Sayesha Saigal, who made her debut with Akkineni Akhil starrer ‘Akhil:The Power of Jua’, turned proud owner of Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s house in Hyderabad.

Sayesha Saigal has decided to strengthen her base in Telugu Film Industry, and recently she bought a house in a plush location in Hyderabad. It is heard that she has been on the lookout for a property in Hyderabad since a long time and finally when she got the opportunity, she quickly grabbed it. This is the same house where Samantha stayed earlier.

On the work side, she is busy with her ongoing Tamil project Karuppu Raja Vellai Raja starring Karthi and Vishal under the direction of Parbhudeva.

There are some names in film industry which are treated as brands among audience​ and their names help movie as additional advantage. If their movies are added to the movie it becomes hot cake among trade circles and audience gets in queue for tickets. Maniratnam is one among such brand names for his variant movies. He is now coming with another movie after the successful “Ok Bangaram” starring Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari. As it is made in Tamil as Katru Veliyidai, it is being released into Telugu as “Cheliyaa” under the banner of SVC of Dil Raju. Let’s see how it works on us!

Story

Varun aka VC is a fighter pilot and is a guy who has no hard feelings for girls such as love and has many stories of him being with the change of girls in his life. He meets Leela (Aditi Rao Hydari) in hospital as he met with an accident during a trip with another girl on hills. They meet again and again and they both fall in love with each other. VC takes her to his home in New Delhi to attend his brother’s marriage and then Leela comes to know about his past relationships and VC asks her to shut her mouth which leads to quarrel between them. How they both meet again? What happens during his brother’s marriage? How he escape from the Pakistani jail? forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Karthi as Varun is superb and he is too good in his play boyish role and is equally as good as fighter pilot who works for mother India. Aditi Rao Hydari is too good with her expressions and she made the character of Leela lively. RJ Balaji is good in his limited role. All other actors who played the remaining roles are not so familiar to our Telugu audience but they are good to the extent of their roles.

Writing Department

Story of Cheliyaa is simple and good which is weaved around Kargil war. Screenplay is not so well written which makes audience bored and not engaged. Dialogues are well written.

Technical Departments

Songs composed by AR Rahman are nice and are chartbusters already. Maimarupaa song is good is watch on screen. Background score is so good and elevated the scenes whenever necessary. Cinematography by S Ravichandran is fantastic and locales of Srinagar are well captured. Editing by Sreekar Prasad is okay and could have been much better. Production values are apt.

Highlights
Lead actor’s performances
Cinematography by S Ravichandran​
Music by AR Rahman

Minus
Screenplay

Verdict
Cheliyaa begins with war sequence featuring Karthi and later he is captured by Pakistani Army. Then it goes into flashback mode with a voiceover of Karthi in a poetic way with pure Telugu. He tells about his love story with Aditi Rao Hydari and happenings between them. There are some interesting conversations between the lead and some are lame and gives no interest to audience. Screenplay is dead slow and somewhere the magic of Maniratnam is missing. Interval comes where Karthi escapes from Pakistani Jail and it doesn’t create any curiosity to watch out for second half. The brand name Mani Ratnam is only thing that makes audience watch second half after the disappointing first half. Second half begins with quarrel between the leads and a patch up. Here comes the best till now in the form of Maimarupaa song which is well shot. Second half is good when compared to first half. Mani Ratnam made this Cheliyaa with his mark poetry written in every frame and scene with the help of high technical values but failed and made as a disappointment fare by none other than Mani Ratnam again.

Nadigar Sangam is gearing up for the new building now. The formal inauguration of the building took place on Friday in T Nagar Habeebulla Road. Nasser, Vishal, Ponavannan and few others have participated in the event and have performed puja. Vishal has promised to construct a new building for Nadigar Sangam if his team wins the elections.

The actor took a year time to complete all the formalities regarding the building. The actor also took some time to gather the funds. Right now, Vishal is using 26 crores for constructing this new facility. An auditorium, Preview Theatre, Gym, Function Hall, Editing and Dubbing, composing studios will also be built in the same premises. Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan also attended the event and participated in the puja ceremony. On this occasion, Vishal and Karthi announced ten crores as a fund for the same.

