Kollywood and the changes its going through

True that I am a big fan of legendary Kamal Haasan. It took me a lot of pain to make sure, the UNKH fan inside me is hidden while writing this article.  Hope its appreciated….

The year 2001 marked a new era in Tamil cinema. The new stars started to shine. Vijay, Ajith, Surya and Vikram were reaching a new heights in terms of fan following, and the way business looking at them. Kakha Kakha brought Surya as well into the race. With consecutive hits like Dhil, Dhool and Samy, Vikram was certainly the top star. Ajith’s miserable run at the box office took a ‘u’ turn with Villain while Vijay saw his own share of succes with Kushi and other super hits.

On the other side of the card, Prabhu, Murali, Karthik saw their end. Sathyaraj was in and out for some time before completely fading out. Vijayakanth was made to see one disaster after the other with only Ramana being the lonely hit. Kamal Haasan saw disaster in the form of Aalavanthan and Anbae Sivam while Panchathanthram, Pammal K Sampantham and Virumandi were considered just Hits or Super Hits rather than being a blockbuster or mega hit. Big directors Shankar and Mani Ratnam faced flops in the form of Boys and Aayutha Ezhuthu. Ajith and Vijay who transformed from rising star to top star saw their own falls later onwards..

 

The era between 2000-2004 could very well be called as an era of Small Budget Movies with absolutely no big budget movies being box office grossers. The two possible exceptions here could be Thenali and Vasool Raja, both had Kamal Haasan but still made on comparatively lesser budget but ended up big in box office.

 

This trend contined to an extent that even Rajnikanth and Kamal Haasan were releasing their movies in a comparatively lesser budget in 2005 with the former having a good run in box office while the other was disaster. But it’s really Vikram’s Anniyan which had put the alarm and the high budget movies again started to come.

 

Vettaiyadu Vilayadu and Dasavatharam for Kamal, Billa and Varalaru for Ajith, Shivaji for Rajni all being super Blockbuster, the producers started to cash on big budget movies heavily. But the last two years saw more and more big budget movies being disasters, but still going unnoticed. With Dasavatharam and Ayan being the lone exceptions, we saw more and more and more disasters in the form of Bheema, Kuselan, Sathyam, Sarvam, Naan Kadavul, Kanthasami, Aadhavan, Aegan, Villu all being huge let down. Though Kanthasami and Aadhavan could be considered as average grossers.

 

Already Karthik is involed in a 32 crore-budget movie, Airathil Oruvan, which is unable to get released! When will this sitauation change? Saroja, UPO, Nadodigal, Eeram all made in very small budget made their marks on the box office!! The days are over where people watch any movie for their hero. Guys like Barath, Vikram, Surya wanted to transform themselves into mass heroes has been shown door to exit by people. We hardly seen any complete pure masala movie doing well in box office in the recent time!!

 

Are we going see the era of small budget movies yet again?  Are we coming out of this hype driven era in Tamil cinema?  What ever be the answer, the movie makers just cant get away with a stupid because of the star power or because it has enough masala or because of super hit songs. We want content —- says the general public.

Dasavatharam breaks TV records….

Dasa telecasted from 6 PM – 11.10 PM = 310 mins

After deducting the 30 mins news , we hav 280 mins.

Film is about 190 mins long….so approximately minimum of 90 mins (5400secs) Ads were shown by Kalaingar TV.

For 10 seconds of AD, if we put 2L , Kalaingar TV could hav collected 10.8 Crores ( i remember they got DASA rights for 5 Crores )

Also this is the first ever Tamil telecast…..a long way to go as well…

Credits : UNKH community in orkut

Kamal Haasan appointed as Chairman of FICCI

On the mark of completing 50 golden years of filmdom, Kamal Haasan has glad tidings for him. Yes! The versatile actor, filmmaker, producer and screenwriter Kamal has been appointed as the chairman of FICCI Media and Entertainment Business Conclave.

FICCI aims at bringing Indian market to the forefront of Global Media and Entertainment Industry. The organization is now hosting a 2-day conclave on November 18-19 at Chennai. Much elated with this prestigious offer Kamal Haasan utters that he is so elated for having associated with the initiatives of FICCI. Also added that he will extend best guidance of b bringing the international involvement in embellishing the contents of Southern Entertainment Industry…

The conclave will focus on enhancing the standard of various entertainment forms: Films, Broadcast (TV & Radio), Digital Entertainment, Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, etc.

Over 500 people are estimated to participate at this conclave. As well, the State Government and Central Government will render a strong participation in this event.

Bhagyaraj joins with Shantanu … Siddu +2 first Attempt..

Siddu +2 First Attempt is the title of the film that is directed by K Bagyaraj, produced by KBR Medias Pvt. Ltd and presented by Moser Baer Entertainment. Bagyaraj has also penned the story. Interestingly, Bagyaraj will be directing his son Shantanu Bhagyaraj in this film. Others in the star cast include Chandni, Rajesh, Seetha, Avinash, and Ganja Karuppu. Dharan has scored the music for this film and surprisingly Yuvan Shankar Raja and Venkat Prabhu have crooned for his music. Rasamathi wields the camera while Subhash will be in charge of the editing table.

