Mammootty's charity to sponsors 250 more heart patients

Mammootty is not only a superb actor, he is also into charitable activities and the latest is that he will sponsor another 250 heart patients by joining hands with the NIMS Hospital here.

Speaking to IANS, the superstar said that he will visit the hospital Thursday to spend some time with those who underwent heart surgeries.

"Along with NIMS Hospital two years back we had announced that 100 poor patients would be given totally free treatment, including by-pass surgeries. We did that and now we have decided to carry forward the scheme for another 250 more poor patients," said Mammootty.

The veteran superstar, who turned 58 this month, does charity work through his Fans Association and apart from sponsoring heart surgeries, he is also involved in providing free cataract surgeries.

Faizal Khan, managing director of NIMS Hospital, said that they are happy that Mammootty has decided to sponsor another 250 patients.

"The patients are identified by his Fans Association through medical camps. The financial position of the selected patients are thoroughly examined by them and the poorest of the poor people are selected. Once they get admitted to our hospital, then we take over till the time the patient leaves the hospital by providing free treatment," said Khan.

Mammootty in Pothys ad

As plans are on to film a movie on the life and times of Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma, the erstwhile King of Travancore, with Mammotty donning the historic character, the Megastar has already appeared in a advertisement with similar dress codes and backdrops of the famed Raja. Mammootty is in the lead of the ads for the Pothys textiles which is getting ready to start its first outlet in the capital city of kerala. The advertisement in the scripts of 'Urumi' fame Shankar Ramakrishnan is directed by Jetty Jerry who had earlier directed Tamil films like Ullasam.

It is learned that as the outlet is in Thiruvananthapuram. with the  famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple now becoming the cynosure of all eyes, the directors of Pothy's were keen to create an ad with a Travancore Raja in the frames. Malayalam star Jagathi Sreekumar and 'Dev D' fame Mahie Gille also share the screen time with Mammooty in this bug budget ad.

Mammootty in 'Kannum Kannum'

The practice of using the remix of a evergreen songs has already become a habit with the new film makers. And interestingly many new films are now remembered more for the remixed songs than the film itself. The same is the case of films like 'Thejabhai and family' and few others whose biggest highlight were its remixed songs.

Continuing with the tradition is the new Mammootty film 'Venicile Vyapari' which will feature the remixed version of the evergreen song 'Kannum Kannum'. The new song will have the megastar and Poonam Bajwa lypsyncing the song which in the original 'Angadi' was shot on Jayan and Seema.

'Kannum Kannuum' is remixed by young music director Bijipal for this 'Venicile Vayapaari', which tells a plot centred around the eighties. Mammootty and his costars appear in the dress codes and hairdo of the decade in this movie which is directed by Shafi in the scripts of James Albert.

Mammootty vows to avoid liquor in films

• Malayalam superstar Mammootty has produced a documentary that asks people to avoid liquor in Kerala, which has recorded the highest alcohol consumption in the country. He also said he would do his best to avoid liquor and not act in film sequences featuring alcohol.
  
  Mammotty's 40-second film with a message - Say No to Liquor and Say No to Drugs - was unveiled Thursday by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.
  
  "I always try to avoid such scenes but at times it becomes imperative to do it because the situation demands it. I assure everyone that from now on I will do my best to avoid such scenes which depict liquor or liquor imposed scenes," said Mammootty, who has been the numero one actor of the Malayalam film industry for two decades, at the event.
  
  Pointing to director Priyadarshan, who was present at the event, Mammootty said: "You have to ask people like him (Priyadarshan) because they ask us to do this and that. But let me tell you, I will do my best to do away with such scenes."
  
  Chandy said that people should make an edeavour to rid Kerala of the tag of being the top liquor consuming state.
  
  "Not long ago, Kerala was known for the huge strides it had made in literacy and its health status. But of late, it has taken a back seat and we are now known as the top liquor consuming state. This has to change and we all hope that the promotional material like this (Mammootty's documentary) will do us a world of good," the chief minister said.
  
  Excise Minister K. Babu said that the video will be shown in theatres and will be aired on television, besides being screened in educational institutions.
  
  "The young minds have to be taught the evils of liquor and drugs - our target group is schoolchildren," said Babu.
  
  According to a report, liquor sales touched an all time high of Rs.6,730.30 crore 2010-11 from Rs.5,539.85 crore in 2009-10.
  
  The government earned Rs.5,239 crore from liquor sales during the last fiscal year, while it was Rs.4,260 crore in 2009-10.
  

