TOP 10 NEWS (MAY 21 - MAY 27)

Ace-director Sundar C, who has proved his mettle in directing commercially successful films has now announced his biggest ever project, Sangamithra. The launch of this movie took place at Cannes 2017, where the producers, Thenandal Studios Limited, along with actors Jayam Ravi, Arya, Shruthi Haasan and also music composer AR Rahman, were present.

When Sundar C was asked as to how the idea to make Sangamithra had incepted, he said, ''It has been a 15-year-old dream for me to do this project. Nearly 50 years ago, Aayirathil Oruvan starring MGR was the only grand Tamil film at that time. I was fascinated by the film, and that started the dream for me to do this project. But the time has to come, there were a lot of opportunities for me to do this film before, but we needed a huge budget, technical expertise and more importantly, we needed a very good producer. Fortunately, we got Mr. Murali of Thenandal Studios Limited. I just put forth an idea to him, and slowly everything fell in place''.

When asked about why the team chose Cannes to make the big announcement, Sundar C added, ''We are planning Sangamithra as the first Indian movie for the world audience. There was a movie called Baahubali which took southern films to an Indian level, and with Sangamithra we are planning to take Indian movies to the world level.'