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Shankar with Harris Jayaraj

Topic started by Nandini (@ 130.102.2.60) on Wed Nov 5 02:33:30 EST 2003.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

Hi gang,
This time i have got some spicy news as usual.
Shankar has booked harris jayaraj for his new movie with vikram in the lead.
Its a movie for oscar films.

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• From: Fact File (@ 219.65.110.86) on: Sun Nov 23 06:33:09 EST 2003
  
  Guys news confirmed,
  
  Arr is out of shankars next, check tamilcinema.com
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.101) on: Sun Nov 23 10:44:25 EST 2003
  
  but no news from cinesouth & galatta yet..
  
  
• From: STONE COLD (@ 210.186.79.177) on: Mon Nov 24 09:19:47 EST 2003
  
  
  
  
  http://in.rediff.com/movies/2003/nov/24south.htm
  
  Shankar now wants sci-fi with Vikram
  
  Rajita | November 24, 2003 13:28 IST
  
  
  Director Shankar has started work on his next project with Vikram,
  Tamil filmdom's reigning star, in the lead.
  
  For the director, it is quite a jump from the frothy 'young' Boys,
  to sci-fi.
  
  The upcoming project revolves around a robot, which is about all
  that is known of the close-mouthed director's project at the moment.
  
  Interestingly, Shankar had planned such a film about three years
  earlier, intending to cast Kamal Haasan in the lead. That project
  fell through for a variety of reasons: Kamal not having the dates to
  give at that point in time; a disagreement between director and star
  over who should produce the film, et cetera.
  
  Shankar's decision to put that project on the back burner then
  reportedly owed, in part, to Kamal signing on for Abhay (Alavandaan,
  in Tamil). Word at the time was that Shankar's project had the lead
  star playing two distinct avatars -- one as a human, the other as a
  robot. It was reportedly felt that for Kamal to do a film like that
  immediately on the heels of Abhay, where he played a good guy and a
  psychopath, would not work too well.
  
  So now it is Vikram. The rest of the cast will be finalised before
  the film goes on the floors in March.
  
  Interestingly, for the first time since Shankar began directing
  films with Gentleman, he will not be working with his favourite
  music director, A R Rahman.
  
  Dates, again, are supposedly the issue. Rahman is busy reworking his
  Bombay Dreams for its Broadway debut. He has also been signed on to
  produce music for the multi-million dollar stage production of The
  Lord Of The Rings.
  
  Given these commitments, Rahman is cutting back on Tamil.
  
  Shankar's project will in all probability be done by Harris Jayaraj,
  a one-time keyboard player in Rahman's orchestra, who then branched
  into composing and started off with an enormous hit in his debut
  film Minnale.
  
  Shankar, meanwhile, managed to salvage his reputation as a director
  who has never known outright flops in a rather roundabout fashion.
  
  Boys, his latest venture, ran foul of public opinion in Tamil Nadu,
  with many protesting that the dialogues and some scenes were
  too 'vulgar' for public consumption.
  
  The film -- produced by Shankar's regular producer A M Rathnam --
  did enormous business in Telugu. Now comes word that it is a bigger
  hit in neighbouring Sri Lanka, where the film has completed 50
  houseful days and counting.
  
  Reportedly Boys has already earned, in the Sri Lanka market, more
  than Shah Rukh-starrer Devdas managed to earn in the US.
  
  Recently, the cast of Boys flew down to Colombo to celebrate the
  completion of 50 days run and were welcomed with the sort of acclaim
  normally reserved for international pop stars.
  
  An interesting aspect of Boys was the casting of the lead character.
  When Shankar was looking for a young, fresh-faced lad, someone
  recommended that he check out Siddharth, a youngster who was then
  serving as assistant director to Mani Ratnam (in, among other films,
  Kannathil Mutthamittal, which had Madhavan in the lead).
  
  Shankar ended up casting the boy in the lead role. The film worked.
  The boy's career took off. Now, he has been cast by no less than
  Mani Ratnam in his upcoming bilingual project -- Yuva in Hindi
  starring Vivek Oberoi, Kareena Kapoor et al; and Aayudha Ezhuthu in
  Tamil starring Madhavan and Esha Deol.
  
  Siddharth is, in fact, now in Kolkata shooting with Madhavan and
  Deol for the film, fronting the cameras for his erstwhile mentor,
  Mani Ratnam. Talk of strange twists of fate.
  
  
  
  
  
• From: Fact File (@ 61.1.200.161) on: Mon Nov 24 10:43:04 EST 2003
  
  Guys I have NEWS for you all;
  
  Rediff has an article about shankars next film and that arr is out of the project. ALL ARR FANS FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS; the NEWS is that ARR IS doing the project. Shankar, has decided to robo with vikram, and as a blessing in disguise, vikrams dates arent available till april 2004. As a result of which, ARR is going to do the film,. Shankar plans to to get arr to compose songs whenever hes available at anytime from now on. As it is ARR work on Bombay dreams should be done by feb. Since ARR would be in India most fo from feb to july next yr he has agreed.
  One more thing, arr and shankar never thought to split, they were juggling dates, and once during such session arr jokingly asked shankar to opt for VS.
  This information is indeed from the close associates of arr.
  
