Tamil Cinema News

Selvaraghavan is in love with a girl, who is no way related with the film industry. It is known fact that the director divorced his wife Sonia Agarwal in 2009.

It has been official that Billa 2 is moving to sets. Ajith is playing the title role and there are huge expectations on the story. It is heard that Director Vishnuvardhan is planning something different and Billa 2 will look just like the prequel to Billa.

Directors Vijay’s untitled film is adding glamour to the script day by day. The film has multiple heroines and the director is taking much interest in choosing the heroines.

Amala Paul has joined the bandwagon and now Sandalwood beauty Divya Spandana boarded the team by adding much more charm to the film.

‘Ayyanaar’ is going to see the light of the day on December 10th. The film has Aadhi and Meera Nandan from Mollywood in the lead roles.

Actresses are on a faster pace in bagging the offers. Recently Amala Paul replaced Tamannah in Linguswamy’s ‘Vettai’ opposite Arya. She also bagged an offer in Vikram’s untitled flick and has entered the big league after giving an outstanding performance in ‘Mynaa’.

Vasanthabalan is yet again ready with a periodic film. He is currently busy ‘Aravan’ which is slated to be a mega budget film.

1. Enthiran
Enthiran is a Science fiction film co-written and directed by S. Shankar. The film features Rajinikanth in dual roles, as a professor and an android robot. Aishwarya Rai & Danny Denzongpa play other lead roles while Santhanam, Karunas, Kalabhavan Mani, Devadarshini & Cochin Haneefa play supporting roles.

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The film’s story revolves around a scientist’s struggle to control his creation, an android robot whose programme was upgraded to give it the ability to comprehend and generate human emotions. The plan backfires as the robot falls in love with the scientist’s fiancée and is further manipulated to bring destruction to the world when it lands in the hands of a rivaling scientist. How the robot is stopped from further destruction forms the rest of the plot.
After nearly a decade of pre-production work, the film was shot over two years beginning in 2008. Produced by Kalanidhi Maran & Hansraj Saxena, it became India’s most expensive film. Upon release, it also made the largest worldwide opening for an Indian film. The film’s background score and soundtrack was composed by A.R Rahman, which released as an album on 31 July 2010.
The film released worldwide on 1 October 2010, along with its dubbed versions: Robot in Hindi and Robot in Telugu. Upon release, it enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success across the globe, collecting an unprecedented 62 crore in the opening weekend, becoming the highest-grossing Tamil film and the second highest-grossing Indian film of all time.
2. Thamizh Padam
Thamizh Padam is a Tamil-language spoof film written and directed by debutant C. S. Amudhan. The film stars Shiva and Disha Pandey in the lead roles. The film’s plot parodies contemporary commercial films in Tamil cinema, mocking the stereotypical scenes.

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The film was distributed by Dhayanidhi Alagiri‘s Cloud Nine Movies, and it was released on 29 January 2010 and received negative reviews for mocking popular films and actors without controversy. In the climax, it is revealed that Paravai Muniamma is the villain called D, which would be shocking surprise to the viewers.
This Movie is the First Blockbuster Hit in 2010 Year.
3. Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa

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Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaayaa is a Romantic drama film directed and written by Gautham Menon. It features Silambarasan Rajendar and Trisha Krishnan in the lead roles. The film, produced by four producers and distributed by Udhayanidhi Stalin, features a successful music soundtrack composed by A.R Rahman, cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa and editing by Anthony Gonsalves.
The film’s story was also simultaneously shot and released by Menon in the Telugu language as Ye Maaya Chesave with a different cast.
Reception
The film took a grand opening, grossing 64,66,062 rupees in its first three days in Chennai. The performances from Silambarasan & Trisha Krishnan have garnered largely positive reviews. The film grossed Rs. 5.75 Crores at the Chennai (in and around Chennai city) box office by its 12th weekend. According to Rediff.com, the film grossed Rs. 30 crores overall
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by A. R. Rahman. After a world premiere at London on 19th December 2009, the audio was relaunched in Chennai on the January 12, 2010. The album consists of 7 tracks overall. A. R. Rahman re-recorded the background music in London. The music and background score were very much appreciated.
4. Angaadi Theru
Angaadi Theru is a Drama film written and directed by Vasanthabalan of Veyil fame, starring debutant Mahesh & Anjali in the lead roles. The film, the title of which referring to the Ranganathan Street in Chennai where the story plays, also features actress Sneha appearing in a cameo role as herself and music jointly composed by Vijay Antony and G. V. Prakash Kumar.

