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AR Rahman's Tamil Blockbuster "BOYS"

Topic started by Theepan (@ 209.197.167.70) on Tue May 6 23:23:20 EDT 2003.
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Rahman's much anticipated "Boys" is set to release soon and everyone is keen on finding out more about this album. Who are the singers? What are the soundtracks like? When is the release date? Will the album be delayed? If anyone has any idea; please post here....

Also; use this thread to discuss this album..

Here is what i found::

Typical of Shankar, the director is not prepared to say much about the film at this point. However, it is known that the film will be very youthful, almost teeny-bop, in content, with the majority of the cast being in the 16-23 age group.

Shankar, apparently, has decided to cast all new faces in his film – and the younger the better.

In fact, a mention in various Tamil periodicals, and an accompanying advertisement to the effect that Shankar was looking for new faces, has created a headache of sorts for the producers. Curriculums vitae have been pouring in to the Surya Movies post box ever since the ad and the story ran in the vernacular press – and last heard from, the flood shows no signs of abating.

Curiously enough, the ad appears – thanks to emails and discussion groups – to have reached an audience abroad as well, with the result that newer batches of applications have US, British and suchlike stamps on them, which suits the producer and director fine since the film does incorporate a lot of NRI faces.

For Shankar, Boys will be a return to romance after Kadhalan, and to comedy after the Aishwarya Rai-Prashanth starrer Jeans. Though the film will feature fresh – and ergo, inexpensive – faces, Shankar maintains that the film will be typical of his style, which means lavish budgets, and expensive production values.

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• From: google (@ 203.168.65.121) on: Sat Jul 19 21:52:24 EDT 2003
  
  The “Boys" are ready!
  
  Friday, 18 July , 2003, 10:45
  
  By Moviebuzz
  
  Visit the "Boys" gallery!
  
  Shankar’s musical feast Boys is in the post production stages. the movie gets
  ready for release on August 15.
  
  Shankar, who is always secretive about his films kept everyone in the industry
  guessing about the story and songs in the film. Now after the audio launch it
  is clear that the music has lived up to Shankar's quality. The music of
  A.R.Rahman is being widely appreciated by the youth.
  
  The stills from the film have been out and the media campaign for Boys has also
  started. Producer A.M.Ratnam is personally supervising the campaign of this big
  budget film with an all-new star cast.
  
  Meanwhile Siddharth, Manikantan, Sai, Bharat, Nakulan and Harini are on a new
  high as they hope that Boys will be the stepping-stone to stardom. The Mumbai
  based model Harini who appeared with Amitabh Bachchan in the Parker pen ad is
  all excited about the film as she plays the heroine’s role.
  
  Said Harini: "Shankarji has done a fantastic job and I am flooded with offers
  from all corners but I will decide my future plans only after the release of
  Boys."
  
  http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=13202490&vsv=94
  
  
• From: Kum_Laden (@ 66.185.84.78) on: Sat Jul 19 21:54:15 EDT 2003
  
  MusicIsLife (@ 67.85.193.232)
  
  Your are welcome.. but next time try not to post under my name... even accidentally!
  
  :)
  
  
• From: googler (@ 203.168.65.121) on: Sat Jul 19 21:59:20 EDT 2003
  
  ADMIN - PLEASE do something about people who spoil threads by foul language. Please block IP addresses of those people who post messages irrelevant to the title of the thread. Please make it a RULE. Do it immediately or else this website will become as filthy as a third rate *** site.
  
  
• From: R (@ 202.156.2.250) on: Sun Jul 20 00:29:57 EDT 2003
  
  Blocking IP's is not that easy since many ISP's have dynamic IP addresses. Anyway we'll do our best. Drop me a mail if you find any abuse of this forum, I'll delete the msgs.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 67.85.193.232) on: Sun Jul 20 01:02:08 EDT 2003
  
  All, Sorry for diversions
  Kum_Laden,
  Post under your name? What do you mean!!
  I dont need to and Why should I?
  I will not lose my Identity at any cost!!
  eppadi dhabal kunda thooki podarayeppa, kindal illai nakkalnnu eduthukaren!! anyways Just having fun... Going to Sleep will see if there are surely any relevant good discussion will spring up in this discussions
  
  
  
  
• From: Vijay (@ 203.200.195.2) on: Mon Jul 21 04:36:36 EDT 2003
  
  RajaramJi: Please check out the "Old responses" to this thread!
  
