Tamil actress Sneha married Actor Prasanna today morning in Chennai.
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Sneha Prasanna Engagement and Wedding Reception
Sneha prasanna engagement and wedding reception was held at Srivari Kalyana Mandapam in Chennai on Thursday
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Da Thadiya First Look
Movie : Da Thadiya
Director : Aashiq Abu
Cast : DJ Sekhar Menon and Sreenath Bhasi
Written by : Syam Pushkaran,Dileesh Nair and Abhilash Kumar
Music by : Bijibal Maniyil
Cinematography by : Shyju Khalid
Prithivraj and Kunjacko Boban are doing leading roles in Lal Jose film
Prithivraj and Kunjacko Boban are doing the central characters of new film of Lal Jose after ‘Diamond Necklace’.Reema Kalingal and Remya Nambeesan are the heroins. The script of the film by Boby and Sanjay. Prem Prakash is the producer of this film. The name of movie is not yet fixed.
Amrita TV Live Telecast of Grand Finale of Super Dancer Junior on May 12
An engrossing battle for the ultimate laurel is on the cards in Amrita TV’s Super Dancer Junior-4, as the dance reality show winds up to a tight finish in the Grand Finale which will be carried live on Saturday, the 12th of May.
As the D-day looms large, finale fever has gripped the State, with the child bandwidth of the audience getting ready to stay glued to their TV sets at 7 pm and root for their favorite stars on the stage.
Bhagyalakshmi, the pocket dynamo who demonstrated that size does not matter in dance, only skill does; the combative Gopika, always at her best when the chips are down; Jithna the pert participant who can slip into the soul of any genre and the willowy Rddhima whose lissome grace charmed the audience to spontaneous ovations, are the foursome who are just a hop, skip and jump away from the crown.
In the grand Finale, the finalists have to clear a line-up of challenging rounds- 4 solos, 4 group and 2 paired rounds that are the final hurdles to their journey to the top ;their performances will tip the scales in favour of one and seal the fate of the others.
A Jury Panel consisting of a special celebrity invitee and the 2 permanent judges, Sudha Chandran and Shanthi Master who had advised and guided the competitors as they budded and blossomed into seasoned danseurs will decide on the pick of the crop at the end of the contests.
Interlacing the rivals’ performances will be a series of acrobatic displays by the internationally famous Leem Company, who will give incredible feats of balance and strength and extraordinarily choreographed acts of grace and flexibility such as Hula Hoops that twirl dozens of hoops around waists and neck in dexterous rhythm ;the Ribbon Gymnastics, the art of flicks, circles and snakes that calls for co-ordination to the nth degree; Aerial Silk, an unbelievable blend of skill and elegance with climbs and drops, hanging precariously from a special fabric ;Bubble Dance that involves dancing inside a translucent bubble and so on.
On May 12th at the venue of the Grand Finale, with the Fahrenheit mounting outside, the real heat will be on the inside the auditorium, when the title clash begins.
By Smitha
Amrita TV
Diamond Necklace Malayalam Movie Review
Diamond Necklace Malayalam Movie Review
Producer- P V Pradeep and L J Films Pvt. Ltd.
Director- Lal Jose
Cast- Fahadh Fazil, Samvritha Sunil, Gowthami Nair, Anusree Nair, Rohini, Sreenivasan etc.
Music- Vidyasagar
Review By : Unni R Nair/ Kerala9.com
Let me begin with a question, a rhetoric question, about ‘Diamond Necklace’. So, whose film is it? Lal Jose’s…or Fahadh’s? Well, it’s a real good Lal Jose film; it’s the story that’s the star, it’s the screenplay that steals the show, it’s the narrative that holds your interest. At the very same time, it’s Fahadh Fazil, or rather the actor in him, who leaves you wonderstruck. So much of acting potential, at so young an age?! Well well, age is no criterion for talent. So thanks Lal Jose for ‘Diamond Necklace’; and thanks Fahadh for making ‘Diamond Necklace’ so precious a film for any film-goer, err, any sensible film goer.
Let me not dwell too much on the story; it’s totally unpredictable and you don’t know what’s going to happen next. You might have seen so many films that now you can almost predict which scene is going to follow which. You try it out with ‘Diamond Necklace’, but then you understand that the film’s maker is much smarter and not a single scene would turn out to be what you had expected it to be.
