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oung sensational actress Avika Gor who started her career with TV serial ‘Chinnari Pelli Koothuru’, has become familiar face for Telugu audiences as she has delivered series of hit Telugu movies like Uyyala Jampala, Lakshmi Raave Maa Intiki, Cinema Choopistha Mava and currently she is enjoying the success of her latest offering Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada starring Nikhil Siddhartha. It is heard that from long time, Avika is receiving vulgar messages on her whatsapp. Earlier she thought that it was a miscreants but a young

Tollywood actor was sending inappropriate messages to her. According to sources, Avika Gor put up a screen shot of a chat history that she received from the actor in WhatsApp group and her group includes Nikhil, Raj Tarun, Sai Dharam Tej, Rakul Preet Singh, Heebah Patel and others. It became a big talking point between these actors and the admin removed her from the group. However Avika did not know who was that young actor but she said that few young Telugu actors had maintained very low standards.

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Tabu roped in Akhil’s next?

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f ongoing buzz in media and film industry is to be believed, actress Tabu is making her come back in Tollywood in a senior role. It is heard that she has been roped for the upcoming untitled movie of Vikram Kumar in which Akkineni Akhil is going to play the lead role. Tabu, who is very close to Akkineni Family, has given her verbal consent. The official confirmation is awaited regarding it. The movie will go on the floor in January 2017 and currently the makers are busy in the hunt of actress to play the female lead. Earlier Tabu has acted in Akhil’s debut ‘Sisindri’ in 1995 under the direction of Shiva Nageswara Rao.

Love Birds in F

romantic m o o d

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rom past few months, the love birds Akkineni Naga Chanitanya and Samantha have become the hot topic of discussion. Chaitu has got the permission to marry Samantha after his younger brother Akhil’s marriage and it is heard that they will tie knot in August 2017. The photos featuring the couple enjoying holidays in an undisclosed location, is fast circulating on social media and creating lot of buzz. The background in the picture reveals that they are comfortable with each other and the romantic expressions on their glittering faces are dragging the attention of viewers. The two however doesn’t seem to care about the media reports and prying eyes on them, they are enjoying their privacy in open.

On the work side, Naga Chaitanya is planning to make his Tamil debut under the direction of Gautham Menon.

Nikesha’s

new avatar for Guntur Talkies 2 T he Indo-British beauty Nikesha Patel who

made her Telugu debut with Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s movie ‘Puli’ in 2010, is now coming back with hot erotica ‘Guntur Talkies 2’.

The actress has joined gym and lost 6 Kg weight and transformed into sexy beauty to play the role of village belle. Her new slim avatar and hotness is giving shock to the team members. Recently Nikesha interacted with media and said that when he signed the project, she was around 52 Kilo and she now she has lost 6 kg and planning to go down by another 4 kg before join the shoot.

Currently she is on ketogenic diet, that is popular in west. It is high fat, adequate protein and low carbohydrate. She can eat butter and cheese but no carbohydrate. The upcoming drama ‘Guntur Talkies 2’ will be directed and produced

by Raj Kumar, and the makers are planning to shoot the major part of the movie in Mumbai.

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Ravi Babu with his Piglet at ATM

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t seems Ravi Babu is using a unique strategy to promote his movie ‘Adhugo’ in which Piglet is playing the central role. The ban of big currency notes, is making everyone queue up in front of banks and ATMs. Recently popular actor, director and producer Ravi Babu was also spotted in queue in front of ATM, waiting for his turn. Interesting thing regarding it, he was not alone, he stood in line along with his piglet. Everyone was shocked but none of them dared to ask any question or post any remarks against him. According to Ravi Babu, he could not leave it in car so he decided to take it with him and stood there. He has wrapped the entire shoot of Adugo and spending Rs 2 Crores only for its VFX works whereas the movie is being made on the budget of Rs 5 Crores.

DOOKUDU ACTOR ARRESTED

FOR SENDING OBSCENE PIC

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jaz Khan who played the character of Bunty in Mahesh Babu starrer blockbuster movie ‘Dookudu’ and ex Big Boss contestant, was arrested recently for sending obscene pictures of himself to the woman on WhatsApp. It is not the first time when he did this, earlier this year, he was accused of sending vulgar pictures and messages to an aspiring model.

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On Recently, a lady filed case against Ajaz Khan and claimed that he sent her objectionable pictures of his private parts. However the actor was out on bail on recently after paying the bail amount of Rs 10,000 as directed by holiday court. According to the sources, the lady was looking for an investor for her business when she met Ajaz at the Film Studios but very soon she realized that Ajaz was taking interest in her, not in her project. So she decided to praise Ajaz on Whatsapp and after getting the reply, her doubts were cleared as Ajaz sent her many obscene pictures of his private parts and when the lady asked him to stop this, he abused her.

