Vijay starrer ‘Kuruvi’ has managed a 150-day run across theatres in Tamilnadu. Produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin and directed by Dharani, the movie featuring Vijay, Trisha and Suman in the lead roles, witnessed mixed reviews at the box office.

However, thanks to the racy script and Vijay’s popularity among the masses, the movie opened big and gradually settled down to do a decent business at the box office.

The cast and crew thanked the film-buffs for helping the movie complete a 150-day run. According to director Dharani, “I thank the producer Udhayanidhi Stalin, actor Vijay and the rest of my crew for the successes”.

Post ‘Gilli’, Vijay-Dharani-Trisha and music composer Vidyasagar tag teamed for ‘Kuruvi’. Fortunately, they succeeded in their attempt.

Now and then Lloyola College conducts opinion polls. This time, the results are quite interesting. Late actors are more favored when compared to present day actors. With regard to actresses also, olden day heroines eclipse the new breed.
Among actors, MGR takes top spot as usual with 21.3 % of votes. His film ‘Nadodi Mannan’ emerged a favorite. In second spot is Sivaji with 18.9 % votes and his best film was ‘Paasa Malar.’

For the first time, Vijay has overtaken Rajini. Vijay got 16.4 & votes and Rajini got 16.2. Vijay’s ‘Gilli’ and Rajini’s ‘Basha’ were voted their best. Vijayakanth gets the fifth spot with ‘Captain Prabakaran’ as his best film.

Among actresses, Saroja Devi gets top spot followed by Jayalalitha and KR Vijaya. Today’s actresses come only after these top 3 yesteryear actresses. Jyotika is in 4th place, and Khushboo in 5th place.

“Vijay would surely get into politics and there is no doubt about it. He has been acquiring all the good attributes of working for the well-being of society and my son is worth ruling the people”. Are you guessing who could have uttered such confident statement? Of course, he is none other than Vijay’s father S.A. Chandrashekar.

In a recent Television channel interview, while he was put to question about his son Vijay launching Fans Club Flag, he had this reply. Continuing to add during the interview, Chandrashekar said that Vijay would surely get into politics, once he is perfectly done acquiring all the qualities as he had done before getting into acting.

One could add Asin to the list but she seems to have decided to remain stuck to Bollywood. No wonder there was a hassle to sign a heroine for Vijay’s ‘Vettaikaran.’ Since Nayantara is in ‘Villu,’ she can’t be cast for ‘Vettaikaran.’ Fans did not quite cheer Trisha as Vijay’s heroine in ‘Kuruvi.’ Shriya has just sung duets with Vijay in ‘Azhagiya Thamizh Magan.’

There were rumours that Ileana was approached for the ‘Vettaikaran’ role but that was all it was – a rumour. The producers say they never thought of Ileana as their only aim was at Asin.

Asin is at present outside India shooting for ‘London Dreams.’ Since it’s a Vijay film, she gave her call sheet immediately.

‘Vettaikaran’ shooting starts in November.

Here is an shocking news for Vijay’s fans.  Their hero’s movie Villu will be released only for Pongal and not for this Deepavali.

To be noted here is that the producer of Ajith’s Aegan, Ayngaran, is producing Vijay’s Villu.

While Aegan is complete is getting ready for release the producer decided to release Ajith’s movie first.  Lots of work has to be completed for Villu and hence the decision.

Ilayathalapathy Vijay wanted to cast Ileana as his heroine for a long time.

Finally, it looks like it is happening. She is almost certain to be his heroine in AVM Balasubramaniam’s new film Vettaikaran to be directed by debutant Babu Sivan, a former assistant of Dharani.

Ileana has done just one film in Tamil KD which bombed, however she has a couple of hits in Telugu like Pokkiri with Mahesh Babu.

She is said to be a lucky star, and her demand it seems is that she should be paid her market rate in Telugu which is said to be around Rs 1.25 crore!

So is Ileana now on par with Nayantara, as far as her salary is concerned?

Vijay is all set to become the hunter in his next movie Vettaikaran, which he is expected to star after the completion of his current movie Villu. The film is being produced by M. Balasubramanian and B.Gurunath Meiyappan.

This is the first time the actor is doing a movie under the AVM banner. If sources are correct, Ileana would be playing the female lead in the movie Vettaikaran along with ‘Ilayathalapathy’ Vijay.

It was ealier rumoured that Vijay will be pairing with Ileana in the upcomming movie Villu directed by Prabu Deva, but finally Nayantara was roped in opposite to him.

Vijay-Nayantara starrer Villu is moving on at a breakneck speed. The film has garnered huge expectations as the winning combination Vijay and director Prabhu Deva are back together. It may be recalled that their Pokkiri was a smash hit.
The director had filmed a song sequence in which Vadivelu and Asin danced to the tunes of Suttum Vizhi Chudare in Pokkiri, which created a laugh riot among the audience. He once again intends to do the same but this time it’s Nayantara who will be shaking her legs with Vadivelu for the song “My name is Billa.” This song will be filmed on the floors of AVM Studios.

After completing ‘Villu’, Vijay will shoot for the movie ‘Vettaikaran’, a title inspired by yesteryear MGR hit.

‘Vettaikaran’ would be directed by Babu Sivan, an associate of director Dharani. To be produced by AVM Balasubramaniam, the movie is touted to be an action-packed entertainer, quite typical of Vijay film.

Sources close to the project say Ileana would be playing the female lead in the movie. The sought-after heroine in Tollywood, Ileana made her debut in Tamil with ‘Kedi’. She managed to render a string of successful movies in Telugu establishing herself as a numero uno actress there.

Efforts were made to bring her back to Tamil cinema. But all ended in vain. Buzz is that AVM has managed to convince her to make a comeback in Tamil with ‘Vettaikaran’.

Cast: Vijay, Nayantara, Vadivelu,Prakash Raj
Direction: Prabhu Deva
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Banner: Ayngaran International Films

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