The Kannada movie Love Guru by the debutant Prashanth Raj will soon be dubbed in Malayalam. Prashanth, who hails from the Mahesh Bhatt camp, has made a stylish flick which lacks substance. He is happy for the good response to his first venture and says, “The audio has already been a super hit and the film will be released in Malayalam on January 1, 2010.”


The movie Love Guru revolves around two youngsters who works in a software company. The movie is presented in such a way to suit the young audience. Talks are in the way to remake the film into Tamil and Telugu. Tarun and Radhika Pandit played the lead role in the film. The promotional song 'Romeo Galige Juliet' will be retained in the Malayalam version.

The Malayalam superstar Mohanlal said that the role of Pazhassi Raja will not suit him. He said that he will not be able to do justice to such roles that do not suit him and that he was glad not doing Pazhassi Raja.

In an interview to an FM Channel that the actor revealed these that took the star very down-to-earth. He added saying that he had done many such roles that didn't suit him for which he regrets now.

As many as 52 films, including the Georgian movie The Other Bank, which won the special jury award at the recently-concluded International Film Festival of India, will be screened in the world cinema section of the 14th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) which begins in Thiruvananthapuram on December 11.

Looking for Eric (by Ken Loach), Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar), Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami), Dream (Kim Ki-Duk), Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee), Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira), Sweet Rush (Andrzej Wajda), Dev D (Anurag Kashyap), Pazhassi Raja (Hariharan) and Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim) are among the films in this section.

Seven French films, including Enough, In mom’s head, Seven Years, 13 Square Meter, On the Ropes and All is Forgiven and Water Lilies, will be showcased in the ‘First Time Directors’ category.

Kozhikode: T Hariharan's magnum opus ''Pazhassiraja,'' today ran into legal problems with surviving descendants of a prominient character in the film threatening to sue its makers for allegedly denigrating him.

Addressing a press conference here, the relatives of Edachana Kunkan said they had issued a legal notice to Director T Hariharan, Producer Gokulam Gopalan and script writer M T Vasudevan Nair for ''distorting historical facts'' by denigrating him as an orphan in the storyline of the film.

They urged the makers of the film to construct a suitable memorial for the tribal warrior as a compensation for showing him as an orphan brought up by the king Pazhassiraja whereas records showed that he was a landlord with vast land holdings in Wayanad district.

In fact, Pazhassiraja, the first Indian to revolt against the British, was given shelter and protection by Kunkan, portrayed by Tamil actor Saratkumar in the film, while the former was in exile in a dense forest in Wayanad after his kingdom was snatched by the invaders, they claimed.

The film in which megastar Mammootty played the title role also showed that Kunkan committed suicide before Pazhassiraja's death whereas records do not corroborate this fact, they said.

Demanding unconditional apology from the filmmakers through print and visual media and websites and an assurance on the memorial, the descendants said they would be forced to take legal action if their demands were not met immediately.

From MyNews.In

Kannur: Four persons have been arrested and a huge collection of recently released Malayalam films seized from different places today, police said.
Police, acting on a tip off, arrested the four working as a major conduit in distributing pirated versions of recently released films, including the blockbuster 'Pazhassi Raja' from Peringathoor near Panoor in the district.

Around 10,000 pirated CDs of recently released Malayalam films were recovered from a quarters in Kanhangad town alone, police said.Electronic gadgets used in the manufature of varieties of CDs were also recovered from the house.The four confessed that they were engaged in illegal trade of pirated CDs in the region, police said.

Thanks: PTI

The historic movie Pazhassi Raja seems to have impressed the world very much that all are wanting to see the film. Rumors are in air that HBO, the popular English filmy channel, has brought the rights of Pazhassi Raja for a sum of 17 crores.

The movie, which depicts the story of King Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, who did wars against the East India Company, did won many laurels from the day of its releasing. Although the movie was not selected for the Goa Film festival, the makers of the movie must have felt this news to be a rope to lean on. If that so, the movie will be soon seen in HBO too!

Thanks: oneindia

Recently, at an event for inaugurating the Pazhassi Day observance, writer MT Vasudevan Nair, who wrote the screenplay for Pazhassi Raja, said that the film had helped a long dream of his to come true. He was proud of the producer and director for doing a historical film about the history of a small locality, which everyone now knows about, thanks to the film. He also feels that Mammootty did a great job playing the character and didn’t change the historical part of it at all.
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