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                           Even though she has made not a much impressive debut in Tamil and in Malayalam, Vimala Raman is now flooded with offers. The girl who was launched in Tamil in K.Balachander’s Poi. She was presented in Malayalam in Suresh Gopi’s Time, followed by last week’s Pranayakalam.

Eventhough these films were non starters, her role in both the films as Vaiga and lovelorn Maria captures attention and she showed her mettle as an actress of substance in both the charcters.Vimala Raman  has also a number of films lined up in future with the next release being Jayaram’s Sooriyan in July.

Now the latest we hear is that Vimala is also playing one of the leads in Mammootty’s Joshy film Nasarani. And the big news is that Vimala is Mohanlal’s heroine in College Kumaran, for which shooting will start by September.

Meanwhile, in another casting coup Vimala is on to play a crucial role in Blessy’s Calcutta News where Vimala is pitted opposite Dileep and Meera Jasmine, two wonderful actors of our times. The film will start next week in Calcutta.

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Viswanathan is an affluent businessman and the owner of the Priya group of Industries. He has two daughters, Sripriya being the elder of the two. Gokuldas is Viswanathan’s driver. Honest, hard working and responsible, Gokuldas can be entrusted with any task. Through his dedication and faithfulness, he has earned the trust of the family.

Sripriya’s wedding is fixed. The bridegroom is Suresh, the son of police officer Ramachandran. July 4 is the date. But Sripriya goes missing on that day. And so does Gokuldas. Did they elope? Has something befallen them? You will know as July 4 unfolds. Dileep plays the lead role of Gokuldas in the film. Roma who starred in Notebook directed by Roshan Andrews does the role of Sripriya.

July 4, the next offering from the Joshi-Dileep team, will have humour, action, romance, suspense and sentiments in equal measure. Apart from being the title of the film, the date is considered auspicious for Dileep. Most of his major hits are said to have been released on July 4. In keeping with the trend, this production is also expected to be released on July 4. Shooting has already been completed.

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After two Tamil films on Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, a third big-screen interpretation of the tragedy is on the cards, this time in Malayalam with matinee idol Mammootty in the main lead.

The film is titled “Mission 60 Days” and Mammootty plays a special investigation office named Major Sivaram. It is expected to treat the theme very differently from its Tamil predecessors, “Kutrapathirikai” (Chargesheet) and “Kuppi” (Cyanide Capsule). Major Ravi, a former Indian army officer, who earlier made the Malayalam film “Keerthi Chakra” with Mohanlal, is directing the film — which deals with the May 21, 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by a suicide bomber in the Tamil Nadu town of Sriperumbudur.Mission 90 Days tells the story of Major Sivaram, a daring NSG Commando Officer in charge of the investigation of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

                           Major Sivaram, played by Mammootty, is on a mission to solve the case for which he has a deadline of just 90 days. Major Ravi picturises the tension and difficulties faced by the officer during these 90 days.

                                  Sanjana Sinha, a North Indian girl is also playing an important role in the film, which also has Lalu Alex, Kalabhavan Mani, Sai Kumar, Innocent, Baburaj among others. Major Ravi who has also written the script says it will be the real inside truth on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination investigation. Model turned actress Tulip Joshi plays Mammootty’s wife in the film. Thiru is the cameraman of this racy thriller being made by Sasi Ainchira for Sri Utrithati films. The film is scheduled to release in  July 6.

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                    Shyamaprasad is one director who has established a genre of his own, with his very interesting plots which travels through the least explored angles of human mind and the erosion of values that has occurred in the lives of modern man. His Agnisakshi and Akale were films that were celebrated among those who were die hard fans of serious cinema.

Here with his new film Orekadal, he is again into his act of exploring human minds and their emotional strains. This time, Shyamaprasad has the support of the two of the best known and acknowledged artists of the Indian cinema–Mammootty and Meera Jasmine, in the lead.

Mammooty is Dr. S.R. Nathan in the film, an internationally acclaimed economist, molded in the likes of Dr. Amartya Sen. He is more focused on fiscal and economic matters and roams around in careless dresses amidst lazyness and his big intellect. He leads a lonely life and is an alcoholic to boot, who never believes in long lasting relations.

And after a travel around the world, he comes over to a flat to make a living for some time. Their, by the oddest of circumstances he meets a housewife, Deepthi, who instantly develops a fancy for the world renowned economist. Deepthi is living in one of the neighboring flats with his husband Jayan who is a marketing officer of an insurance company. In course of time they learn that they have much common between themselves. Both due to their own circumstances, they have been to same emotional strains, which bring them together for a matured romance that starts budding between them.

