Thursday, November 25, 2010

Whats in Uravugal Thodar Kathai


The concept of an arranged marriage is quiet unique to the Indian culture. The families choose the bride and the groom as per their own beliefs and customs and the two strangers are tied for a lifetime by the knot of holy matrimony. There is no question of a courting period or the individual preferences of the bride or the groom.

This story is a beautiful and heart warming story of a girl called Archana who, not unlike millions of other girls in India, knows that her marriage will happen with the consent of her parents and family. Like other young girls, she also has grown up fancying film stars and cricket stars…but to fall in love before marriage remains a distant dream for her.

Archana is born into a traditional family. She is the apple of everyone’s eye and lives a protected and sheltered life. Her family loves her very much and sets up her alliance with a deserving boy of their community. Although she willingly accepts her marriage with a boy, whom her parents have chosen as her life partner, she realizes that their relationship is not like any of the romantic notions she had nurtured in her heart about her future husband.

Her mother explains to her that love is an emotion that finds it’s way gradually into the relationship between a husband and wife. As they get to know each other more and more and learn to adapt themselves to their life partner, love will surface and they will find their bonds strengthened by it. Archana then begins the journey of discovery of her new life wondering if life is really the miracle that her mother proposes it is.

Love after marriage is something Archana is yet to experience and in the quest of that unrequited love, she is to chance upon changing dimensions of various other relationships… some bitter… some sweet… and finally discover that life is indeed a miracle.  Uravugal Thodarkathai would air every Monday – Friday at 12.30 pm on Vijay TV.  Don’t miss it.

Whats in Anbaley Azhagana Veedu




This is the story of four sisters, Poornima, Sruthi, Arthi and Aruna who live in a town with their parents, Janardhanan and Revathi. Poornima is a free-spirited girl who is grounded in the values given to her by her parents. Sruthi is a nervous and shy girl who respects Poornima a lot, while Arthi is the beauty of the house- confident & vivacious. The youngest sister Aruna, the most protected one, is a chirpy, young, college going girl.  It’s the time of Poornima’s wedding with her best friend and a choreographer by profession. Sruthi, who by then is already married to a good-hearted businessman, Magesh, is seven months pregnant.

But tragedy strikes the sisters’ lives, a day before Poornima’s wedding. This changes the sisters’ lives forever.  What course do the sisters take in the ups & downs of their lives? Are they able to attain their destinies without giving in to what destiny itself has in store for them? Does the bond between them withstand the harsh tides of time?  This forms the crux of this poignant story of relationships.  Beginning from November 29, 2010 ‘Anbaley Azhagana Veedu’ would air every Monday-Friday, 12 noon on Vijay TV.

Vijay TV launches a new mythological serial




Following the success of swamy iyappan VIJAY TV brings to its viewers ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ a mythological serial that depicts the miracles of Lord Ayyappan.

The serial ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ launching on November 29th would feature the wonders and miracles of Lord Ayyappan.  The most popular and widely believed story says that Lord Ayyappan had his human sojourn as the son of the Pandalam Raja.  During one of his hunting expeditions, the Raja was puzzled to hear the voice of a child on the banks of the river Pampa.  The beautiful baby with radiant face wore a bead around his neck; mythology has it that ‘manikantan’ was Lord Ayyappan.  ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ brings you the sacred truth and the story of Lord Ayyappan and his miracles.   He was born on the auspicious day of ‘magara sankranti’ and the purpose of his mortal life was to annihilate the fierce some ‘Asura Mahishi’.  Having accomplished the task, he expressed his desire to return to ‘devalog’ when the king requested a temple to be built for him.  Lord Ayyappan aimed an arrow that fell on a place called ‘Sabari’.

Ayyappan character is played by actor Kaushik Babu, actor Devan plays the role of Maharaja and actress Meenakumari as his wife.  Popular senior actress Sukumari plays the role of Ayyappan’s grandmother in this mythological fiction.  Beginning from November 29, 2010, tune into ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ airing Monday to Friday at 1800 hrs only on Vijay TV.

Star launches Vijay TV in Canada

News Corp’s media and entertainment company Star is launching four of its Indian channels and three Star Mandarin-language channels on Bell Fibe TV, the recently launched next generation television service in Canada. The IPTV service is provided by Canada’s largest communications company, Bell. “We are elated to partner with Bell Fibe TV and provide our top rated channels to the South Asian and Chinese diaspora in Canada.” said Star SVP distribution, sales and marketing and head of Star’s North American office David Wisnia.

As per the deal, Star is launching three Hindi language channels – general entertainment channel Star One (Ch No 805); Bollywood movie channel Star India Gold (Ch No 803); and Star India News (Ch No 804). It is also launching the Tamil entertainment channel, Star Vijay (Ch No 806), on the Bell Fibe TV platform.

