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Auro-3D is an advanced sound technology containing an immersive sound with 9.1 and 13.1speaker systems. It is a height based 3D sound system for Mobile, Cars, Theaters. Only one film have been released with this technology, Red Tails with Tamil film Vishwaroopam to be released with this technology in January 2013 .
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KOCHADAIYAAN
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Kochadaiyaan is an upcoming Tamil period film directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar. The film will feature superstar Rajinikanth alongside an ensemble cast, including R. Sarathkumar, Aadhi, Deepika Padukone, Shobana, Rukmini Vijayakumar, Jackie Shroff and Nassar. The film, which is expected to be shot with motion capture in 3D, will have cinematography handled by Rajiv Menon whilst background score and soundtrack will be composed by A. R. Rahman. The film will be dubbed in Telugu as Vikrama Simha,[3] and will also be released in Hindi, Malayalam, Japanese and English.[4][5] As of 2012, Italian and Spanish versions of the film have also been announced.[6] Shooting for the film has reportedly been finished, and post-production works are currently going on at London, Hong Kong and Los Angeles.[7]
FILMING
The film is expected to be the first Indian 3D film shot with the kind of performance capturing technology used in films such as Avatar (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).[43][44] K. S. Ravikumar, story writer of the film, announced that the filming will commence on 15 January 2012 and finish before March 2012.[45] The first schedule of indoor shooting started with Rajinikanth's style and his action filmed for motion capturing.[19] The film was launched with a formal puja on 19 January 2012 at the actor's favourite Ganesha temple located inside AVM Studios in Vadapalani, Chennai.[46] First-look posters of the film were released on 5 February 2012.[47] The first schedule of the film shooting was getting kickstart from March 2012 onwards with formal shooting on 15 March 2012 at Chennai, following this, the team went to London along with the lead actor Rajinikanth to continue the first schedule.[48] Before he started to London for 20 days shooting along with Soundarya and Ravikumar, Rajinikanth claimed tha the film may see 2012 Diwali release.[49] After completing the first schedule of the film in London, Rajinikanth returned to Chennai on 2 April 2012 and the next schedule of the film shooting was planned to be held in Tamilnadu and Kerala.[50] Soundarya has roped in Saroj Khan, Raju Sundaram, Chinni Prakash and his wife, and Shobi to choreograph the songs.[51] Rajinikanth's hairstyle in the film is said to be inspired from his earlier look in Thalapathi (1991).[52]
The second schedule of the film was shot in Thiruvananthapuram at Chitranjali studio and Vismayas Max studio. [53][54] The crew has completed the second schedule on 30 April 2012. Director Soundarya Rajinikanth posted this on her Twitter page.[55] A sizzling romantic number choreographed by Saroj Khan featuring the leading duo was filmed in early May 2012 at the part of second schedule.[56] It was said that the entire film shooting would be completed in the second schedule itself and the post-production work would start after this.[57] However, the team was off with the lead actor to Hong Kong for the third schedule of the film on 12 May 2012 where some crucial scenes and combat scenes featuring the lead actor and the antagonist were shot at the State of the Arts Gallery cum studio.[58] [59] [60] It was reported that the crew had taken several steps to prevent piracy of Kochadaiyaan.[61]Since the film was shot using performance capture technology, 48 cameras were used to shoot each and every scene. The 48 cameras captured performance of artistes' 48 angles.[62] Kochadaiyaan was equipped with Auro 3D sound technology, becoming the second Indian film after Kamal Haasan's Viswaroopam to do so.[63] [64]


Marketing
The film will have special screenings in Los Angeles, London and India. Apart from this, the producers struck a deal with Karbonn Mobiles, an Indian telecommunication firm that will involve 5 lakh (US$9,100) Kochadaiyaan merchandise with screen savers and images from the film along with the trailer, behind the scenes shots, signature tune of the film and lead actor's signature on back cover of phones.[