Later the lady lodged the complaint against him.

with bikini

followers

Ileana celebrates 4 million G

oa beauty Ileana D’Cruz’s video on her Instagram that features her hot bikini pose in swimming pool, went viral and grabbed the attention of viewers. She looks very hot and sexy in two piece bikini. Currently the hottie is very excited and reason behind her joy is that she has attained 4 million followers on her Instagram profile. She shared once again her bikini video and wrote,” 4 MILLION!!!! U guys ROCK!!! Sending so much love your way! #4million.” Now days she is winning more hearts by posing her hot photographs. Recently she shared lip lock pictures of her boy friend Andrew Kneebone and pictures of bridal photo shoot in which one of the picture, Zero Fuck was featured on her arm. Though she does not have any Telugu movie in her kitty but she is in the contact of number of her Telugu fans through her Instagram account. Earlier when she attained 2 million follows on her Instagram profile, she flashed off her both middle fingers.

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he leaked video clip from the upcoming most prestigious saga ‘Baahubali:The Conclusion’ has created sensation all over the internet. The team of Baahubali was also shocked after seeing the raw footage of war episode of Baahubali 2. A man named Krishna, who works in the editing department of visual effects, was involved in the leakage of video footage.

He was the part of graphic team when the team of Baahubali were working in Annapurna Studios. Finally the makers of Baahubali filed complaint at the Jubilee Hills police station in Hyderabad and culprit was arrested by the police in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Police has recovered 9 minute of video clip of Baahubali from him. Currently interrogation is going on. More details are awaited.

Man behind

Baahubali video leakage caught

Allu Arjun

blessed with

a baby girl

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tylish star Allu Arjun became a father for

the second time! He just had a baby girl.

His wife Sneha Reddy delivered a baby girl at a private hospital in Hyderabad on 21st November. Currently Bunny is on ninth cloud and he shared his happiness on social media with the following tweet” Blessed with a Baby Girl ! Soooo Happppyyyyyy right now ! One boy & one girl. Couldn’t ask for more. Thank you for all the wishes. Lucky me.” Number of celebrities and his fans sent congratulatory messages to him. Allu Arjun and Sneha got married in 2011, they welcomed their first baby Allu Ayaan in 2014 and now the family is complete. On the work side, Sarrainodu star is currently busy in shoot of Harish Shankar’s directorial venture “DJ- Duvvada Jagannadham" and romancing with Pooja Hegde. Congratulation to Allu Arjun and family!

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Ramgopal varma:

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ontroversial film maker Ram Gopal Varma is showering his love and affection towards our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

According to him, Modi is real Sarkar. Recently the Sarkar maker made a tweet on Modi’s decision demonetize high value currency notes and tweeted,” Irony of the Modi effect is that people with no black money are panicking much more than people with black money”.

Now he shared a photograph of Narendra Modi and called him real Sarkar. He captioned it Reel Vs Real. Earlier RGV helmed political thriller drama Sarkar starring Amitabh Bachanan, in which Big B played the role of Sarkar and made his screen presence as don. Now RGV is feeling that Modi is real life Sarkar. Does he mean Modi a gangster? What he thinks, he knows only. The director is popular only for his controversial tweets. Earlier RGV has criticized the act of Modi’s Swachcha Bharat campaign ad. Currently he is busy in its third franchise ‘Sarkar 3’ starring Amitabh Bachchan, Manoj Bajpai, Yami Gautham and Jackie Shroff.

modi

is real sarkar

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VIJAY DEVARAKONDA

HIKES REMUNERATION A

fter delivering successful movie ‘Pelli Choopulu’, actor Vijay Devarakonda is flooding with number of offers by the top film makers. He started his filmy career with Telugu movie 'Nuvvila' in 2011 and later he delivered back to back two hit movies 'Yevade Subramanyam' and 'Pelli Choopulu', currently he is waiting for the release of upcoming movie ‘Dwaraka’. According to the latest update, the young actor has hiked his remuneration. For Nag Ashwin’s directorial venture Yevade Subramanyam, and Taruk Bhasker’s magnum opus Pelli Choopulu, he was paid Rs 6 Lakh, and later he hiked his remuneration from 6 Lakh to Rs 20 Lakh for Dwaraka and Arjun Reddy which he signed before the release of Pelli Choopulu. Recently he signed horror flick with UV Creations which is popular for its production value, he will get Rs 80 Lakh as remuneration. According to the latest update, the actor has decided to charge Rs 1.5 Cr for his next upcoming venture. His sensational decision to hike remuneration is giving shock to the producers as the actor has delivered just a single hit.

