The cute, bubbly, Mallu girl Bhavana is still at it! She is desperate to shed her girl-next-door image and wants to turn a hottie!
For the Ajith starrer
Asal directed by Saran, Bhavana has undergone a 'shocking' makeover with a glam look. Sporting tights and chic T-shirts with straightened hair, she surely looks a hot babe.
However, her early makeovers in Malayalam film
T-20, a Dileep-starrer turned a real flop. Though she was seen sun-kissing on the beaches of Mauritius in mini-skirts and tops, she flunked badly with her looks.
Hope this new makeover in Tamil will lend her the much-needed recognition. Good luck baby!
The Chennai International Screenwriting Workshop, the first of its kind in South India, hosted by Raajkamal Films International in association with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, will kick off with a brief inaugural session on May 28.
The workshop will culminate with a two-day seminar with some of the best screenwriters and filmmakers from around the world.
French writer Jean Claude Carriere, Olivier Lorelle (whose film Indigenes was nominated to the Oscars 2006) and Shekhar Kapur, will share their thoughts with the likes of K. Balachander, Balu Mahendra, Gulzar, Gollapudi Maruthi Rao, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Vishal Bharadwaj, Rituparno Ghosh, Shyamaprasad and Sriram Raghavan at the seminar between June 2 and June 3, 2009.
"I envy the 250 delegates who will get to be there at the ICSR auditorium at IIT to listen to the masters and attend the screenwriting workshop to be conducted by Anjum Rajabali, Atul Tiwari and K.Hariharan," says Kamal Haasan.
Kamal Haasan is dedicating the seminar to his dear old friend Ananthu, who first introduced him to world cinema.
"Ananthu was the one who got me into writing. Suchitra Film Society would screen films from around the world. Every time films came for festivals, we would hijack the films and watch them," he recalls. "Once I could afford it, I went to the US and spent some time with (John) Truby. He was like my coach. He introduced me to all the tools I needed. Thevar Magan was the first film here to be written with Movie Magic, a screenwriting software."
Later in the nineties, he met Luis Bunuel's regular hand Jean Claude Carriere, who went on to become the co-writer for Maruthanayagam. "He then introduced me to Abbas Kiarostami and that was the first time we spoke of mentoring writers and filmmakers. Because not all storytellers make for good screenwriters. Even if Shakespeare was around today, he would have to learn screenwriting. Not to say screenwriting is greater than Shakespeare. It's just that the rules of the game have changed. It took me nearly twenty years to learn what is today taught in film schools. These 250 students we have selected will need just a week to take their first baby step towards writing."
The speakers all belong to different schools of cinema. "All the people I have called are people I have learned from even if they are younger than me. Some of them are people I consider mentors. Mr. Balachander has written and produced 100 different films, Mr. Balu Mahendra and I wish Mani Ratnam could've come too but he has a film to complete."
The workshop is only for selected delegates and the seminar is only by invitation.
No more pirated CDs of even the latest flicks. Thanks to Moserbaer. The company has managed to get the DVD publishing rights of even all latest flicks including Subramaniapuram, Anjathey, Sachin, Mayavi and Abhishek Bachchan-starrer Delhi 6.
The company is reportedly wooing all film producers saying that if they could bring out the original DVDs well in advance, it can be beneficial both to the producers and consumers alike. Also, it hopes that this effort can put a tab on the thriving pirated CD market.
In the recent times, the Moserbaer has also managed to release a few popular language films with English sub-titles so that they could reach a global audience.
Oscar winning music composer A.R. Rahman will soon have a doctorate degree added to his title. Courtesy: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
The doctorate will be conferred on him at the ensuing 59th annual convocation function of the varsity to be held on June 7.
This honarary degree is being given to Rahman appreciating the double Oscars that he won for Danny Boyle's film,
Slumdog MillionaireApart from Rahman, Gopichand Narang, former president of Sahitya Academy, would also be conferred an honorary doctorate.
Adman Prakash Verma is the cyonsure of all eyes in the advertising world. For his recent creation, the Vodafone Zoozoos, have caught the fancy of one and all. The alien-like characters with bulbous heads and stick-like hands and legs were the original idea of creative director Rajiv Rao of Nirvana Films.
While Prakash sketched the chracters, Rajiv got the scrips ready for about 30 films based on Vodafone's various value-added services.
The film shot with real people, made to look like animated characters, was a challenge in itself. The team opted for a special material for body suit to show no creases and the entire project was shot in Cape Town, South Africa.
The interesting tidbit about the ad film maker is that he had already made his mark in the tinsel town already as a director with his films Moonamthoral and Freaky Chakra.
The ad maker is reportedly toying the idea of getting into feature films again. Will Zoozoos enter Kollywood soon?
Michael Jackson of India Prabhu Deva is now donning a different role among the Hindi audience. That of a judge in the hottest television dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhala Ja.
The show being aired on Sony TV features celebrity dancers and celebrity judges. Currently 'disco dancer' Mithun Chakraborty, fondly called Mithun da, is the main judge. Prabhu Deva has been called in as the celebrity fourth judge to sort out the dispute between the audience voting and judges favourite.
Though as per audience voting, contestant Hard Kaur was voted out, the judges stumped by her mind-blowing performance, wanted her in.
To resolve this dispute, Prabhu Deva has been called in as a fourth and celebrity judge.
Prabhu Deva is all set to make his Bollywood debut as a director with the Salman Khan starrer,
Wanted.
Director AMR Ramesh, who is directing a film on Rajiv Gandhi's assasination case, 21/5/1991 - The Hunt for Rajiv Gandhi killers, has zeroed in on Bollywood bombshell Divya Dutta to play the crucial role of LTTE militant, Nalini.
There are reports doing rounds that she may visit the original Nalini, one of the convicts in the assassination case, now in jail in Tamil Nadu. However, Divya has acknowledged that she has been watching videos of Priyanka Gandhi's recent interviews about her meeting with Nalini.
Even lookwise too, Divya who is a real bombshell, is reported to have started working hard. She soon hopes to have a leaner and meaner look to suit the profile of the character she is portraying.
Tamil star Madhavan is super thrilled about his latest flick "13B" gaining an entry into the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, scheduled to be held from June 13-21.
He plans to go Shanghai along with the film's debutant director Vikram K.
Kumar for the screening of the film. The Tamil version of "13B", called "Yavarum Nalam", is also a hit.
Madhavan had just finished a long shooting schedule in London for the Hindi film "Teen Patti" in which he is cast along with superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Hollywood actor Ben Kingsley. He is currently taking a break with his family members in Bangkok.
