In Love with Kerala to begin filming

October 8th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Veteran playback singer K.J. Yesudas Thursday said he would provide all legal help to the driver of the ill-fated boat, which capsized Sep 30 at Thekkady lake in central Kerala's Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary killing 45 people.

October 6th, 2009 Director A Venkatesh’s Tamil film, Malai Malai did good business at the box office in Tamil Nadu and completed its 50 successful days recently. The film is now coming to Kerala and hopes to be able to repeat its success.

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.

September 21st, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - As Muslims offered prayers in large numbers at mosques dotting towns and cities in Kerala Monday, superstar Mammootty too joined in the Eid festivities by praying at an Eidgah in Kochi on his rare off-day. Dressed in a white dhoti and shirt and sporting the traditional Muslim cap, the actor arrived at a prayer ground in Kochi and sat through the morning prayers.

August 14th, 2009 Labor Commissioner A.N. Rajan has been assigned by Kerala Labour Minister P.K.

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 3rd, 2009 The film Daddy Cool starring Mammootty has finally got a confirmation from its distributors for its release on the 6th of August. The film will be written and directed by newcomer Ashik Abu and is based on father-son bonding.

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 23rd, 2009 The state government is to set up a permanent venue for conducting the popular International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). As per the State minister for Education and Culture M A Baby, a Government appointed committee headed by film maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, had recently submitted its report on the matter, which also proposes to start a Film Institute, a video park and film archive by Kerala Chalachithra Academy.

July 23rd, 2009 After a series of long discussions on daily wages for the last one month between the Film Producers' Association and Film Technicians' Association, the Kerala Film Producers' Association president G. Suresh Kumar, general secretary Sabu Cherian, Film Employees' Federation of Kerala president Sibi Malayil and its general secretary B.

July 23rd, 2009 Ace director Mani Ratnam has been shooting for the much-talked flick, Raavan for the past several months. The film stars Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

May 28th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Kerala film industry is excited to have one of its own in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet. D. Napoleon, who became a household name by playing the villanous Mundakkal Sekharan in two popular Malayalam films, has been chosen to be a minister of state.

May 3rd, 2009 Entries have been invited for the second international documentary and short film festival to be held in Thiruvananthapuram from June 19 to June 25. A press note, issued by the Kerala State Chalachithra Academy, said the last date for submitting applications is May 1.

May 3rd, 2009 Nayantara’s fan maybe in love with her beauty but the hot babe is in love with her mom cooked fish curry. The hot heroine from Kerala, Nayanatara is very fond of fish curry.

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.