Katrina Kaif - Not in Ajit Film?

Salman's Girl Firend, Katrina Kaif is not coming to Kollywood in the near future. Earlier it was reported that she is going to be Ajit’s heroine in Raju Sundaram new film for Ayngaran International. The buzz is that on second thoughts, Katrina has decided to stay put in Bollywood, which is far more lucrative and career wise a better choice as far as she is concerned.

Ajit and Raju Sundaram are in a big fix, as they were depending on Katrina joining them in the first week of March for the talkie portion of the film. Now they will have to start another heroine hunt in a hurry, as the project is already delayed.

Arya - Nila in Love???

Arya and Nila were not acted as pair in any movies. But, In Tamil film industry rumor is that love sparks between them were sparked in International Tamil Film Awards Singapore function. Both are dating and both cell phones are engaged continuously. On Valentine day (Feb 14), actress Nila went toTheni, to be with her lover Arya who was shooting there for Njaan Kadavul. The young couple who are in love are planning to get married by the end of the year. Now, Nila is not signing any new films even after her last super hit release Maruthamalai.

Earlier Arya was in rumor with his earlier heroines Pooja and Padmapriya and Nila was in news with her director SJ surya.

Paruthiveeran - A Rare Feet

The 58th Berlin International Film Festival has started on Feb 7 and will go up to Feb 17. Paruthiveeran directed by Ameer is being screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival popularly known as Berlinale. The Berlinale is a festival of encounters and discussions. With more than 200,000 tickets sold, the Berlinale is not only a film industry meeting it also enjoys by far the largest audience of any film festival in the world. Last week Shah Rukh Khan was at Berlin with his Om Shanti Om and was mobbed by fans as he was given the red carpet reception at the festival. Only three shows of his OSO was held, but it was sold out in seven minutes! Ever since German TV started showing Bollywood films SRK has become huge and very popular among the Germans who simply love his movies. one of the highlights was Paruthiveeran was not a last minute entry; it was confirmed as early as September last year for the festival.

Who is Vishal's Love interest?

Vishal who made a statement to a tamil weekly magazine that he is in love with a top actress. The media jumped the gun and said it was Priyamani, who had done Malakottai with him. Priyamani who is rumoured to be in love with a young Telugu actor denied that she is Vishal’s love! Once her denial was flashed by the evening papers, the media then shifted its stance and said it was Nayanthara, who was Vishal’s 'mysterious obsession'.

Nayanthara: Vishal has all the right and freedom to say whatever he wants to. Please note that he has not mentioned my name, it could be any other actresses? Why me? But the media has made its own inferences and dragged my name into it. Let me make it clear that Vishal is a good co-star and we share a great rapport on sets.

His statement may be for publicity, who knows?

One Minute Review - Indiralogathil Na Azhagappan

It is really a shocking and boring experience to every fan of Vadivelu who loves the actor for his non-stop comedy. After watched the film it seems like every one laugh on us! The much publicized and expected film is not only fails to make me laugh, and also becomes a big test for my patience for nearly 3 long hours.

The main problem with this film is that it hardly raises any laugh and the script is so weak. Sadly we have no words of praise for Vadivel who can't rise above the flawed script. He hams it up, is loud and overacts at times. For the first time Vadivel fails to recreate the mass even in a single scene. On the whole, the amateurish, inconvincible and dry narration of the story makes me to feel the hell in the earth.

Verdict : Big Disappointment and Bore, Ayyo Thanga Mudiyala.

Meena in Kuselan

Finally Meena who did the Malayalam original has been signed up for Kuselan to play Pasupathi’s wife. Simran was the first choice. The character of Sreenivasan was built around Meena’s sympathies and her desire that he meets his old friend now a superstar played by Mammootty and tells him about their difficulties.

Now in the Tamil version if Meena has a similar dialogues it will work big time with the audiences because with Rajinikanth she has worked in films like Veera,Yajaman,Muthu.

Kunal commits suicide!!

Kunal who made his debut in Tamil with Kathir directed Kathalar Dhinam (1999), committed suicide at his flat in Mumbai. He was said to be depressed during the last few months. He will be remembered for the A.R Rahman music of his debut film Kathalar Dhinam. Who can forget the haunting Rojaa, Rojaa… and the melodious Daandiya Aatumadam… picturised on Kunal and the strikingly beautiful Sonali Bendre.

Kunal a north Indian has done about a dozen films in Tamil as a young hero, but none of his films were hits. The titles were Varsham Ellam Vasantham, Paesadha Kannum Paesumae (Coincidence is that the heroine of this film Monal had also committed suicide), Unnarchigal and his last release Nanbanin Kathali.

The US Presidential Elections - Procedure

Step I: Primaries and Caucuses

There are many people who would like to become President. Each of these people have their own ideas about how our government should work. Some of these people can belong to the same political party. That's where primaries and caucuses come in.In these elections, party members get to vote for the candidate that will represent their party in the upcoming general election.

