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chaitanya - Samantha

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ollywood love birds are finally engaged! Akkineni Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu got engaged in an intimate ceremony yesterday. Only close friends and relative were invited on this occasion. After an eight year old friendship and relationship, the two have taken their relationship to the next level. Samantha looked stylish & gorgeous and Naga Chaitanya also looked charming. arlier on several occasions, Samantha herself confessed that she had found her Prince Charming without revealing his name. In September 2016, she finally opened up about her relationship with Chaitu. In an interview, Sam said that Naga Chaitanya was her first friend in the industry and continued to be her bestest friend. ne of the engagement photograph in which Naga Chaitanya is seen kissing Samantha is grabbing the attention of viewers. Congratulations to the gorgeous couple! e are happy for the couple and can’t wait to see them get hitched!

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Mehreen likes air pistol shooting

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ctress Mehreen Kaur Pirzada who was last seen in romantic comedy movie ‘Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha’ starring Nani interacted with media recently and revealed some interesting facts. The actress confessed that she loves air pistol shooting. Mehreen said that her mother used to encourage her to pick one sport and she was trained in Air Pistol shoot. She was selected for pre-nationals twice but unfortunately she could not play due to her High school examinations. She added that she was not interested in nail polishes, hairdo and dresses like other girls. Now she has started her career as an actress and has given up her hobbies. According to her, whenever she goes to Punjab to visit her family, she makes it a point to go to the shooting range and practice for air pistol shoot. Currently she has number of movies in her hand including a movei each with Sharwanand, Varun Tej and Sundeep Kishan. In Bollwyood she will be next seen in Anushka Sharma’s phillauri.`

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SAMANTHA gifts bike to

Naga Chaitanya S amantha has made Naga Chaitanya happiest by giving him a costly gift. Everybody is aware of that Naga Chaitanya is a professional biker who loves to ride bike. According to the latest buzz, Samantha who has known the secret of Naga Chaitanya, has gifted sport bike MV Agusta (Meccanica Verghera Agusta) to Chaitu which costs is around 27 lakhs INR. However the model of the bike is unknown. Recently Naga Chaitanya was spotted at Kondapur RTA office for the registration of bike. According to Madhapur transport department officials, he paid whooping Rs 4.5 Lakh to get 'TS07 FM2003' number for the bike and the life-time road tax for his super bike.

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Renu Desai extends support to

Pawan

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ana sena President and actor Power Star Pawan Kalyan is taking forward the movement of ‘AP demands

special status’ by extending the support from his party and recently he released the music album titled ‘Desh Bachao’, demanding special status to AP, that is going viral. Renu Desai, the ex wife of Pawan also extended her support to Pawan Kalyan and wrote on the wall of twitter, “I can only say that I believe in @PawanKalyan and he will always have my unconditional support for public welfare! #APDemandsSpecialStatus.” Both Pawan and Renu are living separately but she is one who is always ready to give full support to Pawan in his ventures. Now number of celebrities like Varun Tej, Sai Dharam Tej, Tanish, Nikhil, Sampoornesh Babu, Sundeep Kishan and others have also extended their support via twitter handle and joined the hands for this movement.

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PARUL YADAV attacked by stray

dogs

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ctress Parul Yadav who is well known face of Tamil and Kannada audiences, has got injured when she was attacked by six stray dogs. This incident happened when she was walking with her pet near her apartment on Jogeshwari Road in the suburbs of Mumbai. The dogs attacked on her when she tried to save her pet by them. Shockingly, no one came to actress rescue. She sustained multiple bites with severe wounds on her face, neck and legs. She has acted in number of hit movies like Bachchan, Uppi2, Vaastu Prakara, and Killing Veerappan. She is gearing up for the Kannada remake of Bollywood movie ‘Queen’ starring Kangana Ranuat.

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oung Tiger Jr. NTR’s upcoming project has become the hot topic of discussion. Earlier it was reported that Tarak will be seen playing triple role in his upcoming project ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ under the direction of Bobby. Industry insiders are coming up with new angle to the antagonist role, suggesting that NTR himself will play the dual roles of both the hero and the villain. We have to wait and see how far this bit of information is true but it sure sounds exciting. It is also heard that hot bombshell Raai Laxmi will shake legs with Tarak on item number. The upcoming venture will have three actresses. It is going to be bankrolled by NTR’s elder brother Nandamuri Kalyanram.

