It was going to be Dhanush versus Dhanush at the Tamil Nadu box office this Friday. Ambikapathy, the Tamil version Raanjhanaa was to compete with Dhanush's brand new original Tamil film Maryan, a thriller directed by Bharat Bala which stars Dhanush as a man on a journey of self-discovery. This was the first time that there would have been three Dhanush releases in two weeks, with two of his Tamil films vying for eyeballs during the same Friday. And Dhanush who is a very meticulous career planner, was not pleased. According to sources every effort was made to avert this clash. "If you look at the history of the Tamil Nadu box office, no Tamil superstar from M G Ramachandran to Sivaji Ganesan to Kamal Haasan to Rajinikanth to Suriya to Vikram to Dhanush has ever released two of their own films during the same Friday or even close to one another.
- 6/28/2013
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
It is confirmed. Raanjhanaa would now also have a Tamil version making it to the theatres. Though were murmurs around this happening for last 6-7 months, the makers were keeping a stoic silence around this. However, as per the recent developments, there was a plan in place to bring the film for the South audience as well and now it has taken a final shape. "There would be two versions of the film, Hindi and Tamil. While the promotion of Raanjhanaa has already moved into the third gear, audience would soon be getting a glimpse of what the Tamil version would look like," informs a source. The Tamil version has been titled Ambikapathy. Incidentally, a Tamil film with the same title was released over half a century ago which had none other than Sivaji Ganesan in the lead. "Raanjhanaa has an entirely different storyline from the Sivaji Ganesan film though,...
- 5/21/2013
- by Joginder Tuteja
- BollywoodHungama
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