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Keeping in mind the authenticity of the film, makers of the English – Tamil biopic Ramanujan had artists Dr. Aravindh and Master Kailash among others from Melattur Bhagavata Mela to perform the dance drama for the film. The artists performed for a scene in the film wherein Ramanujan’s family, comprising Anmol (young Srinivasa Ramanujan), Suhasini Maniratnam who plays the role of Komalatammal and Nizhalgal Ravi playing the role of K. Srinivasa Iyengar, watches the Bhagavata Mela. The artists performed the dance drama in a small village late into the night, which ended at four in the morning and had the local villagers as audience.
Melattur Bhagavata Mela Natya Vidya Sangam artists are not professional performers but are from other professions who preserve this ancient art form that collaborates three forms of performing arts; music, dance, drama. The entire theme of the dance shoot was Lord Narasimha tearing apart Hiranyakashipu and that day of the shoot turned out to be the exact day of Narasimha Jayanti, according to Hindu Calendar.
Ramanujan is an Indo-British collaboration film directed by National Award winning director Gnana Rajasekaran and produced by Camphor Cinema, an independent film production company co-founded by four young entrepreneurs: Srivatsan Nadathur, Sushant Desai, Sharanyan Nadathur and Sindhu Rajasekaran. The film tracks the journey of the ace mathematician from Kumbakonam to Cambridge. It’s been simultaneously shot in Tamil and English. The film stars Abhinay Vaddi, Bhama, Suhasini Maniratnam, Abbas, Nizhalgal Ravi, Delhi Ganesh, Y. GEE. Mahendra and Sarath Babu and British actors Kevin McGowan, Michael Lieber, Richard Walsh, Cloudia Swann and Elizabeth Bourne.

LBW launched

The mahurat and poster unveiling of the Marathi film titled LBW was held on January 28 at Shock in Bandra Mumbai. Directed by Ankur A.Kakatkar for producer Sandeep Nadange, the film stars Jitendra Joshi , Sushant Shelar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Sanjay Mone, Milind Phatak, Suchitra Bandekar, Sulekha Tawalkar, Ruturaj Padke, Sneha Deshmukh, Ashish Kulkarni, Raj Anjute, Sayai Marathe and Suhas Joshi.
Written by Milind Pathak, it has music by Nilesh Moharir, Pankaj Padgham, Amit Raj, Vaibhav Panch.

Aaha Kalyanam music launched 

The music of Yash Raj Films maiden Tamil venture, Aaha Kalyanam was launched in Chennai in the presence of lead actors Nani and Vaani Kapoor, director A. Gokul Krishna, music composer Dharan Kumar and the entire unit. The theme for the launch was an authentic wedding setting and everyone was dressed in traditional wedding attire with men wearing pattu veshti and pattu sattai with angawasthiram and women in pattu pudavai with flowers adorning their head.
Also seen were music director Dharan Kumar, guest director Dharani, Usha Uthup, Simran. The film is a remake of the successful Hindi movie, Band Baaja Baaraat, Aaha Kalyanam. The launch of the Telugu audio soundtrack, was scheduled for January 23 but was cancelled as a mark of respect to the doyen Dr. Akkineni Nageshwar Rao, who passed away that day.