THRISSUR: Veteran Malayalam writer Sukumar Azhikode Saturday filed a criminal defamation case against superstar Mohanlal. Azhikode alleges that the actor called him a mentally-deranged person last year. Azhikode had then served a legal notice on Mohanlal, asking him to either apologise or face legal action. The war of words between the two started when Azhikode …
LONDON: ‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling’s life story is to be turned into a movie. Rowling – who went from being a single mother receiving state benefits to being worth an estimated $804 million following the worldwide success of the schoolboy wizard franchise – will be portrayed in the film by actress Poppy Montgomery, known …
NEW YORK: Perry Moore, an executive producer of the fantasy movie series ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, committed suicide in his New York City apartment. He was 39. His death was from an overdose of pain-killers, the New York Daily News reports. Moore wrote ‘Hero’, a novel about a young gay superhero, and also served as …
MUMBAI: He might be flying in private jets but there was a time when Amitabh Bachchan used to gatecrash weddings and travel in trains without a ticket. Big B, who is shooting for ‘Aarakshan’ and is becoming quite nostalgic about his college days. “We were talking on set about college and university days and how …
MUMBAI: Actress Priyanka Chopra got into a heated verbal argument with a man in Delhi while promoting her just released film ‘7 Khoon Maaf’. He was out to rattle her. The incident happened Tuesday evening at the recording of an interactive interview. A man, apparently from Punjab, piped in to accuse her of ‘not being …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The great grandmother of Malayalam Cinema has passed away. Aranmula Ponnamma died Monday at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. She was 96 years old. Ponnamma had a surgery after she fell down and had a back injury two weeks ago. Her body is expected to be moved to her house in Jagathy. Her final …
In an interesting development, one of the much acclaimed movies in recent times ‘Pranchiyettan and the saint’ has completed 160 days. The movie is continuing in a lone theatre in Thrissur to become the biggest running Mollywood movie in the last five years, surpassing record by ‘Happy husbands’ which ran to 150 days in a …
Thilakan has commented that actor Sreenivasan is like the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Comparing the actor to Indira Gandhi, Thilakan said that Sreeni’s reaction against the superstars now is like Indira having declared the emergency when her position was shaken. ‘People like Sreeni had actually opposed me when I had reacted against the superstars …
