Name of the Film: Fiddle
Main Cast: Varun J.Thilak, Ayilya, Jagathy Sreekumar, Salim Kumar, Jagadeesh, Premkumar, Vettoor Purushan, Vishnu Prakash, Sabu Thiruvalla, Mily, Subin, Prajusha, Sonia, Lakshmi Priya, Ranjusha, Bindu Panicker, Urmila Unni, Kulappulli Leela, Vinayan, Kaloor Ummer, Biju, Sudha Nair and others
Music: S. Jayan and Ramesh Balakrishna
Camera : Anil Gopinath
Producers: Nissam Vettoor and Noushad Anchal
Director : Prabhakaran Muthana

Labels: Fiddle

Banner: Orient films
Name of the film : Gulmohar
Main cast: Meenu Mathews, Renjith, Lakshmi Gopalaswami, Siddque, Jagathy Sreekumar, Suresh Krishna, MeghaNadhan,Sai Kumar, Nishanth Sagar, Swathi and others
Camera: M.J. Radha Krishnan
Producer : Mathews
Director-Jayaraj

Labels: Meera-Vasudev, Nishanth-Sagar, Siddique

AJ: M T Vasudevan Nair will pen the script for Kamal Haasan's new movie. The movie titled '19 Steps'. The movie will be directed by Bharat Bala and  produced in collaboration with Walt Disney productions. Kamal Haasan and Japanes actor Tadanobu Asano will lead the film. The theme story is based on Kalaripayattu. The film will be made in English and will have versions in Hindi and Japanese.

Banner : Garden films
Name of the Film : CHEMBADA
Main cast : Bala, Sridevika and others
Music : Muzafir
Camera : Noushad
Producers : Jagadish K.Nair and Abdul Azeez
Director : Robin Thirumala

Labels: Bala, Sridevika

Banner : Chaya Films
Name of the Film: Pakal Nakshatrangal
Main Cast: Mohan Lal, Suresh Gopi, Murali, Anup Menon, Nedumudi Venu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Manianpillai Raju, Arun, Sindhu Menon, Sukumari, Samvritha Sunil, Kalpana, Reena Basheer, K.B. Venu, Murukan, N.L. Balakrishnan and others.
Music: Shemas Aman
Camera: Rama chandra Babu
Director: Rajiv Nath

Labels: Anoop-Menon, Mohanlal, N-L-Balakrishnan, Suresh-Gopi

AJ: Mohanlal's latest flick 'Aakasha Gopuram' becomes the first Malayalam film to get released nationwide. The film released in 30 centers in kerala 8 centers in Mumbai and 4 centers in Bangalore. This international project movie based on Ibssen's classic work 'The master builder'. Mohanlal is playing as Albert Samson. Bharath Gopi, Geethu Mohandas, Sreenivasan, Manoj K Jayan, Shwetha Menon and Nithya are also in the cast. The film directed by K P Kumaran. Titanic frame John Altman gives music, art direction Sabu Syril, and camera on Santhosh Thundiyil. The film produced by Medient and Tarlac, distributed by Medient.

Labels: Akashagopuram, Geetu-Mohandas, Mohanlal, Shweta-Menon

Name of Movie: Heylesa
Director: Thaha
Stars: Suresh Gopi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Cochin Haneefa, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Vijayraghavan and Salimkumar
Script: Thaha and Saji Damodhar
Type of Movie: Action comedy thriller

AJ: AMMA's biggest multistarrer of all times movie, 'Twenty 20' planning to release on october 20. The shooting of the film completed two weeks back. Almost all the important stars from the Malayalam industry participated in that schedule. The superstar film like 'Kurukshetra' and 'Mayabazaar' planning to release on October first week. The film distributors Kalasangham and Grand releases have not yet confirmed the dates. The movie is planning to release on 118 stations in the state.