NTR to

play villain role in Jai Lava Kusa

Sunil

gifts new car

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ecently Comedian turned actor Sunil was spotted at RTO office. According to the latest update, Sunil has gifted himself a car. He brought white color Skoda Laurin by paying Rs 31.73 Lakhs and went to Malakpet East Zone RTA office in Musarambag for the registration of his vehicle. TS11 EJ 2345 number is allotted to his car. On the work side, currently Sunil is busy in his ongoing project under the direction of Kranthi Madhav. It is said to be titled as ‘Ungarala Rambabu’. It is an out and out comedy entertainer movie in which Sunil will

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be seen in the role of a man who wears colorful rings in fingers. Paruchuri Kireeti is bankrolling this project.


Double Shock: Anupama

out of C &N ’ haran

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nupama Parameswaran who has delivered back to back three hit movies ‘A..Aa’, ‘Premam’ and ‘Shatamaanam Bhavati', got two big shocks. Earlier it was reported that she is going to romance with mega actor Ram Charan for the upcoming untitled movie under the direction of Sukumar which is based on village backdrop. But recently the pretty actress got a call from the director and actor. They politely said no to her. It is yet unknown

ani s film

that what forces them to take this decision. She got one more shock and this time the shock came from Natural star Nani and his team. They informed her that she will not be the part of Nani’s project, directed by ‘Oh My Friend’ fame Venu Sriram. Here also the reason for her removal is not clearly known. It seems the year 2017 did not start well for this young diva.

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NEHA & AISHA SHARMA

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harma sisters, Neha Sharma and Aisha Sharma are working really hard to get into hot avatars, something that we haven’t seen ever. They are sweating in gym to get well toned bodies. Both are giving us motivation to hit the gym. They look very sexy as they are showing off her hot assets during gym workout.They never hesitate to push themselves to work out harder during the gym session, this photograph of Neha and Aisha sweating hard speaks volumes about the same.Oomph! aren't they smoking hot? n the work side, currently Neha Sharma is busy in upcoming romantic comedy movie ‘Mubarakan’ starring Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor

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and Ileana D'Cruz, directed by Anees Bazmee whereas Aisha Sharma is busy in her modeling assignments.

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HOT WORKOUT

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TEMPTING POSE OF

he old Indo-Canadian actress, model, social activist and cancer survivor Lisa Ray is well know face for Telugu audiences as she has acted in Telugu movie ‘Takkari’ starring Superstar Mahesh Babu in 2012 under the direction of Jayanth C. Paranjee. Recently she has given a photoshoot for noted magazine cover. She looks smoking hot as she bends back in transparent top, showcasing her lingerie. Definitely its thunders in the hearts and shivers all over the spine, Lisa casts a sexy spell everywhere. She has turned 44 and let’s just say, she is only getting hotter with every passing day since then. ook at this hottie, she is stunner and that's perfect pose.

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UDAYA BHANU WITH TWIN T

daughters

he popular anchor Udaya Bhanu had

been staying away from TV from long time and the reason behind is that currently she is enjoying motherhood. Recently it was reported that Udaya Bhanu has delivered twin girl child on 28th August at a private hospital in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. Popular anchor Prema who is very close to Udaya, visited her house and spent few hours with her. Later Prema shared photographs of Udaya’s daughter Yuvi Nakshatra and Bhoomi Aaradhya on her Face book account. Udaya Bhanu tied knot with Vijay Kumar in 2004 and it was a love marriage. She is popular for hosting various Telugu shows like Telugu shows like Horlicks Hridayanjali, Once More Please, Saahasam Cheyyara Dhimbaka and Nee Illu Bangaram Kanu. She was also seen in the song ‘Rajasekhara Nee Pai Moju’ in Leader starring Rana Daggubati.

VIJAYENDRA SHOCK TO

ANCHOR SUMA A

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nchor Suma Kanakala is very popular for her spontaneous speaking talent. Yesterday during the audio launch event of ‘Sri Valli’, Baahubali writer KV Vijayendra Prasad targeted anchor Suma on stage. Vijayendra Said, “Suma is a big lier.” Everyone was shocked after hearing the word ‘lier’ and confused. Vijayendra further said, “Almost every audio function nowadays is anchored by Suma. She is the anchor with the gift of glib talk who knows how to promote the movie.” He was continuing to target her by saying that many people have lost their money to watch the movies whose audios were launched at events where Suma was the anchor, she impressed the audience and asked them to watch the movie. Later Suma also admit it.


