Director Raju Murugan is one creative person who has done magic with the films like Kukkoo and Joker. The director is now busy with his third project Gipsy. Jeeva of Rangam fame is the lead actor in the movie. The makers initially considered a lot of names for the heroine but they have finally zeroed in Miss Himachal Pradesh Natasha Singh as the leading lady in the movie. Natasha began her career with modeling and is now entering Kollywood.

Natasha spoke about the film saying that the film has a good story laced with family emotions. She said that she is playing the role of a girl who is very shy. She praised the director that he is very talented and told that she is happy to be a part of the project.

The lead actress in Kannada Nikki Galrani has been in talks for Tamil hero Jeeva’s next. This sister of heroine Sanjana is grabbing many offers now.

Jeeva who tasted a big success with the movie Rangam has failed to establish as a hero as he has been facing flops in a row. After a brief gap, he is back with a new movie under a debutant. Kalis, the first assistant of the director Selvaraghavan, is testing his luck as a director in this movie. A hit is much needed for Jeeva to be back on track and roping Nikki is a nice move by him as her glamor helps in a big way. This movie is bankrolled by the production house Global Info Entertainments which is famous for its horror and thriller movies.

This movie will be started in a couple of days with main cast and crew. Star actors like Suhasini, RJ Balaji, Meera Krishnan, Rajendra Prasad are playing key roles in this movie.

It is so common for a dubbing movie to use titles of super hit movies in order to make it reach more audience effectively and easily. Rangam starring Jeeva and Karthika, directed by K V Anand was a huge blockbuster in Telugu, which ran for over 100 days in major centres of Andhra and Telangana region. To cash its craze and popularity among audience, Jeeva starrer Yaan which was a hit in Tamil is now being released into Telugu as Rangam 2, directed by Ravi K Chandran. It is released into theatres without giving much publicity and also a few know about it’s release. Let’s see how it works on us!!

Story

Chandu (Jeeva), a jobless guy without having any serious aim in his life who did his MBA lives with his grandmother. He meets with Sri (Thulasi Nair) and falls for her at the first sight. She is reluctant at first and falls for him eventually. When Chandu is confronted by Sri’s father, an ex-military one (Nassar) he is pointed at his flaws of not having a job and living on the earning of his grandmother. Hurt by this, he decides to prove himself and star job searching and gets a job in Balochistan, an arab country. When he reach there he is arrested for carrying drugs and gets sentence of beheading his head. How he proved his innocence and return India forms rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Jeeva is good as Chandu. He did everything well like comedy or action or dance. He brought a lot of charm to the character and is superb in action sequences. Thulasi Nair is good in her role as Sri. She should shed some weight to look good on screen. Nassar as retired military officer and Jaya Prakash as ACP Anwar are wasted in their roles. Rishi as Ram is good. Thambi Ramaiah and Karunakaran did fine job. Other artists are good in their roles.

Writing Department

Storyline of this movie is good and it’s screenplay is written so bad that it fails to engage audience. Dialogues are okay.

Technical Departments

Songs composed by Harris Jayaraj are okay. Better choice of lyrics could have made them better to hear. His background score is superb and worked out well with every sequence. Cinematography by Manush Nandan is nice and he delivered a best output. Editing by A Sreekar Prasad is good. Action and Stunt sequences are well composed. Production values are apt and rich.

Highlights

• Jeeva as Chandu
• Cinematography by Manush Nandan
• Background score by Harris Jayaraj

Minus

• Screenplay

Verdict

This movie Rangam-2 begins with the plan of cops to nab Malik Shah, a terrorist and succeeds well. This sequence is very interesting and there is not much to see in this half where the script and pace of the movie is spoiled by uninspiring and bored writing. Screenplay is bad and fails to engage the audience throughout this half. Second half begins on interesting note and falls flat after couple of sequences. Cameraman Manush Nandan is a the one who is talked about in every sequence. Ravi K Chandran who is debuting as director with this film, could have written a much engaging screenplay. His writing is the biggest disappointment and fails to engage the audience. Songs are the speed breakers in a disengaging screenplay except for Jeeva’s moves. Rangam 2 doesn’t live upto its first part Rangam which is a humongous hit. When bad writing and songs adds together to make it a bad movie, Jeeva and action sequences makes it somewhat a better bad movie. To sum up, Rangam 2 is a bad sequel coming after super hit Rangam.

