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With 'Aanandam', a five-year-long mega serial on Sun TV, coming to an end, Sathya Jyothi Films' next serial 'Kalyanam' is all set to glue the audience to television sets on the same prime slot. After the successful serial Lakshmi, actress Meena is playing the lead role. "It's not a regular soap opera, not the usual stuff like heroine facing a lot of troubles. I come in casuals and my character name is Meera," informs Meena. The promo of the serial is already on air and it has created a lot of expectations among serial buffs. Meena says, in the serial she works in the media, and the character she portrays is unique and something she has never done before."I've already done a movie with Sathya Jyothi Films and I know them well. My first serial 'Lakshmi' got a good response. Wherever I went, people questioned like why the serial ended so soon. I got more offers after the serial," said Meena, who hosted a game show on Jaya TV before L...

BY N.THYAGARAJAN Kamal Hassan has appealed the people of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to strength their relationship without the intervention of others. The actor who was honoured at the Kannada Film Industry's platinum jubilee celebrations further appealed politicians not to mingle their politics with art. He said that people of Karnataka and Tamil Nadur like brothers and any problem between them could be sorted out without the interference of the politics. Kamal was addressing his inaugural speech on Sunday evening in Bangalore. He recalled that Karnataka had given super films stars like Rajinikanth. Supporting the views of Kamal Hassan, actor Vishnuvardhan said that he really liked the speeches of the actor and also appealed that the artistes should be always away from politics. He also praised that Kamal Hassan had a lot of supporters in the State. Actor Ramesh Aravind, translated Kamal's speech in the Kannada language and for each and every verse of Kamal's translation had...

Director Rajeshwar, who has completed the shoot and dubbing for his film, Indira Vizha, starring Srikanth, Namitha and debutant Hemamalini, has clarified that his movie is original and not an adaptation of the Hollywood flick Disclosure or its Hindi adaptation Aitraaz. The movie’s story, however, bears a striking resemblance to Disclosure and centres on Srikanth, an employee of a TV channel, whose boss turns out to be Namitha, his ex girl friend. “Only the plot may sound similar. We have treated it completely differently,” says the director, whose movie is expected to be a March release.

Mrs.Karpagam Thyagarajan Media Maters Dr.Sridhar Narayanan and Vijaya is producing MYTHILI a mega serial for the Kalaignar Tv channel. It is to be telecast between 1 PM and 2 PM on all working days. The story is purely based on the sentiments which the producers would expect a lot of persons to view the serial. The story starts from Kancheepuram to be extended to the Greater Chennai and would also likely to be shoot in Malaysia and Singapore. ‘KOLANGAL’ fame Ajay, Sujitha, Vadivukkarasi, Shanmugasundaram,OAK sundar, Deepa Venkat,Giri,Bharathi Kannan and Ceylon Manohar are the stars of this new serial. Dialogues are written by Balamurugan, Music by S.P. Venkatesh and Story,Screenplay and Direction are done by M.Viswanath

(By N.Thyagarajan ) Ace actress who is still young in her appearances, B.Saroja Devi will be appearing in AADHAVAN being produced by Udayanidhi Stalin for the Red Jiant Films. Though the actress has distanced herself from acting in films, she has given her nod to act in the film with Suriya and Nayanthara. The actors are Vadivelu, Ramesh Khanna who is also penning the story of the film. The film is directed by K.S.Ravi Kumar. Another important thing about this film, all these artistes join together after their association in the film Friends. It is expected, that Saroja Devi's appearance in the film will give an impetus to the film goers, since, there are a lot of fans of this actress whose eyes were starved quite a long time, would be enjoying the film.

KARPAGAM THYAGARAJAN The police say four local employees of the SUN TV network, a India based Tamil TV network which was operating without a valid license, have been taken into custody together with their equipment in Vavuniya for alleged links with the LTTE. Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekera told Daily Mirror the four employees were taken custody by the army yesterday and later handed over to the Vavuniya police for further investigations.

Jayam Ravi, the heartthrob of millions of girls and even for some middle-aged women, at long last has decided to get married to his long-time beautiful girlfriend Aarthi, who is pursuing her higher studies in Scotland. The parents of both these youngsters have agreed to their decision. Aarthi is the daughter of renowned producer Vijaykumar, who produced Veeraappu and several TV programmes. The actor was introduced by his brother Raja in the film Jayam, the Tamil remake of a Telugu blockbuster of the same name, Ravi became a household name in the entire Tamil Nadu. The hardworking and highly-ambitious actor soon secured a niche for himself in Kollywood. Ravi is not only a dedicated and professional actor; he is also a very dedicated lover! His dedication and love towards his girlfriend Aarthi moved his parents’ heart, who decided to get them married. Both sets of parents announced they are extremely happy with the decision of their children, putting an end to several wicked rumours whi...