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Back to back flops have hit hero Ram very harder. Including the failure of his latest film Sivam, he has to save a blockbuster in his credit very soon. Instead of that saving, guess what our hero is doing.

Currently this young dynamic hero has become saviour for couple of director if reports are anything to go by. Director Santosh Srinivas (Rabhasa fame) has earlier delivered stupendous hit with Kandireega, which happens to be his debut film.

Post the failure of Jr NTR’s movie, this director is sitting idle and we hear he got a chance to direct Ram again. Tentatively titled ‘Tikkaregithey’, this film will be launched on Sankranthi eve if all goes well.

At the same time, Ram is also mulling over the idea of working with Sreenu Vytla yet again. This due have earlier delivered super hit ‘Ready’, but never worked again. Disastrous Aagadu and disappointing Bruce Lee haven’t given Vytla much big choices than ‘saviour’ Ram.

Superstar Rajinikanth’s next film, Kabali is nearing the completion of its shoot. The movie unit recently completed a major schedule in Malaysia. The last schedule of the movie will kick-start in Chennai from December first week. The makers are planning to release the movie for Pongal 2016.

Radhika Apte is the female lead in the film. Rajinikanth will be seen in the role of an aging gangster in the movie. Ranjith Pa is wielding megaphone for the movie. The film is likely to hit the screens in April next year.

Santosh Narayanan will compose tunes for the movie which will be produced by Kailaipuli S Thanu. Superstar Rajinikanth is just like a wounded lion after that back to back failures with Kochadaiiyaan and Linga.

The actor is raring to go. After the completion of Kabali, Rajinikanth will begin the shooting of Robot-2 in the direction of Shankar. The movie is likely to have its launch on Rajinikanth’s Birthday.

Anushka is back and is promoting her upcoming release Size Zero right now. Though the promotions were started a couple of months back, it had to be postponed to make way for Rudramadevi. Now, the latest buzz in Film Nagar is that Anushka has done Size Zero to compensate the heavy losses the producers incurred after making big budget films like Varna, which had Anushka and Arya in the lead.

The movie was a disaster both in Telugu and Tamil and the production company PVP Cinema had a fallout with its director, Sri Raghava. But Anushka and Arya reportedly agreed to do another movie for the same company as compensation, say sources. PVP wanted the movie to release much before Rudhramadevi but Anushka didn’t accept his plan and opposed his strategy saying she will not promote the film, unless they made way for Rudramadevi. The reason why they obliged is because she did a film for them in return says a source from PVP’s production house.

The dream project of star director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Bajirao Mastani, a warrior’s love story based on life of 1700’s Maratha Peshwa (Prime Minister) Bajiroa and his second wife Masthani has been in continuous strife of late. First a open letter to Bhansali from one of Bajirao’s descendants about the flaws in ‘Pinga ga Pori’ song was in news.

The letter stated that it was misleading the history and that Nauvari saree of the royals is never worn the way Deepika or Priyanka have wore it (Skin show) in the Song and that Kashi Bhai never danced nor could dance as she was effected with Tuberculosis. Latest on the list is ‘Ban the Movie Bajirao Mathani’ page on Facebook being hosted by historians complaining that Bajirao Masthani is a Jinxed story and not based on facts.

This page already has 1800+ likes and is asking for more people to support the page and help them force the ban. The page description reads ‘This movie is purely insulting the glorious History of Shri Bajirao Peshwa. Lets not forget his valor. Lets work together to halt misrepresentation. ‘ it’s fast gaining popularity on facebook turning a headache to Bhansali Sahab. The movie is slated for release on 18 December.

Akhil overseas distribution rights were bought for four crore by the buyers that expected the film to be a huge blockbuster. Akhil turned out to be a nightmare to them on many levels. The film was released in more than 120 screens across US but it only managed to collect around 170K dollars. Distributors have spent so much on the publicity and theater rents that they had to pay additional amount to that of gross collected from the theaters. The expenditure on the movie publicity and theater rents cost extra 10 lakhs more than the share collected at the box office. This means Akhil distributor’s share in overseas is minus 10 lakh rupees!

This will go down as epic disaster for not even collecting single NP share from the box office in spite of the buyers bet of 4 crore on it! Akhil has turned out to be disastrous for every buyer that invested in it. Overseas buyers were left shell shocked with its performance and it is believed that Nagarjuna gave assurance to them by offering his next movies for fairly less amount than the market price.

Busy with back-to-back promotions, busy bee Anushka Shetty is going to join Baahubali: The Conclusion from December. After this, Anushka will be acting in Singham 3 which in turn is also a sequel. “My first priority is Baahubali sequel. I have to shed weight and join the shoot. The shoot was supposed to happen before. But Baahubali team is concerned about me, my health and deferred the shoot,” said

Anushka gained 20 kilos for her role in Size Zero. Doesn’t she feel risky? “I did proper research before gaining weight. All I did is for my role, my film.”

