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CBN’s health causing worry

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TDP senior leader Garikapati Ramamohan Rao has said the condition of party chief Chandrababu Naidu was causing worry to all of them.

Speaking to the media here on Friday, Garikapati said the injury to Naidu’s leg had relapsed and he has been suffering from back pain since two days. He said though doctors advised him to stop his yatra, he was refusing to listen to them.

Stating that they also had requested him to stop the Yatra as his leg has swollen, Ramamohan Rao said he was not listening even to them. He told the media that they had informed his family members about his condition.

“Mother snake, baby snake”

Meanwhile, Naidu continued his ‘Vastunna Meekosam’ Padayatra for the fifth day in Krishna district on Friday. Though several leaders met him and urged that he stop the Yatra, Naidu said he was touring the State to know the problems of the people and would not stop. He said he would walk slowly as his leg was paining.

Addressing the people, he described the Congress as the mother snake and the YSR Congress as its offspring, the baby snake. He cautioned the people to beware of their venom. He also said all good men should join hands as thieves had grouped together. He said only when all the good people join hands, they would be able to teach a lesson to the thieves. He has alleged that Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was supporting the corrupt and left the administration to the winds.

Congress becomes ‘Sinking Ship’

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The ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh seems to be steadily becoming a sinking ship as a solution to Telangana continues to remain elusive and the frustrated and panicked party leaders are getting ready to jump out of the ship.

However, despite Union Minister and AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad dampening the spirits of separatists over the likely delay in taking a firm decision on Telangana statehood, there seems to be still a flicker of hope among the Congress leaders from the region that the issue would be resolved during the next 48 hours.

There is no denial of the fact that while Azad’s remark over the deadline on T had come as a rude shock to the Congress leaders from the region, it had definitely brought a big relief to the people in the Seemandhra region. However, leaders from both the regions are not leaving the matter to chance and hence continuing their efforts to mount pressure on the Central leaders by staying put in the national capital to ensure that the State is either bifurcated or retain its status quo.

It is pertinent to mention here that as the Congress High Command continued to dilly dally in taking a firm stand either to bifurcate or retain its present status, Congress leaders, especially from the Telangana region, have been hunting for safer decks to save their political career.

Komatireddy meets KCR

The very fact that a former minister and Congress MLA from Nalgonda district Komatireddy Venkatreddy this morning called on TRS president K.. Chandrasekhara Rao triggering off speculations that he might jump into the pink party. It is also rumored that his brother and Lok Sabha member Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy is also waiting for an opportunity to defect to the TRS.

As a matter of fact, the Telangana Congress MPs, who held a meeting in the residence of Manda Jagannatham, in the national capital, decided to wait till January 28, the deadline set by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde to resolve the T crisis, and then take drastic measures to achieve their goal.

Expressing their strong protest over Azad’s comment about possible delay in taking a final decision on T statehood, the T MPs felt that the statement made by the AICC General Secretary only harmed the interests of the party in the State. They also accused the Seemandhra leaders of putting spokes in resolving the crisis. The Congress leaders, especially the MPs from the region, are calling on TRS Chief KCR to chalk out plans to achieve their goal. However, they made it clear that they would not join TRS for the moment.

The T Congress MPs further said that once the Central leadership makes its stance clear either to carve out a Telangana State or retain the present status, then they would all sit together and chalk out their plan of action, including resigning from the party and Parliament.

Speaking to the media after meeting KCR at his residence in Hyderabad, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, who had quit his ministry for the sake of Telangana, blamed the Seemandhra leaders of creating hurdles in the formation of a separate State. If the Central Congress leadership does not come out with a solution, they would be compelled to take tough and drastic steps to achieve Telangana, he explained that he had met KCR with this agenda only.

Vishwaroopam Movie Review – 3.25/5

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Rating: 3.25/5.0
Banner: PVP Cinema
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Rahul Bose, Jaideep Ahlawat, Nassar, Zerina Wahab, Shekar kapoor
Lyrics: Rama Jogayya Sastry
Dialogues: Vennelakanti
Art: N.Ilayaraja
Editing: Mahesh Narayanan
Cinematography: Sanu Varghese
Music: Shankar- Ehsaan- Loy
Producers: Prasad V.Potluri, S.Chandra Haasan, Kamal Haasan
Written and Directed by: Kamal Haasan
CBFC rating: ‘U/A’
Release Date: 25-01-2013

Story:Vishwanath(Kamal Haasan) is a Kathak dancer and Nirupama(Pooja Kumar) is nuclear oncologist and they get married. Vishwanath runs his dance class in New Jersey, Nirupama seeks divorce from Vishwa and she appoints a private detective (shukla) to spy on him. The spy gets killed; who is Vishwa, what’s his real identity gets revealed slowly. What happens after that is what the movie is about?