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2.0

he line between inspiration and plagiarism has blurred considerably over the years. If you look at a few movie posters, you will find that they bear an uncanny resemblance to Hollywood movie posters. Avid buffs immediately noticed the similarity between Rajinikanth’s 2.0 Poster and ‘Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows’ part 2 poster. On 20th November, the makers unveiled the three posters of upcoming science and fiction drama ‘2.0’, which received superb responses. The movie lovers, Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar’s fans went gaga over it. After releasing the posters, the netizens came up with this conclusion that 2.0 poster of Rajinikanth Vs Akshay Kumar, is copied from the poster of Hollywood movie ‘Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows’ Part 2. Finally number of celebrities are using amazing, awesome and fabulous words to praise the posters of 2.0. It is directed by Shankar and produced by Lyca Productions. The movie features Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar, Amy Jackson, Sudhanshu Pandey and Adil Hussain. It is set to hit the theaters on Diwali next year.

FIRST LOOK

POSTER COPIED

OR INSPIRED

?

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AAMIR KHAN'S DANGAL COMING

as Yuddham A amir Khan starrer upcoming sport drama

‘Dangal’ is being dubbed in Telugu and has been titled as ‘Yuddham’. The movie will be coming with the tagline 'Mana Ammailu Abbaila Kanna Em Takkuva?'.

The makers have released the trailer of its Telugu version, the dialogues are impressive, and the action speaks louder than words. The performances of the cast are wonderful. The movie is all about the story of Mahavir Phogat, a wrestler from Harayna, which role is portrayed by Aamir Khan and TV actress Sakshi Tanwar is playing the role of Aamir’s wife. Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra play the Phogat sisters. The upcoming biopic is directed by Nitesh Tiwari and the music is scored by Pritam Chakraborty. The movie is inspiring and talks about women empowerment.

It carries a message that girls are no different from boys when it comes to potential and capabilities. The movie is set to hit the theaters on 23rd December 2016 in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil.

NAGA BABU SUPPORTS MODI’S

DEMONETIZATION N

aga Babu has given an interview on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision of demonetization. When few people are criticizing the demonetizing move of Modi, Naga Babu praised PM’s decision. He said that demonetization was the greatest step taken in 70 years of independent India. He added that India needs a dictator to discipline the country

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where the freedom has crossed the limit. He felt proud when he heard about the demonetization.

Recently Modi’s 97 year old mother Heeraben also reached bank to exchange old currency and it was not the part of publicity stunt. When number of Politicians, who won the elections after spending crores, talked only about the money, Modi was only one politician who took this unexpected sensational decision to wipe out black money, corruption and Terrorism.

VENKATESH'S GURU DATE GETS RELEASE

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ictory Venkatesh starrer upcoming sport drama ‘Guru’ is progressing at brisk pace under the direction of Sudha Kongara and near the completion of the shoot. According to the latest update, the makers are planning to release the movie on 26th January 2017.

Earlier they were interested to release Guru as Sankranthi treat but as number of much hyped movies like Megastar Chiranjeevi starrer ‘Khaidi No 150’ and Nandamuri Balakrishna starrer ‘Gautamiputra Satakrani’ are arriving on the theaters on the occasion of Pongal, so they dropped the idea and decided to release it on the eve of Republic day. Venkatesh is playing the role of boxing coach, Ritika Singh as female lead whereas Rana Daggubati will be seen in the role of cameo.

KALYANRAM IN

G NAGESWAR

REDDY ‘S NEXT

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andamuri Kalyanram who grabbed the attention of the audiences with his six pack avatar by his previous offering ‘ISM’, is set to act in out and out comedy entertainer movie.

According to the latest update, Kalyanram is planning to team up with G Nageshwar Reddy who is popular for comedy entertainers.

Currently the director is busy in penning the script for Kalyanram. Recently both actor and

director met, and discussed on the same. If everything will go accordingly, the movie will go on the floor very soon. After delivering 'Eedo Rakam Aado Rakam', Nageshwar Reddy is waiting for the release of his upcoming horror comedy movie ‘Intlo DeyyamNakem Bhayyam’ starring Allari Naresh which has been postponed due to demonetization plan.

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M S RAJU ANNOUNCES ADULT FILM RATHI V

eteran film maker MS Raju is popular for delivering several iconic movies like Devi, Varsham, Satruvu and Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana. From past few years, he was not active in film industry and now he is making his comeback with soft erotic entertainer movie that will be made in six languages. According to the latest update, he has announced a huge project titled ‘Rathi’ and it will be made in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam. Rathi is going to be helmed by the ace producer himself. The pre-production work has been already started and it will go on the floor in February 2017. Currently makers are busy in the finalization of cast and crews.

