Dhanush undertakes complete education of Poor Children

The audio launch function of the National and International award winning ‘Kaaka Muttai’ happened yesterday and speaking on the occasion Dhanush heaped praises on the child actors Vignesh and Rajesh stating that he worked so hard to get the national awards while the two children got it with seemingly little effort.

Dhanush announced that he is undertaking the complete education of all the underprivileged children who have acted in ‘Kaaka Muttai’ assuring that whatever they would like to study, he will get them through and if some of them are interested in pursuing an acting career, he would do everything in his power to support them. Dhanush is truly a big hearted star who believes in giving much more than he gets.

Shruti Haasan turns BTowns hot property?

Looks like Miss Haasan is slowly but surely making her way into the big league in Bollywood. After her first release of 2015 ‘Gabbar Is Back’ opened to positive reviews, the leggy lass seems to be on cloud nine.

With as many as 7 films lined up across Hindi (Welcome Back, Rocky Handsome and Yaara), Tamil and Telugu films for this year, apart from being in talks with several other money spinning films, Shruti looks like becoming B-Town’s new hot property.

Bollywood sources say that the actress’ performance in her recent films is making filmmakers’ think of a possible replacement to their existing leading ladies.

Mani Ratnam hospitalised

Mani Ratnam was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday night due to cardiac problems. Though doctors did not reveal the exact details, they maintained that he is stable.

"The family doesn’t want information about his medical condition to be made public so we are not authorised to share any details," an official at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital was quoted as saying.

Mani's 'OK Kanmani', which is running successfully in theatres, announced the comeback of the maverick filmmaker. He was expected to start his next film with Dhanush soon.

Actor reveals 'Puli' secrets

After 'Jilla', actor Charandeep has worked with Vijay once again in 'Puli'. "Though my role is small, Vijay treated me on par with others. He is such a simple and humble person," Charandeep says.

Talking about the film, the actor says, "Puli will be totally different from Vijay sir's earlier ventures. At the same time, it will be as commercial as any of his movies."

Stating that Vijay and director Chimbudevan have done some experiements, Charandeep says 'Puli' will be a visual treat to the audience. "Vijay will be seen in a never seen before avatar," he adds.

'Kanchana 2' and 'Aranmanai' actors unite for 'Kopperundevi'

This is surely the season of horror flicks and right at the time when 'Kanchana 2' is ruling the box office a new scare flick is ready for release titled ‘Kopperundevi’, which has new girl Aradhya in the title role as a ghost for which Trisha was approached.

The film, directed by debutante Shankar Pazhaniswamy, has Urvashi, Kovai Sarala, Sriman, Manobala, VTV Ganesh, Devadarshini, Singampuli, Venniradai Moorthy, Delhi Ganesh, Swaminathan , Manohar, Pandu, Illavarasu and Vadivukarasi in the cast. The makers are eyeing a May end release.

Subramaniapuram' Combo to Rock Again?

Newcomer Vasanthmani who is an associate of director Nelson in Vijay’s ‘Jilla’ is debuting as director in an untitled film which has Sasikumar in the lead. Sources reveal that the team has approached Jai for the role of Sasikumar’s younger brother in the film.

The team is confident that Jai will give his nod and if it turns out that that way then fans can expect an encore of the cult classic ‘Subramaniapuram’ in which the close to life friendship and brotherly love between Sasikumar’s Paramu and Jai’s Azhagar is still etched in the memory of movie lovers all over.

Arya once again a Purampokku

The combination of Arya and director Vishnuvardhan have had four successful outings and are coming together for the fifth time in ‘Yatchan’ which has Vishnu’s brother Kreshna as the parallel lead with Swathi and Deepa Sannidhi as the heroines.

Speaking about the film Vishnuvardhan said that Arya and Kreshna play purampokkus (jobless youth) in the film and the director is doubly happy about working with his brother for the first time. Both the heroines are said to have meaty roles Kishore,Y. Gee. Mahendra,Harish Uthaman,John Vijay,Thambi Ramaiah,M. S. Bhaskar,Robo Shankar,RJ Balaji and S. J. Surya as himself. The film is nearing completion and the audio with Yuvan Shankar Raja’s peppy beats will be out soon.