Mountain high expectations on Punjaa

Billed as gangster classic, Pawan Kalyan’s Panjaa, releasing on Dec 9, has raised lot of expectations among his fans and others alike. The film’s trailers have already received rave reviews for the technical finesse which is seen all over the teasers.
Director Vishnuvardhan, originally a Telugu, made a mark for himself in Tamil industry. Known for slick and stylish films, Vishnu is said to have achieved a rare blend of brilliant action sequences coupled with breezy romantic narration.
Pawan’s unconventional and refreshing style of stunt scenes and dancing steps are expected to be a big draw for the film in which the power star looks menacing in a beard.
Sesh Adivi, who directed his debut film Karma and also assayed the lead role in that film, is a surprise cast in Panjaa. New comers Sarah Jane and Anjali Lavania are the heroines. Music, which is already a rage, is by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
The film was to be dubbed in Tamil as Kuri since Pawan Kalyan commands a good market in Tamil Nadu. But unconfirmed reports say that Vishnuvardhan, who made Bill with Ajith earlier, wants to remake Panjaa in Tamil with Ajith as the hero.

Madhu Shalini does a dare bear act

The film industry is one place where getting one breakthrough is like bagging a jackpot prize. And this is more in the case of heroines. Usually, there has been a divide between those who are part of small screen circuit and silver circuit but slowly those barriers are vanishing and those who were seen as anchors or small time serial actresses are becoming regulars in films.

Right now, the hot topic in filmnagar is about one girl who started her career as a TV anchor and is currently gearing up to scorch the screens with her semi nude acts. She is none other than Madhu Shalini and reports say that this Telugu girl is all set to shed her inhibitions in the new movie ‘Department’.

A source revealed “Of course, this is Madhu’s biggest movie of her life. After struggling in the industry for so many years, she has got something useful so she is making the best use of it.” Buzz is that Madhu is essaying the role of a lady gangster in the film and she will be seen smoking, drinking and flaunting her beautiful curves.

With ‘Department’ gearing up for release in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil, this is working as a strong platform for Madhu to project herself.

Rajini's RANA Shelved!!!??

Although there has been no official announcement yet, but the rumour doing the rounds is that Rajinikanth's enterprising project RANA has been shelved.


Reportedly, the actor, in a recent check-up by the doctors has been advised continued bed rest until February next year.

The south superstar, who is acclaimed for his distinctly styled dialogues, was signed-up for RANA in the beginning of this year but due to his health issues the film's shooting could not commence.

Ever since, the film is kept on hold.

Earlier, there were reports about the film coming back on floors in August but unfortunately, nothing of this sort happened.

RANA which is a historical action film to be produced and directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth and K. S. Ravikumar respectively requires the Tamil actor, who is playing a triple role, to be in great shape and do a lot of heavy-duty action.

Although, he has recovered quite a lot but keeping in mind that RANA is too big a risk to have him work on such an intense project, the film's fate is under speculations.

Even in October this year, it was reported that the film has been shelved but later Sunil Lulla of Eros International said that they have no plans to shelve the film and the shooting will commence, probably, in December.


But now when the news about doctors advising him bed-rest has appeared, it is apparent that the film might not start in coming month as well.

Even Deepika Padukone, who plays the female lead in the film, has started shooting for her upcoming films, one of them being, YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI with Ranbir Kapoor.

Apart from Deepika, the other Bollywood actor that RANA features is Sonu Sood.

However, the Kollywood media is full of reports about Rajini doing his next movie with his daughter Aishwarya. There are also reports that the makers of the film are planning to bring up a lighter script with the same cast and set up that doesn't require the ailing actor to do any intense scenes.

With no official announcement as of now, we can just pray for the health of the actor and the fate of the film.

Its Kolaveri Vs Pawar slap song

If Tamil star Dhanush's "Kolaveri Di" song has gone viral on the Internet by crossing 13 million hits on YouTube, the "Chamaat song" on Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar being slapped has registered about 1 million hits.
"Kolaveri Di" was released on Nov 16. It has now spawned vesions in different languages including Gujarati.
"Kolaveri Di" will feature in Dhanush's next film "3", which is being directed by his wife Aishwarya. Meanwhile 18-year-old Anirudh Ravichander who has composed the song, is on a high after making a phenomenon on cyber space through his composition and lyrics.
"Chamaat" had received 964,729 hits by Friday evening.