RAJAMOULI TIES VIJAYENDRA’S

SHOE LACE

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fter delivering successful movie ‘Baahubali:The Beginning’, SS

Rajamouli has become popular at International level and many film makers want Rajamouli as Chief guest for their audio launch event. His father KV Vijayendra Prasad also invited his loving son Rajamouli as chief guest for the music launch event of his upcoming directorial venture ‘Sri Valli’ starring Rajath and former Miss India Neha Hinge. Now one photograph of the audio launch event is going viral in which Baahubali film maker Rajamouli is seen tying the lace of his father’s shoes at the stage. The entire team members and audiences were surprised after seeing that moment. Vijayendra Prasad is a popular as screen writer and he has penned the story of more than 25 movies, most of which turned out blockbuster, Baahubali:The Beginning and Bajrangi Bhaijaaan are among them.

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CHARAN-UPASANA

AGAIN WITH

MAHESH-NAMRATA

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t seems Superstar Mahesh Babu and Mega actor Ram Charan have become close buddies. Once again Mr. and Mrs. Ram Charan were spotted with Mr. and Mrs. Mahesh. Recently Charan-Upasana and Mahesh-Namrata celebrated New Year in Switzerland and their photographs went viral on the social media. On the occasion of Namrata’s birthday, Mahesh threw a party in which Ram Charan and Upasana were the special guests whereas noted director Koratala Siva, Meher Ramesh and others also attended the party. According to the latest buzz, Ram Charan and

CHIRANJEEVI AT

SRIKALAHASTI

TEMPLE

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egastar Chiranjeevi who is on the ninth cloud and enjoying the success of his comeback movie ‘Khaidi No 150’, visited at Sri Kalashasthi temple. Chiru and his family including wife Surekha, daughter and son in law performed Viswa Kalyana Maha Yagnam Pooja at the temple and priests guided them to perform the pooja by chanting of slokas. Chiru’s Khaidi No 150 has emerged as the biggest hit of actor’s 39-year long career. On the other side, it is heard that Megastar will collaborate with Surender Reddy for his 151st movie. He has also agreed to work with Sarrainodu fame Boyapati Srinu.

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Mahesh Babu are going to become business partner and they are planning to venture into hotel business. Charan wants to establish a hotel chains in India and Mahesh will be a partner in it. It may turn to be a huge venture.


HOT &

UNDRESSED ILEANA IN BATH TUB T

he actresses and their hot & sexy poses has always been the reason to raise temperature of million hearts. Recently during the shoot of Bollywood movie ‘Rustom’ actress Ileana has given shock when she was seen enjoying with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar in a bath tub in ‘Tere Sang Yara’ song and now once again she is giving shock as she posted her private photograph on Instagram account in which she is seen in bathtub. Her new photograph on social media is creating buzz and as she is seen wearing nothing in the image. Ileana strikes a sexy pose in a bath tub. It will take you all your effort to take your eyes off this picture.

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RAVI TEJA ITEM GIRL

MEENAKSHI’S ALBUM ROUTE A

ctress Meenakshi Dixit who made her Telugu debut with ‘Lifestyle’ in 2009 and

was last seen in ‘Adavi Kaachina Vennela’ in 2014, is coming back once again after a gap of two years with Telugu music video. She has also appeared in the role of cameo in Mahesh starrer 'Dookudu' and shook the leg on the item number ‘Rajula’ in Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja starrer ‘Daruvu’. She was also seen in couple of Tamil and Hindi movie but now she is coming up with this romantic track. Recently Raebareli born actress visited to Hyderabad for the shoot of this video and it is a romantic track that features city based model Anirudh Sameer. Kiran Meegada has shot the video for this song that is composed by PR and crooned by Telugu playback singer Uma Neha. Kiran Meegada is popular for directing the movie ‘My Heart is Beating’ in 2012.

