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Yuvan boards the Billa express

Mankatha is scheduled for June release

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In the recent times, there were many rumors that Andrea Jeremiah isn’t part of Ajith Kumar’s 50th movie ‘Mankatha’. Even the actress herself had denied the rumors in many interviews, But now it has been confirmed by the closer sources of Venkat Prabhu that she has been signed on the dotted lines. Yes, Andrea Jeremiah will be pairing with Action King Arjun. But there are no songs for them in this movie.

With the star-casts getting bigger in this movie, it can said that ‘Mankatha’ is gonna be a big project.

The entire crew is now flying down to Mumbai for next schedule.

‘Mankatha’ in Hollywood style

Producer Dayanidhi Azhagiri of Cloud Nine Movies had recently watched the movie ‘Mankatha’ with its edited clippings. Soon after watching the rushes, the producer couldn’t stop appreciating Thala’s performance and Venkat Prabhu’s stylish make of the movie. Immediately he surprised Venkat Prabhu saying he can shoot the remaining portions with a greater panache of Hollywood standard.

Now the entire crew is flying down to Mumbai for shooting few scenes along with a thundering action sequences and couple of songs.

Now we can expect that Thala’s 50th movie will be much of Hollywood flick.

Working with Ajith is Blast Always - Trisha

Actress Trisha roughs it out in Ranthambore for an encounter with the magnificent animal…

Trisha is having a ball. After completing work on her Telugu film Teen Maar with Pawan Kalyan, she took off on a vacation that was long overdue. Along with her best buddies, costume designer Sabina Khan and Hema, the actress headed on a wildlife trip to Ranthambore.

In an exclusive to TOI, Trisha, speaking from Ranthambore, says, “I’m a wildlife enthusiast and love going on treks. It was always my dream to see the most magnificent animal on the planet, the tiger, in its natural surroundings.” Trisha stayed in a luxury tent deep inside the forest and was able to spot the elusive tiger in its natural environment.

Adds Trisha, “It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The best part was that after waiting for three days and many hours, we were able to see a tiger just metres away from our jeep! I was able to take some great pictures of the animal. It was a completely different holiday; peaceful and quiet.”

Meanwhile, the actress has signed up to do Bodyguard in Telugu opposite superstar Venkatesh. The film is a remake of the Malayalam original (Bodyguard) which had Nayanthara in the lead. Interestingly, the film was made in Tamil as Kaavalan, with Asin playing the heroine, and is now being shot in Hindi with Kareena Kapoor in the lead.

An excited Trisha says, “Yes, I have signed Bodyguard in Telugu. It’ll start rolling from April 14 in Hyderabad. I’m pretty excited about it and will be watching the Malayalam and Tamil versions to get an idea about firming up my look for the film.” The actress has a few more projects lined up for the rest of the year and had recently made news when she replaced Asin in a fairness cream commercial.

Trisha will join Ajith and the unit of Mankatha by the end of this week in Mumbai. Concludes the actress, “Working with Ajith is always a blast. I freaked out on his biriyanis! It is my final schedule for the film and I will surely miss Venkat and rest of the unit once shoot gets done.”

Yuvan Shankar Raja’s special work for ‘Mankatha’

Get ready for the musical blast of ‘Mankatha’. It’s getting bester much than anything now. Yuvan Shankar Raja has taken special efforts to give three additional tracks for this film now. ‘Mankatha’ was initially supposed to have 6 tracks. Now he has gone ahead working on a club mix, promotional song and theme music of ‘Mankatha’.

Venkat Prabhu is on high-tempo excitements as he is enthralled over the recording of 3 songs by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

‘Songs are shaping up fabulously and Yuvan is rocking’ exclaims Venkat Prabhu. One of the songs will have the lines used in Superstar Rajnikanth’s yesteryear song ‘Raman Aandalum Raavana Aandalum Enakkoru Kavala Illa’.

Mankatha audio launch on May 1

Thala fans have a reason to celebrate now. May be they were literally disappointed with the film’s delay on theatrical release for the occasion of his birthday on May 1st, 2011. As the release was postponed to June, there were some sort of hopes dashed down. But now it’s time to celebrate as the audio launch of this movie will be held on May 1st.

The producers of Cloud Nine Movies have decided to call for bigger event as they maintained low profile for some of their recent releases.

Yuvan Shankar Raja has always given the best for our ‘Thala’ and let us keep our fingers crossed for ‘Mankatha’ as well.