Santhosh Sivan the new actor on the block

Santhosh Sivan has been a wonderful cinematographer and also a director. His camera work in 'Raavan' is excellent. He is now moving on to act in films. He will be seen in Makaramanju as Raja Ravi Varma. The film will also have Karthika, the daughter of veteran actress Radha, debuting. The period film will be directed by Rajendran.

Mamta Mohandas acting with Prithviraj

Actress Mamta Mohandas has been cast in Amal Neerad’s film, ‘Anwar’, opposite Prithviraj.

Amal and Prithviraj are working together for the first time with this film. The director is well-known for his visually elegant films.

Mamta too will be working with Prithviraj for the first time. The two have had many opportunities to work together but somehow, one problem or the other always cropped up. Hopefully, they will be able to do this film together.

This is the Mamta’s first film after , ‘Passenger’, last year.

Rajinikanth appreciates Mani Rathnam's Raavan

An avid film buff by nature, Rajnikanth makes sure that he doesn’t miss any of the films. Indeed, he happened to be one of those audiences curiously awaiting the release of Manirathnam’s ‘Raavanan’. Released with around 2200 prints, the film has witnessed a grand opening in spite of mixed reviews.

Superstar Rajnikanth watched the film on Thursday evening at Devi Sridevi Preview theatre in T Nagar by avoiding all his urgents. Nothing could stop him from giving a standing ovation soon after the final credits. Apart from singing the praises of Manirathnam and Vikram, Rajnikanth appreciated Santhosh Sivan’s cinematography too. He recollected his previous experience with Santhosh as they had worked together in Manirathnam’s yesteryear blockbuster ‘Thalapathy’, which happens to be a modernized adaptation of the epic ‘Mahabharatha’.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Rajanikanth performed together in his upcoming movie, ‘Endhiran – The Robot’.

Genelia-Prithviraj in Santhosh Sivan Film

Santhosh Sivan is ready to debut as a film director according to sources. he proved his excellance as a camera man in many movies and Ravan was the latest one. This talented cinematographer had also worked on Tahaan: The Boy With A Grenade, featuring the duo Rahul Khanna and Rahul Bose.

He casred Genelia D’Souza and Prithviraj to play the lead pair in his new film. As sources reveal, the cinematographer-director is really excited as to know about the assailant of Vasco De Gama. Prithviraj, who is a big name in the South Indian film industry, would be playing the central character. Sivan also said that he is going to start Who Killed Vasco De Gama real soon. He plans to release it in trilingual versions of Hindi, English and Malayalam. He also has expressed his wish to have the same cast of stars in all three versions of the film. Prithviraj is now with handful of movies.