Five films are being released on Diwali day including Utthamaputhiran & Mynaa. High budgeted films are being released only on Diwali after a month of release of Endhiran. There is news that even this time the high budgeted films which are backed up by political party is being released, 20 small budgeted films have been deprived of theaters. Utthamaputhiran which has Dhanush & Genelia in the cast, Mynaa which has new faces directed by Prabhu Solomon, Vallakottai which has Arjun & Haripriya in the lead roles and the film Va Quarter Cutting directed by Pushkar – Gayathri are being released on Diwali day. Apart from this the Tamil dubbed English film Street Dance will also hit the screens.
Utthamaputhiran was supposed to be released by Sun Pictures. Even during the audio launch function of Utthamaputhiran, Sun pictures CEO Saxena also mentioned that this film will be released by Sun Pictures. But after this there was no talk about it. Since Sun Pictures is still busy with the promo work of Endhiran, the Utthamaputhiran matter has been dropped. Now this film is being released in 600 theatres.
Udhayanidhi Stalin has acquired the theatrical rights of Mynaa. The film which has new face Vidarth and Amala Paul in the cast is being directed by Prabhu Solomon. This film is being released in 170 theatres.
Dayanidhi Azhagiri is releasing the film Vaa Quarter Cutting which has Mirchi Shiva and Lekha Washington has been directed by Pushkar-Gayathri. This film is being released on 150 theatres.
which has Arjun and Hari Priya in the lead roles is being directed by A Venkatesh. This film is being released in 180 theatres.
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Diwali Movies
With Deepavali, the Festival of Lights, is hardly a week away, let’s take a sneak preview into the films that have been lined up for Deepavali.
Uthamaputhiran: The hit combo comes back
This happens to be the first among the many films starring Dhanush at present which was launched much earlier. In fact, Dhanush has almost completed shooting for films like ‘Aadukalam’ and ‘Maappillai’, films he had committed himself to much after he started work on ‘Uthamaputhiran’. The Tamil Film Producers’ Council (TFPC) has categorically ruled that ‘Uthamaputhiran’ should be releasing first as this was the film for which Dhanush first started to work.
Mitran Jawahar, who combined with Dhanush in ‘Yaaradi Nee Mohini’ more than three years back and then with ‘Kutti’ early this year, resurfaces for the third time with his (seemingly) favourite hero. For the first time, Genelia D’Souza gets to pair up opposite Dhanush in this film, which is a remake of the Telugu hit ‘Ready’. Incidentally, it was Genelia who played the lead role in the Telugu version too.
At first, Genelia reportedly refused to star in the Tamil remake version saying that she didn’t want a ‘repeat performance’ so soon. The character of Genelia in the film was strong that she called up Mitran suddenly on a particular night and confirmed her decision to star in the Tamil version too.
Looks like the combination of Dhanush and Mitran might just have another combination in their hands.
Tailpiece: It is said that Sun Pictures, producer of superstar Rajni’s ‘Enthiran: The Robot’, tried in vain to take up the distribution rights of the film. Dhanush is also said to have gone out of his way in allotting ‘bulk dates’ to the director out of the dates he had previously reserved for Sun Pictures!
Mynaa: The surprise package?
Director Prabhu Solomon, who has made films like ‘Lee’, ‘Kokki’ and last year’s ‘Laadam’, is back with his latest offering ‘Mynaa’ starring newcomer Vidharth and Anakha a.k.a. Amala Paul of ‘Sindhu Samaveli’ fame. The film has had tremendous pre-release hype and expectations, something which is rarely associated with a film starring a newcomer as a hero.
Solomon, known for his sincerity and hardwork in the scripts of his film, had shown the film to producer Michael Royappan who had assured the former that he would take up the film’s distribution. Even before Royappan would make his next move, the distribution rights had been taken over by Udhayanidhi’s Red Giant Movies and Kalpathi Agoram’s AGS Entertainment jointly. The film has had great talk going about it among the distributors, who have already started hailing the film as the next ‘Sethu’.
Some reports, however, say that ‘Mynaa’ would be like and have the same impact on the viewers as Karthi’s debut film ‘Paruthiveeran’ had. Solomon, who has been extremely happy about the pre-release talk about the film, says that “I’m extremely happy that my film is being compared to successful and good films such as ‘Sethu’ and ‘Paruthiveeran’. This is very morale-boosting indeed; I take it as a honour that my film is being compared to films made by veterans such as Bala and Ameer.”
The film widely expected to do well at the box-office while making the viewers cry and the distributors and theatre-owners smile their way to their respective banks!