Samudram, an yet another film for star-director K.S.Ravikumar under R.B. Choudri's Supergood Films. Samudram is a village love story with usual family sentiments of Ravikumar.The cast includes Saratkumar, Murali, Manoj, Abirami, Sindhu, Monal and Manorama.It seems K.S.Ravikumar financed for the first schedule as the producer was in financial crisis.R.B.Choudry himself announced this in the cassette release function.

Maniratnam's next movie Manjal Kudai portrays a story of an angry young man.Madhavan is going to play as a troororist.Simran is the heroine and A.R.Rehman is the music director.

Since the success of Dheena, the director Murugadass has got number of offers from different banners.The director has accepted an offer from Oscar Films V. Ravichandran.With Vijayakanth as the hero,the story is a mixture of action and sentiment.It seems the producer has given full financial freedom to the director.

The remake of Kushi in Telugu has done very well in Andhra Pradesh. Kushi is now getting ready for Hindi too. Mumtaz, who has retained her role in Telugu continues to play in Hindi as well.

The child artiste Swetha is bagging lots of appreciation for her performance inthe movie Kutty. Critics speculate that one more National Award is waiting for her.

As Anandam is doing very well at the box office. it is expected that there will be lots of competition for the rights in other languages. It seems Nagarjuna is very much interested in the main role in Telugu.