During one of our recent interactions with actor Sudeep, he frankly opened about Puli and also about the qualities that he admires in Ajith.This is what the Kannada Superstar had to say:

Did you regret working in Puli?

"No, regret is a very strong word. I don’t have any regret but I feel that a nice combination was wasted. Vijay and I could have been used in a better way. I personally feel for the kind of fan following that Vijay has and for the kind of films that he makes, I think we could have made a great team. I accepted the film for Vijay. I only feel sad that such a big combination did not click. But the working experience in Puli was beautiful, big sets, star-studded cast, super-duper DoP,  everything was larger than life."

When will you work with Ajith?

"Given a chance, I will definitely act with him because he is, one of my favorite persons. We know each other for a long time. And for 2 years we both used to exchange emails and then our life took two different roads and we lost touch. Not that we were thick friends but we used to share a good mutual respect. To me, he is a very real person who doesn’t  fake anything on and off the screen. It is so amazing to see how he carries himself. On watching his film, I feel he doesn’t expect too much from them and he does what he feels. Moreover, he doesn’t shy away from showing his real age. It takes guts to do that. Every hero including me would want to show them young. I would love to work with Ajith sometime."

Producer Madhan was a close associate of SRM group chairman Pachamuthu. In May 2016, Madhan had disappeared with a note saying that he was going to Kasi. Later, various theories emerged on this issue with many complaints from parents who had claimed that Madhan had taken money from them promising admission in SRM institutions but had not honored his commitment.

Till now, Madhan is yet to be traced and reports suggest that the police had arrested SRM University Chancellor Pachamuthu as he is stated to be one of the accused in 109 cheating complaints filed by parents who alleged that they had paid huge amounts for medical admissions in the group of colleges under the SRM Deemed University and other institutions run by SRM Group.

Kamal Haasan has been conferred with the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts Arts et Lettres (Knight in the National Order Arts and Letters). The iconic film maker will be presented with the medallion at a special event to be be held in Paris. The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) is a title awarded by the French Minister of Culture, to those who have made significant contributions to the field of arts, literature, etc.

Many from the film fraternity experessed their joy on the legendary filmmaker bagging the honor. Actor Prasanna tweeted "CHEVALIER Kamalhassan. What an honor. As a fan it's a great moment for me. Congrats @ikamalhaasan sir". Director Venkat Pradhu joined in to congratulate the film maker, with his tweet stating "#Chevalier @ikamalhaasan yaaaaaaaay". Vikram Prabhu also passed on his wishes by tweeting "Wishing @ikamalhaasan sir on being honoured with the #Chevalier award! A great honour to a great Indian Artist."

Other Indian recipients of this honour in the past include: Sivaji Ganesan, Lata Mangeshkar, Anurag Kashyap, Shaji N. Karun, etc. Behindwoods congratulates Kamal Haasan for the prestigious title.

There were rumors that said Vijay’s father and popular director SA Chandrasekhar had met with an accident in Kerala recently.

But when we tried calling SAC, his spokesperson said “After having slipped in the hall, SA Chandrasekhar was admitted at a hospital in Kottayam, Kerala. He suffered minor wounds. Rumors about him meeting with a car accident are not true and he is perfectly fine.”

We request people not to spread such rumors.

Dhanush’s action trilogy Vada Chennai is one of the highly expected films of this season, which is directed by Vetri Maaran.

It is a known fact that this trilogy will depict the 30 years life span of a gangster. Reports suggest that Dhanush might be playing the role of an M.L.A. in the film. With earlier reports also telling that he would be seen as a gangster, can we see Dhanush turning from a gangster to a politician?  Pudhupettai too had a similar kind of plot, where the lead hero transforms from nobody to a gangster, and from a gangster to a politician.

If that is to be the case, it would be great to see Dhanush in an avatar like that once again. Vetri Maaran also hinted to us earlier that the film would be as intense like his previous film, Visaranai.

