Surya Fans Expecting AADHAVAN soon!

The Kollywood film "Aadhavan" starred by Surya, Nayanthara, Vadivelu, Ramesh khanna is directed by KS Ravi Kumar, music by Harris Jayaraj and produced by Red Giant Movies run by Udhayanidhi Stalin. This unit is been gifted with handsome hero, beautiful heroine, excellent supporting cast, superb music director and a successful director K.S. Ravikumar. So one can be sure a big hit is on the anvil.

Surya Fans are all on their feet to see their hero on the big screen soon. The news which recently sneaked out of the unit will be a treat to all surya and nayanthara fans. The latest buzz from the Aadhavan’s camp is that director KS Ravikumar has almost completed half the film. When KS Ravikumar informed Surya that the first schedule is done and they would start off with the second, the actor was taken by surprise. The director also told Surya that more than half the film has been canned and the remaining song sequences and outdoor shooting will be filmed in Kolkata. Surya had reportedly told the director KS Ravikumar that if all the directors were as swift as him, he would star in more films every year.

The film is on the way as swift as anyone would have imagined. This film is really going to be a big treat for all Surya fans. As we all hope when "Aadhavan" hits theatres, may be sooner than expected, it will not only be a great entertainer for all Tamil Cinema lovers but also one of the hot favourites at the box office. Let's convey our best wishes to Director Ravi Kumar and his team a great success.

India Celebrates HOLI Festival

It has been a tradition in India to celebrate the Festival of Colours with great sense of excitement all over the country. This colourful festival is being celebrated by all kinds of people and especially the north of India love celebrating Holi in even more grand style. This festival has a mythological importance of the victory of good over evil. This festival is celebrated by spraying colours on everyone, possibly all different colours will light up a Holi day. As usual HOLI is celebrated in a grand manner this year.

Holi revellers in Rajasthan's Bikaner are enjoying the famous Dab Dhamaal Holi, a unique manner of celebrating the festival of colours to the beats of the 'Dab'.The festivities here commence with the men-folk dressed as women and performing to the traditional Rajasthani folk songs. Artistes play various musical instruments and sing folk songs to mark the onset of the festival.

In Mumbai, members of Koli (fishermen) community celebrated the festival a day before the actual day of Holi as per the Hindu calendar.Several generations of the fishermen community of Worli in Mumbai have been celebrating the festival.Traditionally, a tree is decorated with garland, flowers, fruits and food and is then worshipped by the Koli women. Later, wood is lit to conclude the celebrations.Even foreign tourists joined the local revellers in the celebrations of Holi.


Although Holi is celebrated with colours across India, people in Allahabad celebrate the festival in their unique manner.People take out a hammer procession in which the hammer is adorned as a groom along with a fan as the bride.All the traditional rituals of Hindu marriage are performed to wed this hammer and the fan.This procession begins with the breaking of a pumpkin that is filled with colours, which is then splashed over the revellers. This colour splashing has been the trend of Holi festival.

The streets, people, park, beach,theatres etc. will will be sprayed with different possible colours and this wonderfull tradition of Indian culture will surely be enjoyed a lot by all. Wish you all HAPPY HOLI.

Sachin Sizzles and India Lead 2-0

India after an emphatic win in the first ODI at Napier against Newzealand and chance of win in the second ODI which was spoiled by the inteference of rain, took on Newzealand in the third ODI at Christchurch. India played first and posted a huge score of 392 in 50 overs.

It was Sachin Tendulkar who played a spectacular knock to reach his 163 runs. Sachin was in fierce mood hitting the ball all over the park and he was totally unstoppable for the Kiwis. Sachin made his first ODI century in Newzealand. But he did not stop at that, he went to make on 163 runs off 133 balls after which he was forced to leave the field due to bad cramp. Tendulkar's 43rd ODI century was an innings of skill, power, control and intelligence.

