Noted producer C Kalyan has acquired the rights of the movie ‘Lakshmi’ starring Prabhudeva and Aishwarya Rajesh in the lead roles. The film is written and directed by AL Vijay and marks the debut of Ditya Bhande who is the winner of kids dance reality show, Super Dancer season one.

‘Lakshmi’ is a musical dance-based film while Prabhudeva will be seen in the role of mentor to Ditya in the movie. The two teasers and songs which were released earlier got a superb response and decent expectations are on the movie.

On this note, producer C Kalyan has announced the audio release and theatrical release dates of ‘Lakshmi’ on August 12th and August 24th respectively.
The film also stars Kovai Sarala, Salman Yusuff Khan, Chams, Akshat Singh, Jeet Das and Sam Paul in supporting roles.

Sam CS has composed music for the film while Nirav Shah has handled the cinematography.

Cast: Prabhudeva, Aishwarya Rajesh, Kovai Sarala, Ditya Bhande, Salman Yusuff Khan, Chams, Akshat Singh, Jeet Das and Sam Paul among others.

Prabhudheva is all set to play the antagonist for his upcoming project, a silent thriller named Mercury with filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj.

Subbaraj shared his thoughts saying ‘’While I was making films down south, I had an idea to make a film without dialogues. So I began writing an engaging thriller and was happy with the end result’’. The filmmaker’s Tamil Musical – Gangster won two national awards for Best supporting actor and Best Editing at the award ceremony

Subbaraj does not want his new project, Mercury to come across as an experiment and also plans to release it globally.

He said, ‘’When there are no dialogues, it is a challenge not only for the director but for the entire crew. For the actor dialogues facilitate improvisation at the dubbing stage but with no lines, you can convey things only through your performance and that is a challenge that everybody took sportingly’’

On his decision to get on board with Prabhudheva, Subbaraj said ‘’I like Prabhudheva as an actor. We have seen him more as a choreographer and director lately but I felt he has a lot of untapped potential as an actor as the films he has featured in previously are all about song, dance and comedy. He has never played an antagonist before. When I approached him with the script and said that it didn’t have any songs or even dialogues, he was kicked about it and immediately came on board.’’

Prabhudheva is excited about his silent venture, the actor said, “Mercury offers a very unique take in the thriller genre it also offers a huge scope to show case one’s acting potential. With all this and an intelligent director like Karthik Subbaraj backing it, the experience was superb.’’

Directed by Karthik Subbaraj, starring Prabhudheva in the lead and Deepak Paramesh, Remya Nambeesan and Anish Padman in pivotal roles, Mercury is slated to release on 13th April, 2018.

Karthik Subbaraj who rose to fame with his films Pizza and Jigarthanda has announced that his next will be titled, Mercury. He has been working on films that are critically acclaimed and provoke audience to think about a lot of things.

He doesn’t just churn out popcorn entertainment film and is considered to be one of the best directors in the younger lot. Mercury will be a silent film, meaning, there will be no dialogues. It is going to be a thriller, in which Prabhu Deva will be playing the antagonist. Music, which is one of the most important aspects of any silent film, will be composed by Santhosh Narayanan.

At the launch of the film, the director had also explained that the story revolves around college students and for the first time, Prabhu Deva will be playing the bad guy. The film will be produced by Karthik Subbaraj’s production banner Stone Bench Films & Originals. Other than Prabhu Deva, Sanan, Ramya, Nambhishan also stars in the film.

Shooting and completing a movie is very tedious and energy consuming process which at times makes the makers less interested on that film. If making it in a single language is tedious and energy consuming. how would it be like to make it in three different languages?? Answer is so simple. It’s an impossible and very much time taking task. Director Vijay made it possible and made a movie titled Abhinetri in just 60 days in three different languages. He proved that anything can be done perfectly in certain time given when we go with perfect planning. This trilingual movie is titled as Abhinetri in Telugu which stars Thamannah Bhatia, Prabhu deva and Sonusood. Let’s see how it works on us!!

Story

Krishna (Prabhudeva) is an employee lives in Mumbai in a corporate company. As he hails from a tiny village he always wanted to marry a girl who is more of like posh and westernized by which he thinks he can gain some respect and social status in his village. He ends up marrying Devi (Tamannaah Bhatia) , a village girl due to his family pressure. He returns back to Mumbai with her and he tries to hide it with his friends and neighbours about Devi and his marriage. He tries a lot to send her back to his village but fails. Suddenly she is possessed by Ruby who committed suicide in the apartment they are living. What happened to Ruby?? How Krishna finally solves his problems and settle his marriage forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Thamannah Bhatia is the showstopper in this Abhinetri. She has given a fantastic performance as Devi and possessed Ruby. She shines with her dances and moves. She looks super gorgeous on screen. Prabhudeva is back on Telugu screen after a very long time and is delight to fans and people to watch him dance on screen. He is equally good as Krishna. Sonusood is fantastic and had given the required for the role to succeed and connect to the audience. Sapthagiri is humorous and is highly successful in bringing out laughs. Murli Sharma, Prudhvi and Amy Jackson are fine. Others did to the extent they are given.

Writing Department

Abhinetri has a very simple storyline and it seems like it had been tried many times. Screenplay is good. Dialogues are okay and humorous.