Performances: Kamal is fantastic as usual; his transformation from kathak dancer to the action scenes is fabulous. Pooja Kumar is okay. Andrea has a small role to play. Rahul Bose as Terrorist Omar is okay. Jaideep Ahlawat is good. Nasser, Shekar kapoor are okay in cameos. The Cinematography is top notch. The art work is fine. Editing is okay (can be better). Music by trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is good. The story is simple and the screenplay is okay. Direction is very good. The production values are grand.

Analysis: Kamal’s Magnum Opus Vishwaroopam released today. Kamal has come up with a global theme and stuck to it right from the word go. It’s kamal show all the way both as an actor and Director. He has done very good job. Jaideep Ahlawat is good. It’s good to see Ahlawat after Gangs of Wasseypur movie. He suited to the role well and he did it with conviction. Rahul Bose is okay but could not bring/show villainy other than looking disfigured. Pooja kumar is okay; she brought some entertainment in the form of questions in the second half. Andrea role is limited to a couple of episodes. Shekar kapoor, Nassar have done cameos.

Cinematography was very good. The Artwork is very fine. The sets designed were realistic and it looked very much like Afghanistan. Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy was good. The background score (except English music score) is impressive. The sound design (Indian designer Krishna Moorthy and the Hollywood technicians) was very good. The action scenes are well choreographed and executed. The story is simple but has a universal appeal.

The Direction is good. The screenplay could have been better to give the audience a slick look. The Flashback is split and was narrated in bits and pieces. The freeze technique used was good (where he freezes the present and narrates the past and again freezes the past and continues the present). The movie is technically very sound which can match Hollywood standards in most departments. Kamal scored more marks as director than actor in many places. He conveyed much through subtle emotions (he generally does) instead of conveying them through dialogues.
Here are few (there are many) finely directed scenes:–

· The continuous shot of pigeons (film is opened on that during titles) and its connection in the end.

· The repetitive (slow motion shot) visual where Kamal escapes from the terrorists by killing them (where his transformation was shown).

· The water droplets (leak) were shown before every shootout (US)

· The Afghanistan shootout episode

· The scene where a Pakistani was hanged due to a misunderstanding

The movie starts on a slow note and the song (kamal’s kathak dance) make it look even slow. The movie picks up momentum only after kamal’s identity gets revealed. The Afghanistan episode also was stretched a bit before the intermission. The editor could have made it crisp. The second half is okay with some chases and thrills.
Kamal impresses everyone with sheer technical Brilliance. Don’t miss the movie if you like Hollywood Spy thrillers, as this movie has all such stuff. Even though we know the movie is not a Kamal’s typical slapstick comedy, entertainment is needed to the masses and this movie lacks that. There are fair chances of clicking at the ‘A’ centers. Will it be liked by the masses??? The response is awaited. Watch the movie in a Multiplex (equipped with latest Audio) to get maximum feel and effect.

The villain escapes at the end of this flick and a conclusion can only be got from the next part of the film……..VISHWAROOPAM- 2

Plus: Kamal Haasan, Technical departments, Narration
Minus: Wafer thin story, Entertainment

Verdict: Watch the film for its technical Brilliance, Entertainment seekers may not like the movie much.

Angelina Jolie expecting second child!

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Hollywood Beauty Angelina Jolie is reportedly expecting another child with fiance Brad Pitt. Jolie, 37, who is a mother of six kids, is hiding from the public eyes these recent days because she has been battling morning sickness and wants to keep the pregnancy secret as long as possible. “She had morning sickness and didn’t want to draw attention to herself in public. She’s focusing on the other children right now, trying to prepare them for the new baby,” a source said.

The ‘Maleficent’ star gave birth to her youngest children, twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, in 2008. “Angelina has been talking about having another child for years now. But Brad kept putting his foot down because of their intense schedules and chaotic lifestyle,” the source added.

The couple is parents to six-year-old Shiloh. They also have adopted three children Maddox, 11, Pax, nine, and Zahara, eight.

Deva Katta’s Tweets creates a storm

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Director Deva Katta who shot to fame with films like Vennela and Prasthanam is currently directing Autonagar Surya with Naga Chaitanya as lead hero. The film, being produced by R R Movie Makers, was supposed to release last year. But now it will most probably come this summer. R R Movie Makers are now in a big financial mess and their earlier film, Damarukam, with Nagarjuna as hero faced release woes. Nagarjuna and some other industry bigwigs helped the film to see the light of the day.

