Poonkuyilay
Rustic love
Poonkuyilay, being produced under the banner of Manithan Cine Arts by TM Jaymurugan, who is also the director and music composer, is a story of love triangle between Udaya, Vindhya and Livingston. It is a usual tale of a rich girl falling in love with a poor cousin Udaya. The girl’s father Vijaykumar is a terror. Once he had chopped the hand of Curran for having held Vindhya’s hand. To complicate matters, there is another cousin Livingston who also woos her. Cinematographed by Kichas, the film has Manivannan , Rithika, Vyapuri and Iillavarasi also in the cast. Jayamurugan denied the reports that he had left the locales of Pollachi without paying for the hotel and cars. He showedvouchers signed by his manager for the cash that he has paid to him for the hotel and transport.

Narasimha
Vijaykanth turns producer
Vijaykanth, currently the top box-office draw in Tamil filmdom after the roaring sucess of Vanathepol which ran for 25 weeks, and Vaalarasu which had a 100-day run,produced by his brother-in-law Sudish under the banner of Captain Cine Creations, has now turned producer by joining his brother-in-law and launched Narasimha with newcomer Tirupathi Swami as director. The film’s muhurath was held in Chennai where a large gathering of filmfolk turned up to greet the actor, who has acted in more than 130 films and has the sole distinction of having all these films in Tamil only. He has refused to act in any other language even though his films dubbed in Telugu have a big market. Many of his films have been remade in Hindi, too.

Operation Veerappa
Film on Dr Rajkumar’s abduction
RK Selvamani, the director of the all time hit, Captain Prabhakaran, has decided to make a sequel Operation Veerappa. It is about the abduction of Dr Rajkumar and his release. Prabhakaran dealt with the exploits of a charachter close to the sandalwood smuggler. He directed a film Kuttapathrikai based on the Rajiv Gandhi murder and the investigation. The film is banned by the Censors and has been in the courts for the past several years.

ayyapa prasad