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Heroine Samantha started her Telugu career with a bang as her ‘saree’ acts in Ye Maya Chesave clicked instantly. Never she repeated that act however, as she tried to look very glamorous from her next film onwards. Despite stunning with her performances, she’s a spicy siren who scorches the screen with her charms.

Suddenly this hot Chennai girl took a simple girl route from her regular glamorous path. In upcoming films like Thangamagan and 24 in Tamil, and A..Aa in Telugu, Samantha will be seen sporting that girl-next-door look throughout the films.

She might go glamorous for songs, but her look in the scenes will be as simple as it could be. Probably she wants to break the monotony that she’s depending only on glamorous outfits all the time, but not these simple looks.

Anyway, she’s the most sought after siren at the moment in both Tollywood and Kollywood at the moment with some interesting flicks in her hand. After A..Aa, Sam will join Brahmotsavam sets, while Jr NTR Korata Siva film probably.

Following the phenomenal success of Srimanthudu, Superstar Mahesh Babu has become the most craziest actor in Tollywood. This craze has in turn resulted in the hike of Mahesh’s paychecks for the biggies he signe like Brahmotsavam and AR Murugadoss’ film. Not stopping with the remuneration, this craze further seeped into Brahmotsavam satellite rights.

As per the inside buzz, the competition to grab Brahmotsavam satellite rights has intensified, with channels offering shockingly exorbitant prices to strike the deal. A source reveals to us that Brahmotsavam satellite deal has touched a humongous 20 crore, second highest in Tollywood after Baahubali.

Mahesh has an unbeatable admiration society among the family audiences who have been loyal viewers of his family entertainers like Athadu, Dookudu, SVSC and recently Srimanthudu, which got a staggering 21.4 TRPs for its world TV premiere.

With Brahmotsavam being a wholesome family entertainer, this record satellite deal is only justified and the channel will recover its investment without sweat if the film manages to get hit talk.

The petition for divorce between actress Karisma Kapoor and her husband Sunjay Kapur on grounds of mutual consent has been disposed of. The family court judge, I J Nanda, disposed of the petition on Friday, after the couple had filed applications to withdraw their consent to it. Asked if they will stay together henceforth, Sunjay’s lawyer Narayan Suvarna said, “That is up to my client, I have no idea about it.” Either party can now file a fresh divorce case on other grounds available with them. Karisma’s lawyer Kranti Sathe said, “The petition for divorce on the grounds of mutual consent stands disposed as it was withdrawn by both the parties. Now there is nothing in court. We had filed the application to withdraw her consent to the petition because there was absolutely no intention or desire to fulfill any of the financial obligations. They were only for the children and he chose not to do it.”

As per the court’s orders, Sunjay was supposed to meet certain financial commitments within a period of six months from the time of signing the consent papers. However, he allegedly took no initiative. Sunjay’s lawyer Suvarna added, “The court has accepted the applications to withdraw the consent and has disposed of the matter as there was no compliance from both the sides. The divorce has not been granted and so they will be husband and wife.” The couple got married in 2003 and have two children, daughter Samaira and son Kiaan Raj.

Hailed as India’s biggest motion picture, SS Rajamouli’s epic socio-fantasy film Baahubali also earned the recognition as India’s biggest box-office success by grossing more than 600 crores at the box-offices worldwide. The film also won critics’ applause in India and abroad and has also been premiering at several international film festivals.

However, even after winning international acclaim, Baahubali was not honored by our own Indian government.

While many thought that Baahubali’s selection in the Indian Panorama section in the just concluded International Film Festival of India in Goa organized by the union government is confirmed, Tollywood was in for a huge shock as the jury decided not to select Baahubali for IFFI Goa.

Deeply upset with this, several producers at the Telugu Film Producer’s Council have reportedly written a letter of dissent to the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitely alleging that centre is neglecting Telugu Cinema.

However, the ministry has not responded to the producers’ complaint until now. In the past too, several Tollywood filmmakers alleged bias and regional prejudice against Telugu films by the central awards committees for national film awards.

Trisha is one actress who has worked with a lot of big actors in Telugu and Tamil. She worked with the likes of Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh in Telugu along with younger generation actors like Prabhas, NTR, Mahesh and Pawan. Having with all superstars in Tamil, Trisha says she has one dream and that is to work with Rajinikanth.

Though she was offered Rana in the past, the film did not happen and she says she wants to work Rajinikanth soon. After making some efforts to get married, Trisha is back to work and she says she wants to do a film with Rajini before going off. Well, Rajini might consider her for a role in Shakar’s Robo 2.

Pragya Jaiswal who got a break with Varun Tej’s Kanche, got one more chance in Tollywood. The actress will be playing the main lead in the film while Premam fame Anupama Parameshwaran will be seen as the other heroine.

Now that the female leads are confirmed, the makers will very soon begin the regular shoot. They are planning to shoot the film continuously until it is complete. Plans are on to release the movie in Summer-2016. Yevado Okadu will have Shyam playing the main villain.

Shyam and Raviteja’s combination is a big hit back then in Kick and now this new combination will excite the audience. Devi Sri Prasad will be composing music for Raviteja after several years. Dil Raju will be producing the movie under his Sri Venkateswara Creations banner.

‘Bajirao Mastani,’ the much touted historical film made by Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Maratha Kingdom’s Pesha backdrop starring Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra is all set for gigantic release on December 18th. Lured by the ever growing market range for Telugu films as witnessed in the cases of ‘Rudhramadevi, Bahubali’ falling into this similar genre, now Bhansali team has decided to release ‘Bajirao Mastani’ Telugu version coinciding with the Hindi.