Deva Katta does not mention whom he is referring to his tweets but it is obvious. Here are the full text of tweets:

” This is how a ‘kaiser soze’ film production works: Feed few pimps to project you r rich, let them tail a hero/director, catch a project (1)

If market value is ‘x’, fake ur budget to 2x, borrow 2x from several financiers without each other knowing…wth the film as collatoral (2)

Spend 0.5x on film, feed 0.5x to ur pimps, disappear ahead or on the day of release. Whoever has to recover will release the film. (3)

You can also apply this scam for mass production under a banner or a bunch of banners. (4)

Btw, you can also run this scam under a fake name since nobody cares to verify your legal identity while lending crores of money 🙂 (5)

Venky fights for Shadow in RFC

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Shadow shooting which was deferred due to the release of Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu is going on at brisk pace. The shooting of the last fight of the movie began today in Ramoji film city. The fight is being shot in the backdrop of a Hospital set. Stun Siva will be composing the fight. By the end of this shoot, the movie will be totally completed except for a song. The movie will enter extensive post production phase in February and the makers are planning to release the movie on April 12th.

‘Billa’ and ‘Shakthi’ fame Meher Ramesh is directing the movie. Tapsee is playing the love interest of Venky. Srikanth and Madhurima will be seen inimportant roles. Parchuri Kireeti is producing the movie on United movies banner. SS Thaman is rendering the music.

Movie Moghul gets Padma Bhushan

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Movie moghul D Ramanaidu, a veteran producer with 130 films in a dozen languages in five decades, has been conferred the prestigious Padma Bhushan award for rendering outstanding contribution to the world of Indian cinema. 66-year-old Ramanaidu, the legendary and prolific film maker  has worked with a galaxy of actors in several languages. The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan. Rama Naidu will fly to Delhi and receive the award from President of India, Pranab Mukherjee at Republic day parade tomorrow.

Born in Andhra Pradesh in 1936, Dr. Ramanaidu entered the film world in 1963 with his first film Anuragam, followed by the super hit film Ramudu-Bheemudu starring NTR in 1964. Over the last 47 years, he has been a prolific producer of over 130 films in several Indian languages.

Vishwaroopam screening halted in Hyderabad

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Universal Hero Kamal Hassan’ ‘Viswaroopam’ movie Telugu version release had met the same fate as Tamil version. The movie is postponed in Hyderabad to tomorrow in the wake of Milad-un Nabi festival that coincides with Friday. City police commissioner Anurag Sharma has prohibited screening of the movie in Hyderabad for today only. However, it is learnt that Commissioner has allowed for the screening of the film in high end theaters like Multiplexes in the city. Viswaroopam film will release all over the state today, besides the Hindi version all over the world.

It is known to our readers that Tamil Nadu Government had banned the movie for 15 days after objections from some Islamic groups. Later, Kamal Hassan appealed against the order in courts, Madras High Court deferred the release till 28th. With all these problems, Kamal Hassan is due for huge losses.

Naked model with Naked sadhus

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Hot baby Poonam  Pandey who always stays herself in limelight with controversies got some virtue. She is making youth sleepless by exposing all most all her body parts in front of the camera. But in the Maha kumbhamela that is happening these days, she became pristine by clearing her wrongs. In the kumbhamela that happens once in 144 years, she cleared her sins by taking a bath in the sacred spot Triveni sangamam.
 
Along with crores of devotees that come there, aghoras, sadhus, saints will attend this kumbhamela. This naked beauty has lot of devotion in her she also attended the kumbhamela and posed for photographers along with naked sadhus in the Kumbhamela. She will never miss her naked mantra, where ever she goes.

Nag eye on Brazilian model

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Ram Gopal Varma has introduced Nathalia Kaur, a Brazilian model in the film Amitab, Sanjay dutt, Rana starrer ‘Department’. Now this lanky beauty is going to be introduced to Tollywood in Nagarjuna’s ‘Bhai’ for an item song. Her actual name is ‘Nathalia Pinheiro Felipe Martins’ and during her debut in ‘Department’, she changed her name to Nathalia Kaur that fits to Indian nativity.
Veerabadhram is going to direct this film ‘Bhai’ where this model turned dancer is shaking her leg with Nagarjuna. Shooting of this item song is half done in ‘Bangkok’.
 
Before the release of Department, RGV announced that, he is planning a movie ‘Andam’ with Rana and Nathalia in lead roles. Even the photo shoot pics were out on net. But after the failure of Department, no more updates were heard about this movie..

Chiru turns spiritual?

