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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Sivaji 125 Days Celebration at Tuticorin
Mottai Boss Rap Song
You could kill me you thought you could get away but you never never never never gonna get away
never
you can break me a break me a take me break me a
never never never gonna get away no
comin with an aim comin
comin with a jai
comin with an aim comin
comin with a jai
comin with an aim
is Sivaji
comin with an aim comin
comin with a jai
comin with an aim comin
comin with a jai
comin with an aim
is Sivaji
you could kill me you thought you could get away but you never never never never gonna get away
never
you can break me a break me a take me break me a
never never never gonna get away
no
you could kill me you thought you could get away but you never never never never gonna get away
never
you can break me a break me a take me break me a
never never never gonna get away
no!
The Boss(3)
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Sivaji overtakes Chandramukhi - Nethiyadi in Maalai Malar !!
You all might aware of Sivaji's record in 125 days in Tamil nadu and other parts of globe.
The news was sent to print media and it has come in today Maalai Malar.
Right time for the news
The news in today (Monday) Maalai malar is very important because - Govt. award function invitation has also come in today's papers.
To the attention of Vaitherichal parties
All vaitherichal parties like Bachans and Konis, Puruda News Anandan and other lead actors, actress would have seen the news. Also the news in Malar reaches high level in govt. functionaries upto Cabinet level. Finally also AVM.
The message was shown clearly to them. "Sivaji has beat CM record!!"
Pls check the following link for the news scan:
The news was sent to print media and it has come in today Maalai Malar.
Right time for the news
The news in today (Monday) Maalai malar is very important because - Govt. award function invitation has also come in today's papers.
To the attention of Vaitherichal parties
All vaitherichal parties like Bachans and Konis, Puruda News Anandan and other lead actors, actress would have seen the news. Also the news in Malar reaches high level in govt. functionaries upto Cabinet level. Finally also AVM.
The message was shown clearly to them. "Sivaji has beat CM record!!"
Pls check the following link for the news scan:
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What happened in Albert Theater? - Answer!!
You all should remember that Sivaji ran in Albert for 100 + days as 4 Shows/day.
After that , the film was shifted to Baby Albert in reduced shows and finally removed.
Our films were never forced to run by Superstar or his circles. Running films is purely at the discretion of producers (Like Ramkumar, Sivaji Productions) and distributors.
Previously our films used to release only in 8 theatres. But you all know that Sivaji was released in 17 theatres with 4 shows. (Even in Prarthana - the other theatre Aradhana it was released)
So, you can't expect it to run more than 100 days in Albert. Moreover, Albert has lost its floating population as Omni Bus-stand has been shifted to Koyambedu. In earlier days while our film was having more than 100 days run in Albert - it was running in Bala Abirami and Baby Albert alone.
But now - Devi Bala 4 shows and Inox and Santham and Bala Abirami. Double the running. So, please don't zoom this. And enjoy the running.
Even last weekend, during the Bandh and other holidays Sivaji was Houseful at Baby Albert.
Moreover, i heard that there was a difference of opinion between Albert and Abirami Ramanathan and hence the film was removed.....
Note: The ticket rate was very very high in Albert compared to the facilities it has. - Rs.70 and Rs.85 for Sivaji.
- Sundar
After that , the film was shifted to Baby Albert in reduced shows and finally removed.
Our films were never forced to run by Superstar or his circles. Running films is purely at the discretion of producers (Like Ramkumar, Sivaji Productions) and distributors.
Previously our films used to release only in 8 theatres. But you all know that Sivaji was released in 17 theatres with 4 shows. (Even in Prarthana - the other theatre Aradhana it was released)
So, you can't expect it to run more than 100 days in Albert. Moreover, Albert has lost its floating population as Omni Bus-stand has been shifted to Koyambedu. In earlier days while our film was having more than 100 days run in Albert - it was running in Bala Abirami and Baby Albert alone.
But now - Devi Bala 4 shows and Inox and Santham and Bala Abirami. Double the running. So, please don't zoom this. And enjoy the running.
Even last weekend, during the Bandh and other holidays Sivaji was Houseful at Baby Albert.
Moreover, i heard that there was a difference of opinion between Albert and Abirami Ramanathan and hence the film was removed.....
