Cinema / Showbiz

Honorary doctorate for Vikram

By chennaivision at 10 March, 2011, 6:37 pm

Chiyaan Vikram should be a happy and proud man. The man who rose to greater heights in Tamil cinema by dint of his hardwork, has added one more feather to his cap now by being chosen for the Honorary doctorate to be conferred on him by Universita Popolare Degli Studi Di Milano, Italy for his [...]

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Tie up with Hollywood more about economics than creativity: Big B

By chennaivision at 22 July, 2009, 11:22 am

New Delhi, Amid a lot of talk about the increasing collaboration between the Indian film industry and Hollywood, Superstar of the Millennium Amitabh Bachchan feels that tie ups between the two industries have more to do with economics than creativity.
”I think…this (a closer collaboration between the Indian film industry and Hollywood) has got [...]

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Tie up with Hollywood more about economics than creativity: Big B

By chennaivision at 22 July, 2009, 11:15 am

New Delhi, Amid a lot of talk about the increasing collaboration between the Indian film industry and Hollywood, Superstar of the Millennium Amitabh Bachchan feels that tie ups between the two industries have more to do with economics than creativity.
”I think…this (a closer collaboration between the Indian film industry and Hollywood) [...]

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Pattammal passes away

By chennaivision at 16 July, 2009, 4:51 pm

Veteran vocalist D K Pattammal died in Chennai this afternoon after a brief illness. She was 90. She is survived by two sons. Popular vocalist Nityashree Mahadevan is her grand daughter.
Pattammal was born in an orthodox Brahmin family in Kancheepuram. Her father, Damal Krishnaswamy Dikshithar, was deeply interested in music, while her mother, Kanthimathi (Rajammal), [...]

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IFFI to be made self-sustaining without diluting its spirit: CM

By chennaivision at 14 July, 2009, 11:38 am

Panaji, The Goa government, hosting the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on a permanent basis every year since the year 2004, would not spare any effort at making it self-sustaining while reducing the expenditure on its conduct without diluting the spirit of the film-centric event.
Disclosing this to mediapersons after chairing the [...]

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Ponner Sankar- Epic tale of Valor

By chennaivision at 11 July, 2009, 8:52 am

* Ponnar Sankar is a legendary story of two warrior brothers who lived many centuries ago, their story is what history is made of and they are worshipped as kaval devams in the villages even today, their princely story has been recounted through the countless folk ballads and the brothers [...]

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Jayakumarin Thiraikkathai

By chennaivision at 6 July, 2009, 10:58 am

A new film production house named ‘The Imprints’ is planning to make its first film in Tamil named ‘Jayakumarin Thiraikkathai’.
‘The Imprints’ is headed by producers Aravind Venugopal and Govind Padmasoorya who have already produced a Malayalam movie Atayalangal that won five Kerala State awards last year.
‘Jayakumarin Thiraikkathai’ is written and directed [...]

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STORY OF THE FILM APPAVI

By chennaivision at 6 July, 2009, 10:37 am

Devi visions pvt ltd is a company which is formating the inception of the 1st movie that has a passive venture, with much different pieces of regal movie by the title named “APPAVI”.T his film is been shot in Chennai, Ernakulum, and Hyderabad .
Director of the film R Raghuraj is now directing kannada movie [...]

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‘New York’ grosses Rs 55 cr in Wk 1, biggest hit of 2009 so far

By chennaivision at 4 July, 2009, 3:12 pm

New Delhi, After a lean patch at the box office, caused in large part due to lull in new film releases following a standoff between the film producers and multiplexes, Bollywood movies are back in the reckoning with the John Abraham Katrina Kaif-starrer ‘New York’ grossing a phenomenal Rs 55 crore worldwide in its first [...]

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Portrayal of crime and violence in Kannada films on rise

By chennaivision at 1 July, 2009, 6:59 pm

Bangalore, Portrayal of crime and violence in Kannada films was the highest in south and had been steadily increasing, thereby becoming cause of concern for the society, regional officer of the Central Board of Film Certification, A Chandrasekhar said today.
Talking to newspersons here, Mr Chandrasekhar, who completed his five-year=term, rued that the percentage of [...]

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