Karthi who is currently busy with Mani Ratnam's Kaatru Veliyidai will be teaming up with director H. Vinoth of Sathuranga Vettai fame for a new film.

This film will have Karthi playing a cop and Rakul Preet Singh is signed to play the female lead. All the while there was no update regarding the film's title, but now the official confirmation from the team has come saying that this action cop drama will be called as 'Dheeran: Adhigaram Ondru'.

'Maya' fame Sathyan Sooryan will handle the cinematography for this film, while Dhilip Subbarayan and Kathir will take care of the stunt and art departments respectively. S.R.Prabhu's Dream Warrior Pictures will be funding this project, for which, the shoot is expected to start from the first week of January 2017.

Going by the title, one might have this question if the team is planning to make this film as a franchise with sequels (Adhigaram Irandu, Adhigaram Moondru, etc) depicting the life of a policeman.

Suriya's S3, directed by Hari, was initially scheduled to release on December 16th, but later it was pushed by a week, making way for Ram Charan's Dhruva.

But due to reasons unknown, the film was further postponed. There were many speculations regarding the film's new release date all the while, but now the team has come up with the official announcement. Studio Green tweeted, "S3 FROM JANUARY26 WORLDWIDE both Tamil and Telugu versions ! @Suriya_offl @rajsekarpandian @Jharrisjayaraj @shrutihaasan  #TheHuntBegins".

S3 will finally hit the screens on January 26th in a huge number of screens. Jan 26th falls to be a Thursday and looks like the makers have planned to make the fullest use of the Republic day weekend.

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A couple of days ago, we had reported that ‘Vaigai Puyal’ Vadivelu is in talks to act in Vijay’s upcoming 61st film with Atlee. Now we are told that current hot shot  comedian Soori has also been approached to feature in the film.

With Atlee’s regular ‘Motta’ Rajendran also said to be a part of the casting sheet alongside Vadivelu and Soori, we can expect a powerhouse of comedy moments in Vijay 61.

This will be Soori’s third collaboration with Vijay after Jilla and Velayutham. However an official confirmation is still awaited.

We had earlier reported that Trisha would be pairing up with Vijay Sethupathi for the first time in Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom fame cinematographer Premkumar's debut directorial.

Our sources inform that the film is most likely to be titled as '96', for which, the shoot is expected to start early next year. It is said that Trisha's role will be an impactful one that offers high scope for performance. Govind Menon, who has composed music for Oru Pakka Kadhai, is apparently roped in to compose tunes for this romantic entertainer. Details regarding the rest of the cast and crew are awaited.

Nanthagopal of Madras Enterprises will be producing this film.

Bairavaa’s audio was expected to hit the stores on the 23rd of December for Christmas. But all of a sudden the songs were released via iTunes today, 20th December, three days prior to its actual release date.

Some are still in confusion if the album was leaked or officially released by the team. Now Lahari music label, which has acquired the audio rights of Bairavaa has officially stated the real reason through their Twitter account for this sudden release.

“We are extremely feeling bad. Due to some technical issues on iTunes, #Bairavaa album went live. We took it down as soon as we noticed it. As iTunes office is shutdown for few weeks, they made live as per previous audio release date though we sent the new updated date via mail. We are trying our best to make live all lyrical videos asap. Thank you for all the support Ilayathalapathy fans.”

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Raghava Lawrence is said to remake Superstar Rajinikanth’s superhit film Mannan produced by Sivaji Productions. Mannan is a popular 90s film that talks about an ambitious and tough industrialist who marries her employee. The ego war and the tension between them form the crux of the plot.

The film is talked about for its mass scenes, comedies and also the popular ‘amma endrazhaikkaatha’ song. P Vasu who had directed this classic film will reportedly be wielding the directorial hat yet again for its remake. Sivaji Productions will apparently be funding this venture.

Veteran comedian Goundamani had a super impressive role in Mannan and he will supposedly be replaced by 'Vaigai Puyal' Vadivelu while Manorama’s character will be played by Lawrence’s favourite Kovai Sarala.

The press meet of Vishal's Kaththi Sandai took place on the 17th of December, with Vishal, Vadivelu, Suraaj, Cameo Films Jayakumar and producer Nanthagopal attending it.

While interacting with the press, when a reporter asked why he rejected a few big films, but accepted Vishal's Kaththi Sandai, Vaigai Puyal opened up by saying, "It is not that I have any personal affection towards Vishal. I don't want to act in films which have a huge star cast. Instead, I want to do films which have more prominence for my role. That is why I rejected Rajini sir's Lingaa because there were only some four to five scenes in the second half. My character travels throughout in Kaththi Sandai, and that's why I accepted doing this film. Tamil Nadu people have been witnessing some sad incidents for the past few days, and this movie will help them to relax and get back to normalcy."

Kaththi Sandai is all set to release on the 23rd of December.

‘Vaigai Puyal’ Vadivelu is apparently in talks to team up with Ilayathalapathy Vijay after a gap of 5 years, for Thalapathy 61, to be directed by Atlee.

When we checked with our sources close to the team, they replied that the talks are on and nothing has been finalized yet. Vijay and Vadivelu have given us some memorable laughing moments in films like Vaseegara, Sachien, Friends and Pokkiri to name a few. The last time the duo came together was in 2011 for Kavalan.

Let us keep our fingers crossed and hope the combo strikes again like a lightning.

As reported by us long back, editor Anthony L Ruben will be the man to take care of the cuts in Vijay’s upcoming 61st film to be directed by Atlee. Even in one of our interviews, Ruben had told us that if Atlee directs Vijay 61, he will be the editor for that film.

Now it is official that Ruben has been roped in to head the editing department of Vijay 61. Ruben confirmed the same via Twitter, “Glory to God! Signed my 30th film with @Atlee_dir & @ThenandalFilms #Vijay61 ❤”.

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We have an interesting news to share with you today. Yes, Santhanam had just announced that actor Simbu would be making his music directorial debut through Sakka Podu Podu Raja.

We have seen Simbu as an actor, director, singer and dancer. Now we are going to see him as a music director for the 1st time. Simbu as we all know has a good sense for music and hope he gives us a blockbuster album to start with.

“its my #Godfather & #Humane @iam_str #str who is gonna be the #MusicDirector for the 1st time for #sakkapodupoduraja #Grateful #Blessed” – Santhanam’s tweet.

"1st time as #MusicDirector 4 #SakkaPoduPoduRaja Only for coz it is @iamsanthanam. New journey begins, need your love & blessings. #GodBless" - Simbu's tweet.