The Fourth Annual UniverCell Vijay Awards took place at the Nehru Indoor Stadium on May 29th amidst much fanfare. The event was a grand affair with many film stars, technicians, producers and directors attending the function.

A press note from Vijay TV states: “Of the 131 films released in 2009, winners from 32 different categories were announced in the evening’s awards ceremony.”

Here are the details of some of the awards presented:

Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema: Superstar Rajnikanth.

Best Entertainer of the year award: Actor Suriya.

Favorite Hero award and Favorite Heroine award went to Ilaya Thalapathi Vijay and Anushka respectively for the film Vettaikaran.

Favorite Film award went to Ayan.

Samuthrakani (Nadodigal) won the Favorite Director Award.

Oru Chinnathamarai from Vettaikaran was awarded the Favorite Song of 2009.

The award winners in the 27 BEST categories were chosen by the eminent jury members

Best Actor of the year 2009: Prakash Raj for the film Kancheevaram.

Best Actress of the year 2009: Pooja for her performance in Naan Kadavul.

Best Director Award: Bala for Naan Kadavul.

Best Supporting Actor Male and Best Supporting Actor Female were won by Jeyaprakash (Pasanga) and Abhinaya (Naadodigal) respectively.

Best Film Award: Nadodigal.

Best Comedian Award: Santhanam for Siva Manasula Sakthi.

Best Villain Award: Rajendran for Naan Kadavul.

Best Debut Actor Male: Vimal (Pasanga).

Best Debut Actor Female: Ananya (Nadodigal).

Best Cinematographer Award: Manoj Paramahamsa (Eeram).

Best Editor Award: Srikar Prasad (Eeram).

Best Art Director Award: Vairavan (Pokkisham).

Best Stunt Director Award: Rajasekar (Renigunda).

Best Music Director Award: Harris Jeyaraj (Aadhavan).

Best Male Playback Singer Award: Karthik (Hasili Fisili)

Best Female Playback Singer Award: Chinmayi (Varayo Varayo).

Best Story, Screenplay, Writer award: Arivazhagan (Eeram).

Best Lyricist Award: Na. Muthukumar (Oru kal oru kannadi song from Siva Manasula Sakthi).

Best Choreographer Award: Shobhi (Aathichudi song from TN07 AL 4777).

Best Make-up artist and Best Costume Designer awards were won by Sasi & Das (Naan Kadavul) and Anu Vardhan for Sarvam film.

Stunt Union was awarded the Contribution to Tamil cinema.

Best Find of the Year: Director Pandiraj (Pasanga).

Best Crew of the Year Award: Pasanga.

The fourth Annual UniverCell Vijay Awards powered by Rin was conducted in Nehru Indoor Stadium on Saturday (May 29) evening. 

It was a star studded affair. Hot and happening stars like Kamal Hassan, Suriya, Vijay, Anushka, Reema Sen, Prakash Raj were among the dignitaries.
Of the 131 films released in 2009, and winners from 32 different categories were announced in the evening's awards ceremony.
The best actor of the year 2009 was given to Prakash Raj for Kanchivaram while Pooja was awarded the best actress award for her outstanding performance in Naan Kadavul. Nadodigal bagged the Best Film Award.

Kamal Haasan’s forthcoming film, which was initially tentatively titled ‘Yavarum Kelir’, has undergone a name change now. If sources are to be believed, the new title of the movie is ‘Manmadhan Ambu’.

Remember one of the lines of the evergreen song ‘Andhi Mazhai Pozhigiradhu…’ from the Ulaga Nayagan’s 100th venture ‘Raaja Parvai’ has the words ‘Manmadhan Ambu’. Apparently inspired by it, the film has been titled so, sources say.

Produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin on Red Giant Movies banner, the movie would bring together Kamal and K S Ravikumar once again. They had earlier given hits like ‘Avvai Shanmugi’, ‘Thenali’, ‘Panchathanthiram’ and ‘Dasavatharam’.

The film has Trisha opposite Kamal with Madhavan playing an important role. Devi Sri Prasad is scoring the music and a poetic number, presumably the title song of the film, was recorded at the music composer’s studio recently.

Vijay is at an important cross road now. With controversies and criticisms mounting Ilaya Thalapathi has finally decided to put everything to rest and make every body happy.

As the first step Vijay has decided to release three films this year to make the theatre owners happy. Siddique's ‘Kaavalkaran’ is 60% complete and is generating good trade talk so far. ‘Jayam’ Raja is also ready for ‘Velayudham’ and there will be an official announcement next week.

