Violinist Kunnankudi vaidhyanathan passed away yesterday(September 8th) at a private city hospital in chennai, He was 73. He experienced a sudden ailment and he was admitted in hospital and was kept under emergency care before he died.

He is considered by many to be an arresting and innovative violinist in the Carnatic Genre. He was awarded the prestigious “Padma Shri” title by the Indian government, “Sangita Mamani”, “Best Music Director” award and more than 200 other awards.

Kunakudi Vaidyanathan made a speacial appearance in the 2005 Tamil blockbuster movie Anniyan directed by Shankar.

Our Sincere Condolences to Violinist Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan family and friends.

Name of the Superstar Rajinikanth starrer “Robot” directed by Shankar has been changed, an official news release said that the movie name is changed as Endhiran.

Here is the Endhiran movie Technical Crew Details

Cast : Superstar Rajinikanth , Aishwarya Rai Bachan

Direction : Shankar

Production : Ayngaran International Films Pvt Ltd., and Eros International.

Producers: K. Karunamurthi / C. Arunpandian

Executive Producer: K. Vijayakumar.

Music : A. R. Rahman

Cinematography: R. Ratnavelu
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Shah Rukh Khan is running battle with Shankar and Rajinikanth for the title Robot. SRK’s own production Red Chillies has registered the title Robot and nine other titles based on it.

Initially Shah Rukh and Shankar partnered to do Robot in Hindi, produced by Red Chillies, due to difference in opinion project was dropped and Shankar was forced to do with Rajin.

Now, it seems SRK is taking revenge, and has registered nine titles like Robot in Hindi

1. Robot
2. Mein Hoon Robot
3. Mera Robot
4. Pyara Robot
5. Robot a Hero
6. Robot Hoon Mein
7. Robot My Hero
8. Robotics
9. Robott

Shriya Saran

Overnight Shriya, the flavour of Kollywood become the hottest girl in town after featuring in Rajnikanth’s heroine in Shankar’s Sivaji. According to her she got much attention and respect because of Superstar Rajini.

Post the super-successful run of ‘Sivaji’ she has been flooded with movie offers. She now has close to half a dozen Bollywood projects in hand.

• Shriya Saran at IIFA Awards 2008 photos
• Shirya photos gallery

“To be honest, Rajini sir’s heroines can piggy-back ride on his popularity. Thanks to him, I got so much attention and respect from the masses and the industry” said smiling Shriya.

‘Sarkar Raj’ director Ram Gopal Varma has used his blog to hit back at critics, Now Aishwarya Rai’s responds to a question asked on Ram Gopal Varma’s Blog..

Here is the blog post

Question: Shankar looks like an emotional fool when he opens his heart to a girl from America whom he met yesterday?
Ans: May be he has a weakness for worldly beauties.

Comments from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on above question:
“When you have two people ‘confide’ in each other, it’s such a personal experience, it underlines a deep connection between the two on various levels and makes this obvious to the observer. Here the audience. Given the realistic space in which the characters express themselves which is very much clear in the language of the film (Realistic in acting, dialogue, camera etc.) we chose CONFIDING IN as hugely intimate an experience to convey this deep connection, rather than ‘fans blowing hair and clothes, background aalaaps or song, round trolley movements, or rain out of nowhere and waltzing etc’ to convey this. It’s all in the Eyes of the Characters and in the intense intimacy of confiding!!! That’s SARKAR RAJ!”