List of Most Awaited Tamil Movies of 2014

My  List of Most Awaited Malayalam Movies of 2014

Two of the most hyped projects of 2014 have already hit the screens, Jilla & Veeram. Lets look at few of the other interesting  Kollywood prospects in 2014 - List not in any particular order

Kaviya Thalaivan

 

Vasantha Balan-Prithviraj-Siddharth-Vedhika team up for what is looking like an interesting project.

Vishwaroopam 2

The sequel to controversial yet successful Kamal Haasan film of 2013. Even though the prequel couldn't match up the hype it created this one definitely looks like a better prospect


Vijay - ARM Project

 

Vijay, AR Murugadoss unites after the mega succesfful 'Thuppakki'. Looks like a Diwali release. Will be a Anirudh Musical

Anegan



KV Anand is back after the dud 'Maattrraan' with national award winning actor Dhanush. Actor Karthik also makes a comeback via Anegan.

Anjaan

 

Suriya Linguswamy Samatha Project. Camera by Santosh Sivan. A Yuvan Shankar Raja Musical. Sonakshi Sinha doing a cameo.


I / Ai

 

Shankar's mega budget thriller starring Vikram, Suresh Gopi, Amy Jackson etc tells the story of an Athlete.

Kaali




Karthi - Aatakathi Ranjith project.

Vaaya Moodi Pesavum



Balaji Mohan's next after bilingual (Tamil-Telugu) succes 'Kathalil Sothapuvathu Eppadi'. Son of Mega Star Mammootty, Dulquer Salmaan makes his Kollywood debut in the film which also marks the return of Madhu Bala to silver screen after a small gap. Will be a Tamil-Malayalam Bilingual

Jigarthanda
 

Director Karthik Subbaraj returns after the path breaking horror thriller 'Pizza'. Teams up with Siddarth & Lakshmi Menon

Ceylon
 

Santosh Sivan's ambitious project, the much anticipated film on civil war in Sri Lanka.

Sattendru Maaruthu Vaanilai

Simbu, Gautham Menon reunites after the sort of cult classic 'Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya' in 'SMV'. This is also said to be a romantic-drama like GVM's past few films. Produced by GVM hismelf with AR Rahman handling the music departmen
.

Ajith-GVM, Suriya-VP projects are said to be releasing in 2015 only, so not featured in the list

In case of any mistakes in the titles or details regarding project or if you think the list missed any movies or do you have a totally different list, comment below or tweet @ BreakingViews4U

Drishyam - All Time Blockbuster - Exclusive 27 days Box Office Update

Drishyam - All Time Blockbuster - Exclusive 27 days Box Office Update

Drishyam have completed 27 days @ Kerala Box Office and already its the 2nd biggest grosser of all time. The is the biggest non-mulistar movie beating Dileep's Mayamohini. The only film that's in front of Drishyam is the Mega Multi-Starrer 'T20' which featured the entire Malayalam film industry. The film is raking in moolah despite 2 big Tamil releases (one which also features Mohanlal). The film didn't show any dip in collections even once the X'mas holiday got over. Instead the weekends, holidays, & even in Weekdays evening-night shows of the film were complete sold out with theaters forced to add more shows and screens. 

The film has revived the B class theaters many of which were on the brink of extinction with one of the longest run in such small centers. They didn't remove the film even for a gigantic film like Jilla [Featuring mass heartthrobs Mohanlal & Vijay] which was the usual case in Kerala. The film is already the biggest hit in Res of India and overseas with Bangalore & Gulf grossing twice or thrice more than the previous biggest hits.

Drishyam did all of this in 1/3rd the time which other biggies took

The Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada remake rights were sold within 3 days of its release

Budget: 4.75 - 5 crore [including Print & Publicity]

Satellite Rights: 6-6.5 crore

Remake Rights: 1.60 crore

27 Days all Kerala Gross - 21 crore

Nett - about 16.80 crore

Distributors Share - 9 crore

The film completed about 12,000 shows worldwide so far

Credits to the entire cast & crew of Drishyam

List of Most Awaited Malayalam Movies of 2014

Most Awaited Malayalam Movies of 2014

Here's a list of few of the Most Awaited Malayalam Movies of 2014 - Not in any particular order

One By Two

Arun Kumar Aravind's 4th film, teaming up with Murali Gopi for the 3rd time & with Fahadh Faasil for the 1st time. Movie was supposed to release last year but has over shot its budget and days. Expected to release soon

 

Teaser - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA2SaSdjbgw

Mr.Fraud

Unnikrishnan.B teaming up with Mohanlal for the 3rd time after the highly successful 'Madambi' & 'Grandmaster'. Said to be a 'heist' film which is a rare genre in Mollywood.

 

Lailaa O Lailaa

The Blockbuster team of Run Babby Run, Mohanlal-Joshiy-Amala Paul reunites in this mega budget action thriller. Script is by Suresh Nair (Kahaani, Namastey London, Singh is King, D Day fame)

 

Puli Murukan

When it comes to making mass-masala pot boilers nobody can beat Vysakh in present times, he joins with the biggest Mass icon in Kerala, Mohanlal for the first time, with super successful writer duo Udayakrishna-Sibi K Thomas.

