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Bollywood’s ‘serial kisser’ Emraan Hashmi is trying to shred the kissing image and is hoping to reinvent himself with every film here after.In an interview to a Hindi channel, he defended the kissing scenes in his movies and talked about his future plans of doing realistic movies,”If one has to grow as an actor then one needs to do realistic, hard-hitting films and play darker characters too. I may be known as the ‘kissing’ hero and may have received a lot of flak for doing intimate scenes, but today almost every actor is doing them. All films have a kissing scene.”

He is currently working on Rajkumar Gupta’s Ghanchakkar, Ekta Kapoor’s Ek Thi Daayan and Vikram Bhatt’s Raaz-3.

Film making involves lot of struggle and to become a successful film maker it requires lot of work, tact in handling people, strong financial support. Even when people have all these skills and many more, tollywood has seen many film makers suffer huge losses and face complete wash out losing each and every penny. However when common man has a look at some of the film makers, one wonder how quickly they are producing the films and from where they are getting finances that are required for producing films. 

Many are casting doubts on sources of their funds considering huge costs involved in film making and similarly the risks associated with it. Most of the films in tollywood film industry are produced by giants like RR Movie Makers and recently Reliance and UTV motion pictures entered the arena. The remaining 90% of the top heroes films are produced by Dil Raju who even owns theaters across Nizam, Bandla Ganesh who says he is getting his funds from real estate and poultry business and Bellamkonda Suresh.

Even though these people suffered some huge losses, they struck back and each ot these top film makers have minimum of five projects in hand. When Gabbar Singh became sensational hit, many raised questions on Bandla Ganesh’s source of income and some even accused him of being APPCC’s chief Botsa Satyanarayana. Now tollywood film makers stopped revealing their profits for the fear of attracting IT department’s attention. and thus invite raids on them. This happened during ‘Dookudu’ and later for ‘Business Man’ film makers. Whatever may be the statements of the film makers there are many uncleared doubts in the minds of movie lovers who say Film Making is a Mystery!

Beautiful actress Madhurima had striven for the girl next door image in Tollywood but that did not do good for her. She was mostly confined to second grade movies or side heroine roles. So, she decided to take the other route. For the first time, she is going to portray a complete glamourous role in a Malayalam film ‘Black Coffee’. This will be her debut film in Malayalam. Sojan Joseph is directing the film with love, action and suspense elements. Madhurima will join Sidharth Bhadran and Raveena Tandon.in‘Black Coffee’ which is produced by Naushad Kammauvadakkan.

Madhurima made her acting debut in Bollywood thorugh 2009 ‘Toss: A Flip of Destiny’, entered Tollywood in the same year with ‘Aa Okkadu’ and was seen in films like ‘Mouna Raagam’, ‘Saradaga Kasepu’ and ‘Orange’ (in cameo role) in the following year. The beautiful actress is presently working for Venkatesh, Srikanth, Taapsee starrer ‘Shadow’ in which she is playing a key role. This apart, the actress is doing a female lead role in Rajasekhar’s ‘Mahankali’ which is under production.

Interestingly, for the first time in his career, Stylish Star Allu Arjun is going to act with two heroines in his upcoming movie directed by Puri Jagannath. From Gangotri to Julayi, Bunny never romanced more than one girl in his movies. Shruti Hassan is confirmed to me one of those and other heroine is yet to be finalized. Sources in Filmnagar tells us that the movie is titled ‘Iddaru Ammayilatho”. Shruti Hassan was earlier signed beside Ravi Teja in Balupu and now be pairing up with Bunny in his movie directed by Puri Jagannath

The movie which will be produced by Ganesh Babu under Parameswara Arts banner, will go on to sets in September. Chakri will compose the music.

Nagarjuna and Raghavender Rao’s third devotional venture Shirdi Sai audio launch took place on Monday in Hyderabad. Unlike the routine audio functions, the makers have taken all care to make the event divine. A large statue of Baba was placed on the dais, singers performed songs from the movie and specially invited devotees of Sai shared the miracles in their life after worshipping Sai Baba.