Labels: Twenty-Twenty

Banner: Kichu Films
Name of the film: THAAVALAM
Main cast: Suresh Gopi, Rathya, Baby Diya, Jagathy Sree Kumar, Nedumudi venu, Salim Kumar, Suraj Vejaramoodu, Ambika Mohan, Meena Suresh, Manka Mahesh and others
Music : Natesh Shankar
Camera: Anandakuttan
Producer: Jagadish
Director: Baiju 2D

Labels: Suresh-Gopi

ame of the Film: BEDA BHAI
Banner : Kalyani Cinemas
Producer: Salim K. Muhammed
Script: Shah Korani
Direction : Syam
Main Cast: Kalabhavan Mani, Suraj Venjaramood, Riyaz Khan, Rajan P. Dev, Mala Aravindan, Mamukoya, Bijukuttan, Indrans, KPAC Lalitha, Sruthi Nair
Lyrics: Sunil Santhi
Music : Berny Ignatius

Banner: Future Films
Name of the film : Panthaya Kozhi
Main Cast: Narain, Pooja, Sudesh, Gita, Madhu, Janardanan, Rami Reddy and others
Music: Alex Paul
Producer : JP
Director : M A Venu

Labels: Narain

Name of Movie: Marathon
Director: Biju Viswanath
Produced by: William Meredith Foundation
Type of Movie: Family drama.

AJ:  Playback singer Vidhu Prathap got married classical dancer and T V film actress Deepthy at Subrahmaniam hall in Thiruvananthapuram yesterday. Attended by many celebrities of film and political field incloding Dr. KJ Yesudas, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, MA Baby and M Vijayakumar. Vidhu has also arranged for a reception at the Lulu centre, Thrissur on the 23rd of August.

Name of Movie: Sourayoodham
Stars: Rahman, Nandha, Saikuamr, Manoj K Jayan, Innocent, Jagadeesh, Manian Pillai Raju, Shary and Anoopchandran.
Director: Manu
Produced by: Film factory mass communications
Type of Movie: Action based family drama.
Lyrics: Mullanezhi
Music: Rajesh Mohan
Location: Kochi and Palakkad

Releasing Nation Wide on 22nd AUG Friday. This is an International standard Film. Fully shot in London.


Name of the film : Akasha Gopuram
Main Cast: Mohanlal, the late Bharath Gopi, Sweta Menon, Sreenivasan, Manoj K. Jayan, Nitya, Geethu Mohandas and others
Music : John Altman [ Emmy award winning British composer music arranger, orchestrator and conductor ]Camera: Santosh Thundil
Executive producer : Manu Kumaran
Director : K. P. Kumaran

Labels: Akashagopuram, Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, Sweta-Menon

Name of Movie: Samayam
Stars: Sreenivasan, Saikumar, Jagathy, Nedumudi Venu, Vijayaraghavan, T G Ravi and Shwetha Menon.
Director: Satheesh Pothuvaal
Script: Satheesh Pothuvaal
Produced by: S Shajahan
Type of Movie: Family drama.
Lyrics: Anil Panachooran for the movie
Music: Kaithapram

AJ: Suresh Gopi's new movie 'Aayudham' is released. The movie released in 54 centres in the state. 'Aayudham' features Thilakan, Bharathi, Karthika, Madhu, Murali, Jagathy, Rajan P Dev, Bala, Aadhitya, Keerikkadan Jose, Baburaj, Sidheesh, Biju Pappan, Seema, Suvarna, Urmila Unni and Shivaji Guruvayoor. The movie directed by Nishad and dialogues are written by Jayasoma. The movie is distributed by Time ads through Lal release.

Labels: Suresh-Gopi

Labels: Gopika

AJ: The Jesy Foundation announced for their last year film award. Ore Kadal' was selected the best movie. Adoor Gopalakrishanan selected as the best director. Mammootty and Kavya were got the best actors awards. The other awards are best singers Pradeep Palluruthy and Anitha, best screenplay Sreenivasan, best story writer Sathyan Anthikkad, best supporting actors Mukesh and Kalpana. The award will be given away on the 19th of this month at Ernakulam.

