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‘Airlift’ features Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur in lead roles. Raja Krishna Menon shapes the project. This is one of the most expected movies and it is scheduled for a release on January 22nd 2016. The movie is based on biggest evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during Iraq – Kuwait war. The supporting cast features actors like Lena and Purab Kohli. The supporting cast features actors like Lena and Purab Kohli. Bhushan Kumar, Nikhil Advani and Aruna Bhatia produces this as a joint venture. Priya Seth cranks the camera and Ankit Tiwari scores tunes.

As the trailer was released, it was compared with Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’. But Akshay Kumar has requested fans not to compare. He has made a statement that the story is Original and non-fictional. He also said that Argo is also a covert operation to rescue Americans from Iran hostage crisis. It is a small scale operation which was made specific to do so. But Airlift is something larger and we have collected lots of facts. Social media however continues the comparison.

‘Bajirao Mastani’ is one of the periodic movies which is made on a lavish scale. The movie is produced and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The movie is about the Maratha warrior – Peshwa (Prime Minister) Baji Rao I of the Maratha Empire and his second wife Mastani. Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone will be doing lead roles. Priyanka Chopra does a crucial role of being Bajirao’s first spouse Kashibai. The movie is releasing by 18th of next month. Tanvi Azmi, Vaibhav Tatwawdi, Milind Soman, Ayush Tandon and Sanjay Mishra are part of the cast

The team recently released two posters and they got some good response. Ranveer Singh released those posters. One of the poster showcased Ranveer as a warrior in a battle field. He was seen with a furious face. He has a blooded sword in his hands. Other poster showed him and Deepika in a romantic water droplets back ground. The second female lead Priyanka Chopra who does role of Kashi Bhai is missing from the two posters. When Ranveer was asked he said, “We are saving the best for the last and Priyanka is our best.”

With a riveting trailer, eccentric genius Ram Gopal Varma once again showed promise of his grand comeback to his earlier form with Killing Veerappan. This most ambitious film among RGV’s recent films stars Kannada superstar Shivarajkumar in the main lead where he plays a special task force officer.

Killing Veerappan chronicles the country’s biggest manhunt in which special forces of two stars were involved in a hunt to nab the notorious Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan. The film is a hotcake in the trade circles and this made the producers strike a huge deal for satellite rights.

As per the inside buzz, Killing Veerappan has struck a whopping deal for Rs. 3.50 crores for its satellite rights with a popular entertainment channel. Even the Yehudi audiences are very well aware of the dangerous legends of Veerappan and his brutal killings of policemen. Killing Veerappan is releasing in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi on the 4th December.

Naseeruddin shah, one of Bollywoods greatest performer would be soon assaying the role of India’s greatest pride and Noble Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The movie would be directed by Pablo Cesar from Argentina based on a novel “Victoria Ocampo”. Pablo announced this in one of Goa’s film festivals where he was invited to take a Master class and said only Naseeruddin shah can do justice to the role of Tagore.

Both Pablo Cesar and the author of the book are great fans of Rabindranath Tagore. The author of the book even visited Shantiniketan and has written many books on Rabindranath Tagore and his teachings.

The filim is majorly based on the author’s book of essays -Tagore On The Banks Of The River Plata and another book, Tagore En Las Barrancas de San Isidro’ (Tagore On The Ravines Of San Isidro). The movie would be shot in Shantiniketan and Argentina. It is expected to have a lot of specialties. The movie would be set in 1924 when Tagore was 63.

The present day scenes would be shot in colour while the flash back in black and white. Also Pablo shoots his movies on 35mm unlike the 70mm that’s a norm. He says its more aesthetic in its appeal. The film would be titled “Thinking of Him” and would be released in 2016.

Ram Gopal Varma who is known for making technically high standard films stopped doing that long time back. Instead he started deriving pleasure on hogging in the media limelight by making heated and controversial comments on celebrities in all walks of life or responding to current happenings across the world. RGV who till recently used to target only Tollywood stars and politicians upped the ante and started attacking even national and international stars. This time he teared into intolerant Khans. It is known that intolerant debate is generating lot of heat dividing political, film and cultural class vertically for and against. Many celebrities even returned back the awards alleging that India became intolerant. Bollywood stars Sharukh Khan earlier made the same comments and yesterday Amir Khan came with similar comments attracting the anger of others. RGV sharing his views exploded on all the three khans. Here are his tweet bombs.

If Aamir,Sharuk and Salman the three biggest stars of the Hindu country “India” are Muslims, I don’t understand where intolerance is ? In a predominantly Hindu country,if 3 Muslims can become the biggest iconic super stars that itself proves the majority aren’t intolerant Some celebs complaining about Intolerance should be the last ones to complain becos they became celebs in a so called intolerant country Isolated incidents cant be taken as sign of intolerance and the super stardom of 3 Muslims is proof enough of the vast majority’s tolerance. It is known that for the past 20 days or so many celebrities started shouting from the roof tops that India became an intolerant nation under PM Modi’s rule and many even returned their awards.

From writing, Kona Venkat has become a producer and the directorial-supervision now. His name went on to become a brand in Tollywood now. This brand used to associate with another brand, Sreenu Vytla, sometime back, but now the relationship got strained.

Talking about Bruce Lee, Kona spoke openly about it while promoting his latest movie “Shankarabaranam”. “Me and Sreenu garu are not on good terms now. But that doesn’t mean I’m taking legal action on him. After being associated for long, differences do arise, but that doesn’t mean going to courts. Media created some unnecessary controversies” feels Kona.

Also he stated that their relation got strained at the moment after he got more upset with Sreenu post Bruce Lee. “I’ve written 72 scenes. There is no need for any director to use all those scenes. But after titling my name as Story Writer, and if my scenes are used, what happens to our brand?”, he questioned.

Anyway, Kona Venkat hinted that for now he’s busy with various commitments in film industry in various capacities but haven’t ruled out reuniting with Vytla yet again. So, for any relation in film industry, conditions do apply!!

During the devastating cyclone Hudhud that has hit Vizag quite harder, Tamil celebrities like Surya and Rajnikanth have come forward to donate whatever financially the could.

There was a staunch criticism at that time, that some star tamil heroes and heroines who depend heavily on Telugu market are not even responding. Anyway, responding for a help during crisis situation is utter personal thing but still celebs has to take responsibility to inspire others.

Right now, Chennai city and its suburbans are affected with the cyclone heavily. Tamil heroes like Surya and Danush have donated money to Tamilnadu CM Relief Fund through their Nadigar Sangam. Looking at the water logged streets of Chennai, the question that arises in the minds of Telugu audiences is, whether any Telugu hero or heroine are going there to help Chennai victims?

Anyway, as some Tollywood heroes like Ram Charan and others responded when Nepal was hit with earthquake, maybe they will take some more time to respond on Chennai calamity. Though there are no heavy deaths in Chennai, some help for people is required.