Step 2: National Conventions

At the end of the primaries and caucuses, each party holds a national convention to finalize the selection of one Presidential nominee. During this time, each Presidential candidate chooses a running-mate (or Vice-Presidential candidate).

Step 3: The General (or Popular) Election

Now that each party is represented by one candidate, the general election process begins. Candidates campaign throughout the country in an attempt to win the support of voters. Finally in November, the people vote for one candidate.When a person casts a vote in the general election, they are not voting directly for an individual Presidential candidate. Instead, voters in each state actually cast their vote for a group of people, known as electors. These electors are part of the Electoral College and are supposed to vote for their state for their preferred candidate.

Step 4: The Electoral College

In the Electoral College system, each state gets a certain number of electors, based on each state.

US Election - Latest Scores

Election Result:

Hillary Wins: California, Arizona, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee

Obama Wins: Georgia, Missouri, Alabama, Alaska, llinois, Delaware, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, North Dakota and Kansas.

For Hillary, California and New York are Big win.
For Obama, Georgia is a Big Win.

Lead in:
Hillary: New Mexico (42%)

Superstar Rajinikanth - Biography

Chennai based ophthalmologist Dr.Gayathri Shrikanth has written a biography of Superstar Rajinikanth titled "Rajini Pera Kettale" in Tamil and an English translation "The name is Rajinikant". The book will be officially launched on 1st March 2008 at Chennai. Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachan, Swami Dayananda Saraswathy and Tamil film personalities are participating in this event. The book has a foreword written by the chief minister of Tamilnadu , 'Kalaignar' M.Karunanidhi and another by Kamal Haasan. It will be an event to remember when Rajini, Big-B and Kamal will come together for the launch of Dr. Gayathri Shrikanth's book.

Shah Rukh and Aditya Chorpa

Aditya Chopra, who is set to wear the director's cap again after a hiatus of eight years for his third film Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, is looking for a new face to cast opposite Shah Rukh Khan.The hunt for a new girl is on for the film, to be produced by Yash Chopra and written by Aditya.

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi will go on the floors in May and is scheduled to hit the screens by the year-end. Aditya gave one of the most successful love stories to Bollywood in his directorial debut Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. This Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol starrer continues its record breaking run in its 13th year at Mumabi's Maratha Mandir.

However his Mohabbatein (2003) turned turtle at the box office. After that, Aditya took a break from direction to set up and develop India's first studio model making Yash Raj Films a name to reckon with.

In the years that followed, YRF, under the keen eyes of Aditya, produced such blockbusters as Dhoom, Dhoom 2, Hum Tum, Bunty Aur Babli, Salaam Namaste, Fanaa and Chak! De India.While Aditya was the creative producer in all these films, he wrote the script for father Yash Chopra's 2004 directorial venture Veer-Zaara as well as the stories of other films. Hopefully, he will recreate the magic of his first film with Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

Kuselan, title to change??

The title Kuselan might undergo a change. The writer-actor Sreenivasan, who wrote the Malayalam original, is skeptical about the present title. According to mythology, Kuselan was Krishna's childhood friend who approaches his rich pal during trying times. But the main character in the original does not so the same. So he feels that the title might not be very apt. Nothing has been confirmed about this.

Feb,2008 - Tamil Movie Releases

February has the highest number of releases due. 2008 Feb has only 29 days, but has five
Fridays.

Feb 1- Asokha, Indiralokathil Na Azhagappan, Thangam
Feb 8- Sadhu Mirandal, Thoondil
Feb 14 (Valentine Day weekend)- Anjathey, Thotta Silanerangalil, Bomalattam, Vaitheeswaran
Feb 22- Vellithira, Yaradi Nee Mogini
Feb 29- Arai En 305

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo!!

Technology giant Microsoft Corp said Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet media company Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock. Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 per cent premium above the company's closing stock price on Nasdaq Thursday.

"We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a statement.
Yahoo was not immediately available for comment.

Microsoft said it had identified four areas that would generate at least $1 billion in annual synergies for the combined entity. Yahoo shares rose 56 per cent to $29.95 in premarket trading Friday following the announcement. US stock index futures also jumped after the news was released.

AUS - Resounding victory!

Australia will be mighty happy on having settled old scores with India and doing so in great style as well. They have thumped India by a margin of 9 wickets. Their bowlers did a very good job early on but the Indians have themselves to blame for what happened. Their batsmen never tried to get used to the conditions and started going bang bang straightaway. India lost wickets consistently and no one other than Pathan managed to reach double figures. Not much can be said about the Indian bowling because 74 was never a score that could have been defended against a team like Australia. Gilchrist chipped in with 25 in his last T20I innings and skipper Clarke ensured that he saw his side home comfortably. The focus now shifts to Brisbane where these two teams meet again but in the longer format of 50 overs.