'7am Arivu' for Deepavali

There are some fireworks in store this Deepavali, for plans are on to release '7am Arivu', Suriya's next directed by AR Murugadoss, on the festival of lights.

"Producer Udhayanidhi Stalin is planning to release the audio, composed by Harris Jayaraj, very soon. Nearly five weeks after the music launch, the film will hit the screens for Deepavali," sources say.

Suriya plays a tripe role in the film, which has Shruthi Haasan opposite him. A sci-fi action thriller, the story of '7am Arivu' shuttles between the present and the Before Christ era, we learn.

Director Murugadoss is hopeful that the film would break the records created by his earlier venture with Suriya, 'Ghajini'. "Besides, it will tell the world the rich culture of Tamil and might of Tamilians," he says.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/69754.html

'Velayudham' audio on August 28! - Breaking News

'Velayudham' that features Ilayathalapathy Vijay, Hansika Motwani and Genelia D' Souza is one of the biggies that's lined up for a release this year. The music for this action-packed superhero project has been scored by Vijay Antony who has earlier given a few chartbusters for Vijay, while the megaphone is wielded by Jayam Raja.

Jayam Ravi, the director's younger brother has now announced to Ilayathalapathy's fans that the film will see an audio launch on August 28! Speaking on this, he said, "Velayudham audio launch on August 28 in Madurai amidst thousands of Vijay fans! It can't get bigger and better than this!

Yes Ravi, truly can't get bigger than this, can it? It's going to be the magic of this superhero by the end of this month... click here to know about the plot and other interesting tidbits from the 'Velayudham' front...

The film has been worked on with a whooping budget of Rs 45 crore rupees and more than Rs 2 crore has been spent on each song! Not just that, the climax alone has been canned in 25 days and at four districts.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/69698.html

'Dookudu' audio likely on Aug. 13

The audio of 'Dookudu', directed by Sreenu Vaitla and jointly produced by Ram Achanta, Gopinath Achanta and Anil Sukara on the banner of 14 Reels Entertainment, with Prince Maheshbabu and Samanta in the lead roles is likely to be launched on August 13.

Thaman scored music for the film. The venue for audio release function is yet to be finalised. Shilpa Kala Vedika was tentatively selected for the function.

However, the on-going separate Telangana state agitation, the JAC call for bandh and the disturbances that may occur following the protests are worrying the film unit. The producer sought police protection for conducting the audio release function, following a recent attack by the separate state agitators during the shooting of the film.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/69576.html

Vachadu... Gelichaadu...' audio as I-Day gift

KVV Satyanarayana, who had brought several super hit films had bagged the Telugu dubbing rights of 'Vandaan... Vendraan...' directed by R Kannan, a protege of Maniratnam. This a commercial film with good message with Jeeva playing the lead role.

The same film is coming up as 'Vachadu... Gelichaadu...' in Telugu. Thaman scored excellent tunes to all the songs in this film. The film had completed dubbing activity and is getting final touches for the release in Telugu.

Speaking on the occasion, the producer KV Venugopal says, 'Jeeva played the role of a photo-journalist in the recently released 'Rangam'. That film was a runaway hit and it is almost reaching the 100-days mark very soon. In our film he is playing the role of a boxer. He gave excellent performance in the character. R Kannan moulded the subject very efficiently. Thaman scored super music. We are planning to launch the audio of the film on or before August 15. We are also making efforts to release the film in September, simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil languages.'

Tapsee is pairing up with Jeeva in this film as a female lead, while Rahman, Rachana Mourya, Nanda, Santhanam and others are in the cast.

Dialogues are by Sashank Vennelakanti, cinematography is by PG Muthaiah, editing is by VT Vijayan, while the film is being presented by KVV Satyanarayana. Story, screenplay and direction are by R Kannan.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/69575.html

'Dhookudu' audio release on Aug 9

Mahesh Babu and Samantha starrer romcom 'Dhookudu' will launch its audio on 9th of August. Srinu Vytla who is known for comic films is directing this project.