  
• From: Harini (@ 217.44.93.32) on: Mon Jul 21 06:10:50 EDT 2003
  
  Boys looks like it will be a Thulluvatho Ilamay type of movie! Isn't Devyani's brother acting in the film? (Nakul)
  
  
• From: g (@ 203.168.65.175) on: Mon Jul 21 11:00:23 EDT 2003
  
  Boys -First Tamil film to escape Piracy
  
  At last it looks like technology has put an end to the film piracies, that certainly crushed the movie makers for a long time and Director Shankar’s Boys has been the first movie to have used the cutting edge Digital technology, which makes it unable to copy the data’s of the film to a VCD. Shankar, who is known for grandeur, has made this film with all new faces except Vivek. Any idea about the cost of the movie! Hold your breaths, its 22 Crores . Boys is probably the first movie that escapes the CD piracies and hence can be watched nowhere else except in the theatres as the whole movie has been pictured using the latest digital technology called Digital Track System 5.1 which enables the recording possible only in a DVD format and hence makes it impossible for anyone to make copies to the VCD’s. For long the cinema industry has tried to enforce more than a dozen of ways with all their efforts getting in vain to prevent their films from getting pirated. It is interesting that director Shankar has put a full stop for these film piracies at least for time being. After giving a series of super hit movies like Indian, Kushi, Dhool, Run , A. M. Rathnam is back with Boys as his seventh movie, which according to them is a movie not only for youngsters but also for all members of the family.The movie will be released in Tamil and Telugu on the same days, has been delayed by a month in Hindi alone. The songs by A.R.Rahman are already a hit.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Jul 21 11:19:55 EDT 2003
  
  G
  Latest digital technology is DTS 7.1 and not DTS 5.1, it is atleast 2-3 years old if not more.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Jul 21 11:22:42 EDT 2003
  
  I use my laptop from home and office!! so there might two different IP's.. but it is the same person. hopefully people dont use my nickname
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 67.210.20.114) on: Mon Jul 21 12:01:09 EDT 2003
  
  I guess Mr/Mrs(dunno sorry) MusicIsLife
  is forgetting that Boys is an Indian movie in India so DTS 5.1 is probably the latest for them. It is actually kind of impressive, because many of the movies that are labeled as DTS in tamil are not. And if they have finally got around having their movies pirated that is a BIG plus for them.
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 67.210.20.114) on: Mon Jul 21 12:01:28 EDT 2003
  
  I guess Mr/Mrs(dunno sorry) MusicIsLife
  is forgetting that Boys is an Indian movie in India so DTS 5.1 is probably the latest for them. It is actually kind of impressive, because many of the movies that are labeled as DTS in tamil are not. And if they have finally got around having their movies pirated that is a BIG plus for them.
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Jul 21 12:20:07 EDT 2003
  
  Piratheepan Sir/Madam
  I was just correcting the LATEST, the sentence could have been read IT IS RECORDED IN DTS 5.1 rather than latest technology DTS 5.1. COZ I have a DTS 5.1 receiver in India which i bought 2 years back..
  I did not want to offend. Stopping Video/VCD piracy is good thing, hats off to finding various ways to attract people to the theatres.
  
  Surely I had Matrix Reloaded downloaded from Kaaza b4 the movie arrived.. it took a long time for downloading, and even though i had tkts for the preview shows b4 it was opened in all theatres
  but curiosity is a big deamon
  
  
• From: V (@ 141.149.235.21) on: Mon Jul 21 13:42:51 EDT 2003
  
  Haha
  
  Stopping piracy??
  
  A pirated DVD costs 75 Rs!
  
  With Boys, Welcome to the world of DVD piracy!
  
  Goodbye VCD piracy!
  
  All you need to make a DVD is the original reels of the movie and the audio. I am suere the pirates have their own ways of releasing a quality DVD of boys!
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Jul 21 14:22:19 EDT 2003
  
  V,
  Thirudana parthu thirunthavittal Thiruttai ozhika mudiyathu!!
  
  For the matter of fact, We can make the process of piracy a difficult one rather than completely removing it and having no bootlegged copies floating around.
  
  For ex: Eros Internation in the US started to rent out original DVD's from their site, result lots of piracy was stopped..
  
  
  
• From: V (@ 147.129.97.159) on: Mon Jul 21 14:47:03 EDT 2003
  
  MusicIsLife.
  
  It is very hard to say that people can make an appeal to consince and stop piracy.
  
  Look at the Hindi DVDs. They release within a week or month from the film release. More than that They have all the add-ons that a dvd needs. Example: Behind the scsnes, bonus songs, interviews, theatrical trailer, script etc.
  
  Our Tamil people are so bad in marketing and they want our makkal to wake up and digest all the shitt they give? As it is the films are rotten and stinking nowadays. How do you expoect one to go and watch it in Theater and not buy the VCD?
  
  
  
• From: MusicIsLife (@ 170.146.91.6) on: Mon Jul 21 15:19:53 EDT 2003
  
  V,
  Sorry Piracy became very less compared to previous years
  
  yeah i understand... what you say. Lagaan was released on DVD after nearly 6 months, people still watched in Theatres atleast in NJ, NY area.. so it also depends on the quality of the movie...
  Ok i dont want to anymore divert from the Topic, but surely hats off to the person who can lure people theatres and stop Piracy..
  
  
• From: Paran (@ 203.123.16.153) on: Mon Jul 21 22:41:16 EDT 2003
  
  Marketing is the best way to stop piracy...
  If you can attract movie-goers to cinema...why worry abt VCD...
  
  Tamil movie..really sucks in markeing...just like what V said...
  
  with Sandiyar(or any other name) and Intel collaboration..hopefully there's some good marketing personnel involved.....
  
  
• From: ambleen (@ 61.8.210.77) on: Tue Jul 22 00:05:22 EDT 2003
  
  & hopefully someone from ur kampong wakes u up from ur dream.
  
  

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