Rathi will deal with sex and there is no doubt that there will be number of hot erotic scenes, though MS Raju claimed that the upcoming drama would be aesthetic and poetic.

RAM CHARAN SIX PACK

IN DHRUVA SONG T

he craze of six packs in the Telugu and Hindi movies has not subsided. The fever of six packs is very much evident. Recently Nandamuri Kalyanram dragged the attention of audiences by his six pack avatar in his recently released movie ‘ISM’ and now after Nandamuri actor, it is the turn of Mega actor Ram Charan. It is first time in his ten year career, when Charan is going to impress the audiences by flaunting his six pack. He will be sporting his six pack in the song ‘Pareshanura...Pareshanura’ in his upcoming actioner drama ‘Dhruva’. The makers are not leaving any stone to make this saga a milestone in Charan’s career. It is not the first

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time when BruceLee star will make his screen presence in shirtless avatar, earlier he was seen with bare chest in Toophan/Zanjeer. The shoot of the movie has been already wrapped and set to hit the theaters on 9th December in a very grand manner. It is directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Allu Aravind. Actress Rakul Preet Singh is playing female lead.

1 MILLION

FOLLOWERS FOR PAWAN KALYAN

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ana Sena President and actor Power Star Pawan Kalyan continues to create sensation, recently he grabbed the attention of people of both Telugu states by his powerful

speech and now has achieved rare feat as he has hit 1 million followers in Twitter. He is not regular user of Twitter but whenever he tweets, it goes viral. He joined Twitter in August 2014 and within 2 years, he garnered 1 million followers.

In South Indian Film Industry, after Rajinikanth, Pawan Kalyan is one , who reached fastest 1 Million followers count with less time span with 100 tweets only.

On the work side, currently he is busy in ‘Katamarayudu’ under the direction of Dolly and his next project with Trivikram will go on the floor in December.

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GOPI SUNDER'S MUSIC FOR MAHESH'S NEXT N

Varun Tej

TO RE-LAUNCH HOME BANNER A

oted Malayalam music composer Gopi Sunder, is a familiar name for Telugu audiences as he has scored the music for Vamshi Paidipally’s hit movie ‘Oopiri’, has got golden opportunity to score the music for the upcoming untitled movie of Superstar Mahesh Babu.

Recently in an interview, the music composer said that he was in the talk with Mahesh’s new flick. Currently Mahesh is busy in the shoot of AR Murugadoss’s movie and next he will be seen in Koratala Siva and Vamshi Paidipally’s upcoming ventures. Devi Sri Prasad has been roped for Mahesh and Koratala Project, and Gopi Sunder may score the music for Mahesh’s 25th project which will be helmed by Vamshi Paidipally and bankrolled by PVP Cinema.

Earlier he also scored the background music of Mahesh Babu’s Brahmotsavam and once again he got the chance to compose music for him. This year, Gopi Sunder has

njana Productions, the entertainment production company was established

by Megastar Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan in 1988, and the company ownership also included his brother Naga Babu and Pawan Kalyan. The production houses produced few movies starring Chiranjeevi like Rudraveena, Trinetrudu and Bavagaru Bagunnara?.,which were turned out blockbuster. In 2010, Nagendra Babu produced ‘Orange’, the eighth movie under Anjana Production starring Ram Charan, but unfortunately it was tuned out flop,

delivered two hit albums Nani starrer ‘Majnu’ and Naga Chaitanya starrer ‘Premam’.

it was the last movie by Anjana Production and Naga Babu himself said that he wouldn't be producing movie. Now according to the latest update, Naga Babu’s son Varun Tej is planning to re-launch his home banner. Once he establishes himself as bankable star, he will

test his luck in production field. Currently he is busy in his upcoming movies ‘Mister’ under the direction of Srinu Vaitala and ‘Fidaa’ being directed by Sekhar Kammula. It is expected that after wrapping the shoot of these two projects, Varun Tej will revive Anjana Productions.

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ctress Shriya Saran is essaying the role of Vaashishtha Devi, the queen of Nandamuri Balakrishna for the upcoming most prestigious 100th project ‘Gautamiputra Satakarni’. The shoot of the movie has been already wrapped.

According to the sources, Balayya and makers of Satakrani are angry with Shriya as the actress took few photographs on the sets and shared it on social networking platform. The makers wants to keep everything under wrap but Shriya shared it, her act ignited the anger of National award winner director Krish and he asked her an apology. It has come out that Queen of Satakarni has written an apology letter that she will not repeat her act.

