Mani Ratnams Raavan to revisit Kerala

October 3rd, 2009 Kerala Café’s director, Ranjith, was last seen on screen in the movie, Gulmohar. The director will be the narrator for Kerala Café.

October 3rd, 2009 Bellary Raja, produced by Raaz movies, will star actor Kalabhavan Mani in a murder mystery for the first time. The film is titled after Mammootty’s character in Raajamanickyam.

September 5th, 2009 Debutant director Anish J Karinad’s In Love with Kerala is expected to start shooting in the first week of November. Italian actor Vincenzo Bocherelli is paired with Mamta Mohandas, and he will play the film’s lead role.

September 3rd, 2009 Finally, Vikram makes an official announcement about working for Selvaraghavan’s next untitled film. According to sources, both Vikram and Selvaraghavan had recently met over in a private place discussing the final draft of their script.

August 13th, 2009 Prithviraj has hiked his salary from Rs.25 lakhs to 40 lakhs The actor who was seen in the super hit Puthiya Mugham, which grossed over Rs. 2 crores in just 17 days.

August 7th, 2009 Archana Nair won the title of Miss Kerala at the beauty contest, organized by Impresario Event Management Company, under the supervision of a High Court panel in Kochi on Wednesday. The first and second-runner up positions went to Geethu Christie and Bonnie Mary Matthew respectively in the Vivel Miss Kerala 2009 Pageant out of the 21 finalists.

August 1st, 2009 These days, Mani Rathnam’s ‘Raavana’ has been hitting the headlines. Apart from the lancinating mishaps, Mani Rathnam’s casting of actors happens to be sensational.

July 30th, 2009 Looks like Mani Ratnam has been perpetually prone to misfortunate, ever since he ventured into the filming of his bilingual flick ‘Raavan’. Right from Day 1, the ace filmmaker has been exposed to obstructions.

July 30th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The shooting of Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai starrer "Raavan", disrupted when an elephant ran amok in the jungle where it is being shot, will resume Friday, cinematographer Santosh Sivan said here Thursday. "We will resume shooting tomorrow (Friday)," Sivan told IANS.

July 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - At Germany's only annual festival celebrating Bollywood cinema in Stuttgart the highest honour went to Santosh Sivan's Hindi film "Tahaan", but the cinematographer-filmmaker was unaware of it. The festival titled Bollywood and Beyond concluded July 19 and "Tahaan", about the adventures of a little boy and his pet donkey in Kashmir, won The German Star Of India award.

July 23rd, 2009 Noted cinematographer and director Santhosh Sivan is planning to use his experience when it comes to film based on terrorism. His directorial debut happened with a flick titled Terrorist while he also worked with star director Mani Ratnam’s hit film Dil Se which dealt with the terrorism taking place in the North-East region of India.

July 23rd, 2009 National award-winning actress Priyamani has successfully completed her part in Mani Ratnam’s Raavan and its being said, the noted director is very happy with her performance. Undoubtedly, the actress is very excited with this much-talked about film, as she expresses that she was initially very scared and had lots of apprehensions about her role.

May 3rd, 2009 After having won the Oscars, music maestro would be first time performing live music concert titled ‘Jai Ho’ at Corporation Stadium in Kozhikode, Kerala on May 3 to express solidarity with the HIV positive orphan kids. Apart from Rahman, over 50 well-known musicians will be participating in this show being organized by the NGO Global Kerala Initiative.

May 3rd, 2009 After being into cold storage for eight long years, Kalabhavan Mani starrer Aavirathil Oruvan is finally about to hit the theatres. Directed by Sibi Malayil, the flick is said to be a family entertainer.

May 3rd, 2009 For the first time in her career, Kalabhavan Mani would get an opportunity to play himself in the flick Decent Parties, which is been directed by Abraham Lincoln. Though he is making a guest appearance as a hero named Mani but his part is very important in the context of the flick.