TOLLYWOOD SEPTEMBER 2016 VOL 3 ISSUE 11
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Raai Laxmi's Cleavage
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he Sultry beauty of South Indian Film Industry Raai Laxmi is busy in wrapping the shoot of her upcoming Bollywood movie‘Julie 2’ under the direction of Deepak Shivdasani. Actor Ravi Kishan is playing the lead role. Recently she attended the launch event of Chepauk Super Gillies team in the TNPL and given shock to the Public by her outstanding outfit. Her cleavage display grabbed several eyeballs and her bindaas attitude was the major attraction of the launch event. She looked white hot as
she flaunted her hot cleavage. She showed off her very impressive assets in a plunging dress as she arrived at the event. In today’s highly competitive glam world, the actresses are more than ready to go that extra mile to show their zing. Actress Hanshika, Dhansika, Kushboo, Janani Iyer, Vedhika, Prabhu, Vikram Prabhu, Vijay Sethupathy, Vikram, Aishwarya Rajesh, Jeyam Ravi, Sri Kanth, Nassar, Sharath Kumar also attended the Launch.
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C Kalyan counters to Natti Kumar
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he death of gangster Nayeem has become the hot topic of discussion as Tollywood links are coming up one by one. In the series of war of words, Producer Naati Kumar has hit another producer C Kalyan and others alleging their criminal activities. Recently Naati Kumar attended the press meet and claimed that
Mystery Why
Kattappa killed Baahubali,
SOLVED
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ans are going gaga over the news that Baahubali famous question has got its answer. The main plot of Baahubali: The Conclusion is now solved. From last year, the audiences are eagerly waiting to get the answer, ‘Why Kattappa Killed Baahubali?’. Finally
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Nayeem’s people have guarded his disputed land in Madhapur area of Hyderabad. He also commented on C Kalyan and few other producers from Producer’s council. Finally C Kalyan also reacted and gave answer in a counter reaction for him. He said that there are various people whose life were affected by Natti Kumar and added that Naati Kumar started his career with B grade movies and blackmailed number of actresses regarding blue movies. C Kalyan has alleged that Natti Kumar is acting like mad Dog and his family made lot of money in the name of funds as Christian missionary works.
creative and talented film maker SS Rajamouli has shot the earth shaking scenes on Kattappa and has given strict warning to the entire cast and crews to not leak any detail. It is the one of secret which will be revealed on its release day i.e 28th April 2017. The scene has been shot at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad and Rajamouli has taken special care during the shoot. Only three persons know the answer of this secret and they are none other than SS Rajamouli, Prabhas and KV Vijayendra Prasad. It is heard that during the shoot only few members were on the set. The movie has ensemble cast of Rebel star Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka, Tamannah Bhatia, Ramya Krishna and Sathyaraj. According to the leaked story, Kattappa is loyal army chief of Mahishmati kingdom. Kattappa’s ancestors have sworn to obey the orders of Mahishmati king. When Bhallala Deva orders to kill Baahubali who is under the oath of obeying the king’s order does what is told.
Chuttalabbayi Team
Visits
KADAPA DARGAH
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he team of recently released movie Chuttalabbayi visited Kadapa Dargah. Actor Aadi and Namitha Pramod performed special pooja in the Dargah Aadi said that offering prayer at the Dargah has given him much satisfaction. The movie ‘Chuttalabbayi’ was released on 19th August in more than 350 screens across the world and it is directed by Veerabhadram. The movie is running successfully at the theaters and doing decent collections. On its opening day the movie collected Rs 2.5 Cr and recently the makers organized the success meet and still busy in the promotional activities.
Samantha’s gesture brings
smile on little
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orgeous actress Samantha has her own NGO Pratyusha Foundation, which provides medical support for children and women. She donates her earning to support this foundation and already Pratyusha Foundation has helped hundreds of underprivileged children who have been suffering from physically challenging medical condition. Recently Pratyusha Foundation brought smile on the face of 5 years old girl named JCG Bhavani alias Chandini, who lost her left leg when she was one years old and was not able to walk. Pratysuha Foundation admitted her at Max Crur Hospital where she underwent for the treatment. Now according to the doctor, she will be able to walk without any help with the use of artificial limb. Samantha is very happy, she visited to hospital to meet her and shared her picture on social networking site.
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Fan Vinod’s mother ties Rakhi to Pawan
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ecently Power Star Pawan Kalyan landed at Gannavaram in a special flight, traveled to Tirupati by road and finally met the family of his diehard fan Vinod Royal. He was fatally stabbed by Jr.NTR’s fan on Tuesday in Kolar area of Karnataka. When Jana Sena Chief Pawan Kalyan reached Vinod’s house, his mother broke down and she hugged Pawan Kalyan. She tied rakhi on the wrist of Pawan and addressed her anna. Vinod ‘s mother said to Pawan that her son was likely to fly USA in the next two months. According to the family members, the multiple people have stabbed Vinod but Kolar Police have arrested only one person. Pawan Kalyan expressed his grief over the death of Vinod and said the fans should be sensible when it to discussion of their favourite stars and said that he had no difference or enmity with anyone in the film industry
TWO TOP SENIOR ACTORS IN
Premam A
kkineni Naga Chaitanya starrer upcoming movie ‘Premam’ is the remake of Malayalam movie of the same title and it is set to hit the theaters on the occasion of Dussehra. The presence of two top stars of Film Industry, are the major highlight of the movie and they are none other than King Nagarjuna and Victory Venkatesh. Both are playing the role of cameos. The movie is being directed by Chandu Mondeti and produced by Suryadevara Naga Vamsi whereas the music is jointly scored by Gopi Sunder and Rajesh Murugan. Three actresses Shruti Hassan, Anupama Parameshwaran and Madonna Sebastian are playing the female lead role. The audio launch event will take place on 20th September in Hyderabad in very grand manner.