Also there is news about Vijay giving his consent to do the remake of ‘3-Idiots’ in Tamil. It’s likely that Vijay will announce this at the launch function of ‘Velayudham’.

With these sudden developments the theatre owners are convinced and are ready for Vijay films again.

‘Ulagam Sutrum Valiban’ is one of the ever green box office hits of Tamil cinema. Even after 37 years the film is still a money spinner on its re-runs. After finishing ‘Ulagam Sutrum Valiban’ MGR announced a film 'Kizhakku Africavil Raju' as a sequel to ‘Ulagam Sutrum Valiban’ for which he even conducted location hunting tour in Africa.

But as destiny had it MGR became more politically active and finally ascended to the throne of Tamil Nadu in 1977. He also voluntarily put an end his film career and that decision shelved his ambitious project 'Kizhakku Africavil Raju' as well.

Now after more than 30 years Captain Vijayakanth is reviving the film for himself. Captain is currently acting and directing 'Virudhagiri' which will hit the theatres later this year. After that Vijayakanth will take up the project 'Kizhakku Africavil Raju' and go from a start to finish schedule.

MGR formula is considered an ever winning formula. With the number of his film titles repeated and his songs re-mixed the craze is still very much there. With Captain daring to take up a dropped MGR film there may be many more thinking of remaking his films.

Aascar Ravichandran is producing Velayudham with Vijay in the lead. There was a strong speculation on who would pair up with the Ilaya Thalapathy. Rumor mills were also working overtime on this issue. Now we have it that Genelia and Hansika Motwani will be the leading ladies of the film.

One more news that is doing rounds in Kollywood is that Velayudham’s inaugural pooja will be held in Chennai on May 27th at the Nehru Indoor Stadium. The event is said to be a grand-scale affair.

Reportedly Chiyaan Vikram will team up with ace director Gautham Menon for an upcoming Kollywood flick. The duo is currently busy with two projects each. Vikram is awaiting the release of Mani Ratnam's Raavanan (Raavan in Hindi and Villain in Telugu). He is also shooting for Selvaraghavan's Sindubad and Boopathi Pandian's Vedi. Gautham Menon is currently busy with his quickie thriller with Sameera Reddy and will soon direct Ajith's 50th film. After the completion of these projects, the duo would join hands for their next project which will reportedly go on floors in early 2011.

Tamil Nadu theatre owners and distributors convened an emergency meeting on May 22 in Chennai and unanimously decided to demand that Ilayathalapathi Vijay refund a portion of the money they put up for his 50th film Sura, which bombed at the box office. They wanted the actor to refund at least 40% of the amount that they had paid as MG (Minimum Guarantee).

Now the actor has replied by working on two films simultaneously: Kaavalkaran and Velayutham. Vijay is also planning to start a third film (remake of 3 Idiots) by August. Reportedly Vijay will have two heroines—Genelia and Hansika—in Velayutham and will play a fictitious man of the masses created by a female journalist. The film is rumoured to be a remake of Nagarjuna’s Telugu hit Azad (2000), which was inspired from Amitabh Bachchan’s 1989 flop Main Azad Hoon, which was again inspired from Frank Capra’s 1941 classic Meet John Doe!

Ameer believes in breaking jinxes and he has done so in every film of his, beginning with Mounam Paesiyadhae and Raam, till his most recent success Paruthi Veeran. The director is currently busy with his upcoming flick Adhibagavan, starring Jayam Ravi. Meanwhile the director has already finalized his next project. There are reports that Bharath will play the lead role and the film will be produced by Ameer’s Teamwork Production.

The official announcement is finally out. The much expected union of Murugadoss and Suriya is set to become a reality. In a press meet held at the Green park Hotel in Chennai this evening, the details of the project were revealed and going by what was said this one will surely be one of the biggest and prestigious projects to come out of Kollywood in the near future. It will feature Shruthi Haasan alongside Suriya with Ravi K Chandran handling the camera.

That A.R. Murugadoss and Suriya are a superhit combination needs no elaboration after the stupendous success they had with Ghajini. The past few months had been rife with speculations about the possibilities of Murugadoss once again directing Suriya. This will be Murugadoss’ first Tamil film after Ghajini; that is nearly a five year break during which he has created a great name for himself in Bollywood with Ghajini’s Hindi version.

Coming to the details of the new project, it has been titled Ezhavadhu Arivu and it will be a multi-lingual simultaneously shot in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi with no changes in the lead cast. There are also plans to dub the movie in English and release it across the globe.

