Malayalam Actress Meera Nandan's Photoshoot in Manorama Weekly

Times of India interview

Ana was this week interviewed by The Times of India, one of the world's biggest selling newspapers.An extract from the interview, conducted by Saibal Bose, follows:

How serious is your knee injury? Is it a setback ahead of your French Open title defense?

It’s for sure a setback. I haven’t had the preparation I wanted, but there’s nothing I can do about it. Injuries are the most frustrating thing about being a professional tennis player, but you just have to accept that they are part of the game. But I have to stay positive. I didn’t play many matches before the French Open last year either.

Almost one year after winning the French Open, how do you look back at the victory?

It’s for sure the highlight of my career so far. It was amazing to win my first Grand Slam and become No.1 in the world for the first time in just 48 hours. It was an amazing experience and something I look back on with a lot of joy and pride.Tennis has seen a number of early retirements/burnouts, the latest being Justine Henin.

How do you counter the stress of a top-flight tennis player?

I think it’s very important to have the right balance. I cannot comment on other players because I don’t know about them and everyone is different. But for myself, I can say that I have some interests away from the court, for example studying finance and learning Spanish, and I always make sure I have some time to relax and recover. At times I feel like I don’t have enough time to myself, but I’m working on that!

Bollywood Actress Neetu Chandra photos

The sexy Girl Anushka

Moz And Cat : Review

Dileep's latest film Moz And Cat has released all across Kerala in around 67 screens. This new film from veteran director Fazil is Dileep's Vishu offering to the viewers of Malayalam films and is expected to create big reports from the family audience. The movie produced and distributed by Johny Sagariga fetched the best of the theatres in all major cities.
Quite frankly speaking, this new Dileep starrer is nothing but a major disappointment. The whole package looks dull and outdated, the storyline is confusing and lacks clarity, the situations are jaded and artificial, and most of the performances are quite ordinary. Screenplay is the much weaker link in the movie and the dialogues sound contrived and melodramatic.
The major advantage with this film is that it have introduced a new heroine to Malayalam, Aswathy Ashok. She as well as the little girl Baby Nivedita were ok with their roles. Dileep tried his level best to make the movie interesting but failed miserably since even a great actor is not able to make a movie great if the script is such a weak one. The major let down when the acting is considered will be actor Rahman, who was totally a nonsense throughout the film.
In the technical part, the major let down is from the director of the movie, Fazil himself. It can be quite clearly stated that the veteran director is nowhere near to his golden times. This film can be considered as his worst movie till date. Rest of the team were simply ok with their own jobs. Music of the movie conducted by veteran Ouseappachan can be considered as a descent one when compared with the others.
All in all, this new Dileep starrer Moz And Cat is a boring one with the same old cliched story. I prefer you to stay away from the theatres where this movie is playing.

Allu Arjun's Vedham

The stylish star of Telugu film industry, Allu Arjun has now signed a new project. This new Telugu film is titled as Vedham and will be directed by Krish, who won rave reviews and accolades for his debut film Gamyam. The most notable thing is that the most happening girl in Tollywood, Anushka has been roped in to play the lady lead in this film.
This is for the first time that Allu Arjun and Anushka are going to do the lead roles together. This new film will also feature another hero, Manchu Manoj. Some of the technicians hired for the film are Jnanashekar for Cinematography, M M Keeravani for composing the music to the lyrics of Seetharama Shastry and E S Murthy.
This new Telugu movie, which is a multistarrer in the truest sense will be launched on 7th June.This film will be produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Devineni Prasad under the Arka Media banner.

Actress Geeta Basra clean stills

Hrithik Roshan impresses Barbara Mori!

Though Hrithik Roshan's latest heroine, the Mexican beauty Barbara Mori, is yet to meet the superhero, Hrithik Roshan, his work has already impressed her. Barbara has seen a number of his films and finds Hrithik a very good actor.
As per Hrithik's dad, producer-director Rakesh Roshan, he had met Barbara Mori in America last month. During a three day period Roshan Sr., accompanied by director Anurag Basu, had a series of meetings with Barbara. He narrated the story of his proposed film (tentatively titled KITES) and also told her in detail about the Hindi film industry and its functioning.
As maybe recalled, Rakesh Roshan has recently signed international actress Barbara Mori, opposite his son Hrithik Roshan, for a project to be directed by the talented director Anurag Basu, who has given successful and well made films like MURDER, GANGSTER and METRO. This is for the first time that Anurag Basu will direct a film under the Filmkraft banner and the project is already in the news for its unique pairing of Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori.

KITES: It's Anurag Basu Vs Rakesh Roshan

We hear there's trouble brewing between ace producer Rakesh Roshan and the maverick director Anurag Basu.
It's learnt that the KITES producer is giving Anurag a tough time by trying to control his every move. Anurag, who is used to his style of working, is apparently not too happy with Sr. Roshan's behaviour. But, given the fact that the film is almost complete, Anurag has no choice but to be patient.
Well, we are sure Anurag will be missing his days with the Bhatt camp.

After reading about Rakesh-Roshan and Anurag-Basu's love-hate relationship for long, things are actually looking positive for the makers of the upcoming film KITES. Now, Anurag Basu is all excited about his trip to Cannes to showcase his film to the buyers there. Speaking exclusively to Regionalcinemastills.blogspot.com before he jets-off to Cannes, the maverick director said, ''I'm all excited about this marketing move and we plan to showcase KITES to potential buyers in order to reach wider audiences.''
Well, after films like GANGSTER and LIFE IN A METRO everyone in the industry is awaiting Anurag's new release which hopefully might get the Cannes edge.

Kambakkth Ishq : Synopsis

Kambakkth Ishq explores the relationship between two individuals so chalk-and-cheesely different from each other that no matter how many times they are pushed together, there’s just fireworks … no fire. Viraj Shergill (Akshay Kumar) is a swashbuckling stuntman in Hollywood who lives by the mantra “women are only good for two things … making love & making love” Simrita Rai (Kareena Kapoor) is a firebrand who is more than able to stare down the most arrogant male with her caustic wit and sardonic tongue ... her firm belief “all men are dogs” Forces of nature make sure the two people who hate each the most are thrown together in the most absurd, hilarious situations until one dramatic twist of fate binds the two together in a manner that they could never ever have even dreamed of in their wildest fantasies. If there ever was a marriage between the east and the west, a romantic comedy and Action, Hollywood and Bollywood … this would be it.

Passenger : Movie Review

New Malayalam film, Passenger released today. This new Malayalam film featured Dileep and Sreenivasan in the lead roles. Mamta Mohandas was also in the film with an important role. This new film was directed by a debutant director Ranjit Shankar and was distributed all around Kerala by Central Pictures.
According to my view, this film is a worth one to watch. This film is all about a fateful night that changed the lives of some people in a convincing manner. This film, which is an edge of the seat thriller succeeded in keeping the intricacies of the narrative intact. All the credit for the makers of this film, for making it in such a good manner.
The major plus point with this film is that all the actors in the film have performed to their level best. The acting skills of Sreenivasan was once again proved. Mamta and Nedumudi Venu palyed their roles very well. Dileep, after a bunch of wasteful characters have got a powerful role to perform. Jagathy's role as the villian is also a treat to watch.
In the technical part, all the credits must be given to the debutant director for his excellent work. He have done an excellent work in presenting the story as an engrossing thriller. Even though, the film has its loose ends in the script it is not at all a bad one when compared with some of the recently released movies.
All in all, this new film Passenger is a must watch. I promise, it won't be a let down and also this new film features a strong message to the people of current society. This film will surely end up it's run as a good notable one.