Technical Departments

Music composed by Sajid-Wajid and other composers are okay and Chill Maar is good. Background score composed by Gopi Sunder is nice. Cinematography by Manush Nandan is fantastic and captured the mood very well. Editing is okay and should have been more racy and crispy. Dances and movements are well choreographed. Production values are superb.

Highlights

• Tamannah Bhatia as Devi
• Chill Maar Song
• Situational comedy
• Cinematography by Manush Nandan

Minus

• Predictable and routine story
• Music

Verdict
This movie begins with a flashback and goes on a nice tempo. Every poster and trailer of the film gave us a insight that it is of a horror comedy genre and sadly there is nothing much from this genre and it disappoints the audience very much. Even laughs are not more nor the horror elements. The horror part and suspense continues till the character of Ruby is revealed. After this it hardly makes us experience fear. This movie has some good and well composed dance moments from the leads and is enjoyable highly. Director A L Vijay tried to tell the story he had in his own way and it doesn’t entertain much. Sometimes this movie makes audience crave for some comedy or horror element. The best part is that the narrative is so simple and straightforward without giving any room for confusion. To summarise, this Abhinetri is a watchable horror comedy flick.

Rajinikanth, who enjoys a huge fan following in Karnataka, has been targeted by protesters in Bengaluru and Mysuru over the Cauvery water issue. Well, the superstar’s posters have been torn by the activists of a pro-Kannada group.

During the release of Rajinikanth’s recent release Kabali, his posters and hoarding were put up in many places in Bengaluru and Mysuru. Some of those posters have now been torn by the mob shouting anti-Tamil Nadu slogans.

In July, about 15 pro-Kannada activists were also taken into preventive custody by Vyalikaval Police on the first day of Kabali’s release. It was after their protest threatened to disturb law and order situation near Nataraj Theatre in Seshadripuram.

However, the government is also taking precautions attacks against other celebs Prabhu Deva, Bobby Simha and Ramesh Anand from the activists of a pro-Kannada group.

These days, makers have realized the importance of publicity in making a film hit, and they are spending lots of money for this purpose.

There are instances when this publicity went overboard and killed the film’s prospects with the content not meeting the expectations. Prabhu Deva seems to be going the same path with his new production venture ‘Abhinetri’. Starring Tamannah Bhatia in a lead role, this horror film is being made as a trilingual. It is titled Devil in Tamil and ‘Two in One’ in Hindi.

Makers have recently released a making video and did so much hoopla about it. But, after watching the video, only negative feedback and comments are observed. Similar kinds of efforts to create huge hype were shown by the team when they had released posters and song teasers as well, but none yet made a strong impact on viewers.

We have to wait until Dussehra and see if at least the film has good content.

We have already reported that Indian Michael Jackson Prabhu Deva has been roped in by Ram Charan to compose dance moves for megastar Chiranjeevi’s 150th film.

As per latest reports, megastar has agreed to pay a whopping Rs 1 Cr to Prabhu Deva for composing just two songs. As he was signed in the first place without finalizing the remuneration, now makers had to subjugate to his hefty demand.

After turning a director, Prabhu Deva has stopped composing dances for others’ films. After recently establishing his new production house, he is quite busy as an actor and producer as well. Amidst such busy commitments, he agreed to lend his hand in ‘Khaidi No 150,’ so he feels the pay is not too much.

Makers are confident that the two stylish songs to be composed by Prabhu Deva will be worth his hefty pay.

Milky beauty Tamanna and Prabhudeva starrer “Abhinetri” which is a trilingual movie shot simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi in the direction of Vijay is nearing it’s completion and is currently under post production process. Kona Venkat is presenting the Telugu version of this film and is being produced by M.V.V Satyanarayana along with Blue Circle Corporation and B.L.N Cinema. Prabhudeva is acting as Producer for its Tamil and Hindi versions under his banner Prabhudeva Studios.

Makers of “Abhinetri” are planning to launch the audio on a grand scale on August 15. The event will take place in Vijayawada and veteran actress Sridevi will launch the audio of Abhinetri. GV Prakash Kumar and SS Thaman composed the music for Abhinetri. Along with Prabhudeva and Tamanna in lead roles, Sonu Sood, Sapthagiri, Murali Sharma, Hema, Prudhvi and Shakalaka Shankar will be seen in other crucial roles. Abhinetri will complete all the formalities and will hit the screens during September.

After the unimaginable success of her recent bilingual film Oopiri, Milky beauty Tamannaah is eagerly looking forward for her upcoming trilingual film in AL Vijay’s direction. The Telugu version has now been titled as Abhinetri. Interestingly, it’s the first time in her career that Tamannaah has acted in a thriller.

While Tamannaah is playing one of the lead roles, the film also stars multi talented Prabhu Deva along with the chiseled hunk Sonu Sood in pivotal roles. The principal shooting of the film began few months ago, and recently, it was extensively shot in Maharashtra.

With a title like Abhinetri, it remains to be seen what all Tamannaah has pulled off in the film. While Prabhu Deva is producing the Tamil Version, ace writer Kona Venkat is presenting it in Telugu. The music for this will be by the duo of GV Prakash Kumar and Thaman. Abhinetri’s team has some decorated technicians such as Bollywood cinematographer Manush Nandan, National award winning editor Anthony.