Mohanlal's Geethanjali postponed to accommodate Diwali releases ?

Geethanjali is one of the most awaited Malayalam movies of the year, because of the fact that it is a spinoff of 'Manichithratazhu', an all time classic. When the shooting began the idea was to release the movie during Pooja holidays [Oct 11th] and they were shooting with multiple units too. Then it was pushed to Nov 1st to get a solo, wide release.

But once the release date of Diwali movies were announced the film got again pushed ahead by two weeks. Geethanjali will now be releasing worldwide on November 14th. When Nov 1 was decided Only Krrish 3 was supposed to have a big release on that date, it was later that Tamil films - Ajith's Arrambam & Karthi's All in all Azhagu Raja joined the race. Both of these film were supposed to have arrived in different dates, but one got postponed and other preponed.

Other language movies [Hindi & Tamil] have a good market in Kerala cause majority of the people understand the language [If Telugu undubbed movies release with subtitles even those will have audience]. So theaters and distributors have made a lot of investments in these projects. So if a Mohanlal starrer gets released on that date it will eat into the screen count and opening week collections of other language movies. So it was idea suggested by Exhibitors federation too postpone the release as Geethanjali is also to benefit from the movie. Since 90% of the life time collections of most of the OL movies comes in the first week (or may be two weeks) it will be easy for Geethanjali to have a wide release on 14th.

So a win-win situation for both parties. But there was no other way possible for makers of Geethanjali than to postpone. Remember in 2011 when similar situation arose the exhibitors called for strike on some unnecessary reason to support Velayudham, 7am Arivu & Ra.One which were much bigger films than this year's OL Diwali releases.

Ranjith, Mammootty's 'Kadal Kadannoru Mathukutty' Censor Report, Release Date Changed

Ranjith's latest offering 'Kadal Kadannoru Mathukutty' has been censored today. The film got a clean 'U' certificate from CBFC. The total duration of the movie is 2 hours 13 minutes. The film is reportedly a feel good family entertainer with an underlying message.

Film was first scheduled to release on August 9th, on EID. But later preponed to 7th to avoid clashing with other Eid releases, now the film has been again postponed to 8th due to the heavy rains in he state.

The film stars Mammootty in double role (one as 'Mammootty' himself in a cameo) Sekhar Menon, Alisha Mohammed, Meera Nandan, Muthumani etc. Mohanlal, Dileep, Jayaram etc also makes cameo appearances

Dhoom 3 release postponed ?

Dhoom 3 is one of the most awaited project of 2013. The filming started in June 2012 and then the release date was announced to be as Christmas 2013. Sources within Yashraj clarified that they need that time for post production as the makers intend to match Hollywood standards. Eventhough fans were initially disappointed with the news they knew since it was an Aamir Khan starrer it would be something special.

The news that's now coming out is that the film has been postponed from Christmas 2013 due to the demands from Aamir Khan. Aamir wanted more time to complete the film, which will leave them with little time to do the promotion work. His last flick 'Talaash' was also postponed by about a year thanks to Aamir Khan's 'perfectionism', and when the film released every one were perplexed why & what was all those delay about.

Anyhow Christmas is a golden time at the Box Office. So there are two film waiting to pounce on the date if the rumor did came out to be true. One is Akshay Kumar's Thuppakki Remake [now scheduled for January 1st/2nd week release] & Salman Khan's Mental [now scheduled for January last week release]. Both films are in the final stages of shooting. Boh Akshay & Salman are good friends and if one decide first the other will be more than happy to give in the most precious date of the year. But Since Akshay have 2 big releases coming in the next few months its highly likely that he will prefer a January release.

Anyway its all speculations at the moment. Hope YRF will come out with a statement in the coming days....Stay Tuned...