Star's flagship Hindi general entertainment channel Star Plus is excluded from this as it is already a part of the ATN service. Star Plus is on ATN as a 'must carry' channel since 2006. Star is also launching on Bell Fibe TV three Mandarin language channels from Star Greater China’s bouquet, which include Star Chinese Channel (Ch No 708), Star Chinese Movies 2 (Ch No 709) and Taiwan’s music and lifestyle channel, Channel [V] Taiwan (Ch no 707).

“Bell Fibe TV offers customers an enhanced television experience delivered over IPTV platform,” said Bell SVP of residential products Heather Tulk. “Adding these seven Star channels to Fibe TV’s programming line-up makes our next generation television service even more appealing to Canada’s vibrant Mandarin-speaking and South Asian communities.”

The Star channels are also part of the ATN bouquet in Canada. “ATN has had a great programming partnership with Star for the past four years and we have had a wonderful distribution partnership with Bell for the past 13 years," added ATN president and CEO Shan Chandrasekar.

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Uravugal Thodarkathai

(Vijay TV, Monday-Friday, 12.30 p.m.)

The concept of arranged marriage is unique to the Indian culture. And this new serial, which also begins on November 29, deals with that aspect.

A girl called Archana is born into a traditional family, and lives a sheltered life. But like most girls her age she dreams of falling in love and getting married.

However, her family arranges her marriage to a boy from their community. Although she accepts, she realises that their relationship is not as romantic as she thought it would be. Or was she wrong? Archana soon finds out that every relationship has its moments… some bitter… some sweet… She finally discovers that life is a miracle.

Anbaaley Azhagaana Veedu



(Vijay TV, Monday-Friday, 12 noon)

This new serial which begins on November 29, revolves round four sisters, Poornima, Sruthi, Arthi and Aruna, who live with their parents, Janardhanan and Revathi. Poornima is a free-spirited girl who believes in values, Sruthi is a shy girl, and Arthi, the beauty of the family, is confident and vivacious. The youngest Aruna, the most protected one, is a chirpy college goer. Tragedy strikes the sisters a day before Poornima's wedding, and changes their lives forever.

Saranam Ayyappa starts next week

Saranam Ayyappa starts next week


Following the success of Swamy Iyappan VIJAY TV brings to its viewers ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ a mythological serial that depicts the miracles of Lord Ayyappan.

The serial ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ launching on November 29th would feature the wonders and miracles of Lord Ayyappan.  The most popular and widely believed story says that Lord Ayyappan had his human sojourn as the son of the Pandalam Raja.  During one of his hunting expeditions, the Raja was puzzled to hear the voice of a child on the banks of the river Pampa.  The beautiful baby with radiant face wore a bead around his neck; mythology has it that ‘manikantan’ was Lord Ayyappan.  ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ brings you the sacred truth and the story of Lord Ayyappan and his miracles.   He was born on the auspicious day of ‘magara sankranti’ and the purpose of his mortal life was to annihilate the fierce some ‘Asura Mahishi’.  Having accomplished the task, he expressed his desire to return to ‘devalog’ when the king requested a temple to be built for him.  Lord Ayyappan aimed an arrow that fell on a place called ‘Sabari’.

Ayyappan character is played by actor Kaushik Babu, actor Devan plays the role of Maharaja and actress Meenakumari as his wife.  Popular senior actress Sukumari plays the role of Ayyappan’s grandmother in this mythological fiction.  Beginning from November 29, 2010, tune into ‘Saranam Ayyappa’ airing Monday to Friday at 1800 hrs only on Vijay TV.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Manmadhan Ambu music launched

After a fun-filled three days on the cruise Superstar Virgo, where the cast and crew were treated to performances, food etc. from across the globe, the people responsible for acting and making the Golden Arrow of Kollywood landed in Singapore on Saturday, 20th November, 2010. The audio launch was planned at the Singapore Expo where, approximately, 8000 people were estimated to watch the function live. The program was sponsored by Vijay TV and hence had Mano and Chitra participate with the ‘junior singers’ and artists from the "Who is the next Prabhu Deva" show.

The launch function, which entertained people for nearly 3 1/2 hours, was hosted by Vijay TV fame Gopinath and DD. Though the list of invitees was limited to Manmadhan Ambu's team, it was an evening to remember, nonetheless. The mood was relaxed and upbeat and who better than KS Ravikumar and Kamal Haasan to liven up everyone's spirits. Though there weren't any prominent speeches from anyone, it was the little humour anecdotes from Kamal and others that had everyone in splits.

Trisha, who usually does not speak or spend much time on stage other than dancing, did not hide her excitement when she was on stage cheered by everyone. More than just appearing on stage, she was asked to sing a song alongside Kamal (Kamal Kavithai). When asked about her performance, a blushing Trisha said that the credit goes to Kamal as he was the one who persuaded her for her stage act. Informing that this was her first ever stage act, Trisha said that she had said ‘No’ to Kamal sir more than 1000 times but still he persuaded her to sing with him. "Please ask Kamal sir if you have any questions about my performance", she said smilingly.