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CATHERINE

TURNS owner of

NEWS

CHANNEL

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fter the impressive portrayal of MLA in Stylish star Allu Arjun starrer ‘Sarrainodu’, hot diva Catherine Tresa was waiting for performance oriented role and currently busy in political thriller Telugu movie 'Nene Raju Nene Mantri' under the direction of Teja starring Rana Daggubati and Kajal Aggarwal. The Bahrain-born Malayali actress is very excited about her character after hearing the script.

She will be seen in the role of owner of a news Channel. She has done lot of research and closely observed media barons to justify with her role. She is confident that her character will receive lot of applause. It is being produced by Daggubati Suresh Babu under the banner of Suresh Productions.

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Nandini Rai IN RASHMI -PRABHAKARAN

FILM

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ctress Nandini Rai, formerly known as Neelam Gouhranii who has acted in few Telugu movie like Hormones, Maaya and Mosagallaku Mosagadu, has been roped in upcoming untitled bilingual Tamil-Telugu movie under the direction of debutant Prabhakaran in which hot anchor turned actress Rashmi Gautham is playing the lead role. The Hyderabadi born Sindhi actress Nandini is very excited as she got the opportunity to act in this intense thriller saga. She revealed about her character. According to her, her sympatric character is on the line of Maaya. She essays a newlywed and how she gets intrinsically drawn into the dangerous liaison and the mystery around it will make the movie interesting. To play her character she reduced her five kg weight. She also informed that she is going to make her Tamil debut with ‘Grahanam’.

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Shriya saran lifts her gown

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he film industry is filled with several sensuous beauties. Hottie Shriya Saran is one of them. She has got hot figure and she has proved it with her recent photo shoot. She is popular for sharing all kinds of photographs on the social media including her boozing and smoking. Coming on the photograph, she is seen lifting her gown to give a tempting peek of her sexy thigh. Movie lovers and her fans are shocked the way Satakarni queen Shriya oozes confidence and oomph with this risque picture. Her seductive pose is eye feast for the viewers. On the work side, currently she is busy in upcoming Tamil movie ‘Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan’ and Hindi movie ‘Tadka’





Raai Laxmi item song in

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oung Tiger Jr. NTR upcoming 27th project has become the talk of town. According to the latest buzz, the seductive actress Raai Laxmi who shook her booty on special numbers in Power Star Pawan Kalyan starrer ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’ and Megastar Chiranjeevi’s Khaidi No 150’ will be seen shaking legs on item number in NTR’s upcoming project, tentatively titled as ‘Jai Lava Kusha’. It will be directed by Bobby and produced by Nandamuri Kalyanram under the banner of NTR Arts. Idiot fame Cinematographer C K Muraleedharan has been roped to handle the cinematography. The makers brought bubbly actress Raashi Khanna to play the love interest of Tarak. On the other side, Raai Laxmi’s item song in Khaidi No 150 is going viral on social media and has got 10 million+ views on YouTube. If the buzz is true, it will be a eye feast for the movie lovers and Tarak's fans. It will be very interesting to see how Raai will match her sexy dance moves with Tarak’s electrifying dance step.

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SIVA TO DIRECT PAWAN & DASARI’S

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ower Star Pawan Kalyan is currently busy in his ongoing project ‘Katamarayudu’ under the direction of Gopala Gopala fame Dolly. His two projects are also in pipeline. After wrapping the shoot of Katamarayudu, Pawan will join the set of Trivikram and later RT Neason’s directorial venture which is remake of Tamil hit movie ‘Vedalam’. On the other side, he has also announced that he will contest in upcoming elections. If ongoing buzz in media and film industry is to be believed, Dasari Narayana Rao has not leave his hope and willing to produce a movie for Pawan Kalyan. He is planning to rope Cinematographer turned director Siva who has helmed hit movie Vedalam in past. Recently both director and producer met and discussed on the possibility of this project.

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BALAYYA’S

PLAN FOR

MOKSHAGNA

andamuri Balakrishna is enjoying the success of his recently released historic movie ‘Gautamiputra Satakarni’ and also planning to launch his son Mokshagna. Mokshagna is all set to make his debut this year end. Though the subject and director are not yet decided. Balayya wants to launch his son in a very grand manner and when he was asked whether Mokshagna would act as lover boy, Balayya said that his fans would not accept him as a lover boy, he had to see what kind of subject suited him. Balayya said again that Mokshagna did not watch Aamir Khan’s Dangal but watched Salman Khan’s Sultan. According to him, Mokshagna wants to do such type of role in Telugu. When asked to speak on the actors who are trying to come up with toned body, Balayya said that the six or eight packs was not in our nativity and it was suited only for North Indian actors. He added that he never tried for toned body in any movie.