Meera Jasmine, for first time starring opposite Mammootty in this film, plays the role of Deepthi. The film speaks about the varied experiences of life and hitherto unseen aspects of romance. Scripted by the director Shyamaprasad himself, the film will cater more to an enlightened audience. The film produced by Vindhyan in the banner of Rasika Entertainments, have five songs by Gireesh Puthencherry set to music by Ouseppachan.

The shooting of the film has been completed weeks ago, and is in its postproduction stages. The film is planned to be in theatres by the mid of June.

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                       Rafi and Mecartin, the director duo who created history with super hits like Punjabi   House and Tenkasi Pattanam are coming together for the first time with the maestro of comedy and natural acting, Mohanlal in Hello. The film which has completed it’s shooting in and around Ottapalam and Ootty has Parvathy Milton who did the ‘Malabar Gold house’, advertisement with Mohanlal, debuting as the heroine.

In the film Mohanlal is a lazy advocate, Shivaraman, popularly called as Shiva. Even though an advocate by profession, he spends more time to booze than to be in court. And at those times, he is a known troublemaker of the city.

One of the best friends of Shivaraman is Chandy Kunju, Sivaraman’s benefactor. He is a little handicapped but he is more a law breaker and a regular client of Sivaraaman. His act of escaping with ease whenever police is behind him is a surprise everyone. He moves around in a Motor bike with a side car that comes handy to transport Sivaraman, when he gets drunk and out of control.

Parvathy is the daughter of a private moneylender, who develops an interest in the troublesome ways of the advocate.  Sivaraman had taken to drinking because of a great tragedy in his life, after which he presumes that it is better to be a drunk than be normal.  On a sunny day, he receives a phone call, which is all set to change his life once again. The film has a big cast including Madhu, Siddique, Jagadhish, Madhu Warrior, Keerikkadan Jose, Spadikam George, Salim Kumar, Beeman Reghu, Rizabava, Ganesh Kumar and Suraj Venjaramoodu.

The story weaves both fun and youth filled moments about the magic of Mohanlal and Jagathy again in a full fledged affair. The film is told in the usual format of Rafi -Mecarttin with plenty of humor, twists, songs and a sentimental touch. The music section is handled by Vayalar Sharath and Alex Paul.

The movie which is in its post production stages is edited by Don Max. It is all set to reach the release centres by the first week of July.

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The name College Kumaran itself carries a bunch of attributes with it. Popularly, the person who is called by this name is the one who is stylish, macho and trendy guy who flirts with a number of girls at a time.

And keeping in with the image that the name reminds on Malaylalees, Mohanlal’s latest film with the same title has six heroines playing prominent roles. Vimala Raman is in the lead character opposite Lal, while the film will also have Ramya Nambeeshan, Samvrutha Sunil and three new comers in equally important roles.

Thulasidas, who directs his second film with Lal in his career of 30 films, will start the shooting for the film by the first week of August. Suresh Poduval pens the characters for the film.

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Cinematographer – director Thangar Bachchan’s Pallikoodam is ready for release on the second week of July.

Thangar Bachchan says, “My Pallikoodam was completed a couple of months ago. Since we could not get enough theatres, we have to postpone the release”.

“Plans are on to release the movie during the second-week of July”, he said and added, “Pallikoodam would be a journey down the memory lane for the audience”.

“It will take the audience back to their school days. All my artistes including Narain, Sneha, and Shreya Reddy among others have contributed well on the screen”, he said.

Thangar said, “Pallikoodam managed to compete with over 2011 films in Cannes Film Festival this year and emerged one of the top 50 films there. Unfortunately it could not make it to the final list. However I consider it a privilege that my movie had made it to the last round of Cannes. It has emboldened me to screen in various international film fests this year”.

Thangar is currently directing Sathyaraj and Archana for an untitled film that is based on his novel Onbathu Rupai Nottu. 

“Almost 60 per cent of the film has been shot and we would complete the shooting in the next couple of weeks”, he added.

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                          Remember Anushka? The damsel from Mumbai tried her luck in Tamil in Rendu opposite Madhavan. She played a glam doll in the movie and won admiration.

Meanwhile the actress became too busy in Telugu and had enough offers coming her way there.

A happy Anushka says, “I am happy that I am getting good offers in Telugu. Hopefully I get few in Tamil too. Heroines are portrayed as glam dolls in Telugu and rarely one comes across a performance oriented role”.

Anushka is playing a conservative girl in a movie titled Arundathi in which she has enough scope to perform.

She says, “Arundathi has a different storyline and I am hopeful that my performance would fetch me an award in the movie”.

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