Malayalam Movie News

After being with hotel business, condiments and film production, Mohanlal is now trying his hand in share market. He has already inaugurated his Hedge equities which will have its operating office at Kochi.

As expected, Jayarams new film ‘Veruthe Oru Bhraya’ has reached the break even in its third week itself. A movie made at a low budget of 1.3 Lakhs, the movie has been registering good collections all over the state. This was admitted by its producer, Salahudeen, in the Meet the press at Kozhikkodu.

Young director Deepu Karunakaran’s Dileep movie Run Run Run has been facing a lot of problems from the very first day of its announcement. The reasons for Thulasidas date problems to the MACTA in fights can be attributed to this movie and the decision of Dileep to grant dates to the young director.

Trouble brewed at the office of The Federation of Malayalam Cine Technicians Association (MACTA) in Kerala when two factions resorted to mindless violence. The associations elections were slated to happen on the 6th and 7th of September.

Popular Malayalam actress Kavya Madhavan has announced that she would be getting married soon.

Sithara is one actress who surprised a lot of Malayalees with her instant popularity in other language films especially Tamil. Certainly the forerunner of present day heroines who make it big in Tamil and Telugu, she maintained her popularity in other languages for half a decade, particularly in the early nineties.

After bringing in his latest Aakashagopuram - a movie based on Ibsens Master builder”, into theatres, K P Kumaran , the national award winning director of the movie will shortly move on to his next project based on Vaikkam Mukhammed Basheer’s classic work ente uppappakkkoru aana undayirunnu” (My grandfather had an elephant).

Mohanlal, after a gap of few years from his erstwhile firm -Pranavam, is returning to distribution. He is joined together in this new initiative by his ‘Man Friday’ -Antony Perumbavoor, Asianet Chairman K Madhavan and Baby Marine M D ,K C Babu , who will work in unison to form the new distribution firm -Max Entertainments. The company is primarily aiming to distribute new Malayalam films.

Kerala’s highest budgeted movie till date Aakasha Gopuram has started with average collections all over Kerala.

K P Kumaran, the director of Mohanlals latest offbeat movie Aakasha Gopuram, admitted that he has deliberately maintained the theatrical nature of the dialogues in the movie, so as to do justice to Ibsen and his play on which the movie is based.

Suresh Gopis latest ‘Aayudham’ has taken a lame start and is not expected to make any surprises at the box office.

Priyadarshan, who is busy shooting with Shah Rukh Khan in Pollachi for Billoo Barber (a remake of Kuselan), has left for Singapore recently, where he has reportedly bought a new house.