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Video Talk: Baahubali’s fascinating Pre-Production

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How hard the efforts are for just visualizing an epic drama on paper? Surely we need to ask Baahubali team about this, as they have worked for more than 1 year on the pre-production of the movie. As the team released this epic pre-production working video at Comic Con Festival in Mumbai, we could get a glimpse of Team Rajamouli’s hard work.
From designing characters to visualizing scenes, from preparing story boards to pre-visualizing war scenes, from designing smallest weapons to biggest warfare equipment, Rajamouli’s team has worked quite hard. And the video shows how they have made sketches, and then rendered them with mud-sculptures before finally building them up in CG. 
Also the video showcased how sets are being built up at Ramoji Film City and how the filming is going on. We need to appreciate Rajamouli’s creativity, art-director Sabu Cyril’s amazing concepts and Senthil’s cinematography are surely going to create wonder. Featuring Prabhas and Rana in lead roles, Baahubali is aimed for April 2015 release.

KCR’s Temple Sketch to Beat AP?

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Lately, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has shifted his focus towards temples in the region. Besides visiting them, Mr KCR has directed collectors and officials to gather details of all the temples in their respective regions in order to chalk out a special development plan for temples. Be it Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple on Yadagirigutta in Nalgonda or Rajarajeshwara Swamy Devasthanam at Vemulawada of Karimnagar or Mallikarjuna Swamy temple at Komuravelli in Warangal, KCR is of the opinion that the temples in Telangana have been so far “neglected” in the united Andhra Pradesh and were not “developed” on par with the temples in the truncated Andhra Pradesh. 
KCR has already announced that he would develop Yadagirigutta on par with Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanams. He had also asked officials to celebrate upcoming Sivaratri (Feb 17, 2015) in a grand way in Vemulawada as promised by him before elections. Soon after his visit to Komuravelli Mallikarjuna Swamy temple, KCR instructed the Warangal district Collector to identify vacant land around Komuravelli and allot the same to the Mallikarjuna Swamy temple for development activities.  
Collector in his report stated that a total of 166 acres of land, “plain and hillocks” were available in the village. He told the KCR that another five-acre land close to the Rajiv Rahadari would also be made available for the temple. This is not all. KCR is not just focusing on Hindu temples. He even recently visited Gurudwar temple on the eve of Guru Nanak Birth Anniversary sporting a turban. KCR had assured to build the biggest Gurudwara temple in South India and even offered government holiday on Guru Nanak’s birthday. 
He granted Rs 1 Crore towards the temple construction. KCR is leaving no stone unturned to develop the temples and temple towns in a big way in order to turn them into pilgrims and thus garner visitors and improve tourism for the state. Besides temples, KCR also wants to develop Hyderabad as a recreation centre with amusement parks. He has already initiated to construct sky-scrapers around Hussain Sagar lake. No doubt, KCR is eyeing to beat his neighbouring and motherly state of AP in tourism.

Mahesh Babu’s Bandar Visit Creates Panic

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Superstar Mahesh Babu was recently in Bandar to attend a private event. With the news of Mahesh’s arrival spreaded like a wild-fire, fans across Bandar and Vijayawada flocked to the venue creating a kind of panic. Mahesh fans went berserk to catch a glimpse of their favourite matinee idol. 
Mahesh has come at around 12.30 PM and spent for two hours in a star hotel. Mahesh Babu enjoys a great fan base in Krishna district. Right from the beginning of his career, his films have done well in Vijayawada and other parts of Krishna district apart from other districts. 
Even Mahesh has a special bonding with the district and he himself revealed this on several public platforms. In fact, Mahesh’s father yesteryear superstar Krishna too had considerable fan base in Krishna district which shifted towards Mahesh.

Ex-heroine’s first outing without Husband

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Former heroine Sridevi has a fetish for vacations, as she is always seen hanging out at some foreign location when her kids Janvi and Kushi have holidays. But the biggest thing is that her big-fat husband Boney Kapoor always plays the caring part by her side. Never, we could catch Sridevi alone when she is on a vacation. 
However for the first time, Sri went to a vacation with just her two girls and no Boney Kapoor. Perhaps this is her first trip sans husband as she chills out at the ultra-posh shopping malls of Dubai with her two daughters. Maybe Boney wants his wife to teach those few trips of climbing the ladder easily for their daughter Janvi Kapoor who is getting ready to debut as a heroine very soon.