Yuvraj singh played a blitzering 87 runs off 59 balls has put kiwis on the back seat. Indian Captain MS Dhoni played a responsible innings of 68 runs from 58 ballsThe partnership between Sachin and Yuvraj took a lot out of Kiwis and the Newzealand skipper for the match Brendon Mccullum would be totally disappointed with the first ever international match in which he has lead the Kiwi team as a captain.

Chasing a huge target Newzealand started off well with a bright hopeful partnership between Jesse Ryder and Brendon Mccullum. But ultimately Kiwis went on to lose the match by 58 runs. Sachin's Sizzling knock and Yuvraj's flashing knock has put Indis in the drivers seat.India lead the series 2-0 and Indians will really look forward to grab the series in the very next match.

Colombo says No Question of Indian Involvement in Lahore attack

On account of terrible incident that took place at Lahore which affected the Lankan players both physically and mentally, Srilankan govt. insisted pakistan to display truth behind that incident. Srilanka has officially conveyed that there is absolutely no reason to suspect any sort of Indian involvement in the Lahore terror attack. Srilankan government has asked for an independent enquiry to get to the truth behind that horrible incident.

Srilankan Foreign Affirs minister has officially told pakistan's top leaders that India is fully with srilanka and there is no question of India being involved in the terror attack. The minister also told to convey the condolences and deepest sympathies to the families of the pakistani security officers and civilians who were killed in this attack. The srilankan government has also said that they were totally unhappy with the security arrangements at Lahore.

Srilankan Government stated clearly to Islamabad that there is no question of Indian involvment.Srilanka also feels that whether this attack might be caused by LTTE which considers to be unlikely yet srilanka has not ruled out the possibility.

Kamal plays 'A Wednesday'

Everyone is aware of the fact Director K. Balachander is the mentor of the great actor Kamal Haasan. Director told that a technician cannot earn more in the cinema industry, only an actor can. So I became an actor, recalled Kamal Haasan, when enunciating on his remake of the movie ‘A Wednesday’.

Kamal said that heeding to his mentor’s words he decided to don the greasepaint, but over the years he had learnt to spend his hard earned money to meet the demands as a technician. " In a wednesday", the actor will play the role that was briefed so beautifully by Naseeruddin shah.

Kamal also elaborated that he was greatly surprised seeing Naseeruddin portray his role with utmost precision in which his perseverance is clearly visible. I am enacting just seeing him on-screen which has made my job all the more easy. There is nothing wrong in remaking movies from other languages as long it has a strong and appealing message to be conveyed to the people. There are instances of successful remaking in earlier years too. A Wednesday is one such good movie which inspired me venture into its remake.

Frieda- New Fashion Style Icon!

Fame touches Frieda as a new fashion style icon. The reach of “Slumdog Millionaire” has propelled Mumbai girl Freida Pinto into instant fame with the former model going from anonymity to international celebrity within a span of few months. Fashion bible Vogue has lauded her as a style icon for her fashion choices at the coveted red carpet events attended by her.

The 24-year-old actress features in a smouldering new shoot for the Indian edition of Vogue magazine, which brands her as a “style icon”. The Vogue cover emerged just hours after it was revealed that Frieda is lined up to star in Woody Allen’s next film.

Allen moved quickly to secure the services of the 24-year-old Pinto, the latest in a long line of female muses featured in his films, including actresses like Scarlett Johansson and Diane Keaton. Pinto will star alongside Hollywood stars Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Anthony Hopkins in what will only be her second film.Filming will start in London this summer after the success of Allen’s latest hit Vicky Cristina Barcelona , which won actress Penelope Cruz her first Oscar.

China's Lunar Probe Lands on Moon

China's lunar mission aiming to send 'robotic explorers' before 2020, landed its first satellite on Moon, as the Communist nation braces to compete in space technology with countries like US, Russia and India. the Lunar probe makes its impact on the Moon today.It represents the first step in the Chinese ambition to land robotic explorers on the moon before 2020.

The satellite ended its 16-month mission when it hit the lunar surface at 1.50 degrees south latitude and 52.36 degrees east longitude. The probe named as Chang'e-1 began to reduce its speed under remote control by two observation and control stations in east China's Qingdao and northwest China's Kashi.

