Kuselan breaks first-day records!

In spite of fears from internet downloads and other pirated forms of music posing a threat, Kuselan audio CDs have been sold in huge numbers in just one day of its release. As per the latest sales statistics taken around the city, 2 lakh CDs have been sold. And the second day has also seen a surge in the sales of the album according to trade analysts.

Kuselan’s audio was launched on Monday, June 30, 2008 evening in Chennai. G V Prakash has scored the music, and the album has 5 songs. The movie is gearing up for a grand release on July 25, 2008.

Selvaraghavan B.E.

Trained under director Selvaraghavan and after polishing their skills, his assistants seem to be rooting themselves strongly in Kollywood. One of his assistants, Jawahar gave the hit film Yaaradi Nee Mohini with Selvaraghavan's brother Dhanush donning the lead role along with Nayanthara. His yet another assistant Pranthaman is also all set to carve a niche for himself by directing a film. He has titled it Selvaraghavan B.E., as a mark of respect to his guru. The film will have debutant actors in the lead roles. Selvaraghavan B.E., is a romantic drama centered around engineering college students. Gangai Amaran is back in action once again and will be scoring the music for Selvaraghavan B.E.

Kamal says there is no story in Dasavatharam

Kamal Haasan on a recent visit to Kerala to promote his Dasavatharam had some interesting and blunt questions to answer. The actor was thrown a volley of questions and most prominent among them was: "Do you agree that Dasavatharam has no story?" Reacting to this, Kamal said that he did agree with that but also reiterated that he never promised that there would be a strong storline. .Disclosing how Dasavatharam came into making, Kamal Haasan said that it was his idea to don ten roles that set the whole project in motion. The story was weaved on these ten characters, he added.

On the Punjabi Singh character that gets cured of cancer miraculously by a gunshot, Kamal said this idea was inspired from a real-life incident involving the Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M.G. Ramachandran. Explaining further, Kamal said that the TN CM acted in films and was able to talk even better after the gunshot wound.

Well, will these explanations keep the critics at bay?