Lawrence to direct Thala 'Ajith'?

Ajith who is currently acting in Billa 2 has not made any announcement about his next film. It has so far been confirmed that he will be acting in a film to produced by A M Rathinam. The director’s name has not been announced.

There are rumours in Kodambakkam that Vishnuvardhan will be directing Ajith’s next film. At this juncture Ajith has happened to see Kanchana directed by Lawrence.
He has immediately called upon him and has appreciated him very much. He has also asked him that if he has a good story, so that he can act in it. Lawrence on hearing this is in cloud nine and is readying a story for Ajith.

Though Ajith is in Goa for the shooting of Billa, Lawrence is narrating the story to Ajith over the phone. So sources in Kodambakkam now say that it is confirmed that Ajith will act in the film to be directed by Raghava Lawrence.

Karthi raving about Ajith's role in #Mankatha

Karthi just couldn't stop raving about Mankatha and Ajith's role in it. The star said that no other star would have had the courage to undergo such a makeover, especially a character that required traits of villainy and sporting grey hair. Ajith doing a role that befits his age is really cool, said Karthi. It proves that the star is experimental and not image conscious, he added.

In Mankatha, Ajith donned the role of a 40-year-old corrupt police officer and sported a salt and pepper look that was the talk of the town.

Shankar - AM Ratnam for Ajith next?

Even as reports appearing in the media in the last couple of days tend to suggest that Thala Ajith's next film after Billa-2 might be produced by A.M Rathnam, conflicting reports are still emanating as to who exactly would be making the star's upcoming venture.

Ajith has been on cloud nine following the mega-success of his latest and landmark 50th film Mankatha. Trade circles point out that despite Ajith's plea to his fans a few months back to disband and dissolve all the fans' clubs operating in his name and concentrate in taking care of their families and themselves, the opening witnessed by Mankatha was nothing short of being termed as 'phenomenal'.

Billa-2, said to be Ajith's dream film would be a sequence to his 2007 hit film Billa but unlike the usual sequel films, the film's story won't commence from where the first part ended; instead, the script would dig deep to find out the reasons and the backdrop which were behind a commoner turning into a dreaded don.

It was reported some time back that his next film would be produced by A.M Ratnam and that he would be paid Rs.17 crores as fee, becoming the highest paid Tamil actor after superstar Rajnikanth, whom he idolizes. In all likelihood, the film might be directed by Shankar, the 'superstar' director of Kollywood. It is also stated that 'Jayam' Raja, fresh from directing Vijay in Velayudham, might direct Ajith for the first time by making the remake of Mahesh Babu's Telugu film Thookkudu in Tamil with Ajith playing the lead.

Ajith says 'CM Jayalalitha is like my Mom'

Actor Ajith Kumar said that Chief Minister J Jayalalitha treated him as if he is her son. In a recent interview while speaking about the meeting with the Jayalalitha, he said, " I can never forget when Jayalalitha attended my marriage and showered her blessings on us. Shalini and I had been to Jayalalitha Amma’s Poes Garden residence. He showered her love as if I was her own son."

When asked Ajith that whether he was threatened by the ex Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for his out spoken speech in a film function, he said, "I am a person who believes in democracy. I will give great respect to all the political leaders. I spoke my views very frankly in that function. There was no other intention. My beloved ex Chief Minister also came in person to my marriage and showered his blessings. This will always be in my heart."

Moreover while speaking, he said, " I am aged 40 years now. I don’t know whether I will live for another 20 years. A person’s identity is that how he lives. The amount of people who gather for a person’s funeral will determine that how the person has lived. People who gather for my funeral will show the whole world that who Ajith Kumar is."

Ajith to leave for Himalayas on Rajini's advice

 The spiritualist in Ajith is in full form of late. The Thala has been regularly visiting places of worship and is even planning to leave for Himalayas. "Rajini sir had told me a lot about the holy mountain. I am eagerly waiting for an opportunity to go there," he says.

"Recently, I visited Guruvayur and Chottanikarai temples in Kerala, Chamundeeswari and Moogambikai shrines in Karnataka and Nagoor and Velankanni in Tamil Nadu. I also took a padha yatra to Tirupati from Thiruvanmiyur four times," discloses Ajith.

"It takes five days for me to reach Tirumala from Chennai. We a gang of friends have made it a regular habit to go on a padha yatra to worship Lord Balaji. Now, after reading the books gifted by the Superstar, I am seriously planning to go to Himalayas."

Saying that it wish is that everyone should remember him as a gentleman, Ajith says, "There is no point in earning bad name. The success of one's life is in the goodwill he/she creates. It will speak a lot on our behalf."

I am not only person behind Mankatha Success - Ajith

  Mankatha which is Ajith’s 50th film is still running to packed houses. Ajith’s 25th film Amarkalam was also a great hit and similarly Ajith’s 50th film has also turned out to be a blockbuster.

When asked Ajith about these successes he said, " I should thank the people and fans. I can’t attribute this success to me alone. This is a success to Venkat Prabhu, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vaibhav, Premji, Aswin, Mahath, cinematographer Sakthi and all the other technicians. They have all carried me on the shoulders and made this film a success.
I am also thankful to action king Arjun sir who agreed to share the screen with me without even listening to the story. It is also my duty to thank the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister because there were lots of rumors that there will be problem in releasing this film due to political vendetta. This is a real slap on the back of the people who spread these false rumours."

'தல' குனிய வச்சிட்டீங்களே! - வருத்தத்தில் அஜீத்

மங்காத்தா தண்ணி பார்ட்டியில் சோனாவை பலாத்காரம் செய்துவிட்டார்கள் என ஊரெங்கும் பேச்சாய் கிடப்பது, படத்தின் நாயகன் அஜீத்தை வருத்தப்பட வைத்துவிட்டதாக கோடம்பாக்கத்தில் கிசுகிசுக்கப்படுகிறது.

நீண்ட நாட்களுக்குப் பிறகு பெரிய வெற்றி கிடைத்திருக்கிறது மங்காத்தா மூலம் அஜீத்துக்கு.

ஆனால் இந்த வெற்றிக்குக் காரணமாக இருந்த இயக்குநர் வெங்கட் பிரபு, அவர் தம்பி பிரேம், படத்தில் நடித்த மகத், வைபவ் என எல்லோருமே மது விருந்து கொண்டாடிய லட்சணம், படத்தின் வெற்றிக்கே கரும்புள்ளி போலாகிவிட்டதே என பெரிதும் வருத்தப்படுகிறாராம் படத்தின் ஹீரோவான அஜீத்.

ஏற்கெனவே ஜோசியம், ஜாதகம் போன்றவற்றில் ஏக நம்பிக்கை கொண்டவர் அஜீத் என்பது குறிப்பிடத்தக்கது.

இந்தப் பார்ட்டியில் அஜீத்தும் கலந்து கொண்டார் என்றாலும், அவர் வந்த வேகத்தில் எல்லோருக்கும் ஒரு ஹாய் சொல்லிவிட்டுக் கிளம்பிவிட்டாராம்.

'தல' போனபிறகுதான், தண்ணியில் கவிழ்ந்து தலை கால் புரியாமல் சோனா பலாத்காரம் வரை போய்விட்டதாம் நிலைமை. அடுத்தநாள் சோனா போலீசில் புகார் கொடுத்த பிறகுதான் விவரம் தெரிய வந்ததாம் அஜீத்துக்கு. விளைவு, மதுவிருந்து வைத்தவர், அதில் அத்துமீறியவரின் நண்பர் என அனைவரையும் கூப்பிட்டு, 'என்னங்க இது... தல தலன்னு சொல்லி தல குனிய வச்சிட்டீங்களே... இனி இதை மங்காத்தா பார்ட்டின்னு வெளிய சொல்லாதீங்க," என்று சொன்னதாக கிசுகிசுக்கிறார்கள்.

