A.R. Murugadoss

Tovino Thomas has been selected as Indias official entry for the 2024 Academy Awards, the Film Federation of India announced on WednesdayThe devastating 2018 Kerala floods left a trail of destruction and loss across the state. Yet, from the depths of despair emerged stories that etched themselves in the archives of heroism. Forging its path to success, the survival drama became a phenomenon in the world of Malayalam cinema proudly holding the title of the highest-grossing Malayalam film of the year and the top three highest-grossing Malayalam films of all time.Directed by the visionary Jude Anthany Joseph, the film showcases the resilience of people from all walks of life who find themselves thrust into the eye of calamity and how unity becomes their driving force.Being chosen as Indias official entry for the Oscars is truly an incredible recognition for our film. Its not just a moment of pride for me as an actor, but for the entire team that poured their heart and soul into this project," Tovino Thomas said."2018 is a reflection of the resilience and indomitable spirit of the people of Kerala in the face of one of the most devastating natural disasters of our time. Through the film, we aim to remind everyone that amidst the chaos and destruction, there is always a glimmer of hope, and its the human spirit that shines the brightest. This nomination serves as a shining example of our collective efforts, and I am hopeful that it will resonate with the international audience, just as it did with our own, he said.Produced by Venu Kunnappilly, CK Padmakumar, and Anto Joseph, 2018: Everyone is a Hero is currently streaming on the OTT platform Sony Liv.The Film Federation of Indias official section committee headed by noted filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli made the selection of the move that also stars Kunchacko Boban, Asif Ali, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Aparna Balamurali, Kalaiyarasan, Indrans, Sudheesh, Gilu Joseph, Vinitha Koshy, Aju Varghese, Thanvi Ram, and Gauthami Nair.The 96th Oscars is scheduled to take place on March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles.The Academy set the submission deadline for general categories for the 2024 Oscars for November 18, 2023. Preliminary voting for the shortlists will begin on December 18 with the results announced on December 21.The nominations voting period will run from January 11-16, 2024, with the official nominations announcement on January 23.There will be four weeks between nominations and final voting, which begins on February 22. The show will air live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.

The A R Murugadoss film Sarkar featuring Thalapathy Vijay in the lead role has been caught in the web of controversies for quite some time now. Despite the political resistance and pressure and also plagiarism allegations against it, the makers fought their way through and released the film. Not surprisingly, it did brisk business but it has now been dragged into the murk of scandals yet again. And this time, the AIADMK parties decided to resort various means including violence. Superstars of the industry, Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan have come out to speak against these evil acts. Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan were very upset with the way Sarkar has been facing controversies. Sarkar has been facing political pressure from AIADMK party workers because they had taken objection to the characters featured in the film, which they believed resembled their leader Jayalalitha, mainly because they had used the antagonists name as Komalavalli, the original name of the actress-politician. While the censor board approved the sanitized version of Sarkar which they decided to change after the uproar, the AIADMK party workers continued to take objection. After certification, when the film got released in theatres and multiplexes, the party workers continued to demand removal of scenes etc. When their demands werent met, they decided to protest against the release of the movie by burning posters and damaging cutouts of Vijay. Strongly speaking up against the act, Kamal Haasan took to Twitter last week, wherein he criticized the government for pressurizing against a film like Sarkar despite it completing censor formalities. He further maintained that good people will eventually win when commercial politicians will collapse. , . . . . Kamal Haasan (@ikamalhaasan) https://twitter.com/ikamalhaasan/status/1060517897129275392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw November 8, 2018 Megastar Rajinikanth too voiced out similar thoughts thereby supporting the A R Murugadoss directorial. Even though his political views are quite different from Haasan, in this case the two superstars seem to have come together for the rights of the fraternity members. The actor posted asserting how strongly he condemned his act further adding that these acts are against law considering that the film already followed the rules and got a certification from censor board. , , , , . . Rajinikanth (@ rajinikanth ) https://twitter.com/rajinikanth/status/1060600812898934784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw November 8, 2018 Also Read: 2.0 Akshay Kumars speech in Tamil left Rajinikanth surprised

Prolific filmmaker Murugadosswhose cinema explores the anatomy of modern violence, is very happy with the way his new release Spyder has been received. Curiously the film has opened better in Tamil than in Telugu. The soft-spoken Murugadoss explains why. Mahesh Babus home audience expects a certain kind of heroism from him. Here in Spyder he is not larger than life. So its taking his fans inAndhra andTelangana longer to accept him in an understated low-keyheroism. Whereas in TamilNaduthe audience is more accepting ofMaheshBabus scaled-down heroism. Murugadossis all set to make Spyder in Hindi. The producers will finalize the deal in the next ten days. This may markMaheshBabus long-delayed Bollywooddebut.

There was a crazy clamour to get film trailers attached to the most eagerly awaited film of the year. But Sultan opens without a single trailer being attached to it. There was information coming in that two prized trailers of A R Murugadoss' Akira and Tinu Desai's Rustom finally making it to the finishing line.

However the final tally of trailers tagged on to Sultan is nil. Says a source closely affiliated to the project, "There was a lot of pressure on Bhai for trailers to be attached to Sultan . Akira was one of them. But finally Bhai suggested we do away with all trailers since the film is already lengthy."

Earlier, we had reported that Sonakshi Sinha is starring in A.R. Murugadoss upcoming film, Akira. A few days ago Sonakshi Sinha shared posters from her upcoming film and announced that the trailer will come out on July 4.

It is now reported that Sonakshi Sinha's Akira trailer will be attached to Salman Khan's much-awaited film Sultan which is releasing on July 6 this Eid. Sonakshi, who made her debut in Salman Khan's Dabangg, is excited for the trailer being attached to her first co-actor's film.

Akira's posters have created quite a buzz and Sonakshi has received praises for it.

Directed by A.R. Murugadoss and produced by Fox Star Studios, Akira releases on September 2, 2016.