Popular Tamil actress Sneha is making waves in the Malayalam industry as well. She has already worked on quite a few Malayalam movies, that too with superstar Mammootty.
She recently finished shooting for Vande Matharam, where she stars opposite Mammootty. She is now working on Pramani and is going to begin work for Pokkiri Raja, both opposite Mammootty again.
At a recent press meet for her film Bhavani, she revealed that when the director first explained that she would be playing a cop, her first reaction was - Enna Vechu Comedy Pannalaye (one of Vadivelu’s famous one-liners).
And, when a scribe asked her if she would enter politics, her reaction was - Nalla Thane Poitrindhadu - which is another Vadivelu special! When CT got talking to her, she said, “Yes, I am a huge comedy fan.
I like Vadivelu’s antics on screen, but I enjoy other comedians too.”However, the Punnagai Ilavarasi will have no scope to smile in Bhavani. “
Yes, I don’t think I smiled even once,” she said, “And, once the shoot for the film got over, I was very reluctant to even remove the cop dress and change to normal clothes!”
Think Goa, you are immediately reminded of fun, frolic, women and wine. Venkat Prabhu’s ’Goa’ is no different as the movie dwells on all these things. With more of a Bollywood feel, the movie is ’funathon’, that is light and breezy all through without any seriousness involved in it.
Venkat Prabhu has managed to keep his reputation intact. Quite like ’Chennai 28’ and ’Saroja’, he doesn’t take himself very serious in ’Goa’ too. All is well but for few hiccups. The movie sets out to explore the changing relationships among the youths including being ‘gay’. But that’s takes very very little of the screen space.
The movie revolves around three youths who sets out on a trip to Goa only with a mission to fall in love with a white woman, get married and go abroad. The twists and turns they come across in their mission makes up the story.
A spoof of few popular Tamil films and songs does add to the merriment. With Premji, Jai and Vaibhav around, one is ensured of fun and frolic. There are some surprises in the form of Sampath Raj, Sneha, Silambarasan and Prasanna.
The movie begins in Pannapuram, a remote village near Madurai (the native place of Venkat Prabhu’s family). Three youngsters Samikannu (Premji Amaran), Vinayakam (Jai) and Ramarajan (Vaibhav) are callous who spend all their time doing nothing. Their acts invite the wrath of the villagers and the village panchayat decides that the three should never meet again in future for the welfare and peace of the village.
The trio decides to run away from the village and spend few days peacefully in Madurai. When they reach their friend’s place they come to know that he has married a foreign woman whom he met in Goa and that he would be flying to London soon. This results in them deciding to try their luck in Goa. They set off with a plan to lure a white woman and marry her.
They come across one Danny (Arvind Akash) who helps them with food and shelter in Goa and expose them to the party culture. Roshini (Piya) a singer in a hotel falls for Vinayakam, while Jesika (Melanie), a white lady follows Samikannu from Madurai attracted by his innocence. Now enters Dany’s friend Jack (Sampath), a gay who has affinity for Danny.
Soon Danny and Jack help the trio get an image makeover and start helping them in their mission. Ramarajan’s life takes a twist after he comes across Suhasini (Sneha), a rich Casino owner in Goa. They get attracted towards each other and eventually get married. But the true colour of Suhasini is revealed and he manages to escape from trouble there with the help of his friends.
Vinayakam is finally convinced by Roshini’s sincere love while Samikannu gets wedlocked with Jesica. After some twists and turns in the story, all ends well and the boys return to their village to start a new life. Vaibhav has a surprise when he lands in Pannapuram in the form of Nayanthara.
Premji Amaran, Jai and Vaibhav have equal screen space and they bring the roof down with laughter. Premji is impressive with his ’familiar one-liners’ while Jai trying to speak in English and Vaibhav getting into trouble for his own acts are appreciable.
Piaa and Aravind Akash have meaty roles to play while it is a surprise to see rough-and-tough Sampath playing a gay. Sneha though appears briefly seems to have shed her ’homely’ image to do a dare bare role. She has done full justice to it. The rest of the cast includes Vijayakumar, Shanmuga Sundaram, Anandhraj, Sathyapriya among others.
Yuvanshankar Raja is the real scene-stealer. A total of 9 songs including Goa theme are peppy and interesting to listen to. Sakthi Saravanan’s camera is equally appealing capturing the sands and sea-shores with clarity.
Goa is Soundarya Rajinikanth’s maiden production venture on behalf of Ocher Picture Productions. Once can applaud her commitment in taking the risk to deviate from the regular run-of-the-mill stuff and try something different.
However on the flip side, the movie might throw some shock to a section of conservative film audience. Also the second half wanders aimlessly and needs an immediate trimming.
