'Maatraan' here, 'Duplicate' there

With just few more weeks left for the summer, the countdown has almost started for 'Maatraan', which is set to have a big release in South India. Recently, the Telugu dubbing rights of the film were bagged for a whopping price

According to sources, ace Tollywood producer Bellamkonda Suresh has acquired the Telugu rights of the movie from producers AGS Entertainment. "The Tollywood version has been titled 'Duplicate', a name which fits well to the film's knot," they add.

Directed by K V Anand, who delivered a big hit 'Ayan' with Suriya, Kajal Agarwal is playing the heroine. Music is by Harris Jayaraj and an grand audio launch function is expected to take place in Chennai by the middle of March.

Suriya is playing more than one roles in this film and one of them will be that of a baddie. In addition, there are three more actors in negative roles- Daniel Balaji, Milind Soman and Veera of 'Nadunisi Naaygal' fame.

Suriya is the highest paid actor!

According to sources in Kollywood, senior-most stars like Rajini and Kamal Haasan have a totally different range of pay packet from the senior actors. Senior actors like Vijay, Suriya, Ajith, Vikram etc belong to a different league. It is this league of stars we are talking about.

Among the young breed of stars, Suriya seems to be the highest paid actor. It is interesting to note that his pay packet in Matraan is 3 crores more than what Vijay had got for Velayutham. More than that in circulate payment for Surya 1 day 1 lakh salary.

Hari's next from March with Suriya

As per latest sources from Kollywood Surya and Hari are once again teaming up for a new movie. Recently Hari has narrated a script about a gangster to Surya and on hearing the script the actor has immediately said ok to do the movie.

Surya and Hari had given so many successful box office hits in the past like Aaru, Vel and Singam. Currently Surya is busy with his projectes 7am Arivu and Matran while Hari is busy with his Venghai.

Once both of them wrap up the work of their pending films, the shooting for the movie will commence.

Suriya in tandem with Venkat Prabhu

There has been speculation as to what will actor Suriya's next filmwould be after 'Maatraan'. However, there seems to be some clarity in that regard now after news came in that Suriya will be teaming up with director Venkat Prabhu and the film will be produced by Muktha Entertainment Pvt Ltd.

It may be noted that Venkat Prabhu's previous film 'Mankatha' starring Ajith and Trisha had a wonderful opening in 2011 and the director's stock rose with it. Details about the the star cast and the genre of this film are awaited and sources say they will be revealed very soon. In the mean time, it is learnt Venkat Prabhu is gearing up to get the project rolling as
soon as Suriya is done with 'Maatraan'.