Labels: Kavya-Madhavan, Mammootty

AJ: The film awards instituted by Jaihind TV, announced. The Best film 'Paradesi'. Shyama Prasad became best director for 'Ore Kadal'. Mohanlal and Lakshmi Gopalaswami have been adjudged as best actors. Among the other award winners are Music director M Jayachandran, Best singer's K S Chitra, Vineeth Srinivasan.
Playback singer K J Jesudas, will be honoured at the function for his contributions in the field of music, while actor Jagati Sreekumar would be presented with the lifetime achievement award for his contributions to films. The award function to be held at the Marine Drive grounds on August 17.

Labels: Jagathy, Lakshmi-Gopalaswami, Mohanlal

AJ: Suresh Gopi in TV Chandran's new movie. In this film Suresh Gopi doing double role. The new movie titled as 'Bhoomi Malayalam'. The director himself will script the screenplay and dialogues for this movie. Navya Nair and Priyanka will be in the female lead of his film. The movie going to start on this month end. The film produced by Revathy Chandran and V P Abeesh in the banner of Genuine cinema. The movie going to start on this month end.

Labels: Navya-Nair, Suresh-Gopi

Banner : Royal Arts
Name of the film : Boss
Main cast : Suresh Gopi, Vasundara Das, Innocent, Rajan P. Dev, Harisree Asokan, Kottayam Nazeer, Unda Pakru and others
Director: Nizar

Labels: Vasundhara-Das

World’s best come together to create India’s first international film - Aakashagopuram

From Harry Potter to Titanic and Star Wars to Batman Begins, Medient Corporation PLC announces the release of its Malayalam film Aakashagopuram that brings together the best of talents from Hollywood, UK, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam film industry.

Shot and post produced entirely in UK, Aakashagopuram is the film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play The Master Builder. Starring MohanLal in the lead role, national award winning director K P Kumaran brings to screen this intriguing story of an architect at war with his creativity and ego.

Shot in various locations in the UK by cinematographer Santosh C Thundiyil (Krrish, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Pinjar, Kaal), Aakasha Gopuram’s music has been scored by BAFTA and multiple Emmy award winner John Altman (Golden Eye, Titanic, Bhaji on the Beach, Shall We Dance). The sound design has been done by Nigel Holland (Batman Begins, Braveheart, Resident Evil). Rerecording mixers are Robert Farr (Star Wars: Episode II&III, Gangs of New York) and Matthew Gough (Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban, Cold Mountain). The visual effects have been done by John Harvey and Jonathan Trussler (Kingdom of Heaven).

“If you have a right product, attracting the best of talent is not very difficult,” says Manu S Kumaran, producer of Aakashagopuram, “and if the film in question is the adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Master Builder and directed by award winning director K P Kumaran, it’s a cake walk.”

“It’s a common practice in Indian film industry to involve a “foreign” cameraman” or a “foreign” makeup artist or stuntman to label the film as international collaboration. Medient as a film company however does not indulge in such gimmicks and believes in creating films that conform to international standard of production values. Aakashagopuram is an example of our commitment to take Indian cinema global,” adds Manu S Kumaran.

Aakashagopuram releases nationwide on August 22, 2008.

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Aaskashgopuram Synopsis

Cast: Mohan Lal, Bharat Gopi, Sreenivasan, Swetha Menon, Manoj K Jayan, Geethu Mohandas and Nithya.

Screenplay & Director: K P Kumaran

Produced by: Manu S Kumaran, Tutu Sharma and Taizoon F Khorakiwala

AkashaGopuram is an adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic Master Builder.

A film in Malayalam by renowned Indian film maker K P KUMARAN, AkashaGopuram is set in London among the Indian immigrant community and tells the story of ALBERT SAMSON (MohanLal), a middle-aged architect who has who has clawed his way to prominence.