'பெரிய நட்சத்திரங்களுக்கு வரும் வழக்கமான சங்கடங்களில் இதுவும் ஒன்று. ஆனா ரசிகர்களுக்கு 'தல'யைப் பத்தி தெரியும்... விடுங்க', என்கிறார்கள் அஜீத்துக்கு நெருக்கமானவர்கள்!

Jayam Raja not directing Ajith-Jayam Ravi

Actor Jayam Ravi denied the news that his brother Jayam Raja is going to direct a film with Thala Ajith.

A section of media are at buzz that Raja is going to direct the Tamil version of Mahesh Babu's yet to be released Dookudu remake with Ajith for producer AM Ratnam. The first screening of the film recently took place in Chennai and Ajith made his presence for the screening.  The actor was thoroughly impressed with the script and immediately decided to do the film. But it is not yet decided whether Jayam Raja will direct the film or not.

According to the sources "It is confirm that Ajith has given his call sheets to producer AM Ratnam, but nothing has been confirmed about the director. Once Ajith completes his ongoing project Billa 2, he will start this project. It is then the director and the script will be finalized".

Ajith reportedly has charged Rs 17 crore as his remuneration for this film.

Ajith says 'Rajini is Dhronacharya and I am his Ekalaiva'

Comparing his relationship with Superstar Rajinikanth with that of Ekalaiva and Dhronacharya in the great epic Mahabharata, Ajith has said he had learnt many things from the numero uno actor of Tamil cinema by watching him from distance.

"I shaped up my career on the lines of Rajini sir. Like how there was no one to support him when he made his foray in the industry, I too didn't have anyone to back me up. But I got enough inspiration from the Superstar. He is my Dhronacharya and I am his Ekalaiva," said the 'Thala'.

Saying that he would like to dedicate the success of his 50th film 'Mankatha' to Rajini, Ajith said, "At the same time, I would like to personally express my gratitude to each member of the cast and crew, who gave nothing but their best to Mankatha."

On many young actors of Tamil film industry considering him as their role model, the star, who is currently busy shooting for 'Billa 2', said, "The mere word 'thanks' is not enough to express my feelings. Honestly speaking, I don't know how to react."

Meanwhile, when a leading daily quizzed him whether he will enter politics, Ajith expressed that he strongly feels each citizen should do their duty which is more then enough. Quoted the Thala, "I act, earn, pay taxes, do the little good I can, vote and take care of my family. I expect my fans will do the same. Leave politics to the Government, they'll take care. Its no good if everyone enters politics. We talk of corruption and bribery, but I strongly believe each Indian is responsible for this. How many of us follow basic things such as traffic rules in our lives? Lets do our duties, even that's as good as politics".

Ajith's next to produce by AM Ratnam

  The success of Mankatha has turned out to be the talk of the tinsel town and moreover everyone is eager to know on what will be Ajith’s next project after Billa 2.

A few days back we came to know that he is going to join hands with Venkat Prabhu yet again and now we hear that producer AM Ratnam has approached the actor for asking him to do a film. Sources reveal that the producer has come out with confirmed news that he is going to work for a project with Ajith. As of now he doesn’t want to reveal anything as a formal announcement will be made soon. Currently the project is in initial talks and is expected to take off by the end of 2011.

The film might bring director Vishnuvardhan on board and Ajith is also showing keen interest to work with him.

All this seems like a grand project is going to take birth soon!!!

We will get right back here with more info of this project.

Simbu's Osthi tribute to Ajith's Mankatha

Well if your wondering what we are referring to, Simbu, a die-hard fan of Ajith has a tribute to his thala's 'Mankatha' in his forthcoming Diwali release 'Osthi'!

Ajith's well-received dialogue in 'Mankatha', 'Naanum Evalavu Naalthaan Nallavanavae Nadikirathu...' set a rage among the young and now Simbu will be using this one-liner in his 'Osthi' towards the end of the film.

'Mankatha' had a tribute to Simbu's 'Vaanam' dialogue, 'Enna Vazhka Da Idhu...', looks like the thala fan has something in store for his matinee idol now.

