Surya’s relative Gnanavel Raja’s Studio Green releasing Mankatha
It’s official now. KE Gnanavel Raja‘s Studio Green has acquired the rights of ‘Mankatha‘ from Dhayanidhi Alagiri‘s Cloud Nine Movies and will ‘proudly release’ the film all over Tamil Nadu in a big way.
Known for producing movies starring Surya & Karthi in the past, KE Gnanavel Raja is a close relative of the Sivakumars. He is happy that his company has acquired the prestigious ‘Mankatha‘, which is the 50th film of ‘Thala’ Ajith.
Meanwhile, the movie will be viewed by officials from the Board of Film Certification (Censor Board) today. After their certification, it will hit the screens very soon, most probably on August 31.
Directed by Venkat Prabhu, ‘Mankatha‘ is an action thriller, which has Arjun, Trisha and Premgi Amaran among others in lead roles. It has music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
“The film will be a treat to Thala fans,” Venkat Prabhu says.
Mankatha Wins the Appreciation of the Censor Board Members
Finally the cat is out of the bag. Mankatha which is Ajith’s 50th film has been directed by Venkat Prabhu. The film with a huge star cast was sent to Censor Board for certification. Members who saw the film muted certain scenes and sounds and awarded a U/A certificate. Apart from this, it is learnt that the Board members were overjoyed and congratulated the director Venkat Prabhu for directing a good entertaining film. The film is being released worldwide on 31st August. The film was actually produced under the banner Cloud Nine Movies but the production house has sold its rights to another leading distributors.
KE Gnanavel Raja is releasing this film in Tamil Nadu under the Studio Green banner while the overseas rights have been acquired by Ayangaran International.
Mankatha gets U/A
It is now a solution that is worked out to release the film Mankatha without any hassles. Earlier the posters were torn down in Madurai by the Police themselves. Dhayanidhi Alagiri probably had worked out a solution to release the film on time.
Since it would not augur well for the movie to release it under his banner Cloud Nine Movies, he has sold the movie to Studio Green who would take it further towards the release of the film. KE Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green has produced and released all of Suriya’s and Karthi’s films, since he was their relative. Interestingly Gnanavel’s Raja’s one of the earlier films “Naan Mahaan Alla” was brought and distributed by Cloud Nine Movies during previous DMK regime.
Meanwhile Mankatha cleared the Censor today and got U/A Certificate without any cuts. With these sudden and new developments, Mankatha release is now almost certain on 31st of August. Studio Green will proudly present Mankatha for Ajith’s fans and the Thala fans can now gear up to watch Mankatha First Day First Show.
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Studio Green Acquires the Rights of the Most Expected Film Mankatha
Mankatha is Ajith’s 50th film directed by Venkat Prabhu. This is the most expected film of the year. During the last weeks there were many speculations on the air that who is going to acquire the rights of this film. Putting an end to these speculations, there is an official announcement that K E Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green has acquired the Tamil Nadu rights of this film for a whooping price and the film is to be released shortly.
Apart from Ajith who is in the lead role, Arjun, Trisha, Vaibhav, Premji Amaran, Andrea, Anjali and others are starring in this film. Yuvan Shankar Raja has composed the music. The audio CD was released few weeks back and the songs have become popular and topping the list. Sakthi Saravanan has handled the camera. K L Praveen and N B Srikanth are in charge of editing. The film was produced by Dayanidhi Azhagiri under Cloud Nine banner. The film is about cricket betting and matches fixing. Ajith is for the first time donning a wholesome negative role in this film.
K E Gnanavel Raja along with S R Prakash Babu and S R Prabhu has been in the production and distribution business from 2006 under the banner Studio Green. They have produced films like Sillunu Oru Kadhal, Paruthiveeran, Singam, Naan Mahan Alla and Siruthai. Studio Green has also distributed the films Paruthiveeran, Aawara (Telugu), Yamadu (Telugu), Siruthai, Naan Peru Shiva (Telugu) and now Mankatha.
Mankatha in the hands of Surya
When DMK was in regime Kalaignar Karunanidhi grandsons were ruling the cinema industry. There is news that Durai Azhagiri fearing arrest is in exile in London. Durai Azhagiri’s earlier films Vaa-Quarter Cutting and Azhagar Sami Kuthirai released under the banner Cloud Nine were utter flops which caused heavy losses to the theatre owners. They were also not compensated for the losses because DMK was in rule. Now these theatre owners have refused to screen Mankatha and are also claiming the earlier losses. Because of all these problems they have sold the film at out rate price to Surya’s concern Studio Green. Now Studio Green is releasing this film throughout Tamil Nadu.
To be or not to be – Mankatha release
Venkat Prabhu has had to bear it on all fronts, particularly from Thala fans, when the release of the film is delayed for more than three months and yet there is no news on when Mankatha will release. Till yesterday, Venkat Prabhu faced a lot of brick-bats from Ajith fans for delaying the release.
He finally said, “Mankatha release date is not confirmed. Only Cloud Nine gotta confirm.” But today, reports have started coming in that Manktha’s release date is confirmed on August 31, 2011 because Ayngaran International that procured the overseas rights of the film declared that the film would release on August 31, 2011.
The same happened in Kerala when distributors pushed for a release and announced the date as August 19 or 31, 2011 but they too remained silenced ever since. Now, when Venkat Prabhu feels it is apt only for Cloud Nine Movies and Dhayanidhi Alagiri to confirm the release date, even Ayngaran’s proposed date is still one of doubt.
Though fans eagerly expect and pressurize the makers to release the film, there seems to be a lot going on that prevents the film’s release. If Mankatha releases on August 31, 2011, then that’s news worth celebrating for Ajith’s fans.
Do you know, Mankatha Gets Clean U/A Certificate Without Any Cuts?
‘Mankatha’, thala Ajith’s 50th offering in Tamil cinema is much expected among fans as well as movie patrons, especially, Ayngaran having announced the release date as August 31.
The movie was passed by the Censor Board today who stamped it with a clean U / A. Said a delighted Venkat Prabhu, “Yes, U/A certificate for Mankatha! Censor Board loved it! So you guys get to see everything from the film!”
Sources close to the unit add that the second half of the film has a particular scene where there will be quite a number of beeps, which the unit itself converted to beeps before presenting the film to the censor board! This scene will involve the ‘Mankatha’ boys in a verbal fight with each other, they further add.
‘Mankatha’ has music by Yuvan Shankar Raja and we must say the songs have all climbed up the charts. The trailers have upped the oomph quotient as well, what with the chases and a Hollywood classic appeal to it.
Thala fans can now rejoice and head to the film with their families… Are you geared up for the game to begin?
Why Mankatha went From Cloud Nine to Studio Green?
The much-awaited Mankatha starring AjIth will now be released by Gnanavel Raja and his Studio Green. They have bought the the rights for the film. It has bought at a record amount for a Ajith film.
‘Mankatha theatrical and other rights have been purchased by Studio Green. The film is getting censored today and we are trying our best to release it on Aug 31 worldwide’, says Gnanavel Raja.
Directed by Venkat Prabhu, it is Ajith’s 50th film and it would feature Trisha, Arjun, Lakshmi Rai, Vaibhav and Premji Amaran in key roles.
Speaking about the film, Venkat Prabhu says, ‘ its a Ajith sow ultimately and all has come really good. His fans can rejoice now’.
On his part, Ajith heaped laurels on Venkat Prabhu and music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja for their exemplary work.