Jayaram is usually associated with comedy as his most memorable roles in Tamil cinema were humorous ones. All that changed with Saroja where he played the unlikely villain and impressed with his performance. Now he has been roped in for an important role in Vijay's Thuppaki directed by AR Murugadoss. Kajal Agarwal is the heroine and Sathyan will also be seen in the film. About whether he is playing a villainous character, Jayaram refused to confirm …

The 5th Edition of the Edison awards were announced in a grand ceremony that saw some of the biggest Tamil stars in attendance. Vijay won the best actor award for Velayudham. Richa really cleaned up at the awards winning in the best female debut and best actress categories for her turn as Yamini in Mayakkam Enna. Mahat Raghavendra won the best male debut award. In the best supporting actor category, Sriman, Kovai Sarala won for Kanchana, Vasundhara …

Vijay was present at a special screening of Nanban held at Thanga Regal theatre in Madurai much to the joy of his fans. He distributed gifts and a feast was prepared for a group of mentally challenged people and served. Vijay also addressed his fans and shared his Nanban experiences. Sathyaraj, Shankar, Srikanth, Jiiva and Sathyan are all wonderful people and it was great to work with them, Vijay said. He said that it was a dream come true for him …

He is all of 21 and can boast of over 38 million YouTube hits for his song. But Anirudh Ravichander, composer of the phenomenally popular Tamil-English number "Kolaveri di", is already trying to move out of its shadow. " 'Kolaveri di' is in the past now; I am trying to move on to new projects," Ravichander said in an e-mail interview. "Although I'm enjoying the success, I realised it was very important to move out of the 'Kolaveri di' shadow to …

Arulnidhi after his Mounaguru was hit, started searching for the best scripts and the actor seems found an end to his search with Karu Palaniappan of Sadhurangam fame. There is abuzz in K-town that Arul has given nod to Karu Palaniappan and the film will go on floors from March. “I’m ready to work with new directors and have no hurry to sign whatever that comes my way. Mounaguru is with newbie Santha Kumar that went so well,” says Arulnidhi. This …

Jayam Ravi, who is filming his most delayed Aadhi Bhagavan, has signed three new projects. The actor is now planning to start shooting for Samuthirakani’s untitled flick before Boologam. This Jayam Ravi and Samuthirakani duo will go on floors only after the former is done with the schedules of Aadhi Bhagavan. Samuthirakani will shortly announce his forthcoming movie, once he finalizes the cast and crew. Director Ameer Sultan’s Aadhi Bhagavan casts …

Prasanna is very modern in his outlook and has no intention of making his fiancee, Sneha to quit films. The actor took time out to clarify certain rumors regarding his wedding. A section of the press had clarified that Sneha had postponed the wedding against Prasanna's wishes because she wanted to continue acting and had landed a role in Kochadaiyaan. The Anjathey actor said that he thought Sneha was a talented actress and it would be a shame for …

Love is in the air in Bollywood, especially for the cutest pair of Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza who have decided to take their relationship to the next level. The couple will tie the knot Feb 3. After hiding their relationship in the past and by stating “we are just good friends” now finally Riteish has spoken up about his love life. After seven years, the two actors are coming together in “Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya” which is expected to hit …

Bipasha Basu, busy promoting her newly-launched song “Bipasha Bipasha” from her upcoming flick “Jodi Breakers”, had to cancel her shoot because of an eye infection. “Contracted conjunctivitis in the morning, had to cancel my shoot. Feel helpless as we have so much work pending,” the 33-year-old posted on Twitter. “These are times you realise the stress of a job of an actor! Entire unit waiting for you and you don’t have specific answer to give,” …

Director Trivikram Srinivas has just completed directing Mahesh Babu for the latter’s Santoor commercial. The actor and the director worked for the shooting the Santoor ad script today in a private studio in Mumbai. Trivikram earlier directed Mahesh Babu in two Thumbs Up soft drink commercials to assist in promoting the film and this is the third time the director is working with the actor for a commercial. Apart from Santoor, Mahesh Babu is already …