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While the entire Tollywood is waiting for Mega Star Chiranjeevi’s 150th film, the shocking news is that Chiru has already acted in his 150th film. As per the reliable sources, it is heard that, Chiru has done a significant role in the movie ‘Sri AadhiShankaracharya’. Famous writer turned director J.K.Bharavi directing this film ‘Sri Aadhi Shankaracharya’. Young hero Kaushik babu is doing the title role of Aadhi Shankaracharya. Actor Anand is acting as Shankaracharya’s father and Rohini as mother while Nagababu is going to be seen as Rudraksha swamy.
Writer J.K.Bharavi has supplied script for Mega star’s Manjunatha. With that gratitude and friendship, Chiranjeevi has interestingly accepted the specially designed role for Chiranjeevi in the movie by Bharavi that is similar to the one Chiru has done in Manjunatha. This news is going to be officially announced in the audio function of this movie. Even the film unit wants this news to be maintained veiled till then.

Posani the craziest in Tollywood

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Posani fate has changed into good heights. Story writer and actor Posani has become busy these days with series of offers in hand. Last year he was seen as a car driver in ‘Krishnam Vande Jagadhgurum’. Even he flashed on screen in ‘Nayak’ this year. Though it’s a small role in the film, it changed his acting career.
 
Offers are flooding now to him. Within two days after the release of Nayak, Posani has signed 12 films for various roles. Pawan kalyan – Trivikram movie, Krish – Mahesh babu movie, Raghavendra’s ‘Intinta annamayya’, another movie of AlluArjun, along with a movie in Ramanaidu’s production are few among them. He mentioned this news himself to a newspaper.
 
This writer turned actor and director is now busy in signing films one after another. Though he couldn’t do well as a director he is extremely making well as an artist. All the best Posani.

Controversy director’s daughter in controversy

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D/O of Ram Gopal Varma is a new film with Vennela Kishore in lead role while Khaja is handling the mega phone. This movie faced troubles while the time of it’s censoring on the issue of its title. It faced objections from the board of censor. Censor board has suggested the producer of the film to change the title as there are chances for controversies with this kind of Title which has the name of a celebrity.

Director Khaja has earlier explained that there are no scenes in this movie related to Ram Gopal varma, not even the story is any way related to him. Now the same reason has become an obstacle for this film in getting the censor certificate.

So now the producer and director of this film have decided to change the title from ‘D/O of Ram Gopal Varma’ to ‘D/O of Varma’. Movie is going to be out with this title only.

Nani helping low budget movies

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There are few symptoms for heroes to be considered that they are growing big. It’s quite common for big stars helping small budget movie’s business by doing cameo roles and giving voice overs. Stars like Mahesh babu, Venkatesh had given their voices earlier to few movies.
 
Now the latest news that hero Nani who is turning himself into a star with series of successful movies is giving his voice over to Varun Sandesh, Sundeep starrer heist comedy ‘D for Dopidi’. Siraj Kalla is directing this film which runs in the back drop of a bank robbery. ‘Shore in the city’ fame Raj DK is producing this film which is set to release on Feb 14th. Mahesh Shankar is scoring the music for this film. Trailer that is released already has set decent expectations on the movie.

Trisha into alcoholic problems

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Trisha in her latest interview given to a newspaper mentioned that all her movies which have a drinking scene on her gone hit at box office, so she strongly believes that her movies with such scenes will do well and drinking is like her lucky charm. Even she pressurized the director and producer of her upcoming film ‘ventadu.. ventadu’ to add few drinking scenes for her, such that it will become a hit too.
 
On responding to her statement on consuming alcohol, few Hindu religious organizations have commented that “Trisha has lost her mind and making such statements”. Not even that, they demanded Trisha to withdraw her statements on drinking. Or else they will stop her latest film “RUM” from running in theaters.
In protesting on her controversial comments on drinking, from every district in our state, she is going to receive a whisky bottle as a token of humiliation.

Gautam, Tulasi’s 4hrs sweet nothings

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Lip lock scene in Kadali movie is one of the hottest news in media. Mani Ratnam has planned a new romantic scene with both new hero and new heroine. This lip lock scene that is shot on Radha’s younger daughter Tulasi and Karthik’s son Gautam is going to be for 10 seconds on the screen but it took nearly four hours while shooting.
 
At the time of shooting, there was a huge crowd at the shooting location. These new artists felt some difficulty to lock their lips in front of such a crowd. ManiRatnam who is very famous for romantic touch in his films, has gone for so many takes to get the right chemistry between the kids. Observing their difficulty, few unit members were sent off and shot with very few crew. Later Mani got more than he expected from them in lip locking as if they might have practiced it many times before the shoot.
 