Gangster

 

Mammooty - Aashiq Abu team reuniting after Daddy Cool. Expected to be a stylized action thriller in the likes of 'Big B' 

Ohm Shanthi Oshaana

 

 Youth Sensations Nazriya Nazim & Nivin Pauly reunites after 'Neram' for the Rom-Com

Teaser - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekE8yJ8YHWw

7th day

Said to be an investigative thriller in which Prithviraj will be playing a middle aged character with Salt N Pepper looks.

 

Lucifer

Rajesh Pillai (Traffic) Murali Gopy, Mohanlal - The names are more than enough. Plus Murali's facebook posts claiming the film will to be a mass treat for fans have made this project red hot.

 

Balyakalasakhi

 

Big screen adaptation of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer's novel with the same name. Mammootty will be playing2 characters that goes through various time frames.

Anjali Menon's film

The biggest Multi starrer since All time blockbuster T20.
Direction/Writer Anjali Menon, Produced by Anwar Rasheed, Camera Sameer Thahir, Music Gopy Sundar Starring Dulquer Salmaan, Fahadh Faasil, Nivin Pauly, Nithya Menon, Parvathi Menon, Nazriya Nazim, Isha Talwar- Do we need more reasons to be excited ??

KooThaRa, Ranjith-Mohanlal Project, Runway 2/Valayar Paramasivam are few of the other interesting projects to look forward to in 2014

In Mollywood new projects gets announced and dropped every single day. So only God knows how many of these might end up releasing in theaters, atleast in this year. May be like Drishyam we might get a total surprise out of the blue. Any ways the satellite rights boom has down. So 2014 will not see record breaking number of releases like in 2013 (158)

71st Golden Globe Awards 2014 - Complete Winners List

71st HFPA [Hollywood Foreign Press Association] Golden Globe Awards 2014 - Complete Winners List

Best Motion Picture, Drama

• "12 Years a Slave"

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

• "American Hustle"

Best Director - Motion Picture

• Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

• Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

• Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

• Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

• Amy Adams, "American Hustle"

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

• Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

• Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

• "Her"

Best Animated Feature Film

• "Frozen"

Best Foreign Language Film

• "The Great Beauty"

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

• "All Is Lost"

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

• "Ordinary Love" - U2 ("Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom")

Woody Allen received the Cecil B. DeMille award for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment"

2014 Golden Globe Awards Nominations in TV:

Best TV Series, Drama

• "Breaking Bad" - AMC

Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama

• Robin Wright, "House Of Cards"

Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama

• Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"

Best TV Series, Comedy

• "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" - FOX

Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy

• Amy Poehler, "Parks & Recreation"

Best Actor in a TV Series, Comedy

• Andy Samberg, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"

Best TV Movie or Mini-Series

• "Behind the Candelabra" - HBO

Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie

• Elisabeth Moss, "Top of the Lake"

Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie

• Michael Douglas, "Behind the Candelabra"

Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie

• Jacqueline Bisset, "Dancing on the Edge"

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie

• Jon Voight, "Ray Donovan"

Hollywood Box Office 2013 - Top 10 Biggest Grossers of the year

Hollywood Box Office 2013 - Top 10 Movies of the year

Top 10 @ North American [Domestic] Box Office

1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire* $410.61  mn
[Foreign $423.4 mn  Worldwide $834  mn]


2. Iron Man 3 $409.01 mn
[Foreign $806.426  mn Worldwide $1.21 bn] 

 
3. Despicable Me 2 $367.98  mn
[Foreign $553.240 mn Worldwide  $921.223  mn] 

 
4. Frozen* $305.7  mn
[Foreign $342.10  mn Worldwide $647.80  mn]  


5. Man of Steel $291.04 mn
[Foreign $377  mn Worldwide  $668.045 mn]  


6. Monsters University $268.49 mn
[Foreign $475.06  mn  mn  Worldwide $743.55  mn]


7. Gravity    $255.80 mn
[Foreign $414.5  mn Worldwide  $670.30  mn]


8. Fast & Furious 6 $238.67 mn
 [Foreign  $550  mn Worldwide  $788.67 mn]


9. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* $236.25  mn
[Foreign $527  mn Worldwide  $763.254  mn]      


10. Oz The Great and Powerful    $234.91  mn]
[Foreign $258.40 mn Worldwide $493.31  mn]

* - Still Running

Top 10 @  Indian Box Office

Iron Man 3 $ 12.20 mn

 [Rs. 75.61 crores]
FAST & FURIOUS 6 $ 10.197
[Rs. 63.15 crores]

 Man of Steel $ 6.32 mn

 [Rs. 39.17 crores]

 Gravity $ 6.18 mn
 [Rs. 38.3 crores]

 The Wolverine $ 4.63 mn
 [Rs. 75.61 crores]