S S Thaman has composed music for this album. Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta and Anil Sunkara are producing this film on their 14 reels entertainment banner. This movie has been shooting for over eight months now.

"We got to know that there are a few fake songs in the market that are under circulation. They are not from 'Dhookudu'. The original songs of Dhookudu will be released in first week of August. This movie will be released on 24th of August" producer Anil Sunkara informed.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/68866.html

Venghai's track list is out!

Director Hari and Dhanush's forthcoming flick 'Venghai' is much-awaited due to reasons many. In the decade long career of Hari's, out of his ten movies nine have been box-office hits and even blockbusters. He can be rightly referred to as K-town's master of commercial entertainers.

After bagging the National Award, fans' expectations from Dhanush has become multi-fold. The movie stars Tamannah opposite Dhanush and the duo's earlier 'Padikathavan' was a good entertainer. The music is composed by DSP who is known for his fast and peppy numbers.

Now 'Venghai's track list is out, and looks like we can surely wait for yet another mass-masala action flick soon. The lyrics are penned by Viveka and Hari and there are five tracks in this flim.

While "Dhenam Dhenam..." is sung by Benny Dayal, it is said that there are rap interludes that are written and sung by Baba Sehgal. "Yenna Solla Pore..." is sung by DSP himself, who is best at his peppy numbers, so we can guess that this might be one of those fast-paced tracks.

"Kaalangathale..." is sung by Karthik and Roshini, "Orey Oru..." by Tippu and Harini. Mukesh and Suchitra have lent their voices for "Pudikale Pudikuthu..."

The story revolves around how an angry young man should never get to the usage of weapons to vent his anger.

The audio launch of 'Venghai' will be held on June 10 and will sure be a star-studded glitzy affair.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/67394.html

Yuvan’s ‘Avan Ivan’ album almost done

The next Bala product is in the making. The film Titled ‘Avan Ivan’ sees Arya and Vishal playing the lead roles. The female leads will be essayed by Janani Iyer and Madhu Shalini. Director Bala had earlier promised that this film would be different from his usual films and will have more comic elements. Arya and Vishal play siblings in the film and they have undergone complete makeover for this movie.

‘Avan Ivan’ is touted to catapult the lead stars’ career to newer heights.

The music for ‘Avan Ivan’ has been handled by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The director who usually signs music maestro Ilayaraja for his films has signed son Yuvan this time. Bala feels Yuvan will be able to bring the right feel to this youth-centric film. Reports suggest that the music album of ‘Avan Ivan’ will have four songs.

The composer has completed two songs already. Sources suggest that Yuvan has mostly used raw Indian tunes in most of the recordings for this album. People close to the music composer have also promised that the music album for ‘Avan Ivan’ will be out soon.

Director Bala who usually takes his own sweet time to perfect his film has completed this film sooner, compared to his previous films. Actor Suriya too appears in a cameo in ‘Avan Ivan’. It was director Bala who actually brought out the actor in Suriya with ‘Nandha’ which became Suriya’s launch pad to stardom in Tamil.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/65282.html

Shankar Mahadevan launches online music academy

India's multiple National Film award winning music composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan has launched an online music academy, available on www.shankarmahadevanacademy.com.

Mahadevan has tied up with Clood On, a provider of virtual learning software, for this project to provide step-by-step training to students of all age groups living in the US.

"I noticed that in Indian classical music, the teaching methods are very unstructured. You cannot put it down in points anywhere. Whereas, if you go to Berkeley College of Music or Juilliard School just to learn the trumpet, for example, everything is structured," said Mahadevan.

Apart from the theory lessons, Mahadevan has also roped in teachers to take live classes online. "We are replicating two aspects of any form of learning when you go to a college: you have a textbook and you have a teacher standing in front of you. We have created a textbook OM (Online Music) Book, which can be accessible all the time, plus classes with a teacher are scheduled at a specific time so that you can virtually interact with her," he said.