Gautamiputra Satakarni is a much talked movie and it is set to be a landmark in the career of Balakrishna. The makers are planning to release the stills in such a way that generate the hype and increase the curiosity of the audiences and they warned the actress to not post any photographs on social networking sites.

KRISH

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Tamannah wants women CENTRIC

ROLES M

ilky beauty Tamannah Bhatia joined the film industry at the age of 15 and she has acted over 50 movies. Recently she said that she wanted to build up her career on women centric movies.

The actress has got recognition for her wonderful performance in Oopiri, Dharma Durai, Baahubali and recently released trilingual woman centric movie Abhinetri.

She said that in Abhinetri, her role was challenging and in Baahubali, she played the character of Avanthika who was a bold girl and she was one who took the story

forward. Now days, she is taking special care while selecting the script and wants to do roles that add value to the script and will be noteworthy. According to her, she wants to become the part of woman centric commercial movies because audiences watch the movie only for entertainments and she is here to do it, she does not want to be part of a typical song and dance in movies. Her desire is to be part of interesting cinema that deals with various centric issues.

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obody can forget the hot and bold actress Neha Sharma, who shared the screen space with Mega actor Ram Charan in ‘Chirutha’. Neha Sharma is one hell of a woman and she has proved this time again.

She has some interesting movies in her kitty and her recent photo shoot will help her bounce back with a bang. She knows how to use her great body to good effect.

Despite having minimal success in Bollywood, she is still among the hot girls list in Bollywood.

She is oozing her oomph factor in white bikini top and her tempting cleavage has capacity to shake the rocks on Mars. She covered her hot and sexy body with another white coat but her toned legs, dreamy eyes and impeccable makeup are enough to make fans drool.

neha sharma

hot & spicy

in White

Talasani Srinivas Yadav Younger

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Reception

Pragya's

14KG GOLD LEHENGA

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anche fame actress Pragya Jaiswal is playing female lead in upcoming devotional drama 'Om Namo Venkatesya’ which is progressing at brisk pace under the direction of K Raghavendra Rao. The makers have released the motion poster and first look of Pragya that are grabbing several eyeballs. According to her, the weight of her golden colour lehenga which she wore, is 14 kg. Overalls, 26 years old actress is looking awesome in traditional attire. King Nagarjuna is playing the role of Hathiram Baba, Anushka Shetty as Krishnamma, Vimala Raman as goddess Laxmi whereas makers did not yet reveal Pragya's role.

It is being produced by A Mahesh Reddy under the banner of AMR Sai Krupa Entertainments.

Sakshi is a bombshell

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fter Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor, Navya Naveli Nanda and Aaliya Kashyap, there

is one more Bollywood kid who is creating sensation on social media. She is none other than Sakshi Chopra, the great granddaughter of Late Ramanand Sagar who was popular for Ramayan Television series, the first adaptation of epic Hindu saga. Now Ramanand Sagar’s 19 years old great granddaughter Sakashi Chopra is the new bombshell of social media. She is also a fashionista. Two years ago, she grabbed the attention of audiences when she was spotted with Pooja Bedi’s daughter, Alia Furniturewalla at the city pub and created hungama. Sakshi is popular face on instagram as she used to share her bazillions pictures. Sakshi’s grandfather Moti Sagar is very happy as Sakshi taking Sagar Legacy to another level and instead of turning actress she is popular as social media celebratory with her talent company.

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CHANDOO MONDETI

hand in Statement Nikhil 's EPC A

ctor Nikhil Siddhartha is on the ninth cloud as his recently released movie ‘Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavaada’ is receiving superb responses. The movie is nice blend of elements like love, fiction, comedy, horror and thrills. Nikhil Siddhartha and Premam director Chandoo Mondeti are very good friends and very close together. Earlier both the director and actor have worked together for the movie ‘Karthikeya’ which was biggest hit in the career of Nikhil. Now once again Chandoo helped Nikhil in his recently released thriller saga 'Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavaada'. According to the latest update, Chandoo has written few comedy scenes and especially the second half episodes, shots in a cave are said to be designed by him that have come out very well and receiving good response by the audiences. Though his name was not give in title credit but he helped Nikhil to rise his career as his previous offering Shankarabharam was bombed at the box office. It is also heard that once again both Chandoo Mondeti and Nikhil are planning for the sequel of Karthikeya. If everything will go accordingly, the sequel will go on the floor very soon.

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NANI TO BECOME

FATHER SOON N

ani is popular for selecting unique story line and accepting the challenging role. He has stolen a million hearts by his natural performance and realistic expression,

and finally got the tag of Natural star. It has come out that Nani will soon become father and joining the likes of Young Tiger Jr.NTR and Stylish Star Allu Arjun who are enjoying their fatherhood. The sources close to Nani’s family said that his wife Anjala was pregnant.

