Ajith`s 50th movie

Ajith`s 50th movie starts from this APRIL, says director gautam menon. He tells that  it ll be entirely different from previous films.

Talk of the town-Ajith`s 50th film

The talk of the town is that who will direct ajith`s 50th film. No one knows that lucky director.Even our thala also don`t know that. Because, thala want to give his 50th film as unforgettable hit like Vaali, Deena like that. So, thala searches such different stories. Obviously, the movie will be very special to Ajith. But instead of zeroing in on the script and rector, Ajiwho will direct it?th is dedicatedly concentrating on director Saran’s ‘Asal’. 

Amongst the potential producers and directors who might get the opportunity to be a part of Ajith’s big film, K S Ravikumar and Vishnuvardhan are the front-runners. Ajith has already worked with K S Ravikumar and churned out box office hits like ‘Villain’ and ‘Varalaru’. However, with Kamal Haasan’s plans to recreate Dasavathaaram magic, director K S Ravikumar will have a tough time deciding the best suitable project for him.

Ajith might also consider his favourite ‘Billa’ director Vishnuvardhan, ‘Ayan’ director K V Anand and his dearest Venkat Prabhu. With an actor like Ajith and with the best of directors making the movie, there will be no dearth of producers. Reportedly, Producer Oscar Ravichandran and Dhayanidhi Alagiri aspire to be a part of the project. 

Keep visiting this space for more updates. 

Ajith-Vijay 50-50

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  Vijay who wants to make a mark with his 50th movie is still struggling in finalizing his director. With all the other   departments almost decided, he has juggled with his selection from S.P. Rajkumar to K.V. Anand but has not found the captain yet. Ajith who is also set for his 50th movie is caught in the same struggle.
  
  
  Previously, Venkat Prabhu was told to be directing Ajith's 50, but recently there was a change and it was told that Seeman is the director and Kalaipuli Dhanu will be producing. The story seems not to end there. Sources say that Ajith and Dhanu had a tiff during the time of Kandu Kondein Kandu Kondein and Ajith will not be doing it for Dhanu
  
  Will Ajith forget the tiff and join hands with Dhanu? That will remain a mystery until everything is officially announced.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Everyone presumes the word ‘BEAUTY’ to be something more related to the fair toned skins and gigantic looks. But, here’s actor Ajith Kumar coming up with his own style of statement untold before.

When approached ‘Ultimate Star’ Ajith Kumar to speak on beauty, he says, ‘Courage and self confidence would be the best synonyms for ‘BEAUTY’. Those individuals who posses these attributes are beautiful to the entire world. Well, for me, my wife Shalini is so beautiful and her affection for me is more beautiful than that. We cannot leave each other even for a moment. And the greatest beauty every witnessed in my life is cute little angel Anoushka.’

Wow! This is awesome and something unheard from any of the leading actors in town… it must be a great kind of message for all his fans and now they should’ve got an idea about what really beauty means…

Thala`s smart work to complete asal soon

When many actors are known for signing various projects at the same time, Mr. Perfectionist of Kollywood – ‘Ultimate Star’ Ajith Kumar has been splendidly focusing on merely one project at a time. Now, it’s more illustrious with his upcoming film ‘ASAL’. If you were all dashed down with spirits on the film not hitting screens for Diwali, cheer up for it’s ready to strike with a spectacular bonanza for this Pongal. With the major portion of film shot across the globe, the entire team returned from France recently after completion of 80% of production.

Now with couple of songs and a stunt sequence pending, Ajith Kumar and Saran have decided to take up the post production work simultaneously as it would lead to completion of film very shortly. According to sources, the film features Ajith Kumar in dual roles as a cop and the most wanted baddie of globe. It’s almost like a Tom and Jerry tale with the treatment of gang wars and edge-seated thriller elements.

Let’s wait for the more news about his film and you keep logging to this column…

Billa awarded as stylish film of 2008

Here goes the best label afforded by Ajith Kumar’s ‘Billa’ as it has won the title of ‘Stylish Film of 2008’ by South Scope Awards. South Scope – The first English South Indian Film Magazine had hosted the awards at Hyderabad recently on last Sunday (October 25).

