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Director Bala Interview

The much-awaited 'Avan Ivan' of Director
Bala recently witnessed its audio launch and the tracks are
already creating chartbusters.

The ace director who spoke
during the event expressed that
'Avan Ivan' will be a typical Bala
movie but also a laugh riot! His
earlier movie with two lead
stars, 'Pithamagan' featuring
Vikram and Suriya was a
blockbuster and also received
much critical acclaim. He
expressed his confidence that
'Avan Ivan' will be a similar hit
with two lead stars and spoke
of Vishal's efforts in acting as a
squint-eyed person in the
movie, a first of it's kind effort
taken internationally.
However, while answering
people of who acted best, Vishal
or Arya, he said there's someone
who has exhibited even more in
this movie, GM Kumar. Bala
vouched that if Sivaji Ganesan
were to be alive he would have
been so proud and glad
watching GM Kumar's
performance!
We watched him play 'Mayandi
Thevvar' in 'Veyil' that created a
huge impact among audiences.
GM Kumar has contributed in
more than one way to
Kollywood. But, what made him
drift to acting? GM Kumar claims
that acting was the last thing he
wanted to do although he was
thoroughly passionate about
movies. He also expressed that
Bala is a director who you can
rely upon to provide you with
lots of space for the end
performance, which is what
that encourages an actor to
bring out the best in him.

CM HOPE CENTRE TAKE ACTION ON UN SRILANKAN WAR CRIMES REPORT

CHENNAI: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president and
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Friday expressed hope that the Centre
would take appropriate
steps without any delay after
the United Nations report on
alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka
is officially released on April 25.
In a statement here, he rejected
AIADMK general secretary
Jayalalithaa's charge that his
fast in April 2009, seeking a halt
to military operations in Sri
Lanka, was mere eyewash.
He also criticised Ms. Jayalalithaa
for mocking at the
Parliamentarians' team he had
sent to the island nation to get
a first hand account of the
situation after the end of the
war.
Mr. Karunanidhi said he had
seen reports containing
extracts from the three-
member U.N. panel appointed
by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-
Moon.
However, the full contents of
the report would be released
only on April 25. Even before
any details were out on what
follow-up action the UN
proposed to take or how the
Union government proposed to
respond, Ms. Jayalalithaa had
issued a statement about it.
"The people of Tamil Nadu will
not forget her own remarks
that during a war it was normal
for some civilians too to be
killed, " he said.
"I hope the Centre would
respond with suitable steps as
soon as the report is officially
released. I appeal to the Centre
to do so, " Mr. Karunanidhi said.

TAMIL ACTOR SELECTED YOUTH ENVOY FOR UN

Popular Tamil actor Vikram, who was selected as Youth Envoy for United Nations Human Settlement Programme- 'UN Habitat', has expressed

happiness at his being chosen
from a long list of actors and
sportsmen."I am extremely proud and
grateful to have been chosen
from a long list of actors and sportsmen," he said.
He said his main role would be
to spread awareness about the
statutes of U.N Habitat which
include urban stabilisation. He
would also be required to help
formulate plans for effective
water management, slum
eradication and women and
youth empowerment.
Vikram also spoke about the
endeavours of his Vikram

Foundation.To commemorate
Earth Day today, he had planted
100 saplings at the YMCA in old
Mahabalipuram road.  This is part of his venture to
plant one lakh trees in one year
in and around Chennai.He said
these trees would be planted in
schools, colleges and even jails.
Another one of his projects is
to identify and rehabilitate
school dropouts.
He also plans to form a
committee for the purpose. The
committee would consist of
personnel from the corporate
sector, social services, NGOs and
social workers,he told reporters
here yesterday.

AVAN IVAN AUDIO RELEASE

Director Bala's Avan Ivan from
18 April. A grand function is
being organised in Chennai on
Monday in which the audio
would be released. Yuvan
Shankar Raja
has composed
music for the movie.
The movie stars Arya and Vishal
together. Produced by Kalpathi
Agoram's AGS Films, Avan Ivan
was completed in a quick pace
by Bala.
Speaking about the film, Bala
says, 'It would be a one
different from my earlier films.
It has comedy all through but at
places will bear emotional tag.'
On his part, Arya said, 'My
comfort level with Bala is good
and we enjoyed working in the
project. Bala guided both of us
well

