EntertainmentDirected by Sathya Ratnam, ‘Leader Ramaiah’ will be released in five languages – Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi.Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi will be seen in Leader Ramaiah, a biopic on to-be Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, which is being made in five languages – Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi. According to the director Sathya Ratnam, the film will have two parts. Though Vijay Sethupathi will be seen in a brief appearance in the first part, he will play a major role in the second part, the director revealed in a recent interview to South First. “Vijay Sethupathi plays a major role in part two of the biopic, but he will also play a cameo at a crucial juncture in the first part of the film. We have several leading artists acting in the film, which we will reveal in the coming days,” the director said. While it is not...
- 5/19/2023
- by Balakrishna
- The News Minute
The old president has fled, the new one is just as unpopular, and a state of emergency is in place as Sri Lanka weathers the worst economic crisis in its history.
The island nation known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean — where films like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Tarzan, the Ape Man” and “The Bridge on the River Kwai” were shot on location — has been through some extraordinary times in recent weeks.
In the last year, the government’s economic mismanagement has precipitated a foreign currency and agricultural crisis that has led to shortages of medicine, fuel and basic food staples amid a 50 rise in inflation. The country declared bankruptcy earlier this month. While the impact to local film and TV production isn’t high on the priority list amid a looming famine, Sri Lankan industry insiders say it will take years for the creative sector to recover.
The island nation known as the pearl of the Indian Ocean — where films like “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Tarzan, the Ape Man” and “The Bridge on the River Kwai” were shot on location — has been through some extraordinary times in recent weeks.
In the last year, the government’s economic mismanagement has precipitated a foreign currency and agricultural crisis that has led to shortages of medicine, fuel and basic food staples amid a 50 rise in inflation. The country declared bankruptcy earlier this month. While the impact to local film and TV production isn’t high on the priority list amid a looming famine, Sri Lankan industry insiders say it will take years for the creative sector to recover.
- 7/22/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Colombo, July 9 (Ians) Former captain Sanath Jayasuriya on Saturday joined thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital and demanded the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa amid the worst economic crisis in the island nation. Thousands of protesters in Colombo broke through police barricades and stormed President Rajapaksa’s official residence in one of the […]...
- 7/9/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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