  
• From: curses (@ 219.65.109.83) on: Mon Nov 24 11:26:45 EST 2003
  
  Fact file..
  ithu ungalukke nyaayama? jus when things started to sink in... ippadi too much-a aasai kaatareengale!
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.61) on: Mon Nov 24 11:39:11 EST 2003
  
  fact file...i think u missed readin this part!
  
  
  Interestingly, for the first time since Shankar began directing films with Gentleman, he will not be working with his favourite music director, A R Rahman.
  
  Dates, again, are supposedly the issue. Rahman is busy reworking his Bombay Dreams for its Broadway debut. He has also been signed on to produce music for the multi-million dollar stage production of The Lord Of The Rings.
  
  Given these commitments, Rahman is cutting back on Tamil.
  
  Shankar's project will in all probability be done by Harris Jayaraj, a one-time keyboard player in Rahman's orchestra, who then branched into composing and started off with an enormous hit in his debut film Minnale.
  
  http://in.rediff.com/movies/2003/nov/24south.htm
  
  
• From: Fact File (@ 61.2.224.62) on: Mon Nov 24 15:15:32 EST 2003
  
  Dinesh,
  im sorry if u got me wrong, i read that article as well.
  
  but i did get my bit of info exactly 2 days ago.
  Im serious, as i said earler, beleiving me or not is ur wish all i can say is that what isaid is indeed the truth.
  
  For you information, rediff gets its southernspice news from various websites, the common ones being yahoo and sify, so again this article could be a take off from the sify article. "I said COULD BE ok?"
  
  
  
  
• From: V (@ 24.59.74.246) on: Mon Nov 24 17:12:50 EST 2003
  
  I really Hope ARR does not do this Shankar film!
  
  People will again blame him for delaying not concentrating etc like it happened for Baba.
  
  ARR should now focus fully on Lord of The Rings and Bombay Dreams broadway version. He is now an international composer not a kollywood aspirant!
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.149.39) on: Tue Nov 25 05:02:54 EST 2003
  
  V,
  noooo...ur talking in his interest and im talking abt mine! ... enna iruthaalum tamizhan aachey! :-)
  
  
• From: Aziz (@ 216.127.82.97) on: Tue Nov 25 07:52:41 EST 2003
  
  Really not worth for ARR to work on Lord of the Rings. His Warriors of Heaven & Earth and Bombay Dreams went without a trace. Why does he waste his time trying to penetrate into western market when there are hoardes of real composers to handle all this? Even his supposed good friend Shekar Kapoor never asked him to do The Four Feathers!!! It says alot abt ARR's capability. Really don't know why is wasting his time trying to impress teens and westerners.
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.149.131) on: Tue Nov 25 08:16:54 EST 2003
  
  ithu enna olaral vaarama?!
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 68.88.6.215) on: Tue Nov 25 08:33:38 EST 2003
  
  theres more to a job then satisfying other people he may have things he wants to do and he is doing them.
  
  
• From: Aziz (@ 216.127.82.97) on: Tue Nov 25 09:05:44 EST 2003
  
  Piratheepan,
  
  It don't make no sense. The why is he the last couple of years only churning out to entertain kids/teens/dance songs only. Also, SK did not offer Four Feathers to ARR and mind you he already knew ARR way before that. He made that movie after Bombay Dreams only. Why then did he asks James Horner to do it? I believe it's more to one's capability.
  
  Of course, when he is given a chance to get back with being popular, he jump to it immediately(BD and WOHE) but to no avail. He's doing it again with Lord Of The Rings. You think it's easy to beat its predecessor set by Howard Shore?
  
  
• From: Fact File (@ 61.1.200.238) on: Tue Nov 25 11:26:31 EST 2003
  
  Mr. Aziz,
  I have read ur posts on this forum all of which has been posted in the past few days. I must saw i am becoming a hardcore fan of yours, for one simple reason. ie you make no sense to u, me or any one else, in toto ur nonsense.
  You wud do a great favour to this community to just shut up and share ur confused state with us.
  All u seem to say in all ur posting is that arr is bad.
  
  If u were not a lunatic i wud explain the SK ARR thing with Four Feathers but im sorry...... hope u atleast undesrstand why........
  
  
• From: raycas (@ 131.130.125.13) on: Tue Nov 25 13:02:18 EST 2003
  
  "The why is he the last couple of years only churning out to entertain kids/teens/dance songs only."
  2000: zubeidaa, kandukondein kandukondein
  2001: lagaan
  2002: kannathil muthamittal, legend of bhagat singh
  2003: tehzeeb
  all albums that doesn't belong to your 'kids/teens/dance song' category...
  
  "Also, SK did not offer Four Feathers to ARR and mind you he already knew ARR way before that."
  
  so just knowing somebody is already reason enough to sign him for a movie?
  possible reasons: arr didn't have time? SK already had james horner in mind? arr was just not interested?
  guess these reasons are just too boring...
  
  "You think it's easy to beat its predecessor set by Howard Shore?"
  if it would be easy, then where is the challenge?
  
  please next time come with a couple of logic reasons for your allegations...otherwise you're just wasting time...
  
  raycas
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 67.65.167.0) on: Tue Nov 25 19:13:51 EST 2003
  
  Thats right its not easy u fool aziz thats why he took the job who the hell wants to do anything that is easy?U need sum kinda challenge in life. Im sure ARR can do like IR,YSR or n e one and churn out the same things and make fools like u who like d samething over and over. But that is no fun.
  
  

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