The great, good and, a few people who probably only came in to ask for directions, descended on a theatre in Tamil Nadu for the Premiere of 2012. Not bad, considering it's still two years away (at the time of writing).

Tejasree and Keerthi Chawla, who actually star in the damn thing attended, with peeps like Jeeva, Sangeeta, Khushboo, Shantanu Bhagaraj, Arun Vijay and a whole load of other dudes/dudettes whose names escape me.

Having watched Rajadhi Raja recently, it was good to see Mumtaj, who must have had good fun playing the gangsta chick in the film, at the event. Ditto with Monica, who I haven't heard of for a while.

Pix please!



While the film Rajadhi Raja was panned by the critics, Mumtaj was actually praised for her role!

( Hmmm...let me guess: Clicky! )

Mumtaj is off to Kerala for her next film, which stars Kalabhavan Mani. Filming starts in December at Palakkad.

Marvelous.

Er...anyway, the film stars Manoj, son of veteran actor, Mohan Babu and is directed by the Big-Bearded-Dude, K Raghavendra Rao. It's produced by Mohan Babu's daughter, Lakshmi Prasanna (the one to the left of the guy doing a 'Bugs Bunny' impression).

Yeah! It was Mamatha's birthday yesterday, so, I thought I'd waste more bandwidth in honour of the gal/singer/actress.

I've posted pix from the recent audio release of Saleem and, a few random pix in between.



( What?! More pix?: Clicky! )



I've posted this one before but...what the hell.


I still have no idea how to spell her transliterated name, by the way...

Marvelous.


P.S. I was supposed to have posted this yesterday but...hey! It's me!! :)

P.P.S. I have no idea what the black dots are doing on the recent pix of Mamatha at the function.

P.P.P.S. Nothing else...


Marvelous...again.

Pointless fact: I was briefly an anagarika in a Buddhist Monastery called Amaravathi. No, really!

I think I'll end the post here.

What? Oh, alright then...

Amaravathi is a new Telugu film, directed and starring Ravi Babu, with Taraka Ratna (nope, I haven't a clue) and, of course Sneha and Bhumika.

As you know, I'm pretty rubbish at things like useful facts, dates and plot-lines so, lets get straight into the pix:



Sneha holds all calls.

( Nothing to get hung up about: Clicky! )

I would assume the film is some kind of thriller, with lots of death, telephone calls and Sneha smiling.

Class.

Marvelous.

Yeah, I mentioned this a while back. It's supposed to be a comedy, though Tamil cinema's most popular comedians (Vivek and Vadivelu) are conspicuous by their absence (whatever that means...).

Other comedy stalwarts like Ramesh Khanna, Vaiyapuri, Bhaskar and Illavarasu make up the cast, with Raghava Lawrence as hero (I assume) and Sandhya amongst the ladies.

Some pix, methinks:



(From the left) Ramesh Khanna, Raghava Lawrence, Illavarasu and Vaiyapuri.

( More rootin', tootin' shootin' pix behind the cut, boy! )

I'm hoping there may be a little more info soon.

Marvelous.

Oooo... now this looks interesting: Bindu Madhavi, Kajal, Nikhil and that nice Navdeep chap, all in the same film. It even has Aditi Sharma!! Oh yes!!!



( Woweezowee!: Clicky )

It doesn't get much better than this!!

Marvelous.

Ah why struggle with reviews and in-depth analysis when you can just post loads of unconnected images?

I'll start with Kacheri Arambam which stars Jeeva and Poonam Bajwa:



( A few more: Clicky! )


Next up is a film with Prasanna and Sibiraj, with two actresses who I do not know. Well, their names are Ramya Raj and Tasmin Khan but, I have no idea which one is which. The latter debuts in the film while the former is on to her 2nd film. The film is called Naanayam...just in case you wanted to know.



Prasanna with, (I assume) Ramya Raj.

( More pix folks!: Clicky! )

Finally, here is Vikadakavi with Sathish and Amala Paul, who I assume are debuting in the film. Let's get stuck in:



'Tis the leads.

( It's mainly Amala folks! )



'Tis Amala. No not the wife of Nagarjuna...


So there you have it...whatever it was...

Marvelous.

I still can't believe this film hasn't released!

I was fairly interested in it at the time of its mu-ha-ha-ha-rat as I was on a Richa Pallod trip at the time, not to mention that that nice Raja bloke and the rather lovely Manjari Fadnis were in it too.

It had it's audio launch on the 4th of this very month and both Raja and Richa attended, though sadly no Manjari. Apparently the film is about some friends who meet 7 years after leaving college and so have a second chance at...something or other.

Thankfully, I'm back to photobucket so, I just hope your connection is up to the task (mine isn't!):



From the film itself: Manjari and Raja.

( 'Tis the audio function and related pix: Clicky! )



Just about everyone from the film!


Pix: Ragalahari.

Marvelous.

I mentioned Vedhika in my review-type-thingee for Muni a while back. I even managed to watch her only Kannada film, Sangama on VCD recently too, thereby completing her filmography. Ok, Malai Malai has only recently come out at the theatre but lets not split hairs (??!).

Unfortunately, her voice is dubbed, in both Tamil and Telugu, by those familiar (and, rather annoying) dubbing actresses who plague their respective states films but, thankfully, being a Kannadiga chick, she used her own voice in her home-state movie, which was a pleasant change, to say the least.

Vedhika's last film was the Telugu flick, Banam which also starred Nara Rohit. So, here's a load of pix from said film:








It's da man: Nara Rohit:



I'll get around to reviewing films, in general, when things settle down.

Pix: A mixture of both cinegoer and ragalahari.

Marvelous.

I was rather delighted to hear that Telugu gal Bindu has been working on a second film after her debut in Avakai Biriyani.

The film called Bumper Offer stars Sairam Shankar, the brother of director Puri Jagannath who, of course, needs no introduction (unless you've never heard of him).

Let's move swiftly onto the pix of Bindhu: *points downwards*







Groovin' with Sairam!




Pix from ragalahari

Absolutely fantabulous!