Choolamittu Song From Ivan Maryadaraman
Ivan Maryadaraman
Directed by Suresh Divakar
Music Gopi Sunder
Starring Dileep, Nikki Galrani, Abu Salim, Saju Navodhaya
Produced by Anto Joseph
Choolamittu Song From Ivan Maryadaraman
Tamil remake of Bangalore Days launched in Chennai
There has been many speculations and rumours regarding the Tamil remake of the Bollywood blockbuster of 2014 named Bangalore Days and now putting to rest all that speculations and rumours, the Kollywood remake of the film had launched in Chennai and the pooja function of the Malayalam muti-starre blockbuster was held on 2015 March 18th, Wednesday.
In the Kollywood version of the film , other than Parvati Menon who played the heroine of Dulquer Salmaan in the Malayalam version all other actors and actresses were replaced in the Tamil version and the new star cast in Tamil version consist of Rana Daggubati, Young star Arya, Sri Divya and Bobby Simha (Neram Fame). The character which Dulquer Salmaan played in the Mollywood version will be played by Arya in the kollywood version. Fahadh Faasil’s character in the mollywood version will be enacted by Rana Daggubati in the Tamil version and Sri Divya will replace Nazriya Nazim in the Tamil version. Nivin Pauly’s character in the Malayalam version will be done by Bobby Simha in the Tamil remake.
The other one who was retained from the original Malayalam version of the film by the makers of Tamil version is the director of music, Mr. Gopi Sundar. And the one who is going to direct the kollywood version of the film is Bhaskar who gave successful films like Bommarillu and Parugu. The makers have planned it to make both in Tamil and Telugu and that too with the same director and now reports are coming in that they decided to opt different directors for different languages. The significant change from the Malayalam version is that the story of the film will be set in Singapore rather than Bangalore as the producers of the new version like Dilraju, PVP Cinema and Prasad V Potluri gave green signal to make it in a more wide canvas than the Mollywood version.
The Mollywood version was a phenomenal success directed by Anjal Menon and financed by Anwar Rasheed along with weekend blockbusters. The film has been made at a budget of close to 9 crore rupees had earned around 35 crores from box office and also got good critical appreciation.
Worst director of the year award goes to Prabhu Deva
Actor/director Prabhu Deva had been chosen as the winner of the worst director of the year Golden Kela award of 2014-2015. He is been chosen for this award for his film Action Jackson starring Ajay Devgun and Sonakshi Sinha. For the performance in the same film Sonakshi Sinha had been chosen as the worst actress for the year golden kela award of 2014-2015. The award for the worst film of the year goes to Saifali Khan starrer Humshakkals and the award for the worst song of the year went to the song “Blue hai pani pani..” from the film Yariyan.
Prabhu Deva was a shining star in Kollywood as an actor, director and dance choreographer. He had directed mega hit films like Pokkiri in Kollywood. Later he made his entry into Bollywood as a director with the remake of his hit kollywood film Pokkiri titled as Wanted starring Salman Khan and it was indeed a great success in box office. After that Prabhu Deva decided to stay at Bollywood and directed a handful of films like Rowdy Rathode, RammaiyaaVastavaiyya, R Raj Kumar and Action Jackson.
In these films Rowdy Rathode starred Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha became a blockbuster at box office and other 3 films were not at all raised to expectation at box office. During this time he did two Tamil films too titled Vedi with Vishaal in the laed and Engeyum Kadhal with Jayam Ravi in the lead, but both films failed at box office. In hindi Sonakshi Sinha is the heroine in most of his films and it is very interesting that both Prabhu Deva and Sonakshi Sinha got the worst director and worst actress award respectively for the same film and this may be an eye opener for both of them to think differently.
Sonakshi is been chosen as the worst actress award for the third consecutive year and it is high time that this talented actress who gave us performance in films like Lootera is wasting her talents by acting in craps like Action Jackson and R Raj Kumar. Anyway Prabhu Deva’s honeymoon at Bollywood seems to be ended and that too on a rather bizzare note.