Kamal shed 30 years of his life and was as enthusiastic as a man in his late 20s. Occasionally barging into others' speeches, he spiced up the whole evening with his wit and humour. One such incident was when Gopinath was heaping superlatives after another on Kamal Haasan when calling him on stage. Kamal immediately asked Gopinath to stop and said, "I think I will start believing in whatever you say" for which Gopinath replied, "Sir this is one of the very few chances we get to appreciate you. You deserve every praise”.

Kamal Haasan in one word

Ramesh Aravind was a man of few words. When asked to describe Kamal Haasan in one word, Ramesh Aravind thought and thought and thought and finally said that it was too difficult to contain Kamal in one word. He said that he can talk about Kamal all day long but if there is one word he has to use, he would say 'Inspiration'. The reason he said was that Kamal has been a source of inspiration for so many people to enter the cinema industry.

The film's producer Udhayanidhi Stalin was not in a mood to talk for long either. He made his speech short and crisp by saying that Kamal is like God to many. "He is the reason for me venturing into cinema", he said to a thundering applause.

Dum pudichi ennala paada mudiyathu..

The most-awaited part of the evening was Kamal's performance and he did not disappoint. Kamal and Trisha, together, sang and recited 'Kamal Kavithai' and Kamal also sang one more song to a spell-bound audience.

While Suchitra sang to Oyyale, Andrea crooned to 'Who is the hero'. Her voice and control even in high-pitch sequences raised everyone's eyebrows. Appreciating Andrea's performance, Kamal quipped "I cannot sing like Andrea at all. Ennala avlo dum pudichi paada mudiyathu (I can't sing holding my breath for so long)".

The trailer and audio launch

The trailer of Manmadhan Ambu was screened to the audience and got tremendous reception. The bull-ring sequence was the talking point of the evening.

The audio launch was a never-been-done-before event. If we thought launching in Singapore was the highlight, the way in which the audio was released would be remembered by many for a very long time. When the time was ripe to release the CD, KS Ravikumar called Trisha and Madhavan to invite men and women from the public who had gathered. In an unusual incident, residents and fans of Singapore found themselves on stage with the’ man’ himself.

While Kamal distributed the first copies to the men present, Trisha gave it to the women on stage. It was so heartening to see this wonderful gesture. KS Ravikumar informed the gathering that it was Kamal's idea to release the CD to the public rather than giving it to the crew members. "This is the first time in the history of Tamil cinema such thing has happened and all the credit goes to Kamal for this excellent idea", praised Ravikumar.

Manmadhan Ambu has the 'matter'

Can KS Ravikumar be hidden in such a grand ceremony? Not at all, as he was in his usual self addressing the 8000-odd crowd. He had everyone in splits with his one-liners and statements. Talking about Manmadhan Ambu, he said that it has all the ingredients and necessary 'matter' in it making everyone present to applaud and laugh for atleast a minute. "It will be an entertaining and enterprising movie with the usual KS Ravikumar stamp", he assured. He thanked each and every member of the crew and also gave a special note of thanks to dance master Sagar. Revealing that Kamal does not appreciate and approve anyone so easily, he said that music director Devi Sree Prasad has a very bright future as Kamal had personally told his admiration for DSP's music.

Gowthami is not on a picnic

Referring to Gowthami, who also attended the function, KSR told that she is not on a picnic. "Gowthami is the costume designer of the movie and is responsible to show Kamal as a young lad", said Ravikumar. He also told that he was impressed with her costume designs in Dasavatharam. He added that he was stuck in awe when he met Kamal two weeks after he narrated the script. A surprised KSR said, "I could not believe he was Kamal as he had lost so much weight".

Yaavarum Kelir

Talking about Yaavarum Kelir, the project which was announced earlier by Kamal, Ravikumar said that Yaavarum Kelir got shelved due to non availability of dates. "It is a project which will take atleast 1 1/2 years to complete. But since Kamal only had 6-8 months of his time, we decided on Manmadhan Ambu. “I'm sure Kamal will make Yaavarum Kelir soon", Ravikumar assured.

One of a kind

This is the first time that two major TV channels joined hands to present an audio launch. Vasantham Tamil Central, a popular Tamil channel in Singapore, and Vijay TV collaborated to present the audio release to viewers. We hope that this culture will also emanate in India, murmured a few.

The gala function was attended by the film's cast and crew which included Ramesh Aravind, director KS Ravikumar, Udhayanidhi Stalin, Mrs. Kiruthika Stalin, Gowthami, singers Andrea, Suchitra along with Kamal Haasan, Madhavan, Trisha, Sangeetha and music director Devi Sree Prasad.

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Monday, November 22, 2010

New Serials - Promo

New Serials - Promotional Video

 
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