Cinema Diary

Mammootty Best Actor Award

Asianet channel and launched successfully on the last saturday the reality show 'Mammootty the best actor award'.There will be 13 episodes that would be telecast every Saturday. The grand finale will take place in October in Dubai where the mega star Mammootty will announce the winners.

The judges are the yesteryears actress sheela,one and only jagathy srikumar along with many time award winning actress urvashi,extremely talented sreenivasan,nedumudi venu and popular malayalam film director siddique.

Sixteen contestants have been selected and each of them will have to perform on the reality show. Mega star MAMMOOTTY said "This is just to give talented youngsters an opportunity to come out" .Among the 16 selected, 10 are men and most of the participants are in their early 20s. They were shortlisted from among more than 1,000 aspirants.

These are the comments from the superstar on the launching day.
"My job in the reality show is limited. Since it was the first episode that was aired last night (Saturday), I decided to be present. I have committed that the films produced by my production house will feature many contestants" .He also replied to the questio "why he have not started the show in KAIRALI TV,where he is the chairman?".The famous superstar replied "The proposal came from Asianet and I felt it was a good idea and agreed."

Mammootty is known for his powerful performances in movies like "Aalkootathil Thaniye", "Adiyozhukkukal", "Oru CBI Diary Kurippu", "Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha" and "Mathilukal" and many more.

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Angel John Start to roll

'After completing 'Alexander The Great' which is his next release scheduled for Onam, Mohanlal has joined the sets of 'Angel John'. The film tells the story of how Angel John, supposed to be the reincarnation of an angel, strikes a friendship with a 20-year-old student and helps him to tide over his problems. Santhanu, the son of Bhagyaraj and Poornima, plays the role of the fortunate student.The film which also features actors like Lalu Alex, Vijaya Raghavan, Jagathy, Bheeman Raghu, Bineesh Kodiyeri and others..Yester years heroine Menaka makes her second entry through this film.

Jayasurya, the director of Dileep’s Speed Track will be directing this movie. After the excellence in camerawork, Bhramaram fame Ajay Vincent was recommended by Lal himself to handle the camerawork of Angel John

Bhootham magic on Box office

As expected and predicted by the trade pundits ‘Ee Pattanathil Bhootham' - the monsoon release from Mammootty witnessed bumper initials in the first two weeks. The film which was released in sixty five plus centers and collect around two and a half crores from its 14 days run. It registered 100% percent in almost all the centers in weekends & above sixty percent in week days, Even though the film carried mixed reports. Script writer uadaykrishna, Sibi.K.Thomas and director Johny Anthony has managed to make a formula film that uses Mammootty's larger-than- life image in the double role of Jimmy and Ghost , with proper mastery.

Latest News that Pattanathil Bhootham attracting good crowds of families and kids. if it continues another two weeks it will safely land production expenditure of five crore. Also the crew is planning to go for some different marketing techniques to attract more families and kids.