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NAMRATA WITH
UPASANA, SNEHA
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he wives of three top stars of Film Industry interacted with each at the Megastar
CHIRANJEEVI'S
NEXT WITH GEETHA ARTS
Chiranjeevi’s 61st Birthday party in a star hotel and these three ladies are none other than Namrata Shirodkar, the wife of Superstar Mahesh Babu, entrepreneur Upasana Kamineni wife of Mega actor Ram Charan and educationalist Sneha Reddy, the wife of stylish star Allu Arjun. The trio has stuck a pose that is grabbing several eyeballs. The picture is shared by Upasana on micro blogging page and fans are expressing their happiness to see the Ghattamaneni and Mega’s Bahus. The picture is flooded with likes and comments. Namrata is sitting in the middle and seen holding the hands of Upasana and Sneha. They have given perfect pose to the shutterbugs.
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f ongoing buzz in media and film industry is to be believed, Megastar Chiranjeevi will next join hands with Allu Aravind for his upcoming drama. It will be produced under the banner of Geetha Arts. The sources close to Chiranjeevi revealed that currently the script work is going on and in the process of finalization. The names of many directors are being considered for Chiru’s 151st project. Who will direct the movie, is not yet decided. Currently Chiranjeevi is busy in the shoot of upcoming 150th movie, ‘Khaidi No 150’, being directed by VV Vinayak and produced by Ram Charan with the association of Lyca Productions. Actress Kajal Aggarwal is playing the female lead role and it is official remake of Tamil hit movie “Kaththi” starring Vijay.
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ctress Vimala Raman is playing the role of Goddess Lakshmi for the upcoming devotional drama “Om Namo Venkatesaya”, which is progressing at the brisk pace under the direction of K Raghavendra Rao. She is a good Bharatnatyam dancer and she wants to show her Bharatanatyam skills for this upcoming movie. She asked director Raghavendra Rao to utilize her dancing ability but director cleared that it is not possible as there is no record of Goddess Lakshmi dancing in any of Hindu Scriptures. His rejection disappointed the actress. Earlier she has performed many mythological dance dramas on stage and now she is going to miss a chance in mythological movie as Lakshmi Dev does not dance. She said that if she got to act in a film about Lord Shiva, she would get to do the tandav. The upcoming drama is the based on the biopic of Hathiram Baba, the devotee of Lord Venkateshwara. The movie features King Nagarjuna, Anushka, Pavani Gangireddy, Pragya Jaiswal and TV actor Saurabh Jain. It is being produced by A. Mahesh Reddy on AMR Sai Krupa Entertainments banner whereas the music is scored by M Keeravani.
Vimala Raman on
Nagarjuna’s
ONV
Nani's Majnu
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he movie lovers and Natural star Nani’s fans are on the sentiments and confident that upcoming romantic entertainer drama ‘Majnu’ will become successful and turn out hit at the box office. The movie is set to hit the theaters on 16th September. Nani, Anu Emanuel and Priya Shri are playing the lead role. It is directed by Virinchi Varma and the music is scored by Gopi Sundar. SS Rajamouli is playing the role of cameo. Earlier Nani starrer ‘Ashta Chemma’, ‘Bhale Bhale Magadivoi’and ‘Pilla Zamindar’ were released in the month of September and turned out hit at the box office and now Manju is arriving in the same month September. According to Nani’s fans, September is the blockbuster month for Nani.
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ADHITH ARUN AS
CHIRU’S FAN IN NAA PERE RAJU Y
oung actor Adhith Arun who has delighted the audiences by his wonderful performance with the movie ‘Tungabhadra’, has been roped for the upcoming drama, that has been titled as Megastar’s s Superhit song ‘Naa Pere Raju’. It is going to be directed by Venkatesh Triparna and produced by V Raja Reddy under the banner of classic Creations. Adhith will play the role of Megstar Chiranjeevi’s fan in this upcoming entertainer saga. The regular shoot of the movie will be started from the 1st Week of September and the makers are planning to shot the movie at the various scenic locations of Hyderabad, Vizag, Kerala, Karnataka and Chennai.
Sunil in remake of Two Countries C
omedian turned actor Sunil who is going to join the set of upcoming untitled movie under the direction of Kranthi Madhav, from 29th August, is getting ready to act in remake of Malayalam hit movie “Two Countries”. Earlier noted producer Bandla Ganesh had the remake rights and he planned to make the movie with Victory Venkatesh and Ram but it did not go on the floor, finally N Shankar met the Malayalam producer M Renjith and snatch the rights for Rs 46 Lakh and later he took the required NOC from Bandla Ganesh. Now N Shankar is planning to make the movie with Sunil and currently he is tweaking the script according to the taste of Telugu audiences. Sunil is very excited to become the part of this flick. The movie is all about that tale of a shrewd guy who goes through immigration issues. Its Malayalam version was directed by Shafi. Actor Dileep, Mamta and Isha talwar played the lead role.
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izzling actress Nayantara is one of the leading actresses of South Indian Film
NAYANATARA IRON LEG AT PROMOTIONS? Industry. Currently she has number of the movies in her hands and numbers of top film makers
PVP LAUDS PV SINDHU
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minent entrepreneur, educationalist, philanthropist and producer Prasad V Potluri, who is popularly known as ‘PVP’ and holds multi business house PVP Group that has interest in media, entertainment and sport, has lauded Badminton player PV Sindhu and her coach Pullela Gopichand. Sindhu won silver medal in Women’s Singles in Rio Olympics 2016. PVP said that Sindhu’s achievement is an inspiration for the coming generation. Sindhu, Sachin and Saina have created the unique moment in the history where the people rise above religions and regions. PVP has his own badminton franchise,‘Hyderabad Hotshots’ and he got the opportunity to travel with players and witness their passions closely. PVP has entered in the business of sports with IBL in June 2013.
