vc on July 20th, 2006

Behindwoods.com has the following comparison between Bollywood and South Indian Film industry.   Bollywood South India No. of theaters 5289 7611 Biggest hit in 2005 Bunty Aur Bubli Chandramukhi Earnings Bunty Aur Bubli (45 crore) Chandramukhi (110 crore) Movies/year 246 479 Viewer turnout 35 – 40% 60 – 65% Renumeration Aamir Khan (7 crore/film) Rajnikanth [...]

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unni on July 19th, 2006

(Written by Unni) One of the most crucial aspects in movie making is generating the pre-release hype. A movie can create interest in the public through its promotional campaigns – a few stills and a trailer with a theme music should leave the spectator intrigued on what the movie is all about. Movie promotions have [...]

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vc on July 18th, 2006

An Army movie after a long time

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vc on July 17th, 2006

Bhavana quits Malayalam , Bhavana on a roll . These were the headlines on various websites the other day. The news is related to the fact that Bhavana has moved completely to Tamil. Sometime back we noticed that Bhavana had started speaking Tamil , but still she used to make the trek to Kerala to [...]

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unni on July 14th, 2006

(Written by guest contributor Unni) Sathyan Anthikad spotted her first in Vanitha. The veteran director was impressed by what he saw, and he decided to cast this young girl from the non-descript village of Thiruvalla, as Jayaram’s heroine in Manasinakkare. Diana Kurian, rechristened as Nayantara, has not looked back since. Indeed it has been a [...]

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vc on July 13th, 2006

We own a CD called Ambalanadayil which is a collection of Hindu Devotional Songs from Malayalam movies from the HMV Revival Series. In the revival series, HMV gets musicians to perform the music of the song and overlays the original voice over it. While the songs may have been recorded in poor quality originally, the [...]

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vc on July 12th, 2006

(written by Guest Contributor Jo) While launching his son into the Hindi cinema, Amitabh Bachchan wanted to have a young voice for Abishek’s songs in the movie. He was very careful about that and he didn’t want Abhishek Bachchan to have the voices like that of Kumar Sanu. So he picked Sonu Nigam and Sonu [...]

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