This was the first phase of China's three-stage moon mission, which will lead to a landing and launch of a rover vehicle around 2012, the official Xinhua news agency reported.Chang'e-1 was launched into space on October 24, 2007 and sent the first full map of the moon's surface back to China one month later.A dozen performance tests were carried out while Chang'e-1 was in orbit to find out its orbit adjustment capability. "Chang'e" is named after a legendary Chinese moon goddess.

BushFire Fear Shuts Schools in Australia

A lack of rain and a predicted change in wind has made conditions the most dangerous in recent weeks.More than 3,000 firefighters are still fighting major blazes following the 7 February firestorm that killed 210 people and left thousands homeless.Temperatures are predicted to rise towards 40C , accompanied by high winds and low humidity.


More than 200 schools have been closed in south-eastern Australia as the government warned of an intensified fire risk ahead of the weekend.The state of Victoria was put on a high fire alert and dozens of fires continue to burn there."We have an extremely dry fuel load, and therefore extreme fire danger," Victoria's state emergency services commissioner Bruce Esplin told reporters.

People in areas near the fires needed to decide early whether to evacuate their homes, or stay and defend their properties, adding it was too late to leave once the flames were in sight.
Many of those killed 20 days ago died in their cars as they attempted to outrun the fires.The country's biggest-ever arson investigation is continuing into the causes of some of the fires.

Exo Planet Super Neptune Discovered

Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a planet somewhat larger and more massive than Neptune orbiting a star 120 light-years from Earth. While Neptune has a diameter 3.8 times that of Earth and a mass 17 times Earth's, the new world is 4.7 times the size of Earth and has 25 Earth masses.

Transit detections are particularly useful because the amount of dimming tells the astronomers how big the planet must be. By combining transit data with measurements of the star's "wobble" made by large telescopes like Keck, astronomers can determine the mass of the planet.A number of Neptune-like planets have been found recently by radial velocity searches, but HAT-P-11b is only the second Neptune-like planet found to transit its star, thus permitting the precise determination of its mass and radius.

The newfound world orbits very close to its star, revolving once every 4.88 days. As a result, it is baked to a temperature of around 1100 degrees F. The star itself is about three-fourths the size of our Sun and somewhat cooler.


HAT-P-11 is in the constellation Cygnus, which puts in it the field of view of NASA's upcoming Kepler spacecraft. Kepler will search for extrasolar planets using the same transit technique pioneered by ground-based telescopes. This mission potentially could detect the first Earth-like world orbiting a distant star. "In addition, however, we expect Kepler to measure the detailed properties of HAT-P-11 with the extraordinary precision possible only from space.

Oscar 81st Annual Academy Awards Winners!!!

Friends.. Here is the list of Oscar 81st Annual Academy award winners...

Best Picture

WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director

WINNER: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"

Leading Actor

WINNER: Sean Penn, "Milk"

Leading Actress

WINNER: Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

Supporting Actor

WINNER: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"

Supporting Actress

WINNER: Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

Animated Feature

WINNER: "WALL-E"

Adapted Screenplay

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire" screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original Screenplay

WINNER: "Milk" written by Dustin Lance Black

Art Direction

WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Donald Graham Burt, set decoration: Victor J. Zolfo

Cinematography

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire" Anthony Dod Mantle

Costume Design

WINNER: "The Duchess" Michael O'Connor

Documentary Feature

WINNER: "Man on Wire"

Documentary Short

WINNER: "Smile Pinki"

Film Editing

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire" Chris Dickens

Foreign Language Film

WINNER: "Departures" Japan

Makeup

WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Greg Cannom

Original Score

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman

Original Song

WINNER: "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" music by A.R. Rahman, lyrics by Gulzar

Animated Short

WINNER: "La Maison en Petits Cubes"

Live-action Short

WINNER: "Spielzeugland"

Sound Editing

WINNER: "The Dark Knight" Richard King

Sound Mixing

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire," Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

Visual Effects

WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron