Sunday 19 February 2012
Prabhu Deva names his video album Borudaa
Probably in an effort to reflect his personal life in the context of the events that have occurred in the past fortnight or so, choreographer-filmmaker Prabhu Deva has named his upcoming video album as Borudaa (meaning: ‘It’s boring!’).
Prabhu Deva has been in the news for the past few years for his alleged liaison with Nayanthara. The actress, who reportedly fell in love with him during the making of Villu, continued the love affair till a fortnight back when she announced that she was calling off the relationship with him. Charges and counter-charges are now being made by either side accusing the other for breaking the relationship.
Nayan, as readers might be aware, converted into Hinduism and changed her name into ‘Nayanthara’ (note the ‘h’) for marrying Prabhu Deva and reportedly funded him on many occasions including the time when the latter spent crores of rupees to make his first wife Ramalat agree to his marriage with Nayanthara.
Prabhu Deva was planning to release Borudaa on the eve of Valentine’s Day tomorrow but his friends and well-wishers had advised him to release it at a latter date and in a grand manner. Putting behind all the disappointments of the recent past, Prabhu Deva is said to have done a wonderful job in the album.
Let’s wish that the album’s sales takes the ‘boredom’ out of him!
FEFSI strike stalls shooting of Ajith’s Billa-2?
That the shooting schedules of many films have been disrupted due to the ongoing stir by the employees and workers of FEFSI and its affiliated unions is a known fact. The shooting schedules of many films starring leading and upcoming actors and actresses have been stalled for want of spot boys, lightmen, etc.
Actor Ajith’s upcoming film Billa-2 is also one of the movies which have been affected by the strike, it is reported. For the past 25 days, the Tamil film industry has almost come to a standstill with no shooting taking place. Only a few films have been progressing taking help from among the relatives and friends of the films technicians and actors.
Billa-2, the sequel to Ajith’s 2007 hit film Billa, has been progressing at Hyderabad’s Ramojirao Studios for the pats many days. Some film industry employees, who visited the sets a few days back, reportedly gheraoed the crew as to how they could proceed with the shooting schedule while the rest of the Tamil film industry has been striking work. They also raised slogans leading to some tense moments.
Suresh Balaje, the producer of the film, says that “We have only been doing patch-work of sequences which haven’t been shot earlier. Some FEFSI employees came to us and objected to our shooting schedule. We explained to them that as per the agreement entered into with the said Studios, we have only been making use of the apparatus and employees of the Studios.
“They agreed to our viewpoint after which we continued to shoot. We’re not against any union/body in this strike. We had started our shooting schedule long back and are about to wrap it up. We’re not in Hyderabad to stay away from the problems in Chennai but are here only as per the contractual obligations,” he concluded.
Anjali reveals the humane side of her personal
Actress Anjali has, without an iota of doubt, garnered lots of name and fame in quick time. The actress is also one of the very few actresses in Tamil films who have the confidence and the adequate voice to dub in their own voices for their characters in films. From time to time, Anjali does involve her name in furthering social causes.
A favourite with most of the directors she has worked with, the talented Anjali does use her fame at times for the sake of the society. On the eve of the ‘World Childhood Cancer Day’ on 15th February, the actress involved herself in a noble cause along with director Kalanjiyam to screen the recently released film Marina for cancer-affected children in the city.
She and Kalanjiyam got in touch with director Pandiraj who promptly arranged for the special screening of the film for the sake of the impoverished children. As many as 200 children watched the film on the said day and enjoyed. Anjali was present on the occasion as a special invitee. She presented gifts to each of the 200 children individually besides spending time amid them by talking to and playing with them.
“I couldn’t control my emotions after watching those children…I ever cursed God for having given them such a bad misfortune in their lives…Also, the reality that our own life system is in a way responsible for these children getting this dreaded disease makes me get angry on the entire humans…Only after learning that cancer, when detected early in children, can be cured did I star feeling at ease,” said Anjali who had become visibly emotional.
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