Varnam tamil movie from Madurai gets U/A certificate

Varnam (Colours) is a coming-of-age film with a difference.

S.M. Raju, who hails from Madurai, was a computer scientist based in Boston, whose passion for film-making led him to becoming a director.

He has done a course in been United States on Film-making as well and has done numerous short films.

The story is about a teenage boy who goes to live with his uncle after his father dies in a communal confrontation.

Sources said that an actual caste clash, which shook the entire state a few years ago, forms the backdrop of the film.

Ace producer-turned-politician Michael Royappan, who has seen the film’s sneak preview, was so impressed that he has grabbed Varnam’s distribution rights.

Director has worked hard to make the certificate to U, but the movie was awarded only U/A due to an unavoidable scene.

Radaan to open Acting School in Madurai and Trichy with partnership with Actor Prepares

Chennai-based Radaan Mediaworks India Ltd, run by actress Radhikaa Sarath Kumar, has joined hands with Anupam Kher's acting school, "Actor Prepares", to set up an acting school in Chennai. The new school would also expand in tier II and III cities in the south as well as in Malaysia. Company chairperson and managing director Radikaa Sarath Kumar said, “This will be a diversification for the company into education”.

“Both the Cinema industry and Radaan Mediaworks India Ltd is facing talent crunch. This expansion of education centres for acting would address it. The first school will come up at T Nagar, Chennai.

H Narayana Swamy, chief financial officer, Radaan Mediaworks India Ltd, said investment would be around Rs 25-30 lakh, which does not include land and building. This would be sufficient to set up the school in an area of 4,000-5,000 sft.

Going forward, we will focus on tier II cities like Tiruchi and Madurai and also South East Asian countries like Singapore and Malaysia and Newyork, with the help of local partners.

Anupam Kher's Actor Prepares has a fee for the three-month diploma course as Rs 1.4 lakh. At present "Actor Prepares" has four centres and is planning to add 4-5 in the next two years.

Actor Prepares, has operations in Ahmedabad, Chandigrah and now in Chennai. Till now, around 500 students have been trained, Aupam Kher said.

Comment by the Editor: This is a great move, because many of the secondary Actors, Technicians, Directors come from tier-II cities. There is a great potential to be tapped in these cities. Even there are other companies opening centers to collect talent pools like Dr.Srinivasan Lathika Pictures opened office in Madurai Alagappan Nagar couple of months ago. This is only a small thing, but there is definitely some move in terms of human resource potential from Madurai and Trichy etc., This is already existing potential and it is recently being understood.

It is great time to realize this potential and do the required to tap and benefit from the potential for everyone.

Emotionally attached to Madurai

Compared to other cities in Tamil Nadu, Madurai is the only town which has Madurai Makkal to be emotionally attached to the Madurai city itself.

If you ask any one from Madurai - he/she would be proud to be from Madurai and they are always emotionally attached to Madurai.

There is association to the city with themselves for the innocence in people, Madurai non-industrialization and being an emotional village. Any one from Madurai would be interested to see improvements to Madurai and there would be interest to contribute to anything good for Madurai.

Recently, choreographer turned actor Harikumar - "Madurai Sambavam movie" pugazh..said in an interview that he is emotionally attached to Madurai town and he loves the Madurai city for the innocence of people there in Madurai.

Mattuthavani Movie from Madurai

Director Pavitharan, once a popular director in Tamil film industry, is back after a brief interval with Mattuthavani.

Pavithran established a place for himself in Tamil cinema rendering hit films including Suriyan, Vasanthakala Paravaigal and Indu.

He makes a comeback with Mattuthavani, a movie set around a prominent place in Madurai. The highlight of the movie is that a song was sung by M K Muthu, a veteran actor and son of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.

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