Mohanlal to lead Malayalee Team

Who else is the best all rounder to lead the team comprising of an all - Malayalee stars, when Super star Mohanlal is around? Yes, Laletten is now getting ready to lead the Kerala Cricket team in the new Celebrity cricket league. Initiatives have already been made to present a cricket team from Kerala from the very next season of the CCL scheduled to start next January.Kochy will be the home ground of the Kerala team, while the list of team members, its name and its coach will be announced shortly.

Eminent director Priyadharshan is the main organiser of the Kerala team with support from the artist body AMMA. Priyan is in the look out for the best of the names for the Cricketing world to coach the kerala team, as the rest of the teams on the fray also feature strong coaches and good players from filmdom. The CCL matches will be held at Chennai, Kolkatta, Hyderabad, Kochy,Bangalore, Dubai and Sharjah.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/69667.html

A change in Lal's 300th movie

Earlier in the initial promotions of his Onam starer 'Pranayam' directed by Blessy, Superstar Mohanlal himself has announced that this will be his 300th film and will be promoted likewise. And the latest we hear is that it will be Sathyan Anthikkad's new film and not 'Pranayam' that will promoted as lal's 300th film. The change of film is said to have come due to the intense pressure of the fans of the star, who wanted him in a full length role in his 300 film.

Sathyan anthikkad's latest movie is a family drama with adequate heroics, which will be a sure bet to end up as a hit, as the director has not met with a flop in his last eight years. Moreover, Blessy's 'Pranayam' have Lal in a role that just will fill less than half of the screen space. These are all the reasons that have prompted for a change in the 300th film of the Mollywood superstar.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/69581.html

Mohanlal sings again

After his last big hit as a playback singer in "Annara Kanna Vaa" for 'Bhramaram', Superstar Mohanlal is once again behind the mikes to croon for a new song, that too for a Blessy film. Lal has already recorded the English song "I am your man" for the new movie under production titled as 'Pranayam'. Liyon kohen is the lyricist of this song set to music by M Jayachandran. The movie which is the Onam offering from the superstar, is currently into its final schedule at Dhanushkody.

Mohanlal has given his voice to many a songs in the past like that of 'Chithram', 'Balettan', 'Bhramaram'' kannezhuthy Pottum thottu and 'Oru naal Varum', of which most were big hits

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/69035.html

Pranayam to be lal's 300th film

Antony Perumbavoor, superstar Mohanlal's man Friday, has been always successful with his productions under Aashirwaad banner and also with the marketing of Lal films, creating the hype and hoopla that will help the movies to paste the posters of 100 days. Now for Lal's Onam offering 'Pranayam', Antony has come up with a smart idea- that is to present the movie as the star's' 300th film as hero. In fact, the star has done much more movies than that, but the marketing plans seems to be concentrating on this central idea. As per the current plans the movie directed by Blessy will get to maximum theatres by the 7th of September.

Earlier, it was reported that Mohanlal may not have an Onam release, but later the makers of Pranayam has decided to speed up the proceedings so that they can get the the movie to theatres by the said date. There are also reports that Lal will just have a forty minutes appearance in the movie, whose major space will be occupied by characters played by Anupam Kher and jayapradha. But lal's forty minutes will be the highlight of the movie which will have him in every shades that will impress the fans and masses alike.

'Pranayam' will also feature Anoop Menon, Niyas, Nivedita and Dhanya Mary in other importnat roles. While Sathish Kurup is the film's DOP and the movie will feature music by M.Jayachandran.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/68566.html

'Casanova' makes Lal's Onam

The movie which was in the making for more than a couple of years, "Casanova' will be the Superstar Mohanlal's Onam offering. The most eagerly awaited movie from director Roshan Andrews and scriptwriters Bobby-Sanjay is said to offer very interesting story lines and a very different character to Mohanlal.

The superstar will be a big scale flower merchant in this stylish 'Casanova' who believes in the notion, love can all your miseries'. The movie also parades a long list of south Indian beauties including Shreya sharan, Roma, Lekshmy Rai, and Sanjana along with Jagathy Sreekuamr and Lalu Alex. Expected to make a wide release on the 31st of August, 'Casanova' will be brought to theatres by Max lab.

