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Chennai, Sep 22 (IANS) The poster of 'Christopher' directed by B. Unnikrishnan and starring Mammootty as the titular character is out.

In the poster, Mammootty could be seen in the role of a police officer with the caption, "For Him, Justice is an Obsession..."

The tag line of the film is 'Biography of a Vigilant Cop'.

The film is produced by RD Illuminations. Udayakrishna, who has scripted many hits, has written the film which also has three leading ladies in Sneha, Amala Paul and Aishwarya Lakshmi.

Another highlight of the movie is south Indian actor Vinay Rai playing an important role. Shine Tom Chacko, Dileesh Pothan, Siddique, Jinu Abraham, Vneeta Koshi, Vasanthi, and thirty-five newcomers are playing various characters in the film. The shooting is in progress in Ernakulam, Pooyamkutty and Vandiperiyar.

The cinematography is by Faiz Siddique, who directed 'Operation Jawa' in the past, and the music is being composed by Justin Varghese.

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Hyderabad, Sep 22 (IANS) Actress Sonal Chauhan is super excited about sharing screen space with Tollywood star Nagarjuna in his forthcoming power packed action-thriller 'The Ghost'.

Sonal took to her social media profile and shared a Behind The Scenes (BTS) video featuring herself and Nagarjuna undergoing weapons' training.

The BTS video has interesting visuals of them prepping for the action scenes and holding some heavy guns, which definitely piques our interest.

Recently, Sonal had got injured on the sets but was undeterred. The actress had a fracture during her MMA training and was told to avoid any training/action scenes for a couple of weeks but despite that, she continued shooting.

'The Ghost', is written and directed by Praveen Sattaru. The film also stars Gul Panag, Anikha Surendran, Manish Chaudhari, Ravi Varma and Srikanth Iyengar. The film is slated to release on October 5, 2022.

Apart from 'The Ghost', Sonal Chauhan is also busy with yet another massive project, 'Adipurush', the bilingual Hindu mythological film based on the epic Ramayana, by Om Raut and produced by T-Series Films and Retrophiles.

The film also stars Prabhas as Raghava, Kriti Sanon, and Saif Ali Khan in the lead roles. The film is scheduled to be theatrically released on January 12, 2023.

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Chennai, Sep 22 (IANS) The National-Award winning superstar Dhanush's big-budget period film 'Captain Miller' to be directed by Arun Matheswaran has been launched grandly with a pooja ceremony.

Versatile actor Sundeep Kishan, who is playing a significant role, and the gorgeous Priyanka Mohan who will be seen opposite Dhanush also participated in the event.

'Captain Miller' had earlier grabbed attention with its spectacular first-look motion poster. The team is setting high expectations, before starting the project, with massive announcements. The movie also features many noted actors in important roles.

The star cast combination, 'Captain Miller' will have the regional flavour that appeals to the taste of Telugu audiences as well. This is going to be the biggest budgeted film in Dhanush's career.

The period drama film set against the backdrop of the 1930s-40s is presented by T.G. Thyagarajan of Sathya Jyothi Films and produced by Sendhil Thyagarajan and Arjun Thyagarajan. The film is co-produced by G. Saravanan and Sai Siddharth.

Madhan Karky, who worked for films like Baahubali franchise, RRR, and Pushpa, has penned dialogues for the Tamil version of the movie.

The other technicians include G.V. Prakash Kumar scoring music, Shreyaas Krishna handling cinematography, Nagooran taking care of editing, wherein T. Ramalingam is the art director.

'Captain Miller' will be released simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.

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Mumbai, Sep 22 (IANS) 'Uttaran' actor Chaitannya Choudhry, who is making his OTT debut with the show 'Hush Hush', said that he wanted to come on board as soon as he heard about the cast including Juhi Chawla, Soha Ali Khan, Shahana Goswami, Kritika Kamra, Karishma Tanna and Ayesha Jhulka.

Chaitanya revealed it was great working with each one of them. "They are stunning, all of them, who wouldn't love working with them. And Soha is simply amazing. She made me feel so comfortable during the shoot, really grateful to have had her as my co-star for this series."

Chaitanya has done several TV shows 'Kahiin To Hoga', 'Dil Hi To Hai', 'Dream Girl', 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein' and many more.

The series was shot during the pandemic. Talking about his experience of the same, the actor added: "Those were really tough times and a new experience for all of us as a team. The second wave immensely impacted the second schedule."

On how he prepared himself for the show, he said: "After reading the whole script many times, I tried to understand my place in the whole plot and made detailed notes for my character. Subsequent script readings and my own rehearsals really helped me perform my scenes."

Created by filmmaker Tanuja Chandra, the seven-episode thriller is a story of a set of women whose lives take a drastic change when a secret from their past comes in front of them. It streams on Amazon Prime Video.

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Mumbai, Sep 22 (IANS) Bollywood actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood will feature in a Haryanvi music album for the first time.

He will be in the music album of famous Haryanvi music producer Rao Inderjeet Singh, who is also founder and CEO of the music platform Gem Tunes.

Speaking on the occasion, Rao Inderjeet Singh said, "We now have vast collections of songs in various regional languages in our kitty and the music label is now a one stop destination for million of music lovers." He further said "soon we will also be producing and acquiring rights of Bollywood and Tollywood songs."

He then stated "Bollywood and Tollywood songs have one of the largest fan base and hence we are soon planning to foray in these music markets too."

Since its launch in 2020, 'Gem Tunes' in just two years has captured hearts of music lovers and now it has collection of more than 20,000 songs in 10 regional languages.

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Los Angeles, Sep 22 (IANS) Rapper Doja Cat has revealed that she's doing an 'R&B album' without rap at all.

"I'm doing an R&B album," the 26-year-old, whose real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, declared on Twitter, reports aceshowbiz.com.

