'Nanban' Shooting In The Place Of ‘Endhiran’

It looks like director Shankar will complete ‘Nanban’ within short span of time, say before Jan-Feb 2012. The crew has already completed working on couple of schedules that was shot across Ooty, Dehradun and Andaman.

Before couple of days, the crew returned from Ooty after shooting few portions and are now back in Chennai. Shankar has planned a week schedule at the indoors of Studios. It was the same place where the huge sets were erected for ‘Enthiran’.

Soon after completing few portions in Chennai, Shankar is planning for some songs to be shot in Spain and other parts of the globe.

NANBAN-RELEASE DATE

It is known that this comedy entertainer is made with a whopping budget of Rs 60 crore. This is going to be a mega budget film in Kollywood, off course its director Shankar’s film. All most all his films are made with a whopping budget and the film too showcases the grandeur and elegance. 

Currently the film is shooting at Coimbatore and the lead casts Vijay, Jeeva, Ileana are taking part in this schedule. Nanban music carries a special song which includes the lyrics of 16 languages and director Shankar has shot this song in exotic places around the world.

Nanban is a laugh-riot and speaks about the most important aspect of human pursuits: self-actualization.

Nanban is produced by Raju Easwaran and T. Muthuraj under the banner of Gemini Film Circuit.

Nanban is tentatively slated for its release on 26 October 2011.

NANBAN TEAM IN COIMBATORE

Whatever director Shankar does creates a buzz all over the industry and among movie buffs. Of course, the director-cum-producer has directed around ten films so far in his eighteen years career as a director and each film from ‘Gentleman’ to ‘Enthiran’ has been a blockbuster breaking all records. 
 
His forthcoming venture ‘Nanban’ is the official remake of Bollywood blockbuster, ‘3 Idiots.’ But what not many know is that, ‘Nanban’ is the first remake directorial venture of the ace director, Shankar. 
 
The Kollywood grapevine is abuzz that the team flew down to Coimbatore yesterday where some of the key scenes in the film will be shot.

Soon after returning from Swiss, Jiiva flew down to Coimbatore to participate in the Nanban shooting. Director Shankar and team are stationed in Coimbatore where some very important scenes are being canned.
Jiiva, who was busy wrapping up Vandhan Vendran, has joined the Nanban unit and will complete his portions.

 
Whereas actress Ileana tweeted that she is back to work at the shooting sets of ‘Nanban’ in Coimbatore and its burning hot in there! 
 
We’ll get back to you shortly with latest tidbits about ‘Nanban’ @ vjrasiganexpress.blogspot.com/

NANBAN CLIMAX???

One of the highpoints of '3 Idiots' is a romantic encounter between Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the climax, during which they would exchange a passionate kiss. Now that the film is being remade in Tamil, there is a question about retaining the scene.

"It is a long liplock scene which was well received by the audience. But it may not be retained in the Tamil version. Even if it is there, it would be shot in a way that you miss it if you blink," sources close to the unit say.

'3 Idiots' is being Tamilised by Shankar as 'Nanban', with Vijay, Srikanth and Jeeva playing the lead roles. Ileana is the heroine, while Sathyaraj plays her father. Music is scored by Harris Jayaraj.

"Nanban is getting shape fast. Shankar has made some slight changes to the script to make it appeal to the Tamil audience. There may even be a fight sequence to satisfy Vijay fans. But we are not sure about it," sources say further.

Maniratnam signs up Vijay for a commercial film

Ilayathalapathy Vijay is celebrating his 37th  birthday on 22nd June. He was planning to release his upcoming film ‘Velayudham’ to coincide with his birthday as it would be a ‘perfect’ way of celebration of his birthday by his fans. It now appears that his plan has run into some hiccups and ‘Velayudham’ might not be releasing on the D-Day.

Sources close to Vijay say that as he is simultaneously shooting for Shankar’s ‘Nanban’ too, Vijay’s call-sheet dates reportedly clashed and as a result, a song sequence and a major stunt sequence for ‘Velayudham’ remain to be canned. This and the post-production work as well as the audio launch might push the film to be released either by June-end or early July, it is learnt.

Vijay’s long-standing dream of working with directors like Shankar and Maniratnam is finally coming true. Though Vijay’s much-publicised project ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ with Maniratnam has been called off due to financial and other constraints, it now turns out that the ace director’s next film is most likely to feature Vijay in the lead role.

Mani is said to have sounded whether Vijay was willing to take on an ‘action role’ on the same call-sheet dates that he had given for ‘Ponniyin Selvan’. Vijay immediately nodded in agreement and the film has now been planned to be made with a budget of Rs.25 crores.

An official announcement in this regard might be made on the eve of his birthday next month, it is further reported. Stay tuned with us for further updates.

No Clashes Between Velayudham and Mankatha

While Vijay’s ‘Velayudham’ is reported of being scheduled for theatrical release on June 22 for the occasion of his birthday, it was a buzz on airs that Ajith Kumar’s ‘Mankatha’ will hit screens for the same Friday as producers were planning to get it released by third week of June. But now there is an official confirmation that the ‘Mankatha’ will hit screens only by second week of July.

The audio launch of both the films is also scheduled for release with a same interval of 1-2 weeks.

VELAYUDHAM FINAL SCHEDULE IN CHENNAI

Vijay’s Velayudham, the most awaited film of the year is going to complete the shoot by the end of May.

The latest update regarding Velayudham is that, the shooting had started in Chennai and this is the final schedule of the film. It is also known that the shooting would continue at Chennai locales for the next 20 days of time, later which the team will start the post production works of the film. Vijay is essaying the role of a milkman while Hansika and Genelia will star as his love interests in the film. There is going to be a lot of sister sentiment and Saranya Mohan who played Vijay’s sister in the film had greater scope for performance.

The audio is going to be out in stores on May 23, 2011. Though many confess that Velayudham is the remake of Telugu hit film Azad but director Jayam claims that it’s not a remake, but his own story.

MOST EXPECTED VIJAY-AMEER COMBO'S KANNABIRAN TO BEGIN SOON

Director Ameer is known for his mass movies. He had earlier done mass commercial entertainers with top heroes like Suriya, Karthi, and Jeeva and is currently working on ‘Aadhi Bhagavan’ with Jayam Ravi. We had earlier told you that Jayam Ravi is sporting a rough look in this movie, completely in contrast with his lover boy appearance in ‘Engeyum Kadhal.’


Now the buzz is that, the director has started working on his next project. This new project is tentatively titled ‘Kannabiran,’ with 'Ilayathalapathi' Vijay playing the protagonist. It is also said that this would be another mass entertainer of Ameer’s.


Both Ameer and Vijay are best at their commercial entertainers and the coming together of two such stars only raises more expectations! 


We’ll get back to you shortly, with more updates on ‘Kannabiran’on this site