Day: July 18, 2019

Reports reaching the city say that three devotees, one of them a woman, suffocated to death while waiting in the long queue to have darshan of Athi Varadar at Kanchipuram.

Everyone is looking forward to the release of Kadaram Kondan tomorrow. The film, shot predominantly in Malaysia, is produced by Kamal Haasan’s Raj Kamal International.

He went on appeal against the sentence given by the special court. The Madras HC ordered the Inspector of Thousand Lights police station to give his reply to Vaiko’s plea. The plea was heard today at 2.15 pm. The Judge told Vaiko to think thrice before speaking and not to repeat the mistake. The sentence given by the trial court has been suspended until the next date of hearing, which is tomorrow.

Filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj will begin his next starring Dhanush in the lead soon. Buzz is that Malayalam actress Aishwarya Lekshmi has been roped in to play the female lead.

The 2019 version stays close to plot of the original. As the movie begins, you will be left with gasps of wonder as the visual effects are ground breaking. It is hard to imagine that you are watching animals made entirely on VFX.

In Tollywood, the actress is currently gearing up for the release of ‘Ranarangam’, directed by Sudheer Varma. In Kollywood, Kajal Agarwal starrer ‘Comali’ will be releasing on the same day.

works are on to redo ‘Jersey’ in Tamil starring Vishnu Vishal in the lead. Sources say that Nelson Venkatesan of ‘Monster’ fame is likely to direct the movie. ‘Jersey’ had music by Anirudh. 

Combined Districts came up trumps courtesy its first innings lead. In reply to Combined Districts’ total of 377 for nine declared, City could only manage 238. Jai Simha cleaned up half of City’s batsmen, conceding only 36 runs during his match-winning spell.

Mammootty’s next Malayalam flick Shylock will feature actor Rajkiran in a pivotal role. Directed by Ajay Vasudev, the film will be released in both Tamil and Malayalam.

Jayanth, who remained unbeaten at 64 at stumps on the first day, made a century. His innings included 17 boundaries. At close of play on Wednesday, City was 94 for three.