The names from Kollywood will include glamour queen Namitha and the cute Genelia. They will be joined from Bollywood by Koena Mithra (Honey Honey – Ayan ) and Neil ‘Johnny Gaddar’ Nithin Mukesh. Namitha walked the ramp on the opening day of the week for Chennai based designer Sidney Sladen, Neil too will be walking the ramp for him. Genelia will walk the ramp for Ishitha Puri while Koena will be doing so for Pria Kataaria.

Diwali fever is catching up at Kollywood and the final list of films that will hit the screen on this festive day is slowly getting firmed up. Jaganmohini starring Namitha and Nila, directed by N K Viswanathan will also be in the race but the genre of this movie is completely different and unique and if Kollywood sources are to be believed, it is neither action nor sentiment but a light hearted comedy involving magic. This feature is certain to attract the family audience. Current crop of children who are used to Harry Potter kind of magic will get to taste the desi magic in Jaganmohini which is a genre by itself.

South India’s sex bomb Namitha’s much-awaited bilingual Jaganmohini, which was expected to hit screens on September 25, has been postponed to November as too many films were released on the same date. According to latest reports, Jaganmohini is likely to grace theatres on November 6 or 13.

A remake of the yesteryear classic Jaganmohini (1978), the film is directed by veteran cameraman turned director N.K. Viswanathan and produced by H. Murali in Tamil and Telugu. Jaganmohini stars Raja, Namitha and Meera Chopra in the lead roles. Ilayaraja is the music director.

Weight loss programs seem to be the new trend among all actors and actresses. It has not spared even our voluptuous beauty Namitha.

Namitha was on headlines prior to this one as the Nadigar Sangam recently issued a show-cause notice to actress Namitha for skipping a promotional event of her film ‘Azhagana Ponnuthan’. But her absence seems to be sensible now…

According to sources, she has slimmed down considerably these days. She seems to have shocked many who have seen her with her new looks. Sources reveal that she looks even hotter and is similar to her looks when she made her debut. Well, now we should say Namitha slims down to melt us down!

Currently Namitha is said to have wrapped up the shooting for ‘Jaganmohini’. “When we decided to remake ‘Jaganmohini’, Namitha was the name that popped up in our mind immediately. She combines glamour with performance. She is the USP of the film,” says the movie’s director N K Viswanathan.

Namitha, who is best known as the sex siren of the industry, says acting with Rajini is a big bonus for any actress. Gautami, who was launched in his film ‘Guru Sishyan’, or Nayantara, who struck gold in her second film as his heroine, have reached dizzying heights largely due to their popularity as Rajini’s heroine.

And Namitha does not want to be let out in the race. “He is a phenomenal actor and it is nothing short of a blessing to work with him. If I act with him, I know I have achieved the pinnacle in my career,” she explains.

Is Rajini’s next director listening?

While some fans appreciated the actress’ gesture of sending them an e-mail, many others were suspicious of the sender’s identity. In fact some of them even dismissed the message thinking it to be spam or even a prank. But it turns out that this was no delayed April Fools’ joke.The mail was written in Namitha’s characteristic style – the actress always refers to her co-stars as machan or machi and here too she had called Srikanth, who plays the male lead, machan. The actress also mentioned that she has a substantial role in the movie and profusely thanked director Rajeshwar for giving her this opportunity.

When she was contacted by this newspaper, Namitha admitted that she had sent the mail and also added that this was one of the movie’s producers, Sanjeev Sharma’s idea. She explains, “One day Sanjeev and I were talking at length about the promotion of Indira Vizha when suddenly he came up with this idea of tapping into my large fan base using technology. He told me how we could send mails to thousands of people at one go as a part of the film’s publicity. I was instantly bowled over by the idea and felt this was a unique way of reaching out to the masses. So I took time out and personally designed these newsletters and ensured there was liberal use of ‘Tanglish’ (combination of Tamil and English).”

According to Namitha, a total of 20 lakh e-mails have been sent out and she claims that she received approximately 22,000 replies within one hour. “It was amazing because I never expected such an overwhelming response. I was so overjoyed that I even replied back to some of the mails immediately,” says the excited actress.