This story really takes the cake for being the most hilarious. South star Shreya Saran, the leading lady opposite superstar Rajinikanth in the Tamil blockbuster Shivaji – The Boss, did not get tickets in Chennai to watch her own film!The 25-year old cutie was to keen to watch the film with Rajini fans but got […]

David Hopper, the U.S. Consul General in Chennai, has lots of Tamil friends. They recommended a Tamil film to him. That was ‘Sivaji.’ Rajini’s fans as well as general public get thrills in watching the first show of the first day of a Rajini film. Like his friends advised him, Hopper was given the opportunity […]

Director S P Muthuraman was instrumental in shaping the career of Rajnikanth. The ace -director of Tamil cinema in 1980s, Muthuraman directed several films featuring Rajnikanth in the role of an angry youngster. Director S P Muthuraman who introduced Rajinikanth as a hero says that from the beginning the punch lines were designed to project […]

IBM India announced that it has begun operations in Bhopal, as part of its expansion plans to enter 14 new cities in the country. The Bhopal unit will cater specially to the unique requirements of the various SMB clients spread in the city and its neighboring markets. IBM’s expansion plans will enable the company to […]

Sony Ericsson announced that it is establishing a research and development (R&D) unit for mobile phones in Chennai, India. The company said the move follows closely on its January announcement of sourcing local manufacture of phones in Chennai with EMS partners Flextronics and Foxconn; with a production target of 10 million units by 2009. Sony […]

US-based Electronic hardware maker Sanmina-SCI Corporation today announced an investment of Rs 225 crore for setting up an electronic hardware components project at Oragadam Hi-Tech zone. The company will set up the manufacturing unit in a 100 acre area with the investment going up to Rs 315 crore. The project is likely to provide direct […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M Karunanidhi today flayed the newly launched United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) for describing as ”joke”, the UPA-Left parties’ choice of Ms Pratibha Patil as its Presidential candidate. By ridiculing the choice of Ms Patil ”as a joke played on the nation by Congress President Sonia Gandhi”, the […]

Last week, we saw the release of two big movies. Aditya Chopra’s Jhoom Barabar Jhoom starred Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta , Lara Dutta and Amitabh Bachchan, and Rajnikanth’s Tamil film, Sivaji: The Boss. While the former opened to a dull response, the latter is on its way to becoming a blockbuster. Even though […]

It’s raining homes on Chennai’s Old Mahabalipuram Road or OMR as national realty developers are betting big on Chennai’s IT highway located in the outskirts of the city. Over 10,000 new apartments are coming up in this place in four major residential townships. There has been investment to the tune of Rs 4,000 crore in […]

For the second successive year, IBM Daksh has been adjudged the ‘2007 Contact Center Outsourcing Service Provider of the Year in Asia Pacific’ by Frost & Sullivan, a global business research and consulting firm. The company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based IBM, was selected after it was evaluated and benchmarked against other leading BPO companies […]

Mozhi, produced by Prakash Raj featured Prithviraj, Jyothika and Prakash Raj in pivotal roles, successfully completed a 100-day run. Directed by Radhamohan, the success of Mozhi brought a fresh lease of life in Kollywood. It was the perfect Saturday night party at Mayajaal where families, directors, actors and industry bigwigs gathered together and Prakash Raj […]

Rajnikant-starrer mega-budget movie ‘Sivaji – The Boss’ has raked in Rs 60 lakhs on its opening day in Malaysia, setting a new record in the Tamil film industry in this country. The highest takings ever on Thursday night of 560,000 ringit (Rs 60 lakh) was due to the overwhelming demand, V Paari, the Chairman of […]