Fans of Kajal Aggarwal, who have not got enough of her in the extremely seducing item song in ‘Janatha Garage,’ are in for a surprising treat.

Kajal and Tamil actor Jiiva’s new Tamil film ‘Kavalai Vendam’ has been dubbed into Telugu as ‘Entavaraku Ee Prema’ and makers are planning to release it for Dasara festival. Kajal has reportedly sported a bikini in a beach song in this romantic drama also starring Bobby Simha and Nikki Garlani. Telugu distributors are heard to be planning to start extensive Kajal-centric promotions for the film as Jiiva is noted to Telugu audiences with only one film ‘Rangam.’

The already crowded dasara festival season has now got color with Kajal’s film. An official announcement about the release will be out soon.

Kajal Aggarwal, the actress with the social media attention, has posted a pic from swimming pool to let know of her latest activity.

Kajal, who is currently shooting for Tamil film ‘Kaavali Vendam’, also starring Jeeva, seems to be enjoying the free time. Kajal has posted a pic in which she was seen relaxing in a swimming pool. Jeeva is also seen beside her. She seems to be enjoying the company of Jeeva.

Apart from ‘Kaavali Vendam’, Kajal has recently signed a biggie. She has been roped in to pair opposite Ajith Kumar in his new film to be directed by Siva. She is also pairing up with Rana in a new film to be directed by Teja. Kajal is also in the news to play the female lead opposite megastar Chiranjeevi in his 150th film, but there is no official clarity on this.

The film Kavalai Vendam has finally got the release date. The makers announced it on their Twitter profile. Delivered by Elred Kumar and coordinated by Deekay, the film ‘Kavalai Vendam’ is good to go to have a good release on October 7th. The film’s production house, RS Infotainment has declared the movie release date on their official Twitter page. Kajal Aggarwal, Jiiva, Bobby Simha, Sunaina and RJ Balaji were seen in the lead roles of the film which is tipped to be a comedy entertainer. The film has good casting and the makers are planning to begin the promotional campaigns of the film shortly.

RS Infotainment on their official twitter page posted the same by uploading the picture with the caption, “Coming to a screen near you, very soon! #KavalaiVendam #RSInfotainment@MsKajalAggarwal @Actorjiiva”

Director of forthcoming Tamil film ‘Pokkiri Raja’ revealed that his two lead actors Jeeva and Sibiraj fought for real while shooting for a fight sequence in the movie.

Hansika is playing the leading lady in this romantic drama. There is a scene in the film where both Jeeva and Sibiraj fight for Hansika. Since the director felt that Jeeva’s expressions after being hit by Sibiraj were not natural, he asked Sibiraj to hit Jeeva for real so he can film natural expressions.

After Jeeva was hit, he got furious, stood up and hit back Sibiraj. Soon, the issue turned serious, and the unit members had to work hard to make peace the two actors to resume the shooting.

The director had no idea that Sibiraj and Jeeva were childhood friends. The reel incident brought huge distance between the two.

Pokkiri Raja is set for release on 26th February.

Lucky heroine Lakshmi Menon to romance with actor Jiiva in his new movie titled “Gemini Ganesan”.

Talented actress Lakshmi Menon is probably the only actress to score successive hits in Kollywood. Starting her career with hit film ‘Kumki’ with Vikram Prabhu, her latest film ’Vedalam’ starring Ajith, all of her films were decent to blockbuster.

Despite being an in-demand actress, she didn’t hesitate to put acting aside for some time to write Plus 2 exams or act as a sister to Ajith in ‘Vedalam’. Now, she is again getting busy as a lead actress.

Currently, she has a film with Jayam Ravi titled ‘Mirudhan’. Now, she has been roped into romance Jiiva in a new film titled ‘Gemini Ganesan’. Earlier Tamanna was considered but finally Lakshmi Menon came on board.