Currently the couple is very excited and busy in making necessary preparation to grand welcome the new member of their family. The doctor has given two months time for Anjana’s delivery. Five years back, Nani and Anjana fell in love, later they got engaged on 12th August 2012 and tied knot on 27th October 2012 in Vizag. On the work side, currently Nani is busy in shoot of Nenu Local which will hit the theaters on 23rd December.

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Chiru’s next in T

Boyapati’s

direction

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he name of noted director Boyapati Srinu is on the top among the mass directors. He has delivered 'Simha' and 'Legend' for Nandamuri Balakrishna and 'Sarrainodu' for Stylish Star Allu Arjun. Generally fans wait for their favourite star’s movie with mass specialist Boyapati Srinu as he is popular to boost the mass image of actors to next level. According to the latest buzz, Megastar Chiranjeevi’s next will be helmed by Boyapati Srinu. Chiru’s upcoming 150th is near the completion and set to hit the theaters on the occasion of Sankranthi 2017. After taking few day breaks, Chiru will move on his next venture. On the other side, Boyapati has started the shoot of his upcoming untitled saga starring Bellamkonda Sai Srinivas and Rakul Preet Singh. He is planning to wrap the shoot as soon as possible and targeting to release it as summer treat.

Chiru has decided to make movie with Boyapati Srinu. It is heard that after wrapping the shoot of Bellamkonda’s movie, he will start working on the script for Chiru and it is expected the project will go on the floor in June 2017.

Samantha

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b a t h t u b

here is no doubt that Samantha Ruth Prabhu is smart, charismatic, a good dancer and an excellent actress. She is extremely stylish and fashionable too. Here is one such a picture in which she is looking so stunning in ethnic outfit, that proves that she is indeed the queen of hearts in South Indian Film Industry. Samantha is the epitome of hotness as she is sporting pink colour

lengha. She strikes a sexy pose in a bath tub. It will take you all your effort to take your eyes off this pic. This credit goes to her best friend and stylish Neeraja Kona who captured her gorgeous look. She is looking drop dead gorgeous in this traditional avatar. If you ever had any doubts that Samantha was the most beautiful actress you have seen, then this pictures will definitely clear them all.

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Heebah Patel

turns doctor V

ersatile actress Heebah Patel who is popular for accepting challenging roles, is playing the love interest of Raj Tarun in her forthcoming movie ‘Andhagadu’, directed by Veligonda Srinivas.

According to the latest update, she is portraying the character of young doctor and will be seen in never seen before avatar. According to her, it is very different role with a dash of comedy. On the other side Raj Tarun is playing a blind character. It is a fun film with lot of comedy and there is nothing emotional or tragic about their role. Both Heebah Patel and Raj are very excited about their character. Recently the makers have wrapped the first schedule. It is being bankrolled by Anil Sunkara and they are planning to release the movie as summer treat.

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PAWAN

SLAMS MODI’S DEMONETIZATION

MOVE F

inally Jana Sena President and actor Power Star Pawan Kalyan blasted on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to declare Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes invalid. Recently PM announced the decision on demonetization but Pawan was keeping mum on this issue, his fans were eagerly waiting for their favourite actor's reply and finally he blasted on PM’s decision. He posted a poetry written by Sai Madhav Burra about the problems being faced by common people due to PM’s sensational decision. He expressed his displeasure at his decision to demonetize big notes. He said that thousands of people are lining up at the bank for money and Center seems to have a hasty

decision without making proper arrangements which has been causing problems from the past few days. He demanded that government has to spell out the actual new currency position and take care of the rural economy, unorganized urban market and senior Citizens.

Earlier during his public meetings, he had blasted Modi for not keeping up his promise to the people of state.

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ctress Avika Gor played the role of extended cameo in Nikhil Siddhartha starrer ‘Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada’, she was the surprised package of the movie and her presence was kept under wrap before the release and now after the release of the movie, makers are releasing the posters that features Avika, as a part of promotional activities. It is heard that Avika wrapped the shoot of her part in ten days only and got Rs 40 lakh as a remuneration for her cameo role. She was highest paid among all the three actresses that acted in the movie. Earlier she was not ready to play the small role as she wanted only lead role but later she demanded high remuneration and producer became agree to fulfill her demand. Finally Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada is running successfully and doing decent collections at the box office.

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and Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar are among the most celebrated person in India. These two legends from different fields turned fan boys on social media and leaving hundreds of thousands of their fans awestruck. Telangana IT and Municipal Administration minister K Taraka Rama Rao has also joined them. The selfie of KTR with Shahrukh and Sachin are going viral on the social media and receiving superb responses by the viewers. Coming on the picture, both legend SRK and Sachin look stylish with spectacles and KTR is seen taking selfie with them. KTR used to show his interest in movies and sports, and on several occasions he has appreciated the film maker, actors and sports-persons.

