South Cine: September 2010

Sridevi was born on August 13, 1963 in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India. She has a sister named Srilatha and a stepbrother named Satish. Her dad passed away during the year 1991, while her mom died during 1997.

She started her career at a very early age in 1967 as a child artiste in a Tamil movie 'Kandhan Karunai'. She also starred as a child actress in a Telugu movie 'Bangarakka' in 1977, and in a Malyalam movie 'Kumara Sambhavan' in 1969.

She made her foray on the Bollywood tinsel screen in 1975 with the smash-hit 'Julie' in which she played the younger sister of the lead actress. Thereafter she has gone on to act in adult roles in over 200 movies, 63 in Hindi; 62 in Telugu; 58 in Tamil; and 21 in Malyalam - in a career that has spanned from 1967 through to 2007.

Sridevi is perhaps the only Bollywood starlet that had attained and remained as the number one actress for over a decade. One of her most popular song is 'Hawa Hawaaii...' from 'Mr. India'.

She has approximately 12 awards, which include "Best Actress' awards for her performance in Hindi blockbusters: 'Lamhe', 'Chandni', & Chaalbaaz'.

She has also appeared in the TV series 'Malini Iyer', judged a TV show 'Kaboom' as well as appeared in numerous print and TV ads. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Asian Academy of Film & Television.

Sridevi went on to get married to her co-star, Anil Kapoor's older brother, Boney, on June 2, 1996. They are now parents of two daughters: Jhanvi and Khushi.

1. This is a complete masala movie with comedy, song, dance, romance, fight, sentiment.
2. The story’s base is Science Fiction – but it is a science fiction masala.
3. That means, do not expect a complete Sci-Fi genre movie like Terminator. But expect a movie like Avatar. (Indian version of Avatar).
4. It has all the ingredients to make it attractive to children, youngsters, family members, ladies and Rajini’s mass audience.
5. The last 45 – 50 minutes will be a celebration for Rajini fans.
6. The animations are never before seen in Indian cinema and takes Indian cinema to next level in terms of visual effects and animations – but it will not be comparable with hollywood animation flicks. So lower your expectations.
7. The stunt sequences are again, the best in Indian cinema, but definitely not up to Hollywood standards.
8. He was sure that the movie will be liked by Hindi audience too.
9. He was absolutely sure that Rajini’s performance as the villain will win him a National Award.
10. He was also sure that A.R. Rahman will win next year’s National Award for BGM.
11. He said that the climax Symphony based BGM by Rahman is worth even Grammy awards.
12. The one point that the Hindi audience may not like is comedy that is specific to south India. He said, they may cut there scenes in Hindi.
13. The International audience who like song and dance will enjoy the movie. But, the film will not impress international audience in general as this will be a typical Indian masala movie.
14. The movie will definitely break all records for sure.

Endhiran Movie Facts & Unknown Interesting Informations About The Movie Enthiran
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Rajinikanth would be seen without his famed moustache in most parts thereby making him look much younger.Rajnikanth plays a dual role in the film.

* Rajnikanth will be seen in 100 different styles during a song in the film!

* Rajnikanth’s pay for endhiran is Rs 45 crores.A share in the profit will also be added in the rajnikanth price for the movie.

* Aishwarya Rai Bachchan agreed for a whooping amount of Rs. 6 crores for the film, becoming the highest paid actress during that time.

* Endhiran has cost around Rs. 200 crores!

* Endhiran will be released in more than 2000 prints, biggest ever for an Indian film.

* The film will be released in over 300 screens outside India, which makes Endhiran the largest worldwide release after Spiderman.

* The audio rights of the movie has been bagged by Think Music for a whooping 7 Crore Indian Rupees or $1.6 million.

* This Rajinikanth-starrer will also be released in China where the super star has a huge fan following as he does in Japan.

According to the official reports, Endhiran has made a record breaking history in US theatres as tickets for all the three versions were sold out within few minutes after booking plans opened.
Endhiran US rights was acquired by FICUS Movies, a U.S. based production house has acquired the rights of both Tamil and Telugu version for a whooping amount of nearly Rs.35 Crores.
According to the trade reports, the producers of Endhiran are likely to take a cakewalk with a wholesome profit prior to the release of film on October 1. Rumors are that until now Sun Pictures has sold out approximately for Rs.202 Crores and will reach an extremum of Rs.240 Crores.
Venus is reported to have acquired the Hindi rights have a big sum of Rs.50 Crores.
Meanwhile, the entire team of Sun Network is vigorously promoting the film by featuring cover stories in all its print network and teasers in satellite channels.
“Endhiran’ will be India’s first sci-fi thriller based on “Robot’ and has been produced at the cost of Rs.130 Crores.
The producers have also set up a special team to be vigilant over curbing down the piracy videos.

With Super Star Rajnikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachan in lead rolls, get starts rolling on September 8th at America.

The movie production houses which involved into this grandeur venture are Ayngaran International Films Pvt Ltd., and Eros International.

Two fantastic numbers in A. R. Rahman's music, he is the music director of the film, is about to shot in beautiful locations of America.

Cinematography R. Ratnavelu. Art: Sabu Cyril, Lyrics: Vairamuthu, Pa. Vijay,
Editing: Antony, Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Costume Design: Manish Malhotra.

The Costume Designer of Men in Black, Batman returns, Inspector Gadget Mary E Vogt is designing the scientific outfits.

Stan Winston Studio (USA) who has worked for Predator, Jurassic Park, Pearl Harbor, Iron man, Terminator and I - Robot is doing Animatronics.

Yuen Woo Ping who handled stunt for many Hollywood movies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Matrix and Kill Bill is currently working for Endhiran (THE ROBOT).

All the three world renowned people working for an Indian movie is for the first time.

Hollywood companies like ILM, Tippet, Café EFX; and Hong Kong companies like Centro and Menfond are going to work in the field of VFX.

Visual Effects and Animatronics co-ordination: Indian Artiste.

Producers: K. Karunamurthi / C. Arunpandian.

Executive Producer: K. Vijayakumar