Siddu +2 First Attempt is a youthful, romantic comedy entertainer that has been shot in Chennai, Pazhani, Hyderabad and Bangkok. The audio launch of this film is slated to be held on October 31st at Santham Theatre.

The movie, which is due to be released during the first week of December, is being made simultaneously in Telugu. However, the Telugu version is not directed by K Bagyaraj.

Bragging Rights 2009 Preview and Prediction SPOILER results

Main Event :

Team RAW : Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Big Show, Mark Henry, Kofi Kingston, Jack Swagger & Cody Rhodes

vs.

Chris Jericho, Kane, Matt Hardy, Finlay, R-Truth, David Hart Smith & Tyson Kidd.

I give this one completely to team RAW (DX) . Later Vince would shout at Teddy for SD’s Loss..

Undertaker vs Punk vs Batista vs Rey Mysterio for World heavy Weight Title

Despite all the spoilers for Batista to take this, I still have a gut feeling that Undertaker WILL save the title, he wont lose it that soon. He is destined to go to survivor series as a CHAMPION for sure.

Cena vs Orton for WWE World Title 60 Minute No Disqualification Iron Man Match

Absolutely no idea whats going on and neither interested as well.. Some how, I feel Cena would win this…

Miz vs Morrison

Wow.. easily the match of the night.. I give this MIZ.. no sense by making Morrison win this one..

Unnai Pol Oruvan Settles down as SUPER HIT

Released in lesser number of theatres and with absolutely no publicity or marketing, the movie, totally carried by the mass and star appeal of Kamal Haasan (despite his character is done in a week call sheet ), is now settling down as a SUPER HIT..

Made in a very small budget, the movie has already (diwali) garnered 4.26 Crore at Chennai alone.. This is excluding the Mayajal where the movie had been said to made around another 1.5 C . In its long run the movie would end up with 5C at Chennai which would mean its a Blockbuster in chennai. The collections at B and C centers are also pretty decent so far and the movie has largely been considered and declared a SUPER HIT.

Thanks to Universal Hero Kamal Haasan for such an amazing experience at his 50th year in Cinema.. Very cautiously  I avoided Tamil Cinema, for one reason, he is not just a hero at Tamil films, he is an well established actor with blockbuster in each of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi and Bengali.. truely an Universal Hero..

AAdhavan Opens Big in Box Office

The huge expectations and marketting has managed to provide AAdhavan the most wanted big opening.. Opening to almost full houses the movie managed to garner around a crore in its first weekend in Chennai itself.

The budget of the movie has been slated some where around 42 crore. With that said, it needed a longer run to reach the status of Hit or super hit. A similar high budget movie Kandasami which released in 900 centers (AAdhavan opens in 600 centers) have to end up being an average grosser with absolutely bad word of mouth.

Aadhavan is facing a similar bad word of mouth while its competitor Peranmai is supposingly impressing the Class A audience..

Lets see whats waiting for the Narpani Nayagan Surya…

Unnai Pol Oruvan Movie Review

First of all, I have not seen the movie yet. Thought I would share some of the reviews which I went through here

http://kerala9.com/news/review/unnai-pol-oruvan-review-user-reviews/

http://entertainment.expressbuzz.com/entertainment/Entertainstory.aspx?Title=Unnaipol%20Oruvan&artid=Wdj0kU5KI54=&SectionID=D9ndGeLpmWY=&MainSectionID=D9ndGeLpmWY=&SEO=Kamal+,Haasan+,Unnaipol+,Oruvan,&SectionName=ujAuSwFzxkI=

http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=14911262

http://maalaimalar.com/2009/09/19154029/CNI0310190909.html

http://tamil.webdunia.com/entertainment/film/featuresorarticles/0909/19/1090919063_1.htm

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/movies/review/2009/09/19-unnaipol-oruvan-review.htmlhttp://mynandavanam.blogspot.com/search/label/Movie%20Reviewhttp://www.envazhi.com/?p=11723

http://entertainment.oneindia.in/tamil/exclusive/2009/unnaipol-oruvan-grand-release-190909.html

http://maalaimalar.com/2009/09/19154029/CNI0310190909.html

Advance Booking for Unnai Pol Oruvan

Advance Booking for Unnai Pol Oruvan are out…
Have u booked yours ?

Dont miss the oppurtunity to watch this one hell of a great edge of the seat thriller.

Its all about, some one like you… start book your tickets as down…

http://movie-ticket-abirami.com/Ticket2.aspx?MovieID=28&MName=UNNAI%20POL%20ORUVAN

http://www.ticketnew.com/OnlineTheatre/Theatre/coming-soon/Unnaipol_Oruvan.html

Report Piracy — Help the Tamil Producers

The piracy is going way out of limit !!

Is there no control for it ? Who can stop it ?

the goverment ?

the police ?

The producers ?

Naah… Naah…

none of them… it can only be done by ,
Some one like you.

yeah, Unnai Pol oruvan, can do that .. .

Please report any piracy activities to – New No.4, Old no.172 Eldams Road, Alwarpet Chennai 600018. Phone # +91-44-24334140.

Help the tamil producers survive…