Vijay has replaced by Arya in Vettai movie

Director Lingusamy will commence his next project, titled Vettai, with Arya. This movie will be produced by Dayanidhi Azhagiri’s Cloud Nine. Nirav Shah has been signed up to handle the camera and Yuvan Shankar Raja will score the music, a source reports.

Now, was it not the same team – Cloud Nine, Lingusamy, Nirav Shah and Yuvan – that was announced for a Vijay starrer? Enquiries reveal that it is indeed so but Vijay was replaced with Arya. However, neither the producer nor the director gave any definite reasons for the replacement.

Vettai is expected to commence soon and more announcement on this project is awaited.

Cloud Nine acquires Suriya's Raktha Charithram

Suriya’s first multilingual movie has already created high waves in tinsel town. In fact, the actor has gained more appreciations and fans have started following him in Bollywood as well. The latest we hear is that Dayanidhi Azhagiri of Cloud Nine Productions have acquired the rights of the film’s Tamil version titled ‘Rattha Charithram’.

It’s noteworthy that Dayanidhi Azhagiri commenced his career as a producer obtaining the rights of Suriya’s ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’. The duo was successful together and now they’re back for this film.

‘Rattha Charithram’ will be released in Telugu and Hindi as ‘Raktha Charithra’ in Part 1 & 2. Suriya performs the role of Bengali gangster Suri, who hatches plans to kill his opponent, Parithala Ravi – Andhra based gangster turned politician.

The film is based on real life incidents of rivalry that existed between Ravi and Suri. Ram Gopal Varma has directed the film and it will get released in October.

Neetu Chandra joins Ajith's 50 movie

Neetu Chandra is all smiles these days. Reason: She has been roped in to play the heroine of ‘Mangaatha’, the 50th film of Ajith, directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by Dhayanidhi Alagiri of Cloud Nine Movies.

And there is one more reason for Neetu to feel excited. The actress, who was supposed to play Nagarjuna’s heroine in a Telugu film which failed to take off, will share the screen space with the Tollywood top actor in this Tamil movie.

“It’s a double delight for me. Ajith and Nagarjuna are two great actors and acting with them in a film is no ordinary thing. Ajith has a huge fan following in these parts and working with him will make me reach a greater audience,” she says.

On how she got the ‘prestigious offer’, Neetu says, “One fine day, I got a call from Venkat Prabhu’s office about casting me in Ajith’s film. I readily agreed since three big brands- Ajith, Nagarjuna and Venkat are coming together in this venture. Venkat is a great director and I loved his movies”.