Pongal Releases a Curtain Raiser

Pongal is considered as the most auspicious time for releasing new movies and this year will see a clash of biggies as almost seven movies are lined up for immediate release and three more films would release in a fortnight. The lineup of the Tamil releases is as follows:
Mani Ratnam's Ash-Abhi starrer-Guru, on Jan 12.(dubbed in Tamil and Telugu).
Aalwar, Pokiri and Paruthiveeran on Jan 14, Sunday.
Thamarabharani releases on Pongal day, Jan 15, Monday.

The other movies which are likely to get released are Lawrence's Muni, Captain Vijaykanth's Sabari, Vijay T. Rajendhar's (Dadi vecha Karadi) Veerasami.

Vishal's Thamarabharani is likely to emerge as the darkhorse winner and will push Vishal into the big league. Pokiri is a remake and it remains to be seen if Prabhudeva can rescue our Ilayadalapathy from his Aathi debacle. Ultimate Star Ajit is on cloud nine after the success of Varalaaru and it is quite likely that Aaazhwar will boost his lucky run at the office. Ameer who gave a critical and commercial hit with Raam, is back with ParuthiVeeran, which will launch Surya's brother Kaarthi in Kollywood.

So lets wait and watch. May the best movie win.

By the way I am going to watch Leo's The Blood Diamond and Mohanlal's Baba Kalyani if it gets released in Chennai this weekend.

Happy Pongal folks.