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are in queue to sign her for their upcoming projects. Now days, all the cast and crews are participating in the promotional activities for their upcoming projects, interacting with Medias and fans but Nayantara is one of the actresses who gives clarity to the film makers before the signing of the movie that she will not become the part of any promotional event including audio launch. On the other side, makers are signing her for their projects and giving hefty remuneration. Recently during the release of “Babu Bangaram” starring Victory Venkatesh, the makers asked Nayantara to participate in the promotional activities but she refused and politely said ‘No’. It is heard that Nayantara is telling the producers that her participation for the promotional activities will bring the antsentiments and she does not like that the movie will turn out flop. She herself is claiming that she is an iron leg in promotional events.
ROJA: PAWAN
IS JUST RUBBER SINGH
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esteryear actress, TV host and YSR Congress MLA Roja made sensational comment on actor and Jane Sena President Power Star Pawan Kalyan. Pawan has already said that he wanted to do much for the special status of Andhra Pradesh but not interested to make any statement on this issue in hurried manner as it is a sensitive issue. He added that it is the responsibility of Central and state government to abide by the promises of Special status to Andhra Pardesh. Roja reacted on it and said, “Pawan Kalyan is only Gabbar Singh in reel life and he is just Rubber Singh in real life.” Roja also sought the people to extend their support to YCP President Jaganmohan Reddy.
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oung Rebel star Prabhas who has become the national icon after delivering the highest grosser of Tollywood movie
PRABHAS REJECTS Rs 5.5 Cr deal
“Baahubali”, has rejected Rs 5.50 Crore deal of top fitness brand for promoting their products. Currently the craze of Prabhas is at the peak as Baahubali creates several records and earns awards. Earlier Prabhas was well known face for Tollywood only but Baahubali lifts him in the rage of International level. After delivering ‘Baahubali:The Beginning’, Prabhas endorsed Mahindra TUV 300 ,that became hit. Now one of the top fitness brand company approached him for promoting their brand and it is heard that they were offering Rs 5.5 Crores but the actors rejected the deal as he wants to focus on the second installment “Baahubali:The Conclusion”. Currently the shoot is going in the Hyderabad under the direction of SS Rajamouli and is scheduled to hit the theaters on 28th April 2017.
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by Tamannah
NO MALAYALAM DEBUT M
ilky beauty Tamannah Bhatia rubbishes the rumour regarding her Malayalam debut ‘Kammarasambhavam’. From past few days, the news is going viral that Tamannah has been roped for the upcoming Malayalam movie in which Mollywood actor Dileep and Siddharth are playing the lead role. Finally Tamannah took the twitter and cleared the air about her Malayalam debut. She tweeted,” When I sign a new film , I will tweet abt it.” She also reacted on the rumour and again tweeted,” This news has been doing the rounds , and it's absolutely false. Check your facts before putting up stuff.” Next Tamannah will be seen in upcoming historic and war drama “Baahubali:The Conclusion” which is progressing at brisk pace in Hyderabad under the direction of SS Rajamouli, it is set to hit the theaters on 28th April 2017.
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MUMAITH CLARITY ON AFFAIR WITH
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PURI JAGANNADH
umaith Khan is well known item number of the South Indian FilmIndustry. She has delighted the movie lovers by her sexy moves and appearance which made audiences to rush into the theaters. There is a buzz that since long time she has secret with directior Puri Jagannadh who has given her break in Tollywood by the movie “Pokiri� starring Superstar Mahesh Babu. According to few people, the secret affair is going on between Mumaith and Puri. Finally in an interview, Mumaith Khan came forward and gave clarity on her affair with Puri Jagannadh. She said that Puri was her close friend and added that ignore the rumour is the best thing rather than coming and giving explanation when there is no truth. Gender is only one of reason to raise such kinds of rumours in film industry.
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Anjali in RAJU GAARI
GADHI SEQUEL
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ow days, horror movies have become the first choice of the movie lovers and number of actresses are also accepting the offers for horror thriller dramas. Now actress Anjali is getting ready to scare the audiences as she has been approached for the upcoming horror comedy thriller saga, the sequel of hit movie ‘Raju Gaari Gadhi’. It is going to be directed by TV anchor Omkar. It is heard that Omkar is very impressed with the performance of Anjali for the movie ‘Geethanjali’ which was a comedy thriller. To keep this in mind, Omkar finalized her to play the female lead role. According to the sources, the script work has been already completed and the movie will go on the floor very soon. Omkar is planning to make the movie in different style and designing the role of Anjali in unique way.
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NITHYA MENON
IN SRI PRIYA’S GHATANA
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ri Priya who has received lot of applause for her directorial venture ‘Dhrushyam’, is busy in her next upcoming magnum opus ‘Ghatana’. Actress Nithya Menon is playing the female lead role. The most part of the shoot has been already wrapped and the makers are planning to release the movie in September. According to Sri Priya, the story of this upcoming drama ‘Ghatana’ will be strong like the story of Drushyam and the presence of Nithya Menon will be highlighted in the movie. The trailer of the movie has been already released which received decent response. It is heard that the upcoming drama is filled up with romance, revenge and thrill.
ALLU ARAVIND CONFIRMS
DHRUVA RELEASE DATE
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rom couple of days, the news that Mega Star Ram Charan starrer upcoming action drama “Dhruva” is not coming on the scheduled date, is making rounds on social media. As Naga Chaitanya starrer ‘Premam’ got shifted to
Dussehra race, so many thought that Dhruva might be pushed. Finally Allu Aravind came forward and cleared the air surrounding the film release. Allu Aravind announced that the movie will be released as per the original schedule on 7th October. The entire film unit is busy in wrapping the shoot of the movie to meet the deadline so that the movie release on the time. Currently shoot is near the completion and the makers are planning to wrap the talkies part of the movie by 5th September. The post production work is going on simultaneously. Actress Rakul Preet Singh is playing the female lead role and Aravind Swami will be seen in the role of antagonist. It is directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Allu Aravind under the banner of Geetha Arts whereas the music is scored by Hiphop Thamiza.
