"NANBAN" AS "3 RASCALS" IN TELUGU

Ilayathalapathy Vijay who is now basking in the success of 'Velayudham' that is still running to packed houses, is gearing up for his next festive release, 'Nanban' that will see light of the day on Pongal 2012. Now the latest is that Vijay has expressed that the Telugu version will be titled '3 Rascals'!

The film that is a remake of Bollywood's super hit '3 Idiots' which by itself is inspired by a Chetan Bhagat novel will see a release in Telugu, simultaneously. 'Nanban' also marks director Shankar's first ever remake venture.

The film stars Vijay, Srikanth, Jiiva and Ileana in the lead roles, who are reprising the roles played by Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Kareena Kapoor respectively. It may be mentioned that Ileana has a good market in Andhra Pradesh.

Vijay will be seen in never seen before sort of looks in the songs of this film which will release big internationally this Pongal.

VIJAY IS GLAD TO WORK WITH SANTOSH SIVAN

During the audio launch of Urumi, Vijay said that he is happy to be working in Santosh Sivan in his next film. The actor launched the audio CD of Urumi, which is the dubbed version of the Malayalam film with the same title. Apparently, Santosh is to wield the camera for Vijay’s next to be directed by AR Murugadoss. The director said that he has seen Santosh Sivan’s deftness in handling the camera in films like Roja and Dil Se and is happy to work with him.


Vijay said that the songs in Urumi looked like paintings and that is the power of Santosh’s camera handling skills. The film’s lead star and one of the producers Prithviraj could not attend the audio launch as he is busy on the sets of Masters, a film directed by Subramaniapuram fame Sasi Kumar.

Mani Ratnam said that soon after seeing the Malayalam version of Urumi he felt that only Santosh Sivan can make such a film within limited budget and time span.

Speaking at this event, Santosh Sivan said that he always wanted to make such films and he is happy to have done that within a restricted time frame and budget. Urumi is a historical fantasy flick that has Prithviraj, Prabhu Deva, Genelia, Nithya Menon and others. The audio launch took place at Satyam Cinemas this morning.

VIJAY ANNA's "APPIDU PODU" GOES TO BOLLYWOOD

Vijay’s charbuster song ‘Appidu podu…’ from Gilli, which drew the national attention a few years ago, is going to Bollywood. The popular song is now being retuned for a forthcoming Hindi film, which is produced by actor Sonu Sood.


Sources say that Sonu Sonu, who danced for ‘Kalasala…’ with Silambarasan and Mallika Sherawat in Osthi, has acquired the rights of the song. He has assigned the original composer, Vidya Sagar to retune the number to suit the taste of the Bollywood audience.

Sonu Sood has confirmed the news and has said that the song has impressed him. Talking about roping in Mallika Sherawat for the song, the popular on-screen baddie claims that their chemistry worked well in ‘Kalasala’, which made him to rope her in for the number.

The original song was sung by Krishna Kumar Kunnath and Anuradha Sriram and the Hindi version would be crooned by Mika and Sunidhi Chauhan. Vidya Sagar has already started reworking on the song and he is reportedly retaining some parts of ‘Appidu podu…

NANBAN MUSIC ON FULL STRING

Despite his hectic schedule for his musical tour, Harris Jeyaraj is keen to complete the scores for Shankar’s Nanban. While Shankar is on his foot to complete the film at the earliest, Harris is at rapid pace to finish the songs. Actually Shankar intended to launch the audio of the film during the first week of December. This made Harris to expedite the songs before going on for the background score.


The mood is upbeat in the camps of Shankar as he is grabbing work from the technicians on post-production. Under these circumstances, Shankar has double mind to put off the release of Telugu version, 3 Rascals. He is more confined to the Tamil version first so that he can take leave off the shooting. He was quoted as saying that after finishing Endhiran, he straightaway proceeded with Nanban. This was in contrast to his habit of enjoying a long gap between movies.

VIJAY IS TO LAUNCH "URUMI" AUDIO

Ilayathalapathy Vijay is gracing over many occasion in the recent times. The actor was very much busy shooting for various projects simultaneously, but is now little away from hectic schedules. The actor will be present tomorrow morning to launch the audio of ‘Urumi’ Tamil version.


Originally made in Malayalam, the film stars Prithviraj, Prabhu Deva, Genelia, Vidhya Balan, Nithya Menon in lead roles with Aarya in cameo appearance. Vairamuthu has penned lyrics for the songs scored by Deepak Dev.

Vijay and Vairamuthu together will be releasing the album.

NANBAN VIJAY's ORGAN DONATION

Nanban Vijay was spotted in a popular hotel recently; it was arranged for a noble cause. The meet which is said to be the success meet of Vijay’s Velayudham has turned out to be a good initiative. Vijay who gave a simple speech about Organ Donation and its necessity made his fans and the entire audiences listen to him.


When the event got over, it’s heard that more than 50 students at the event signed agreements to donate their Organs. Even one of his fans said Vijay regularly motivates us to do good deeds and this event about Organ Donation made us proud to be a fan of our Ilayathalapathy. 

VIJAY VOUCHES FOR SHANKAR

Vijay claims there have been never any tension between him and Shankar during Nanban's filming. In a recent interview to a tabloid, he mentioned that his friendship with Shankar runs way back to his days as an Assistant Director with his father S A C. "He is an absolute delight to work with and I enjoyed working in Nanban," Vijay was further quoted as saying.

Vijay also has good words about his costars Srikanth and Jiiva. "We have become good friends after the movie," he said.