Vikram’s first Malayalam film

After much speculations about being in a Mollywood movie, Tamil superstar Vikram has decided to do his first Malayalam film for director Roshan Andrews. Roshan Andrews is the one who directed super hit movies like ‘Notebook’ and ‘Evidam Swargamanu’. He is also the director of ‘Udayanu Tharam’, which was later remade ‘Vellithirai’ in Tamil.
‘Cheeyan’ Vikram who never concealed his love for doing Malayalam films has finally decided on one. Roshan who had been an admirer of Vikram had met him last year in a function organised by a private channel. A few weeks back, they met again at a private function, where Vikram asked Roshan to suggest a good story in Malayalam so that he can take the plunge.
Few days later Roshan had sent a synopsis of a plot written by his writers Bobby-Sanjai. Vikram was immediately floored by the wonderful plot lines and immediately agreed to do it.
When Roshan discussed the remuneration part, Vikram is said to have told Roshan, “I will not take a single pie for the project. Let the film be my contribution to Malayalam cinema.” The project will off by the early 2011. Vikram has to complete his current projects and Roshan will also be ready by then finishing his much delayed film ‘Casanova’ with Mohanlal which is said to the costliest Malayalam film ever.

No Maoist, No LTTE In ‘Raavanan’

Manirathnam has been far-famed for his intellectual coalesces of reality themes blended with fictional dramas and sometime mythological epics. His evergreen masterpiece ‘Nayagan’ was partly based on the life of Mumbai-don ‘Varadaraja Mudhalayar’ and ‘Thalapathy’ inspired from the characters of Arjunan-Karnan in ‘Mahabharata’.The queue doesn’t end there as ‘Aayutha Ezhuthu’ was based on a revolutionary student of Osmania University in Hyderabad shot to death. With his upcoming trilingual film ‘Raavanan’ is all set for June release, there have been sort of excitements as the tale is reported to be based on mythological epic of ‘Ramayana’ with a different delineation of ‘Raavana’.

Recently, there were buzzes that the film is partially based on Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy. Off the late, the communal appraisals heard in the song ‘Kodu Poatta’ trigged up new sensationalism that Manirathnam could have touched the lines of ‘Eelam Tamilians’.

But the closer sources and the film crew have strongly denied these theories as baseless rumors and ‘Raavanan’ is a pure fiction.

Raavanan is not Just Ramayana

A special event on the Mani Ratnam-directed Raavanan was held in Chennai recently. Priyamani, Vikram, Karthik, Prabhu, Vairamuthu, AR Rahman and others participated in the event. In an effort to introduce the film, actor Karthik and Priyamani held an interview session.To a question on whether the film is an inspiration of Ramayana, Vikram said that it has traces of Ramayana, Mahabharata and Silappadhigaram. When asked if he is the Raavanan, Vikram replied that it is his pet name in the film.Vairamuthu read out the lyrics that he had penned for the movie and AR Rahman sang it on stage much to the delight of the audience.

Is Vikram signed a deal with Gowtham Menon?

Actor Vikram’s combination with Gowtham Menon would surely result as the biggest showpiece. But till now, they haven’t worked together as the proper scripts and perfect roles couldn’t be crafted for him.
It’s also worth mentioning that Gowtham Menon wanted Vikram to don the lead character in ‘Kaakha Kaakha’ that was later shifted to the hands of Surya, out of Jyothika’s recommendation. On the pars, Vikram had no intentions of doing this film as he had previously acted in Hari’s ‘Saamy’ that had portrayed him as a police officer.
But now, the buzzes are that Gowtham Menon is looking out to direct various actors including Vijay and Vikram. Soon after Ajith Kumar’s 50th film, he’ll be holding discussions with these actors andmake final decisions.

‘Chiyaan’ Vikram becomes Don

Vikram is doing the lead role in the film directed by Boopathy Pandian. While speaking about this Boopathy Pandian said, “The title of the film which has Vikram and Ileana in the lead role is yet to be titled.

The shooting of this film will commence on 10th of April. The first schedule of this film is to take place in Chennai. After this, the shooting will take place in Hyderabad and foreign countries. There is a talk that this film is a police story. It is not true.
The film is about a don who is challenging the police. Vikram is donning the role of a don. The shooting of the film Nan Avalai Sandhitha Pozhuthu which I am directing is over. New faces are starring in this film. The film will hit the screens in the month of April. Yuvan Shankar Raja has given much importance to the music while composing.”

Vishnuvardhan to direct Vikram

After wielding megaphone for Ajith’s magnum opus ‘Billa’, director Vishnuvardhan is set to experiment with an exceptional period film set in backdrops of Chola Dynasty.
Says Vishnuvardhan: ‘Usually I spend more time in penning scripts and screenplays and I had completed more stories in one year. But now, I have picked the script of period film and workingconstantly for the final draft. I have actually planned to rope in Vikram to don the lead role and nothing is confirmed till the script works are over…’
When asked about directing Ajith’s film, he replied saying, “We have actually discussed few scripts and it may happen in future. But directing his 50th film is a baseless rumor and I will take up Telugu projects only after the completion of his period film.”

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"Ajith" dosen’t replace "Vikram" in 24

Yaavarum Nalam ( Hindi – 13B) fame Vikram K Kumar was reported to have been drenched in trouble as actor Vikram didn’t report to him on the sets of ‘24’. Recently, there were rumours stating that Vikram has been dropped from the project with Ajith Kumar replacing him.
When approached the closer hands of Vikram Kumar, they stated that there’s some sort of issues running between Vikram and the filmmaker since the actor didn’t join the team for shooting, as he was busy filming for Selvaraghavan’s untitled next at Ladakh.
Finally, the filmmaker addresses the truth that issues have been sorted out between them and the project will successfully go on floors from Dec 2. “I was really puzzled reading news about Ajith Kumar replacing Vikram this film. For sure, I will work with Ajith Kumar in one of the projects after the completion of ‘24’…”
According to the sources, ‘Subramaniapuram’ fame Swathi has been paid Rs.60 Lakhs as her remuneration for this film.