MAHABHARATA

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rom past few months, the news that SS Rajamouli is going to start his dream project ‘Mahabharata’, has been creating lot of sensations. Earlier Rajamouli also revealed on several occasions that he is aiming for Mahabharata and it will be an epic trilogy. But finally Vijayendra Prasad, the father of SS Rajamouli came up and refuted this report. He said that there was no truth in this news and it was just a rumour. He further said, “ Did anyone

NOT IN

RAJAMOULI MIND confirm this news with Rajamouli or me before writing it?” According to Baahubali writer, neither Mahabharata is on the cards nor even in mind of Rajamouli. They are working only on Baahubali:The Conclusion starring Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka and Tamannah which is scheduled to hit the theaters on 28th April 2017.

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Pawan calls

Trivikram for a favour

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ower Star Pawan Kalyan and noted film maker & writer Trivikram Srinivas are very close together and earlier both have worked together for Attarintiki Daredi and Jalsa. Recently Pawan voluntarily came forward to become the brand ambassador for handlooms produced in both Telugu States, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. He also promised to promote handloom industry and do whatever he can to the help of the weavers. Now Pawan asked Trivikram to plan a concept an ad endorsing weavers, handloom products. It is heard that Trivikram immediately agreed and started to work on the ad’s concept. Once it’s ready, Trivikram himself will direct the ad. It is expected that ad will be helpful to the weavers.

Bandla Ganesh

is back with

Pawan

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roducer

Bandla Genesh

who has been

under the limelight for quite some time, has created sensations once again. Recently he met Jana Sena President & actor Power Star Pawan Kalyan and took a photograph with him. He shared that picture on Twitter with a tagline ‘BANDLA IS BACK WITH BOSS’ and ‘With my god’ which means Pawan is his (Bandla Ganesh) god. His post indicates that he is planning a project with Pawan. Currently Gabbar Singh Star is busy in his ongoing project ‘Katamarayudu’ under the direction of Dolly and romancing with Shruti Hassan and later he will join the set of AR Ratnam after Trivikram and Chinnababu’s film. Bandla Ganesh’s first production with Pawan was ‘Teenmaar’, which didn’t live up to the expectations of fans. Sources reveals that after these three projects, the combo of Pawan and Bandla Ganesh will repeat.

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Krishnam Raju about

Prabhas marriage

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arling of Telugu Film Industry, Prabhas is one of the most eligible bachelors and everyone is eagerly waiting to know the details about his marriage. They will get the answer soon after they get to know about ‘Why did Kattappa kill Baahuabli?’. Prabhas is all set to break million of hearts this year. Yesterday on the occasion of his 77th birthday Krishnam Raju, the uncle of Prabhas attended an interview to a leading channel and spoke about Prabhas’s marriage. He said that Prabhas’s marriage might happen after the release of

Baahubali 2. Krishnam Raju also revealed that he is planning to celebrate 50 years in the industry by throwing two lavish parties, one with celebrities and other with fans that will take place in February or March. Currently the family of Prabhas is busy in the hunt to find a suitable match for Prabhas. He will tie the knot this year. According to few, Prabhas's mother has already finalized a girl from Godavari district. On the other side, Prabhas has already wrapped the shoot of Rajamoli’s Baahubali:The Conclusion and very soon he will join the set of Run Raja Run fame Sujeeth’s film.

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Ravi Teja next with

Vikram Siri

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ass Maharaja Ravi Teja is all set to kick start his next upcoming movie. After delivering ‘Bengal Tiger’ Ravi Teja was in the talk of few projects but things did not materialized. Although he signed couple of projects but nothing hit the floors. Finally Ravi Tej has been roped for the upcoming untitled movie under the direction of Race Gurram writer Vikram Siri. Actress Raashi Khanna has been finalized to play the love interest of Ravi and it will be jointly produced by Nallamalapu Srinivas(Bujji) and Vallabhaneni Vamsi under Lakshmi Narasimha Productions banner. Bollywood noted music composer Pritam has been brought on the board to score the music. Pritam has worked for number of hit Hindi movies like Dhoom, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, and Barfi.