'Osthi' starring Silambarasan aka Simbu, Richa Gangopadhyay in the lead roles is a remake of B'town super hit 'Dabaang', and an item number featuring Simbu, Mallika Sherawat and Sonu Sood is one of the USPs of the film.

Billa 2[David] Ajith dangerous than Mankatha Vinayak Ajith

Ajith has proved his star value again by living up to the audience expectation, and all over his fans imagination with his recently released Mankatha. The actor, who dared to do the role of a baddie, has been praised for his scintillating acting in the recently released Tamil film, which has given more confidence for the movie bosses of his next film, Billa, to make his character more deadly and vibrant.

The makers of Billa, who were eagerly waiting for the response of the audience for Ajith Kumar’s role of Vinayak Mahadevan in Mankatha, are happy that the fans of the actor is ready to see their star in all out baddie role. The success of Mankatha has made them to change their game plan. If sources are to be believed, David Billa’s character will be more deadly and worst than all his previous films.

Meanwhile, the first schedule of Billa 2 has been completed at Ramoji Film City. Now, the film unit is all set to start the second phase in Goa. The movie will also be shot in Pondicherry, Chennai and Europe. The movie also features Mumbai-based model Huma Qureshi, Bruna Abdullah, Prabhu, Rahman, Krishnakumar and others in the cast.

Will Ajith - Gautham Menon come together?

This has been the never-ending question that has been rounding upon airs from the time they parted ways due to creative difference of opinions. Gautham Menon always follows a specific pattern of not revealing the story to his actors and that supposedly had irked Ajith Kumar. But the actor was polite enough to say that things didn’t work out well and they will surely work together for a project.

But during later point of time, while attending a college function Gautham Menon put down Ajith fans by saying, "Who is Thala? I don’t know any such person like that". It is also worth recalling that he had openly admitted that he doesn’t want to work with people who don’t have their heads right over the shoulders.
But now the bitter memories have likely faded away and let us hope they come together giving a big stroke.

Mankatha beats Magadheera in Andhra Pradesh

Guess what? The producers of ‘Magadheera’ they are floored by the outstanding performance of ‘Mankatha’ in Andhra Pradesh box office. The film starring Ajith Kumar, Action King Arjun, Trisha, Lakshmi Rai, Andrea, Vaibhav, Anjali and many others opened up on August 31, 2011.

It was something that exceeded the expectations of producers themselves as it spanned a huge collection of Rs 2.5Crores on the first couple of days after release.
The film was released in Andhra Pradesh in half the theatres of ‘Magadheera’ (this Telugu film is considered is considered as the biggest grosser of Telugu film industry during this decade) and has witnessed the equal collection.

Producer Allu Sirish of Geetha Arts (son of producer Allu Aravind and Brother Allu Arjun, who produced 'Magadheera') has said in twitter , "Mankatha 1st week collected as much as Magadheera in AP with less than 50% screens. Thanks to Govt non interference in ticket pricing.."

Mankatha badly affected by piracy

The roaring collection at the Box Office of the recently released Tamil film has been hit by torrent websites, which allowed the users to download the movie from internet.

Director Venkat Prabhu says that they have found close to 1,300 websites, which updated the pirated copies of the movie on its sites. He says that some sites carried crystal clear prints of Mankatha, which has shocked him. Meanwhile, the movie bosses have seek the help of cyber crime department and have lodged a formal complaint against those websites.

Despite hitting badly by piracy, Mankatha has continued to rock at the Box office. The movie starring Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan and Arjun Sarja has collected approximately Rs. 11 crores in five days.

Kollywood praises Ajith's Mankatha

Exceeding everyone’s expectations – not very often we do have such verdicts marked on films. But Ajith’s ‘Mankatha’ gains the earnest favours of film critics and box office collections as well. It went onto make a stupendous opening in both multiplexes and single screens across Tamil Nadu. The celebrities in Tamil film industry had even called off a day from shooting to watch the film.Simbu, Ashwin Shekar, Bharath and other few actors were in raging excitements to watch film with their fans.

