June 11th, 2008
Sun TV channels went off the air in most places in the Temple City following an instant migration of local cable operators from Maran-owned Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) to Azhagiri-owned Royal Cable Vision (RCV) launched on Monday.Caught in the cable tiff were housewives who passionately watch the mega serials telecast on Sun TV.They choked the phone lines and flooded the local cable operators with angry queries about the sudden blackout of the Sun Network since Tuesday morning.Only those who had installed Sun Direct (Directto-Home Service) could watch the Sun channels without any interruption. A prolonged blackout could see more of cable connected homes switch over to Sun’s DTH, which is yet to take off among the middle and low income groups. A few localities like K.K.Nagar, however, did not suffer any interruption in the network’s telecast as the operators chose to remain with SCV.
Madurai Cable TV Operators Association A.M. Kannan told this newspaper, “With the presence of 30 MSOs, a total of 450 cable operators function in the city. While only 100 of them are with SCV, the major chunk of operators shifted their loyalty to RCV.Moreover, the dealers of pay channels like Raj, Vijay, Jetix and Discovery have inked pact with RCV to relay their channels. We do not have any problem in telecasting Jaya TV programmes too.” Sensing stiff competition, SCV jumped the guns a week ago by giving cable operators 50 percent concession in the charges towards every cable connection. But Azhagiri, according to an insider in his camp, had told a meeting of cable operators after the launch of RCV on Monday that he was aware of their difficulties assured them a share in the profits.
Meanwhile, a scroll announcing that Sun TV firm has been delaying its telecast service to RCV despite the latter’s appeal, is on in areas where Sun channels have been blacked out. RCV is very hopeful of getting Sun package. “This is only a business. When we have the network, they have no other alternative but to come to us in near future,” Mr Kannan said.
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June 8th, 2008
When you hear A.R.R no a single person in this world can go wrong in picturing who is being mentioned.The will we an roar in crowds whenever this young magician comes into limelight where ever he goes to.Even in hollywood there is a craze for his musical beats.His recent album ‘Pray for me Brother’ made every single person turn up their attention to this musical maestro.The song was well received both in hollywood and there is no doubt of the response to it in India.The thing which makes him more adoring is his way of life,he is always simple but sound.He never involves in any functions,though involving in some which sounds more important.He loves spending most of his time in his studio.
A.R.R is one of the rare music directors who loves to work under young directors.He also praises film directors such as Mani Ratnam and Ashutosh Gowarikar for living up classical music in their films.He reminds the fact that “Its upto to the film director to live up the life in the songs peenned by us”.He also adds that,”Though it is demanding at times but that is the way the life goes at this stage”.
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June 3rd, 2008
It was sure an evening that no one who vitnessed face to face will ever forget.The entire bollywood was seen there in the beautiful place that they would have been before for many a many shootings, Bangkok.They too were eager to know the results.The results include the famous gossip pair of Deepika Padukone and Ranbir Kapoor winning their respective individual awards of Best Actress and Best Actor Awards for Om Shanti Om and Saawariya.Aishwarya and Abishek Bachan as usual were the pick among those who were present and they also received awards for Best Male and Best Female performances in ‘Guru’.The best films include Guru, Chak De India,Jab We Met,Om shanti Om,Life in a Metro.Shreya goshal backed her award for the best Female Singer for her songs in four films.
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May 22nd, 2008
Hi guys previously I added some great pictures of AR Rahman Live in Chennai - concert. Due to warm support and request from all guys to add more images to the blog, I am now adding some more pictures of the event.
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May 18th, 2008
Oscar Films Private Ltd. is a leading production house led by the well known film distributor V.Ravichandran. Venu Ravichandran also known as Oscar Ravichandran is a popular film producer and distributor in the Tamil-based film industry. His production house is now produced over 15 films in Tamil and Telughu. His latest Tamil movie production movie name called Anniyan was a great blockbuster starring Vikram. His current production is Dasavatharam in that film V.Ravichandran is caught by the AMPAS [Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]. The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers.
The issue is that Venu Ravichandran was using the Oscar award logo as his company logo. It was found by AMPAS now, when the Dasavatharam becomes a International film, recently Jackie Chan too attended the audio launch of the movie. The AMPAS has now fined the Venu Ravichandran heavily. Industry sources says that he have to pay the fine for the number of movies produced and distributed under the Oscar award logo banner. Due do these issues it is expected again a delay in the release of Dasavatharam.
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May 3rd, 2008
FIRST ON NET :: EXCLUSIVE ::
Ilayathalapathy Vijay starred, Kuruvi, is the illegal remake of English hollywood movie “The Rundown” [Welcome to the jungle]. The Rundown[Welcome to the jungle] was released in 26th September 2003 and directed by Peter Berg. Today, Kuruvi, the movie released allover India under the high expectations by the fans of Vijay. But, the movie satisfied the fans only to the small extent. Kuruvi is a complete illegal remake of the English hollywood film, The Rundown[Welcome to the jungle], starred by The Rock. Most of the scenes in Kuruvi are similar to the film, The Rundown[Welcome to the jungle]. Vijay too made the same actions as The Rock performed in the original version, The Rundown[Welcome to the jungle].
* The Rundown movie was also called as Welcome to the Jungle in many part of the world
Poster of the film The Rundown [Welcome to the Jungle] :
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May 3rd, 2008
Exactly after two weeks time, the Delhi Daredevils, Chennai SuperKings and Rajasthan Royals are seems to be the thrilling teams of the current DLF IPL tournament. The much hyped Mumbai Indians, Bangalore Royal Challengers and Deccan Chargers are considered to be the worst of the IPL tournament. The Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab are in the middle of the table.
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May 3rd, 2008
The much awaited movie of the year is finally out in theaters on May 1 in overseas and May 3rd in India. The movie was worst criticized by top websites like Sify and Rediff. Anyhow, the fans of Vijay are enjoying the movie. The movie halls remains house full allover tamil nadu for the day 1. It is believe to continue the same for first week, if the film too satisfies the neutral audience and public. The punch dialogues and action sequence makes the audience boring. It is to mention that Film has been declared as ‘HIT’ from traders.
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April 26th, 2008
Dasavadhaaram movie audio was launched by Jackie chaan yesterday in Nehru Stadium, Chennai. The Honorable Chief Minister of State, Mr. M. Karunanidhi took part in the function and gave a final speech in the function. He was praising the Jackie Chaan and gave some interesting facts about the Jackie Chaan. He too made some comparisons about Jacki Chaan and Kamal Haasan, said that both born on same date ‘7′ and same year ‘1954′. The news in some media has reported that Kamal was not happy with the Jackie’s arrival. He was most disappointed by the words of CM too, since Chief Minister was keep on praising Jackie Chaan. Other than Jacki chaan and Kalaignar, the function was attended by Amitaa bachan, Hema Malini, Malika Sherawat, Asin, K. S. Ravi Kumar, Mamotti and Others.
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