“Ko” a Tamil political thriller film directed by K.V.Anand got dubbed into Telugu and was released as “Rangam” in 2011. This film earned a blockbuster hit talk both in Tamil and Telugu. It later went on to do its success meet.

This film that starred Jeeva, Karthika and Ajmal in prior roles have fetched them many offers later in the south languages.

Post Rangam many of Jeeva’s films got dubbed into Telugu. Director K.V.Anand too released his later film in Telugu after the success of Rangam.

Now, this combination of K.V.Anand and Jeeva are once again working together for their next film.

Post Dhanush’s “Anegan,” Anand didn’t announce what his next project will be. In the recent time, he finalised a script and approached Jeeva to do the lead role in this film. Jeeva, who was thrilled with this offer, has accepted it and gave bulk, dates to this divergent director.

Currently, the director and hero are announced while the rest of cast and crew is still to be announced.

Akkineni Nagarjuna and Kollywood actor Jeeva played special roles in Anushka and Arya starring Size Zero movie, which is getting ready for release.

Beautiful actress Anushka Shetty will soon be seen as an obese lady in her new film ‘Size Zero’. Arya is playing the love interest of Anushka in the film directed by Prakash Kovelamudi.

Akkineni Nagarjuna is playing a cameo in this flick. ‘Size Zero’ is simultaneously releasing in Tamil and for the Tamil version, the same cameo will be played by young hero Jeeva.

Reportedly, while Anushka has convinced Nagarjuna, Arya has convinced Jeeva for this cameo. Jeeva has earlier played a cameo in Arya’s ‘Nene Ambani’.

‘Size Zero’ is slated for release on 27th November, in which Anushka has put on around 20 kilos for her role as an obese lady.

Jiva-K.V. Anand’s super hit film “Rangam,” was made four years. This film was a massive hit. In this film, the story revolves around how a media personality took up the responsibility of changing the society and what did he do to succeed.

This film is originally made in Tamil as “Ko,” and was dubbed in Telugu as “Rangam.”
Now, this film is getting a sequel with a titled called “Ko 2.” Though the director or any other actor worked for the first part will be seen in the second part, it’s only the title that remains same.
Kollywood director Sharath will be directing this sequel while Bobby Simha will play the role of protagonist. This film revolves around a media personality and his intentions to bring a change in the society. In the process, he kidnaps the Chief Minister of the state and by so makes him understand what being in power can do a lot to common citizens.
This story has the very of Nara Rohit’s “Pratinidhi.” In too hero kidnaps the Chief Minister and solves crucial problems by explaining them to the CM. The only difference between these two films is that hero a media person in Tamil, whereas he isn’t in “Pratinidi.”
Prakash Raj is the Chief Minister in this political thriller.
Watch Ko 2 motion poster here:

Well this could turn out to be interesting – rumors have surfaced that the much awaited A R Murgadoss – Ilaya Thalapathy Vijay movie Kaththi, promised to be a ‘mass’ action thriller, and the long overdue Jeeva movie Yaan have essentially the same storylines!

They say the plots are very similar but its the way the directors have handled their respective films and their vision (and of course the actors) that makes each movie different.

If true, this has all the signs of turning into an all out ‘Vijay vs Jiiva’ war at the box office, and with Vijay’s box office brand being on the rise again – no small thanks to Thuppakki and Jilla – and the huge fan community behind the actor, this could be the making of Jiiva or could lead to a bitter disappointment for the actor, who’s still not a top tier star in Kollywood.

Let’s also not forget that Yaan is being directed by cinematographer turned director Ravi K Chandran, whose maiden voyage into filmmaking this is. The flick has been on the floor for over a year now and it would be unfortunate for it to go straight up against one of the most anticipated movies of the year when it finally comes out.

However, the talent being sound and the craft and business of cinema being ‘unpredictable’ to say the least, this might also just be an entertainment feast for the fans with two flavours of the same dish being served – it’s up to them to choose in the end…

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Jeeva,Trisha and Andrea Jeremiah starring Tamil film Engeyam Eppodum releasing in Telugu with a title “Chirunavvula Chirujallu”. Here is the exclusive trailer of Chirunavvula Chirujallu, which is a dubbed vesion of Tamil film Engeyam Eppodum.

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