More Film Festival Screenings - Egypt, Goa . . .

Earlier I mentioned that the movie got selected for Shanghai International Film Festival. After the Shanghai Film Festival, AA was screened on 2 other film festivals. Recently many controversies and court stays were involved in 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held by Government of India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. This is one of the best events in India. So getting selected to be screened in this event is very prestigious for AA. Originally there were some issues with some Malayalam movies that were selected for this event and so Kerala High Court stayed the publication of results of films selected for the Indian Panorama.

At that point 2 Tamil movies - Achchamundu Achchamundu and Pasanga were in the selection list. No one was clear on what is going to happen to the results of films selected after the Kerala High Court stay. But finally the movie did get selected and screened. Director, Arun Vaidyanathan attended the event and confirms that the movie was well received.

Earlier, AA was selected for screening at the 33rd Cairo International film festival in Egypt (Nov 10, 2009). One of the producer who was at the event confirms that movie was well received. AA was also selected and screened at Digital Cinema Film Festival in Japan. Telugu audience can enjoy the movie soon as Bhayam. Yes, the movie is getting dubbed for the Telugu audience.

The moment everyone is waiting for is here. Our movie is getting released this weekend. Everyone should be seeing all the marketing works on Sun TV and other media. The whole crew is waiting for the movie to hit the theaters. Even though there are many recognitions from film festivals all across the globe the theatrical success of a movie is very important. Financial success for the movie gives a real boost to the film makers and the whole crew.

If you had missed the "Coffee With Anu" interview by Arun, Prassana, Sneha see here. It is nice to see the artists and the director talk about the movie under the same roof.

Right now I am in India on vocation and I will get a chance to see the movie with the real audience here in India. Even though it is fun watching the movie at theater at States, Indian theaters are even better ;-)

I shall let you know the response from the audience first hand until then read this interesting article about the movie.

Audio Launch & The Trailer

The audio launch was held at Chennai and many film personalities were there. I wish I could attend these functions to see all those great people. It is not always possible to see many great people on one stage. Balu Mahendra, Resul Pookutty, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Karthik Raja, Bavatharini, Venkat Prabhu, Nasser were the main guests. You can view the video of the function and listen to all the guests talk here - http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/gallery/Events/18286.html. I am yet to listen to all the songs. Hopefully I will share my experiences with the audio later.


Right after the audio launch the long awaiting trailer for our movie got released. Watch it here - http://www.behindwoods.com/features/tamil-movie-trailers-2/achchamundu.html.

While things are moving faster, hopefully the movie will get released during June/July time frame. I will be in India by the end of June for a month to attend a couple of family events. So I will get a chance to see the movie in theaters with real theater experience. Here in USA not all the theaters are great especially the one where they release Indian movies. Hopefully AA will get released in regular theaters like Lowes, Regal etc.

East Or West Achchamundu Achchamundu Is The Best!

From NJ to Shanghai. Yes, our movie is now going to be shown in 12th annual Shanghai International Film Festival. I am waiting to hear more from our director regarding SIFF and role of AA in it. I shall update folks as soon as I hear any gossip!

GSFF Award for Achchamundu Achchamundu

Things were really slow for a while because of the economic slowdown all over the globe. Movie industry is no exception when it comes to global economic issues. Many people and lots of money are involved in this industry. The latest news until last week was that the movie is ready and the producers are in the process of looking for distributors. But things changed last week when our movie bagged an award at the 7th Annual Garden State Film Festival. You can find this year's winners here. This award really brought everyone's morale to high grounds. Hopefully with few more awards the movie will be on the silver screen soon.

Our director is yet to write on his blog about his experiences and take on this. I shall soon update with the link. For now read the news from Adhikalai website and watch some nice pictures.