In order to feel this romance, one has to wait till February for the movie to get released. It is little wonder that director like Mani Ratnam who doesn’t go for lip lock scenes has concentrated on it this time.

Director’s eye on Production

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After Rajamouli producing a low budget film ‘Andala Rakshasi’ introducing his assistant Hanu R’pudi as director. Now it’s the turn of another versatile director of Tollywood Deva Katta introducing his assistant ‘Pradeep Advaitam’ as director for a low budget movie. Deva katta who is a promising director of this generation with the films like ‘Vennela’ and ‘Prasthanam’ is now getting his name on production cards.
 
‘Photo’ fame Nandu is going to play the protagonist in this film, who is also playing antagonist in Deva katta’s upcoming film and Naga Chaitanya, Samantha starrer ‘Auto Nagar Surya’. National award winning short film ‘Advaitam’ fame Pradeep Madugula is making his debut under the production of Devakatta. Pradeep who has been working with Devakatta since ‘Prasthanam’ has bagged this opportunity.

Baadhshah decided for the war

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Young tiger NTR on one side and Srini Vaitla is on another side. This craziest combination is going to be seen as ‘Baadhshah’ which is setting its expectations high day by day. The dialogue in the movie trailer “Baadhshah decide ayite war oneside avtundhi” has become talk of the tinsel town now. Kona Venkat who supplied catchy and meaty punch dialogues for Srini Vaitla’s last film ‘Dookudu’ has written more punchy dialogues in this film like the one mentioned above. Shooting of climax of the film has started in Hyderabad.
 
With all the elements like Action, emotion, romance and obviously comedy, Srini vaitla is trying his level best to make ‘Baadhshah’ number one in the race this year. As per the industry talks, this movie is going to be a huge hit than ‘Dookudu’. There are around 50 prominent artists from Telugu, Tamil and Hindi film industries are acting in the climax and the schedule will be finished by end of this month.
 
Movie is all set for its release in April. It is heard that the business of this movie is making a very good fortune. Considering all these, NTR is going to rock the screens and box office again.

‘Seethamma…’ director with Power star

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The director who debuted into direction with Varun sandesh starrer ‘Kotha bangaru lokam’ and who grabbed the attention of entire Telugu film industry towards him with the Mahesh babu, Venkatesh multi starrer family drama ‘Seetamma vakitlo sirimalle chettu’ is Srikanth Addala. The humongous collections of this film have moved this director to new heights. In this context, many star heroes are showing interest to work with him. Latest news is that even top hero of Tollywood, Power star Pawan Kalyan is now planning to work with Srikanth.
 
No director will say no to such an offer to work with Pawan kalyan and Srikanth also seems to be giving priority to this offer and preparing a script accordingly keeping power star image in mind. Srikanth will soon be going to narrate a subject to Pawan Kalyan.
 
If everything goes well, we can expect Pawan Kalyan to speak in Godavari slang.

KVP behind plot to stall ‘T’

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Stating that the Telangana Congress leaders were ready to join the TRS if they were convinced that their en masse resignations would help bifurcate the State, Nizamabad MP Madhu Yashki Goud has alleged that Rajya Sabha member Dr KVP Ramachandra Rao had masterminded the conspiracy to prevent creation of separate Telangana State.

Speaking to the media here on Thursday, Yashki said AICC general secretary and State Congress Affairs in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad’s statement was the result of the Seemandhra gang’s threat to the Congress high command at the instance of Dr KVP. He also reiterated that Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was also a staunch integrationist.

Stating that the people of the Telangana region would not be satisfied with the announcements and indications, he felt the process of creation of separate Telangana State would begin before 2014 elections. He also said they would intensify the Telangana movement. He said that Azad’s remarks were due to the lack of unity among the Telangana leaders.

Faulting TRS Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao’s statement that the dream of the people for separate State would be realized only when TRS wins 100 MLA seats and 15 MP seats, Yashki said creation of separate Telangana would be possible when the T leaders keep their flags and agendas aside rather than by the TRS winning more seats. He said creation of separate Telangana State was only possible with the national parties like the BJP and Congress. He said the Telangana Congress leaders would achieve separate Telangana State even though the Seemandhra leaders had succeeded in getting the decision on Telangana issue postponed temporarily.

The Nizamabad MP said all political parties have to form as Telangana Front to achieve separate Telangana State. He opined that the TRS may create troubles to the Centre by winning more seats but the TMC and DMK parties may also obstruct creation of separate Telangana State.

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