My Dear Kuttichathan, a new dimension to Mollywood
My Dear Kuttichathan is film which gave new dimension not only to mollywood but also to Indian Cinema. This is the first ever 3 dimensional film made in Indian film industry and that happens to be in Malayalam, an achievement Mollywood can proud of all the time. And the ever memorable film was directed by Jijo Punnoose and was produced by Novodaya Appachan and Jose Punnoose.
This movie is produced and distributed under the banner of Navodaya which was one of the biggest banners of film production in south India that time. Almost 1 crore rupees were flown into the making of this epic film and that was also a record budget for a Malayalam film that time. The story and screenplay of the movie is penned down by Raghunath Paleri and T K Rajeev Kumar and cinematography was done by Ashok Kumar. It was Ilayaraja who is considered as the music maestro of Indian cinema has given music to this film and T R Shekhar edited the film with the precision only he has.
The first 3D film in India, My dear Kuttichathan had hit the screens on August 24, 1984. This film was later re edited and released again in 1997 and it was the first Malayalam film released with DTS mixing as well. The film was also dubbed in Hindi in the name of Chotta Chetan in 1997 and the scenes featuring Urmila Matondkar were added which was not a part of the first Malayalam version of the movie. The film had received tremendous success at Box office all over India as well.
The story of the film centers around a spirit called Kuttichathan in kerala, who was enslaved by a black magic practitioner. A boy and girl accidentally helps the Kuttichathan to escape from the hands of that black magic practitioner and they becomes the friends of Kuttichathan. Kuttichathan helps the kids by making their drunkard father a good man and at the climax Kuttichathan kills the black magic practitioner with fire and Kuttichathan flies away from all of them in the form of a bat. Kottarakkara Sreedharannair, Sonia, Master Suresh, Arvind etc played the lead roles in the film.
A milestone movie, Kandam Becha Kottu
Kandam Becha Kottu is the first ever movie made in color film in Mollywood. This history making film was directed by T R Sundaram and produced by Modern theaters.People who wrote this milestone film is K T Muhammad and T Muhammad Yusuf. Thikkurishy Sukumarannair was the lead male actor and Aranmula Ponnama was the lead female actor in this film. Department of music in the film is handled by music maestro Baburaj and the film released on August 24, 1961.
The film is based on a popular novel and it had been also staged as a play with the same title. The film was a great box office success that time and it had received the certificate of merit at the national film awards in India. One of the interesting aspects of the film is that it used the ‘Kozhikkodan slang’ of Kerala in its dialogues. Popular lyricist P.Bhaskaran had written the lyrics for the songs composed by Baburaj.
The plot of the film revolves around a cobbler named Muhammad Kakka played by T S Muthiah and he saves each penny in the pocket of his old coat and he saves it to realize his dream of going to mecca one day.Fate did not allowed him to fulfill that dream of his as he had to sacrifice his dream and give all that money to Kunju Beebi who is in love with Ummer who was the only son of Alikkoya Haji. Kunju Beebi had no money to give to Alikkoya Haji as dowry.
That time’s popular Actor Thikkurishi Sukumarannair was played the character of Alikkoya Haji and Prem Nawas played the character of Ummer. Actress Ambika played Kunju Beebi and her mother Amina’s role was played by Aranmula Ponnama. The character named Khadeeja who playes all dirty tricks to Harassaamina and her family and also tries all her means to stop the marriage between Ummer and Kunju Beebi is played by actress Panakajavalli. Nellikkod Bhaskaran played the character of Hassan who was the brother of Kunju Beebi.
Even though the money Muhammad Kakka saved in the pocket of his old coat is for realizing his own dream, he sacrificed all of it for the well- being of his fellow people which glorifies him at the end of the film.
Chemmeen, an all-time classic in Indian cinema
The all -time classic film of Mollywood, Chemmeen is considered as one of the best films ever screened in India cinema. The film is based on classic novel Chemmeen written by one of the prominent literary figures in Indian literary history and one of the greatest Malayalam writer ever called Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai popularly known as Thakazhi. Movie version of the novel came out in the year 1965 directed by master director Ramukariat and the screenplay based on the novel is written by S L Puram Sadanandan.
