SUN pictures to produce Endhiran

Director Shankar and Karunamoorthy of Ayngaran International has parted ways over the budget of over the budget of Endhiran movie which was originally pegged at Rs 120 crore. After the global economic crisis, the Kishore Lulla-owned Eros International which has a stake in Ayngaran International, wanted director Shankar to scale down the budget.

But Shankar was in no mood to reduce the budget, and according to industry sources sankar wanted to move out with his mega budget project. The latest we hear is that the Kalanithi Maran owned Sun Pictures had shown an interest in the project and discussions were held with the director.

Sources close to the deal say it is likely to be firmed up in the next couple of days. But there are rumours that it will not be easy for Shankar to move over to Sun Pictures, as Ayngaran is yet to give green signal, and the project is registered with them.

We hope that the problems get resolved soon and the team starts the film shooting as early as possible.

Rettaisuzhi launched

Veterans of Tamil cinema K Balachander and Bharathirajaa does the lead roles in a movie, to be produced by Shankar's production house, 'S' Pictures. Filmmaker K Balachander has a colossal history in filmmaking with his record of a great number of classical movies at his disposal.

Earlier, he made appearance in his movies 'Poi' and 'Kalki'. Kavithalaya is his production banner which churned out many recent movies including Rajinikanth's 'Kuselan'.

Director Bharathirajaa is equally plausible with his films that bought rustic and rural life into celluloid. His recent release 'Bommalattam' starring Arjun and Nana Patekar is running in theatres now.

The movie that brings the ace directors under one roof is 'Rettaisuzhi' which is going to be directed by Thamira. Cinematographer Chezhiyan handles the camera while music will be composed by Karthik Raja. The movie has been officially launched and starts rolling today.

Endhiran/Robot crew list

cinematography:Rathnavelu

Artdirector:Sabu cyril

Editing:Anthony

choreography:Raju sundaram

cotume design: Manish Malhotra and Mary E Vogt (for futuristic out fits)

(Mary E Vogt was the costume desiger for Men in Black,Batman returns and Inspector Gadjet)

Animatroics:Stan Winston Studio (USA)

(worked for hollywood biggies such as Predator,Jurassic Park,Pearl Harbour,Iron Man,Terminator and I-Robot)

stunts:Ping

(crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,Matrix and Kill Bill)

Visual effects (VFX):ILM , Tippet, Cafe EFX(Hollywood)

Centro and Menfond(Hong Kong)

Eeram

Shankar’s next production is titled ‘Eeram’. Arivalaghan, an assistant of Shankar is to debut as the director and Mirugam fame Adhi and Nanda share the screen as heroes. sindhu menon is making a come back as heroine

Shankar's S Pictures is going to produce 2 movies back to back this year after Arai Enn 305-l Kadavul. The movie Eeram will be the first film among the two.

The second film is titled as Rettai Chuzhi, directed by Thamira. She has penned dialogues for Balachandar's Poi. The film targets the children viewers and it will be the only feature film in Tamil coming under this genre after a long gap.

Robot photo session kicks off!!

The ground work for the much awaited robot has been started, a few days back a private photo session was organized in AVM with the Super star trying out various get ups and hair do's for his latest role for the film Robot. The photo session went up to 10 am to 6 pm. The photo session was just a trial which gave a rough idea about the super stars appearance for the film.

S - Pictures Arai En 305 Il Kadavul

Having created a stir of sorts with his critically acclaimed and widely successful Imsai Arasan, Simbudevan is back with yet another wacky theme under the title Arai En 305il Kadavul. Ganja Karuppu and Santhanam play the protagonists and Prakash Raj dons the title role playing Kadavul. The movie will have Jyothirmayi and Madhumitha playing the female leads.

The story revolves around two jobless youngsters who blame God for not providing them sufficient opportunities. When God unexpectedly visits them a day,

they begin their journey to wisdom





Produced by : S pictures ,Director Shankar
Directed By : Simbu Devan
Film cast: Santhanam,Ganja karupu,Prakash raj
Distributor: Ayngaran international
Running time: 150 Mins