Sneha's Achchamundu Achchamundu won best feature film award

As the seventh edition of the Chennai International Film Fest (CIFF) came to a colorful end on Thursday night, Tamil film ‘Achchamundu..Achchamundu..’ directed by Arun Vaidyanathan won best feature film award and ‘Pasanga’ directed by Pandiraj adjudged the best second feature film in the Tamil competition section.

Cinematographer Rajesh Yadav won special jury award for his wonderful camera work in ‘Pokkisham’ directed by Cheran. While announcing the awards, head of the jury for Tamil film competition, cine actress and director Revathy said that the jury selected ‘Achchamundu..Achchamundu..’ as the best film for handling very sensitive, un-talked subject of child abuse.




Members of the jury, Cinematogrpher Kannan and Bharath Kumar (News Today) shared their experience while announcing the awards.


Speaking at the closing ceremony, Suhasini Mani Ratnam has said "The most cherishing news here is that today best films from India are made in Tamil only."


According to S Ve Sheker, Vice Chairman, CIFF, the biggest challenge faced by Chennai International Film Festival is lack of adequate funds.


Actor Prasanna, cinematographer Rajesh Yadav, CIFF patron S Kannan, CIFF Chairman B Ramakrishnana and festival director E Thangaraj also spoke on the occasion.


The closing - award ceremony is followed by the screening of Romanian film ‘Katalin Varga’ directed by Peter Strickland.

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Sneha's cop movie Bhavani Music Review

’Punagai Arasi’ Sneha is all set for a image makeover with Bhavani, a remake of lady superstar Vijayashanthi’s cop movie Vyjayanthi IPS (1990) which earned her the National Award (Best Actress).

Music scored by Dheena has been released under Think Music label. The first track ’Karuppusamy Kakkisatta’ is a kuthu song for the female lead sung by Paravai Muniyamma. ’Karpura Kannalagi’ is a dance number in Anuradha Sriram’s voice.

Music director Dheena belts a sad song ’Aadupuli Aattamdhan’ in his typical style. ’Malai Saaindhal’ is sung by Manicka Vinayagam in his hard effective voice. Rita Dhanapal’s ’Mullai Malar Mele’ is a pleasing remix of the same song with some good beats and guitar bits.

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Actress Sneha's Bike Riding Images

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Sneha's Goa is turning out to be a real musical treat

Venkat Prabhu’s holiday- ‘Goa’ is turning out to be a real musical treat, we say!

The album has 9 songs in it and each track is unique in its own way. The junior Maestro has brought back the combo of his Daddy dear with S P Balasubramaniam. Its been long time since we have heard them both lending their magnetic voices.

Then we have a pathos that will be a revival of typical Illayarja’s style and is sung by him as well. Same way, there will be a kind of pathos number from Yuvan’s unique voice. After that we have the family song from the Maestro’s family and that’s the film’s intro song too. The song has the voices of Bhavadharani, Karthik Raja,Venkat Prabhu, Premji and Yuvan together and is geared up to give the thump to the movie. There will be a club-remix of ‘Goa’ in addition to all the above.

So, people get ready to enjoy Yuvan’s holiday delight!

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Sneha does the role of a Village Panchayath Secretary in Praamani

Sneha replaces Kavya Madhavan in the movie Praamani. Earlier it was said that Kavya will pair opposite to Mammootty in the film. This is her third movie with Mammootty which include Thuruppugulan and upcoming bilingual movie Vande Maataram.

Sneha does the role of a Village Panchayath Secretary in the movie. Mammootty does the role of a corrupt Panchayath President.

It is only the secretary who comes to know the positive elements of the President. B Unnikrishnan is the script writer and the director of the movie and is produced by B C Joshy. Playhouse will release the movie.

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Sneha's Bhavani IPS is slotted for Pongal release

When she’s not stopping shows, she’s stopping heartbeats. And that’s what she did when she bagged the role of Sneha action heroinein Sneha Bhavani IPS. She’s now eagerly looking forward to the release of the film that is slotted for Pongal.
“I’m eager to see how the movie has shaped up. The producer and director told me that they are very happy with my performance and that I have done justice to the role, but I’m eager to see myself in the role that is so different from what I am or have done before,” says Sneha.

Known for her charming smile and soft-natured roles that she has played in the past, she says that the role was a challenge and all credit goes to her trainers. “It involved hard work and dedication. I had to attend a few karate classes to help me get a feel of things. But most of it was on the sets. All credit goes to my trainer who gave me the tough look,” she says.

And if playing a tough woman wasn’t enough, the lady says she got attached to the role. “At the end of the shooting schedule, I was sad because I didn’t want to remove the kakhis. I got so attached to the uniform because every time I wore it, I felt like I was in command of everything. It made me feel invincible; I like the feeling of being in power,” she says.

Sneha is also looking forward to her second Pongal release -Goa.

When it comes to dressing up, the lady likes to leave everything to imagination. “I love to dress up and feel like a diva. I like trendy clothes, but most importantly, I want to feel comfortable in what I wear. And yes, I love belts, I have a huge collection of belts,” she says.

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The audio launch of Venkat Prabhu's new movie

Hey people they are back! Yuvan and Venkat Prabhu combo is back after their ‘Chennai 600028’ and ‘Saroja’ with a bang. The audio launch of this Soundarya Rajinikanth’s Ocher Studio product is coming soon.

We heard that Yuvan had watched the Director’s cut of the movie today and was laughing chaotically despite the fact that he watched it all alone. Now people just imagine the out put with the magical re-recording and songs of Yuvan joining this laugh riot. The composer is reportedly starting the re-recording works today!

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A never-before-seen Sneha in movie Goa

Celebrate this Diwali on Pongal! Confused? Well the fireworks are getting ready to hit the screen this Pongal, Yes we are talking about Goa directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth. The team has confirmed the movie as a Pongal release.

“We never thought our earlier ventures Chennai 28 and Saroja would become such huge hits. But it happened,” said Venkat Prabhu. “Goa is a fun filled story of a group of youngsters. That’s why we have given a tagline, A Venkat Prabhu Holiday. Though it sounds similar to Chennai 28 and Saroja, it’s going to be different this time.” he added.

"We will ensure that your funny bone is tickled. You would also see a never-before-seen Sneha in the film. Like how you would enjoy a trip to Goa, you would enjoy watching Goa too," he said with all charm.

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Sneha and Bollywood actor Arjan released the CIFW magazine

On the third day of Chennai International Fasion Week, Sneha and Bollywood actor Arjan released the CIFW magazine at the Kingfisher-Signature Lounge at Hotel Le Royal Meridian.

Also present on the occasion were Gaurav and Saurav Sharma of Storm Fashion Company, the producers of CIFW; Girish Ramdas, President, Galatta.com; Shri Shakthi Girish, Editor, Galatta Cinema and Yolanda Aluwihare, renowned designer from Sri Lanka.

Sneha also graced the ramp when she walked as the showstopper for Archana Kochhar. Sneha will be soon seen in the cop flick Bhavani. Arjan is a well-known face, both in Bollywod (Fashion) and Tollywood (Arundhati). He was the showstopper for Middle Finger on Day 2 of CIFW.

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