After the protest from an unidentified group of people relating to the building up of Charlie Chaplin’s statue on the Udipi beach, shooting of Houseful was halted since the crew wanted to shoot a song around the statue.

But now the crew is happy since the problem has been resolved and the construction of the statue will take around 10 days. Especially new girl Vishakha is elated since she is making her debut in Mollywood with this flick.

New Delhi - A filmmaker based in India's southern Karnataka state is looking for an alternative location for his latest film after Hindu activists allegedly opposed his erecting a statue of comedian Charlie Chaplin as part of props on a local beach, news reports said Sunday.

Hindu right-wing leaders objected to Hemanth Hegde's plan to erect the 18-metre-high statue of Chaplin on Maravanthe beach, about 400 kilometres west of Karnataka capital Bangalore, because the actor was a Christian, the Times of India newspaper reported.

Washington, Mar 6 : Sydney Chaplin, the Tony Award-winning son of film legend Charlie Chaplin, has died at his home in California. He was 82.

Sydney, who once starred on Broadway opposite Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, passed away on Tuesday at his Rancho Mirage home after a long struggle with a stroke.

The young Chaplin appeared in two of his father''s films, Limelight and The Countess From Hong Kong, reports Contactmusic.

He won a Tony for musical Bells Are Ringing in the mid-1950s.