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.

Salman confirms Kanchana hindi remake

Lawrence denies quarrel with Anushka

 The million dollar question zipping around town: Why did Anushka Shetty walk out of the Raghava Lawrence film Rebel?

Now a source from Hyderabad has come up with the answer. As everyone knows, Anushka was the first choice for Lawrence’s earlier hit flick Kanchana, but the dusky babe turned down the offer, saying it had nothing to inspire her.

After that the two-month Telugu film industry strike began and the leggy lass put on some weight at a time when the entire industry was sitting at home without any work.

After work resumed, actor Prabhas, who plays the lead in the Lawrence-directed Rebel, took the initiative and brought Anushka on board for the movie.

Everything went smoothly to begin with, till Lawrence’s ego started coming in the way and he wanted to hit back at Anushka for rejecting his earlier flick.

Sources said he was constantly criticising the pounds she’d put on and kept saying he expected her to return to her slender looks of her Arunthadhi days.

Apparently, after a point Anushka couldn’t take Lawrence’s behaviour any more and decided to call it off.

Grapevine has it that Prabhas, upset by the bad vibes, had to intervene and sort things out.
When DC contacted Lawrence, the choreographer-turned-filmmaker dismissed the reports as baseless rumours.

“The reasons are purely professional. Anushka opted out of Rebel because she could not adjust her dates. In fact, I had already shot with her for two days for the film, a few months back. Her subsequent dates could not be used because of the film industry strike. This is a ‘mass’ film like my earlier film with Nagarjuna and in fact, I wanted my heroine to look voluptuous! So, the question of me commenting adversely on her weight does not arise. As far as I am concerned, she looks perfect.”

He also revealed that Tamannah will not be replacing Anushka and that they are still on the lookout for a heroine.

Raghava Lawrence in Nanban's Team

While everyone might have watched ‘3 Idiots’ and felt that there is nothing going to new with Shankar’s remake of the film, the filmmaker has bag full of surprises now. He has been taking scrutinizing efforts to prove ‘Better than the Best’.

The shooting is fast proceeding with jet-speed mode and there are more additional attractions. One of the prominent reasons is that for its grandiloquent star-casts. Apart from Vijay, Jeeva, Ileana and Srikanth, we have many actors appearing in cameo roles. To start off with, it is SJ Suryah, who’ll be reprising the role of Javed Jaffrey. Now there’s an additional attraction as Raghava Lawrence will be appearing in a cameo role.

It is worth mentioning that Raghava Lawrence has choreographed for some songs in Shankar’s previous films and this is the first time, he is appearing over screens for his film. With ‘Kanchana’ becoming a huge success in box office, it’s obvious that his screen presence is an extra value to the film.

Lawrence praises & thanks Sarath Kumar

Choreographer turned actor Raghava Lawrence’s upcoming film Kanchana is all set to hit the screens on coming Friday. Lawrence has high expectations on the film as the film’s Telugu version turned out to be success.

Lawrence says “Kanchana will surely repeat the magic of Munni at the box office”.

On speaking about Sarath Kumar’s performance he says “His role is one of the highlights of the film and my heartfelt thanks to him for accepting to play such challenging role. He is such a big star with a great fan following but without any second thought he accepted to play a straight-contrast character which will be done any other star of his stature”.

The film will be enjoyed by all sections of audiences and especially kids will enjoy ultimately for the graphic works” he says

A sequel to Kanchana on the cards

It seems like Lawrence is very fast in making decisions about his future outings. The actor-choreographer-director even before the release of Kanchana is planning to remake the film in Hindi, besides that he is also planning for the sequel for Kanchana in Tamil and Telugu.

Interestingly, Kanchana is a sequel to his earlier outing Muni. Now that he is carrying a potential script for the sequel of Kanchana, Lawrence is in plans to start the third part very soon. It is very recently Bollywood star Salman Khan has showed his interest in doing the remake of Kanchana in Hindi. If everything goes as planned Lawrence will be directing the Hindi version too.

Kanchana was earlier planned for its release this Friday but due to the unavailability of screens the film has been postponed to next Friday, July 22nd.

Lawrence’s Kanchana delayed

Lawrence, Kanchana which is the sequel of previous venture, Muni (2007) has been postponed from July 5th to July 22nd. As Vikram starrer Deiva Thirumagal is slated for its release on July 15th and also the unavailability of the screens had made the filmmakers of Kanchana to postpone for a week.

Kanchana is a horror film written and directed by Raghava Lawrence. The film sees Lawrence in the lead role while Sarathkumar, Lakshmi Rai, Sriman, Manobala, Kovai Sarala and others. The film trailers have created a lot of buzz in the tinsel town as Lawrence performance is totally unusual. Kanchana as a bilingual in Tamil and Telugu, the Telugu version is releasing on July 15th itself as there is no stiff competition for the film.

The highlight of Kanchana is said to be the blood- soaked get-up of Lawrence wearing a red Sari. Thaman has scored the music for this horror film. .

The Hindi version of Kanchana is also in cards and Salman Khan is likely to reprise the role of Lawrence in Hindi.

‘I rejoice in others’ Happiness’ – Raghava Lawrence

Raghava Lawrence has let himself completely dedicated for the well being of poor and underprivileged. He even goes to the extent of putting back his film career as ‘Charity’ always remains as his top-priority. The actor shares one such experience, where he was shooting some crucial scenes of ‘Muni-2’ in Chennai. Soon as he reached home, the Trust members reported that a young boy is severely suffering from a heart problem and an immediate surgery was to be done.

Apparently, the actor cancelled his shooting for next 4 days and happened to remain at Hospital until the boy regained his consciousness in ICU. Doesn’t he feel it difficult to cancel the shooting? ‘Definitely, I felt so… But on the fifth day, when the boy’s parents touched my feet for saving the life, my weariness and problems vaporized into thin air within fraction of seconds’ says Raghava Lawrence.

Perhaps, the multi-faceted actor has been gaining more prayers and blessings for the success of his upcoming film ‘Muni-2’.