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KALYANRAM’S ISM IMPRESSES SPANISH MEDIA
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reative and talented film maker Puri Jagannnad is busy in the shoot of his upcoming directorial venture “ISM” in which Nandamuri KalyanRam is playing the lead role and will be seen in the role of reporter Balakrishna. Former Miss World Aditi Arya is playing the female lead role. It is the first time, when Kalyan Ram is going to flaunt his six abs for this upcoming drama. Currently the shoot is going on in Spain and makers planned to shot couple of songs and few action sequences in Spain. According to the latest update, Spanish media is very impressed and they covered the entire shoot updates of this upcoming action and romantic entertainer drama and shared the
Khaidi No 150
FIRST LOOK: BOSS IS BACK
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egastar Chiranjeevi’s starrer upcoming 150th project has been titled as ‘Khaidi No 150’ and the makes have unveiled the First Look poster of the movie on the occasion of Megastar’s birthday. The poster came out with the tag line ‘Boss Is Back’ and going viral on social media. Chiranjeevi is playing dual role, in one role he will be seen as thief whereas in the other role, he will make his screen presence as communist ideologue. The makers also released the teaser that was showcase of various technician like Art Director Thota Tharani, Cameraman Ratnavelu, director VV Vinayak and Producer Ram Charan. The teaser includes various phrases like Warrior of 149 movies, Emperor for 37 years, Conqueror of millions of hearts, Demigod for Crores of fans, Undisputed King of TFI, Inspiring personality of lakhs of people and finally Boss is back. The movie is directed by VV Vinayak and produced by Ram Charan with the association of Lyca Productions.
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video on their official social media platform. The makers are very happy as Spain government is very co-operative. Apart from acting, KalyanRam himself is producing the movie under the banner of NTR Arts and the music is scored by Anup Rubens. The movie is set to hit the theaters on 29th September.
Allu Sirish
missed jackpot
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he recently released small budget movie ‘Pelli Choopulu” is doing superb business in both Telugu States, AP and Telangana as well as in USA. It has finally crossed 1 Million Mark in USA. If ongoing buzz in media and film industry is to be believed, it is heard that the makers wanted to release the movie in well establish manner and first they approached Allu Aravind. They showed the movie to him and Allu Aravind was also very impressed but he gave a shocking offers to the makers and asked to re shoot the movie with his son Allu Sirish. He was also ready to pay hefty amount but the makers said politely 'No' to Allu Aravind. Later they approached Daggubati Suresh with the same offer and he became agreed, Later the movie was released under Suresh Productions banner. Finally it has turned out money spinner. In this manner, Allu Sirish missed jackpot. The movie 'Pelli Choopulu' is directed by Tarun Bhaskar. Actor Vijay Devarakonda and Ritu Varma played the lead role
Pawan's daughter
ties Rakhi to
Ram Charan R
akshabandhan means 'Bond of Protection' and the festival of brother and sister bond is celebrated all over the country. Everybody is aware of that mega actor Ram Charan has two sisters, Susmitha and Srija and every year they used to tie the rakhi to their loving brother but now one more name has been added in the list and she is none other than Power Star Pawan Kalyan and Anna Lezhneva’s loving daughter Polena. On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, Ram Charan went to meet Polena at her home, he was spotted in Dhruva look, finally shy Polena tied Rakhi to her cousin Mega actor Ram Charan.
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Lip Kiss, reason behind
JD CHAKRAVARTHY & ANUKRITI MARRIAGE
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he talented actor and director, JD Chakravarthy tied nuptial knots secretly
with model and actress Anukriti Sharma on 18th August in Hyderabad. Now everyone is shocked after hearing the reason behind their marriage. Anukriti is the actress of sensational film maker Ram Gopal Varma’s directorial venture ‘Savitri/ Sridevi’, which is yet to be released. It is an adult comedy movie, in which JD Chakravarthy is essaying the character of Anukriti’s husband and performed very hot scenes. It is heard that there is a steamy lip kissing sequence between JD Chakravarthy and Anukriti that last for more than 2 minutes. After the shoot of kiss scene, both fell in love and after dating, finally tied knot.
RAM CHARAN'S NEXT TITLED MEGA EXPRESS?
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ecently it was reported that Mega actor Ram Charan has joined hands with director
Merlapaka Gandhi for his upcoming project and UV Creations is going to bankroll it. According to the latest update, the makers are considering the title of the movie ‘Mega Express’. It seems the director is following the sentiments of Express as earlier he has delivered 'Venkatadri Express' and 'Express Raja' , which have turned out decent hit at the box office. On the other side, Ram Charan is also one of the popular mega actor. In this essence, Mega has been added to the title of this upcoming drama. The official confirmation is yet to be made. On the other side, Ram Charan is busy in the shoot of his upcoming action entertainer drama “Dhruva”, the remake of Tamil hit movie ‘Thani Oruvan’, being directed by Surender Reddy, it is slated to hit the theaters on the occasion of Dussehra.
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goes
Amy Jackson M
odel turned actress Amy Jackson has given sleepless nights to Tamil movie lovers as she has acted in few Tamil movies like ‘Madarasipattinam‘ and ‘I‘. Earlier she has given various hot photo-shoots and now she teased her followers as she shared her topless photo on the social media which is grabbing several eyeballs. Amy Jackson turned on the heat by going topless and she showed of her sultry figure that gives a glimpse of her assets. In the picture, she flaunts her bare back on the bed and a bed sheet covers her private parts down abdomen. It is not the first time when the UK born model turned actress has gone topless or showed off her assets. On the work side, she will be next seen in upcoming big budget movie ‘2.0’, directed by Shanker starring Superstar Rajnikanth and Akshay Kumar.
Topless
Rashmi Gautham's harsh reply R
to fan
ashmi Gautham is a household name as she anchored the popular television show Jabardasth. She has delighted the audiences by her bold and hot erotic avatar with her recently released movies ‘Guntur Talkies’ and ‘Antham’. Recently one of Rashmi’s fan advised her to act in some good movies instead of acting in B grade flicks. Rashmi’s reply gave shock to everyone as she said that “Sure, let me know when you are producing one.” She again said," I chooses to be the princess of her hut (For all those people who have issues with her choice of films) now where the hell is my TIARA.”