Music
Rajinikanth has rendered his voice for a song in the Kochadaiyaan soundtrack. The song which is said to be a philosophical theme song, composed by A. R. Rahman and penned by Vairamuthu was recorded on 11 March 2012.[66][67] This is the second time that the actor took part in playback singing for a film, earlier he had rendered his voice for the song Adikuthu Kuliru in the film Mannan that was released in 1992.[68][69] Rajinikanth sung the theme song in Hindi version also, which was co-sung by A. R. Rahman and penned by Irshad Kamil, recorded at London on 31 March 2012 during the first schedule of the film shooting. The song, composed of Hindi and Urdu lyrics said to be a completely different from its original Tamil version.[70] Sony Music Entertainment has acquired the music rights of the film.[71]
On 20 December 2012, lyricist Vairamuthu unveiled the Tamil lyrics of the melancholic song "Sendhee Vizhundha Sempor Paarayil" through Twitter. The English translation of the song was also part of the same tweet.[72][73] In an interview with The Hindu, Vairamuthu stated that the song contains 2,100-year old Tamil usages in pure form with dialects of the Sangam age, planking imagery and epithets in verses. The song that putforths anguish and longing emotions was penned in 90 minutes by the lyricist. The motive behind the pre-release of lyrics of the song was that none aspirant can photocopy and pass off this work as his own.[74]
 
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Any body seen vishwaroopam????? How good is it.....
 
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Any body seen vishwaroopam????? How good is it.....

The Best indian movie to have been ever made...rated 9.2 IMDB......the best movie i"ve ever seen....i"ve seen every region indian movies....but nothing like this....on Par with Hollywood....edge of the seat thriller from the start to the end....Kamal Hassan is undoubtedly indias best ever actor....just go and see this movie....if you miss this....i think you"ll be missing history thats gonna happen....
 
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The Best indian movie to have been ever made...rated 9.2 IMDB......the best movie i"ve ever seen....i"ve seen every region indian movies....but nothing like this....on Par with Hollywood....edge of the seat thriller from the start to the end....Kamal Hassan is undoubtedly indias best ever actor....just go and see this movie....if you miss this....i think you"ll be missing history thats gonna happen....

Thanks for the info..... Kamal is one of the very few true versatile actors in indian cinema..... not only actor... film maker..... I would love to watch his movies..... and his movies made me his fan...... But really sad on what he is going thru....... Hope he doesnt get into real financial trouble by making one of the best ever movies in india...
 
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watch this movie --- this is how tamils suffered under british......watch this movie too

 
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Tamil films give Bollywood a run for its money[/B


CHENNAI, India — Days before the May opening of the Cannes Film Festival, the director of the first Bollywood film invited for an official screening gave a shout-out to his colleagues in a long-overlooked arm of the Indian film industry.

“There's a whole new wave in Tamil cinema,” said Anurag Kashyap, whose film “Gangs of Wasseypur” was screened as part of the Cannes' Directors Fortnight. “They've made the most extraordinary films in the last two years, and at the national level people don't even know about it.”

Spread across southeastern India, northeastern Sri Lanka and other parts of Southeast Asia, the Tamils number some 65 million people and possess one of the world's oldest cultures. But in Hindi-dominated India, they — and their movies — are usually ignored or dismissed.


At the international level, Tamil cinema gets even less recognition. Writers frequently confuse Mumbai's Hindi film business, locally known as Bollywood, for the entire Indian industry. But the increasing critical and financial success of “the Other Bollywood” could soon flip that perception upside down.

Led by Tamil cinema, the South Indian film industry — which also includes movies made in the Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada languages — produced more than half of all Indian movies over the past five years.

Budgets for Tamil films now rival Bollywood's, according to a new report prepared by consultant firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. And the Tamil industry is emerging as a creative dynamo.