Over there, various celebrities from Tamil film industry were awarded on the basis of ‘Stylish Icons’. Well, when it was the occasion for ‘Best Stylish Film’, Vishnuvardhan walked with honor to collect the awards for his ‘Billa’.

We, the members of Ajithfans.com congratulate Vishnuvardhan for having picked the best award and hope that he works with our ‘Thala’ again fetching more honors out for it.

Ajith`s 50th film?

Ajith hears story for his 50th film. He hears stories through various directors. Recently, he has heard stories from  Vishnuvardan, K.S.Ravikumar, Venkatprabu after completed ASAL shooting in france.

Ajith back in city for a break

Ajith to build a hotel in malaysia

The lucky country of Ajith is Malaysia. All know the reason(Block buster of BILLA). So, Ajith wants to build a hotel in malaysia. That`s why, he consults with his friends (about partnership matter) who are living in malaysia. 

Kollywood Actor Jai mentions Ajith as his role model

Ajith`s Asal image published in East Africa`s Tanzanian Newspaper

Saibaba Devotee ajith

Ajith is a serious devotee of saibaba. He prays saibaba as god daily morning without fail. If he buy any new things, he put infront of saibaba and then he will use it. He prays Thirupathi god also. He had gone to Thirupathi two times.

Thala ajith spotted at "This is it" premier show

Michael Jacksons "This Is It", a documentary film that captures rehearsals for his aborted concert stand last summer released worldwide today (Oct 28). The documentary runs for 1 hour and 51 minutes.
It is released in Chennai at Sathyam Cinemas. Ajith and Shalini were spotted at the special show screened at Sathyam Cinemas today noon at 1 PM. Thala Ajith came there in smashing coolers in Asal getup with light brown shirt and dark brown pant. Shalini came in brown salwar. Thala was spotted with ear studs in both the ears. The couple stole the attention of everyone there.

Story of ASAL

Ajith and his upcoming movie Asal by director Saran have always conjured our imagination. From the curious get up of Ajith to the meticulous shoot sequences, the movie has always sprung new surprises for the viewers. Well, the latest news

The storyline goes that Ajith strikes back as a don, who cracks many international deals. However it so happens that all his close associates are murdered one after the other under suspicious circumstances. Then enters another Ajith to catch the murderer red-handed. The real twist in the tale lies in the fact that the audiences are left racking their brains as to whether he is a detective, a cop or the don who is back to avenge the murder.

Sameera Reddy would be playing the lead heroine role, though there would be a second heroine as well in the story. The million dollar question remains to be - would this be another Billa sequel in the making? doing the rounds is that the plot of the movie has been disclosed and contrary to curbing the expectations, it has rather fuelled more for a change.

Asal is in post-production

Do not get shocked after reading the headline people... Our Handsome looking villain-cum-hero is fully focused in finishing his landmark project very soon! The team of ‘Asal’ is back from Paris just recently, and we hear that 80% of the film’s shoot is over as of now. The remaining part will be of a fight sequence and two more songs. But then the team is not willing to waste any time... What we here from the close circle is that, as the makers are keen to release the film for Pongal, they have started the post-production of ‘Asal’ simultaneously. Starring Sameera Reddy and Bhavana in the female lead, ‘Asal’ has Ajith doing double role, one as an upright cop and the other as his look-alike is an unscrupulous fraud. Sources further add that the audio release will be in the month of December. Then this will be a ‘Asal’ Pongal...

Fight between THALA and THALAPATHY

There is a fight begin between our ajith and vijay.All know that our thala`s asal film will be released on pongal.But now vettaikaran also want to release on pongal.There is a serious discussion is going on.Any way, our asal will go to blockbuster

asal

அஜித் ரேடுர்ன்ஸ் டு சென்னை

For the past one month, Asal cast went in France and Switzerland for shooting. The shooting was held in tight packed schedule. 30% of scenes including fight sequences and two song sequences has been canned there including a duet song of Ajith and Sameera. Celebrities including Prabhu, "Panneer Pushpangal" Suresh, "Saroja" Sampath Raj, Sameera Reddy and Bhavana took part in the France - Swiss schedule of Asal shooting along with Thala Ajith. After finishing the shooting, Ajith returned to Chennai yesterday morning (Oct 23, 2009). About 80% of the shooting is over. Remaining shooting is expected to be held in Chennai. The film is getting ready for Pongal Jallikkattu.

