Superstar Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone starrer much awaited 3D flick is Kochadaiyaan, the unit is all set to commence the shooting in London and will fly to night. Debutant directorial of Soundarya R Ashwin will hit the floors in London and the first schedule will be canned for about 25 days of shoot there, which has music being composed by maestro AR Rahman. Superstar’s younger daughter tweeted in a microblogging site, “Off to London tonight …

Sources say that Oscar winning music director AR Rahman has recorded a song for Kochadaiyaan. Singer Karthik has rendered this song, which has been penned by veteran lyricist Vaali. Kochadaiyaan is fast progressing with director Soundarya Rajinikanth making all the arrangements for the shooting to begin. The film stars Rajinikanth in the lead role with Deepika Padukone playing the female lead. Sarath Kumar, Aadhi, Nasser, Jackie Shroff and others …

Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was named the worst actor and Sonam Kapoor the worst actress at the third annual Golden Kela Awards Saturday night, a spin-off of Hollywood's Razzies awards, which recognises the worst in cinema. While Shah Rukh won the award for Karan Johar's "My Name is Khan", where he played a patient of Asperger's syndrome, Sonam got the award for her home production "Aisha". Ironically, Shah Rukh has also won the Filmfare award …

Bollywood diva Manisha Koirala, who triggered a storm of gossip about an impending divorce following a hasty online comment, says things were blown out of proportion and she is still happily married to her Nepali entrepreneur husband. The 40-year-old acclaimed actor, who is attending the International Film Festival of India that kicked off in Goa Monday, found herself in the eye of a storm both at home and in India after she posted a comment on …

NTR’s undershoot movie ‘Shakti’ has completed the filming of its action scenes at Annapurna Studios yesterday. A set worth 5crores has been erected under the supervision of Anand Sai especially for this climax part of the film. Finally the team has completed the schedule at Annapurna Studios. The next schedule will be shot at Hampi and Badami for 10 days. The film sets a record of highest budgeted flick, so far in the Telugu film industry. It also …

SPB Charan’s forthcoming production venture ‘Aranya Kandam’ starring Hindi actor Jackie Shroff and Yamini Ponnappa in lead roles is making much interesting news before its release. It was announced that the filmmaker Thiagarajan Kumararaja, who is making his debut with this film has been chosen for the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) to be held in New York from Oct 27 to Nov 2, 2010. The film has music composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. …

Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff, who was seen in Manchu Vishnu’s ‘Asthram’ film in Telugu, has signed a new film titled ‘Marmam’. It will be directed by H Madan. Apart from direction, he also penned the story, screenplay and dialogues for this film. Sources say that the story is all about a girl being strangely murdered in a palace. The film is all with mysterical twists and turns. It will be made both in Tamil and Telugu starring Tamil actors Vijaya …

In my college I used to hang out with a guy called Ramesh who was a kind of a street goonda. Those days there used to be a lot of hobnobbing between students and goonda elements. Ramesh was a very feared guy in the locality and me and my friends used to be in awe of him. We used to spend endless hours with him in an Irani hotel. He developed a huge crush on one of the college girls which slowly turned into intense love. But he always used to look …

It is believed that sizzling bodies and action physics do the business among the 'woods'. All of a sudden there is a shift over such thought at least by a section. There is a row of news about some new ventures based on mythology and classics by different actors, producers and directors, adding surprises. It all started by the success of Annamayya by Nagarjun in Telugu nearly two years ago and recently by Kamal Hasan though he is well known …

This one has gone from being nice to naughty. Nikita Anand, who played a sweet bubbly college student in 'Dil, Dosti Etc', has decided to turn a new leaf. She's donning shades of grey in Partho Ghosh's next film 'Ek Second ' Jo Zindagi Badal De' with established actors like Manisha Koirala and Jackie Shroff giving her company. Of course, the character's personality doesn't match Nikita's and so it's going to be a challenge for her to do justice …