Pappi Appacha is a Super Hit!

Thursday, 06 May , 2010, 16:53

Dileep is back with a bang! His Pappi Appacha is turning out to be the biggest hit of summer of 2010. The star has made a fantastic comeback to mainstream commercial cinema.
Anoop, Dileep’s brother has produced and distributed Pappi Appacha, directed by Mamas with Innocent and Dileep playing father and son, along with Kavya Madhavan doing the female lead. The film was scathed by critics and industry people as “crass and crude comedy”, but the common man seems to like this masala entertainer.
But Dileep’s lucky streak started after he did “pooja” at Guruvayoor temple before the release of the film. And the ongoing fight between distributors and theatres resulted in no new releases for the last three Fridays. This helped Pappi Appacha as there was no opposition and the summer special family audiences lapped it up, making the film a super hit.
The trade feels if Pokkiri Raja and Alexander the Great had released, the Dileep comedy would not have been such a big hit. Plus the fact Lal directed In Ghost House Inn, collections started dropping after a fantastic opening.
The film has taken a distributors share of Rs 2.82 crore from 73 releasing stations in 23 days (up to May 5). Says Anoop: “It is my biggest hit till date. The film has been made at a cost of Rs 3.5 Crore and it looks like it will make around Rs 4 to 4.5 crore from theatrical collections alone.”
Remember there are other revenue streams like television and Home Video rights which will fetch the producers another Rs 2 crore. In short Pappi Appacha, has given Dileep a new lease of life at the box-office. 

Harrypotter in Mollywood !!

Wednesday, May 05, 18:35

Well, it is time for the local "Harry Potter". To be directed by Shafi, it will have the senior actor Dileep in the lead. Others in the cast will include Suraj Venjaramoodu, Jagathy Sreekumar and others. As expected, this flick will be for kids with lot of humor. The movie is expected to kick off in the month of August. Many are waiting to see if this involves atleast ten percent of the graphics that were used in the Hollywood blockbuster series.

Thaha for back to back sequels

Director of slapstick comedies Thaha, will go for the sequels of his two super-hit movies in 2010. The first to kick off will be the sequel to his 'Mookkilla Rajyathu’, featuring Thilakan, Siddhique, Mukesh and Jagathy in lead roles. Thaha is also planning a second part to 'Ee Parakkum Thalika', the biggest hit in his career.

The sequel of the movie which was remade in many languages, will feature Dileep in the scripts by V R Gopalakrishnan. The heroine of ‘Ee Prakkum Thalika' Nithya Das will appear in a cameo in the second part. Salimkumar and Harishree Ashokan who were in the first part will also become a part of the sequel. Parakkum Thalika-2 is expected to be on sets by the end of this year.

Thaha's latest movie in theatres 'Kappal Muthalali' had some interesting plots, but the movie with comic star Ramesh Pisharady as the hero couldn't get to a status of a hit at the Box Office.

Cristian Brothers - Shoot Progressing

Christian Brothers made more news than any other recent film the moment the project was announced.
A first it was the budget which is expected to go beyond the Rs 3.5 crore limit decided by the producers' association.
Then came the controversy involving Thilakan, who was supposed to do a role in the Malayalam movie. The actor blamed a certain superstar for his ouster from the film which is directed by Joshiy.
Joshiy's last film Twenty 20 with Siby-Udayan was a blockbuster.
Even the star cast caused quite a stir as it boasts of stars like Mohanlal, Dileep, Suresh Gopi , Sarath Kumar, Kavya Madhavan , Kaniha, Lakshmi Gopalaswamy, Suresh Krishna, Sai Kumar and Biju Menon among others.
Mohanlal and Dileep play brothers Christie and Joji respectively. Kaniha and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy play their sisters. The storyline goes through many interesting twists and turns, according to scriptwriter duo Siby K Thomas and Udayakrishnan.
Mohanlal is a high profile police informer, a key figure in Mumbai . But his family thinks he is a goonda. Dileep had joined a seminary to become a priest but opts out after he falls in love with a girl. Now, things take some interesting turns.
The shooting of Christian Brothers currently underway in Kochi. Mohanlal has already started shooting for the film.
Anil Nair is the cinematographer and Deepak Dev the music director. The film is produced jointly by Varnachitra and AVA Productions.

Paappi Appacaha – Introduction To A Promising Comedy

Come 2010 and Kerala will be hit with Paappi Appacha a promising action/comedy film. The plot revolves around 2 characters Paappi played by Dileep and Appacha played by Innocent. Paappi and Appacha is a father son duo who started of their lives from being poor and hardly able to feed themselves to become the richest in the village and eventually becoming landlords. Along their journey from rags to riches they managed to picked up on some arrogance and some ego only to be a family that many loved to hate. Paappi Appacha is a comedy adventure featuring the life of this son and father, in this little village with their share of rival families.
The movie is now under pre-production and filming is expected to begin by the end of Dec 2009. This movie is directed by Mamas Chandran and produced by Anup. Sanjeev Sankar contributes his cinematography skills while Vidhyasagar composes music for the movie. This movie under the Priyanjali banners is expected to hit theaters by April 2010..

Dileep - Kamal in Aagathan

Janapriyanayakan Dileep's next movie is with noted director Kamal. The last time Dileep had acted in a Kamal movie was in Perumazhakaalam. This new movie is currently in it's final stages of the script completion, which was handled jointly by director Kamal and Kalavoor Ravikumar. The movis is titled as "AAGATHAN". The new film, which will be a story of vengeance in the backdrop of a military station, will have P Sukumar as the cinematographer. The major highlight of the film will be that popular Tamil actor Sathyaraj will be doing a key role in the film - that of a military officer. Dileep has discovered many new actresses in the industry and his latest discovery is none other than the vivacious Charmi who has acted in many Telugu movies. Charmi has been chosen to act in the upcoming Kamal movies which was to have Mamta Mohandas in the lead role. Mamta had withdrawn from the project on the grounds of illness. Well, the reasons are still mysterious as it may seem. Charmi has been roped in to add the glamour quotient to the movie.

Body Guard On January 23rd

Ace director Siddhique's Bodyguard, a much-celebrated Malayalam film starring South India's costliest actress Nayantara, Dileep and Tamil actor-director-producer-stunt master Thyagarajan (also spelt as Thiagarajan) in the lead roles, has completed shooting in and around Kottayam, ottapaalam, muvattupuzha. Based on a plot with plenty of comedy and action.

Another highlight of Bodyguard, penned by the director himself (apart from its lead lady Nayantara and Thyagarajan playing prominent roles in Malayalam after a long time), is that this is the first Siddique-directed film starring Dileep. It is learnt that Manju Warrier, one of the most-loved heroines of Malayalam films, is also making her re-entry with this film produced by Johny Sagarika.

Director Siddique said this script was with him for the last two years. "It is a typical fun movie with lots of emotion and moves like a thriller. The film is being packaged as a mass family entertainer like all my earlier films."

There are five songs tuned by Ousepachan. Lyrics are by Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri, while Ananthakkuttan deals with cinematography.
The release date has been fixed for 21st of January 2010

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