Cine News Digest – 07 Jan 2026
Crisis for Vijay’s Jana Nayagan The eleventh hour postponement of Vijay’s Jana Nayagan is an ugly blight not only on the face of Tamil cinema, but on the image of India as a democracy. This is not the first time that a film was suddenly postponed. Vijay’s 2013 film, Thalaiva suffered a similar fate. In […]
Cine News Digest – 25 Dec 2025
Dhanush takes over as producer of his 55th film As indicated in the previous edition of Cine News Digest, Dhanush has an extremely busy year ahead of him. His collaboration with Rajkumar Periyasamy, the director of Sivakarthikeyan’s Amaran, will now be his 55th film, ahead of his biopic on former State President of India, APJ […]
Cine News Digest – 13 Dec 2025
Mani Ratnam’s next film After the lukewarm response to his last directorial – Kamal Haasan’s Thug Life – Mani Ratnam is to return to direction with an emotional action thriller with Vijay Sethupathi set to play the lead role. Shooting for this film will begin in January and the film is set for release in […]
Tamil Cinema loses another Legend
M. Saravanan, the iconic film producer who was the driving force in AVM Productions and AVM Studios, passed away in the early hours of this morning – Thursday, 04 December. Saravanan (86) had several health issues and was unable to walk for the last two years. His remains will be available for public viewing until […]
Unspinning the news on Rajinikanth’s 173rd film
Rajinikanth’s 173rd film has been dominating film news headlines since its announcement in September this year. The project brought together Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth after 46 years. With both superstars enjoying huge fame and fanatical followings, there are many among the current generation of audiences that would not know that the two careers were intertwined […]
Cine News Digest – 09 Oct 2025
Inbanithi Udhayanidhi to make his acting debut Inbanithi Udhayanidhi is to make his debut as a lead star in a forthcoming film to be written and directed by Mari Selvaraj. The son of actor-turned-politician Udhayanidhi Stalin, Inbanithi is the grandson of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin and the great-grandson of former Chief Minister M. […]
Cine News Digest – 14 Sep 2025
Illaiyaraja Honoured by Tamil Nadu Government A grand event was held on Saturday 13 September to honour music composer Illaiyaraja for completing 50 years in the film industry. Illaiyaraja made his film debut in 1976 whennhe composed the hit soundtrack for Annakili. He has since completed more than 1000 films and earlier this year became […]
Cine News Digest – 07 Sep 2025
Rajinikanth’s Coolie to release on OTT this week Rajinikanth’s Lokesh Kanagraj directorial, Coolie is set to release on Amazon Prime on 11 September 2025 in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Despite having been denied a release on IMAX, an “Adults Only” certification and a coordinated negativity campaign after the film’s release, the film set several […]
Cine New Digest – 11 August 2025
Mani Ratnam to direct Dhruv Vikram After the failure of Thug Life at the box-office, Maniratnam has decided to change track in his next film, which will have Dhruv Vikram in the lead role opposite Rukmini Vasanth of Ace fame. A.R. Rahman will score the music. There has been much speculation ranging from an action […]
Cine News Digest – 03 August 2025
Rajinikanth’ Coolie set to release worldwide on 14 August Coolie Fever has gripped the film world in the last week with the official audio launch that also marked Rajinikanth’s 50th year in cinema. The star-studded film will see Rajinikanth sharing screen space with Nagarjunna, Sathyaraj, Soubin Shahir, Upendra, Shruthi Haasan, Kaali Venkat and Charlie, with […]