Legendary maker Mani Ratnam’ upcoming flick Cheliyaa’s second trailer was unveiled the other day. The second trailer is on par with first.

As the first part is high on romance and relation between the lead characters and their introductions, the second seemed complete contrary. Started off with a pleasant dialogue, the trailer later went off to an unexpected visual here Karthi was seen in a completely different form. Like Roja, this movie has got shocking twists and turns where the hero might lose his track due to a plane crash. The movie is high in visuals and music until now. But the second trailer hints us that the movie has got surprising elements for audiences. For sure the second trailer has made the buzz doubled for the fans of Mani Ratnam.

This movie is presented by Madras Talkies which is an own production of Mani Ratnam. Karthi and Aditi Rao hydro are lead pairs in this visual brilliance. The movie will be released soon in April.

The blockbuster Tamil film which dubbed in Telugu Naa Peru Shiva has got a sequel on cards.

Going into the details, the director Sussendhran has been thinking about its sequel since ages. So he has approached Karthi for the part two. Karthi who gave his dates already has said no. Then the director approached the latest Telugu young sensation in Tamil Sundeep Kishan with this script. Sundeep who has been trying to expand his market in Tamil has said yes. Suseendran will continue the same crew and cast expects the lead actors. Karthi is replaced by Sundeep and Kajal Agarwal is replaced by Mehreen. Yuvan Shankar Raja will be providing music.

The first part which entertained Tamil and Telugu audiences with its unique blend of love and revenge drama made the magic. Now everyone is waiting for the sequel.

Mani Ratnam, the sensational filmmaker of South cinema, has been busy wrapping up his next film now. The director has got back to form with the success of the film Ok Bangaram. The director is gearing up for the interesting romantic entertainer yet again with the film Katru Veliyidai. The film is also releasing in Telugu with the title Duet. The makers are busy in wrapping up the shoot. The film unit wanted to release the movie in Telugu and Tamil at a time. Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari are playing the lead roles in the film.

The shooting of the film has reached the final stages. Meanwhile, the interesting buzz from the film nagar reveals us that the film may release on 24th of March. Mani Ratnam is producing the film on his own banner Madras Talkies banner. A R Rahman scored the music for the film.

Socio fantasy has lot of demand and craze among audience. Whenever a movie with good content comes in this genre, audience never fail to encourage. We have so many movies Yamagola, Magadheera, Yamadonga and a lot which were successful at box office. Karthi, who is familiar with Telugu audience so much with his movies is coming with his second movie in the genre of socio fantasy after Yuganiki Okkadu under the direction of Gokul produced by PVP Cinema and Dream Warrior Pictures co starring Nayanathara which is said to have heavy CG work. This movie is releasing today in Telugu and Tamil. Let’s see how it works on us!!

Story

Kashmora (Karthi) is a fraud who feeds on people’s fear and ignorance in the name of ghosts and dark powers. He makes people believe that he has supernatural powers and plays with their superstitions. He plans the problems and solves them. This is how he plays with people along with his family. One fine day a local politician Dhanakoti sends all the documents and money along with gold and diamonds to his house to put them away from the sight of Income tax officials. Knowing this Kashmora’s family runs away with them and are trapped in a old palace of Rathna Mahadevi (Nayanathara). Why are they trapped there?? How they escape from the palace?? Who is Rathna Mahadevi and what is her story?? forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Karthi is terrific as Kashmora as well as Raj Nayak, the leading warrior. His performance and body language for both the characters are superb and are to be well appreciated for the hard work he put in to make those characters come alive. Sri Divya is okay in her role. She has a very limited role. Vivek is good as Karthi’s father. Nayanathara who comes in flashback has a very limited role and do not have scope to perform. She is totally wasted. Other artists performed to the extent of their roles.

Writing Department

Story of Kashmora is simple and good. Screenplay is engaging at parts and dialogues are okay as the movie is wholly based on dialogues. Too much Tamil nativity scenes spoiled the magic for Telugu audience.

