my first film in Tamil playing lead role. I am happy that Tamilians have liked my performance and appreciating me, said Shruthi Hassan.
She said "Talk less and work hard' is the principle behind my success. I rather prefer to prove my talents and get my own identity than being marked as Kamal Hassan's daughter. However, I am very much proud of my father and his guidance. He just gives his opinion but never tries to interfere in my work. When, he patted me for the success of my '7 am Arivu' I really feel flying in the clouds."
2011/11/5 10:51:32 Amala Paul will be pairing up with Suriya in director Hari’s next venture which can be considered as her major assignment.
Amala, who shot to fame with Nanna, is now shooting with Naga Chaintanya for Bezawada, slated for release on November 24.
Suriya, the craze in Tamil Nadu, along with director Hari gave the blockbuster Singham. In all likelihood the new film could be a sequel to Singham itself. What is known is that the script is getting ready along with other finer pre-shoot details.
Suriya is busy shooting Maatran, directed by KV Anand.
The film is going to hit the screens next year in both Telugu and Tamil languages. (INN)
2011/9/13 1:06:49 Salman Khan can be termed as Jr. Jitendar in Bollywood, who makes easy money with remakes. Once upon a time, Bollywood hero Jitendar also successfully adopted the same formula and remade many Telugu movies of super star Krishna's into Hindi with Sridevi and Jayaprada as his heroines.
Now, Salman Khan also becomes a remake specialist in Bollywood. His latest remake film 'Body-Guard' has collected more than Rs.100 crores in no time and still running successfully. His 'Wanted' movie which is a remake of prince Mahesh babu's 'Pokiri' movie and his present 'Body-Guard' a remake of Malayalam movie with same title virtually gave second life to his dull career. When, there are sure-hit-movies readily available down the south, then why anyone should take pains searching for stories? So, Salman also adopts this remake formula and enjoying the success. He is now eyeing Ram's Kandireega movie and Mahesh babu's forthcoming movie 'Dookudu.' Bellamkonda Suresh, the producer of 'Kandireega' movie has confirmed Salman's manager contacting him for the remake rights.
According to latest reports, the creative actor and director Amir Khan also said to be showing interest on Suriya and Shruthi Hassan's upcoming Tamil Movie '7am Arivu,' which is a scientific thriller, directed by Murugadas. Amir Khan, who successfully remade the Tamil movie 'Gajini' into Hindi, thinks that '7am Arivu' would be the right choice for a remake.
The remake of 'Yamudu' movie into Hindi as 'Singham' by Ajay Devagan was also proved a big hit and thus boosts the career graph of the hero. He also now keeps an eye on south Indian movies.
Ultimately, this new development makes the south Indian film makers quite happy, as their market is now expanded without their efforts. However, this cycle will continues for a certain time period until the Hindi belt rejects it.
Following a complaint filed by producer Oscar Ravichandran that Suriya has given step-motherly treatment to Varanam Aayiram and has commenced shooting for his next Vel leaving Varanam Aayiram midway.
Negotiations are on at the Producers Council to sort out the issue between Suriya and Ravichandran. However Suriya has denied the charges and said Varanam Aayiram is his dream project.
"I am greatly engrossed with the project. After discussions with the director (Gowtham Menon), I chose to do Vel. Varanam Aayiram has an interesting storyline and it needs time to complete the movie. It would be a movie to cherish in my career. It would take time to arrive at a good product. After Khaakha Khaakha, I am joining hands with Gowtham again. Hence expectations among the audience has increased manifold. We have to live up to it", he says and adds, "I will not leave the project at any cost".
Post the super duper success of Aamir Khan starrer ‘Ghajini’, South Indian director AR Murugadoss became an overnight sensation in Bollywood. Buzz has it that industry bigwigs Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are more than keen to have the filmmaker on board for their respective projects.
Apparently, SRK was supposed to be working with Murugadoss but the project fizzled out for reasons unknown. And if the news doing rounds is to be believed, then we may soon see Sallu teaming up with the successful director.
