Ajith busy with Kireedom

Ajith, the handsome hero, is busy giving an extra polish to his next film Kireedom.

Kireedom, which pits Ajith with Trisha, is produced by L Suresh and is directed by Vijay, a former associate of Dharani.

A remake of the Malayalam hit of the same name, Kireedom deals, primarily, about a cute and emotive relationship between a dad and son.

The keenness of Ajith in getting the film right can be gauged by the fact that he made it to the film’s shoot in a car from Chennai to Vizag as the flights were all cancelled due to the fog.

Now that is what professionalism is.

Ajith will be, hopefully, rewarded well for his sincerity.

Source: IndiaGlitz

Varalaru creates Varalaru

In the dream factory, a movie running for more than one hundred days is surely an accomplishment of a highest order. It is the result of a hard labor from an entire team. Kollywood had an impressive line up of seven movies for the festive season of Diwali this year.

Out of this, four films have achieved this spectacular feat of crossing the one hundred day mark. They are Ajith’s Varalaru, Jeeva’s E, Simbu’s Vallavan and Sarathkumar’s Thalaimagan.

Varalaru stands out from the rest of the films in scaling the centenary mark in more than 25 theatres. It is expected that this film would continue its winning streak for some more time. E is in a close second position running in 20 theatres followed by Vallavan in a few theatres.

Varalaru provided Ajith with the much required break. His acting histrionics was very well appreciated by one and all and proved to be a bench mark for this talented actor.

Source: Behindwoods

Varalaru written for Rajni and Kamal

In a recent interview to a private television channel, director K S Ravikumar was heard discussing many interesting anecdotes in his film career spanning more than a decade. While he was conversing about his recent successful film Varalaru with Ajith, he had many fascinating trivia up his sleeve which he was only too willing to share with the audience.

The story of Varalaru was initially written keeping Kamal Hassan in mind and was narrated to him. But some how, Tenali took over Varalaru and was completed. Then Ravikumar moved on to super star Rajnikanth and recounted the story. Incidentally, talks about Jaggubai surfaced but unfortunately it has to be dropped as the story had too many shades of similarities with Badshah. Then Chandramukhi happened for Rajni and the rest as they say is history. But apparently Rajnikanth was so impressed about the storyline of Varalaru that he expressed his desire to do this subject at a later date.

Meanwhile Varalaru was completed with Ajith in the lead and the film registered an emphatic victory at the box office and proved a milestone in Ajith’s career too. After witnessing Varalaru, super star on a lighter vein has remarked that Ravikumar should have waited for him to do Varalaru.

Comparison and analysis of Aalwar and Pokkiri

The year 2007 is on the roll and so are the movies that are ready to hit the screens on the auspicious Pongal day. The most expected of them being Aalwar and Pokkiri which are said to be the clash of the titans of Kollywood viz Ajith and Vijay. Will Ajith repeat his Varalaru success this time or is it Vijay’s time to set the cash registers ringing?

While that could only be known after the release of those movies, we decided to do a brief analysis of these two films. Read on to find out more. Distribution details Both the movies have been sold keeping the old ticket rates in mind. Pokkiri has been sold for 12 to 15 crores while Aalwar has commanded around 9 to 12 crores. Now that the government has slashed down the ticket rates, it is yet to be known what the distributors’ demand would be to make up for the money. The distributors could only make enough money if the movies sustain at the box office for a longer duration. Audio Trade pundits remark that Pokkiri’s songs are sure to become chartbusters. With a consummate combination of Prabhudeva, the then dance master and Vijay who is an accomplished dancer, Pokkiri’s songs are expected to be foot-thumping numbers. Another advantage with Pokkiri would be that Mani Sharma’s recreation of his hit numbers of Telugu Pokkiri in its Tamil version. Aalwar, with Srikanth Deva’s music has hit the charts already and the songs would be noticed only after the release of the movie.

Opening As far as the opening is concerned, both have registered an equal opening in all the centres. As stated earlier, for Vijay this film comes after Aathi that sank without a trace while for Ajith, Aalwar follows after his recent success of Varalaru. Advantage Pokkiri, as we all know, was a blockbuster in Telugu which is being remade in Tamil with Prabhu Deva as the director who is synonymous with continuous hits in Telugu with his direction. The name of the game is; would it be as easier for Prabhu Deva to repeat his success in Tamil?

Aalwar is directed by Chella who was trained under S J Surya. While a refreshing style of narration is expected in the movie, will the debutant director please the likes of Ajith fans? On the other hand, the script of Aalwar has reportedly awed the film fraternity. Heroine Asin is fortunate enough to be featured in both the films as heroines and is shuttling between the sets of Aalwar and Pokkiri these days. While being slowly branded as a lucky mascot, the success of these movies would spearhead her market value. As these two films have the most popular heroes of Kollywood combined with all the entertainment quotients, it is expected that Aalwar and Pokkiri are sure to be a great grossers in terms of revenue generation.

Aalwar: Who decided what Ajith should wear?

Wives always like to decide what their husbands wear. They seem to know what suits their husband’s best. This has been proved in the Tamil film industry where many stars have had their outfits designed or chosen by their better halves. The list includes Superstar Rajnikanth who used to have his outfits picked by his wife Latha Rajnikanth.


Captain Vijayakanth too trusted his wife when it came to a choice of costumes. Sarika and Vani Ganapathy too have designed clothes for Kamal. The list goes on. Now the bug has bitten Ultimate Star and his wife.

Ajith’s costumes in Pongal release Aalwar have been designed by Shalini. Ajit plays an attender at a hospital in the movie. For most of the movie, Ajith will be seen in the plain white uniform of the attender. Naturally the question arises about Shalini’s role, after all there is nothing much to design in a white shirts and trousers which are anyway supposed to look grimy and overused. Well, Shalini has taken care of what Ajith wears in the colorful song sequences opposite Asin. As per reports from the sets of the movie, no effort has been spared in making the songs look glittering and grand. When most of the movie has been shot within the glum environment of a hospital such songs will be needed to liven up things on screen.

When Aalwar releases for Pongal we will come to know whether Shalini really knows what suits Ajith best. She has proved herself as an actress and more recently as a badminton player, let us see how she fares as a designer.

Ajith’s new role

In the film world, there are many people who believe in investing their money in the same industry which had given them their bread and butter. Prakash Raj is one such actor who through his ‘duet films’ gives opportunities to aspiring directors. Now Ajithkumar is also joining this list of people by starting his own production house. The recent hit of Varalaru has understandably raised the spirit of this actor.

Currently he is busy shooting for Kreedom after which it is Billa 2007 with director Vishnuvardhan.

Meanwhile plans are underway to produce a movie on his own after he completes Billa. This venture has been named AK International – which as you all would have rightly guessed-is Ajith Kumar International. He has applied with Producers’ Council for the registration of his company. Hence it is only a matter of time before AK International starts its operation in a full fledged way. Good Luck Ajith on your new role!!

Source: Behindwoods