Latest Lokesh Kanakaraj News & Updates

Chennai, May 6 (IANS) The makers of director Rathna Kumar’s eagerly awaited upcoming romantic entertainer ’29 The Film’, featuring actors Vidhu and Preethi Asrani in the lead, on Wednesday released the trailer of the film, much to the delight of fans and film buffs. The film, which is slated to hit screens on May 8, has already been cleared by the Censor Board for release with an ‘U/A’ certificate.Taking to his X timeline to share the link to the trailer, director Lokesh Kanakaraj, who is one of…

Chennai, May 5 (IANS) Popular director Sandeep Reddy Vanga, best known for having directed the pan Indian blockbusters ‘Arjun Reddy’ and ‘Animal’, has now highlighted the power of cinema through a post he put out to congratulate Tamil actor Vijay, whose political party Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK) has now scored an emphatic win in the recently held Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections. Taking to his X timeline to congratulate Vijay, Sandeep Reddy Vanga wrote, “This is what CINEMA can do, it can move p…

Chennai, May 4 (IANS) The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has now cleared director Rathna Kumar’s eagerly awaited upcoming romantic entertainer ’29 The Film’, featuring actors Vidhu and Preethi Asrani in the lead, for release with a ‘U/A’ certificate. Taking to its X timeline, Stone Bench Productions, one of the two production houses producing the film, wrote, “Unconditional love Accepted – #29theFilm is censored with a UA. In theatres worldwide on the 8th of May! #29FromMay8.”Expecta…

Chennai, May 2 (IANS) Ace director Lokesh Kanakaraj has now launched the title look of director Raja Karuppasamy’s upcoming film, featuring actors Rishikanth and Anishma Anilkumar in the lead. The film, which has been titled ‘Modha Rathiri’, is being produced by well known production house Mythri Movie Makers. Interestingly, this is the third Tamil film that is being produced by the popular Telugu production house. Lokesh Kanakaraj, who took to his social media timelines to launch the title look…

Chennai, April 30 (IANS) The makers of director Rathna Kumar’s eagerly awaited upcoming romantic entertainer ’29 The Film’, featuring actors Vidhu and Preethi Asrani in the lead, have now released a glimpse video from the film, titled ‘The World of 29’, much to the delight of fans and film buffs. The video features an interesting romantic sequence from the film. It shows Sathya (Vidhu) and Viji (Preethi Asrani) having a conversation on the beach. Viji is cross with Sathya for not proposing to he…

Chennai, March 13 (IANS) Dubbing for director Rathna Kumar’s eagerly awaited upcoming romantic entertainer ’29 The Film’, featuring actors Vidhu and Preethi Asrani in the lead, has now begun. Director Rathna Kumar took to his social media timelines to share a poster that said, “Voice acting starts today.”It may be recalled that the unit of 29 had wrapped up shooting on January 30 this year.Director Rathna Kumar had then takento his X timeline to make the announcement. He posted a picture of a ca…

Chennai, Feb 14 (IANS) The makers of director Arun Matheswaran’s upcoming film ‘DC’, featuring ace director Lokesh Kanakaraj as the hero, on Saturday released a special promo for the film on the occasion of Valentine’s Day in which they disclosed that Lokesh Kanakaraj plays a character called Devadas, while Wamiqa Gabbi plays a character called Chandra and actress Sanjana A K plays a character called Parvathi in the film.As reported by IANS earlier, actress Wamiqa Gabbi plays the female lead in …

Chennai, Feb 9 (IANS) Dismissing rumours on social media that director Arun Matheswaran was no longer a part of the eagerly awaited biopic of world renowned music director Ilaiyaraaja as being untrue, the film’s makers on Monday clarified that Arun Matheswaran was very much a part of the film and that he would direct the biopic of Ilaiyaraaja after completing his current film, ‘DC’, featuring Lokesh Kanakaraj in the lead. On Monday, rumours began doing the rounds on social media that well known …

Chennai, Jan 27 (IANS) Trashing reports that claimed that he had unfollowed Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth and legendary actor Kamal Haasan on social media, ace director Lokesh Kanakaraj has now clarified he had done nothing of that sort and urged the media to check facts with him or his team before putting out such reports about him. Lokesh Kanakaraj, who chose to have an interaction with the media on Monday, used the opportunity to clarify a number of issues. One such issue pertained to reports t…

Chennai, Jan 26 (IANS) Seeking to silence those who had come down hard on him for opting out of directing the much-awaited film featuring two of Tamil cinema’s biggest superstars — Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, ace director Lokesh Kanakaraj on Monday clarified why he had made the decision to opt out. Addressing mediapersons, Lokesh Kanakaraj said, “I wish to clarify a few points about the Rajinikanth-Kamal Haasan film. It was at the time of Coolie’s release that I met both (Rajinikanth and Kama…