The director confidently stated that this will be an extremely unique theme that will carry a very special element never before seen in Tamil cinema. He hinted that Ezhavadhu Arivu might deal with extrasensory perception and an ability to foresee the future, but nothing concrete was revealed. He also said that this film would give Suriya one of the best and most challenging roles that he has played in his career.

Shruthi Haasan, in a brief speech said that she is honored and excited to be working with such a huge team on her Tamil acting debut. She has already made her screen debut in Hindi through a film titled Luck.

Speaking at the meet, Suriya said that he had been hugely impressed with the story when he first heard it and had immediately got the producer (Udayanidhi Stalin – Red Giant Movies) involved. He added that the final product would be of a kind that would impress even Hollywood film makers and will definitely make Tamil cinema proud.

Music for Ezhavadhu Arivu is being scored by the ‘Suriya constant’ Harris Jeyaraj. Obviously, lot would be expected from the music after the Suriya-Murugadoss-Harris delivered some chartbusters in Ghajini. Earlier, Murugadoss had said that Harris had already composed a song for the film which he felt would have an impact similar to the ‘Suttum vizhi chudare’ number.

Everything has been cleared for the film to go to the floor and shooting will being in a few days from now with a Suriya-Shruthi Haasan combo.

You have heard of the sixth sense in human beings. Now what is this Seventh Sense? Read on.

A R Murugadoss has already challenged that his next film is going to be the best Indian movie ever. The challenge was liked by all creative geniuses including Kamal Haasan. So Murugadoss has started his efforts from the title onwards.

The new film of Murugadoss with Suriya is at the end of its pre-production stage and the unit will leave for China in the first week of June. That is the first schedule. Currently the director is busy with Harris Jayaraj finalising the song recordings. To the much anticipated film Murugadoss has given the title 'Ezhavathu Arivu'. It means seventh sense which is a level more than the sixth sense which characterises human beings.

Udhayanidhi Stalin produces this film which unites Murugadoss and Suriya after the phenomenally successful 'Ghajini' in 2005.

So will the hero of the film Suriya be a super human in the film. The ‘Ghajini’ combo can make it possible.

Here comes an end to a much-asked question of Kollywood. That when would Silambarasan enter wedlock. And the answer is straight from the mouth of Vijaya T Rajendar, the father of the young actor.

“When we asked Silambarasan whether he is ready for marriage, he made it clear that he would enter wedlock only after the marriage of his younger sister Ilakkiya. So we have decided to honour the sentiments of a dutiful brother,” he says.

Saying Silambarasan is however looking for an apt girl, Rajendar says, “You can expect a good news soon. As a responsible father, I would offer suggestions but never interfere in the decisions Silambarasan takes in his personal life. He knows what’s right and what’s wrong.”

On his forthcoming ventures, the actor-director says, “I am currently busy making a film titled ‘Oru Thalai Kadhal’. A Mumbai girl will be the heroine. After finishing the project, I am planning to launch my second son Kuralarasan as an actor.’

This is going to be the biggest surprise for Kollywood and Tollywood in 2010! If the sources are to be believed, Kollywood's young superstar Silambarasan, known for his rollicking love affairs in the past, will soon marry reigning actress Anushka. The actress is rumoured to have said ‘yes’ to Simbu recently, when he proposed her during their long drive on his X6 BMW and presented her with a solitaire ring from Tiffany’s.

The Simbu-Anushka marriage rumour started to spread after Simbu reportedly told his dear ones about the marriage during a night out at a city bar. "Anushka is a total beauty. I admire her professionalism and the grace with which she handles her personal life. Truly, I am lucky to have her. I am planning to take her to Rome or Florence for the honeymoon. She deserves the best," the actor was quoted as saying.

The actress has apparently visited Simbu’s parents and sought their blessings last week. While Simbu is planning to get his clothes done by Sidney Sladen, Anushka is now visiting all the Chennai designers to plan her trousseau and her make-up man Nikki has already started exploring ‘looks’ for her big day, it is said.

After marriage, the couple plans to set up home in Chennai and their own production house. Simbu has already indulged his ladylove in some expensive gifts, including a De Beers diamond necklace and a Mont Blanc pen. The actress has even inked a few film contracts opposite Simbu, it is said.

Shocking and surprising right? Well before you get carried away, this was just an April Fool's prank played on the internet. We though it never too late to share a good laugh right?

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