NANBAN is worth watching says rediff

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Pavithra Srinivasan feels that Tamil film Nanban is the perfect feel-good fare for the festive season, despite minor glitches.Many eyebrows were raised when it was announced that the Hindi blockbuster3 Idiotswould be remade in Tamil with Shankar as the director.For starters, there are no starry airs in the title credits, which is a welcome variation. The hero appears a good fifteen minutes into the film and, even better, there are no fights. Panchavan Paarivendan or Paari (Vijay), a first year engineering student in Ideal Engineering College,For starters, there are no starry airs in the title credits, which is a welcome variation. The hero appears a good fifteen minutes into the film and, even better, there are no fights. Panchavan Paarivendan or Paari (Vijay), a first year engineering student in Ideal Engineering College, seems to be a bit of a rebel when it comes to learning and doesn't take his classes seriously. But it's the system he's against, not education itself.

Zee cine awards to be held on 21 jan

Bollywood friends-turned-foes, Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan are in the race to for the best male actor trophy at the Zee Cine Awards to be held in Macau next month.Salman has been nominated for his performance in blockbuster “Bodyguard”, while Shah Rukh has got two nominations in the same category, thanks to “RA.One” and “Don 2: The King Is Back”. Other actors vying for the title include Hrithik Roshan for “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”, Ajay Devgn for “Singham” and Ranbir Kapoor for “Rockstar". Amongst the leading ladies, the battle for the best actor award is on between Vidya Balan (“The Dirty Picture”), Priyanka Chopra (“7 Khoon Maaf”), Kareena Kapoor (“Bodyguard”), Kangna Ranaut (“Tanu Weds Manu”) and Katrina Kaif (“Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”).The contenders in the best film category are “Don 2″, “Bodyguard”, “Rockstar”, “Singham”, “The Dirty Picture” and “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”.The trophy for the best director of 2011 will be chosen from among Farhan Akhtar (“Don 2″), Imtiaz Ali (“Rockstar”), Milan Luthria (“The Dirty Picture”), Rohit Shetty (“Singham”), Siddique (“Bodyguard”) and Zoya Akhtar (“Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”).The awards will be chosen by film enthusiasts from across the globe. The viewers can send in their votes for their favourite nominees, and 12 lucky winners chosen from amongst those who send in their votes will also be flown in to Macau to witness the live ceremony, Jan 21 next year.

Don 2 has collected Rs 48 crores in its opening weekend. However the PR mechanism is trying to devise new tags just to showoff that the film is breaking new records.

The year 2011 has come to an end with Shah Rukh Khan's Don 2, amongst the most anticipated releases of the year. One cannot exactly say that Bollywood in 2011 had 'saved the best for last' with the extreme response that the film has received. Audience response varies from awesome to awful for the film.

Nevertheless the buzz around the film was huge and the SRK flick opened to very good collections. The film collected around Rs 48 crores over its opening weekend. Dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu helped the film do business in South territories as well. However with diverse response to the film, the same cannot be said about the film's business in coming days and it's uncertain whether the film will enjoy a decent run in its second week, despite no good opposition.

An interesting thing to notice (taking Don 2 as a study example) is that with every new film, the PR mechanism tries to devise new tags to illustrate the film breaking new records, (esp. when the film fails to break any real records). So Don 2 wins the tag for the 'highest first day collection on a non-holiday Friday'. Or sample this 'Don 2 broke the record of Bodyguard in Australia for the highest first day gross ever for a Hindi film (US$ 82,000) while Bodyguard managed (US$ 74,000)'.

If nothing else works, it can take credit of outdoing the business of Shah Rukh's earlier films. As per official figures revealed 'Middle East has grossed ($ 930,000 on Thu & Fri which is higher than the first two days of Ra.One (US$ 710,000) and My Name is Khan (US$ 750,000)'. 'In US, the opening day gross of Don 2 (US $ 445000) is higher than that of My Name is Khan and also higher than the sum of the first three days of Ra.One!'

NO STAY ON DON 2

Don 2 The king is backRitesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Shah Rukh Khan have heaved a sigh of relief following the High Court decision to deny the stay on ‘Don2’. The suit, filed by Nariman Films and the Irani family (the makers of original 1978 film 'Don'), starring Amitabh Bachchan, had alleged that the new 'Don 2' had violated the copyrights by adopting the ‘Don's signature tune, songs of the original 'Don' and also copying its script, characters and music without any prior intimation. Besides, it was also alleged that the rights of the said script were given only for the remake and not for the sequel. However, Justice S. F. Vajifdar of the Bombay High Court denied the stay on the release of the film, citing the absence of theatre owners at the hearing and also taking into consideration the release dates of the film (December 21 overseas and December 23 in India), for which advance booking is already underway.

KOLAVERI TAKES EVERYONE BY STORM

Chennai:  Anirudh, who is making his debut as a music director with 3 , couldn't have asked for a better start to his Kollywood career. For, Why This Kolaveri Di , the very first song of his first film, has now started winning awards, after having taken the nation by storm. Kolaveri has just won the YouTube Gold award, which is presented to viral videos from across the world. Beams Anirudh, "It is true. The record label has received official intimation. I don't know if they will have a function to present the has been chosen for the An article on the song, the lyrics of which have been penned by Dhanush, has also been featured Get Anirudh to react to this piece of information and he smiles yet again. "I'm not sure about this fact but someone I know told me that it is after 20 that the magazine is running such a story again," says Roja? The similarities are hard to miss. Will he turn out to be another Rahman and Anirudh responds immediately, "Oh no, Rahman sir is my inspiration. I will happily retire if I manage to accomplish even five per cent of what Rahman sir has achieved. I'm just one song old and have a The song's success has lifted the spirits of the Tweeted Dhanush, "To all my north Indian Kolaveri fans, thanks for receiving a Tamil song with a warm heart and making it a global song.

Rockstar gets grand opening

Rockstar gets a grand opening in all of the country according to some source it has collected around 60 crore in 3 days in the box office. I think the promotional activities of Ranbir worked in this successful film

Rock and roll velayudham

Ilaya Thalapathy Vijay's Velayudham going all guns in the box office with the films ranking 1st among the three films released this Diwali season . With the film raking in 40 crore in just 5 days and the total cost of the film is said to be 45 crore .

Rock and roll velayudham

Ilaya Thalapathy Vijay's Velayudham going all guns in the box office with the films ranking 1st among the three films released this Diwali season . With the film raking in 40 crore in just 5 days and the total cost of the film is said to be 45 crore .

Bodyguard creates history

Bodyguard has raked in whopping returns in the first extended weekend of its release . On its opening day itself bodyguard broke the first day collection records by touching rs 20 crore mark surpassing last years hit Dabaang. The movie has netted about 86 crore in first four days alone and he you add this movies collection abroad the figure goes beyond 100 cr mark .
This way above the first week collection of dabaang 81 cr and 3 idiots 80 cr has been broken by the Sallu bhai's bodyguard

Akon in SRK's Raone

SRK film raone which is due for release is in a much hyped situation with the film going as a big budget film . The speciality of this film is that it's song Chamak chalo is going to a very speedy pace with Akon singing for this film is another mouth watering news to all movie viewers and those who love srk.

Velayutham to release tomorrow

Ilayathalapathy Vijay's latest starrer 'VELAYUTHAM' Set to release tommorow the 31st of sept . The audio release was done as grand ceremony with the grounds full of Vijay fans . The audio release had a hot opening with ten thousand audio sold out we expect a banging and rocking film and good luck