Chennai : Kamal Haasan’s spy-thriller Vishwaroopam will finally release in movie halls across Tamil Nadu today, with audio edited out in seven scenes. Last week, the state government brokered a compromise between leaders of several Muslim groups who said they were offended by the portrayal of their community in the Rs. 95-crore film and the […]

Chennai: Actor-director Kamal Haasan has agreed to run seven scenes that Muslim groups had found objectionable in his movie Vishwaroopam without audio. This paves the way for the movie, which was banned for two weeks by the government, to be finally released in Tamil Nadu, its biggest market. The compromise deal came after a six-hour […]

Bangalore : The controversy surrounding ‘Vishwaroopam’ hasn’t affected its box-office run in the City, as it seems. Kamal Haasan fans from Tamil Nadu, where the screening of the film is banned, are flocking to the theatres in the City, just to watch the movie. Ever since its release, the movie has been running to packed […]

Chennai : Actor Kamal Haasan is expected to begin a first round of talks with several Muslim groups today to try and sort differences over his 95-crore spy thriller Vishwaroopam so that it can release in Tamil Nadu. Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has offered to facilitate the discussions. The film opens in theatres across the country […]

Chennai : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today said she would file defamation charges against her political rival and DMK chief M Karunanidhi for making what she called “wild” and “fictitious” allegations against her while commenting on her government’s move to ban actor Kamal Haasan’s film Vishwaroopam. “Some have said that I have interests in […]

Mumbai : Veteran actor Kamal Haasan has said that if the ban on his controversial film Vishwaroopam is not lifted, he might have to look out for a “secular state” and that can be out of the country. “I have lost all my property for the film, so I have nothing to lose, but choose […]

Bangalore, Hyderabad : After being banned in Tamil Nadu, mega-budget thriller, Vishwaroopam, directed by Kamal Haasan who also stars in the film,  is not screening in Hyderabad or Bangalore.  Distributors in both cities said they did not want to provoke any violence.    The movie was released in Andhra Pradesh this morning, but the distributor […]