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By N.Thyagarajan The young music director G.V.Prakash Kumar, who have become a citadel in the film's music direction will be marrying famous playback singer Sainthavi on May 27th in Chennai. It is said, both of them had fallen love with each other and have been classmates. The family of the music director and the playback singer on Tuesday called on the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa at the Secretariate and invited her to their marriage. Prakash Kumar has music directed for more than 25 films, and also did his best for the newly formed Hyderabad IPL Team's music. The music director is closely related to the Oscar Award Winner A.R.Rahman.

Judo Rathnam with actor Rajinikanth in a Tamil film.    By N.Thyagarajan Vellore:  Stunt master Judo Rath­nam of Gudiyattam, who performed stunts for more than 1,500 films, has now found time to pen his biography in Tamil — Thama­raikulam Mudhal Thalain­agaram Varai which is set  be released on May 3 in Chennai. “Thamaraikulam was my first film in which I appeared in a small role, and Thalainagaram was my last film, though I am working for two or three films now. Modern Thea­tres Sundaram gave me the chance to become stunt master in Vallavan Oru­van, Vallavanukku Va­ll­a­van and many other films produced in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. I wanted to write my memoirs and it took two years to share them with the public,” said K.K. Rathnam, who was given the title ‘Judo’ by Modern Theatres owner T.R. Sundaram. Rathnam has done 49 films with Rajini, 16 with Kamal Hassan, 69 with Kannada Rajkumar, 4 with Amitabh Bachchan, 16 with NTR and had wo...

By N.Thyagarajan More than 200 fans of Superstar Rajinikanth went on fast in Vellore, near a Kalairanagam, in support of the Sri Lankan Tamils who are suffering in the Island. All the fans sought, the USA's resolution to be brought at UN Human Rights Commissions Meet, being held in Geneva. The fans sought the Government of India's intervention in passing the resolution at the UN Council Meeting. It is to be remembered that the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa had written a letter to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to take up the resolution passed in the Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva. The DMK ally of the Congress party for over nine years, announced its decision of withdrawing its support to the Congress following the Central Government did not act properly in passing the resolution to entrench the rights of the Sri Lankan Tamils in the Island.

It was season one, in which actor Suriya Sivakumar anchored the Vijay TV Channel's Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi. The NVOK then had royal-welcome and the viewers never missed to watch it. One could realise Actor Suriya's ability in anchoring the show with the required discipline was the main reason for the success of the show.  Suriya is an actor, a qualified engineer, who instead of brooding over ceilings for job, he has been proving a capable film-actor with flying colours of marks. Vijay TV Channel which studied the talents of the actor invited him to anchor its Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi show and the actor was able to put all his talents to make the show better. This is the flashback of the NVOK Season One. For the Season Two of the NVOK. actor Prakash Raj has been roped in, giving the Vijay TV Channel a different taste to their viewers. Vijay TV Channel knows the knack of retaining its viewers, with the introduction of another talented actor and Producer Prakash Raj f...

Oscar Award Winner and music director A.R.Rahman is making an attempt to produce a film jointly with another Oscar Award Winner Rasool Pookutty. One may not know about Rahman's knowledge in film direction, but the renowned Music Director has qualified in a course on Script Writing and Film Direction when he was in Los Angeles. A.R.Rahman has written the script and is discussing about the locales for shooting. Not only that. He is on the look out for a good hero and heroine for his production. The hunt continues and the date on which subamuhurat of the film pooja will be announced.

By N.Thyagarajan Asin who has not seen quite a long-time in Tamil films, is coming back to act in a Tamil film with actor Vijay to be directed by eminent director K.V.Anand. But Asin is not new to act with Vijay as she had already appeared with him in Kavalan. The film M Kumaran son of Mahalakshmi was the first film in which the Keralite actress Asin made her debut and has acted with several leading heroes like Suriya and Vikram. The actress was busy with the schedules of Hindi remake films and has settled down in Mumbai, after a long hiatus is turning to Tamil films.

Some unknown miscreants on Thursday morning pelted stones and damaged the windows and cars parked in the portico of actress Kushboo's residence near Foreshore Estate, Chennai.  The reason for such attack is not yet known, but it has been said the actress in an interview to a Tamil weekly released on Thursday, had commented about electing of next chief to the DMK party, which had angered some party men. In the interview, she had reportedly told the party's general council alone vested with the power of choosing the next chief for the party. However the real reason for the attack would come to light, after thorough inquiries were made, sources say. In Trichy, 312 Kilometers from Chennai, some of the Kushboo's banners were decimated by some unknown persons, according to a report.