Mishti
roped in Telugu Hunter
remake
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engali actress Mishti Chakraborthy, who has delighted the audiences by her performance with her Telugu debut 'Chinnadana Neekosam', starring Nithin, has been roped for the upcoming untitled Telugu movie , the remake of Bollywood hit movie ‘Hunterrr’. She is very impressed with her role and has given green signal to the makers for this adult comedy movie. Actor Avasarala Srinivas is playing the lead role. The original film has three leading ladies, play crucial roles in the movie. Recently the maker have roped the dot diva Regina Cassandra and TV actress Sree Mukhi to romance with Avasarala Srinivas and now Mishti is the third actress. The movie is all about the life on sex addict. The makers are attempting a bold stint in Telugu and left no stone unturned to ensure the hot quotient in the movie. It is going to be directed by Naveen Medaram and produced by Abhishek Pictures.
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RITU
VARMA
to romance
NIKHIL
ctress Ritu Varma who is basking on the glory of successful movie “Pelli Choopulu”, has been roped for the upcoming untitled drama under the direction of Sudheer Varma in which actor Nikhil Siddhratha is playing the lead role. Ritu Varma has officially signed the movie. It is the first time when she is going to share the screen space with Nikhil. The movie will go on the floor by the end of this year. Currently the makers are busy in the hunt of top actress to play the role of cameo. The upcoming entertainer drama will be produced by Abhishek Pictures. Earlier both Nikhil and Sudheer Varma have worked together for the movie ‘Swamy Ra Ra’ and now once again the combo is ready to recreate the magic at the box office.
Pawan’s wife
Anna Lezhneva at Chiru’s Party O
n the occasion of Chiranjeevis’ 61st birthday, Ram Charan Organized the Chiranjeevi’s birthday party at Park Hyatt Hotel in Hyderabad. Power Star Pawan Kalyan who is popular for not attending the public event skipped the lavish event but his wife Anna Lezhneva was spotted there. Earlier during the wedding of Chiranjeevi’s daughter Srija, Pawan Kalyan was busy in the shoot of ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’ and he skipped the wedding of Srija but on behalf of Pawan, Anna Lezhneva attended the wedding ceremony along her daughter. All the mega actors excluding Megastar Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan attended the event. IT Minister KTR and Superstar Mahesh Babu were also present.
RGV to make biopic
on Nayeem in 3 parts
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ensational film maker Ram Gopal Varma is very popular to make the movies which is
based on crime and now he is planning to make a biopic on naxallite turned gangster Nayeem, who was killed in police encounter few days back. Currently it has become the hot topic of discussion. RGV is busy in the collection of information from various sources and said that he would make the movie in three parts. After Rakta Charitra, Killing Veerappan and Vangaveeti, now he is focusing for next crime based drama on Nayeem. He tweeted,” Just gathered entire information on Nayeemuddin from multiple sources..His crimes over the years are full of truly hair rising details, Nayeemuddin's story is so complex and with so much of content that it's impossible to justify it by telling it in only one feature film, Am going to make a 3 part film on the Nayeem story ..Rakthacharitra had only two parts..Nayeem will have 3 parts.”
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Sudheer Babu to play Gopichand role
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he biopic on PV Sindhu’s coach Pullela Gopichand has become the hot topic of discussion and Tollywood actor Sudheer Babu, the brother in law of Superstar Mahesh Babu, will be playing the role of Pullela Gopichand in the upcoming biopic. Sudheer Babu said that Gopichand was like a brother for him and added that he played badminton professionally up to certain level and very happy as PV Sindhu won the silver medal in Rio Olympics 2016. Currently Sudheer Babu is busy in reducing his weight and according to him, he has already lost five Kilos to play the character of Gopichand. It will be directed by National award winner Praveen Sattaru and produced by Abhishek Nama. The upcoming biopic is tentatively titled as 'Pullela Gopichand'.
SUKUMAR’S
ASSISTANT VIKRAM DIES MYSTERIOUSLY
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ne of the three assistant directors of creative and talented film Maker Sukumar who worked for his recently released hit movie “Nannaku Prematho” starring Young Tiger Jr.NTR and Rakul Preet Singh, died on Sunday evening. The dead body of Vikram, Sukumar's assistant director, was found under
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suspicious circumstances. This news came to media after one day of his death and his body has been sent to Gandhi Hospital for post mortem. It is heard that he accidentally slipped down from a bunglow, the detail of his death are not known. Vikram’s brother has lodged a complaint at Kukatpally police station . During the promotional activities of ‘Nannaku Prematho’ Sukumar praised him and said that his Assistant directors had given great support when he was under pressure during the shoot.
NIHARIKA’S WEB SERIES
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Krishna Vamsi
V host tuned actress, Mega Princess Niharika Konidela who has delighted the audiences by her Telugu web series ‘Muddapappu Avakai’, is coming back with another web series. It will be directed by same director Pranith Bramanandapally and will go on the floor next month in September. This time her father Nagababu, will also be part of this upcoming web series. According to Pranith, it is a romantic comedy web series but will be totally different narration wise. The story will revolve around adorable father and daughter. The role of father will be played by Nagababu. According to Pranith, Nagababu is very friendly in nature and excited to work with him, currently they are auditioning a guy for Niharika. She will play bubbly character and will be seen in the role of daughter, who takes break from studies, visits her father’shop and starts interaction with other people.
receives
Chiru's Phone Call
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oted Film Maker Krishna Vamsi is busy in his upcoming directorial venture ‘Nakshatram’. The movie has become the top topic of discussion because of its cast. Actor Sundeep Kishan and Regina Cassandra are playing the lead role. According to the latest update, the director received phone call from Megastar Chiranjeevi. He asked the director about the story and the character of Sai Dharam Tej, who is playing the role of cop and will make his screen presence only for 20 minutes. After hearing the story of the movie, Chiranjeevi praised the director and appreciated the content of the movie. Krishna Vamsi is very thrilled as he received appreciation by Megastar. Kajal
Aggarwal and Kannada star Kiccha Sudeep are also playing the role of Cameos. The movie is all about the story of a young man who wants to become a police officer. The music of this upcoming action entertainer drama is scored by Mani Sharma. Earlier both Mani Sharma and Krishna Vamsi have worked together for the movies 'Murari’ and ‘Sashirekha Parinayam’.