TANA Donates Rs 2 Crore for Hudhud Victims

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The Telugu Association of North America (TANA) has announced a donation of Rs 2 Crore for the Hudhud victims and the amount will be donated to AP CM Relief Fund. AP Irrigation Minister Devineni Uma, who was the chief guest for the valedictory function of TANA’s “Chaitanya Sravanthi” event held in Vijayawayada on Sunday, lauded TANA’s efforts for its people and country. 
He said that the organisation is doing various service activities taking inspiration from Janmabhoomi programme. TANA president Mohan Nannapaneni said, “Chaitanya Sravanthi was huge success. Commenced from Dec 10, various programmes like health camps, felicitation of literary personalities, cultural events were held. 
TANA is working hard to protect the interests of Telugu language, culture and tradition.” He said that arrangements are being made to organise grand TANA Maha Sabha on July 2, 3, 4 in Detroit in the New Year where people from all walks of life would be invited.

Model Amyra Dastur For Akhil’s Debut?

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According to highly placed sources, hot Mumbai model Amyra Dastura who has made her film debut in 2013 is going to be the lead girl for Akkineni lad’s debut film. Though Akhil thought of roping in Alia Bhatt, she couldn’t provide the necessary dates. 
And now Vinayak and team have zeroed on Amyra, who happens to be a well known face in modelling circuits. Amrya is a well known face though Vodafone and Micromax ads. She debuted with 2013 Hindi flick Isaac and currently waiting for the release of her first tamil flick, KV Ananda’s Anegan featuring Danush in the lead. 
Though Akhil’s team want a fresh face, they want someone who has little experience and could carry the role well. Let us wait for official confirmation.

Thailand’s golden offer to Indian couples

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Thailand government announced an attractive golden offer to Indian couples if that get married in the country. Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minster of Thailand who proudly announced that many Indian couples are showing interest in entering into Wed lock in beautiful locations of the country, then went on to question what if Thailand offers attractive offers to attract more couples.
As such he announced chartered flights to fly Indians to receive wedding services in the country. He said Thailand and India have common culture and people of Thailand are renowned for organising beautiful weddings. He said offer to Indian couples will boost relations and tourism. His recorded message was aired in a local TV.

Thousand TDP activists join TRS

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Talasani Srinivas Yadav,former Sanath Nagar MLA who quit TDP and his post to join TRS to become Minister in KCR led government in Telangana, started fastening the party’s Operation Akarsh program to wipe out TDP in the state. 
As a part of it he inducted 1000 TDP activists in Secunderabad constituency into TRS. After welcoming Badrinath Yadav, TDP incharge, he said all of them joined getting attracted towards CM KCR’s promise of Golden Telangana.
He promised to get good position for Bardinath Yadav in TRS party and informed him that with his hard work in future in TRS, he will shine and come up in life.

‘American’ Balachander Would Win Oscars

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This might sound a little out of the box for you but hypothetically speaking, it does make some sense. Well, a discussion between few senior film journalists and analysts at filmnagar gave rise to this topic. They are asking what would have happened if K Balachander was born in the USA and became a filmmaker. 
They state that if a director like K Balachander is from Hollywood, he would have won multiple Oscar awards and would have gone past the league of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and other legends. Till date, he is deemed as one of India’s greatest directors. True to that, all the best directors of today’s time admire him a lot and take him as the cue for inspiration. 
Not to forget, it is mainly because of K Balachander that Indian cinema is blessed with iconic superstars like Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan. In fact, he is the same man responsible to bring Prakash Raj into limelight. He was their mentor in many ways. Well, we should thank God that KB was born in India and that too in south then.

Google’s own campus in Hyderabad

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Internet giant Google Inc is planning to open its new campus in Hyderabad. It is coming out that Google officials are all set to sign an MOU with KCR led Telangana government in the coming days soon. 
Harpreet Singh, Secretary, Telangana IT, Electronics and Communications confirmed the news saying the Government is likely to sign MOU with Google and they are open to open campus in Hyderabad, which will be its third after US and UK. 
Currently Google is handling its Indian operations from rented premises and it is planning to have a office of its own. