Grand climax of Velayudham shot in Chennai!

Ilayathalapathy Vijay is quite upbeat about the box-office prospects of his upcoming film titled ‘Velayudham’. Produced by Ravichandran’s Ascar Films, the film brings together for the first time Vijay and director ‘Jayam’ Raja, who had till now been directing only his home productions starring his younger sibling and actor ‘Jayam’ Ravi. Almost all those films were box-office hits, though.
Raja assured before the start of the shooting of the film that the script would perfectly suit Vijay’s image. The film has Genelia and Hansika Motwani as the two heroines opposite Vijay. The climax sequence is presently being shot in and around the Chennai airport in a grand manner with 5,000 artistes and 1,000 vans participating.

The film’s crew informs us on condition of anonymity that the ‘mighty’ climax sequence would be one of the highlights of the film. Interestingly, the ‘first part’ of the climax was already shot in the port city of Cochin in the neighbouring Kerala and the portions which are being shot near SIPCOT in Chennai are the second part of the gripping climax, it is learnt.

The present schedule is expected to last for a fortnight after which only one song remains to be shot, Unit sources say. As such, contrary to earlier plans, the film may not be releasing on the actor’s birthday which falls on 22nd June. Vijay plays a milk vendor in the film while Genelia plays a journalist.

Hansika Motwani ranks Velayutham as her No 1

Latest Kollywood sensation Hansika Motwani has said that 'Velayudham' is the best film so far in her Kollywood career. Hansika Motwani was first seen in Dhanus's 'Mapillai' and later in the recent release 'Engeyum Kadhal' directed by Prabhu Deva.

Both the movies have bombed at the box-office but since the movies were hyped so much by the distributors Sun Pictures, Hansika Motwani managed to gain popularity among Kollywood circles and fans. Despite of her shaky start in Kollywood, the actress is optimistic with her third movie 'Velayutham' which is said to be released on Vijay's birthday.

Since Vijay has a huge fan base in Tamil Nadu, the actress is confident enough the it would fetch more attention upon her. 'Velayudham' is in the completion stages and happens to be director Raja's first attempt with his own script. 'Velayudham' is a super-hero subject which has Vijay, Genelia, Hansika Motwani and Saranya Mohan in pivotal roles.

SAC Elected as President of Producer's Council

The change of government in Tamil Nadu is changing equations in Tamil cinema. A day after Rama Narayanan resigned from the post of Tamil Film Producers Council president, S A Chandrasekar was on Saturday night elected as the new chief of the all powerful body of Kollywood.

According to a press release from the Producers Council, a decision in this regard was taken by the members after an emergency meeting. The new president was later greeted by other office-bearers of the associaton.

On Friday, after trends clearly indicated that AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa is all set to take over the mantle of Tamil Nadu, S A Chandrasekar and his son Vijay called on her and conveyed their wishes.

During the April 13 Assembly elections, Vijay’s Makkal Iyakkam worked for the success of the AIADMK alliance and Chandrasekar campaigned for the front. He also met Jayalalithaa in person and offered support.

Vijay is happy with Amma's victory!

Ilayathalapathy Vijay finally has a smile on his face. And why not? He'd gotten his huge fan base to root for J Jayalalithaa and her party during the recent elections. During the previous regime, he resented the family's octopus-like hold on the film industry. 

On hearing about Amma's landslide victory in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, Vijay — who was shooting for his Raja-directed Velayudham — rushed to her Poes Garden residence. After meeting and congratulating Jayalalithaa, the actor took some time off to chat with the Media.

Starts off the actor, "I'm extremely happy that Amma had a landslide victory. She proved the pollsters wrong and decimated the erstwhile ruling party. It is a historic win and also proves that our electorate is intelligent and knows what's best for them. Everybody from towns to villages wanted a change for the better."

Vijay says he is happy that in his own way, he lent support to Amma. Says the star, "I want to thank my fans who form the Makkal Iyakkam. They supported my endeavours and had total faith in my decision to support Jayalalithaa. They worked very hard at the grass-root level to achieve our goal."

For Vijay, Friday the 13th has indeed turned out to be a lucky day. He premiered the first look promo of his next film, Velayudham, on television. The promos were telecast at the same time when Jayalalithaa's party was heading for a landslide win in TN and that ensured maximum eyeballs for the trailer cut. It was a marketing coup of sorts as the promo soon became the most-watched film trailer on the Internet.

In the recent past, Ilayathalapathy has faced problems with the promotions for his films. In fact, his last release, Kaavalan, was devoid of publicity before and after its release as all the leading channels were controlled by the family in power.

Ask him if he's happy now that his next film's promo has got a huge reach and he says, "I had a tough time releasing my last film Kaavalan. But I have forgotten all that like a bad dream. I am an actor who likes working silently. At the moment, let me savour Amma's success and her phenomenal win, which augurs well for the state."
source: Times of India

"Kavalan" Invited to Shangai International Film Fest..!

It is good news for the ‘Kavalan’ team! The film which definitely marked a turning point in ‘Ilaya Thalapathi’s career, continues to make news even now many days after its release. Well this time around good news comes from the most famous city of China, Shanghai.


