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.