SREE VISHNU

ROPED IN

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ctor Sree Vishnu who was last seen in ‘Appatlo Okadundevadu’ has signed an upcoming multistarrer movie. According to the latest update, he has been roped in upcoming untitled movie under the direction of debutant Indrasena and it will have two star heroes and a poplar heroine. Currently the team is busy in the finalization of remaining cast and crews. The pre-production work has been already started and the regular shoot will be commenced from February. Apparao Bellana will produce the movie and Satish

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INDRASENA’S

FILM

Raghunathan will score the music. According to Indrasena, it is a roller-coaster thriller saga. On the other side, currently Sree Vishnu is busy in upcoming movie ‘Maa Abbayi’ under the direction of Kumar Vatti.


JD CHAKRAVARTHY ROPED IN

NAKSHATRAM N

oted director Krishna Vamsi is coming up with cop drama ‘Nakshatram’ which

is progressing at brisk pace. According to the latest update actor J.D Chakravarthy has been roped in Nakshatram to play an important role. Earlier both Krishna Vamsi and J.D Chakravarthy have worked together for the movie ‘Gulabi’ and now once again the duo are teaming up for this actioner drama. Sundeep Kishan and Regina Cassandra are playing the lead role. The movie also starring Sai Dharam Tej, Pragya Jaiswal, Prakash Raj and Tanish. It is jointly produced by K. Srinivasulu & S. Venugopal Sajju and the music scored by Mani Sharma.

BALAYYA'S ACTRESS RATI BOOKED FOR Y

THEFT

esteryear actress Rati Agnihotri and husband Anil Virwani were booked recently in a case of electricity theft of Rs 48.96 lakh. Brihanmumbai Electricity and Transport Depart (BEST) conducted surprise raid at the actress’s residence in Sterling Sea Face Apartment near Nehru Planetarium in Worli area and found that they did not pay for 1,77,647 units of electricity by tampering the meter since 4th April, 2013. The FIR has been registered at Worli Police Station against Rati and Anil for the theft of Rs 48.96 Lakhs worth electricity under the section of 135 of Indian Electricity Act. According to Pravin Padwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police, they have registered an offence against the accused persons on the complaint of electricity engineer and currently further investigation is going on. According to Rati’s husband, during the raid they were not in town and after coming back, will give clarification on this issue. Rati Agnihotri was last seen in Nandamuri Balakrishna’s starrer Dictator in 2016 under the direction of Sriwass.

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KRISH TO DIRECT CHARAN'S SPY THRILLER N

ational award winning director Krish is on the ninth cloud after delivering historic drama ‘Gautmaiputra Satakarni’ satrring Nandamuri Balakrishna and according to the latest update, he is going to helm a mega phone for mega actor Ram Charan who produced Megastar Chiranjeevi’s Khaidi No 150. At a recent interaction with fans, Ram Charan revealed that very soon he will be seen to essay the role of RAW character but he did not reveal much about the project. The sources close to Charan says that Krish is going to direct a movie for Charan. Recently Krish also confirmed the news by saying that he is writing script for Venkatesh, Ram Charan and others. Earlier Krish was supposed to work with Mega Prince Varun Tej for a spry thriller drama ‘Rayabari’ but later the project was shelved. It is heard that Krish has made few changes in the same script for Charan and it will go on the floor when Dhruva star will wrap the shoot of Sukumar’s directorial venture.

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ctress Tejaswi Madavada who was last seen in Heebah Patel starrer youthful entertainer ‘Naanna Nenu Naa Boyfriends’ is in the talk for the upcoming Telugu and Tamil bilingual movie with ‘Naa Peru Shiva’ helmer Suseenthiran in which actor Sundeep Kishan and Krishna 'Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha' fame Mehreen Kaur Pirzada are playing the lead roles. The makers are eyeing on Tejaswi and planning to rope her to play the crucial role. Currently everything is in initial stage, nothing is yet confirmed but she is the top choice of makers. The movie was recently launched in Hyderabad. It is going to be produced by Chakri Chigurupati production and the music will be scored by Thaman. Posani Krishna Murali, Satya, Thagubothu and Shakalaka Shankar will play the supporting role.