His single-minded focus on his job, however, has hardened him and prevented him and his wife ALICE (Swetha Menon) from having a meaningful private life. The costs of Samson's ambition are also symbolized in his assistant, ABRAHIM THOMAS (Bharat Gopi), Samson's former employer whom he "scalped" to reach the top. Thomas, now dying, wants his son ALEX (Manoj K Jayan) to have more independence in the firm. Samson, however, fears that he will be eclipsed by a younger generation of architects, and refuses to allow Alex either to design original houses or to leave the firm and strike out on his own.

Into this tension comes HILDA VARGHESE (Nithya), a vivacious young woman who has idolized Samson since ten years before, when, in the early stages of his career, he had built a large church in her hometown and climbed to the top of its tower during its dedication ceremony. While in town, Samson had promised Hilda, then a girl of twelve, "a kingdom"; now, Hilda says earnestly, she has come to collect her kingdom.

As Samson struggles with the destructive consequences of his monomanical pursuit and his growing fear that he has lost his creative powers, the mysterious Hilda helps him gain a glimpse of his former robust self.

Known for his deep commitment to female empowerment through his films, K P Kumaran in AkashaGopuram paints an intriguing portrait of one man’s consuming desire for success.

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Henrik Ibsen

AkashaGopuram is an adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic Master Builder.

The Norwegian playwright is considered the starting point for modern drama, particularly realism, which dominated the twentieth century. Rejecting the spectacular, sentimental, and over-the-top plays that marked the nineteenth-century stage, Ibsen turned his eye toward societal issues that marked the waning years of the Victorian era. Whether questioning the confines of marriage in A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler or the hypocrisy of politics in An Enemy of the People, Ibsen subverted social norms and their controlling institutions. Although many of his plays were criticized for their content at the time, Ibsen’s works helped lay the foundation for even more radical explorations in the following century.

Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, a tiny coastal town in the south of Norway. His father, Knud Ibsen, was a prosperous merchant, whose financial failure changed the family's social position.

The characters in his plays often mirror his parents, and his themes often deal with issues of financial difficulty as well as moral conflicts stemming from dark private secrets hidden from society.

Despite Ibsen’s being touted as “The Father of Realism,” his career is often divided into three distinct phases. His early plays, such as Peer Gynt, were poetic epics. The middle phase consisted of realistic classics like A Doll’s House and An Enemy of the People.
But with Master Builder (1892), Ibsen veered toward symbolism. In the play first staged at Berlin in 1893, Ibsen painted a moving portrait of an aging architect who, having given up his dreams of building great monuments and churches with towers reaching up to the heavens, instead devotes his life to building regular houses for people to live in. When the architect finally realizes that society doesn't even appreciate his sacrifice, he returns once again to the more mystical structures of his youth.

Master Builder was published in the middle of December 1892. It was acted both in Germany and England before it was seen in the Scandinavian capitals. Its first performance took place at the Lessing Theatre, Berlin, January 19, 1893, with Emanuel Reicher as Solness and Frl. Reisenhofer as Hilda.

In London it was first performed at the Trafalgar Square Theatre (now the Duke of York's) on February 20, 1893, under the direction of Mr. Herbert Waring and Miss Elizabeth Robins, who played Solness and Hilda. This was one of the most brilliant and successful of English Ibsen productions.

Beyond the phenomenon of William Shakespeare, whose works have been filmed over 600 times, HENRIK IBSEN is among handful of writers like Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky whose work has been repeatedly filmed over the years.

K P Kumaran - The Director

K P KUMARAN has been at the vanguard of the parallel cinema movement and his films reflect his deep commitment to female empowerment. All his films from the landmark Athithi (1974) to the National award winning Rugmini (1988) and Thotram, recipient of Suvarna Chakoram Award for Writing at the International Film Festival Of Kerala 2001 have female protagonists at the core of the film.

His first independent venture – the100 second Rock won the coveted gold medal at ASIA 72 Film Festival. Athithi his first feature film as director based on the breaking free of a strong woman from her indecisive and weak husband to chart her own destiny has often been described by critics as one the best films ever made in Malayalam.