The academy offers courses in Hindustani as well as Carnatic music. Each course lasts 12 weeks, and costs $240 as an introductory offer. Starting April, the course fee will be $300. The first batch of classes will begin on Mahadevan’s birthday, March 3.

Source: http://malayalam.galatta.com/entertainment/malayalam/livewire/id/Shankar_Mahadevan_launches_online_music_academy_46958.html

Thaman bags five projects!

Thaman debuted in films as an actor with Shankar's Boys(2003), but later went on to become a prominent music composer in the South!

In his music career spanning less than three years, he has composed music for 10 Tamil films, including the much-acclaimed Eeramand over eight Telugu films, including Kick, Anjaneyulu and Brindavanam.

According to latest reports, the talented music director has five big budget movies in hand: Ravi Teja-Richa Gangopadhyay starrer Mirapakaya, Nagarjuna-Anushka starrer Ragada, Mahesh Babu-Samantha starrer Dookudu, Nara Rohit’s second film and Manoj Manchu-Varun Sandesh's bilingual multi-starrer.

Source: http://tamil.galatta.com/entertainment/livewire/id/Thaman_bags_five_projects_44609.html

M. Jayachandran completes hundred

One of the most popular music directors of Malayalam cinema, M Jayachandran completed hundred films recently. The young musician who started in films with the Babu Antony starrer 'Chantha' in 1995 has always been a regular in creating quality music.

One of the most loved musicians of our times he had also earned the state awards for best music director and best playback singer. Equally talented in creating foot tapping melody songs and classical based tunes, his songs are the regulars in the hit charts. The musician had also been able to use the voice of super star Mohanlal for his songs like “Karukare” from 'Balettan'.

A qualified electrical engineer, Jayachandran says that he had never dreamed of becoming a professional musician. But within a span of 15 years he was able to complete his hundred films. Interestingly he had been the music director of most of the recent hits of superstar Mohanlal, their companionship working brightly from 'Balettan'.

Thereafter, Jayachandran had done many good songs for Mohanlal in films like 'Madambi', 'Janakan', 'Maambazhakalam', 'Naturajavu', 'Mahasamudram' to the latest ‘Shikaar’. His other big hits includes Nottam, Nivedhyam, Novel, Chakkara Muthu, Valkannadi, Akale, Amritham, Ivar Vivaahithraayal, Gowry Shankaram and Banares.

Jayachandran who had worked with almost all big names in Malayalam lyrics like Girish Puthencherry, Ramesan Nair, Anil Panachuran, Vayalar Sarath and Bichu Thirumala, had recently been with  ONV Kurup' for the film ‘Karayilekku Oru Kadal Dooram’ by Vinod Mankara. Right now M Jayachandran is scoring music for about ten films.

Source:http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/malayalam/article/61832.html

Random Post: Songs Im Addicted to Right NOW

This weekend I was a sorta free so I got to listen to a couple of new songs which were from Engeyum Kaadhal, Aadukalam, and the Rakht Charitra ( Hindi). I also listened to one song from Prithvi's The Thriller : Priyankari. AND I instantly fell in LOVE with it :D Engeyum Kaadhal is not my kind of music at all, its westernized a lot and its sorta classic-y, though I loved the songs from the Telugu movie Orange, EK was not my cup of tea. Also one of the songs is copied from Micheal Jackson.. so, not cool. Aadukalam was the best album from Tamil this weekend :D enjoyed it thoroughly! :) Here are my songs this weekend ( In order of addiction)  :

1. Paisewala- Rakht Charitra 

2. Mila To Marega-Rakht Charitra 

3. Khaul Khaul Ke-Rakht Charitra

4. Ayyayo-Aadukalam

5.Yathe Yathe- Aadukalam

6. Priyankari - The Thriller 

Music Video of Priyankari : 

7. Paisewala Remix- Rakht Charitra 

Ilayathalapathy & Asin in Lavasa!

