'Kolaveri' versus 'Pawar' slap song video

If Tamil star Dhanush's "Kolaveri Di" song has gone viral on the Internet by crossing 13 million hits on YouTube, the "Chamaat song" on Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar being slapped has registered about 1 million hits.

"Kolaveri Di" was released on Nov 16. It has now spawned vesions in different languages including Gujarati.

"Kolaveri Di" will feature in Dhanush's next film "3", which is being directed by his wife Aishwarya. Meanwhile 18-year-old Anirudh Ravichander who has composed the song, is on a high after making a phenomenon on cyber space through his composition and lyrics.

"Chamaat" had received 964,729 hits by Friday evening.

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Rana Daggubati ready for Tamil debut

After a successful debut in Telugu and Bollywood cinema, actor Rana Daggubati is now entering Tamil cinema with "Vada Chennai".

"Here goes Debut #3 begins. Signed my first Tamil film "Vada Chennai". Directed by @Vetri Maaran and Produced by @dhayaalagiri," he posted on Twitter.

The 25-year-old had made his Telugu debut with "Leader" and his Bollywood debut with Rohan Sippy's "Dum Maaro Dum".

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Vairamuthu, A.R. Rahman team up for Mani film

Mani Ratnam's latest film tentatively named 'Pookkadai' will have a song written by Vairamuthu and set to music by A.R. Rahman.

Vairamuthu has finished working on the song. He says,' It is a lovely duet song drenched in melody. Songs from this film will stand out for their sheer simplicity. They are part of the subject and not standalones.'

Working for Mani films in the past, the Vairamuthu_A.R. Rahman duo has given several memorable hits.

Apart from the songs, another significant feature of Mani's films have been the choice magnificent locations for dance sequences. The melody song may be filmed at a scenic spot near Mysore where Mani had shot most of 'Thalapathi' and a few songs for his other films.

The cast includes Action King Arjun who will be playing a vital role. Veteran actor Karthik's son Gautham has been selected to play the lead, while the heroine is yet to be named. Mani wants both the hero and the heroine to be new faces with no public exposure whatsoever.

As for Gautham, care has been taken to ensure that he remains an unknown figure. One will not get to see even his photograph. He is said to be studying in Bangalore now.

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Muktha Srinivasan's 'Pathaayiram Kodi'

Veteran film producer and director Muktha Srinivasan is back in action after a long interval. His new film is titled 'Pathaayiram Kodi' and it will be directed by him in the name of Srinivasan Sundar.

He used the name of Muktha Sunar for his earlier films 'Kodai Mazhai', 'Yedurkatru', 'Chinna Chinna Asaigal' and 'Kangalin Varthaigal'.

Talking about his latest project 'Pathaayiram Kodi', Srinivasan said that if there is a profession where crores can be made, everyone today points to politics. Entering politics, one man makes Rs.10, 000 crore and stashed it away and four persons loot it. Whether the politician gets back the money or the looters share it among themselves is what the story is about.

The film will be a romantic comedy. It will see a fresh face from Bollywood as its lead. Dhruv Bhandari, a popular face on TV and also a part of Madhur Bhadarkar's last film, will be the lead hero. The lead heroine will be Baljit Kaur and the second will be Sheetal.

Vivek will play a pivotal role. Cell Murugan, Thyagu, Gokul and Halwa Vasu will join him.

Manoji is the music director and Rajkumar is the cinematographer.

Srinivasan Sundar will produce and direct the film, besides writing the story, screenplay and dialogues.

The first phase of shooting is slated begin shortly in Pondicherry and last for ten days.

Asked why he chose the lead actors from Mumbai, Sundar said, 'I wanted two young faces. It was by chance that I got to see the photographs of these actors and they are now doing the film.'

Dhruv is quoted as stating that since the audition was done in Mumbai he decided to give it a shot. Luckily he was short listed. 'I am all set to start shooting for the film now,' he added.

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Anushka Shetty to team up with Rajini?

Southern actress Anushka Shetty is as busy in Tamil films as she is in Telugu. The buzz is that she may team up with superstar Rajinikanth in his upcoming 3D film "Kochadaiyyan".
"Kochadaiyyan" will be a hi-tech 3D film and will be the first with performance- capturing technology to be produced in India. James Cameron's mega hit "Avatar" and Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tin Tin" were made with the same technology.

If Anushka signs on the dotted line, she will be doing her part in a sophisticated studio equipped with cameras that will capture her body language and later transfer them to animation.

Though there are no confirmed reports from those involved in the project, the team might soon come out with an official confirmation, says sources.

The project is the directorial debut of Rajinikanth's daughter, Soundarya, while K.S. Ravikumar, who has written the story, screenplay and dialogue, will be the directorial supervisor for "Kochadaiyyan".

For the time being, Anushka is busy with director Vijay's Tamil action movie "Thaandavam", which will see her sharing screen space with Vikram. She is also doing a film with director Suraj and in this Karthi is her co-star. They are shooting for the film in Kerala right now.

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Vetrimaran selects Rana to act along with Simbu

Director Vetrimaran's new project 'Vada Chennai' (North Chennai)) will have Tollywood actor Rana play a role along with Simbu who is the lead character. Rana has earlier acted in the Telugu film 'Leader'

Divya and Andrea play the heroines in 'Vada Chennai'.

Cloud Movies will produce it. The shooting is scheduled to start in February.

The action-centric film will show North Chennai's other face, which has not been seen before, according to the film unit.

This is Vetrimaran's second film after 'Adukalam' which won for actor Dhanush a national award. Topsee paired with Dhanush.

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