Right from the day it was announced that both Vijay and Ajith films — Varisu and Thunivu — would be released for Pongal this year, fans of the competing actors began to keep track of which of the two films bags more theatres and which gets the privilege of the first show late night or early...
Who is now the superstar — Vijay or Ajith? This question has been generating much heat in Tamil tinsel town for the past few weeks, ahead of the top two heroes’ new films — Varisu and Thunivu — set for release for Pongal. It all feels like a showbiz game no less intense and interesting than...
It takes perseverance to be an actor, a lot of it to be popular and much more to sustain the popularity. This unwritten law of tinseltown holds good for all ages. Right from Tamil superstar of yesteryear M K Thyagaraja Bhagavathar to the post-1950 superstars MGR and Sivaji Ganesan to the...
The administration of the Nehru stadium in Chennai has reportedly levied a penalty on the production company of the new Vijay-starrer Vaarisu because fans damaged the seats in the indoor stadium at the film’s soundtrack release on December 24. Earlier in the day, the fans made a mad scramble...
The Vijay vs Ajith narrative is once again dominating Kollywood and social media, conjuring up nostalgic memories about the past Rajini-Kamal and MGR-Sivaji rivalry. Actor Vijay’s fans, gung-ho about their matinee idol’s forthcoming Pongal release Vaarisu (Heir), have gone on a tweeting spree...
Kamal Haasan, 68, the multi-faceted Tamil film actor, much revered for his seamless contributions to the film industry for the past 62 years, is not yet ready to call it a day though he is equally active in politics with his own party Makkal Neethi Maiyam. His latest blockbuster Vikram,...
Beneath its glossy artistic and commercial exterior, cinema has an underbelly teeming with guile, deceit, behind-the-scenes intrigue and lack of scruples. Everyone associated with the world of glamour and glitz has his/her own tale of disappointments, failures, betrayals and so on — tales which...
The experience of watching a family drama gets personal when it rubs off on real relationships back home. Recently, after the film Love Today, some couples experimented with exchanging mobile phones like in the movie. Similarly, one expected the latest release, Gatta Kusthi, featuring Vishnu...
A little over two decades since its first release, Rajinikanth’s Baba comes calling at cinemas in a relatively new avatar, refurbished and reinvigorated. Baba’s comeback has set off expectations that the 2002 box office dud will rise up from the dead like a phoenix. Of late, social media has...
Music director Deva, who has been composing for Tamil films for the past 30 years, for the first time held a public concert, and it’s going viral. On the occasion of his 72nd birthday on November 20, Deva who is most famous for creating the soundtrack to which Rajinikanth attained true...