Currently, MohanLal is riding good in the success of his recent multistarrers 'Christian Brothers' and China Town'.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/67375.html

Lal for a cameo in 'Sevens'

Joshy has gifted Mohanlal with the first super hit of the year in his 'Christian Brothers' which is  very well received by his fans and masses. The senior  director of Mollywood is in a mood, not to let the superstar go. The stories doing the rounds tells that Mohanlal will  be seen in a cameo in the Joshy's new movie with youngsters titled as 'Sevens'. Mohanlal will appear in a crucial juncture in this movie which is a crime thriller told in the backdrop of a Sevens football team. 'Sevens' which is  currently on the sets at Kannur is scripted by Iqbal Kuttippuram.


Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/65895.html

Lal-Priyan combo again

Sure, this is the biggest news of the month. Superstar Mohanlal and his favourite director Priyadarshan are once again coming together for a Mollywood flick. Yes, as the Mollywood Box Office is not responding as usual to the recent Mohanlal flicks, it seems that the biggest friend of Lal is invited to save his Superstar friend with an yet to be titled project, that will kick start this February. Tht will be yet another comedy caper which will satisfy the followers of Mohanlal and much of the movie will be shot at Abudhabi.

Priyan and Mohanlal have given nearly 40 films in Malayalam together, of which some like Chithram, Kilukkam, Vandanam and Chandralekha arein the list of all  time biggest hits of Mollywood . The duo were not seen together in the last seven years in a Mollywood movie but  recently shot for their first Hindi movie together in the  title 'Tez'.

Watch this space in the coming days, for more details about this eagerly awaited project.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/62706.html

M and M fans fight it out--( This is pretty stupid)

At last, the inevitable has happened. The big fans of the big M's of Malayalam has gone for a real physical fight at a theatre premises at Aluva. The ground was of Matha theater complex where Mammootty's 'Best Actor' and Mohanlal's latest 'Kandahaar' are being screened.

The fight really took off as a section of Mohanlal fans tried to promote the Lal movie with an LCD projector. The fight scenes continued for some time creating havoc and traffic jam in the adjacent road.

Few were injured when the police finally arrived at the scene to take control of the situation and arrested a few. This is the first time in Kerala, when the fan worship has turned into real physical fights.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/62438.html

Four biggies for this Christmas

Christmas is one of the biggest seasons for Mollywood movies. This year’s Christmas season will have four big movies eyeing to cater to the needs of the Mollywood audience.

The first of the releases will be Mohanlal's 'Kandahaar' which is now slated for December 17. Megastar Mammootty will have his 'August 15' on Dec 24.The other important movies for the season include Dileep's ‘Marykundu Oru Kunjadu’ and Lal Creation's ‘Tournament’ which will get to theatres on Dec 24 and Dec 25 respectively.

All theatres for these films, which are planning for grand releases have already been booked by their respective distributors.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/61833.html

‘Christian Brothers’ on Jan. 14

The Joshy directed much awaited multi starrer film, ‘Christian Brothers’ is finally put in place for release on January 14 next year. The producer of this film, Subair of Varnachitra has confirmed this.

This new film features Superstar Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Tamil star Sarath Kumar, Dileep, Kavya Madhavan, Lakshmi Rai, Kaniha and others was in the making for a long time. Even the release dated was changed many times after announcing.

‘Christian Brothers’ is scripted by the duo of Sibi-Udayan team. This film is said to take a wide release never seen before for a Malayalam film.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/61710.html

Prithviraj in ‘Season’ remake

There is one more film being added to the remake list of Prithviraj. The young superstar of Mollywood will replay the role Jeevan lived by Mohanlal in the remake of the 1989 film 'Season', written and directed by the late P. Padmarajan.

The movie portrayed the of drug mafia in the beaches of Kovalam. Mohanlal played an innocent trader selling foreign goods in the beaches. He is falsely framed for three murders, including that of his two friends who is actually killed by the drug mafia.

Though the movie was not a hit at the box office, the sensitive portrayal of the lead character by Mohanlal was well appreciated. Padmarajan's realistic story-telling style also came for praises. All hope the changed times would do justice to the story now.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/61230.html

Mohanlal gets UAE driving license

For Mohanlal, Dubai is like his second home as he shuttles between the Gulf and India on regular basis for personal and professional reasons.

So with too many commitments in Dubai, Mohanlal thought it would be nice to have an UAE driving license for himself and applied for one. UAE driving license is one of the difficult things to own. But Lalettan appeared for his driving test and cleared it on his first try.

