Director Shankar -The Year 2007

2007 top 7

1.Sivaji -The Boss
year kicked off with director shankar's most awaited film.It was a dream team combination of super star Rajinikanth,Director Shankar and AR Rahman
All the top indian news channels went mad over sivaji a week before its release and were following its success story too.It became the first tamil movie to get a place in uk top ten and the latest honour is that the singapore airlines has bought the rights for the film to screen the movie on board.This is the first of such screening of an indian movie.But this is not all there is more to come

2.Filmfare for Veyil
S pictures Veyil bagged four filmfares

Best Director - Vasanthabalan

Best Film - Veyil

Best Lyric Writer - Na. Muthukumar,

Song: Veyiloodu vilayade
it is a landmark movie not just for s picture even for tamil film industry

3.Doctor Shankar
Director Shankar was conferred with honorary doctorates by the MGR University . ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair conferred the doctorates to them at a grand function attended by a galaxy of film personalities.His speech in the event was like sowing faith and confidence in young minds

4.STATE AWARD
Got state award for his 2005 blockbuster Anniyan
The movie bagged 3 awards
BEST MOVIE 2005:Anniyan/Chandramukhi
BEST DIRECTOR: Shankar
BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR:Harris Jeyaraj

5.S MUSICS
Not content with being in directing and producing, this year Shankar has entered the audio field too.S Music Company was inaugurated by Mani Ratnam in the audio release funtcion of s pictures Kaloori

6.Robo
robo is one movie which made news all through the year
Robo was all set to kick off in september this year with sharukh acting and producing the movie but was announced to be dropped due to the problem arised in some pre production factors.Later it was said the movie is to be made in tamil with ajith in the lead.And the year ended with a controversy of amir expressing his desire to work with shankar for robo

7.Kaloori
Though it is not a box office success the movie was critically acclaimed for its making and script.Balaji shakthivel once again proved himself and has made his guru proud

2007 was not only a busy year for shankar but also the most successful one

Aamir willing to play Robot

According to industry sources, the latest buzz is that Aamir is interested in Robot and is in talks with director Shankar.Interestingly,Aamir has even proposed to produce this mega budget sci-fi thriller unlike sharukh.The story, sources say, is about a scientist who invents a Robot to take care of his physically challenged child and when he finds out that the Robot is responsible for killing a few people he is forced to terminate his invention. Aamir wants to play the role of the Robot as well as the scientist,while in the earlier version narrated to Shah Rukh,Hrithik Roshan was to play the Robot.All these reports will have to be cleared only by the director and actor, otherwise the guesswork would continue,which is usual with all Shankar's projects

ITS PARTY TIME!!! SIVAJI 175 DAYS

Sivaji crew is geared up to celebrate the victory of the film. It is noteworthy that the 100th day celebration of this movie was a low-key event. AVM is known for celebrating such hits with a grand function.This being their biggest production till date and ending up as one of the year’s biggest grosser, Sivaji the producers now intend celebrating its silver jubilee, 175th day function with a grand ceremony. According to our sources, AVM, the production giant, plans to felicitate all members of the cast and crew in this function. The superstar is enthusiastic about this function and is eagerly looking forward to this mega event.