Set in a rural milieu, the film has a set of fresh faces donning the lead roles, and a debutant director at the helm. And though it revolve around the happenings in the life of a rowdy, director Keeras (apprenticed with Thankar Bachan) offbeat treatment lends certain freshness to the narration. There is inherent humour in the characterization of rowdy Pachai, essayed with a natural flair by debutant Vaasagar (a...
12:42 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Actor Arulnidhis next film with debutant director Ganesh Vinayak, an assistant of S J Suryah, will go on floors this June. Produced by his brother Dayanidhi Alagiris Cloudnine Movies, the action film was titled Sambhuvam. However, the actor informs City Express that the filmmakers may opt for more suitable title soon. Sambhuvams direct English translation is incident. But in Madurai, sambhuvam means murder. Though the story begins in Madurai, we...
05:36 PM, May 31, 2012
Kochi: After being in jail for almost four months, the two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen were on Wednesday granted bail by the Kerala High Court, but with stringent conditions. The Kerala government has to ensure they do not leave the country. The marines, Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone, have been asked to pay Rs 1 crore each as a bail bond and two Indians...
09:08 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Girls once again outshone boys in class XII CBSE results announced on Monday, which recorded a pass percentage of 80.19. Girls have performed better than boys with pass percentage of 86.21 as compared to 75.80 per cent. Chennai region has recorded the highest pass percentage of 90.59. The results were declared across the country on Monday, with the total pass percentage standing at 80.19 per cent, a fall...
11:25 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: The results of the class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board exams have been announced on Monday. The results are available on the website www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in, and www.cbse.nic.in Students can also get their results on email by registering themselves on these websites. Students can also dial 011-24357276 to get their results. Besides, they can get their results through SMSs. ...
10:04 AM, May 28, 2012
What's in a name, they say. But a name implicitly says many a thing. In fact, rulers of those days gave ample importance to names and they believed that their names were the symbol of legacy, tradition and culture. Well, Shriya is playing Maharani Ammanmani Chandravathy in a period film titled 'Chandra', in which she is doing the role of a princess. The movie is being directed by Roopa Iyer....
05:26 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: Girls once again outshone boys in class X CBSE results announced on Thursday, which recorded a pass percentage of 98.19. The overall pass figure is about two per cent higher than last last year's results. The pass percentage of girls stood at 98.48 per cent as compared to 97.98 per cent in case of boys. According to a CBSE statement, the pass percentage in Chennai region at 99.45...
07:06 PM, May 24, 2012
An unidentified toxic powder was used to contaminate the air in the classrooms by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. ...
11:11 AM, May 24, 2012
The release date of 'Adhinayakudu' has been fixed as June 1. Languishing for half-an-year now, the film had till recently seen no glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. So, Balayya's fans must brace up to receive the Yuva Ratna with full josh. That the film's climax scenes are tinged with political colours should make 'Adhinayakudu' all the more important. Much like NTR, who made a political statement...
10:58 AM, May 24, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Two Italian marines, lodged in the Central Prison here for allegedly shooting to death two Indian fishermen, would be shifted to Kochi. This was decided by the state government on Wednesday in view of the Supreme Court direction to it to take a stand on the plea of the Italian authorities to move the marines away from the Central Prison. Borstal school, where the two marines will be kept...
08:23 AM, May 24, 2012
Chennai: Girls continued to outshine boys in the Class XII examinations conducted by the state government, results for which were announced on Tuesday. Students hailing from Namakkal district bagged the top three ranks from among nearly 8.20 lakh students who appeared for the exam conducted in March. Girls continued to dominate by registering a pass percentage of 89.7 while 83.2 per cent of boys cleared the exams. Incidentally, this time...
12:49 PM, May 22, 2012
Rampur: The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle. Two years later, she is about to graduate from high school and wants to be a teacher. Bihar has been so successful at keeping teenage girls in school, the bike giveaways have spread to neighboring...
06:16 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Kalki Koechlin had to go through quite a transformation for her role in 'Shanghai' as director Dibakar Banerjee wanted her to look ugly yet adorable. The brief given by her director was quite simple - 'Look ugly'. However, it was nothing short of a nightmare to actually realise the filmmaker's vision. "Dibakar wanted me to look ugly and vulnerable. The first thing that he did was chop my...
05:55 PM, May 21, 2012
London: Actress Demi Moore has signed up for her first film since a medical emergency put her career on hold in January. The 49-year-old has signed on to star in 'Very Good Girls', opposite former California school pals Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning. Moore will play Olsen's mother, reported Contactmusic. The actress was forced to pull out of Linda Lovelace biopic 'Lovelace' in January after falling ill at her home...
03:38 PM, May 21, 2012
Morena: A man and his first wife allegedly killed a newborn girl from his second wife by poisoning the infant before strangulating her and throwing her body in a river in Morena, police said. The incident occured at Jaderua Ka Pura village under Noorabad police station six days ago but was reported to the police on Friday. According to police, the accused, 25-year-old Rajveer Gurjar and his first wife Munesh,...
09:04 AM, May 19, 2012
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