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Prabhudeva
shocks Chiranjeevi
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ecently it was reported that Prabhudeva has been roped to choreograph the dance move of Megastar Chiranjeevi for his coming back 150th project, “Khaidi No 150”. It is an official remake of Vijay starrer action entertainer drama “Kaththi”. VV Vinayak is being helmed this megaphone. Chiranjeevi is one of the best dancer of Telugu Film Industry. Despite being busy with his acting and directorial commitments, Prabhudeva became agree to work with Chiranjeevi because both are very close and shares good rapports. According to the latest update, Prabhudeva is going to get Rs 1 Crores as remuneration for choreographing just two songs. Makers are confident that these songs will be highlighted in the movie. Ram Charan is producing this upcoming drama with the association of Lyca Production and it is scheduled to hit the theaters on the occasion of Sankranthi 2017.
BOBBY'S NEXT WITH
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fter delivering disaster movie ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’ starring Power Star Pawan
Kalyan and Kajal Aggarwal, the director KS Ravindra alias Bobby stopped to appear in public events as he was heavily criticized for the way he handled the movie. During the shoot of the movie, number of top actors promised him to act in his directorial venture but after the release of Sardaar Gabbar Singh, no one became agree to team up with young director. Finally Bobby is coming back and getting ready to direct a movie for Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja. Earlier both have worked together for the movie ‘Power’. The story of this upcoming drama will be penned by Kona Venkat and it is heard that it will be big budget movie and will be bankrolled by Chuttalabbayi producer Ram Talluri under the banner of SRT Entertainments. If everything will go accordingly, the movie will go on the floor in September.
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Prince
to flaunt
six pack abs
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ctor Prince Cecil who was last seen in romantic entertainer drama “Nenu Sailaja” starring Ram and Keerthy Suresh, directed by Kishore Tirumala, in which he played the role of actress’s brother is busy in his body make over. He has acted in few decent hit movies like 'Neeku Naaku Dash Dash' and 'Bus Stop’, but struggling in the film industry to get the offers. Now he is planning to shed his lover image and don in mass avatar. Recently Prince shared a video, in which he revealed his toned body and it is heard that he is planning to flaunt six abs for his upcoming drama. Earlier, number of actors tried to impress the audiences by six packs abs. Now it is the turn of Prince. We have to wait and watch, Will his new avatar help him to grab the more offers?
HANSIKA TO ROMANCE
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ecently it was reported that Vishnu Manchu who was last seen in G Nageswara Reddy’s directorial venture, ‘Eedo Rakam Aado Rakam’, joined hands with Raj Kiran of ‘Geetanjali’ and ‘Tripura’ fame, for the upcoming situational comedy entertainer drama. The movie has been titled as ‘Luckkunodu’ and the shoot will be commenced in couple of months. It is heard that actress Hanshika Motawani has been approached for the upcoming drama to play the female lead role. If everything will go accordingly, it will be the third time, when both Vishnu Manchu and Hanshika will share the screen space after 'Denikaina Ready', and 'Pandavulu Pandavulu Thummeda'. Raj Kiran is planning to recreate the same magic for this upcoming comic caper.
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Tarun
is back as lover boy
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ctor Tarun is coming back with his upcoming Telugu movie “Idi Naa Love Story” to entertain the Telugu audiences. It is being directed by Ramesh Gopi. The upcoming romantic entertainer drama is official remake of Kannada movie ‘Simple Agi Ondh Love Story’. The makers have wrapped the entire shoot of the movie except one song. According to the director, the actor's image is as lover boy and he will be shown in a new avatar. Actress Oviya who is well known face for Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam film Industry, is playing the female lead role, in this upcoming flick.
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TAMANNAH to dominate
Anushka in Baahubali 2
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orgeous actress Anushka Shetty who increased her weight for the movie “Size Zero”, is facing lot of problems as she is not able to put off her desirable weight to play the role of Princess for the upcoming historic and war drama “Baahubali:The Conclusion”. Already SS Rajamouli has asked several times to reduce her weight. In Baahubali:The Beginning, she made her screen presence in de glam avatar but in its second installment, she will be seen in royal look as Princess and will perform few action sequences. According to the latest update, Rajamouli has decided to trim the screen presence of Anushka in Baahubali 2. On the other side, he has increased the role of Tamannah Bhatia. Earlier he said that Tamannah will get limited screen space in Baahubali 2 but as the directior is facing troubles because of Anushka’s excess weight, he decided to increase the role of Tamannah. Now she will be seen performing sword fighting once again. The first look poster of the movie will be released on 23rd October on the occasion of Prabhas’s birthday and the movie is scheduled to hit the theaters on 28th April 2017 Worldwide
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TRIVIKRAM
TO TEAM UP WITH
NAGARJUNA?
SHOCKING
RUN TIME OF BAAHUBALI 2
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he talented film maker Trivikram Srinivas is enjoying the success of his recently released directorial venture “A..Aa” starring Nithin and Samantha, the movie has entered in the 50 Cr club. On the other side, King Nagarjuna has delivered back to back successful movies ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’ and ‘Oopiri’ this year and currently he is busy in his upcoming devotional drama “Om Namo Venkateseya”. According to the latest update, both Trivikram and Nagarjuna met in a wedding and Nag asked Trivikram to write the a story for the sequel of ‘Manmadhudu’. Trivikram has given his consent and said to Nag that very soon he would come up with the impressive script. If everything will go accordingly, very soon the combo of Trivikram and Nagarjuna will work together.