D Salman in Anwar Rasheed movie

As a star prodigy, Dulkar Salmam, son of megastar Mammootty is natural to have taken his career moves in films with real caution. Yes, after kicking off his acting career with a debutante director and after experimenting with his acting proves before real camera, D. Salman is ready to take the rightest steps. He is  now getting ready to go for a bigger project, the new movie with popular director Anwar Rasheed.

Listle Stephen, the young producer of  'Traffic' , will produce the movie while Anjali Menon famous for his award winning films like 'Happy journey'  will script the yet to be titled flick. Gopi Sundar is the music director while Lokanathan is the cinematographer.

Planned to stat the shoot by the month of November, the movie will be shot at Dubai, Kozhikkod and Kochy. D Salman is presently in the sets of his debut film 'Second Show' by debutante director Sreenath Rajendran. A new girl Dr Avantika is the heroine of the film which has music by Kaithapram and the Avial band.

Mammookka's car damaged

Megastar Mammotty had been part of many real road accidents, the last being the one that happened during the shoot of his 'Palunku'. Now the actor who is busy shooting for Shafi's "Venicile Vyappari" again got into a small accident. The car in which he was travelling  was slightly damaged as a private bus dashed into it near  Ernakulam.

The bus driver who realised the star inside immediately came out and apologised to Mammootty, who has asked the police not to file any case on the incident. 

Mammootty in Idukki Gold?

When the team behind the recent super hit 'Salt 'N Pepper' announced their plans to go for the next titled as 'Idukki Gold', they haven't announced their lead actor. But now reports says that megastar Mammootty who is much impressed with the role, will take up the assignment. The lead role of 'Idukki gold' pend by Santhosh Echikkanam is of a former ATS officer, who returns to his village to find his old friends and to lead a normal life away from tensions. And for that he gives a news paper advertisement and wait for his friends who were with him from School. After a couple of days, one person arrives with the story of their old friendship. What follows is the tussle between this ATS man and the new comers who is actually a well nourished thief.

While Shyam Pushakaran and Dileesh Nair  writes the screenplay and dialogues, the same team that created hit music in salt N Pepper will do the same for this 'Idukki Gold'. Watch this space to know whether Mammootty is ready to give priority dates for this movie project by Aashiq Abu.

'Kobra' from October

Megastar Mammootty will kick start the shoot of his new movie 'Kobra' with director lal from the mid of October. The movie which is also produced by Lal also feature him in a prominent role with  megastar. Mammootty will be going for a continuous shooting schedule of 45 days for this movie.

Mammootty, who is currently in the sets of Shafi's 'Venicile Vyaapari' will complete some portions of 'King and the Commissioner' before joining the sets of 'The Kobr'.

TEJA BHAI MY REVIEW

Deepu karunakarans 3rd project after crazy gopalan and winter was expected to be comedy thriller but it ended up as a logicless if felt entertainer.the story is about a underworld don(prithviraj) falling in love with a girl(akhila) whose father is a disciple of a swamy(suraj)and gives prime importance to family.teja who doesnt have a good family background is trying to convince the girls father by showcasing some duplicate drama.first half which gives in some entertainment with the jokes cracked by suraj.Prithvirajs dance have seemed to be improved a lot for the movie.The music by deepak dev suits the occassion. But the bgm's are just the copy of 2008 mammoottys movie roudram.there were some technical mistakes in the movie like akilas father shot at the chest and having bandage on his hands.the director took the climax scenes in such a way that he dint have a clear picture of where to stop the movie.performance wise suraj venjaramood was the show steeler.

A well started movie ended up witjh a poor second half along with a ordinary blunder climax

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Deepu karunakarans 3rd project after crazy gopalan and winter was expected to be comedy thriller but it ended up as a logicless if felt entertainer.the story is about a underworld don(prithviraj) falling in love with a girl(akhila) whose father is a disciple of a swamy(suraj)and gives prime importance to family.teja who doesnt have a good family background is trying to convince the girls father by showcasing some duplicate drama.first half which gives in some entertainment with the jokes cracked by suraj.Prithvirajs dance have seemed to be improved a lot for the movie.The music by deepak dev suits the occassion. But the bgm's are just the copy of 2008 mammoottys movie roudram.there were some technical mistakes in the movie like akilas father shot at the chest and having bandage on his hands.the director took the climax scenes in such a way that he dint have a clear picture of where to stop the movie.performance wise suraj venjaramood was the show steeler.

A well started movie ended up witjh a poor second half along with a ordinary blunder climax