Note: The ticket rate was very very high in Albert compared to the facilities it has. - Rs.70 and Rs.85 for Sivaji.
- Sundar
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Sivaji starting another round at Satyam Complex
Sivaji has started its second round in sathyam complex. With effect from Friday (12 Oct 2007) , it will be shifted back from 4-Seasons (smaller capacity) to the much bigger Santham hall (where it was running earlier).
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Is Rajini Kelavan?
Actor Boss who acted as Sumans friend in Sivaji to whom Thalaivar says "Singam singala varum" dialogue. He was speaking in Vijay TV "King Queen Jack" programme whereby he supposed to tell jokes and experiences in the programme. He shared some of his interesting experience during Sivaji shooting. He used to see at least 4 to 5 movies a day in VCD and Thalaivar used to ask him about those movies and they would discuss more about it.
On one such days, he seems to have told Thalaivar that about a movie where Mohanlal has acted as a 50 years old kelavan (old man) and had given a very good performance. The whole day Thalaivar did not speak to him and everybody seemed to have been glaring at him since then. When he was totally confused, Thalaivar came in the evening and asked him if 50 years is a kelavan, then do you mean to say that I am a kelavan too? Thalaiavr laughed his heart out! The speaker lauded Thalaivar for his sense of humour and taking things in jovial spirits. That is Super Star for us!
News brought to us by Srinivas Naidu, Bangalore.
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Actor leads India's rising film industry
CHENNAI, India - Waiting in line to see the most expensive film in Indian history, a young woman searched for the right words to describe the movie's star, an aging, slightly paunchy actor who goes by the name of Rajnikanth.
"He is a god," Deborah Rekha Jeyasekar, 21, finally declared. "We accept that."
This isn't necessarily hyperbole in a land where celebrities are treated with something close to idolatry. When Sivaji - The Boss opened June 15, fans poured milk over cardboard cutouts of Rajnikanth in a Hindu rite of worship. Others sacrificed an entire week's wages to buy scalped tickets to the first screening.
"He is a god," Deborah Rekha Jeyasekar, 21, finally declared. "We accept that."
This isn't necessarily hyperbole in a land where celebrities are treated with something close to idolatry. When Sivaji - The Boss opened June 15, fans poured milk over cardboard cutouts of Rajnikanth in a Hindu rite of worship. Others sacrificed an entire week's wages to buy scalped tickets to the first screening.
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Fueled by the actor's megawatt star power, the film, with its Robin Hood story line and an estimated budget of $18 million - huge by Indian standards - appears to be enjoying a blockbuster run at the theaters, though box-office figures have yet to be released.
But Sivaji is not a Bollywood production, and Rajnikanth is not a Hindi-speaking Bollywood heartthrob. The movie was shot in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, and the dialogue is in Tamil, a language spoken by more than 70 million people.
The strong success of Sivaji has highlighted the fact that the Indian film industry, often considered synonymous with Bollywood, is actually far more diverse. A country of more than a dozen official languages, India has several different "ollywoods" scattered across the subcontinent, churning out movies that cater mostly to regional audiences.
Indeed, although Bollywood's colorful song-and-dance spectacles generally boast the biggest budgets, the biggest stars and the biggest domestic and international penetration, the Hindi film industry in Mumbai accounts for only about a quarter of the 1,000 or so movies produced in India annually.
Almost as prolific are "Kollywood," the Tamil film industry based in Tamil Nadu, and "Tollywood," its Telugu-language counterpart in the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh. Combined, the two entertainment powerhouses released nearly twice as many feature films last year as Bollywood.
"Everyone thinks Bollywood is the biggest in India, but it's actually the South Indian movie market that is bigger than the Hindi market," said Hetal Adesara, editor of Businessofcinema.com. (Hindi is the dominant language of India, spoken by more than 300 million people, concentrated mostly in the north.)
The growth in regional filmmaking, along with India's overall economic boom, has helped spur optimistic forecasts of the potential of the country's movie industry.
A report this year by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry pegged India's film business at $2.1 billion in 2006. That figure will more than double by 2011, the report projected.
Last year's highest-grossing movies in India were Bollywood creations, led by Krrish, starring the highly bankable Hrithik Roshan as a caped superhero. The movie, which made it into a handful of American theaters, raked in about $20 million worldwide, more than triple its initial investment. (In India, tickets at even the best cinemas in big cities never cost more than $5.)