Industry big wigs have been heaping praises on Anushka these days and calling her as Vidya Balan of Telugu film industry. How does she take them? “It’s good to hear about such comments. Vidya Balan is a talented actress. But I’m not positioning myself as her. In fact, I won’t strategise or plan my career, things. They just happen. I choose best films that come my way,” shared Anushka.

Ask her what’s happening on her personal front. The big question is when she is going to tie the knot. Is wedding on cards? Will it be arranged or love marriage? “I don’t know when my marriage is. I don’t plan things at all. Because, life is not in our hands.

As of now, I’m occupied with films. My head is full with them that I can’t think anything else. When I don’t know when it’s going to happen, how can I say whether it’s love or arranged marriage?”On parting note, Anushka said that everyone in the film Size Zero worked hard for the film and asked audiences to watch the movie in theatres only.

Mumbai: After her sizzling smooch scene with her fellow FBI trainee and flaunting her perfectly structured body in a swim suit in her Hollywood show ‘Quantico’, Priyanka Chopra’s hotness quotient in the show has now touched another level. It’s not wrong to say that things are turning spicier as the show progresses.

In the Pilot episode of ‘Quantico’, we saw Priyanka locking lips with her co-star Jake McLaughlin, who plays the character of Ryan Booth and now in episode ‘Found’, things have moved further ahead between Alex and Ryan. If you thought the ending scene of the episode was absolutely hot then you aren’t even prepared for what’s next.

So now with this super hot visual chunk making its way to small screen now it will be intresting to see that what Priyanka has in her sleeves to bowl over her admirers.Now you can either call it her professionalism or her ability to slip under the skin of her character, but by this recent act of PC one more thing gets proved and that is “be it any arena of showbiz, Priyanka knows how to create stirr in it”.

In a highly appreciable feat, the sultry Punjabi beauty Rakul Preet Singh is all set to wow her fans by dubbing her own voice in Telugu in her upcoming film Nannaku Prematho. Apparently, Sukumar was quite impressed with Rakul’s determination to learn and speak Telugu and encouraged her to dub for herself in Nannaku Prematho.

Sukumar sir kept telling me “you can do it”, blushed the actress. Rakul impressed the director with her test dubbing and she has already started dubbing for her scenes in the film. In Nannaku Prematho, Rakul plays a London-based Telugu girl so her language will suit her Telugu diction.

However, Rakul says she has to be extremely cautious while dubbing for her part since talking and dubbing are entirely different. Rakul’s challenge is to maintain good diction while dubbing. Rakul already feels at home shooting for Telugu films in Hyderabad and revealed that she instructed her staff to speak  to her only in Telugu, revealing how she mastered the language.

Big eyed beauty Kajal Agarwal is known for her typical love towards remunerations. There were times where she signed a movie only when the pay packet is nearly 2 crores. Is there any connection between this demand and her desires?

“During my college days, my mom used to give me 3000 rupees for a month, but I used to spend it in a week. As my mom refused to give a penny more than that, I’ve learned to save money for total of 4 weeks rather spending it in a week.

Even today I do follow that middle class mentality when it comes to saving money and spending wisely”, said Kajal, in a print media interview. What surprises us is, which ‘middle class’ family will give 3000 rupees as a pocket money for a month?

Anyway, probably the said ‘middle class’ mentality is coming into scene whenever Kajal wants to sign a movie. That’s why she’s asking for more so that she could save for the future.

Young Tiger NTR’s Nannaku Prematho is turning out to be a wholesome package for fans. The latest add-on for this wholesome package is that music director Devi Sri Prasad had revealed that he is trying to make the Young Tiger a song in the film.

NTR is a very good singer. Previously he had rendered chartbuster songs in in films like Yamadonga, Kantri, Adhurs and Rabhasa. However this will be possible only if the time permits in this busy schedule.

The makers are targeting to complete the entire shoot will be completed by December third week and the audio launch event will happen after the Spain schedule. Nannaku Prematho will release on January 8th or 13th but that will depend on the release date of Dictator.

Rajamouli’s mega-budgeted Baahubali 2 is yet to go to the film locations but one of the producers claims that the movie would hit the screens in 2016 as promised earlier. He says that it would release towards the end of 2016. But sources close to the directorial team confirm that the movie can only release in 2017, not next year as too much of work is initiated for the sequel in fresh manner. The shooting schedules of the movie might be completed next year but the film would not be released in 2016, the source adds.

It is not known why the producer is telling the national media that it would release next year but going by the past experiences regarding Rajamouli’s movies, the director always postpones his movies by at least 6 months from the first announced release date.

There is also no clarity about the addition of new cast members to the movie though Rajamouli made it clear that the script and screenplay was changed and expanded further after the mammoth success of the beginning of Baahubali.