"Straight R&B and no rap at all."

The post met with positive feedback.

"Not even gon lie, I'm actually excited to hear what this gon sound like. Doja get a lot of hate but she's talented frfr," one person said.

Rapper OT Genesis, meanwhile, asked for collaboration by writing, "Put me on there."

Doja Cat might have changed her mind about how her next project will be.

Back in May, she claimed her upcoming record will be "predominantly rap."

She told Elle, "There's some really cool stuff that I got sent from friends. They're all working on beats, and I'm giving them notes and they know what I want, so I'm excited."

Meanwhile, in a recent interview with CR Fashion Book, she said her next album is inspired by rave culture.

"We just have so many ideas and making those ideas consistent is the challenge right now," she shared. "I can't really tell much. I just know there's a lot going on."

"I'm very into this '90s German rave kind of vibe right now and it's really fun," the musician elaborated further.

"I know that's kind of the trend at the moment but I loved that stuff as a kid and now that I can express it (obviously, I couldn't buzz my head and wear a furry bra and have a belly button piercing back then), I'm sort of embracing that. That's kind of a hint to the album. Rave culture, not house."

Doja's latest album is 'Planet Her', which came out in June last year. With four tracks off the record, she successfully bowed at the top spot on the Billboard Artist 100 chart to become the top musical act in the US for the first time.

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Chennai, Sep 21 (IANS) Ajith Kumar's upcoming action thriller, which is being directed by H. Vinoth and was tentatively called AK61, has been titled 'Thunivu', its makers announced on Wednesday.

The first look poster of the film, which also had the title of the film on it, has Ajith relaxing on a chair with a semi-automatic weapon in his hand. The title has the tagline, 'No Guts, No Glory'.

The film, which is a Boney Kapoor production (just like 'Valimai', another Ajith Kumar-Vinoth collaboration), has a plot that revolves around a bank heist.

Interestingly, the unit had erected a giant set resembling Chennai's popular landmark Mount Road in Hyderabad where certain important scenes of the film were shot in its previous schedules. Just one more schedule of shooting is left.

After the last schedule, Ajith is expected to move on to his next project, which is to be directed by Vignesh Shivan.

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Chennai, Sep 21 (IANS) The unit of director Trivikram Srinivas's Telugu action entertainer, featuring Mahesh Babu and Pooja Hegde in the lead roles, has wrapped up the film's first schedule of shooting, its makers announced on Wednesday.

Taking to Twitter, producer Naga Vamsi tweeted, "The first schedule of #SSMB28 has been completed with some kick-ass high octane epic action scenes. Thank you Anbariv masters for amazing stunt choreography.

"The second schedule will start post Dussehra with our Superstar Mahesh garu and butta bomma Pooja Hegde. More updates as they happen."

Anbariv is the collective name of the twins, Anbumani and Arivumani, who are National Award-winning stunt choreographers best-known for their work in the Kannada blockbuster 'K.G.F. - Chapter 1'.

Anbariv responded to the producer with a tweet of their own. They said, "Our pleasure sir! Thanks to the awesome team!"

The film, which has huge expectations riding on it, is being tentatively referred to as #SSMB28.

This is the third time that Mahesh Babu and Trivikram Srinivas are working together. They have worked together twice prior to this film and both films that they worked together on -- 'Athadu' and 'Khaleja' -- have gone onto become massive blockbusters.

Needless to say, their combination has raised expectations from this film as well.

#SSMB28 is to be edited by National Award-winning technician Navin Nooli, while the team also comprises art director A.S. Prakash, National Award-winning music director S. Thaman and cinematographer P.S. Vinod.

The film is scheduled to hit theatres across the globe on April 28, 2023.

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Chennai, Sep 21 (IANS) Tamil director Soundarya Rajinikanth, who was inundated with birthday wishes on Tuesday, thanked all those who greeted her and said that God has blessed her this year with the best gift, her child Veer.

Taking to Instagram to thank all those who wished her on her birthday, Soundarya, who posted a picture of her dad Rajinikanth standing behind her, said, "To every person who took time to wish me on my birthday yesterday, thank you so so so much.

"The Gods have blessed me with the best gift this year, my Veer papa. And having this amazing God's child behind me always, life is a true blessing!!!"

The youngest daughter of the superstar had only 10 days ago announced that she had given birth to her second son, whom they have named Veer.

She had said, "With God's abundant grace and our parents' blessings... Vishagan, Ved and I are thrilled to welcome Ved's little brother Veer Rajinikanth Vanangamudi today 11/9/22. A huge thank you to our amazing doctors Sumana Manohar, Srividya Seshadri."

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Mumbai, Sep 21 (IANS) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan was questioned by a 20-year old 'Kaun Banega Crorepati 14' contestant and content writer Vaishnavi Kumari on how he gets time to spend with his granddaughter Aaradhya Bachchan.

He replied: "I cannot spend much time with her. I go out for work at 7-7:30 a.m. and she goes to school at 8-8:30 a.m. She comes back home at 3 or 4 p.m. and then she has homework, among other things to do as told to her by her mother. And I return home at around 10-11 p.m. and by that time she is off to sleep. So, I hardly have time to meet her."

During a conversation with Dehradun-based Vaishnavi, he talked in detail about his bond with his granddaughter.

He make sure to take out time for her on Sunday and he mentioned that: "When she is free on Sunday, I play with her for some time."

And he also added that when she gets angry, he gives her chocolate and hair bands. She loves pink colour and so he gives her pink hairbands.

The contestant also added to the conversation and told the host that she is planning to prepare for IAS and with her winning amount support her family.

Vaishnavi Kumari will be taking the hotseat on 'Kaun Banega Crorepati 14'. The quiz-based reality show airs on Sony Entertainment Television.

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