TEJASWI IN

SUNDEEP KISHAN'S

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Manchu Manoj in Veerabhadram's next

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fter delivering ‘Chuttalabbayi’ starring Aadi, director Veerabhadram Chowdary is now targeting the family audience and is set to come back with family entertainer movie. According to the latest update, actor Manchu Manoj has joined hands with Veerabhadram for the upcoming venture which will be high on entertainment. Recently the director met Manoj and narrated the script. He is very happy with his character and has given green signal.

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he Queen of Pornhub, Mia Khalifa made waves a couple of years back on the Internet when she starred in an adult video while wearing a hijab and performing explicit sexual acts. Now she is once again in news headlines because of her fan who tattooed

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Currently the director is busy in the final touch up of the script. The Attack actor who is popular for choosing the script, is very excited to work under Veerabhadram’s direction. If everything will go accordingly, the movie will go on the floor in March.

Mia Khalifa trolls fan for tattooing

her face on his thigh her face on his thigh. She took the Instagram to slam the fan named Alexander Skate from Portugal in front of her 745,000 followers and called him an ‘idiot’. She shared the photo of the man’s leg where he inked permanent tattoo. The Lebanese-American adult actress Khalifa wrote, ”First of all, you’re an idiot. Second of all, my eyebrows are uneven. Third of all, what kind of two-for-one special did you

get this tattoo on?” According to the reports, Portuguese man Alexander Skate wanted to pay his respect to his favourite porn actress and first when he shared the photograph with tattoo, he captioned it,” To the love I feel for Mia Khalifa! You deserve so much you painful f****ing b****.”


POONAM KAUR SHOWS OFF

TONED LEGS

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ctress Poonam Kaur made her Telugu debut in 2006 with ‘Mayajalam’ under the direction of S. V. Krishna Reddy. Though she has acted in various Telugu movies like Oka `V` Chitram, Souryam, Nagavalli, Gaganam, Attack and Nayaki, but did not get much recognition. Currently the hottie is busy in photo shoots. Coming on the photograph she

is seen showing of her hot toned legs when she lifted them in red thigh high slit outfit. Her hot new avatar is a treat for sore eyes. The body posture, sexy legs and cute smile of Poonam is making mad the viewers. She gazed seductively at the camera with her wearing, her ultra hot look is setting to get the mercury levels soaring with her sensuous photo shoots.

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fter delivering ‘Jyo Achyuthananda’, Srinivas Avasarala joined hands with debutant Naveen Medaram for the ‘Hunterrr’ remake which has been titled as ‘Babu Baga Busy’ and recently he signed one more project with director Vijay Maddala. Avasarala is not losing out any opportunity to pick pivotal role in the exciting ventures. According to the latest update, he has been roped to play an important role in Vi Anand’s directorial venture starring Allu Sirish. It is heard that makers are very happy with the way of Avasarala’s dialogue delivery and according to them, his presence will also be highlighted. The movie will go on the floor next month and going to be bankrolled by Chakri Chigurupati.

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HOT Ruhi Singh in bikini T here are number of the celebrities who are taking Instagram to show off their sexy bikini body. The actress, model and former Miss India Ruhi Singh is one of them. She is popular for posting the photograph of her killer physics. She slipped into two piece bikini and shows off her hot curvy body which is not only jaw dropping awesome but also too hot to handle. She captioned it, ”Chill by the pool kinda day." This actress' sexy Instagram photographs will

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make you say hot damn! Ruhi Singh made her Hindi debut with ‘Calendar Girls’ under the direction of Madhur Bhandarkar and now testing her luck in South Indian Film Industry as she is busy in her ongoing Tamil project ‘Bongu’, being directed by Taj.

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alayali actor Jayaram will be seen to play a politician in upcoming action thriller drama ‘Bhagmati’. It is a woman centric movie in which Baahubali actress Anushka Shetty is playing the female lead. It is Jayaram’s first Telugu venture and he is very excited about his character. Though it is a very key role but he could not say no, because it has huge scope for the performance. He is essaying the character of a good nature MLA and his role will bring freshness to the screen. Directed by Pilla Zamindar fame director G. Ashok, produced by UV Creations and the music by S Thaman. The movie starring Unni Mukundan, Asha Sarath and Aadhi Pinisetty.

