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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: paran (@ 203.123.16.145) on: Wed Nov 26 00:19:51 EST 2003
  
  Aziz..
  "It don't make no sense" meaning it makes sense rite...then why are u worried?
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.180.49) on: Wed Nov 26 01:48:38 EST 2003
  
  nakkeera!! ... sorchuvaiyil kutram kandeero? illai porutchuvayila? :-)
  
  
• From: mir (@ 203.94.66.189) on: Wed Nov 26 02:25:01 EST 2003
  
  it seems mr aziz accepts that shekar kapur as a world class director.thats why he is particularly pointing SK to undermine ARR. Fine but what about paani.......it is to be directed by sheker kapur...and which has music by ARR....(which will be an international film in many languages if i am not mistaken?)...why did SK choose ARR fir this then?
  
  
• From: Anbe sivam (@ 206.102.161.11) on: Wed Nov 26 16:42:23 EST 2003
  
  Aziz,
  
  I am a IR fan. But I feel why do you think ARR is wasting his time. Man he gets the golden opportunity and why he will not try his best. Leave alone his capability.
  
  If IR gets the opportunity, do you think he will leave? He will give his best short. That's exactly what ARR is doing.
  
  As a IR fan(not that I don't like ARR songs), I only wish, that IR should also get such an opportunity.
  
  Piratheepan,
  
  In appreciating ARR, I don't know why you belittle a genius like IR. He is rehashing now after so many movies and ARR is already doing it with in hundred movies. He did rehash a song in Lagaan from his Kadulukku Mariyadai's hindi remake(I don't remember) and it got award also.
  
  IR can still give fresh tune like Vanaville in Ramanaa and Appadi Pakurthunna venam in Ivan after 800 + movies.
  
  YSR is doing good too, apart from recently identified copying.
  
  
• From: xml (@ 128.148.68.110) on: Wed Nov 26 18:44:06 EST 2003
  
  http://www.cinesouth.com/masala/hotnews/26112003-2.shtml
  
  
• From: :( (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sun Nov 30 04:41:42 EST 2003
  
  So sad.
  
  
• From: :( (@ 207.44.154.35) on: Sun Nov 30 04:47:57 EST 2003
  
  really sad.
  
  
• From: j (@ 210.210.34.83) on: Sun Nov 30 22:53:26 EST 2003
  
  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.
  
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  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.
  
  http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/nov/24south.htm
  
  
• From: Onion (@ 65.205.71.101) on: Fri Dec 5 14:09:52 EST 2003
  
  Guys, I heard shankar has named his next movie with Vikram as 'Onion'. I read this in a franco-indian news site. Is that true? Has shankar really stole my name.. plzzz confirm.
  
  
• From: Piratheepan (@ 67.67.91.5) on: Fri Dec 5 22:07:04 EST 2003
  
  not Onion u fool Aniyan
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.87) on: Fri Dec 5 23:05:47 EST 2003
  
  is the news really TRUE in the 1st place??
  
  
• From: Onion (@ 65.67.102.33) on: Fri Dec 5 23:10:08 EST 2003
  
  Piratheepan vennai!
  you just changed o to A and i to y...
  it still sounds the same... whats the diff ?
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 61.2.224.223) on: Fri Dec 5 23:18:45 EST 2003
  
  some people hopeless pronounce Onion as Aniyan ... so ..
  
  Onion,
  i think he stole ur name...u shud sue him in some bloody court...u dont worry, Periyar is the only person who can sue u and he's no more!!
  
  
• From: Onion - the happy vengayam (@ 65.67.102.33) on: Sat Dec 6 12:05:09 EST 2003
  
  c~p, dhanks!
  
  
• From: C~P - the poochaandy (@ 61.2.224.31) on: Sun Dec 7 00:22:49 EST 2003
  
  onion, ulagam!
  
  
• From: sujesh MAC (@ ) on: Sat Jan 3 02:30:36 EST 2004
  
  hi, i'm sujesh from sri lanka.
  i can't believe that shankar is going to work with h.jeyaraj for his "anion"
  both arrr & shankar worked together since gentleman to boys. all these have given super super hit songs . then why shankar turned to harris jeyaraj.?i think shankar feel that arrahman is the main fact for his success . so he mighyt turened to h.j . am i correct?
  
  
• From: sudeesh (@ 202.4.187.6) on: Sat Jan 3 08:15:26 EST 2004
  
  hi
  
  shankar will give best of what he has ....
  who ever is music director shankar will get the best from music dir ...
  
  don't worry it will be mega hit .......
  
  put an end to dr krishna swamy words
  
  
  
• From: dinesh (@ 210.186.42.120) on: Sat Jan 3 09:15:43 EST 2004
  
  Rahman is doing ROBOT/ANIYAN
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 61.95.159.16) on: Sat Jan 3 23:17:07 EST 2004
  
  padam decide aagiducha?!!!
  
  
• From: 1 (@ 203.129.195.138) on: Sat Jan 10 01:13:43 EST 2004
  
  http://tamil-cine-awards.freecyberzone.com/weeklypoll.html
  
  
• From: mahesh (@ 164.164.135.68) on: Wed Jan 14 06:42:10 EST 2004
  
  arr is the most innovative and invincible md in our country.shankar will never commit the mistake of splitting with arr as his works gel perfectly with that of the musical genius.so everybody stop worrying about the baseless rumours.
  
  
• From: j (@ ) on: Mon Jan 26 23:56:49 EST 2004
  
  http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=13368592
  
  
• From: hhi (@ 210.210.34.223) on: Tue Jan 27 00:03:25 EST 2004
  
  Shankar signs up Ash?
  
  By Moviebuzz
  Friday, 23 January , 2004, 10:38
  
  Is Aishwarya Rai the heroine in Shankar’s untitled new film with Vikram as the hero? Well this is the rumour in town and when Sify.com contacted Vikram, he refused to deny or comment. He just smiled!
  Shankar was on the lookout for a heroine for his film, which is a futuristic thriller, to be paired opposite the current superstar Vikram. Names like Trisha Krishnan, Katrina Kaif and some Mumbai heroines were considered. But right from the beginning, Shankar was keen only on Ash, as he had shared a good rapport with her during the making of Jeans.
  
  Aishwarya Rai had been voted as the most attractive woman in an international online poll conducted by “Hello” magazine. And so it is but natural that all heroes in Telugu and Tamil want to be featured opposite her. The big buzz is that, Ash has agreed to sign the dotted line for this film produced by “Oscar” Ravichandran.
  
  Ash was in the news recently when she walked out of Ketan Mehta’s Aamir Khan film The Rising over payment fracas and from a Bond movie as she refused to do kissing scenes with Pierce Brosnan. Now Shankar is said to be offering Ash a whopping salary anywhere between Rs 1.5 to 2 crore, the highest salary ever paid to a heroine in Indian cinema! She was only offered Rs 80 lakh for the “The Rising” and in Hollywood they would not pay her more than $200,000!
  
  The grapevine also says that a photo shoot of Vikram and Ash will be done in Mumbai later in the month. Till then Vikram, the smart man that he is, does not want to go public on this as there may be many a slip between the cup and the lip!
  
  
  
  
• From: jk (@ 210.210.39.135) on: Wed Jan 28 04:08:19 EST 2004
  
  Shankar to direct Chiru's son?
  Chiranjeevi's son Ram Charan Teja is all set to get launched this year. Under the banner of Geetha Arts, Shankar is likely to direct this venture. V V Vinayak was yet another director considered for the film. P C Sreeram will be the cinematographer. Ram Charan Teja will also debut as a singer in this film. This will be a unique launch of an actor and a singer.
  
  

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