Biography

Childhood & Education


Ajith Kumar , aka Ultimate Star was born in Hyderabad, India born May 1, 1971. Ajith is the middle son of three children others being Anil Kumar and Anup Kumar, both being software engineers. Ajith Kumar, the second child born in Hyderabad, India, to a Palakkad Iyer father and a Sindhi mother from Kolkata and grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In his childhood he was brought up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Schooling days were numbered for Ajith as he dropped out of Asan Memorial Sr. Secondary School in 1986 to become a part-time two-four wheeler mechanic and a full-time garment exporter based in Erode till 1990. Business agencies pushed him into modelling for adverts in print media. He also took it on realising an income in the job, it eventually paved his way into Tollywood otherwise nown as the Telugu film industry and later into Kollywood.


Early Days in Career


Ajith started his film career at the age of 21 as an actor Telugu movie Prema Pustagam in 1992.. His next film was in Tamil entitled Amaravathi for which he was paid a token salary of Rs.390. His second Tamil film Pavithra was delayed for 17 months because of a racing injury that left him bed-ridden. Both films received appreciation from the Tamil audience. It was his third Tamil film that released 10 months later in 1995, Aasai, directed by Vasanthan and produced by Mani Rathnam which helped to establish his career as a teen icon in Kollywood. Ajith's first big budget venture Aasai but only after Agathiyan's Vaanmathi and particularly the National Award winning Kadhal Kottai established him as an accomplished actor in Kollywood. Ajith later played in Amitabh Bachchan's debut Tamil production in Ullasam. This venture paid him a salary of over Rs.1 million for the first time ever.


A string of successful movies followed, most notably Kadhal Mannan and Aval Varuvala and the multiple award winning Vaali which cast him alongside Simran. Vaali saw a new peak in Ajith's career. He played a dual role in the film as a deaf-and-dumb twin who lusts after his naive brother's wife.


Marriage & Business Ventures


During the shooting of Amarkalam directed by his freind SARAN , Ajit fell in love with the co actress Shalini,. Shalini is an actress from her childhood days who had almost 97 movies to her kitty. They got married in 2000 in Chennai. As both were of different religions Ajith being a Hindu and Shalini being a Christian, together they were married in the customs of both religions. Ajith – Shalini love and marriage was one of the most talked about news over the period and the star couple are still known for their love and affection for each other.


Post marriage , Ajith set up his own distribution company AK International with office located within the premises of NIC Arts which was run by his friend-producer-distributor S.S.Chakravarthi. This office was shifted in 2006.In 2000, Ajith was cast alongside Mammooty, Abbas, Tabu and Aishwarya Rai in Kandukondain Kandukondain. The film's audio rights were sold for a record Rs.22 million, which still stands. Mugavari followed as Ajith acted in alongside Jyothika. In 2001, Ajith played the role of Shahrukh Khan's brother in the historical film Asoka.


The Making of THALA


In 2001, Ajith played a movie called Dheena, directed by debutant director A R Murugadoss,. Dheena was the first ever Action flick he tried and acted alonside with Veteran Actor Suresh Gopi & Actress Laila. This movie had song called “ Vatikuchi pathi kadthu da” during a costar shall say “ THALA Erukkum pothu Vaal ada Kudathu, Nee Adu Thala” .(menaing a co- artist shall not pretend in the presence of a prominent star). This song was extremely popular and since the word Thala( Meaning leader/ the group lead) was catchy and from then on the fans started calling him , THE THALA. This word become so popular that even print and television medias started referring him as THALA and this name has been a house hold referring only AJIT KUMAR. Then Thala acted a lot of action movies like Magnum Opus movie CITIZEN, RED. During this period he was also concentrating in romantic entertainers like Poovellam un VASAM & RAJA.