Director Siddique’s film ‘Kavalan’ has been selected to be screened in Shanghai during the International Film Festival which will be held in the city from June 11th to June 19th. Though the film faced hiccups even before it released from theatre owners across the state that changed post its release and went on to become one of the best grosser for Vijay also winning the hero more popularity.


‘Kavalan’ which had Vijay and Asin in the lead was this year’s Pongal release. The film was selected to be screened in the International Film Fest to be held at Shanghai by a board comprising of famous directors which also includes Oscar winner Barry Levinson. ‘Kavalan’ has been selected to be screened in the ‘Panorama’ category. More than 80 countries around the globe will be culminating for this event with more than 2500 films being screened during the event.


Yet another happy tiding for Vijay fans is that their idol has been invited as a special guest for taking part in this event! We will get back to you with details as to when “Ilaya Thalapathi” will leave to Shanghai for taking part in the event.

Scintillating songs in "Velayutham"..!

We have interesting details about two ‘scintillating songs’ in ‘Velayudham’, Ilaya Thalapathi Vijay’s forthcoming film, directed by ‘Jayam’ Raja and produced by Aascar Films V Ravichandran.

“A song whose starting lines are Sonna puriadhu….sollukkul adangadhu… was shot recently on a grand set. It will be the introduction song of Vijay in Velayudham,” sources in the unit tell us.

“While the lyrics speak about the bond the Ilaya Thalapathi shares with his fans, Vijay Antony’s music has provided the much-needed pep a Vijay intro songs needs. It will be a colourful song,” they say.

“The other number that was recently picturised was a duet,” they say and add: “the song Mayakkiputta ennai mayakkiputta shot on Vijay and Hansika Motwani will be remembered for a long time by (music) lovers.”

தூள் பறக்கும் வேலாயுதம்..!

தூள் பறக்கும் வேலாயுதம்..!

வேலாயுதம் படத்தை இயக்கிய ராஜா, விஜய் ரசிகர்களுக்காக சுவாரஸ்யமான காட்சிகளை சேர்த்து இயக்கியுள்ளார்.

மாஸ் நாயகனாக விஜய், ஹன்சிகா மற்றும் ஜெனிலியா இரண்டு நாயகிகளுடன் நடித்துள்ளார். மேலும், படத்தில் சரண்யா மோகன், சந்தானம், எம்.எஸ்.பாஸ்கர், சத்யன், பாண்டியராஜன், சாயாஜி சிண்டே ஆகியோர் முக்கியமான வேடங்களில் நடித்துள்ளார்கள்.

இளைய தளபதி விஜய் படத்தில் பால்காரராக வந்து, புலனாய்வு டிவி செய்தியாளரான ஜெனிலியாவிற்கு உதவி செய்கிறார். அதிர வைக்கும் வசனங்களும் தூள் பறக்குமாம்.

கெமெர்சியல் சினிமாவுக்கு உரிய அனைத்து சமாச்சாரங்களும் இந்த படத்தில் இருக்கும். அண்ணாமலை பட ரஜினி மாதிரி கதாபாத்திரத்தில் வித்தியாசமாக விஜய் நடித்துள்ளார்.

இது வரையில் சுமார் எண்பத்தைந்து சதவீதம் அளவு படத்தை எடுத்துள்ளோம். படம் அமர்க்களமாக வர நிறைய செலவு செய்துள்ளார் படத்தயாரிப்பாளர். பாடல் காட்சியை படமாக்கவே சில கோடிகள் கரைந்துள்ளது. இன்னும் சில பாடல்களை ஐரோப்பாவில் படமாக்க திட்டமிட்டுள்ளோம்.

படத்தில் விஜயுடன் பதினைந்து வில்லன்கள், இரண்டு மடங்கு (முப்பது) கொமெடியன்கள் நடித்துள்ளார்கள். ஐந்து பாடல்கள், ஆறு சண்டைக்காட்சிகள் உள்ளன. ரசிகர்களின் ரசனைக்கு விருந்தாக இருக்கும்.

படத்தில் விஜய், சரண்யா மோகன் இருவரின் நடிப்பில் அண்ணன், தங்கை பாச உணர்வை பார்க்கலாம். ஜெனிலியாவுக்கு இப்படத்தில் முக்கியமான பங்கு.

ஹன்சிகா, விஜய்யின் காதல் நாயகியாக வருகிறார். சந்தானம், எம்.எஸ்.பாஸ்கர், விஜய் மூன்று பேரும் கொமெடி காட்சியில் கலக்கியதை பார்த்த ஒட்டு மொத்த குழுவும் கலகலவென சிரித்து குதித்தது. விஜய் ஆண்டனியின் இசையில் பாடல்கள் நிச்சயம் ரசிகர்கள் மனதில் இடம் பிடிக்கும்.

படமும் இரண்டு மடங்கு வெற்றி நிச்சயம்.

விஜய், தமிழ் சினிமாவின் தலைசிறந்த நாயகன் என ‘வேலாயுதம்’ படத்தின் மூலமாக நிரூபித்து காட்டுவார். அவர் சாதாரண ரசிகரையும் புரிந்து வைத்துள்ளார். எதிலும் தலையிடாமல் அமைதியாக நடித்து கொடுப்பவர்தான் விஜய் என்று ‘வேலாயுதம்’ படத்தின் இயக்குனர் ராஜா பேசியுள்ளாராம்.