AIADMK FILLED A COMPLAINT AGAINST MK STALIN

Stung by Deputy Chief
Minister MK Stalin's reported
remark about the marital status
of AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa,
her party on Friday filed a
complaint against him with the
Election Commission demanding
immediate action.
Stalin's remark was "malicious
and was beyond all limits of
decency", the complaint, filed a
day after the EC issued a notice
to Jayalalithaa for allegedly
making personal remarks
against Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister M Karunanidhi, said.
AIADMK Rajya Sabha member PH
Manoj Pandian in a written
compliant to Tamil Nadu Chief
Electoral Officer, said Stalin
made "derogatory and
defamatory remarks" against
Jayalalithaa in Namakkal on
Friday last during a campaign
for the April 13 Assembly polls.
Quoting Stalin from a Tamil
daily as saying that the AIADMK
chief was not married and so
was not interested in funding
other women's weddings,
Pandian said it was "no way
connected with the public
activities of the leader."
Terming the speech as a "clear
violation of the Model Code of
Conduct," Pandian, who is also
State Advocate Wing Secretary
of AIADMK, demanded
immediate action against Stalin.
AIADMK has sought two days
time to reply to the EC's notice
to her. Jayalalithaa's ally and
DMDK leader Vijayakant has also
been slapped with similar notice
for his reported personal
attacks on Karunanidhi.

India beat Sri Lanka to win ICC World Cup 2011‎

MS Dhoni (91 not out) and Gautam Gambhir (97) helped India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the ICC World Cup 2011 at Wankhede stadium in Mumbai on Saturday.
Dhoni joined legendary Kapil Dev to lift the coveted trophy for India.

Dhoni played captain's innings in the summit clash as he hit two six and eight fours in his 79-ball innings and raced to fifty in just 52 balls.

The skipper added a record 109-run partnership with Gambhir for the fourth wicket, which was highest for India in World Cup finals, to chase the challenging 275-run target.

Gambhir missed to score a hundred in the World Cup final as Lankan all-rounder Thisara Parera clean bowled him in the 42nd over.

After losing two quick wickets, Virat Kohli (35) added a valuable 83-run stand with Gambhir to resurrect the Indian innings.

Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga dismissed Sachin Tendulkar (18) and Virender Sehwag (0) early to jolt the India run-chase. Tendulkar was going smoothly as he hit two fours in his 14-ball 18 innings before Malinga struck in the seventh over.

India started the run-chase on terrible note as they lost Virender Sehwag (0) on the second ball of the match as Malinga trapped dashing opener LBW in his opening over.

Opinion polls on Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2011

Loyola College survey
Dr S Rajanayagam, Director, ‘People Studies’, Loyola College Chennai who has conducted successful prediction in previous elections has found out that 2G spectrum scam has remained a non-issue when compared
to the local problems such as drinking water shortage, power crisis and price rise dominating this election. In contrast most of the opinion polls conducted by mainstream national media have put the 2G scam on top. That reflects on the methodology adopted by the surveying agencies.

Headlines today survey
Headlines today – ORG have projected their predictions based on 2009 Lok Sabha elections and opinion poll on the issues of corruption, administration, killing of Indian fishermen and price rise. According to this method ADMK alliance will get 50 per cent of the vote share winning 164 seats and DMK alliance will get 45 per cent winning 68 seats only. Their conclusion is that 2G spectrum is a major set back to DMK. This was published on 31’st March and the size of the sample for Tamil Nadu in their survey is not known. The survey covered 14,000 respondents in 121 constituencies across the four States.

Kumudam survey
The Kumudam reporter a Tamil biweekly magazine has assessed 48.60 % support for AIADMK alliance and 41.70 % support for DMK alliance. This survey has concluded that 57% people consider price rise as an important problem when compared to 15% for 2G spectrum issue. This appears to be right.

Puthiya thalaimurai survey
A relatively new magazine Puthiya thalaimurai has published a survey taken with AC Neiilson, This survey reveals 49% wishing to vote for AIADMK alliance and 46% for DMK alliance. But at the same time both Karunanithi and Jayalalithaa got 43% support to become Chief Minister. Another 4% were for Vijayakanth. The publishers have admitted that the survey was conducted before conclusion of alliances and the onset of campaign, therefore the percentages are subject to change. This survey was conducted among 5000 voters in the first week of March.