Technical Departments

Compositions by Santosh Narayan are good but the choice of lyrics for them in Telugu made them bad. Songs are not so good to hear. Santosh Narayan showed his potential in composing background score and elevating scenes. Cinematography by Om Prakash is nice. Visuals look terrific with nice color pattern. Editing by V J Sabu Joseph is good. He could have done better job in maintaining the pace of the film. Action and war sequences are well composed. Production values are super rich.

Highlights

• Karthi as Kashmora and Raj Nayak
• Cinematography by Om Prakash
• Background score by Santosh Narayan

Minus

• Too much scenes of Tamil nativity
• Slow pace

Verdict
This movie begins on an interesting note revealing a scene which connects to the main plot and then shifts to the story of fraudulent Kashmora who deceives people and lives on them creating fear and playing with their innocence and superstitions. Scenes written to run this story and slow paced and are full of Tamil nativity which fail to generate laughs among Telugu audience. Audience finds a bit less interested during these scenes and movie becomes interesting with the pre interval scene where Kashmora and his family is terrified by the real dark powers. This scenes works out well showcasing Karthi acting skills and also giving audience a situational humour relief. Second half begins and it fails to continue the interest generated with the pre interval scene and seems dragged till flashback but has some laughter moments. Nayanthara is wasted with a role that do not have any scope for performance. Visual effects are good. To sum up, Kashmora is a watchable fantasy movie for Karthi and visuals despite of its slow pace.

South heroes consider moustaches very prestigious, and unless it was necessary for any film, no actor generally shaves it.

Tamil actor Karthi, who enjoys decent stardom in the Telugu states, has the other days faced an embarrassing situation when his fake moustache fell off during a press meet.

To promote his upcoming film ‘Kashmora’, a pressmeet was organized the other day in Hyderabad. While Karthi was enthusiastically speaking about the movie, his artificial moustache started to trip off. The actor tried to cover it with his hand, but as it continued to trouble and embarrass him in front of media men, he stopped the press meet and had to go out to correct it.

The embarrassing scene has become a headache for the actor, who always sports moustache in films. Reportedly, Karthi had to shave off his original moustache for his new film being directed by veteran filmmaker Mani Ratnam.

Actor Karthi, who will soon be seen in the high budget VFX thriller ‘Kahsmora’, has revealed a few interesting details about the film.

When the film was titled ‘Kashmora’, it was assumed to be a horror film but the theatrical trailer surprised everyone with its visual effects and period backdrop. Now, Karthi has said that ‘Kashmora’ doesn’t cater to one particular genre as it has the elements of fantasy, horror, thriller, periodical and comedy. He added that to cut down the serious theme of the film, makers included enough comedy in the film.

Karthi also said that he has played three roles in the film. The character of Kashmora will be crucial as his character revolves around black magic. He will also be seen Raj Nayak, a warrior king from an era gone 500 years ago. He however refused to divulge details about his third character.

‘Kashmora’ will release worldwide on October 28.

Responding to the concerns of some heroines about the disparity in remuneration of heroes and heroines, Karthi backed the ongoing process and explained that the same practice is being implemented across all sectors maybe except IT.

‘Remuneration of a person is like a stock market ad it keeps fluctuating. Films are marketed based on heroes, so it is not wrong if they are paid higher than heroines. Maybe IT is the only sector where women earn as much as men, but in all other sectors, men pocket high pay,’ Karthi said.

He, however, said that some heroine of this generation are pocketing more than heroes by acting in heroine-centric films.

On the work front, Karthi will be next seen in Kashmora, which is slated for release for Diwali. He is currently shooting for a Mani Ratnam Telugu-Tamil bilingual.

The first look of Karthi’s upcoming film ‘Kashmora’ has been released and it is quite interesting.

After enacting lover boy and mass hero roles, Karthi is gearing up to be seen as a menacing warlord in Kashmora. In the first look, he was seen wearing a belligerent armor and holding a ‘Kalakeya’ like weapon. In fact, Karthi’s look is a mixture of Kalakeya and Kattappa, the two unforgettable characters from Baahubali. It takes a while to recognize it was Karthi after the first look poster.