Talking to a daily, a source revealed, “If talks fructify, Murugadoss may do a film with Salman in 2012. At the moment, the ‘Ghajini’ director is under contract with a leading foreign studio for their next film. However, as soon he wraps that up, he may look at doing a film with Salman.``
But King Khan seems to have discussions with Murugadoss and the duo might soon start working on their project, much before the flamboyant Khan.
“Murugadoss had a couple of meetings with SRK when he was busy with production work on his current Tamil film, ‘7am Arivu’. He is likely to sign that film once he completes work on the Suriya starrer. As far as Salman is concerned, the director has not yet met him and the project will take quite some time to shape up,” the source added.
Looks like the Khan versus Khan battle will never cease to exist!
2011/3/25 11:35:32 So far, we have seen tens or twenties of dancers performing a group dance in our films. Some times, even their number has crossed 100 figure in a couple of films. But, we have a new record created by Kollywood which shoots a group dance with 1,000 dancers at a time.
It takes place in Suriya and Shruthi Hassan’s film ‘7am Arivu’ directed by Murugadas. Recently, the group dance was shot at busy Ranganathan Street in Chennai where 1000 dancers have performed the group dance. Out of 1,000 dancers only 400 dancers are from film industry and the rest were brought from several dance schools in the city. Now, this is a new record in Indian film industry.
Surya is one of the rare talents in the industry, who has come up the hard way. The actor, who is celebrating his birthday today, has emerged a sought after star in Tamil film industry, thanks to his successive hits.In spite of his father Sivakumar, being a successful actor in Tamil once, success did not come quite easily for Suriya.
After almost half-a-decades wait, Suriya reached the pinnacle thanks to director Bala's Nandha in which he played an angry young man's role. From then on, he did not look back. His successive hits in Kaakha Kaakha, Pithamagan, Peralagan, Aaru, Ayudha Ezhuthu, Gajini and Jillunu Oru Kadhal have taken him to great heights.Be it a tough cop, a rustic youth or an unconventional handicap, Suriya does it with charm and grace.
According to him,” All my failures were the steppingstones to my success. I pick my characters after a lot of thought and I observe a lot of things happening around me to give justice to my roles”.
The actor, who is married to Jyothika, is currently shooting for Vel, directed by Hari. Also in the cards is a movie tiled Varanam Aayiram, directed by Gowtham Menon.Mega blood donation camps and distribution of welfare measures to the poor were organized as part of his birthday by his fans association.
Suriya and Anushka starrer Tamil movie 'Singam,' which was released as 'Yamudu' in Telugu had good collections. Later, it has been remade into Hindi by Ajay Devagan as 'Singham' and there also it was a big hit. This success has encouraged its director Hari to plan for sequel of his Tamil 'Singam.' Once again Suriya and Anushka will be doing the lead roles in this film. Kerala beauty Amala Paul is said to be roped-into this sequel movie. Need not to mention, this movie also will be released into Telugu as dubbed version and Bollywood may remake it again.
Gowtham's much-awaited Varanam Aayiram began on Monday. After Khaakha Khaakha, Suriya and Gowtham come together again for Varanam Aayiram.
The movie would be shot extensively in Afghanistan. A photo session in Suriya wearing traditional costumes of an Afghanistan was done recently.
Gowtham teams up with cinematographer Rathnavelu for the first time. Harris Jayaraj scores the music while Thamarai pens the lyrics. Kuthu Ramya and Daniel Balaji are in the cast.
2011/5/23 21:52:19 Tollywood sexy siren Shruthi Hassan has made a dent on Tollywood with her very first socio fantasy movie ‘Anaganaga Oka Dheerudu’ with Siddarth. Though, the film fails at box office, she had two benefits out of it.
The first one is she has earned name and fame with it. The second and the most important one is she got a new boy friend Siddarth with this film. Their relationship continues even after they wraps up the film. There was buzz that, they are social living in Chennai for which her father Kamal Hassan was upset but unable to say any word, because of his past history. Shruthi Hassan is also doing one more film ‘Oh! My Friend’ with Siddarth.
