Exclusive! Vijay's grand party for Nanban team [Pics]

Ilayathalapathy Vijay has hosted a big bash at Hotel Green Park to celebrate the completion of his portions in the Shankar directed Nanban. The entire cast and crew of the film were seen having great time at the party.

Apart from Nanban team there was a surprise guest at the party from Thala Ajith’s Mankatha team. Do you guys have any guess, its director Venkat Prabhu of Mankatha. Especially Vijay is very happy to work with director Shankar and in fact it was his long time dream to work with him. Venkat Prabhu and director were heaping laurels on Vijay’s performance in the film and they have also discussed about his forthcoming film Velayudham. The shoot of Nanban was wrapped up in a jet speed and currently the post production and dubbing works are going on a brisk pace.

The audio of the film is expected to hit the stores soon as Harris is currently busy with the audio of Suriya’s 7am Arivu.

Nanban is also in Diwali race along with other biggies.

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.

All is not well with Nanban

So far the shoot of Nanban is progressing in cool and calm manner but suddenly on Sunday tension prevailed on the sets of the film as a group of people entered the shooting spot and messed up the location.

Nanban which is currently progressing at a college near Chennai has suddenly witnessed a crowd of local residents who arrived to the shooting spot to have a glance of Vijay and the rest of the team. Vijay and Shankar obliged their request and spent some time with them but the crowd refused to leave the place and didn’t even let the crew to continue with the shoot. The situation turned out to be worst and resulted in a verbal duel. By moving a step forward the crowd even damaged the set properties.

With the arrival of the police the situation came into control and now an extra cover of protection is now being provided to Nanban team.

Well, we as fans have to respect our stars and by making the situations messy will not fetch any good for us.

3 days shooting of Nanban at Koyambedu water tank!

Nanban director Shankar’s first ever remake which has Vijay, Jeeva, Srikanth and Ileana in the lead roles is currently progressing in Chennai.

Jeeva along with Srikanth were spotted at the Koyambedu water tank for the film’s shoot that took place for about three days. The team canned few important scenes of the film over here. The scenes shot at this spot are Vijay, Jeeva and Srikanth spend some quality time in here during their college days and some scenes of Jeeva and Srikanth will be visualized in the film. It is also known that these scenes appear towards the introductory part of the film.

The team canned the shots at the water tank using an Akila crane which is about 200 feet tall. Sources say that if one goes onto the top of the tank we can get the clear view of the entire city.

Nanban is gearing up for Diwali release but some sources claim that the film would release for Christmas! Let us wait for the official announcement from the filmmakers.

Nanban in the final leg of shooting

This might be the first time, director Shankar is wrapping up a film in a record time. The director is pressurized to complete the film faster as all the lead stars in his film are the most happening heroes of Kollywood and they have already signed up new projects.

It is well known that Shankar has kept Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai wait for about two for completing Enthiran but that is not the case with Nanban. Shankar is rushing with the shoot of the film and the final schedule has started today, which will go on for a month. Shankar is working round the clock for completing the project in one month. Jeeva will be joining the shooting from today onwards and is excited about it.

This is the first remake film for Shankar and he is taking utmost care in making the film match to the Tamil audiences. The expectations are running high on the film as Nanban is shaping under Shankar’s direction, music by Harris Jayraj and off course the lead cast Vijay, Jeeva, Srikanth and Ileana.