Shruthi Haasan Stays Connected with her father

Many stars from filmdom and sports have now started connecting with their fans through several social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and Shruti Haasan is no different.

What is different about her is that, she has gone to the extent of connecting with her father Kamal through Twitter. Seeing Shruti tweet her father and him tweeting back to her, we asked her the reason and she says, “Father is busy with his work and me with my schedules and we hardly get to meet. There is no better way to connect with him but for Twitter.”

It was just a few days ago that we reported about Shruti being busy with projects and her daddy dearest being proud about that. Talk about tech-savvy strong relationships!

Trisha and Kamal Leave India

Manmadhan Ambu has officially kick started and according to highly placed sources from the production house, the crew is travelling abroad in batches starting from June 9 to 15. A total of 90 crew members are expected to travel with Kamal and Trisha already proceeding to France. First leg of the shoots will be held in France and Kamal, Trisha, Madhavan and Sangeetha are expected to take part in it.

The movie will be shot extensively abroad and the crew has plans to shoot in Rome, Venice and Malaysia as well. It’s also learnt that major part of the movie will be shot in a luxury cruise liner and that the producers are holding discussions to hire a huge ship for the purpose.

Manmadha Ambu Kissing Scene

Now that we all know that the Manmadhan Ambu is a romantic flick, the big question that all Kamal Haasan’s fans have is whether there would be a kissing scene, which his films are well-known for. This question was brought up during the press meet of Manmadhan Ambu, which took place recently.
To this, director KS Ravikumar said that such a scene would be in the film if the storyline so demands. However, it would not be incorporated so as to make it look out of place.

Manmadhan Ambu, which also stars Madhavan, and Trisha, will be shot extensively in Europe.

Kamal Haasan or sanjay dutt to play the role of osho

Almost two decades after his death in his ashram in Pune, charismatic yet controversial preacher "Bhagwan Rajneesh" - also dubbed the "Guru of Sex" due to his advocacy of free sex - is to be resurrected in a film on his life and actors like Sanjay Dutt and Kamal Haasan from the Indian film industry are being considered to play the main lead.

Italian film director Antonino Lakshen Sucameli, an Osho disciple himself, is in talks with production companies in both India and abroad as well as senior Indian actors to resume work on Osho: The Film, which was conceptualised more than five years ago.

The 54-year-old, who was in Nepal this month to attend a course at the Osho Tapoban in Kathmandu, is now back in India to hold talks with powerful Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan and Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, an associate in Nepal said.

"The shooting will start by next year," Swami Rishi from Osho Tapoban, Kathmandu told IANS. "Part of the film will be shot in India."

When Sucameli, known for his mystic films Blue Line and Zorba Il Buddha, began work on the script, Kabir Bedi and Irrfan Khan were also approached to act in it. The director is still looking for a Hollywood actress to play Clara, the journalist through whose eyes the mesmerising - as well as turbulent - life of Osho will unfold.

Inspired by Bertolucci's Little Buddha and Oliver Stone's JFK, Sucameli plans to weave in his film videos on Osho, who was born Chandra Mohan Jain in Madhya Pradesh in 1931 and in the 1970s established himself as a new age guru advocating a luxurious life-style as well as experimental therapies that combined sex with violence.

When Clara arrives in the ashram to investigate Osho's life, including his deportation from the US in 1985, she falls in love with his Indian security chief Satyam, and an East-West love story punctuated by flashbacks from India's colonial past forms the core of the film.

Sucameli met Osho in 1978 when he arrived in India and became his disciple.

Osho's sensational life has attracted other filmmakers as well. In 2006, an Indian company, Media One Venture of Chandigarh, had announced plan to make a film, Guru of Sex that was to have cast Sir Ben Kingsley as Osho.

Kamal releases a book

Meenal Publishing House, Karur has released their first set of publications on January 22nd at the Book Point Auditorium. The books Thorn and Room were released by Kamal Haasan. While Yohei Sasakawa, the Chairman Nippon Foundation, Japan, received the book Thorn from Kamal, Easwaramoorthy IPS, SP, CBI, Chennai received the book Room. Another book Nerkkanal was released by Na. Muthuswamy and received by Chinna-k-Kuthusi.

The translators Latha Ramakrishnan, Shubashree Desikan and designer Santhosh were also honored during the function. Kamal delivered the keynote address.

Earlier, the publisher, Ayyannar, welcomed the gathering.The all rounder in acting is proving is that he is versatile writer too/