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ow days top film makers, actors and

actresses are falling in the love of horror flick. Trisha, Nayantara, Tamannah Bhatia, Poorna, Tapsee have already tested their luck in horror flicks and received lot of applause.

Recently King Nagarjuna has also given nod for the horror movie, the sequel of Raju Gari Gadhi.

Now it the turn of young actor Vijay Deverakonda, to jump in horror bandwagon.

Recently he delighted the audiences with his movie ‘Pelli Choppulu’ and now coming up with romantic and comedy drama ‘Dwarka’.

According to the latest update, one of the reputed production house, UV creation, which is popular for delivering big budget hit movies, is venturing into horror genre and roped Vijay Deverakonda to play the lead role. Recently a young director has narrated the script to actor and Vijay has given nod for this upcoming untitled horror comedy movie. Very soon, the makers will make official announcement regarding this project.

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irector Vi Anand and his recently released movie ‘Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada’ has become the hot topic of discussion in T-town. On its opening day, it received superb responses by the audiences and now number of celebrities are praising the creative and talented work of director who came up with such type of fresh story line. Vi Anand received a surprise call from Allu Arjun. The actor called

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him and spoke about the movie and later appreciated the director and the entire team. Vi shared his happiness and tweeted,” @alluarjun Sir,your appreciation and love means a lot to me and team#epc Your call simply made my day!!!!". Actress Nandita Swetha also received appreciation for her wonderful performance and thanked Allu Arjun . On the other side, the director is getting ready to direct Allu Arjun’s brother Allu Sirish’s upcoming science fiction thriller and it will go on the floor very soon.

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ollywood macho actor Ran Daggubati has multiple project in his hands. Currently he is busy in the shoot of Teja’s upcoming directorial venture tentatively titled ‘Nene Raju Nene Manthri’ and romancing with Kajal Aggarwal. According to the reliable sources, he has been roped for the upcoming sport drama ‘Guru’ starring Victory Venkatesh and Ritika Singh, to play the role of cameo, which is progressing at brisk pace under the

ecently Megastar Chiranjeevi and the team of Khaidi No

150 visited Slovenia and Croatia for the shoot of two songs at the scenic locations. The entire team was in happy surprise when Mayor Of Dubrovonik, Mr Andro Vlahusic visited the set and met them. It is heard hat after hearing the popularity of Khaidi no 150, he visited to meet Megastar, enquired about the movie and thanked them for visiting Dubrovonik, he also expressed his love for Indian cinema. The picture of Chiranjeevi and Kajal Aggarwal along with Mayer of Dubrovnik, is going viral on social media. It is being directed

by VV Vinayak and produced by Ram Charan with the association of Lyca Productions whereas the music is composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The audio launch event will take place very soon and the makers are planning to release it on the occasion of Sankranthi 2017.

direction of Sudha Kongara. Guru is remake of Tamil and Hindi hit movie ‘Irudhi Suttru/Saala Khadoos’. Recently makers approached Rana and he gave green signal. Mumtaz Sorcar, the daughter of world famous magician PC Sorcar Junior, is playing the crucial role. It is produced under the banner of Y NOT Studios and the music is scored by Santhosh Narayanan.

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oan beauty Ileana D’Cruze is trying to grab the attention of her fans and movie lovers by posting sexy photographs and lip lock pictures of her boy friend Andrew Kneebone.

Her posts on social media are receiving ‘F’ messages. The curvy siren is shocked all with F message but it seems, she is not worried about this and recently she gave one more shock as she did a photo shoot with Pernia’s Popup Shop to break down bridal stereotypes. She shared the photographs of her bridal photo shoot and in one of the picture, where she holds her index finger between her teeth, everyone is shocked after seeing ‘Zero Fuck’ on her arm.

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the gorgeous actress Shriya Saran who is portraying the character of Vaashishtha Devi is upcoming historic saga ‘Gautamiputra Satakarni’ starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, under the direction of National award winner director Krish. She is popular for posting all kinds of her pictures in the social media including those showing her boozing and smoking, and it is common in film industry.

Coming on the picture, Shriya looks ultra hot in two piece black bikini and seen raising the temperature of cool water. The actress with bikini showing of her hot curve is not only jaw dropping awesome but also too hot to handle.

She does what she wants and goes wherever she feels to go. Her fans are shocked the way Satakarni queen oozes confidence and oomph with this risque picture.