Trisha has tweeted saying, “Ajith has proved that he is in the hearts of fans. In spite of disbanding his fans club, going with a natural look and choosing a really different role, he has endeavored with his mission.”
Producer Dhananjayan of UTV Motion Pictures has said, “Ajith has proved that a film’s success doesn’t go with the fans club.”
Kudoses to the entire team of ‘Mankatha’ as everyone has done a tremendous job.

Simbu watched Mankatha 2nd time by standing on stairs

 It is well known that Silambarasan is a big fan of Thala Ajith. On the day Mankatha released the actor has cancelled the shoot of his ongoing film Osthi for the sake of watching Mankatha. He drove down from Mysore to Chennai after taking permission from his director Dharani.

Simbu has watched back-to-back the morning and noon show at Sathyam cinemas. Though he managed to get his ticket for the morning but for the noon show he was unable get a ticket. However he managed to watch the whole movie for the second time by standing on the stairs. He just mingled along with Thala fans and was found whistling and clapping whenever Ajith made his screen presence”.

Simbu later wrote on his social networking site “Thala not only stole the money, he stole the whole show!!! Thala is rocking in the film ... Great work by the whole team!!! Congrats to each and every one who where a part of the film!!! Thala da Mankatha da!!!”

Ajith in Race Hindi Movie Tamil remake

 'Race' a 2008 Bollywood super hit might see a remake in Tamil soon! Dhananjayan Govind of UTV expressed, "UTV is serious about remaking Race in Tamil and thanks to one of Ajith's fan's idea to make it with Ajith sir, let's hope we can crack this".

True to its title, 'Race' was a racy action thriller that boasted off an ensemble of star cast including Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif and showcased betrayal within a family, all for money. And now, the very word 'money' reminds one of Ajith after his spectacular performance as a baddie in 'Mankatha' and his go-getter attitude in the film, all for money.

It maybe mentioned that Ajith is currently busy with work on 'Billa 2' where he plays an underworld don, a prequel to his earlier success 'Billa'. His character as David in this film has a good dose of grey shades as well.

Looks like playing baddie works luck for Ajith for he pulls off a great villain. The team is yet to approach Ajith and the rest of the crew is yet to be zeroed on.

Ajith's Mankatha beats Rajinikanth's Endhiran openings

Undoubtedly one can say Thala Ajith’s Mankatha took stupendous and the best ever opening in 2011. Especially in Tamilnadu the film has done 93 % opening in 350 plus screens.

For fans August 31st turned out to be Mankatha festival as the theaters where the film is getting screened were decorated and his fans came out early in the morning to perform Paalabhishekam to Ajith’s cutouts. The morning show of the film started at 5.00am in the morning and all the screens got 100 % collections, something that last happened only for Rajinikanth’s Endhiran.

The collection figures are yet to be tabulated, but Mankatha will set best ever opening day collections in Thala’s career.

Surprisingly, Mankatha was proved as a biggest hit and reportedly had the highest openings in Tamil which exceeded the records of Rajinikanth’s Endhiran.

Mankatha was not created for Ajith - Venkat Prabhu

Director Venkat Prabhu said that Mankatha was not created for Ajith.

The film Mankatha which has Ajith and Trisha in the lead roles is being released on 30th of this month.

This film is the most expected not alone by his fans but from all quarters of people. This film is being released by Studio Green throughout Tamil Nadu.

These days there is always a news about this film. Now Venkat Prabhu has given a new information about this film.
Venkat Prabhu while speaking said, "The Mankatha story was not written for Ajith. The role Vinayak was created for Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi.

Vivek Oberoi was supposed to do the lead role in this film. But we did not speak about this film to him. At that point of time, I got a phone call from Ajith. He said, " I heard that you have titled your film as Mankatha. Greetings. It is a good name.

I want to act in a role like Heath Ledger did in the Hollywood film The Dark Knight. Is it possible to make a story for me like that one?" I told him that Mankatha is such a story and told him the crux of the story. He was impressed. He said that the story was good and he is ready to act in it. All this took place in three minutes."