The King of Opening


He won the South India Filmfare Best Actor Award for Villain, directed by K. S. Ravikumar.Villain, in which he once again donned a dual role, grossed almost Rs.300 million at the box office marking a new office box peak in Ajith's career. The amount of collections received in the first week of the release for any Ajit started increasing from then . Almost 75% of the revenue expected out of the movie was getting collected in the first ten days itself leaving just 25% Depending on the content of the movie. Inspite of his ups and downs in his career , Ajiths movies were greatly expected by his fans and received a huge collections from the By then the Kollywood trade had unanimously begun calling him the King of Opening and placed him only next to Super star Rajini Kanth in terms of box office collections.


The fall


In 2003 and 2004, Ajith acted in Anjaneya, Jana and Attagasam opposite Meera Jasmine, Sneha and Pooja respectively. Anjaneya created a new record for Telugu rights reported at almost Rs.9 million offered by Dr. Rajasekar while Ajith's salary reached a peak of almost Rs.50 million for the film but he waived it when the film did not match expectations. Jana too did not perform as expected and Ajith suffered some high profile fracas with its producer. So, he declared an end to motor racing and Attagasam, in which he donned a dual role again, was successful. Attagasam rejained Ajith's status at the box office after Jana had not done so well, however there were many claims that Ajith did not look like his old self anymore.


In 2005, Ajith acted in the film Ji opposite Trisha. Project delays by director Bala and producer Chakravarthi forced him to sit idle for the rest of the year. He thus released only 4 films in the three years from 2003 through 2005.The film did not do well as expected beforehand as the producers had failed to release the film when it was first made. Ajith had reach an all time low in his career and was desperately in need of a hit in early 2006.


The Pheonix rises again


By contrast, in 2006, Ajith acted 3 projects, Paramasivan directed P.Vasu, Thirupathi directed by Perarasu and particularly Varalaru directed by K. S. Ravikumar. This is his comeback movie since Villain. Varalaru emerged as a successful film. In Paramasivan Ajith looked back to his best fatigue again and played a prisoner in jail and a secret agent. Paramasivan gave Ajith the much needed lift to be amongst the bigger heroes of Kollywood. Now he was desperate to continue his form with Thirupathi. Thirupathi saw a brand new Ajith, he played a role the would have normally been played by his peer Vijay. He answered his critics with the movie where he improved his dancing and pronunciation of speech. Thirupathi did well but more importantly got a better actor out of Ajith. Ajith's final film of the year Varalaru was his biggest hit of his career. He donned a triple role playing a father and two sons. The role got him a Filmfare award for best actor 2007.


Ajith's first film in 2007 was with the newcomer director Chella entitled Aalwar. Both Varalaru and Aalwar were opposite Asin. Aalwar did not live up the expectations created by the success of Varalaru, as a result it was another major let down for Ajith. After Aalwar, Ajith acted ina remake of a 1989 National Award winning Mohanlal classic, entitled Kireedam opposite Trisha Krishnan. The film was produced by Anil Ambani's conglomerate Adlabs Films and will mark their entry into Kollywood. Ajith sustained a recurring spinal injury on the sets of the film.Kireedam went on to become a good hit for Ajith and won him many praise and fans for acting in such an emotional and different film. Kireedom also marked a successful entry for ADLABS, a reliance corporate company in Kollywood and lookign at Ajits sincerity , commitment and dedication, Ajith became the first choice of Big corporates in the Cine Industry.


Raise of a New Super Star in tamil cinema


On December 14 2007, Ajith is set to release Billa. The film is a remake of Rajinikanth's 1980 Tamil film Billa which itself was a remake of Amitabh Bachan's 1978 Hindi film Don which was remade by Shah Rukh Khan in 2006 as Don again. The film is directed by Vishnuvardhan and the expectations are high on this film with Nayanthara,Namitha paired with Ajith for the first time. Billa is expected to be the biggest ever opening , the king of opening ever had. In each & Every city & towns in Tamilnadu , Theatres apart every three kilometers are screening Billa. The Buzz is that Billa shall do a business worth of 100 crores and stands only next to Rajini Kanth’s “Sivaji”. After Billa, Ajith acted in Aegan directed by Raju Sundaram.


Ajith upcoming film is "Asal" which is produced by Sivaji Productions and directed by Saran. It is expected to be released on 2010 Pongal.