Shruthi Hassan who until now confined skin shows in her films is going to act as a scientist in her upcoming Tamil film ‘7am Arivu.’ She will pair with Surya in this movie. She said that, she is very happy to get such role which has scope for performance. Surya is acting in triple roles in this film to be directed by Murugadas. This film will be made bilingual in Telugu and Tamil.
Shruthi Hassan is also going to pair with Jr.NTR in his ‘Churakatti’ movie. Surya, Shruthi Hassan’s ‘7am Arivu’ will go to sets very soon.
As Malayalam's Onam, Kollywood is lining up the final list of films for their biggest festival season --Deepavali.
This year, the season will witness the clash of the titans with almost every big hero like Vijay, Ajith, Suriya and Vikram ready with their movies.
The movies that are getting ready to hit the theatres for Deepavali, that is fifty days away are - Ajith's Billa, Cheran's Pirivom Santhipom, Silambarasan's Kaalai, Suriya's Vel, Vijay's Azhagiya Tamil Magan and Vikram's Bheemaa.
Of these films Vikram's Bheemaa and Suriya's Vel are already complete while the other films will have to shoot a song or two before calling pack up.
After a busy Ramzan season, Kerala theatres will also be demanding these Tamil releases that will make into theatres by the second week of November.
As of now, the only big Malayalam release for Deepavali is Dileep's Calcutta News which will make into theatres by the ninth of November.
2006/11/25 6:22:42 Kollywood has had an exciting 2 years, with many stars and rising stars and offbeat celebrities celebrating momentous occasions in their lives. Let's look at what's been happening to some people we love to love, in the Tamil film industry, in the last 2 years or so:
Dhanush married Superstar Rajinikant's daughter Aishwarya in November 2004 - they're a very happy couple now and were blessed with a son just some months ago, name Yathra. Dhanush and diamonds seem forever in Aishwarya's life with Dhanush! And of course, Dhanush, like all doting fathers and loving husbands has been racking his mind for the name of the baby (a difficult job since no one knew if it was a boy or a girl!) since Aishwarya was just a few months pregnant - we at Galatta.com have had hours-long coffee sessions with the actor to brainstorm on the perfect name!
Handsome Madhavan is just getting handsomer everyday - could it be because of his beautiful blue-eyed boy Vedaant? One can only guess, but Madhavan's career has literally shot through the skies after the birth of the little boy in August 2005.
Suriya and Jyotika's fairytale romance bloomed into a life-long partnership after their wedding in September this year. Suriya and Jyotika have been dating for a long time, although they have tried their best to keep it all a secret. Both of them looked resplendent in their finery at their wedding at the Park Sheraton hotel in Chennai. Although the occasion itself was marred by comments from the hurt and upset press, who AFTER being invited for the wedding by Suriya's father, veteran actor R. Sivakumar, they were asked NOT attend, at the last minute!
To show that the press is indeed close to their hearts, Suriya and Jyotika hosted a luncheon for them the next day at the Residency Towers hotel in Chennai. Suriya has subsequently signed up with Gautham Menon for his next film Vaaranamaayiram and Jyotika can be seen completing her former commitments, including Gautham Menon's Sarath Kumar starrer, Pachaikili Muthucharam.
Director Bharathiraja's son Manoj has already joined the list of married celebrities. Actor Vijaykumar's son Arun Kumar too is soon to join the flock of married celebrities
Gautham Menon and wife Preeti had their 2nd son (who is going to have a beautiful name, from what we have heard) 10 days ago and Harris Jayaraj became daddy to a darling little girl, Karen Nikita, just a few weeks ago.
Well, it seems that the industry is busy, busy, between films and family life!
2011/9/28 11:07:09 After playing intense roles in "Dhobi Ghat" and "Dum Maaro Dum", Prateik is trying his luck in comedy with "My Friend Pinto" and says he is quite excited about his first attempt in the genre.
