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Summer High
Sunny days are here again as Shriya Saran basks in the warmth of some of the season’s coolest films. t. krithika reddy takes stock


Sorry for the break!
This year, film buffs have been left high and dry as no new films were released on April 14. s.r. ashok kumar reports
Film Review

Sketchy translation



Interview

Brand Kamal
As the Hindi version of Dasavathaaram makes it to theatres, Kamal Haasan invokes his latent fan base, writes anuj kumar


Telewatch


AIR SUPPLY
House of Fury
This is a comedy-adventure about a seemingly ordinary family with incredible hidden talents. Anthony Wong steals the show as head of the family, a traditional Chinese chiropractor, whose tall tales about his heroic exploits in his past may not ...

SERIALS
As part of the Russian film series, watch ‘The Cranes Are Flying’ this week. Directed by Kalatozov Mikhail, the film is about World War II, and depicts the cruelty of war. Veronica is devastated to learn that her lover Boris ...

SERIES
Discover how two birds struggle and survive against odds in winters. Each year, a small shoe bird that winters on the southern tip of South America must make a 10,000-mile journey to its nesting grounds in the Arctic, one of the longest ...


HOT FROM HOLLYWOOD
Zac goes for Aussie girl
High School Musical hunk Zac Efron has accepted a marriage proposal. But the 21-year-old actor’s sexy lover Vanessa Hudgens is not the lucky one. Zac has accepted a marriage proposal from a crazed fan while promoting his new movie ...

Jennifer headed the Jolie way?
They may be mortal enemies, but Jennifer Aniston may just be sharing Angelina Jolie’s eating regime. Sources on the sets of Aniston’s new movie The Baster say the former Friends star is causing ...

Nicole is craving
Nicole Richie has given in to her pregnancy cravings. The television personality, expecting her second tot in Autumn, has had baby’s daddy singer Joel Madden driving her to stores late-night to buy her every snack she fancies. “Nicole ...

Keith takes family on tour
Keith Urban is so devoted to his superstar wife Nicole Kidman and their baby Sunday Rose that the country singer has had his tour bus adapted to take them along. Urban and Kidman have decided never to spend more than a week apart from each other ...


Columns

An ode to Shaktida
Shakti Samanta made actors out of stars and movies that linger in people’s hearts decades after they were made

Cine quip
It was only when I realised how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career Cate ...

Who’s in the race?
Producer Ramesh Taurani who is also head honcho of Tips made moolah from Abbas-Mustaan’s slick action thriller Race starring Saif-Akshaye and Anil-Bipasha-Katrina. Taurani is geared to make the sequel to the film ...


CAPSULE
What is Treatment?
Treatment refers to an abridged script, a detailed synopsis. It consists of a summary of each major scene of a proposed movie and descriptions of the significant characters and may even include snippets of dialogue. While a complete script is ...

Cine Quiz
1. If Batman movies had Batmobile, which film featured the ‘Ectomobile’? 2. Issur Danielovitch is better known as…? 3. If Newman was Gondorff and Redford was ...


ON LOCATION
Campus chatter
ninaithalae inikkum The shooting of this remake of a Malayalam hit is in the finishing stage

My First Break


Grill Mill -- SATHYARAJ
You started as a villain, then turned hero. You even directed a movie, but why did you stop with one? Actor Sathyaraj has been used brilliantly in many roles than director Sathyaraj. I tried my hand at direction only after acting in ...


ITSY BITSY
Going places
Anuja Iyer, last seen in Mudhal Mudhal Mudhal Varai, has quietly been making progress in tinseltown. In addition to two films for Gemini Films and Mirchi Movies, Anuja has bagged the role of a TV journalist in Rajkamal ...

Working vacation
The little girl who played Laila’s sister in Kanda Naal Mudhal and the leading lady in Azhagiya Asura had bid adieu to movies. Regina was interested only in dance performances and singing in the choir. ...

Treading cautiously
Fearing ire from political brigades, Mani Ratnam is underplaying the similarities between his film Raavan and the epic Ramayana. The story is supposedly about a married woman (Aishwarya Rai) getting kidnapped by a guy ...



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