At the same time, one has to say that Venkat Prabhu was clear on what he wanted to do on screen and has rightly delivered the same. If you want to unwind yourself, forget all logics and enjoy, then the destination ’G
Soundarya Rajinikanth’s maiden production venture ‘Goa’ is making a record even before its release. The film directed by Venkat Prabhu is rewriting advance booking histories of movies starring even some top actors of Tamil cinema, if theatres sources are to be believed.
Sample this quote from a highly placed source at Devi Theatre in Chennai: “Our web portal almost crashed today thanks to the traffic it witnessed from those who wanted to book their tickets in advance for this weekend.
Apart from those booked tickets for ‘Goa’ online, a large number of movie lovers thronged our theatre today to book tickets in person. We have been witnessing a tremendous response ever since we opened our counters.”
Reports from other cinema halls all over Tamil Nadu too are no different. Expressing happiness, director of the film Venkat Prabhu says, “We are happy about the advance booking reports. I am hopeful that the movie would match all the expectations.”
Sneha said that actresses are not offered variety roles like actors. Sneha has donned the role of a police officer in the film Bhavani directed by G Kiccha.
While speaking about this Sneha said,” I have acted in 50 films so far. But all these roles are stereotyped. If I wear saree in one film, I will wear churidhar in another film. Only, this much of difference I can show. We are not offered variety of roles like the heroes.
People do not have the guts to do even if they get the roles. That is why I have donned the role of a police officer in this film. This character will have action scenes and the braveness of woman and prudence like a hero.
I was reluctant to do this role initially. Only after acting I was confident that I will do the role. If my fans accept me as an action heroine, I will continue to do these kind of roles.’
Director Kicha who is directing ‘Maasi’ and ‘Bhavani’ is pulling in a real life incident.
We hear that the director will be showing an episode that happened in the life of a brave police woman in ‘Bhavani IPS’ that has Sneha in the lead.
We might have known the famous incident that happened when Kiran Bedi IPS towed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s car for parking violation. This sensitive incident was elaborated by Thilagavathy IPS, Tamil Nadu’s first women IPS officer and the Kicha had inserted this in ‘Bhavani’.
But with necessary changes, the role of the politician is played by Kota Srinivasa Rao and Sneha takes the part of Kiran Bedi. Moreover, the director says that Sneha will be introduced like how a mass hero is introduced with a power packed title song.
Goa is now Go(A) The Censor Board has cleared ‘Goa’ with an ‘A’ certificate, thereby marking the film for the viewing of adult audience, say sources in the know. Produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth, the ‘Venkat Prabhu’s Holiday’ is getting ready to see the light of the day on January 29.
For Venkat Prabhu and his artistes team (Premji, Jai, Vaibhav and others), the film will be their wedding gift for Soundarya, whose engagement is scheduled with young entrepreneur Ashwin in the second week of February.
“I am happy to direct Soundarya’s first production venture. She knows me right from the days of ‘Chennai 600028’. The movie is going to be a perfect gift not just for Soundarya, but also for the audience, who love cinema,” the director says. The A is not for vulgarity, but for some subject handled, which will sure to get the audience tickling.
The music album of the movie was released recently by Superstar Rajinikanth at his residence in Chennai. On the film’s music, Venkat Prabhu says, “Yuvan Shankar Raja always comes up with special tunes for my films. He has repeated the magic in ‘Goa’ too. All the songs have come out well. They would rock audiocharts soon.”
Stressing that Goa is a romantic comedy, Venkat Prabhu says, “it is a hilarious love story. The whole team including Premji, Vaibhav and Jai were real fun to work with. They never take things seriously. But all gave their best onscreen”.
Sneha will act another major role opposite Mammootty. She had earlier played Mammootty’s heroine in the superhit ’Thuruppu Gulan’ and in the Tamil megahit film ’Aanandam’. She has also completed the bilingual film ’Vande Matharam’, in which she plays a pilot and Mammootty’s female lead.
The latest is that she would be donning the role of a Panchayat Secretary who is at loggerheads with the highly corrupt Panchayat President, played by Mammootty himself in ’Pramani’.
Sneha would play Janaki, who is constantly locking horns with Viswanatha Panikker, the Panchayat President. B Unnikrishnan’s script offers plenty of scope for the actress to display her acting potentials in a powerful role. It sure looks like Sneha is here to stay. She is also rumoredly Mammootty’s heroine in.
She has often been known for her homely looks but beneath those domestic smiles, there always lurks a highly seductive temptress that most of them have noticed and that’s what makes this woman all the more attractive.
We are talking about Sneha and having fitted the bill perfectly for a complete homely woman, she has carved a niche of her own. Sharing her thoughts, Sneha said that at no point would she go in for item numbers and added that her priority is family flicks and not spice numbers.
Though her career has not been that strong in the Telugu circuit as of now that has not influenced Sneha from opting to get into skin show or glamour roles.
Let us wait and see if she can stand on her ground or succumb to the pressure.