New Year specials: Top ten Chennai box office openings

For any film, the opening day collections plays a prominent role at the box office. And of course for people in Tamil Nadu, any big star's release is just like Diwali with colourful celebrations everywhere! It's almost like a festival galore during the film release of there favourite star. People buy new clothes, they distribute sweets and some even perform pujas.

When it comes to box office, there is one name that always leads and that is our Superstar Rajinikanth. His big budget extravagance Enthiran, produced by Sun Pictures broke every single record at the box office this year. It is said that the film grossed a whopping Rs. 2 crores from Chennai alone on its opening day. No wonder Rajni is the Superstar of Tamil Nadu.

Let's take a look at the top ten Chennai box office openings of 2010.

>>>> Enthiran
>>>> Raavanan
>>>> Singam
>>>> Naan Mahaan Alla
>>>> Sura
>>>> Paiyaa
>>>> Aayirathil Oruvan
>>>> Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa
>>>> Raththa Charithiram
>>>> Aasal

Yuvan to perform with Ilaiyaraaja

Popular music director Yuvanshankar Raja is all set to rock Chennai with his first live concert (at YMCA Nandanam) on January 16. Since this is the first-ever live concert for Yuvan, he has planned many surprise elements in the show. The concert, titled YUVAN!, will feature singers Shreya Goshal, Shankar Mahadevan, Karthik, Haricharan, Harish Raghavendra, Andrea, Rahul Nambiar, Vijay Yesudas, Tanvi, Suvi, Madhumita and Bela Shende. For the first time, Yuvan will perform live with his father Ilaiyaraaja on stage.

As part of the celebrations, Vijay TV would air a special series titled 'Yuvan Isai Raja' (weekdays at 8 p.m.) and RJ/actor Shiva will host the show. The show will also feature a long list of directors and actors who have worked with Yuvan. Directors Vishnuvardhan, Selvaraghavan, A.R. Murugadoss, Linguswamy will share their experiences. His siblings Karthik Raja, Venkat Prabhu, Prem G., Bhavatharini and Vasuki Baskar will also take part in the show.

Apart from that, a promotional music video titled 'I’ll be there for you', composed and sung by Yuvanshankar Raja will also be aired. This music video is directed by Vishnuvardhan and Nirav Shah has handled the camera.

More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the event which will be held at an open air venue: YMCA Nandanam, Chennai.

Nadunisi Naaygal to be dubbed in Telugu

Ace director Gautham Menon's upcoming quickie thriller Nadunisi Naaygal (midnight dogs) which is expected to hit screens in January, will be dubbed in Telugu soon.

Starring Sameera Reddy, Ashwin and Gautham's assistant Veera in the lead roles, the film narrates a series of events happening in a night and its duration will be 90 minutes. Interestingly, Nadunisi Naaygal has no songs. In fact, this movie does not even have a background score!

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Nadunisi Naaygal on location still