'Endhiran' fever has started and many producers are hiding and creeping with their films to be safe. 'Endhiran' will be releasing on September 3 or 10. As expected not many films have been announced for August release. Even some big banners have postponed their releases to September or later.
This Friday we have two direct Tamil films and two dubbed films. As usual in the past weeks of these only one will take the industry forward.
Sathyajothi Films 'Baana Kaathadi' is releasing this Friday after raising the expectations for many Fridays before. The film is a youthful love story set in North Chennai. Though sounds a love story it revolves many off beat plots that are first time in Tamil cinema. It's written and directed by Badri Venkatesh.

'Baana Kaathadi' introduces Atharva who is the son of actor Murali. Samantha, the girl who played Simbu's assistant in 'VTV' and the heroine role in the Telugu version of 'Vinnaithandi Varuvaya' debuts as the heroine. Both the new comers have generated a lot of expectations even before the release of the film. Prasanna is also playing an important role. Karunaas and Manobala are in charge of the comedy.
Another high light of 'Baana Kaathadi' is the music by Yuvan Shankar Raja. He has done a terrific job and the songs are already on top. The already rage “Thaakkuthe Kann Thaakkuthe” song is from this film. Sathyajothi Films which is known for clean family entertainers has a winner in this film too.
The second straight movie is GR Movies 'Pesuvathu Kiliya'. Launched as a movie about young lovers and propagating AIDS awareness, this long in the cans movie borders sleaze. It stars new faces like Shakthi, Vijith, Dharshini and some known faces like, Shakeela, Muthukaalai, Pandu, Bonda Mani and King Kong.
Written and directed by S. Gowrishankar, this film has only one saving grace, perhaps, in the music composed by AR Rahman's sister AR Rehana.

The two dubbed films for this Friday are 'Predators' and 'Fire Ball'. Both are very different from each other. One is a US product while the other is a Thai film.
'Predators' is an action, adventure, science fiction, fantasy horror move. Got it right? It is about a mercenary and some other people who fall into a jungle in a peculiar way only to discover that they are on an alien planet that acts as an animal sanctuary where they are hunted by a merciless race of aliens known as Predators. They have to fight the battle of survival.
Directed by Nimród Antal, the film stars Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo and others. Predators was released in the United States in July this year and got a mixed reception.

'Fire Ball' is a martial arts film. It says No Rules, No Mercy, Only the strongest will survive. When you are under the impression that martial art films come from China, Hong Kong or Japan here is one produced in Thailand as 'Tha Chon'.
Fire Ball is about a young man released from a juvenile jail and joins Fireball, an illegal underground basketball gambling team he believes is responsible for putting his twin brother in a coma while he was in prison. Fire Ball stars Preeti Barameeanat, Khanutra Chuchuaysuwan, Kumpanat Oungsoongnern, Phutharit Prombandal and is directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan.
Fire Ball was released first in January 2009 and even featured in festivals like Fantasia International Film Festival, Bangkok International Film Festival and Munich Asia Filmfest. It had a DVD premiere in USA and Canada in January 2010.
Meanwhile 'Paiyaa' crossed 125 days, 'Raavanan' moved into Noon Shows. 'Thillalangadi' enters second week and will sit pretty for some more time, at least till the end of this month.