In all this blissful events, One thing irritated the attendees there. It is Bengali beauty Kamalini Mukherjee who turned out in a sleeveless blouse for the event. The attendees were visually perturbed by her careless and indecent dress sense for a devotional event. Raghavender Rao and Parchuri Brothers were reportedly seen talking to her regarding the dress sense after the event.

It is known that P Samuthirakani of Shambo Shiva Shambo and Sangharshana (Poraali) fame is going to make a film with Nani as the main lead. The movie is titled as Janda Pai Kapiraju. Amala Paul is pairing up with Nani in the movieThe film is produced by Vasan Visuals Ventures. GV Prakash is the music director. The film will go on the floors from the 1st of August.

There is an episode in the film which require Nani to be a six-packs hero for which Nani is hitting the gym. This is a bi-lingual film. While the Telugu version stars Nani, the Tamil version has Jayam Ravi as the main lead. Amala Paul is the heroine of both the versions. The film was recently launched, the regular shooting of which will commence in August.

Nagarjuna’s Love Story TV rights were sold even before the completion of movie shooting. Zee Telugu had bagged the rights for 6 crore . The movie had fetched good price as Nagarjuna and Dasaradh previous movie ‘Santhosham’ is still a good TRP grabber on TV. Dasaradh’s previous movie ‘Mr.Perfect’ is a cool family entertainer which propelled the movie to get a good price.

The film is touted to be a family entertainer with an underlying message for the youth. Starring Nagarjuna in the role of an NRI returnee, the movie sees Nayanatara as the female lead. Bharath Reddy and Meera Chopra of Bangaram and Vaana fame, are playing other important roles. Music is by SS Thaman.

There is a growing incidence of superstar movies earning big amounts as satellite amounts. It has only become commonplace after Dookudu, with Businessman, Gabbar Singh, Eega and now Love Story setting a new high this year.

Shriya Saran who was once a Top actress in Telugu disappeared in to horizon slowly. She is now back playing a significant role in Sekhar Kammula’s “Life is Beautiful”, She had recently bagged her second international film and speaking on this occasion, she said that she was never against sporting bikini or acting in steamy scenes as along as they are in sync with the script.

When asked how she felt doing a steamy kissing scene in her recent International film, “I’m open to it and what’s wrong in doing kissing scenes or wearing the bikini if the script demands? It’s not wrong as long as it is not forced,” Shriya remarks.

Our readers are aware that ‘Panja’ fame Vishnuvardhan is directing a movie with Ajith in the lead. Going by the rumours in Kollywood, the director had roped in Young Tollywood actor Rana Daggubati for doing a cameo, which will require him to shoot for three to four days. The first schedule of this film has just been completed, with the makers shooting in Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.

The cast of this multi-starrer includes Nayanthara, Arya, Taapsee, Suman Ranganathan, Kishore and Mahesh Manjhrekar along with Ajith. With Rana’s inclusion in the film, it makes it one of the biggest multi-starrers that Kollywood has made in recent times. With Ajith and Vishnuvardhan teaming up after their much successful Billa, the expectations from the film are enormous. It is now left to see if the pre-release hype of the star cast is worth it all.

For some reason. film stars are not successful with their marriages. Very few of them enjoy cool and peaceful lives like Ramya Krishnan, Simran, Jothika and others. Here is the story of one actress who had a rather soft start to her career, went to the peak where she got wild and now is paying the price for it. She is none other than Manisha Koirala and news is that she has finally called off her marriage.

She was married to the noted businessman Samrat Dahal in 2010 and since then her marriage was in doldrums due to her free spirited nature. So now, it is heard that Manisha lives in Mumbai and is quite happy being single and wild. Soon, she will be seen in the eccentric genius Ram Gopal Varma’s horror movie ‘Bhoot 2’.