 G.I. Joe: Retaliation $ 4.22 mn
 [Rs. 26.15 crores]

 The Conjuring $ 3.79 mn
 [Rs. 23.49 crores, Biggest 'Horror' hit ever]

 Thor: The Dark Work $ 3.598 mn
 [Rs. 22.25 crores]

 A Good Day to Die Hard $ 2.24 mn
 [Rs. 13.88 crores]

 The Hangover Part III $ 2.057 mn
 [Rs. 12.70 crores]

 The Croods $ 1.59 mn

 [Rs. 9.85 crores, Biggest animation hit of the year]
 

Life of Pi $ 13.32 mn

 [Rs. 82.55 crores, Released in 2012, but continued its impressive run in 2013 too]
 

All figures are GROSS Revenue

16th Ujala Asianet Film Awards 2014 - Winners List

Best Actor: Mammootty (Kunjananthante Kada, Immanuel)

Best Actress: Amala Paul (Oru Indian Pranaya Kadha)

Millenium Actor: Mohanlal

Life time Achievement Award: Innocent

Best Film: Drishyam

Best Director: Lijo Jose Pallisherry (Amen)

Most Popular Actor: Prithviraj

Most Popular Actress: Namitha Pramod

Youth Icon - Dulquer Salmaan

Music Director - Prashanth Pillai (Amen)

Best Male Singer: Vijay Yesudas

Best Female Singer:Mridhula Warrier (Laale, Kalimannu)

Best Tamil Actor: Kamal Hasan

International Icon of Indian Cinema: Shah Rukh Khan

Best Actor in a comic role - Biju Menon (Romans)
 Best Supporting Actors  - Siddique & Asha Sharath (Drishyam)

Best Debut Actor: Dhyan Sreenivasan (Thira)

Best Debut Actress: Keerhty Suresh (Geethanjali)

Best Child Artist: Master Sanoop (Philips & the Monkey Pen)

Speical Award for Dileep for completing 20 years in the Industry 

 

Veeram - Movie Review

 

Veeram - Exclusive Movie Review

Directed by     Siva
Produced by     Bharathi Reddy
Written by     Bharathan (dialogues)
Story by     Bhoopati Raja
Music by     Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography     Vetri
Editing by     Kasi Viswanathan
Studio     Vijaya Productions
Release dates   January 10, 2014
Running time     161 minutes
Country     India
Language     Tamil

   

Cast

    Ajith Kumar as Vinayagam
    Tamannaah as Kopperundevi
    Vidharth as Shanmugam
    Bala
    Munish as Siva
    Suhail Chandhok as Kumaran
    Nassar
    Pradeep Rawat
    Santhanam as Pichai Muniyandi
    Ramesh Khanna
    Avinash
    Appukutty
    Thambi Ramaiya
    Abhinaya
    Manochitra
    Vidyullekha Raman
    Suza Kumar
    Ilavarasu
    Mayilsamy
    Devadarshini
    R. N. R. Manohar
    Paruthiveeran Sujatha
    Amit Kumar Tiwari
    Kalairani

Ajith in a 'Vetti Chattai' doing a village based mass role after a long time was the main USP of Veeram and Siva delivered a perfect entertainer meeting the expectations.

Veeram is the story of Vinayagam, a one man army with heart of gold, darling of masses, his brothers and his love interest Goppurendevi (Gopu). The first half deals with the brothers with the help of Santhanam trying to make Gopu & Vinayagan fall in love, so that they themselves can introduce their love interests before their brother and marry them. While the second half story shifts to Gopu's house and native village where Vinayagan not only has to earn the love & respect of her family members but also deal with another enemy who is trying to eliminate Gopu's family

Story is nothing new or unique but its the Presence of Thala as the towering personality and Siva's smart packaging that makes it work. Its an out an out Ajith show, he oozes charisma even while simply standing. The screen presence he had in Veeram is impeccable which was sort of missing in his last 2 films.

Siva packaged an average script with perfection. The dialogues were very powerful and had punch, especially the one liners mouthed by Ajith. Camera, Editing jobs are well done. The locations are apt and beautiful and even @ 160+ mins it doesn't drag much. Santhanam's comedy in 1st half worked out very well.
The Interval action bloack in train was good, but nothing like it was hyped thanks to shoddy VFX. BG was terrific.

The biggest negative is the age old script and uneven script. The 1st & 2nd half are like 2 different movies. Tamannaah got a comparatively meatier role, but a holy mess of it, especially in emotional scenes. Her chemistry with Ajith didn't work out and their romantic duet songs were plain bad. Even though DSP scored in BG score the songs were average, so was its choreography. Action choreography apart from interval block was average. Santhanam's character got lost some where in the second half. The 4 brothers apart from Vidarth did average job only.The movie also lacks a powerful villain.

Siva using the image of Thala Ajith perfectly, mixing all the right ingredients in the perfect combination has given a good entertainer. Even though its no where near to being perfect, watch it for Thala, if for nothing else.

Rating: 3/5

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