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he talented director AR Murugadoss, who

has delighted the Telugu, Tamil and Hindi audiences by his unique scripts and creative works, is busy in his upcoming untitled bilingual big budget movie starring Superstar Mahesh Babu and Rakul Preet Singh. The director who is accused of grabbing the scripts of few movies like Dheena, Ramana and Kaththi, is shocked on watching the latest video on him.

Coming on the video, according to the reports, AR Murugadoss is seen drinking and enjoying with some girls. An actress from Tamil Film Industry has also complained that Murugadoss misbehaved with her. On the other side, Murugadoss is saying that he is not in the video and according to him, someone is trying to spoil his name. He is very upset and planning to file police complaint against the people who are trying the defame him through this video.

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he playback singer and dubbing artist Geetha Madhuri who is well known face for

Telugu audiences, is set to make her debut on silver screen. She holds the records of winning highest number of Film fare awards for Telugu as best play back singer. She has crooned several chart busters and recorded more than 350 songs for various movies and music albums. Earlier she has played the lead role in a short movie ‘Athithi’ alongside Nandu whom she married in 2014. Now the singer seems to have decided to take it to the next level.

According to the sources, she has acted in an upcoming Telugu movie and kept confidential the detail of the movie. It is not yet clear whether she played the lead role or crucial role.

It is also heard that the makers have wrapped the shoot and planning to release. Very soon the detail of project will be announced officially by the makers.

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Currently Krish is on the ninth cloud and he was seen dancing along his loving wife. Recently he canned the last song of Gautamiputra Satakrani with professional Kathak dancers in Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad in which lead cast Nandamuri Balakrishna and Shriya Saran also participated. The Kathak steps were choreographed by Brindra. The entire shoot of the movie has been wrapped and post production work is in full swing. The movie has already done the pre-release business of Rs 70 Cr. 25 companies have been assigned for its VFX works and it VFX work will be warped by the end of this month and the first copy will be readied by mid of December. The theatrical trailer will be unveiled on 9th December whereas the audio will be launched on 16th December.

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here is no need of any introduction for the gorgeous actress Rambha, who is

known for her roles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies. From past few months, she was in news headline due to divorce controversy. The actress who has won million hearts with her wonderful performances, glamour and dance move, is now going rock the Television on Zee Telugu’s upcoming dance show ABCD (Any Body Can dance). Rambha is a great dancer and nobody can forget her amazing numbers with Megastar Chiranjeevi. The ZEE channel has picked Rambha as Judge for its programme. Any Body Can Dance is a dance show for the Contestants and Choreographers, across ages from 6 to 60 years. Now Glam diva Rambha will be seen judging the dance reality show.

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oted director Krishna Vamsi is set to break the tradition of Tollywood very soon.

Generally in Telugu film industry, the title track or introductory song is featured on the lead actor but now Krishna Vamsi is going to shot the introductory song on sizzling actress Regina Cassandra in his upcoming directorial venture ‘Nakshatram’. This confirmation is given by art director Purushotham. Recently he interacted with media and said that very soon they were going to shot a special song on Regina in which 400 artists would be participated, the song would be shot in Ramoji Film City. According to him, the introductory number on female lead will be one of the major highlights of this cop drama.

Regina is portraying the character of junior artist Jumana Rani. Actor Sundeep Kishan is playing the lead role whereas Sai Dharam Tej and Pragya Jaiswal will be seen in the role of cameos and will don in cop avatars.

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orgeous actress Nayantara is one of the leading actress of South Indian film industry and she is one of the actress who always involves with some kind of controversy. If ongoing buzz in media and film industry is to be believed, Nayantara and director Vignesh Shivan have got married in May 2016 at Arya Samaj in Chennai. Nayantara wants to keep her marriage under wraps because currently she has multiple movies in her kitty. It has also come out that recently the actress threw a party for her industry friends and celebrated 6 months anniversary. On the work side, currently she is busy in her upcoming movies ‘Dora’, ‘Imaikkaa Nodigal’ and ‘Aramm’

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itten eye Sneha Ullal, who entered in film industry with Bollywood Tiger Salman Khan starrer Hindi movie ‘Lucky:No Time for Love’, shared her hot monochrome photograph on micro blogging page. She knows, how to set the temperature soaring with her looks. The hot diva is seducing the viewers as she flaunted her glittering skin in black top. It seems she forget to wear pant and trying to pull her top a bit down which she does not want to reveal but youngster are enjoying the seduction of her sensual thigh to the fullest as they cannot get anything better than this in future. Her hot photo will make anyone run for the air cooler instantly so hot! Isn’t she? Currently she does not have any movie in her kitty. Undoubtedly it is hot look of Sneha, and we have to see if she makes a strong comeback.