"It's my first attempt at comedy. I am very excited and I hope, I pull it off. I am playing Michael Pinto, a sweet and innocent boy who remains a little lost," Prateik said at an event.
The 24-year-old forayed into Bollywood with Aamir Khan's "Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na" and everyone loved him in it. Last seen in Prakash Jha's "Aarakshan", "My Friend Pinto" is his first solo lead film.
"Both ways there is an advantage. If I pull it off, it's a good film, if not then I am making a fool of myself and people are going to laugh anyway. So I am very excited," Prateik said jokingly. (IANS)
2011/10/9 11:03:45 VJ-turned-actress Sophie Choudry is eagerly waiting for the upcoming Indian Grand Prix in Greater Noida later this month.
"In 3 wks time the #F1 race will finally take place in India!I am SO excited! Went 2 my first F1 race aged 12 but really got in2 it 4yrs ago," she posted on Twitter. (IANS)
There seems to be a lot of similarity running between Vijay, the hero of Kollywood and Pawan Kalyan the power star of Tollywood. If you are wondering whether we are talking about their looks you are mistaken.
We are scanning some of the films they have done in Tamil and Telugu respectively. If Vijay has acted in the Tamil version of 'Kushi', it was Pawan who had done the honors in Telugu. If there was a 'Bhadri' starring Vijay in Tamil there was the Telugu version too that had Pawan doing the lead role.
Now there are reports doing the rounds that Pawan Kalyan will be starring in a film titled 'Puli' that might have Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor playing the lead lady. The film will be directed by none other than S.J. Suriya.
Actually S.J, Suriya had created 'Puli' having Vijay in mind, but for some reason the Tamil version did not kick off so there are talks doing the rounds that the director is planning to make the film first in Telugu.
We are not sure if there will be a later version in Telugu but anticipation is running wild among some in the Kollywood industry – because of the similarity in the roles played by Vijay and Pawan – if the film might soon be remade in Tamil too.
'Isai Puyal' A.R. Rahman will be composing music for this film.
'Puli' in Telugu will be produced by Singanamala Ramesh and rumors are running wild that choreographers from Hollywood will be putting the stunt sequences together. Bollywood cinematographer Binod Pradhans will be handing the camera for 'Puli'.
2010/12/2 11:40:43 RGV’s most admired hero-Surya of film ‘Rakta Charitra’ was minor injured during the shooting of a Tamil movie ‘7aam Arivu.’ Surya who is passionate for doing risky shots without having a dope for him, had sprained his ankles while participating in a fighting scene with villain gang at Binny Mills, Tamilnadu. Immediately, he was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was given first aid and later shifted to a corporate hospital in Chennai. The doctors advised him for a three day bed rest.
"Normally, I don't take the gossips serious because I have joined the industry only after knowing about all those silly things. But, even if I ever feel they are damaging my reputation or family bonds, I won't spare such gossips. I very well know how to handle such gossipmongers," said Shruthi Hassan will full confidence. 
Amala Paul will be pairing up with Suriya in director Hari’s next venture which can be considered as her major assignment.
Salman Khan can be termed as Jr. Jitendar in Bollywood, who makes easy money with remakes. Once upon a time, Bollywood hero Jitendar also successfully adopted the same formula and remade many Telugu movies of super star Krishna's into Hindi with Sridevi and Jayaprada as his heroines. 
Tollywood sexy siren Shruthi Hassan has made a dent on Tollywood with her very first socio fantasy movie ‘Anaganaga Oka Dheerudu’ with Siddarth. Though, the film fails at box office, she had two benefits out of it. 
After playing intense roles in "Dhobi Ghat" and "Dum Maaro Dum", Prateik is trying his luck in comedy with "My Friend Pinto" and says he is quite excited about his first attempt in the genre.
VJ-turned-actress Sophie Choudry is eagerly waiting for the upcoming Indian Grand Prix in Greater Noida later this month.
