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Yourbackers Play Launches as a Free, Donation-Run OTT for Smaller Films
Yourbackers Play streams films free and routes viewer donations to social work. R.K. Selvamani and S.Ve. Shekher offered frank advice at the Chennai launch.
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Once More: the film that refused to recast Arjun Das
Studios offered to fund Vignesh Srikanth's debut if he recast the lead. He waited instead, and his Mani Ratnam love letter reaches theatres August 28.
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Ravi Teja picks Madras Day to make Irumudi Kattu's Tamil case
Ravi Teja spent Madras Day in Chennai with Shiva Nirvana and Priya Bhavani Shankar, pitching a father-daughter drama already drawing family crowds in Telugu.
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7 Star Boys sets September 4, with Manjummel-sized hopes
Antony Varghese's Kerala football drama Aanaparambile World Cup reaches Tamil screens as 7 Star Boys, with I.M. Vijayan as coach. In theatres September 4.
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Amaram: the newcomer gamble built on a Karthi interview
Thiruarul Krishnan could not land a star, so he took Karthi's advice and built his three-era love story around newcomer Rajan Tejeshwar. Out August 28.
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Rs 150 crore for Vishwanath & Sons: 'It gave me chills'
Radhika Sarathkumar ranks it with Sooryavamsam, G.V. Prakash Kumar bags a hat-trick with Venky Atluri, and an absent Suriya gets the loudest thanks.
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Sathyaraj and Cheran rally behind Sankagiri Rajkumar's ONE
PVR's backing, a borrowed studio, and Sathyaraj as Periyar for one song: how Tamil cinema's veterans lined up behind the one-man film releasing August 21.
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Pomblel: Maya S. Krishnan sells out the Music Academy
The Manjula Teacher creator filled 1,500 seats a month in advance, then dropped the character and told the hall she hopes her show one day becomes irrelevant.
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Seeman and Shanthnu front Suseenthiran's Oru Kaidhiyin Diary
Rajinikanth launched the motion poster of a Madurai father-son drama that lands months after Shanthnu lost his own father, with Seeman in a pivotal role.
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Sathuranga Vettai 2 stirs after a decade: 'Let the film release first'
Financier Madurai Anbuchezhiyan has reportedly agreed to let Sathuranga Vettai 2 release before recovering his dues, unblocking the Arvind Swamy, Trisha film.
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Allu Arjun calls DC a Tamil classic, a day after Mahesh Babu's rave
Mahesh Babu called DC an original and outstanding film; a day later Allu Arjun declared it a Tamil classic every film lover must watch. What both posts said.
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Vishwanath & Sons grows 45% as the families show up
Friday belonged to the fans, Saturday to the families: Rs 37.6 crore in two days, 59% occupancy, and a US start near Karuppu's entire opening weekend.