This year, Bollywood has struggled to match 2006's record at the box office. Several high-profile films with big-name stars have flopped.
Still, Bollywood's global reach is not in any doubt. Its films do brisk business in other parts of Asia and in the West, especially in nations with significant South Asian populations, such as Britain. Same-day premieres around the world have become more common, and reviews of Bollywood flicks now appear in American newspapers.
But some non-Bollywood films are making inroads of their own. Rajnikanth, a bus conductor turned actor, has a devoted following in Japan, and ardent fans in Malaysia rioted and set one cinema on fire when the first screenings of Sivaji were delayed by a few hours.
In India, the highly anticipated film - the actor's first in two years - is exhibiting strong staying power, boosted by a months-long publicity campaign by its maker, AVM Studios. Three weeks after the movie's premiere, even weekday morning shows here in Chennai were sold out, attended by screaming moviegoers of both sexes.
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Rajnikanth's fee for Sivaji was $5 million, plus a share of the profits, making him India's highest-paid actor.
The movie follows a well-worn populist story line in which the title character brings down a corrupt rich businessman and builds hospitals and schools for the poor. But Indian critics are in near-unanimous agreement that the plot is largely irrelevant. The movie is essentially a vehicle for Rajnikanth to reel off one-liners, perform Matrix-like stunts and strut around.
That's why, analysts say, the film has traveled so well outside of Tamil Nadu. An inability to understand Tamil is no barrier to figuring out what's happening on screen. (A non-Tamil-speaking American reporter, who sat through all three hours and 20 minutes of Sivaji, can attest to this.)
The movie also underscores the importance in India, more so than in Hollywood, of a big-name star for launching a blockbuster. An Indian film with an A-list actor can certainly flop, but a film without one almost never becomes a hit.
"Rajnikanth is an amazing star who sort of bypasses all age groups," said film critic and analyst Indu Mirani. "He's about 60-plus, but . . . he's so flamboyant on screen that he appeals to everybody."
But Sivaji is not a Bollywood production, and Rajnikanth is not a Hindi-speaking Bollywood heartthrob. The movie was shot in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, and the dialogue is in Tamil, a language spoken by more than 70 million people.
The strong success of Sivaji has highlighted the fact that the Indian film industry, often considered synonymous with Bollywood, is actually far more diverse. A country of more than a dozen official languages, India has several different "ollywoods" scattered across the subcontinent, churning out movies that cater mostly to regional audiences.
Indeed, although Bollywood's colorful song-and-dance spectacles generally boast the biggest budgets, the biggest stars and the biggest domestic and international penetration, the Hindi film industry in Mumbai accounts for only about a quarter of the 1,000 or so movies produced in India annually.
Almost as prolific are "Kollywood," the Tamil film industry based in Tamil Nadu, and "Tollywood," its Telugu-language counterpart in the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh. Combined, the two entertainment powerhouses released nearly twice as many feature films last year as Bollywood.
"Everyone thinks Bollywood is the biggest in India, but it's actually the South Indian movie market that is bigger than the Hindi market," said Hetal Adesara, editor of Businessofcinema.com. (Hindi is the dominant language of India, spoken by more than 300 million people, concentrated mostly in the north.)
The growth in regional filmmaking, along with India's overall economic boom, has helped spur optimistic forecasts of the potential of the country's movie industry.
A report this year by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry pegged India's film business at $2.1 billion in 2006. That figure will more than double by 2011, the report projected.
Last year's highest-grossing movies in India were Bollywood creations, led by Krrish, starring the highly bankable Hrithik Roshan as a caped superhero. The movie, which made it into a handful of American theaters, raked in about $20 million worldwide, more than triple its initial investment. (In India, tickets at even the best cinemas in big cities never cost more than $5.)
This year, Bollywood has struggled to match 2006's record at the box office. Several high-profile films with big-name stars have flopped.
Still, Bollywood's global reach is not in any doubt. Its films do brisk business in other parts of Asia and in the West, especially in nations with significant South Asian populations, such as Britain. Same-day premieres around the world have become more common, and reviews of Bollywood flicks now appear in American newspapers.