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An Ayngaran International production, the film was launched on 11 February 2008 and released on 26 March 2010 to critical acclaim and it was a block buster hit. The movie was the closest competitor for the Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but it lost to Peepli Live.
5. Boss Engira Bhaskaran
Boss Engira Bhaskaran is a Romantic comedy film written and directed by M. Rajesh who earlier directed Siva Manasula Sakthi (2009). Starring Arya, Nayantara & Santhanam in lead roles, the film is produced by K. S. Sreenivasan and features music scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography handled by Sakthi Saravanan.

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The film revolves around a young happy-go-lucky unemployed man, Bhaskaran, who "lives" for other people, always going on errands, while neglecting his own life and career, until he meets a young girl, who brings about a change in his life. The film released on 10 September 2010 to highly positive reviews and also became commercially very successful.
6. Singam

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Singam is a Action film directed by Hari, starring Surya Sivakumar & Anushka Shetty in the lead roles. The film was produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raja in association with Reliance Big Pictures, and distributed by Sun Pictures, released on 28 May 2010. Upon release, the film was dubbed into Telugu and released as Yamudu. The film was successful and grossed 90 crore at the box office worldwide.
7. Madrasapattinam
Madrasapattinam is a Historical drama film, written and directed by A. L. Vijay. The film stars Arya and Amy Jackson in the lead roles, while Nassar and Cochin Hanifa play other prominent roles.The film released on July 9, 2010 with positive reviews.

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8. Kalavani
Kalavani is a Romantic comedy film written and directed by newcomer A. Sargunam. It stars Vimal of Pasanga fame in the lead role along with debutante Oviya, Saranya Ponvannan, Ganja Karuppu and Ilavarasu, who enact pivotal roles. The film, made on a shoe-string budget, released on 25 June 2010 to very positive reviews and becoming a surprise sleeper hit. Following the film’s success, director Gautham Menon’s Photon Kathaas has acquired the film’s rights to remake it other languages

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Mynaa Romantic drama film directed and written by Prabu Solomon. Jointly distributed by Udhayanidhi Stalin and Kalpathi S. Aghoram, stars Vidharth and Amala Paul in the lead roles. Featuring an acclaimed soundtrack by D. Imman, the film, which garnered much anticipation prior to release, released on 5 November 2010, coinciding with the Diwali festival, receiving critical acclaim
10. Paiyaa
Paiyaa is a Romantic action film written and directed by N. Linguswamy. It stars Karthik Sivakumar and Tamannaah Bhatia in the lead roles, with Milind Soman, Sonia Deepti and Jegan essaying supporting roles. The film revolves around a journey of a young couple: a jobless carefree guy, is asked by a young IT employee, incidentally the girl he is in love with, to escort her from Bangalore to Mumbai.

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The film released on 2 April 2010 to positive reviews and emerged a high commercial success. A Telugu dubbing version of the film titled Awara released on 21 May in Andhra Pradesh to positive response, too.
Soundtrack
Music for Paiyaa was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, joining Linguswamy once again after Sandakozhi (2005). The album originally features 5 songs with vocals by singers like Karthik, Benny Dayal, Haricharan and composer Yuvan Shankar Raja himself. Three songs were reportedly composed and recorded in Singapore. The lyrics were provided by Na. Muthukumar.
The album received highly positive reviews and responses from critics and audiences alike and the songs were considered to have played an important role for the film’s enormous success.Next Big Releases of this 2010 year: Kanimozhi, Nandalala, Chikku Bukku, Aadukalam, Manmadhan Ambu, Kaavalan. Dec 31 Will get exact list of Top 10 Movies

Hansika Motwani has made the headlines last week for having secret dinner with Ace choreographer Prabhu Deva in Hyderabad. In which both of them were blasted by Nayantara in the public.

Vijay has kept aside his formula like punch dialogues, Kuthu songs and ferocious fights and is acting as a silent romantic hero in the film Kaavalan. Now in order to disturb his peace there are two heroines in this film. One is Asin and another one is Kerala import Mitra. Mitra says that she has won Vijay in the contest.

Hansika is working in the film ‘Engeyum Kadhal’ directed by Prabhu Deva.

Prabhu Deva and Nayantara’s affair is the hot topic running now in all the woods. The couple is making their presence in the news very frequently. Recently they were in news for failing to appear before the court. And now the couple is in news for verbal fight in public. Nayantara got angry as Prabhu Deva as is close with another actress.

As per the sources Prabhu Deva hosted a dinner for Hansika Motwani specially in Hyderabad. And this came into the notice of Nayantara through her friend who saw them at the hotel. Soon Nayantara reached the restaurant and started yelling at Prabhu Deva in the public.

‘Chikku Bukku’ has recently launched the official website of the film yesterday. The website was launched by director Bala and actor Vishal along with Chikku Bukku hero Arya and director K.Manigandan.

‘Manmadhan Ambu’ audio is really very special as Kamal Hassan has penned the lyrics for three songs which are powerful, meaningful and resourceful.