Also starring Nayanthara and Sri Divya, Kashmora is the first film to use 3D face scanning and 360-degree Omni-directional camera technologies. Gokul is directing this film produced by PVP in Telugu and Tamil with a whopping budget of Rs 60 Cr. Post production work is in full swing, and the film will hit screens for Diwali this year.

Mani Ratnam has recently announced his next film. Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari are playing the lead roles in the film. The latest buzz reveals that Suriya is very much happy about his brother acting in Mani Ratnam direction. In 2003, Suriya starred in Mani Ratnam’s Yuva and for this film, Karthi worked as assistant director. Now, after almost 13 years, Karthi is acting in Mani’s just launched romantic drama, Kaatru Veliyidai. This has been the best news for Suriya and Karthi. “My brothers dream film I can say! As an Asst to Mani sir in 2003, as a hero now!so looking forward!!#KaatruVeliyidai”. Suriya tweeted.

The regular shoot of Kaatru Veliyidai is expected to begin soon. Meanwhile, Suriya is busy with the shoot of Singham 3 at Vizag now. More details are expected to be out soon.

The much-awaited first look of Mani Ratnam’s film is finally out. The film is titled as Kaatru Veliyidai. Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari plays the lead roles. The music for the film is scored by AR Rahman. The fans are quite excited about the Mani Ratnam-AR Rahman collaboration, and this is not the first time they are teaming up. Going by the first look of the film, the director has cleverly inserted the concept of the movie in the poster itself. The film looks like a love story with India-Pakistan border at Kashmir as a backdrop.

“A new journey that dreams are made of- NEED your blessings” revealed Aditi on her Twitter profile. Earlier, Sai Pallavi was considered for this role. The shoot was further delayed when Sai Pallavi and Dulquer walked out of the project. RJ Balaji plays an interesting role in the film.

Popular Radio Jockey and actor Balaji, has just notched up an important role in Mani Ratnam’s yet-untitled next Tamil directorial. RJ Balaji shared this exciting news on Twitter, which read as,“And this did happen for real. Grew up watching his films n now to be part of a Maniratnam film. Feels like a dream”. He also shared a picture with Mani Ratnam.

After a successful venture as a radio jockey, Balaji acted in films like Naanum Rowdy Dhaan, Vadacurry, and Pugazh to name a few. His sense of humor and wit earned him a niche audience. He has recently bagged the SIIMA 2016- Best comedian award for Naanum Rowdy Dhaan. Balaji is tipped to be playing actor Karthi’s friend in this upcoming film of Mani Ratnam. The principal shooting of the project will commence from Friday in Ooty. To be produced by Mani Ratnam’s Madras Talkies, the film will have Aditi Rao Hydari as the female lead and AR Rahman will compose music.

Maverick director Mani Ratnam, one of the most valuable filmmakers in the Indian Film Industry is now all set to begin the filming of his next movie with Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari. The film is touted to be a romantic entertainer is produced by Madras Talkies.

As for the latest reports, the film team will start the shoot of the yet-untitled film in the locales of Ooty on July 15. We know that Mani Ratnam is a master in shooting the visuals in the most artistic manner. It is worth mentioning that Mani Ratnam always starts his film shooting with a song sequence. And, the Nayagan director will continue to stick with his sentiments in this movie too. Makers of the movie will first shoot a song, and it will be soon followed by the filming of some important sequences.

Meanwhile, Karthi is gearing up for his next release Kashmora, which is said to be a horror thriller.

Tamil hero Karthi has made a successful debut in Telugu with the film Oopiri. Now, there is huge buzz and expectations on his upcoming films as well. The actor is all set to be a part of Mani Ratnam’s next film as the lead actor. This yet to be titled film will have Karthi in a new look. Apparently the actor is required to lose weight for his role. The film is a romantic entertainer and is tipped to be made with an urban love story.

Some renowned stylists from Mumbai have been roped in to work for the film for bringing the desired look for Karthi. Aditi Singh Hydari plays the female lead in this film. AR Rahman will compose the music for the film. The film’s regular shoot will begin in Chennai and Shimla. More details about the film will be expected soon.