Asin to be Mammookka's heroine

After a decade from his first movie 'Narendran makan Jayakanthan Vaka', the star heroine Asin will be once again speaking Malayalam onscreen. The actress who has risen to great heights in Indian cinema will make a comeback to Mollywood playing the lead role opposite Mammootty. According to the reports, Asin is said to have given green signal to be in the new flick directed by Shyamaprasad with Mammootty.

Asin, who had a Bollywood release recently in Salman Khan's "Ready", have two more big projects in Bollywood including 'Two cities' with Shah Rukh and' Houseful 2' with Akshaykumar.

IT raids offices, homes of Mammootty and Mohanlal

Income tax sleuths have raided the houses, offices and hotels of Malayalam film stars Mammootty and Mohanlal. Both the Kerala-based actors have been asked to appear before tax officials in person here.

The searches started at 6.30am on Friday morning with 80 officials simultaneously verifying records at their homes in Kochi and numerous offices in Chennai, Bangalore and Thiruvananthapuram.

IT sleuths cited a huge gap in the IT returns and the income the superstars make in a year. Both have the same chartered accountant who has his head office in Thiruvananthapuram. The initial statements from both the actors have been taken.

The taxmen have reportedly seized several documents. Official sources report that the team has also found an elephant tusk from Mohanlal's Kochi residence.

Residence of Mohanlal's close aid Antony Perumbavoor is also being raided, said the official.

Mammootty is expected to appear before IT officials in the evening as he was in Chennai when the raids began, while Mohanlal may not arrive Friday as he is shooting in the coastal town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu.
IT officials reached Rameswaram and took a statement from Mohanlal.

The extensive raids, it now appears, were kept secret by the IT department and also a well planned one as officials also closed in on the business associates of the two superstars.

The officials reached the home of Mohanlal in the Kerala capital where his aged mother resides.

For Mammootty, the raid came a day after his son's engagement in Chennai. Sources close to him say he has left for Kochi.

Mohanlal has interests in film production, distribution, IT education and also the hospitality industry. Besides, he is an active player in the real estate sector along with his close friends.

Mammootty's interests also include a film production house and he is the patron of a new boutique hospital in Bangalore.

Those questioned include Mohanlal and Mammootty's main business partners, producer Antony Perumbavoor and Anto Joseph respectively.

One bedroom of Mohanlal at his Kochi residence is yet to be opened because a bio-metric gadget makes entry possible only with the fingerprints of close family members.

Last week Kozhikode businessman K.A. Rauf, without naming anyone, said a Malayalam superstar and a business house in the state were engaged in a huge real estate deal in Maharashtra.

The IT officials locked the homes from inside and no one was allowed to come in or go out as they prepared their report based on the superstars' IT returns. 

Filmfare awards for Mammoottty, Mamtha

The year's Filmfare awards for South Indian films was announced yesterday. Megastar Mammootty was named the best actor for his performance in' Pranchiyettan and the Saint' while Mamtha  Mohandas was named the best actress for 'katha thudaraunnu'.'Pranchiyettan and the saint' also bagged the awards for the best picture and best director for Renjith. While Hariharan was selected as the best singer for 'katha Thudarunnu', Shreya Ghoshal was named the best female singer for her song' Kizhakku pookkkum 'from 'Anwar'. Urvashy was selected as the best supporting actress while Biju Menon was named as the best supporting actor. Gopi Sundar bagged the award for the best music director.

Vikram and Allu Arjun was named the best actors in Tamil and Telugu respectively. A R Rehman was named the bets musician in Tamil and Telugu while 'Maina' was named the best feature in Tamil.

Mammootty's 'Care&Share' to offer scholarships

The Care and Share foundation based at Kochy, working under the patronage of Megastar Mammootty will offer student scholarships, this year. The scholarships will be given to students living in orphanages, who have qualified for merit seats of professional courses in various colleges of the state.

The foundation has invited applications from deserving candidates, with valid copy of qualifying certificates. The applications must be addressed to the project officer of Care and share international foundation, P B No 1755 at Kochi

Mammootty and Shyamaprasad together again

The last time Mammootty and Shyamaprasad came together was for 'Ore Kadal', that was much appreciated by fans and critics alike.

The director and the actor would be joining hands again for a crime story now, and the film would be scripted by Shyamaprasad himself.

'Ore Kadal' had won several awards and accolades at national and international level, and the news of the director and the actor coming together, is hence welcomed by lovers of good cinema.

This film would be produced by Vindhyan, who had also produced other Shyamaprasad films like 'Ore Kadal' and 'Electra'.

Mammootty is my role model: Vikram

Tamil superstar Vikram has revealed that Mammootty is his role model. The actor says that the Malayalam Megastar has always inspired him to do a variety of roles.

Vikram says that though Mammootty has acted in several films as a police officer, he has been able to do all of them quite different from one another.

The actor also says that he doesn't like to be dragged into the number game. "I have no intention to be known as the Number One star, by doing one action role after the other. I would like to do a variety of characters instead," he adds.

Vikram is all set for a release this week with Deivathirumagal. This is rumored of be his best performance till date, and is said to have been admired by the members of the censor board as well.

Mammootty awarded Best Actor in 58th Filmfare Awards (South)

The 58th Filmfare Awards South ceremony honoring the winners and nominees of the best of South Indian cinema in 2010 was held on July 2, 2011 in Hyderabad. Megastar Mammootty awarded Best Actor (Malayalam) for the film Pranchiyettan and the saint. It also honored as the Best Film. Director Renjith, Biju Menon(Best Supporting Actor) also were in the star studded function.