Arun (Fahadh) is a young happy-go-lucky doctor working in a hospital in Dubai. He lives the life of the rich- goes about in expensive cars, lives in Burj Dubai (Burj Khalifa), the world’s tallest building, carries a number of credit/debit cards with him and dresses fashionably. But take a close look and you understand that all this is mere show-off- the cars that he travel in get confiscated every now and then, the flat that he lives in is in fact his friend’s, the cards that he uses mostly don’t work and every now and then he gets calls from the Bank asking to clear off his credit card liabilities and loans. He is very much like any other Malayalee working out there in the Gulf. In a sense Venu (Sreenivasan), who hails from Arun’s hometown and who is visibly poorer and lives in the workers’ barracks in Dubai, is much happier and even well off if you get to know things from a different perspective. Arun has as his mentor, guide and friend Dr. Savithri (Rohini), whom Arun calls Akka (meaning ‘elder sister’) and who helps him in every way. It’s then that a new nurse Lakshmi (Gowthami Nair) comes and joins Arun’s hospital. Arun and Lakshmi develop a very close kind of relationship, which gradually turns into love. Arun also comes across Maya (Samvritha Sunil), who is related to ‘Akka’ and who is a fashion designer and who plans to open a boutique in Dubai. In the meantime Arun has to fly back home as his mother gets hospitalized and back home, he is caught in a situation where he has to get married, to Kalamandalam Rajashri (Anusree), a dancer. How these three women- Lakshmi, Maya and Rajashri- shape and influence Arun’s life and how he shapes their lives and how their relationships evolve and what all happens to Arun’s life then on forms the theme of ‘Diamond Necklace’.
What I feel is that ‘Diamond Necklace’ in fact is Lal Jose’s best film till date; it’s his most intelligent film. Of course there are many other Lal Jose films that I like, many that we like to watch again and again, but ‘Diamond Necklace’ is a cut above the rest of them. It’s a multi-layered film, based on a very well-written script. It’s well conceived, well shot and has some brilliant performances as its highlight. The characters stay on in your memory and you wish you get to see such films more often. There are things that seem clichéd and which, you feel could have been done away with, like Sreenivasan’s character for example. But then, you feel the character is very much integral to the plot and that Lal Jose could have handled the character a bit more subtly. Well, despite all this, ‘Diamond Necklace’ is a film that needs to be watched, appreciated and analysed. Hats off Lal Jose and team.
Performance
Fahadh seems to be in full form these days. A friend of mine, a critic himself, was saying that Fahadh, through his acting, seems to be taking lessons in acting. He is exploring and at the same time revealing to us the many aspects of acting. He is definitely the main highlight of ‘Diamond Necklace’. The three lead ladies put in great performances. Samvritha is brilliant as Maya while Gowthami, who was earlier seen in ‘Second Show’, simply excels as Lakshmi. Anusree, in her debut role as Rajashri, does her job perfectly well. She is real good. Thanks Lal Jose for introducing yet another talented actress to Malayalam Cinema. The others too do their respective roles perfectly well.
Technical aspects
Hats off to Samir Thahir. He is proving it again and again that he is a cinematographer to reckon with (and of course a good director too, which he has proved himself to be, with ‘Chaapa Kurish’). Well, without Samir, ‘Diamond Necklace’ wouldn’t have been what it is. Good job, Samir. Mohandas on the art side has done a good job and Ranjan Abraham has edited it well.
Music
Vidyasagar has given us some good tunes that jell perfectly well with the theme and the mood of the film.
Script
It’s the well-written script by Dr. Iqbal Kuttipuram that forms the base of this excellent film. He has handled it with all deftness and he also deserves appreciation for the characterization part. Dialogues too are good.
Direction
Great work Lal Jose!! (Don’t want to say much, his film speaks for his work. Just go and see it)
Verdict: Excellent! Multilayered, well shot, well conceived and with great performances.
Rating: 3.5/5
Grandmaster Team With Vodafone Customers
Grandmaster Star Cast interacts with Vodafone Customers at Cinemax during an exclusive screening of the movie
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Mallu Singh Malayalam Movie Review
Mallu Singh Malayalam Movie Review
Producer- Nita Anto
Director- Vysakh
Cast- Unni Mukundan, Kunchacko Boban, Biju Menon, Manoj K Jayan, Suraaj Venjaramoodu, Samvritha Sunil etc.
Music- M.Jayachandran
Background score- Gopi Sundar
Vysakh lets us down this time. I won’t say Vysakh is a great filmmaker or someone who’s indispensable. But he knows the art of churning out colourful entertainers, which seem to break formulae and stereotype, but are part of a formula that’s sort of new in Malayalam Cinema and which too would soon get stereotyped. I won’t say his ‘Pokkiri Raja’ and ‘Seniors’ are great movies; I like him because he has no such pretensions either. He knows it very well that he is churning out entertainers for the masses and wants the masses to flock to see his films. ‘Pokkiri Raja’ won as he tried a new combo, bringing together Mammootty and Prithviraj and cashing in on their box office appeal and strengths. In ‘Seniors’ once again he tried a totally new combo and brought together Jayaram, Kunchacko Boban, Biju Menon and Manoj K Jayan to deliver yet another entertainer. He was not repeating himself then. But now he repeated himself and also sought to repeat some other filmmakers and there he missed the mark. ‘Mallu Singh’ doesn’t bore you; but the big question is- Does it entertain you? The answer seems to be more negative than affirmative.
