Top 5

Top five movies of the week




1. ‘Kuselan’: Rajinikanth's new movie 'Kuselan' opened up in theatres with usual enthusiasm and spirit, registering full houses all around Kerala. The movie released in eighty one centers, has the phenomenal Rajini factor working wonders. The curiosity around how the remake of an original super hit in Malayalam has shaped up will also ensure a fantastic couple of weeks for the movie. The movie also have got a good word-of-mouth.

2. ‘Maadambi’: The movie's good show at the box office has brought smiles on the face Mohanlal who was down with a number of flops in the last six months. Though fallen to the number two position with the arrival of ‘Kuselan’, the movie registers 85 percent collections in weekends. The heavy rains had its toll on the movie, which has reduced the audience incoming in some centers. Anyway the movie is moving up to the status of a super hit.
3. ‘Minnaminnikoottam’: Kamal's ‘Minnaminnikkoottam' remains steady with audiences. As the film enters its fourth week, the collections in the metros are really good and families have started acknowledging the movie as a good family hit. With the steady audiences in all the important centers, the movie will end up from an average earner to a decent hit.

4. ‘Kabadi Kabadi’: The new Kalabahavan Mani-Mukesh starrer has opened up in the forth position. The movie has plenty of slapstick comedies and a reasonably new storylines. The director duo Sudheer Manu, coupled with Suraj Venjaramoodu and co have succeeded in creating continuous humorous sequences, all through the movie ‘Kabadi Kabadi’ is expected to fare better than the recent films from the second level heroes.

5. ‘Parunthu’: This Mammootty starrer remains the weakest in collections, while entering its third week. Though the film has been removed from about half of the release centers, the fantastic three - day opening, and big release strategy has paid off. The movie managed to end up as an average earner only due to its release hypes.

The other movies in theatres include Suresh Gopi's ‘Laptop’, Kamal's 'Dasavathaaram’, and a few English movies like forbidden kingdom which manage to fill the remaining of the release centers with average collections.

Love in Singapore or Cowboy

Rafi-Mecartin Project Love in Singapore title may be changed to Cowboy, says report in kerala kaumudi newspaper. but latest velli retains the Love in Singapore title.
M appears as an AKRI trader who finally lands in share business and becomes pretty rich; but retains the akri culture. .
the shoot starts in october and release is in january 2009. after a long time nedumudy venu joins ikka apart from rajan p dev, lalu alex, salim kumar, harishree ashokan, and suraj venjarammoodu. search is on for heroine. (velli)
Maya Bazzar is expected to be over by mid-august. after that ikka may join kutty sranku in tvm and later on will join Pazhassi final schedule (Coorg) in which M will finish his part of the film. then starts Love in Singapore. Pattanathil Bhootham to start in January in Palakkad. release is in Vishu 2009. (Nana) vishu seems to be interesting as competition will be from Siddique's Dileep film.

vandae mahtharam

Mammootty's multilingual movie Vande Matharam, will hit the screens
by Xmas time this year.
The big budget movie shot in many long schedules will complete its
last schedule which was postponed due to some legal issues in a short
time.

The big budget movie is being released all across South India to bank
on the star value of both Mammootty and Arjun, with as many as 550
prints. This would be a rare event, if the plan of the distributor
materializes. The producers are trying hard to release it in Kerala,
Tamilnadu and Andhra on the same day. If the film makes profit in the
south Indian box office, there are plans to release in Hindi also.

The movie has been shot in multiple schedules and was earlier planned
as a Monsoon release. But ill planned schedules and poor management
has dragged it on by a few more months, over shooting the estimated
budget by quite a margin.

Vande Matharam will be the biggest budgeted movie in the Malayalam if
Mohanlal's NairSan doesn't opt a Malayalam version.