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S Rajamouli is busy in the shoot of upcoming climax war episode of historic and war drama “Baahubali:The Conclusion”, which will be continued till the end of this month. After the climax part, the makers will can the talkies part of the movie. Baahubali 2 has an ensemble cast of Rebel star Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannah, Anushka and Ramya Krishna. According to the latest update, the run time of the Baahubali 2 is only 1 hour 45 minutes. Everyone is shocked because the Telugu film makers used to lock the run time of any movie nearly 2 hours 15 minutes. It seems, Rajamouli is following Hollywood theory in Tollywood because most of the Hollywood movies have less than 2 hours run time. He is taking special care regarding its
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run time as he does not want to drag the movie unnecessary. The first look of Baahubali 2 will be released on 23rd October on the occasion of Prabhas’s birthday. The makers are planning to wrap the entire shoot by the end of October and later they will start the post production and VFX work. The movie is scheduled to hit the theaters on 28th April 2017 Worldwide in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi.
YAMUNA MISSED CHANCE TO ACT WITH P CHIRU & BALAYYA opular South Indian Senior actress Yamuna recently interacted with media and revealed several interesting facts about her filmy career. She was introduced in the film industry by Balachandar with a Tamil movie in which she
played the role of Suhasini’s sister and the film maker gave her screen name ‘Yamuna’. She said that she lost the opportunity to share the screen space with Megastar Chiranjeevi and Nandamuri Balakrishna. According to her, for Kodama Simham, the makers wanted to cast her opposite Megastar but finally they roped other actress because they could not get her contact and she missed the chance to act with Chiru due to lack of mobile and PR. She added that NTR also tried to rope her for Balakrishna’s movie but she did not grab the offer due to same reason. Later Kaikala Satyanarayana informed her about it when they were busy in the shoot of ‘Rudra’. In 2011, Yamuna was caught red handed with CEO Nandakumar at ITC Royal Gardenia Hotel in Bangalore but she obtained clean chit on 30th June 2015 as the cop became fail to submit sufficient proofs to prove her charge.
EX CM KUMARASWAMY MEETS PAWAN KALYAN
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ormer Karnataka Chief Minister Kumaraswamy Goud met Power Star and Jana Sena President Pawan Kalyan at his residence in Hyderabad recently. After the meeting Kumaraswamy revealed that Pawan Kalyan had been a good friend of him and the meeting was not related on politics. He said that Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka are alike the brothers and he met Pawan Kalyan to take the blessing for his son Nikhil Kumar who is entering in Telugu Film Industry. On the other side, Pawan Kalyan said that they knew to each other since 2008. Nikhil Kumar is making his debut ‘Jaguar’ in which actress Deepthi is playing the female lead role. It is being directed by A Mahadevana and produced by Smt Anita Kumara Swamy under the banner of Chennambika. It is a bilingual movie being made in Kannada and Telugu.It is heard that Kumaraswamy came to Hyderabad to invite Pawan Kalyan as chief guest for the audio launch of Jaguar .
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Regina’s
Lambadi
look in
NAKSHATRAM
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ecently it was reported that sizzling actress Regina Cassandra is playing the female lead role for the upcoming action entertainer drama “Nakshatram”, under the direction of Krishna Vamsi. The director has revealed her look for this upcoming drama. Regina’s look is classy and she will sport a lambada tribe costume. It is not yet decided whether she will be seen in this look just for a song or for the whole movie. Actor Sundeep Kishan is playing the lead role and will don in cop avatar. Gorgeous actress Kajal Aggarwal, Kannada star Sudeep, Sai Dharam Tej, Kanche fame actress Pragya Jaiswal are playing the role of cameos. On the other side, Regina is making her Bollywood debut ‘Aankhen 2’, under the direction of Anees Bazmee starring Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor and Arshad Warsi.
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LOVE BIRDS KISSES ON WEDDING DIAS
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he love birds of Tollywood film industry, Varun Sandesh and Vithika Sheru got married in a grand ceremony recently. It was two days affair including mehendi, sangeet, pelli koothuru ceremony and reception. Varun Sandesh was very excited during his wedding and he kissed on the forehead of his loving bride Vithika Publicly on the wedding dias. It is very rare in Hindu tradition that a bride groom kisses to his bride publicly but Varun did it without any shyness. The guest were stunned and clapped. Both Varun and Vithika fell in the love during the shoot of ‘Paddanandi Premalo Mari’ and after dating one year, the love birds took the consent of their parents and finally tied knot.
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oung actor Dhanraj started his career as comedian in Telugu Film industry and later turned into producer and finally became an actor. According to the latest update, he has attained Ramana Reddy award. Ramana Reddy was a legendary comedian, character actor, and producer, and both Ramana and Dhanraj resemblance each other as both are tall and slim. The award is presented by Kala Nilayam Samskruthika Sangha Seva Samstha with the support of Vamsi Relangi Art Academy. On the occasion of Padmanabham , Padmasri Relangi and Ramana Reddy’s birthday, Kala Nilayam arranged the program Haasyotsavam and presented the Ramana Reddy Excellency award to actor Dhanraj. On the other side, Shankar and Venu also received Padmanabham Excellency and Relangi Excellency awards respectively
SHARWANAND
BECOMES COSTLY
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oung and energetic actor Sharwanand
who is basking on the glory of successful movies 'Run Raja Run', 'Malli Malli Idhi Raani Roju' and 'Express Raja', has become very costly for Telugu film makers. Recently Sharwa joined hands with talented film maker Chandra Mohan Chitanda for the upcoming drama in which he will be seen in the role of Powerful Cop and will don in Khakhi avatar. It is an action and comedy entertainer drama. Actress Lavanya Tripathi is playing the female lead role. According to the latest update, Sharwanand will be getting more remuneration for his upcoming projects to his earlier movies as he will get Rs 1 Crores along the overseas rights which cost will be around Rs 1.6 Crores and in this manner, the actor will get Rs 2.6 Crores total for the movie. B.V. S. N Prasad is bankrolling this upcoming flick.