Let’s begin with the story; I’d prefer to narrate it in brief. Ani (Kunchacko Boban) hopes that his cousin Hari (Unni Mukundan), who left home about seven years back and who has left no trace as to where he has gone, comes back. But there are people (Hari’s villainous cousins) who want to establish that Hari is dead and wrest his property as and when the period of seven years, after which a missing person may be considered dead, is past. Three more months to go for that and Ani one day sees on TV a Sikh guy who looks exactly like Hari. The Sikh guy, whose name is Harinder Singh, lives in Punjab in ‘Mallu Street’, where people who have migrated to Punjab from Kerala reside. Harinder Singh is known there as Mallu Singh. Ani is sure that Harinder Singh is Hari. He travels all the way to Punjab. On the one hand he wants to find and bring back his cousin, who is also his friend, for his own sake. On the other hand, he wants to do that for the sake of his wife Ashwathy alias Achu (Samvritha Sunil), who has been in love with Hari and whose marriage was already fixed with Hari.
Ani reaches Punjab and gets acquainted with Pappan (Manoj K Jayan) and Karthikeyan (Biju Menon), both of whom are close to Harinder Singh. And then, he manages to get into Mallu Singh’s house too, where he works, looking after the cows. So, what happens to his quest for Hari forms the rest of the plot. Also in the story are the four sisters of Harinder Singh; the big brother is so protective of his sisters that he’d thrash anyone who dares look at them. (Hey, are you reminded of Mammootty’s ‘Hitler’ Madhavankutty? No need to think hard; the director himself reminds you, with a comment, that Mallu Singh is another Hitler Madhavankutty indeed!).
The storyline seems OK, but it’s the packaging that goes wrong. The film is intended to be a colourful comic entertainer. Colourful it is; it can’t be anything but colourful, since it’s shot mostly in Punjab, with lush green fields as the backdrop and the lead players sporting the most colourful of costumes. But comedy, that’s where it falls flat. Most sequences that are intended to be comic don’t make you laugh. The actors who could have made you laugh- Biju Menon and Manoj.K.Jayan especially- fail to do so, courtesy the flaws in characterization and not-so-good dialogues. The songs all fall in a pattern and offer nothing new. The climax is predictable. The film, if it had to be impressive should have had good dialogues, better comedy sequences and a pace that suits a comic entertainer. Characterisation should have been handled in a much better manner too.
As of now, the film is just so so and fails to deliver.
Performance
Kunchacko Boban doesn’t seem as impressive as he has been in other recent films of his. Something is lacking. Unni Mukundan looks good, but on the acting side, he has to improve. Manoj K Jayan and Biju Menon have not much scope for performance. The heroines- well, names don’t matter, the characters could have been done by just anyone and performances are OK. The others are not bad, except perhaps Suraaj Venjaramoodu. Are we not fed up seeing him repeat himself again and again?!
Technical aspects
Shaji’s cinematography is brilliant; he captures the beauty of Punjab spectacularly well and does his part in as excellent a manner as possible. Joseph Nellickal does the art direction too with style and recreates the Punjabi atmosphere in all essence.
Music
Gopi Sundar’s background score is good. Songs tuned by M.Jayachandran are good, but not outstanding. A couple of songs could stay alive in our memories for quite some time.
Script
Sethu should have paid much attention to the humour element, which is what the film seems to be lacking. On the characterization side too, the film fails and dialogues don’t have much of a punch, especially comic punch, in them.
Direction
Vysakh is in full control, but with a script that’s not up to the mark and with the kind of flawed characterization and issues about dialogue quality that make the film go wrong, he is rendered helpless in a way. But I can’t help blame him too. He could have chosen a better script or perhaps could have made sure the writer gives him the kind of dialogue and characterisation that he needs. So bad the film lacks in these areas and we are not that impressed. Vysakh should now try not to repeat himself in his next film.
Verdict: Not up to the mark
Rating: 2/5
Vinayan’s 3D horror film is coming with the story of Drakula
The shooting of this film has been started. The film will be releasing in Malayalam, English,Tamil and Telugu. Director Vinayan’s Drakulla is coming as a complete 3d film. Thilkan, Sudheer, Tamil stars Prabhu, Nazar and Telungu actress Meena are the stars. Om Puri also doing role in this film.
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The shooting of ‘Friday’ has completed – Fahad in different roles
Fahad Fazil, Manu and An Augustine are doing the central characters of the film ‘Friday’. The shooting of the film has been completed at Alapuzha. Ligin Jose is the director of the movie. The film depicts the story of the incident which was happened on a Friday in Alapauzha city. The film produced by Sandra Thomas and Thomas Joseph Pattathanam in the banner of Innovative Film Concepts.”FRIDAY 11-11-11″ is scheduled for release in the month of July.
Richa Gangopadhyay is not ready to take the role of Silk Smitha
Richa Gangopadhya is not ready to take the role of Silk Smitha in Malyalam film ‘Profile’. She told that nobody has discussed about the role of Smitha.”I like those bold characters. But I have no confidence to act and reflect the gene of those character.” Now, Richa is busy with the shooting schedule of Bengali Film ‘Bikram Simha’. Richa’s last year released films ‘Osthae’ and ‘Mayakkam Enna’ were box office hits.