Several films followed, all based on social issues that impact the lives of women. His film Rugmini based on Kamala Das’s famed short story Cages on the life of a child prostitute won several awards all over.

Thotram was an attempt at capturing the incomparable lyricism and lucidity of a primordial dialect in narrating an ancient tribal drama in the contemporary idiom. The film is the story of a strong willed young woman who resists tyranny and her martyrdom gives her a halo of being a deity amongst the tribal people. A poem never written, passed through generations by word of mouth forms the plot of the film.

An outspoken critic of the entrenched social biases; Kumaran made his mark with his fiery plays on social evils as part of the organized literary movement of Kerala in the sixties.

His new film, AkashaGopuram starring Mohanlal, Sreenivasan and late Bharat Gopi is an adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic Master Builder.

“What attracted me to the play was the intriguing psychological insights into human nature as well as the experiences of the characters in situations of conflict. That lifts the play from the level of the mundane,” says Kumaran.

According to Kumaran, Malayalam literature and Malayalis have a special relation with Ibsen.

'The pioneers of Malayalam prose drama such as N. Krishna Pillai, who revolutionised the stage with his plays Bhagna Bhavanam and Kanyaka (young girl) were inspired by Ibsen,' he says.

'In 1936, A. Balakrishna Pillai translated Ibsen's Ghosts into Malayalam language,' he says.

“Adapting Master Builder is the greatest tribute I can pay to the playwright whose dramas have always inspired me,” he says.

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Labels: Akashagopuram, Mohanlal

Banner : Akhil Productions
Film: Mayabazar
Main Cast: Mammooty, Sheela, Tiska chopra, Innocent, Nedumudi Venu, Salim Kumar, Suraj Venjaramood, Bijukuttan and ohers
Music: Sankar Ehsan, Loyi, Thej Marvin
Producer: Saji Mangalath
Director: Thomas Sebastian

Labels: Bijukuttan, Mammootty, Mayabazaar, Suraj-Venjaramoodu, Tiska-Chopra

Banner: Big Motion Pictures
Name of the Film: KUTTYSRANK
Main Cast: Mamooty, Kamalini Mukherji, Padmapriya, Meenakumari, Sai Kumar, Siddique, Suresh Krishna and others
Camera: Anjali Sukla
Producer: Reliance Entertainments
Director: Shaji N.Karun

Labels: Kamalinee-Mukherjee, Kuttysrank, Mammootty, Padmapriya, Siddique, Suresh-Krishna

Banner: Damor Films
Name of the Film: Kurukshetra
Main cast : Mohanlal, Kochin Haneefa, Suraj Venjaramood, Saiju Kurup, Kira and others
Camera: Lokanathan
Producer: Santhosh Damodar
Director: Major Ravi
First schedule completed

Labels: Mohanlal, Siddique

AJ: Mohanlal and director Shaji Kailas team is coming together again. Their new movie named as 'Red Chillies'. The film tells the story of the relationship between an underworld don 'Omer' and nine female radio jockeys working with FM 919.1.The movie scripted by A K sajan. Red Chillies is produced by M Renjith under the banner of Rajaputhra films. The shoot of the movie will be start on next week at Kochi and Dubai. This murder mystery movie, is distributed by Vaishakha films will be the Christmas release of Mohanlal.

Labels: Mohanlal, Red-Chillies

AJ: The much awaited Jayaram movie 'Veruthe Oru Bharya' gracing the theatres today. The movie will feature Jayaram and Gopika in the lead. The film scripted by K Gireesh Kumar and directed by Akku Akbar. The film also feature  Jagathy Sreekumar, Innocent, Madhu Warrier, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Sivaji Guruvayoor, Kalabhavan Prajod, Sarayu, Mini Arun, Mahima, Nivedhitha and Jaffer Idukki are also in the cast. The movie produced by Cinema Kottaka and distributed by  Pyramid Saimir.