But some non-Bollywood films are making inroads of their own. Rajnikanth, a bus conductor turned actor, has a devoted following in Japan, and ardent fans in Malaysia rioted and set one cinema on fire when the first screenings of Sivaji were delayed by a few hours.
In India, the highly anticipated film - the actor's first in two years - is exhibiting strong staying power, boosted by a months-long publicity campaign by its maker, AVM Studios. Three weeks after the movie's premiere, even weekday morning shows here in Chennai were sold out, attended by screaming moviegoers of both sexes.
Industry scuttlebutt has it that Rajnikanth's fee for Sivaji was $5 million, plus a share of the profits, making him India's highest-paid actor.
The movie follows a well-worn populist story line in which the title character brings down a corrupt rich businessman and builds hospitals and schools for the poor. But Indian critics are in near-unanimous agreement that the plot is largely irrelevant. The movie is essentially a vehicle for Rajnikanth to reel off one-liners, perform Matrix-like stunts and strut around.
That's why, analysts say, the film has traveled so well outside of Tamil Nadu. An inability to understand Tamil is no barrier to figuring out what's happening on screen. (A non-Tamil-speaking American reporter, who sat through all three hours and 20 minutes of Sivaji, can attest to this.)
The movie also underscores the importance in India, more so than in Hollywood, of a big-name star for launching a blockbuster. An Indian film with an A-list actor can certainly flop, but a film without one almost never becomes a hit.
"Rajnikanth is an amazing star who sort of bypasses all age groups," said film critic and analyst Indu Mirani. "He's about 60-plus, but . . . he's so flamboyant on screen that he appeals to everybody."
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The conductor who took the right bus to Superstardom
Surprise, surprise, it's yet another 100 for the master and in case you are wondering, I am not talking about Sachin Tendulkar. I am referring to the completion of a 100-day run of yet another blockbuster of Indian Cinema's impregnable superstar Rajnikanth.
I have reason to believe that Tendulkar's record of international hundreds in cricket will be beaten in the not too distant future, however I can't for the life of me imagine any other star in Kollywood even coming close to matching Rajni's incredible run of blockbusters exceeding 100 days in his illustrious career spanning more than three decades.
I have reason to believe that Tendulkar's record of international hundreds in cricket will be beaten in the not too distant future, however I can't for the life of me imagine any other star in Kollywood even coming close to matching Rajni's incredible run of blockbusters exceeding 100 days in his illustrious career spanning more than three decades.
As far as the movie Sivaji the Boss is concerned, today is not merely a 100th day celebration but rather it has been 100 days of celebration. Diwali is still a good month and a half away but for the millions of Rajni fans in India and worldwide, the last 100 days have been equivalent to 100 days of Diwali.
Sivaji the Boss, during the course of the past hundred days, has re-written every established Box Office Record in Kollywood and is likely to continue to do so for many weeks, months and years to come as well. The producers and the distributors of Sivaji have not been able to wipe that ever-present smile off of their faces owing to the unprecedented and never before seen financial success of Sivaji the Boss, worldwide. In the movie, actor Vivek refers to the BOSS as Bachelor Of Social Service. However, as far as the producers and distributors are concerned Rajni is a different type of BOSS. To them he has always been and always will be the one and the only Box Office Super Star who effortlessly gives them a maximum guarantee on returns every single time. On the one very rare instance that he failed to do so as in the case of Baba in 2002, Rajni shocked everyone when he decided to return the monies to the distributors so that they would not incur any losses. Such is the magnanimous and principled nature of this awesome human being.
Superstars like Rajnikanth do not fade away. They seem to get brighter with age. In his 32nd year in cinema, the Indian movie industry's greatest and most enduring crowd-puller has delivered yet another mega hit that is infinitely bigger than anything ever seen before. No other Indian movie star, not even the redoubtable Amitabh Bachchan, another showbiz supernova, can match this 57-year-old man's ability to single-handedly spearhead box office money-spinners. Rajnikanth's latest film, Sivaji the Boss released world-wide on the 15th of June, is still running to packed houses in many parts of Tamil Nadu and elsewhere. The only rival / challenger of some substance to Rajnikanth's unprecedented success in the Indian movie industry is Rajnikanth himself. What Rajni has achieved and continues to achieve in his glittering and incredibly successful career spanning more than 30 years can only be emulated and / or beaten by Rajni himself. Nothing illustrates this point better than the following sequence of events. Chandramukhi became the highest grosser in Tamil movie history beating another Rajni classic, Padayappa and now Sivaji has eclipsed Chandramukhi as the biggest grosser in Tamil film history. One will have to wait for Rajni's next release to see more new records being established.