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RAMANA REDDY AWARD FOR
DHANRAJ
TAMANNAH’S spicy naval
TREAT FOR NORTH B aahubali actress Tamannah Bhatia has delighted the audiences with her stunning look and ultra sexy body and now her spicy naval treat for noodles ad, is going viral and creating lot of sensation. Tamannah is sharing the screen space with Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh for the commercial ad titled ‘Ranveer Ching’. The ad film is about five minute long and will take the promotions to the new level. The aim of this ad is the publicity of Chinese noodles which are being launched in Indian market. Bollywood filmmaker Rohit Shetty, joined hands with actor Ranveer Singh and Tamannah for the ad-film. Tamannah has given a tempting treat of her spicy navel and the audiences are shocked after watching her hot avatar in this ad. Her costumes are designed is such a manner that reveal her toned body and giving an ample view of her desirable assets. The spicy naval treat by Tamannah is not new for Telugu audiences, but North Indian audiences got stunned.
ALLU ARJUN
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tylish Star Allu Arjun, who is commonly known as Mallu Arjun by Malayalam Movie lovers, received Pravasa Ratna Puraskaram (PRP) award in Dubai for his work and contribution in Film Industry. No he has created the record in Tollywood as he has become the first Telugu star of the Present generation who received this prestigious award for his contribution in the neighbouring film Industry. Bunny shared that picture and thanked to all his fans. He tweeted,” Thank you Malayali's of Dubai for honouring me " PRAVASI RATNA PURASKARAM " Truly Honoured !” Currently
RECEIVING PRP
Allu Arjun is basking on the glory of his recently released blockbuster movie “Sarrainodu” and getting ready to join the set of ‘Gabbar Singh’ fame director Harish Shanker, which will go on the floor very soon.
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arlier Power Star Pawan Kalyan teamed up with Victory Venkatesh for the movie “Gopala Gopala”, directed by Dolly and it was turned out hit at the box office. Now once again both are going to work together for upcoming multistarrer movie. It has been confirmed that Pawan’s upcoming drama will be multistarrer, which is going to be directed by talented film maker Trivikram Srinivas and Venkatesh is going to share the screen space with Pawan. It will go on the floor in November. Currently Trivikram is busy in the script work and he want to see Pawan and Venky together on big screen. Venky is popular for his comedy timing and Pawan is best for heroism. The upcoming comedy and action entertainer movie with Venkatesh and Pawan in the style of Trivikram will be a good feast for movie lovers and Pawan’s fans.
PAWAN & VENKY
IN TRIVIKRAM’S NEXT
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TAPSEE
saves a girl in
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orgeous diva Tapsee Paanu is playing the role of fierce and confident girl in her upcoming drama “Pink”, in which Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is playing the lead role. She revealed an incident of her real life. According to her, when she was busy in the shoot of the movie in Delhi and was travelling in her car, she saw that few boys were passing comments and making weird sounds at the girl, she was alone. Finally the actress intervened immediately, glared the boys and escorted the girl to her home. She said that now days, every girl is eve teased, mocked or becomes the target to nasty comments by the boys. She added that we should punch such type of people, stop shying and stand up against such things. The movie 'Pink' is the story of three girls, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Tariang, who are molested by Rajveer, role played by Angad Bedi but are instead charged of assault for attacking the molester. The movie is directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, and produced by Rashmi Sharma and Shoojit Sircar under the banner of Rashmi Sharma Films and Rising Sun Films. It is set to hit the theaters on 16th September 2016.
SHRADDHA DAS
INRAJASEKHAR'S NEXT
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engali beauty Shraddha Das, who has delighted the audiences with her recently released adult comedy movie ‘Guntur Talkies’ directed by national award winning director Praveen Sattaru, in which she played the role of Revolver Rani, has signed next upcoming action entertainer drama. It is heard that director Praveen Sattaru is very impressed with her performance and approached her for his upcoming untitled directorial venture in which she will play the role of Journalist. Actor Rajasekhar will play the lead role and will don in cop avatar. ‘Vishwaroopam’ fame actress, producer, model and TV hostess Pooja Kumar is playing the female lead role. The movie will go on the in September.
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CATHERINE TRESA
DESIRE TO WORK
WITH RAJAMOULI S izzling diva Catherine Tresa who has impressed the audiences by the role of young MLA with the recently released blockbuster movie ‘Sarrainodu’ starring Stylish star Allu Arjun, revealed that she would like to work with ace director SS Rajamouli as she is very impressed with the creative work on the director and said that if she would get the offer to act under his direction, she would not leave the opportunity at any cost. When she was asked about her entry in Bollywood, she said that she was happy in Tollywood. She also revealed that she has signed two upcoming movies in Telugu, one under the direction of Sampath Nanadi in which she will share the screen space with Gopichand and another movie under the direction of Teja starring Rana Daggubati and Kajal Aggarwal.
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Shruti H a s s a n ' s item number IN JAGUAR?
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he hot diva of South Indian Film Industry, Shruti Hassan has been approached for the upcoming movie ‘Jaguar’ for a seductive number. It is not the first time when she is going to shake legs on any item number, earlier for Mahesh Babu starrer ‘Aagadu’, she shook legs and received mixed responses and now once again, she is getting ready for a racy item number. It is a bilingual movie, being made in Telugu and Kannada. Actor Nikhil Kumar, the Son of former Karnataka Chief Minister H.D Kumara Swamy and Grandson of Former Prime Minister Deve Gouda, is playing the lead role. The upcoming action entertainer drama is being directed by A Mahadev and produced by Anita Kumara Swamy under the banner of Chennambika. Actress Deepthi is playing the female lead role whereas Baahubali actress Ramya Krishna is playing the crucial role. Recently the makers revealed that they are planning to erect lavish set for the shoot of item number and added that if Shruti will sign the project, it will be one of the best dance number of her career. Now we have to wait and watch whether Shruti Hassan will accept the offer or not.