Sun Captures the Sky

After the recent elections, many producers were reluctant to sell the rights of the film to the members of Kalaignar’s clan. Even films like Maaveeran and Avan Ivan backed out. But at this point of time Sun TV has acquired the rights of Vaanam. This film is to be aired soon.

Vaanam is a film which has Simbu, Bharath, Anushka, Prakash Raj, Saranya Ponvannan, Sonia Agarwal, Vega, Santhanam, Jasmin, Radha Ravi, Ravi Prakash, Jayaprakash, Ganesh, Kadhal Thandapani, Brahmanandam and Krish in the cast. Yuvan Shankar Raja has composed the music while Anthony has edited this film. Nirav Shah and Gnana Sekaran have handled the camera. The film has been produced by V T V Ganesh and R Ganesh.

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Vaanam Success Party

'Dabangg' Tamil Remake From Monday

Salman Khan starrer ‘Dabangg’ happens to be one of the top-grosser in 2010. The commercial success of the film gradually attracted South Indian filmmakers and producers to acquire the remake rights. While Pawan Kalyan is remaking the film in Telugu as ‘Gabbar Singh’, Balaji Real Media Pvt Limited Media is ready to kick-start the Tamil remake with Silambarasan in lead role.

The movie launch is scheduled to take place on Monday (May 9) at AVM Pillayar Koil followed by press meet. Telugu film industry’s hottest actress Richa Gangopadhyay has been signed to star opposite Simbhu in female lead while ‘Jithan’ Ramesh will play the role Simbhu’s half-brother with Nizhalgal Ravi and Revathy as their parents.

After a long sabbatical gap, Dharani makes his directorial comeback with this film while his close pal and associate Gopinath will be handling cinematography with Thaman working on music.

Salman Khan’s brother-producer of ‘Dabangg’ Arbaaz Khan will grace over the occasion.

STR and Anushka celebrate

Pleased with the reception that his latest outing Vaanam had got, Silambarasan had organized a success party for the cast and crew of Vaanam. The party took place at a popular hotel in Chennai a couple of days ago. Vaanam’s producer VTV Ganesh, distributor Dhayanidhi Alagiri, Anushka, Krish, Dharani and others were at this success bash.

Vaanam, the remake of Telugu flick Vedham, has turned out to be hit, according to Kollywood circles. This prompted STR to celebrate with his cast and crew.

Vaanam’s director Krish also has a special reason to celebrate as he is likely to go to Bollywood with this remake.

50 STR Fans Arrested

The ardent fan club members of Young Superstar Silambarasan were involved in the protest against BJP party members’ gesture of making a garland of sleepers for the actor’s cutout at M.R. Theatre. The protest was held at the premises of BJP office in T.Nagar around 10 a.m yesterday.

The officials from Police Department arrived soon at the spot and insisted the fans to clear the area as the permission was denied for the protest. But the fans were quite determined about fighting for the right cause saying that there is no need to pull Simbhu for controversies and anything pertaining to the issue must be clarified with director Krish or the producers.

Finally, the police ended up arresting 50 fan club members that includes Then Chennai Mavattam Thalaivar Mahendran. The journalists rushed up to T.R. Rajendran for his comments and he said, “There is nothing wrong in the gesture of fans as they are up here for the right reason. ‘Vaanam’ boasts of an outstanding message to take home and it has created a huge impact on audiences and nothing is done to hurt the feelings. I strongly oppose the persons involved in such gimmicks.”

Saying this, the actor immediately headed to police station and released the 50 fan club members.