Long before Shivaji Rao Gaekwad became Superstar Rajnikanth, he was a humble bus conductor in Bangalore. His passengers loved him. They knew him as the man who doled out tickets like no one else could. He was free entertainment in the otherwise jerky state transport. Shivaji was happy, life was beautiful until an angel crossed his path – his colleague. The colleague became his friend, and urged Shivaji to challenge his horizons. A hesitant, Shivaji took his first tremulous steps into the tinsel town's Tamil chapter and before he knew it, he was swept off his feet and by the time he came back down, Shivaji Rao Gaekwad was Rajnikanth the Superstar. A new era dawned upon Indian Cinema, an era that promised style, charisma, charm and a never before seen electrifying screen presence that would go on to enthral and captivate audiences in India and all over the world, movie after movie, year after year.
Long before there was Matrix, there was Rajnikanth; performing tricks not even Neo dared attempt in his sanest mind like lighting a cigarette mid-air as it flipped or slicing a bullet into two with a half blade. Unbelievable? The audience didn't think so. For them, he was the ubiquitous Robin Hood, friend of the poor and enemy of the State. With his dark skin, and guy down the road looks, he was the hope for the masses, suppressed by the age-old caste politics of the higher ups in the dog-eat-lesser-dog pyramid. As it has been said in one of the James Bond movies, 'No one does it like you do, no one does it half as good as you'. That is why Rajnikanth is the Superstar, that is why he reigns in the hearts of the masses and that is why no one, and I mean absolutely no one can take his place as the emperor of Indian Cinema. Ore oru chandhiran, ore oru suriyan, ore oru Superstar and that is Rajnikanth.
As he continued devouring the baddies on screen, the shrieking mass frenzy off-screen put him on a pedestal, idolized him and made him a temple. He was officially declared and bestowed upon the Demi - God status in Indian Cinema. He had power, and he wielded it with aplomb befitting only the larger than life Royalty. From Durban in South Africa to Tokyo in Japan, the Rajnikanth fan following grew to unimaginable proportions. Movie after movie, Rajnikanth's conquests grew. Alexander the Great's own escapades pale in comparison and with each of his conquests, his fan following, both in India and overseas grew by the millions. To say that Rajni's incredible fan following is unmatched and the biggest by far for any Indian star is truly an understatement. To the masses Rajni on screen was the new Krishna, not an idealist, but a man who will achieve his goals with the help of illicit loopholes in the system.
He is not Rama, who did everything right, as per the moral code of conduct. People are not moved by mighty speeches that beckon them to arise, awake, and take action. They'd much rather connect to someone who shows them how it's done. Through Rajni, people live vicariously, exacting retribution for all the wrongs they see around them.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Doubts regarding Sivaji's success in AP?
Every time when somebody raises question regarding Sivaji's hit in any area - i get new infos to tackle them. Thanks to them. They are indeed helping me.
One of our friend from AP (?!!) recently raised some doubts regarding Sivaji's hit in AP.
Now i have a perfect answer. And that too from one of our critic.
VannaThirai, from KUNGUMAM group which came up with some negative news regarding Sivaji in recent past has now put a positive news (?? !!)
The news bit speaks about Sivaji's success in AP. And i think this is enough for the moment until my Sivaji missile kicks off.
Pls click the following link for the scanned news
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One of our friend from AP (?!!) recently raised some doubts regarding Sivaji's hit in AP.
Now i have a perfect answer. And that too from one of our critic.
VannaThirai, from KUNGUMAM group which came up with some negative news regarding Sivaji in recent past has now put a positive news (?? !!)
The news bit speaks about Sivaji's success in AP. And i think this is enough for the moment until my Sivaji missile kicks off.
Pls click the following link for the scanned news
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/rajinifans/Vannathirai04_10_07.jpg
- Sundar
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