We had earlier reported that Karu Palaniappan will be directing Madhavan. The film is stated to be titled as Gramophone and the work on the same is anticipated to begin in the coming months. The title Gramophone may suggest a period feel about the venture. But it could also be a metaphor. We would update you once the official announcements come in.

Meanwhile Palaniappan will soon be seen in front of the camera in Kallan, directed by debutant Chandra who had taken her direction lessons from Ameer.

As regards the updates of the film, the shooting is reported to be complete and it has apparently entered the post production phase now. Currently dubbing is said to be going on and the entire process is expected to be completed in a couple of weeks from now.

Palaniappan updates, “I am happy to have been a part of Kallan. It is a rural flick based on action. It is nice to be in front of the camera when someone else is taking care of all the other work and I just need to focus on acting.”

The shooting of Jyothika’s upcoming film with Kuttram Kadithal fame Bramma is said to be 30% done. The team was spotted shooting a few scenes in Tindivanam recently.

Yesteryear popular female leads like Urvashi, Bhanu Priya and Saranya Ponvannan are reportedly playing pivotal roles in this film. Veteran actor Nassar and his son Luthfudeen Baashaa will also be sharing the screen yet again after Saivam and Idhu Enna Maayam.

This women-centric script will feature Ghibran’s music in it. FollowingIrudhi Suttru’s success art director Santhanam has been signed on to produce some realistic set work for this Jyothika film.

Chris Pictures and Suriya’s 2D Entertainments are jointly producing this project that is said to be about married women’s life. We also hear that this project has been tentatively titled as Magalir Mattum. "That is what the team calls the film internally", is what our sources say. We will have to wait and see if the team retains this title of Magalir Mattum as its official one or not.

It must be noted that Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Production had produced a film called Magalir Mattum in 1994 which had Revathy, Urvashi and Rohini in the lead. Kamal also made a special cameo appearance towards the end.

On the 23rd of August, reports started coming from director Hari’s circles saying that he had received bomb threats from his neighbours.

Veteran stunt choreographer Jaguar Thangam, who has been in support of director Hari, opened up saying, “The threat came from two middle aged men who happen to be Hari’s neighbours. They have been parking their car in front of Hari’s house continuously, even after warning them not to. This actually caused the fight between Hari and the neighbours. After a quarrel, they threatened Hari saying that they would throw a bomb at Hari’s house. As a result, Hari filed a complaint with the police, who arrested them. Investigation is going on now”

Meanwhile, Hari is now busy shooting for his action cop film S3 with Suriya.

Superstar’s Baasha directed by Suresh Krissna is an iconic film that transcends time, generation and sensibilities. There are widespread talks about the sequel of this film, although there is no official confirmation on this.

However, it looks like this cult status film would be digitized and released soon. Talking about the same at an event to mark the release of the digital trailer and music of MGR’s Rickshawkaran, senior producer RM Veerappan of Sathya Movies had mentioned that plans are on to digitize and re-release Baasha. It has to be mentioned that he had produced Baasha.

When we had contacted our sources, we came to know that there are indeed plans for this attempt which have begun recently. Trailer of digitized version of Baasha is expected to be out next month. Music of the film also would be launched soon. It is touted that the film in its entirety might be released for Superstar’s birthday on the 12th of December.

Now that Rajinikanth is busy with his Enthiran 2 and the release could happen only in 2017, Superstar fans would be happy to see the new version of Baasha soon in this year itself. Stay tuned for updates.

After the success of his latest movie Kabali, Pa.Ranjith is working on the story for his next film. Pa.Ranjith is currently having discussions to finalize the story. Once he is done with scripting the story, the director said he will make an official announcement about it.

Meanwhile, clarifying rumors going around about his possible association with Vijay, Pa.Ranjith released an official statement that he has not approached any hero with a story yet for his next project. Stay tuned to this space for further updates.