Ilayathalapathy Vijay and Asin are shooting a song in Lavasa near Pune for Siddique directed Kaavalan!

Lavasa is cradled in the heart of mystic Sahyadri mountain range and looks like New Zealand with all its greenery and misty conditions.

Envisioned as a complete Hill Station offering a balanced life in harmony with nature, Lavasa is an aspirational destination for lifestyle seekers. 
Kaavalan is the first Tamil film to be shot in this upmarket and exotic hill station.

A soft romantic song tuned by the 'king of melodies' Vidyasagar was picturised on the lead pair by choreographer Dinesh.
As Vijay and Asin are superb dancers, the whole song was canned in less than three days, and is going to be sure fire chartbuster.

Source: http://sify.com/movies/ilayathalapathy-asin-in-lavasa-news-tamil-klntMUbjjhj.html

G V Prakash to marry Singer Saindhavi

It’s a musical marriage, one has to say. G V Prakash Kumar, one of the hot and happening music composers of Tamil cinema, will marry his ‘longtime friend’ Saindhavi soon.

If sources are to be believed, the music director and the singer are in love with each other for years now. “After coming to know of their affair, both families have decided to unite them,” sources say.

“The wedding will take place sometime next year as Prakash and Saindhavi are currently busy with their professional commitments. An engagement ceremony will be performed before that,” they maintain.

Nephew of Oscar-Grammy winner A R Rahman, G V Prakash confirmed his love for Saindhavi in a recent interview, however without mentioning her name. “Yes, I am in love. And I would marry her with the blessings of elders in our families,” he said.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/61363.html

Random Post: Adhurs

I saw Adhurs today! :D It was on MAA TV as a Diwali special :) By the way happy Diwali :) The things I enjoy about Adhurs are:
1. The songs. ( especially,Adhurs and Shambo Shiva Shambo) ( I just love the way they sing the songs! and the beats :D)
2. Jr.NTR ( he was awesome in the Bhramin role :D) AWESOME DANCER!! :D
3. Nayantara (looked gorgeous :) ) She looked soo pretty in the song Chandralekha :D
4.The Comedy :) XD

I thought the plot was pretty normal, but I liked Jr.NTR playing two roles :) My fav would be his Bhramin role :)

P.S. : I kinda just 'wrote' this post to post the songs ;) But those are the four things I love about the movie :) :D Also I noticed that they changed the lyrics in the song Chary, it use to be: "where is the puncha kaatu, where is the pilaka jotuu, where nilava bottu charii" they changed it too: "where is the puncha kattu, where is the paatha bikeu,where is the oldu looku chari.." see in the video i posted its the 5th one. I think the song apparently insulted Bhramin people? I don't see how it could, but anyways....

The unchanged one: 

Comedy Scenes-

You can see Jr.NTR's awesome Bhramin accent here:

‘Nagavalli’ audio launch venue shifted

Bellamkonda Suresh, who is producing ‘Nagavalli’ on the banner of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Movies under the direction of P Vasu with Venkatesh in the lead, had earlier announced that the audio of the film would be launched at a function to be held in Vijayawada.

However, the producer was forced to shift the venue from Vijayawada to Hyderabad due to heavy rains that were lashing the coastal region.

Gurukiran scored music and the audio is expected to hit the stands on November 14 after its formal launch in Hyderabad.

The film, which is the remake of ‘Aptarakshaka’ in Kannada and a sequel to ‘Chandramukhi’ had five heroines who include Anushka, Kamalini Mukherjee, Richa Gangopadhyay, Shraddha Das and Poonam Kaur.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/61344.html

Yuvan to play with fire

A good news for all Yuvan Shankar Raja fans. The music composer, who is getting ready for his first ever live concert in Chennai, is thinking out of the box to make the show a memorable one.

