Friday, 15 May 2009

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!

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

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 The whole package looks dull and outdated, the storyline is confusing and lacks clarity, the situations are jaded and artificial, and most of the performances are quite ordinary.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