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The entire Tamil film industry gathered at the Chepauk grounds condemning the attack on Tamils in Karnataka following the Hogenakkal issue on April 4th 2008. The Kollywood Hunger strike protesting the attack on theatres in Karanataka that screen Tamil movies, received support from every member of the Tamil Cinema fraternity.Rajinikanth, Vijaykanth, Kamal Haasan, Radharavi, Vijaykumar, Sathyaraj, Mohan, Manorama, T.R. Rajender, Producer Ramnarayan, Sripriya, Saranya, Ajith, Vijay, Vishal, Trisha, Nayantara, Sandya, Jayaram, Silambarasan, Dhanush, Suriya, Sneha Prabhu, Prashanth, Nizhalgal Ravi, Vadivelu, Vasu, Senthil, Santhanam, Sibiraj, Ashwin Shekar, P. Vasu and son Shakthi, Prasanna, Narain, Riteish, director Hari, Delhi Ganesh, Bharath, Raju Sundaram, Chandrashekar, Arjun, Priyamani, Murali, S.J. Suryah, M.S. Bhaskar, Ramrajan, Anandraj, Karthi, Kalaipuli G. Shekar, Vindhya and every member of the film fraternity was present.

The fast was broken by lyricist Vaali and subsequently all of us present at the Chepauk grounds broke the fast.

I wish to thank the entire film fraternity for supporting this cause.

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The trailer of my next film 1977 was released on March 14th, 2008 at a grand event in Chennai. The trailer was released by producer R.B. Chowdry and received by director K.S. Ravikumar and Film Chamber president KRG. The film stars Namitha and newcomer Farzhana opposite me. I play a dual role of father and son and appears in 6 different getups in the film. Yesteryear actor Jayasudha, who had decided to quit films, agreed to act in this film after hearing the story. My friend and long time co-actor Vijaykumar appears in a crucial role in this film. The two of us together have given several superhits and I hope that this film too will add to that list.

The film is directed by debutant Dinesh Kumar, a popular ad film maker. The cinematographer for the film is Bubathy who is a big name in Telugu film industry having done more than 20 big budget films there. The lensman has shot the film entirely in super 35 mm which is the latest in cinematography.

The film was shot for 60 days in Malaysia. We also planning to dub the film in Chinese and Malay as many artistes from Malaysia are involved in this film. Here I wish to clarify that there is no politics in the film and it is a clean action entertainer.

We will be releasing the music of the film next month and the film itself in June.