The famous Telugu films (Bobby, Varsham and Chanti) director Shoban's untimely demise (at the age of 40 years) has shocked power star Puneeth Rajakumar. Shoban was supposed to take up Puneeth Rajakumar's 10th Kannada film 'Mayura' for his own story and held the muhurut for…

Hat trick director Prem's debut as an actor 'Preethi Eke Bhoomi Melidhe' and Ashwini productions Ramprasad and Krishnaprasad's second film (first film was top grosser 'Jogi') has been a top grosser in the first week in 75 centers of Karnataka. In Bangalore Kolar and Tumkur…

Two Kannada films with popular God names ' 'Krishna' - starring Golden star Ganesh, Pooja Gandhi, Sharmila Mandre directed by M.D.Sridhar for Ramesh Yadav production and 'Ganesha' starring Jaggesh, Ananthnag, Rangayana Raghu, Ranjini in the lead roles directed by Dinesh Baboo for the maiden production…

The Zee TV Kannada channel 'Saregamapa' top one singer Chinmai Athreyas A has made debut in to film playback singing. He started his career of playback singing from Telugu film 'Andamaina Manasulu' produced by Kannada film producer S.V.Babu that has music by R.P.Patnayak. The song…

One of the disciplined producers of Kannada cinema Ramesh Yadav (16 films to his credit and Guinness record for 'Shanthi' Kannada cinema with only one artist Bhavana ' directed by Dr.Baraguru Ramachandrappa) has made it a point to launch two films at time in his…

Vishishta Productions maiden venture 'Accident' the third directorial venture of Ramesh Aravind is at the dubbing stage and a few songs would be added to the film that has a novel thought. On the eve of New Year Vishista production hosted a party at the…

There was a series of hard to take events rounding up 2007.Senior supporting actor Shimoga Venkatesh, cameraman Mapakshi, literary giant Poornachandra Tejaswi, script writer and journalist G.S.Sadashiva, L.Vaidhyanathan who scored music for 170 films in Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam, director Maruthi Shivaram of 'Parasangadha…

The clash between reputed director cum producer S.Narayan and actor Vijay was the major controversy of the year 2007. It was 'Yuga vs Chanda' release issue. Actor Vijay was banned for one year and later the ban was lifted by KFCC.Disturbance to 'Mathad Mathadu…

Another interesting and commendable year has passed for the Kannada film industry. It is interesting because the bizarre of newcomers entered the film industry. Nearly 200 films went on the floor in this year. It is a record in the history of Kannada cinema. Most…

Hat trick hero Shivaraj Kumar is playing the lead in 'Cobra'alias Shivu' for producer Ananthu after completing his two films on hand 'Madesha' and 'Bandhu Balaga'. He has 'Paramesh Panwala' for director Mahesh Babu and 'Om' with two of his brothers in the queue. 'Om'…