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VIKRAM & DHANUSH'S TIGHTROPE WALK

VIKRAM & DHANUSH'S TIGHTROPE WALK ! By Anuja Chandramouli with inputs from Murugan. Winning a National Award is a big fat deal. It means you were in a race with your contemporaries from all over the country and emerged as the big winner. Being a big fish in a small pond is one thing but when you take on the sharks in the sea and kick their tail fins, you have just promoted yourself to the elite league of winner among winners. Among the current crop of actors, Vikram and Dhanush have joined this league. Their acting styles and body of work is dramatically different, but now they have one thing in common – they are both National Award winners.

Vikram won the National Award for Pithamagan. It was a killer performance with Vikram playing a ‘vettiyan’ who is most eloquent when he opts to howl funeral laments instead of his usual guttural grunts. Using his eyes and body language to communicate with the audience, he taught them what friendship can do for someone who is hanging on by a thread to his sanity acclimatized as he is to soul-sapping solitude. And when that is taken away from him by brute force he responds in kind and goes back to being the lone animal in the jungle of his mind. Diehard fans say that he should have won for Sethu as well and most discerning filmgoers would agree, but that’s life for you, sometimes you get robbed in broad daylight (no offense to Mohan Lal who won that year). But after his triumph for Pithamagan, there has been no looking back for the actor who had been denied his share of recognition for a long time. Winning the National Award is a great honor but it is not without its share of pitfalls. Tabu, who won her first National Award for Maachis, famously said that it had worked against her as people expected to see her only in heavy duty, emotionally exhausting fare that called for a lot of wailing in distress. Nobody was offering her any fun roles and she missed being the ‘ruk ruk ruk’ girl. Fellow National Award winners must agree with her secretly as the pressure to deliver becomes more onerous than ever. Vikram must have felt the pressure because he became even more cautious about the kind of roles he took up. He had the dual task of rocking it as the larger-than-life commercial hero as well as selling the serious actor gig. It was a daunting task indeed. Except for Anniyan, his other projects like Arul, Majaa, Bheema, Kanthasamy and Raavan/Raavanan met with mixed response as Vikram walked the tight rope of meeting the filmgoer’s deep seated need for masala movie magic plus his personal need to live up to Pithamagan and to hopefully win another National Award. The future however seems brighter for him as he seems to have mastered the art of tightrope walking. Deiva Thirumagal will see him in a challenging role that is clearly aimed at the film critics in an attempt to win them over. He intends to follow it up with Vendhan and Karikalan which are aimed at the frontbencher in all of us. More power to him. This writer definitely sees another National award for this super actor in the offing. Dhanush as everyone knows by now won the National award for Aadukalam. His other award-worthy performance was in Kadhal Kondaen. Dhanush is one of the select few actors in the industry who has already attempted the tightrope between class and mass. In movies like Polladhavan and Pudhupettai he demonstrated his willingness to take the road less traveled. As the son-in-law of Rajinikanth, he is also considered the heir to the superstar’s throne by film makers who cast him in commercial potboilers that are remakes of Rajini’s hit films, and these have scored in the box-office if not with critics. But with the National Award, there is some added weight which could work in his favor or against him. Currently, he has Hari’s Venghai (Leopard) and it will be an entertainer that has a little of everything thrown in to what will hopefully be a delicious hopscotch. Curious coincidence but Vikram’s first film after the award was also with Hari! Selva’s Irandam Ulagam will probably follow Venghai. The brothers have done most of their best work together, so it is to be hoped that this project will also be a winner. It remains to be seen how Dhanush will handle the perks and pitfalls associated with the National Award but his career has seldom looked more promising, and it is to be hoped that it stays that way. All said and done, Vikram and Dhanush have, with their milestone achievement, made Tamil film lovers proud and they deserve the heartiest congratulations ever.

Dhanush remuneration Schoked Director Simbudevan.

Dhanush remuneration Schoked Director Simbudevan.

                                     

                                

We have earlier reported that Dhanush has given his approval to do a film with director Simbudevan. Here we are presenting the latest reports is that Dhanush surprised Simbudevan by demanding huge remuneration for his role in the upcoming fantasy film.

Simbudevan who came back after viewing the semi final match at mohali had a long discussion with Dhanush regarding the script and on going story.While the talks came to remuneration Dhanush demanded Rs.7 crore for him to act in this film.