He took the regular 20 classes only and made it in his first attempt itself. El Fateh Abdul Baqi Eljack, the General Manager of Dubai Driving Center which trained Mohanlal said he is very surprised at the finesse with which the actor cleared all the tests.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/61216.html

Ravi Teja and Kamal Haasan?

A great Multi-starrer is in the pipeline, if sources are to be believed! A high budget movie is on the cards with Padma Sri Kamal Haasan directing a movie with Ravi Teja, Mohan Lal, Suriya and Himself in the lead!

According to sources, Kamal Haasan is writing the script for the movie that will have big stars from all the languages in the south! Going by reports, Genelia, Trisha and Bollywood beauty Deepika Padukone will also figure in the cast!

Ravi Teja will be an extremely pleased man to work with greats like Kamal and Mohan Lal. It would be interesting to see, if Kamal has all the actors in the same movie or would do an ‘Eenadu’ (that had Venkatesh as the cop in the Telugu version and Mohan Lal in the Tamil version), by individually casting the actors for each of the languages they are popular in!

Anyways, time will answer our queries! Look out for the updates on this movie; this is what we call a multi-starrer!

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/60684.html

Lal with Priyadarshan after 8 years

One of the most successful and devoted actor-director combination in Indian cinema, Mohanlal and Priyadarshan will once again come together for a movie. The combo that had been in 39 films together will be coming together after a gap of eight years.

Though the news is of interest, the Mollywood viewers will have to make themselves happy for the successful comeback of the duo by watching them together in Hindi, as this a Bollywood film. Lal will be playing an investigative cop, a Malayalee officer, in this Priyan movie which is planned as a thriller. With this short role Mohanlal will be on his third outing in Hindi, the last two being the cop roles in 'Company' and 'Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag'.

Tentatively titled as 'Bullet Train' this movie by Venus production has a mammoth cast including Ajay Devgun, Anil Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Kangana Ranuat, Sameera Reddy and Boman Irani.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/60190.html

Ramzan films opens well

Ramzan season is all set to end the drought of viewers in theatres of the state. All the three films that opened to viewers this Friday, has made some good initial collections. Mohanlal's ‘Shikaar’ is all set to end up as a hit and the movie is running to house full shows in almost all of its release centres in Kerala.

While Mammootty’s ‘Pranchiyettan and the saint’ is opined to be a fine simple movie with a different story, ‘Elsamma Enna Aankutty’ is said to be another vintage Lal Jose stuff with all the regular ingredients. The 210 theatres of the state make merry with these three biggies, while the rest are running recent Tamil hits in tandem.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/60022.html

'Christian Brothers' to shoot at London

The biggest multi-starrer of the year 'Christian Brothers' will have the shoot of a song at London. This will be the most beautifully shot songs of the recent times, which will appear in a pivotal point of the movie.

The crew is planning to make a move to London by this Sep 10th and has earmarked ten days for the song shoot. The song will feature the lead stars of the movie including Mohanlal, Dileep, Lakshmi Rai and Kavya.

The climax sequences of the movie featuring Lal, Dileep, Suresh Gopi and Sarath Kumar was shot last week at Kochi which was filmed by Sanjeev Shankar. The movie is expected to get to theatres by the first week of November.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/59988.html

Chandramukhi

Chandramukhi. I love this movie a lot, because I am a typical Rajinikanth fan. :) He style is different from others, and he is the superstar of Mankind in my opinion. :) I have seen this movie more than 2o times in both Tamil and Telugu together, since 2005. :D

Cast:

Rajinikanth-Saravanan & King Vettayan

Jyothika- Ganga & Chandramukhi

Prabhu Ganesan-Senthilnathan

Nayantara-Durga

Vineeth-Viswanathan & Gunasekharan

Story:

Here is the story cause its kind of hard to explain lol :D :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandramukhi

The show stealer was definitely Jyothika for her performance as Ganga, who has had a troubled childhood,and also who suffers from split personality, transforming into Chandramukhi. Her huge eyes were the highlight! :D She danced very well, for someone who isn't trained in it. :) Of course, Raijnikanth was awesome!!!! :D His opening scene was sooo cool :D I loved his performance has a doctor :D So, professional and real. :) Prabhu was good too, he was just supporting , same with Nayantara. But, man she is LUCKY! She got a chance to act with Rajini in her fifth film! :D I miss the old Nayantara, who was homely, I really admired her back then. After I saw Vallavan I was like WOAAHHHHH!!!! I was shocked!!!! :( Then she lost a bunch of weight, and started to look like a skeleton. I thought she was more cuter and prettier when she had a little weight on. Vadivelu was hilarious! I mean, Rajini and him made a perfect comedy pair! lol :D It was soooo freaky when Rajinikanth said the dialogue: "Laka Laka Laka Laka Laka Laka....." I thought wow, how does he do it soo fast? :D