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ALLU ARJUN PAYING 1 LAKH TO A

ccording to the latest update, Stylish star Allu Arjun is playing Rs 1 Lakh per month to a Brahmin. The Sarrainodu star is not paying him to perform any pooja but paying him as a fee and he is teaching the actor how to speak and behave like a Brahmin. Currently Bunny is busy in his ongoing project ‘DJ- Duvvada Jagannadham’ in which he is portraying the role of orthodox Brahmin. To do justification with his character he hired a Brahmin as a tutor. Directed by Gabbar Singh fame Harish Shankar, produced by Dil Raju under the banner of Sri Venkateswara Creations and the music by Devi Sri Prasad. Actress Pooja Hegde as female lead. Now we have to wait and watch, whether his portrayal of Brahmin will be better than Young Tiger Jr. NTR’s in Adhurs or not?

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ersatile actress Manchu Lakshmi is all set to enter in politics. If ongoing buzz in media is said to be believed, Lakshmi Manchu is approached by members of the Telugu Desam Party to contest as the candidate in Chandragiri Assembely segment during 2019 Elections. It is the district where Roja hails from as well. In December, Mohan Babu and Lakshmi met Andhra Pradesh chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Is it the reason behind it? It seems Lakshmi wants Chandrababu supports as she is going to contest. Currently the actress is enjoying social activities. She is busy in film assignments and TV shows ‘Memu Saitham’. She helps the needy people by her show and

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has earned a good reputation. After the exit of Roja, TDP party lacked a powerful candidate who had ability to influence the people and finally the search from political opponent for Nagari MLA ended with lakshmi Manchu.


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V Vinayak who helmed Megastar Chiranjeevi’s come back ‘Khaidi No 150’ which has turned out money spinner at the box office, is all set to direct another actor from mega family and he is none other than Sai Dharam Tej. Everything has been almost finalized and very soon the makers will make official announcement. Sai Dharam is very excited about the project and happy with the story line narrated by Vinayak. He is eagerly waiting to join the set of this upcoming venture. The project may start in March. On the other side, currently the actor is busy in his ongoing project ‘Winner’ under the direction of Gopichand Malineni and will also be seen playing extending cameo in Krishna Vamsy's Nakshtram.

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he British model and actress Amy Jackson who is busy in upcoming big budget science fiction movie ‘2.0’, has been approached for the upcoming Kannada movie ‘The Villain’ starring Shivarajkumar and Sudeep. Earlier the director Prem planned to rope Milky beauty Tamannah Bhatia but finally the role fall in the bag of Amy Jackson. The villain is a big budget movie, produced by CR Manohar and it is heard that makers are planning to make it in Tamil and Telugu too. The sources says that the team of The Villain is waiting for the completion of Amy Jackson’s prior commitments after which they will make an official announcement. The director Prem is popular is to bring the actress from Bollywood to Sandalwood. Earlier Mallika Sherwat and Sunny Leone have also become the part of Kannada movies.

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Gehana Vasisth HOT shows

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model an actress Gehana Vasisth who was crowned as Miss Asia Bikini via an online contest is busy in Telugu film industry. Currently she has number of projects in her hands like Anakunnadi Okkathi Ayyindi Okkathi, Namasthe, Aidu 5 and Btech Love story which is in different production stage. She is regular user of social media and popular for sharing her raunchy

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photographs. Recently she shared her pics and captioned it, �Cuddling wud b perfect right now ... what's say�. She flaunts her sexy figure in pink bra and looks drop-dead gorgeous. The skin show she keeps displaying is enough to raise the heat. Her cleavage show is lip smacking. Gehana is sparking our wild imaginations with her sexy avatar.


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ctress Manasa Himavarsha is very excited with the way things are going for her, with two interesting projects, Power star Pawan Kalyan starrer Katamarayudu and Vamsy’s directorial venture Fashion Designer S/O Ladies Tailor starring Sumanth Ashwin. In Katamarayudu, she will be seen as Pawan's Maradalu and in Fashion designer, she is portraying the role of simple village girl. Currently the actress is in signing spree. Manasa is also active on social media and now days she is trying to grab the attention of her fans and movie lovers with her stunning photographs. It seems she is hinting to the film makers that she is ready to act for bold scenes. The Vijayawada born actress Mansa is making her Kannada debut too with the movie Mrigashirsha and also set for Tamil debut as she has been roped in Linsuswamy’s next. It is also heard she is in the talk of Ram Gopal Varma’s next.

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