Director was really shocked and waiting for producer approval how he can convince filmmakers on the remuneration of Dhanush.In recent times Dhanush four movie had good collections at box office ,So Dhanush is cashing at the meantime of period.

Now it is the choice of Director Simbudevan how he can convince the producers Or Opt Out Dhanush. Stay TUned for more updates on this film.

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Dhanush is Best Actor, 'Aadukalam' bags 5 awards!

​Tamil cinema is dominating the 58th National awards. Dhanush has bagged the prestigious Best Actor award for his outstanding performance as KP Karuppu in the film,Aadukalam. Aadukalam has won five awards for Best Actor, Best Director (Vetrimaran), Best Screenplay (Vetrimaran), Best Editor ( Kishore Te) and Best Choreographer (Dinesh Master). Thambi Ramiah won in the best supporting actor category for his comedy cop role in Mynaa. Rajinikanth's Shankar directed Enthiranbagged three awards for special effects, art direction (Sabu Cyril), and production. Vairamuthu, is the best lyric writer for his song in Thenmerukku Paravakattu. Saranya Ponvannan gets the best actress award for Thenmerukku Paravakattu. We at sify.com are proud of Tamil cinema and its achievements at the National Awards.
All About: Aadukalam, Dhanush, Vetrimaran

Rich haul of national awards for Tamil film artists

Kollywood bags award for Best Actor, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Lyrics

It was a rich haul for the Tamil film industry with respect to the National Film Awards for 2010, which were announced on Thursday.

“I did not expect this award. I am very happy, but will wait till the Superstar [Rajinikanth] recovers and gets back home to celebrate,” said actor Dhanush, who won the Best Actor award.

Dhanush thanked directors Vetrimaran and Selvaraghavan for teaching him the art of cinema.

“I dedicate the award to my parents,” he said.

Vetrimaran, who won the Best Director award, said he did not make ‘Aadukalam' with an award in mind. “Only one per cent of the award goes to the director. The remaining 99 per cent is for the team,” he said.

Others in Aadukalam team who got national awards were T.E. Kishore (Best Editing) and Dinesh Kumar (Best Choreography).

Special occasion

It was also special that the news of the award came on Vetrimaran's mentor Balu Mahendra's birthday. “All the achievements of his students and assistants are actually his. We owe it to him,” said Vetrimaran, who also won the Best Screenplay award.

In addition to ‘Aadukalam', the film ‘Thenmerku Paruvakkatru' did well, picking up awards for the Best Actress (Saranya Ponvannan) and Best Lyrics (Vairamuthu). An elated Saranya said: “I am very, very happy.”

Six-time winner

Vairamuthu, for whom this is the sixth national award, said: “The award is for a song about a mother belonging to a working class. I would like to dedicate it to all those mothers who sweat it out and work all day, so that they can provide their children with education . This is a particularly special year for the Tamil film industry. With K. Balanchander receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke award and so many Tamil technicians receiving news of this honour today, it is raining national awards in Tamil Nadu,” he said.

Thambi Ramaiah, who will receive the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in ‘Mynaa,' got the news while he was busy shooting in Dindigul.

He attributed the success to the director of the film Prabhu Solomon. “Much of my modulation and body language comes from what I learnt from my father. My family supported me for nearly 25 years, with the hope that one day I will achieve something big and this is the day we have all been waiting for!,” he said.

‘Enthiran' won awards for Best Production Design (Sabu Cyril) and Best Special Effects (V.Srinivas M.Mohan). ‘Namma Gramam' also won two awards for Best Supporting Actress (Sukumari) and Costume Design (Indrans Jayan).

Keywords: National Film Awards, Tamil cinema

Selvaraghavan-Dhanush project progress

• Selvaraghavan-Dhanush project progressSelvaraghavan is directing his brother Dhanush in the tentatively titled Erandam Ulagam. This film has Andrea playing Dhanush’s pair. EI’s shooting is progressing at a rapid speed in Kannur in Kerala. The director wants to complete this project soon as he is gearing up for his wedding with Gitanjali in July. EI’s audio launch is scheduled to be held in July and film itself will be released in the month of August.
• GV Prakash, the music director of EI, has thus far scored five songs and is in the process of composing the sixth song. The title is likely to undergo a change because it has already been registered by a politician-producer who is unwilling to part with it.

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