JOLIE’S NEXT DIRECTION: WORLD WAR 2 DRAMA UNBROKEN

The actor turned director Angelina Jolie is now all set to focus on her next project for direction.

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Angelina Jolie is now considering directing a feature film based on the adaption of Laura Hillenbrand’s best- seller Unbroken: A World War 2 Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. The book features a true story about Louis Zamperini, a competitor at the 1936 Olympics, who survived in Japanese prison camp during World War 2.

Jolie was so moved reading the book, that she wants it in the big screen.

“I read Laura Hillenbrand's brilliant book, and I was so moved by Louie Zamperini's heroic story, I immediately began to fight for the opportunity to make this film," she said while talking about her new project.

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GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS: A LOT OF SURPRISES IN STORE

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The 70th Golden Globe Awards has a lot of surprises in store not only for the awaiting audiences, but also for the nominees. This year’s group of nominees chosen for nominations were announced on December 13, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, while the awards will be presented on January 13, 2013.

The nominees for the best drama motion pictures include “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”

The movies “Argo,”  “Life of Pi” and “Lincoln” were also selected for nominations for the best original score, in addition to “Anna Karenina” and “Cloud Atlas.”

It is yet again a great fortune for the four movies “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Lincoln,” and “Zero Dark Thirty”, which scored extra nominations along with “Silver Linings Playbook” under the best screenplay category.

For the best musical or comedy motion pictures-“Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “Les Miserables,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” and “Silver Linings Playbook” were the movies selected for nominations.

Among all the movies, Civil War based drama “Lincoln” notched up seven nods including best director for Steven Spielberg and best actor for Daniel Day- Lewis. While the rest of the movies also fetched five nods for the best director Ben Affleck for Argo, Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty, Ang Lee for Life of Pi and Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained.

Not to be missed- the prominent celebrities including Joaquin Phoenix for The Master, Richard Gere for Arbitrage, Denzel Washington for Flight, John Hawkes for The Sessions were nominated for the best actors for drama. Categorized under Musical or Comedy, the actor Bradley Cooper and actress Jennifer Lawrence of “Silver Linings Playbook” were nominated for best actor and best actress award respectively. On the other hand, the movie “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” also hit the nominations for the best actor Ewan McGregor and for the best actress Emily Blunt.

Here are the other categories of nominations for:

Best Supporting Actor:

Alan Arkin, Argo

Leonardo Di Caprio, Django Unchained

Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Tommy Lee Jones, Hope Springs

Christophe Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, The Master

Sally Field, Lincoln

Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

Helen Hunt, The Sessions

Best Original Song

Safe and Sound, The Hunger Games,

Skyfall, Skyfall

Suddenly, Les Miserables

Not Running Anymore, Stand Up Guys

For You, Act of Valor

Best Foreign Language Film

Amour

Rust and Bone

The Untouchables

A Royal Affair

Kon-Tiki

Best Animated Feature

Brave

Frankenweenie

Rise of the Guardians

Wreck It Ralph

Hotel Transylvania

Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award

Jodie Foster

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VISWAROOPAM: Muslim orgs ready to serve Biriyani for Kamal

Apparently muslim organizations have agitated against kamal Hassan’s viswaroopam movie as it may portray them in bad light.

In reaction to this, kamal Hassan has said that the muslims will feel proud after watching the movie and if there is no objectionable reference against them in the movie, they must serve briyani to 1000 poor people.

Muslim organizations have agreed to his statement and they also told that they will be happy to serve briyani to poor people.

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GOWTHAM TO WORK WITH SURYA AGAIN

Gowtham menon will work with suriya again in his next flick. He conforms that it’s an action thriller and to be in international standards.

The shooting is all set to begin on March 2013. ‘’after NEP my concentration will be completely on this film which will to be produced photon, I am on the verge of finishing the script after which I will narrate to him’’ he said

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MUGAMOODI – THE MASK UNVEILED

Starring: Jeeva, Narain, Nasser, Pooja hedge

Direction: Mysskin

Cinematographer: Sathya

Music: Krishna Kumar

                                                      

‘Grave themes are portrayed in the most intellectual and unsurpassed way which could almost tear heart of the viewers ‘ this was the expectations from Mysskins prior films but ‘’Mugamoodi’’ failed to do righteousness to his fanatics. The movie starts off well with thriller background music, dark and low angle shots which impose assumption to the crowd about the grave subject from Mysskin for which they crave sitting in edge of the seat. But the interest in the film survived only till the audience ordered for popcorn.

Jeeva continues his ability in choosing his movies with prominent roles. Anand (Jeeva) aka Bruce lee who is a kung fu proficient trained by his master Chandru, whom he respects utmost by offending people messing up with him. The movie starts with burglars using high technologies for their missions by killing people for wealth. Gaurav (Naaser) is appointed by Tamil Nadu police to unravel this mysterious gang. In-between (Anand) lee falls in love with Gaurav’s daughter who is found to be girl with dynamic attitude. ‘Bar anthem’ song rejoices party crowd which was seemed to be appealing.