Epic dramas and fantasy added historical stories have a strong market span in South India. ‘I have been yearning to tell this story for Indian and world audience. I am very glad because viewers in South will also get to watch the film in Telugu and Tamil languages,’ a statement from happy Bhansali.

While Madhan Karky, who penned dialogues for Tamil version of ‘Bhaubali’ and man behind discovering the Kilki language used on Kalakeya is managing the Tamil version ‘Bajirao Mastani’ dialogues and Rama Jogayya Shastri is going forward with Telugu version. Last Hindi film ‘Prem Ratan Dha Payo’ from Salman is also dubbed into Telugu as ‘Prema Leela.’

Naga Chaitanya’s next project, Majnu began with a formal Pooja this morning. The movie unit attended the launch event at Rama Naidu Studios. The regular shooting will begin from December 3rd in Vishakapatnam.

Majnu is the remake of very successful Malayalam film, Premam. The makers are planning to shoot the film non-stop and will be releasing it in June/July. Shruti Hassan, Anupama Parameshwaran and Aisha Sharma are the heroines.

Karthikeya fame Chandoo Mondeti is directing the film. The film will be extensively shot in the exotic locales of Visakhapatnam, Rajahmundry, Goa, Europe, Pollachi and Araku. Rumours say Nagarjuna and Venkatesh will be seen in cameo roles in the film.

As of now, Raviteja pinned lots of hopes on upcoming release ‘Bengal Tiger.’ Director Sampat Nandi and producer Radha Mohan are sitting pretty comfortable oozing in confidence about having a blockbuster hit product in their hands. In fact, Mass Maharaja’s future course of script and project selection lies in the result of ‘Bengal Tiger’ because his last film ‘Kick 2’ fared very badly and a hit is what he urgently needs.

Meanwhile, ‘Swamy Rara’ fame Sudheer Varma is also heard to have approached Ravi with a slick heist-action entertainer which is impressive. The hero of masses has already signed ‘Yevado Okkadu’ in direction of Venu Sreeram which already took-off. So, all it depends on ‘Bengal Tiger’ which can impart much needed momentum to his career.

Close sources reveal that, Sudheer Varma sketched a characterization that is never played on Raviteja till now. However, there is also a shade of experimentation in it which is keeping the hero in dual minds. Of course, everything can appear positive and promising after ‘Bengal Tiger’ release because there is no magic which can match the kick in winning! Those directors who understood Raviteja image to core have succeeded easily at Box Office. Sampat too is ready for joining the list.

“At the moment I’m thinking only about Baahubali 2, and I may chalk some plans for third sequel of the film. Garuda and Mahbharata, and 1000 crores budgets, are all just rumours. Media cooked all those stories, I’ve not thought anything about such films”, said SS Rajamouli, the other day.

As the news of Mohanlal acting in Rajamouli’s 1000 crores project “Garuda” has picked steam, Malayali media is very keen to know more details about it. The other day Rajamouli was in Trivandrum to attend the wedding of a close friend’s daughter and and also to attend an event organised by Kerala Tourism to promote wedding and film tourism in the state.

He spoke to media then. He denied roping Mohanlal for any film, not just this rumoured Garuda. Actually after Student No.1, Rajamouli was supposed to work with Mohanlal, a mythological project was started and then shelved mid-way.

Anyway, the master craftsmen has given clarity to his fans that only Baahubali 2 is on his mind at the moment and termed all other rumours as just rumours.

The brief stint of Kriti Kharbhanda in Tollywood has got the highs in form of Pawan Kalyan ‘Teen Maar,’ Ram ‘Ongole Gitta’ and off late Kriti even acted as elder sister to Ramcharan in failure project ‘Bruce Lee.’ But, her fortunes appear to be very bright because Bollywood is calling her for a prestigious film and that too from Bhatt family.

Yes, Kriti is on cloud nine signing ‘Raaz Reboot’ for Mukesh Bhatt and her work experience for next two months from January are going to be special. ‘I expected a lot of drama to happen abot my first Hindi outing but everything happened so suddenly. Though, I met Mukesh Bhatt for some other film, I got the chance to join their latest version of ‘Raaz.’

As the film is in horror genre, initially I had my own share of apprehensions. As soon as they narrated me the story, I felt myself to fit perfectly in the bill. Good thing is Bhatt family wanted only me into the character. This is a role with grey shades and I am still overwhelmed speaking to Bhatt family members,’ Kriti informed media friends without divulging much details about the role.

A couple of months ago post the phenomenal success of Baahubali, Tollywood’s macho hunk Rana Daggubati said that he would never act with Superstar Mahesh Babu in a multistarrer. While the motive behind Rana’s striking statement were unknown, he did disappoint many of Maheh’s fans. Many doubted if all was well between the Ghattamanenis and the Daggubati.

However, what happened at the audio launch event of Mahesh’s brother-in-law Sudheer Babu’s latest film Bhale Manchi Roju would erase all the negative vibes around both the stars. Mahesh was the chief guest at the audio launch event in which Rana was also invited. Straight upon his arrival at the event, Rana first hugged Sudheer and exchanged pleasantries.

What Rana did moments later pleasantly surprised everyone. Rana then greeted Mahesh and almost touched his feet as a gesture of seeking his blessings. Well, Rana was indeed joking with his gesture and so was Mahesh, who broke into laughter with Rana’s act. Needless to say, this clears all the air about the ‘differences’ rumors.