Deloitte expects the South Indian industry to grow 11 percent a year and earn revenue of nearly $600 million by 2015 — compared with Bollywood's $2 billion-plus. And with the emergence of a nascent corporate studio system, South Indian films like “Robot” — a crazy sci-fi mashup featuring Rajnikanth, South India's biggest star, which garnered around $12 million abroad, according to Deloitte — are beginning to tap the overseas market and other new revenue streams.

“With the Sri Lankans migrating to a lot of places in the world, we get to export our films even to places like Norway and Sweden, which weren't in our map at all a few years back,” said film producer SP Charan. “Now we are pushing our films to places like Delhi and Bombay, with subtitles. That's another market that we're tapping into that we didn't have before.”

Starting with Walt Disney's 2006 purchase of a 15 percent stake in Ronnie Screwvala's UTV Software Communications, companies like Sony, Walt Disney, Fox and Viacom have been betting on Bollywood for the past five years, after realizing that Hindi movies continued to outsell Hollywood imports. The reason? Unlike in the United States, more and more Indians are going to movie theaters every year, and paying higher and higher prices.

Now, that same motivation is driving Bollywood's big players, and international firms, to the South.

In May 2011, UTV Motion Pictures — which was acquired by Walt Disney earlier this year — had eight films in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam slated for release in the US, the UK and other foreign markets. And Sony Music Entertainment bought the catalog of Chennai-based Think Music in July 2011 to gain a 50 percent market share in the South, giving a corporate boost to the film songs that are the meat and potatoes of India's music industry.

“What studios realized is that they have to produce local content if they want to grow within the market,” said Siddarth Roy Kapur, managing director at Disney UTV Studios. “For us at Disney-UTV, we've already made a foray into the South [Indian] market and it's only a matter of time before the other players decide to do the same.”

Revolution and counterrevolution

But it's the creative energy of the Tamil industry — which also accounts for the largest share of the overall media and entertainment market in the South — that's making waves. Over the past five years Tamil remakes like “Wanted,” “Ready,” and “Bodyguard” were responsible for the comeback of the ever-shirtless Hindi star Salman Khan, even as his muscles turned to fat.

Three of the top 10 grossing Bollywood films of 2011 were remakes of Tamil blockbusters. And Bollywood's biggest star, Shahrukh Khan, is slated to star in two Tamil remakes this year, according to local reports.

What's happening is a simultaneous revolution and counterrevolution.

Over the past decade, mainstream Bollywood movies have increasingly focused on the elite — shifting stories to foreign locales and focusing on scripts about modern subjects like live-in relationships (“Salaam Namaste”) and homosexuality (“Dostana”). But these films were alien to a huge part of the audience, including lower income groups in metropolitan cities and more conservative people in smaller towns.

Meanwhile, in the South, the masala or “spicy” potboiler formula — a beefy hero, two heroines, five fight scenes, six songs, and a surrealist disregard for logic or the laws of physics – never went out of style. The Tamil industry's thriving “star culture” assured that diehard fans might go to see a movie 30 or 40 times just to see Rajnikanth play the hero.

“What happened over the past two or three years, starting with a film called 'Ghajini,' a film with Aamir Khan that was a remake of a South Indian film, was really a hark back to the cinema of the '80s,” said UTV's Kapur. “Those are films that were still being made in Tamil cinema, and also in Telugu cinema, but had stopped being made in Hindi. Now people are revisiting that and going back to a time when those movies were popular.”

At the same time, so-called “new wave” Tamil movies have recently earned critical acclaim — along with the admiration of Hindi-film directors like Kashyap at Cannes. In 2011, “Aadukalam” (or “Arena” in Tamil) swept India's national awards, winning in six categories including best director and best screenplay, while in 2012, “Azhagarsamiyin Kudhirai” (“Azhagarsamiyin's Horse”) was named the year's best popular film and “Aaranya Kaandam” (“Jungle Chapter”) won a national award for best first film, along with the Grand Jury Award for Best Film at the South Asian Film Festival.

The result is that the South, once the butt of jokes in Hindi movies, is now the epitome of cool.


Tamil films give Bollywood a run for its money | GlobalPost
 
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