One of the storyboards Yuvan and his team have designed for the event, shows the music director playing piano in fire as part of the concert. "Yes, there will be some special attractions", confirm sources close to Yuvan.

Meanwhile, Yuvan has expressed happiness that the audio of 'Vaanam', in which he is coming together with his good friend STR (Silambarasan) again, is getting ready to hit stores after some hiccups.

"Vaanam’s single should be out for Deepavali. Sorry for the delay as the producer had some issues with giving the audio rights. All have been sorted now", the Illayaraja junior has said.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/article/61212.html

Raktha Charitra,Uthamaputhiran,and Action Replyy Micro music reviews!

I totally got inspired from Louella to do these micro/mini reviews :D In this post Im going to write small music reviews of Raktha Charitra(Telugu),Uthamaputhiran(Tamil), and Action Replayy(Hindi).

1. Raktha Charitra

Music is by Dharam-Sandeep,Sukwinder Singh-Bapi-Tuttal,Imran Vikram,Vijay Kurakula. Wow! The lyrics of each song are very powerful! They talk about violence in almost every single song! You don't have to violent to like the songs, like the Raktha Charitra people said to me on twitter. :) They sound more like revenge type songs/music. My favs/picks are Gundello and Dorkithe Chastavu. The lyrics really enrage you, again very powerful.

(Click Play to play the songs)

Please Do vist the offical website: http://www.rgvraktacharitra.com/home.html

2.Uthamaputhiran

Vijay Antony proves his talent AGAIN! :D Awesomely insane songs he has come up with! :D Great beats and everything! The songs of Uthamaputhiran seem better than Ready, but then again I shouldn't say that since they are different languages. DSP did a good job for the Telugu audience, while Vijay Antony did a good job for the Tamil audience. My favs/picks are Ussume Laresay and Idicha Pacharsi,two very awesome songs! They are like dance party numbers. But Oh my gosh! Ussume Laresay is soo addicting! Idicha Pacharsi sounds like a marriage type song. :)

3.Action Replayy

Okay, now I know Action Replayy isn't a South Indian movie, except the fact that Ash is South Indian.:D Listened to it for Ash and because I seemed to be out of the world of Bollywood. :) Anyways, I hope y'all know that Action Replayy sort of takes place in the 1970s :) So most of the tunes give you a feel of the 1970s :) But Awesome songs! Hats off to Pritam! He has come up with very "Groovy" tunes! :D My Faves/Picks are Zor Ka Jathka and I Am Dog Gone Crazy, even the remixes are great! :D Im actually looking forward to watch the movie :D

Couldn't find the songs to embed :( BUT click here to listen to them! :D Action Replayy Songs

‘Orange’ Music on Oct 3

The music launch of ‘Orange’ starring Ram Charan will happen on October 3rd.

Directed by ‘Bommarillu’ Bhaskar, ‘Orange’ has music composed by Harris Jayaraj. Interestingly, director Bhaskar has not stuck to a single music director right from his debut. ‘Bommarillu’ his debut had the music of Devi Sri Prasad, while his second movie ‘Parugu’ starring Allu Arjun had Mani Sharma composing the music.

‘Orange’, a big budget movie of Anjana Productions, will see Ram Charan in a love story with Genelia and Shazahn Padamsee while Madhurima appears in a special role.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/60193.html

‘Baava’ Music on Oct 4

The Music of ‘Baava’ starring handsome hero Siddarth will be launched on October 4th.

Chakri is composing the music for ‘Baava’, a village based movie. Siddarth is in the company of Praneetha and has veteran actor Rajendra Prasad as his father. The movie also has a host of other supporting actors like Ahuthi Prasad, Raghubabu, Nasser, Ali and others.

‘Baava’ is directed by Rambabu and produced by Keerthi Combines. The movie is expected to release later this October.

Source: http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/60191.html

Brindavanam Audio Launch Pictures!

Source: http://www.thesuperhit.com/morephoto.php?id=300