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Soon after his return from Cannes, where he took part in the screening of his film ‘Billa’ at the Cannes Film Festival, Ajith will soon pack his bags off to Kazakhstan.

Ajith is shooting for ‘Aegan’, directed by choreographer-turned-director Raju Sundaram. Nayantara plays his heroine in the film.

The movie was shot in Hongkong, Yercaud and Vishakapattinam. Now the cast and crew are planning to fly to Kazakhstan to shoot a song sequence.

Raju sundaram, a choreographer himself, has reportedly come up with catchy dance steps for the song.

The movie is produced by Ayngaran Internationals. Suhasini and Navdeep are also in the cast.

Veteran director S A Chandrasekhar is back to wield the megaphone. He would be directing a movie titled ‘Pandhayam’ that would feature Prakash Raj, Nithin Sathya, Sindhu Tolani and Radhika Sarath Kumar in key roles.

A veteran director S A Chandrasekhar says,  “ ‘Pandhayam’ is a youthful entertainer. After bringing to spotlight the likes of actors Vijayakanth (‘Sattam Oru Irutarai’), Rahman (‘Nilave Malarae’) and Simran (‘Once More’), I have zeroed in on Nithin Sathya. The youngster shows lots of promise and I hope that he would make it big after ‘Pandhayam’ ”.

“Sindhu Tolani plays the female lead. Nithin plays a righteous youth, while Prakash Raj plays an arrogant man. The two contrasting characters make up the film. Radhika dons a never-before-seen role”, he says.

Vijay Anthony scores the music while cinematography is by P C Sreeram’s assistant Srinivas.

‘Pandhayam’ is produced by VV Creations of S A Chandrasekhar.

Director Gautham Menon always shared good rapport with Harris Jayaraj. The two had been part of several successful ventures including ‘Minnale’, ‘Khaakha Khaakha’, ‘Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu’ and ‘Pachai Kili Muthucharam’.

However with Gautham opting to work with A R Rahman for ‘Chennaiyil Oru Mazhai Kaalam’ surprised many.

Questions started to do rounds whether the two are at loggerheads. However Gautham is quick to deny them as rumors.

“I am an admirer of Harris Jayaraj even now. I wanted to work with Rahman and expressed my desire to him. He readily agreed and we commenced ‘Chennaiyil Oru Mazhai Kaalam’. That’s all.’

 The movie features Trisha in the lead role and five newcomers are playing part of it.

The film’s story revolves around 3 girls and 4 boys. Trisha portrays a new generation software engineer. Naethra and Nikitha play the other two girls. Karthik who is actress Maheswari’s brother plays the male lead opposite Trisha and Daniel Balaji is in a role of a psycho.

The first shooting schedule of 25 days has already got finished in Chennai. The second schedule’s work has started and is going on.

The ace director also spoke about the response till now for his new project and also explained about the title of the film.

‘The people have a lot of expectations on ‘Chennaiyil Oru Mazhai Kaalam’. Just like the rainy season, love is also a beautiful experience’. ‘Mazhai Kaalam’ in the title represents the love shown in the film’.

A new heroine gets introduced into Kollywood through the yet to be released movie ‘Newtonin 3am Vidhi’ starring S.J.Suryah in the lead role and directed by Thai Muthu Selvan.

The new girl in the block is not new to the world of glamour and glitz as she was the winner of Femina Miss India 2004 contest.

Sayali Bhagat who hails from the town of Nasik in Maharashtra started her career in acting as the heroine in a Bollywood film called ‘The Train’ with Emraan Hashmi which was released in June 8, 2007. The movie was a a remake of the Tamil film ‘Pachai Kili Muthucharam’.

She was seen in the Bollywood movie ‘Halla Bol’ directed by Raj Kumar Santoshi and starring Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan released in January 11 2008.

After her first movie itself she got noted by the Tollywood film makers who gave her chances in their films.

She acted as the love interest of Allari Naresh in the film ‘Blade Babji’

The actress says that although she used to get offers from the Tamil Tinsel Town she was not able to commit to any projects due to call sheet problems.

Sayali says that any way she is now very happy as being cast as the heroine in her first Tamil film “Newtonin 3am Vidhi’.

The much-awaited audio of Rajinikanth-starrer ‘Kuselan’ is expected to hit the market from 20 June. The bilingual would hit theatres worldwide on 18 July, in both Tamil and Telugu.

It is said that audio of the film would be released on 20 June in two grand gala functions at Chennai and at Hyderabad.

The producers have reportedly planned to hold the audio of Tamil version in the morning at Chennai and that of the Telugu version in the evening at Hyderabad.

After some vital scenes of the film was canned recently at a village near Coimbatore, the final schedule of the shooting has been planned from 3 to 15 June at Ramojirao Film City.

Bad luck came to meet the unit of director Vasantha Balan’s new film ‘Angadi Theru’ when the hero injured himself during the shooting of a fight scene and had to be taken to the hospital.

After the commercially and critically acclaimed ‘Veyyil’ this film is the next one being completed by Vasantha Balan having new comers Mahesh and Anjali in the lead roles.

The shooting of the new film produced by Ayngaran International was going on in an old building in Villivakkam.

However brakes where applied on the shooting as the hero was injured in an action sequence. The actor sustained bleeding injuries and was rushed to hospital. As a result the bags were packed for the next one week.