Music: The music was done by Vidyasagar, one of my favorite tamil music directors! All the songs were awesome, my picks were Kokku Para Para, Konja Neram Konja Neram,and Annanodda Pattu. Kokku Para makes me want to sing soo loud whenever I listen to it :D I really liked how the female singer Rajalakshmi sang the song, it was so upbeat. :D Konja Neram was different from the typical lovey-dovey songs :D, I think Asha's voice added magic :D. Annanodda Pattu was a hip party song lol :D It made me want to get up and dance :D I thought the dance was well choreographed for Devuda Devuda, Kokku Para, and Annanodda Pattu :D I mostly loved the dance for Kokku Para and Annanodda Pattu, they made me want move around alot :D.

I couldn'nt find the Tamil version Annanodu Pattu so I posted the Telugu version Annagari Maata :)

I still have to see the original of it which was Manichitrathazhu, made in 1993 starring Mohanlal,Shobana,Suresh Gopi, and Vinaya Prasad. Alot of people told me its good and I should watch it, so I will once I get a chance to get the DVD. :) I also have seen the hindi version Bhool Bhuliya starring Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, and Ameesha Patel. But trust me it is NOTHING compared to the south ones! It really bored me, but I forced myself to watch it so I would know how it was. I only saw like half of the Kannada version on Apthamitra starring Late Vishnuvardhan,Late Soundarya, Ramesh Aravind, and Prema. I was watching it at night, so I kind of got a little scared because it was more scary than the Tamil one, well thats what I thought. Apathmitra was the first remake of the Manichitrathazhu. Apparently it was also remade into Bengali as Rajmohol/Rajmahal.Chandramukhi was also dubbed into Hindi with the same title.

Chandramukhi broke the record of a 1944 tamil movie Haridas running for 800 days!

Mohanlal's Casanova shelved?

It is almost confirmed that Mohanlal’s big budget Roshan Andrews Casanova has been shelved.

Roshan had earlier announced that the shoot of the film will start in September first week in Bangkok.

The latest we hear is that it has been once again put on the backburner by the producers Confident Group.

It is for the third that the film which was launched in style has been abandoned after making a lot of loud claims about shooting dates.

A peeved Shriya Saran, the heroine of the film said: “They kept on postponing the shoot, now I have decided to move on as I'm very busy with other projects in Tamil and Telugu.”

Still there is no official word from the producers or the director about the current status of the film. However trade sources are clear that the film has been shelved.

Source: http://sify.com/movies/malayalam/fullstory.php?id=14955281

‘Christian Brothers’ for Oct 18

The producers of the movie 'Christian Brothers' is planning to release the big movie by the 18th of October. One of the biggest multi starers of all time, the movie will feature Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Dileep and Sarath Kumar in key roles. The movie is continuing with its final schedule of shoot at Kochy.

The story of the movie revolves around a retired and well-to-do army officer, Palomattathu Varghese Mappila and his family. Mohanlal plays Christy who is an informer, working in Mumbai and getting high amount as remuneration while Dileep play his brother Joji who goes abroad to study theology. Kaniha and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy play their sisters. The storyline by Sibi K Thomas and Udaya Krishnan goes through many interesting twists and turns, as usual with the other films of veteran Joshy. Produced by A V Anoop and Maha Subair, the movies also feature Kavya Madhavan, Manoj K Jayan, Lakshmi Rai and Biju Menon.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/59843.html

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/gallery/m/Movies/christianbrothers/683187.html

Mohanlal agrees Hindi film for Priyan

Mohanlal who is otherwise not interested in doing Hindi films has agreed to do one for Priyadarshan purely for personal friendship. The Malayalam super star has refused a Bollywood offer from Vishal Bhardwaj to play the husband of Priyanka Chopra in a new film recently

The yet untitled film is a thriller and also stars Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgn, Kangna Ranaut, Sameera Reddy and Kunal Kapoor. Mohanlal’s role will be a cameo of course bur very crucial in the narration of the thriller says Priyadarshan.

Mohanlal was last seen in Bollywood films in Company and Ramgopal Varma Ki Aag.

Sources: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/59692.html