Entertainment

Chennai 600028

Chennai 600028 is a 2007 Indian Tamil sports comedy feature film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu, making his directorial debut. The film stars 11 actors, namely Shiva, Premji Amaran, Aravind Akash, Jai, Nithin Sathya and newcomers Ajay Raj, Ranjith, Vijay Vasanth, Prasanna, Karthik and Arun in lead roles along with Vijayalakshmi, daughter of National Film Award-winning director Agathiyan, and Christine Zedek, playing the female lead artists, making their acting debut as well. The film was produced by Venkat Prabhu's best friend and son of singing legend S. P. Balasubramanyam, S. P. B. Charan along with J. K. Saravana, a Singapore-based award-winning producer. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by Premji Amaran and Yuvan Shankar Raja, respectively.

The film, based on street cricket played in India and focusing on various themes as friendship, love and rivalry in a suburban area, was released on 27 April 2007 and went on to become one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. The film's title is derived from the pincode for Mandaveli, a suburb of Chennai, where the story takes place. The success of the film gained the relatively unknown lead actors — Shiva, Premji Amaren, Jai and Nithin Sathya and newcomers Vijayalakshmi, Vijay Vasanth and the director Venkat Prabhu himself — fame, making them very popular and household names in Kollywood. Upon release, the film was dubbed into Telugu and released as Kodithe Kottalira.

Plot

The movie is about two small local cricket league teams that compete against and consider each other as sworn enemies. Royapuram Rockers are on top of the chain and keep bashing Sharks year after year. The heroes of the movie are the Sharks team. This movie has cricket as the central theme.

Cast

* Shiva as Karthik

* Premji Amaran as Seenu

* Aravind Akash as Aravind

* Jai as Raghu

* Nithin Sathya as Pazhani

* Vijay Vasanth as Gopi

* Prasanna as Shanmugham

* Ranjith as Imran

* Ajay Raj as Ezhumalai

* Arun as Uday

* Karthik as Arivu

* Kristine Zedek as Swetha

* Vijayalakshmi as Selvi

* Ilavarasu as Manohar

* Sampath Raj as Guna

* Adhithya as John

* Che Prakash as Prem

* Dhanapal as Dhanapal

Crew

* Story, Screenplay & Direction: Venkat Prabhu

* Production: SPB Charan & J. K. Saravanan

* Cinematography: Sakthi Saravanan

* Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja & Premji Amaran (Background score)

* Editing: B. Lenin

* PRO: Johnson

* Lyrics: 'Kavignar' Vaali, Gangai Amaran & Yuvan Shankar Raja

* Choreography: Kalyan & Ajay Raj

* Stunts: 'Supreme' Sundar

* Art direction: Vidhesh

* Costumes: Vasukhi Bhaskar

* Stills: R. S. Raja

* Banner: Capital Film Works & Tantra Films

Soundtrack

The film score of the film was scored by Venkat Prabhu's brother, Premji Amaren, whilst Venkat Prabhu's cousin, Yuvan Shankar Raja composed the soundtrack, which also featured two tracks that were rearranged by Premji Amaren. The soundtrack, featuring 9 tracks overall, was released on 22 February 2007 in India and three days later in Singapore and Malaysia. The audio was launched at the radio station Radio Mirchi, broadcasting all the songs live, which was said to be the first time in India. The lyrics were written by 'Kavignar' Vaali and Gangai Amaran, father of Venkat Prabhu. Also composer Yuvan Shankar Raja turned lyricist, penning the lyrics for the song "Natpukullae", besides singing it himself. 19 singers had rendered their voices for the songs, including Yogi B, DJ Funky Sathiya and SilveStar, two Singaporean rappers, actor Karunas, director Venkat Prabhu and producer S. P. B. Charan.

The album was both critically acclaimed and gained immense popularity upon its release, being described as, "excellent", a "rocking album" and one of the "aesthetic highlights" of the film. The songs were said to be a big hit as reportedly 25000 CDs were sold out on the very first day, "ruling the charts" worldwide, whilst the "Jalsa" and "Saroja Saman Nikalo" songs were "rocking the dance floors"

Marketing

The movie used viral marketing on the Indian movie news website, indiaglitz.com. Trivial news about the movie production was updated regularly until its release.

SPORTS

Champions League Twenty20

The Airtel Champions League Twenty20 is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between club teams from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The Twenty20 Champions League is chaired by Shasank Manohar, who is the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and President of the BCCI.

Champions League Twenty20 Theme song-A.R.Rahman 

The competition was launched in 2008 as a response to the success of national Twenty20 domestic cricket leagues, most notably the Indian Premier League. The first edition was set to take place from late September to early October 2008 in India, after the tournament organisers resolved various teething problems that had put the inaugural tournament under some doubt, but it was later announced that the tournament would be held from December 3 to December 10, 2008. The tournament was postponed again following terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 and was later cancelled.

The first tournament was then held in October 2009. Indian mobile service Bharti Airtel bought the title sponsorship rights for the 2009 Champions League for the reported amount of Indian Rupee symbol.svg170cr (USD 38.4 million).

Background

An international tournament for domestic cricket teams is believed to have been first mooted by Lalit Modi, vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 1996, Lalit Modi was also the chairman and commissioner on the IPL. The launch and subsequent success of Twenty20 cricket some years later was the influence behind a serious effort to get such a tournament off the ground. Twenty20 cricket was launched by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003. Its launch was a result of a long-term decline in the popularity of county championship and domestic limited-overs cricket. By reducing the number of overs per innings to twenty and by placing a three hour limit on matches, the format was designed to attract a younger crowd and to boost attendances. Twenty20 proved a success, with an international version, International 20:20 Club Championship, launched in 2005 and a World Twenty20 Competition held in September 2007. This proved much more popular than the 50 over Cricket World Cup had been just five months previously. The following year, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was launched, proving that there could be a market for a big-spending domestic Twenty20 cricket league. The success of Twenty20 and the IPL lead many commentators to suggest that other forms of cricket would suffer, with some worrying about the effect of the popular fast-paced 'slogging' game on players' abilities in Test cricket.

Immediately after the end of the first series of the IPL, the cricket authorities in England, India, Australia and South Africa entered into discussions to create a new international club competition, to capitalize on this success. The new tournament's $2.5m winning prize was described as "unprecedented" in cricket. A number of different formats for the tournament were considered, with original proposals containing a much lower prize fund. The T20 Champions League's creation was announced on 7 June 2008, along with the announcement of planned restructuring of some of the domestic cricket tournaments involved, including the introduction of franchising in South Africa, England and Australia.

Theme song

The theme song for the Champions League Twenty20 is composed and performed by A.R.Rahman. This was the first song composed by Rahman for a sporting event.

In the 2010 edition at South Africa Spanish singer Enriques proposed a new theme song that was played often throughout the league along with Rahman's