Labels: Gopika, Jayaram

AJ: AMMA's multi star movie Twenty 20 re started its shootting. The movie which was in the making for the last six months has already completed eighty five percent of its shoot. Now the shoot has entered its spectacular climax. All the big stars of Malayalam has been in the climax shoot.Cinematographer P Sugumar is using five cameras for simultaneous shoot of fight sequences. The film directed by veteran director Joshi and screen play by Siby K Thomas-Uday Krishna team.

Labels: Twenty-Twenty

AJ: Hit maker Fazil cameback after a long gap. His new movie going to start on september. Dilip is acting first time in a Fazil movie.  The movie titled as 'Moses.B. Samuel', will be a comedy entertainer. The movie will also have Innocent, Baby Nivedhitha, Jagadheesh, Harishree Ashokan and Salimkumar. 'Moses.B. Samuel' will Produced by Johnny Sagarika. The film will be completed in a single schedule and release on christmas.

Labels: Dileep, Mose-'N'-Cat

Name of Movie: Banaras
Directed By: Nemom Pushparaaj
Cast: Vineeth, Kavya Madhavan, Meera Nandan
Type of Movie: Mucisal entertainer
Music Director: M Jayachandran
Singers: K JYesudas, Sadhana Sargam, Shreya Goswal
Shootting on : Kasi, Varanasi and Thiruvananthapuram

Labels: Banaras, Kavya-Madhavan, Meera-Nandan, Vineeth

AJ: Malayalam actor Pakru is acting lead role in a Kannada movie. The movie titled as 'Mirror'. Pakru's, name in the Guinness Book of World Records for the shortest hero. Pakru got best actor awards from Kerala and Tamil Nadu states for his performances in Adbhutha Dweep. Mirror is a silent film. The film made by Manasa enterprises and directed by Maaba. The film features Padma Vasanthi, Abhinaya, Ramesh Bhat,and Kashi.

AJ: One of the finest actor from the younger group of lead artists in Malayalam, Indrajith, is going to act in a Hindi movie.The movie titled 'Waiting Room'. The filmis directed by Maneej. The actor is now busy with his tamil movie 'Kanthaswamy', will feature him as the main villain opposite Vikram. His latest movies like 'Malabar Wedding' and 'Minnaminnikoottam' has been well at the box office.

Labels: Indrajith, Minnaminni-Koottam

Banner: Annie Creations
Film : KANAKAZHCHAKAL
Main Cast: Vinu Mohan, Ramesh Pisharody, Devan, Roma, Jagathy, Bindu Panicker, Indrans, Salimkumar, Suraj Venjaramood, Rajan P. Dev, KPAC Lalitha, Sobha Mohan and others
Music: Bharat Lal
Camera : Ananda Kuttan
Producers: Sam Pulimootil, Saji Chakuthara and Asokan AnandanR
Director: Sanal
Shoot in Progress

Labels: Bindu-Panicker, Jagathy-Sreekumar, Ramesh-Pisharody, Vinu-Mohan

Labels: Gopika

Banner: Varnachitra and capitol theatre
Film: THIRAKATHA
Main Cast: Prithwiraj, Samvritha Sunil, Priyamani, Siddique, Anoop Menon, Mallika Sukumaran, Nandu, Augustin, Jagathy Sreekumar, Manianpillai raju, K.B. Venu, Priya mani, Nishant Sagar, Bindu Panicker, Suraj Venjaramood and others
Music: Sarat
Camera: M. J. Radhakrishnan
Producer: Maha Subair and Ranjith
Director: Ranjith

Labels: Prithviraj, Priyamani, Samvritha-Sunil

AJ: The 13th Thiruvananthapuram International Film Festival started.  46 films from 24 countries would be screening in next seven days. Director from Israel, Dan Wolman's 'Tied Hands' would be the inaugural film of the festival. Wolman is the  chief guest at the inaugural of TIFF. Manoj Shyamalan's 'The Happening' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Naalu Pennungal' will be a major attraction at the festival.