This epic film is produced by Babu Ismail Sait who also become popular as Chemmeen Babu after the release and grand success of the film. The artists who made the characters in the story immortal are Madhu, Sheela, Sathyan, Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair etc and the evergreen music by Salil Choudhary raised the beauty of the film to a different level all together. The DOP of the film was Marcus Bartley, another magician behind the lens who made the visuals evergreen by his great skills. Section of editing of the film has been handled by two of the best editors in India that time, Hrishikesh Mukharji and K D George. It has been made under the banner of Kanmani films and got released on August 19th, 1965 to be precise.
The story of the film deals with the love relationship between Karuthamma (played by Sheela)who was the daughter of a Hindu fisherman called Chembankunju (played by Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair) and Pareekkutty (played by Madhu). The story dealt with their love before and after Karuthamma were forcefully married to Palani (played by Sathyan) and the tragic end they had to face in the course of their life. Its theme dealt with the popular beliefs prevalent among the fisherman community of Kerala regarding the chastity of the women folk in their community.
The lyrics of the songs in the film is wriiten by Vayalar Ramavarma and the songs were sung by Dr. K J Yesudas, Manna Dey, P. Leela and Santha P Nair. Chemmeen had the unique record of bagging the president’s gold medal for the best film for the first time from south Indian film industry. Chemmeen also screened at International films festivals like cannes, Chicago etc and also included in the IBN Live list of 100 greatest Indian films of all time.
Director : Ramu Kariat
Release Date : 19/8/1965
Cast : Madhu, Sathyan, Sheela, Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair
Chemmeen Gallery
Valiyavan Official Trailer
Valiyavan Official Trailer -Valiyavan is an upcoming Tamil film written and directed by M.Saravanan. The film features Jai and Andrea Jeremiah in the lead roles. Enjoy the trailer !!!
Movie: Valiyavan
Starcast: Jai, Andrea Jeremiah
Director: M.Saravanan
Cinematography: Dinesh Krishnan
Editing: Subarak
Composer: D.Imman
Lyricist: Na Muthukumar, Vivega
Producer: K.N.Sampath
Banner: SK Studios
Label: Think Music
Another marriage is on cards ? Dileep opens his mind about life
Popular actor Dileep is working with a busy schedule and he has a handful of different films this year. Dileep’s next one to hit the screens is Suresh Divakar directorial Malayalam remake of the Telugu super hit film Maryada Ramanna in the name Ivan Maryadaraman and the film is expected to hit the silver screens all over on April 04, 2015 as per latest reports. He is currently busy with the works of Sidharth Bharathan’s second directorial venture Chandrettan Evideya and super director Jeethu Joseph’s Life of Josootty which is his second outing with the popular actor after the super success of My Boss. And the flick which he will join soon is the Sreebala K Menon directorial debut one.
During this busy schedule of him he opens his mind about his life to Malayala Manorama in an interview with them. Dileep replied in a tactical manner to the question of another marriage. He said rather in a funny manner that he was thinking not about another marriage but about whether to marry or not. He said once it has happened in his life and his better half was not with him anymore. Now he is focusing only on his work and also about the future of his daughter Meenakshi.
He said that everybody wants to know about whether he will marry again or not. But he said that his experience urges him to stay away from that kind of a relation again and he funnily said that these people want him to marry again so that they can make fake news and make him divorce again. Dileep said that life has taught him so much and in his 20 year old career he has gone through a lot of good and bad experiences. He even contemplated suicide when he was producing Twenty 20 for AMMA. Things were not at all going as well as they planned that time and the tension was so high that he just felt to leave it all their and end this life.
But God is been kind to them and all that went well just before the issue with his family had started. He said that he had no time to brood over past experience which are painful as he is an actor who has the duty to make people laugh and happy. So he had to hide all the pain in his mind and have to go on with the life till it seems fairly easy for him to think and live smoothly even with these past memories.
100 Days Of Love Official Trailer
100 Days Of Love Official Trailer
Directed by Jenuse Mohamed
Produced by K.V Vijayakumar Palakunnu
Music by Govind Menon (Thaikudam Bridge)
Starring Dulquer Salmaan, Nithya Menon, Shekhar Menon, Vineeth, Praveena, Rahul