‘Super hero ‘outfit was chosen by the protagonist just to attract his love interest in different way but circumstances made him to be a real super hero ‘Mugamoodi’ with art of kung fu. The burglars who also wore mask are trained in martial arts by Angusamy (Narain). The scene when Anand (lee) establish his skill and passion for kung fu in a fish market boosted the expectations of the second half. Narain train burglars in the name of dragon kung fu school who even go to an extent of killing people to loot their wealth but the emotional quotient was totally missing in that particular plot.

The love sequence between Anand (lee) and Shakthi (Pooja hedge) was more dramatic. Gaurav (Nasser) who is appointed to investigate these murders is unproductive and his character was totally wasted. Jeeva (anand) has given his best which was evident on screen with his professional martial art skills .Transition from a kung fu trained guy to ‘Mugamoodi ‘was portrayed well. Cinematographer Sathya done a flawless job and screenplay was in typical Mysskin style which was the only thing to be noted worthy. Director could have taken efforts to make second half more interesting and fast which would have given a very positive verdict. Overall the much expected ‘Mugamoodi’ fall short to impress people as expected.

Verdict: worth  watching once.

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ATTAKATHI – MOVIE REVIEW

Starring: Dinesh, Swetha 

Direction: Pa Ranjith
Music: Santhosh Narayanan
Production: CV Kumar

Attakathi –turns out to be a sharp sword. Love stories have been the most repeated concepts in Kollywood industry. But still some directors try to do justice by working on different story-line  ’Attakathi‘is an out of the box love story which revolves around a guy who resides in sub urban region of Chennai. It’s a humorous flick which conveys people to overcome love failures with ease and move on as another love may follow us eventually.

‘Dinesh ‘who made small appearance in national award winning film aadukalam , has done lead role in this flick. He has exposed his innocence and maturity in acting with a perfect balance. Dhinakaran(dinesh)  ends in tutorial college as he could not get through in his class 12 English subject. He is guy who tries to be optimistic about his life and go on footboards to try his luck over girls. His acquaintances do the same and meet regularly in a spot where they discuss about each ones love life. ‘Poornima’ a girl in outskirts of Chennai boards the same bus of Dheena. But it was not a typical romantic sequence as it was meant to be; the first word spoken by Poornima to him is ‘Anna’ (brother). In a few minutes, dheena tries to win heart of other girls those who pass by his sight but his efforts goes unavailing which disappoints him to a great extent. Based on this ground, his friends tag him as ‘atta-kathi’. In-between Dheena joins karate classes just to impress girls and to be safe in his attempts.

Transition from Dheena to ‘route thala’ during his college days with a rugged look, has been portrayed well. Foot tapping numbers without using high tech music instruments added a different flavor to the movie. Kudos to music director was such an attempt which handled the pace of the movie on form. Twist happens when ‘Poornima’ his first love interest joins the same college, where dheena pursue his third year which is noted to be worthy. Everything may seem to be on familiar track, but the climax proves you wrong which make the movie to be out of the box.

Overall, Attakathi is a sharp edged knife with a light hearted script coagulated more with humor and definitely a good hang out with friends on weekend.

 

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RISE OF ANOTHER VIJAY IN TAMIL INDUSTRY

Vijay Sethupathi, after his back to back success of his latest flicks is on cloud nine. ‘Nadula konjam pakatha kaanum’ a full length entertainer and the movie ‘pizza’ a thriller made well at the box office. He has established his acting skills well in both the movies and it has reached mass audience.  

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THE YOUNG SINGER TURNS ACTOR

Krish, the young singer who had sung popular numbers like ‘June Pona’ from Unnalae Unnalae  and ‘En friend Pola’ from Nanban has now decided to enter into the big league actor list. He has supposedly signed a movie with Rowther films titled Puriyadha aanandham pudhidhaga aarambham ‘ while other cast members are yet to decide.

 He was recently blessed with a baby. 

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VIJAY FANS RECOMMEND ANOTHER 'MANKATHA'

Vijay's fans wish to see their favorite star do a movie with the Mankatha director Venkat Prabhu ever since Venkat made it big with his Ajith flick.

Venkat prabhu was hosting a program in a private channel, and on that particular ‘Vijay special’ episode, his fans made a direct request to him, to do movie with actor Vijay in the coming days. For now, Vijay and Venkat are busy with their respected projects and hope the idea would be considered by both very soon. 

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SUPERSTAR'S FRIEND PASSED AWAY

People are celebrating the ‘style icon’ birthday on this special date 12-12-12 with immense joy.  But the superstar himself is worried on this day and has not involved him in birthday celebrations as his close friend Gandhi has passed away.He traveled to Bangalore with him on number of occasions. 

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