Mollywood is going to watch a huge blockbuster in 2011 as two megastars of the industry Mammootty and Mohanlal are coming together. Mammootty has announced that the movie titled “Arakkkalan Mukkal Kallan’, which will be produced under his banner “Playhouse’ and it, will be a multi starrer movie.

The two megastars will be playing the lead roles in this movie, which is said to be a hilarious thriller flick. Hit writers Sibi K Thomas-Udhay Krishna duo has penned the script of the movie and they will also direct it.

‘Urumy' the movie that is expected to be a path breaker in Mollywood will start its shoot today. Scripted by Shankar Ramakrishnan, this period film will be shot at many locations near Mumbai and in Kerala.

Directed by Santhosh Sivan, the movie features young superstar Prithviraj as Kelu Nambiar, the leader of a group trying to kill Vasco Da gama , who landed in Kerala in 1498. Genelia D Souza, Vidya Balan, Prabhu Deva and good number of actors from Bollywood are also part of the cast of this thriller movie, which will be produced by Santhosh Sivan and Prithviraj.

Chennai: The ‘Sri Lankan effect’ on Kollywood and its stars simply refuses to die down.  A couple of months back, Kollywood boycotted en masse the IIFA awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka saying that the event was being ‘stage-managed’ by the Lankan government to obliterate its ‘bad name’ among the international community in the wake of mass killings of ethnic Tamils last year.  Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and his son and daughter-in-law chose to boycott the event at the behest of a request from Tamil film industry.

The few Bollywood stars who took part in the event faced the wrath of Tamil audience and the Tamil film industry.  “Kites”, which starred Hrithik Roshan in the lead, was taken off cinema halls soon after the event as a protest to Hrithik taking part in the event.  Ire was

Director Lal Jose, extensively known for introducing some of finest talents in Malayalam movies like Kavya Madhavan (Chandranuddikunna Dikkil), Jyothirmayi (Meesa Madhavan), Samvrutha Sunil (Rasikan), Meera Nandan (Mulla) and Archana Kavi (Neelathamara) only to name a few is back once again to launch a new face in the industry.

Chennai: Actor Prakash Raj, who has won the national award for ‘best actor’ for his Priyadarshan-directed film ‘Kanjivaram’, is spotted in very happy mood nowadays.  Sources close to the versatile actor say that the actor is all set for hi second marriage with Bollywood choreographer Bony Verma (her first) in the coming weeks.

Chennai: The star couple Surya and Jyothika have finally named their baby son Dev. The baby boy was named in a private ceremony after consulting with their astrologer.

The naming ceremony was a simple affair as the celebrated couple didn’t opt for grand fiestas. This happens to be a special occasion as Surya’s younger sister Brinda also named her baby boy.

Senior Bollywood actress Jayaprada is all set to produce a Mollywood movie. To be directed by art house filmmaker, R Sarath, the movie will have Mukesh in the lead as a railway employee. This first production of the banner, Jayapradha Entertainments, will start the shoot by the first week of August. Though the lookout for a fresh face for playing the heroine is still on, Jayaprada will also appear in a pivotal role in the movie.

Hansika who is shooting in Paris for Prabhu Deva’s next film ‘Ich’, has impressed him to no bounds. It has been raining in Paris for the past few days, and during these days she utilised the time learning different forms of dance from the choreographer-filmmaker.

Coming to know Hansika always wanted to learn Salsa and Tango, Prabhu Deva taught her a mix of both and was very impressed with the ease with which she was able to grasp the steps.

Kochi: Malayalam actor Prithviraj will essay the role of prominent freedom fighter and Congress leader Mohammed Abdul Rahman Sahib in P T Kunju Muhammed's film 'Veera Putran', shooting of which will start by November 2010.

Addressing a press conference here to announce the launch of the project, P T Kunju Muhammed, writer and a former MLA, said this would be a commercial film based on the life and times of Rahman Sahib, considered a secular politician of India.

The film would traverse Sahib's life and his struggle in the freedom movement. Sahib had discontinued studies at Aligarh Muslim university to participate in the non-cooperation movement and Khilafat movement.

Chennai: Ilayathalapathy Vijay’s 51st movie has been titled as Kavalkaran. The movie is the Tamil remake of Malayalam  movie Body Guard. Directed by Siddique, Kavalkaran features Vijay and Asin in the lead roles.

Vijay will play the role done by Dileep while Asin is going to do Nayanthara’s role in the Malayalam original. Director Siddique has made some minor changes in the Tamil version to suit Vijay’s style.

Vijay was shown the preview of the movie along with his wife earlier and Vijay liked the script and immediately expressed his wish to remake it in Tamil. Body Guard is a romantic comedy and a family entertainer with sentiments too.

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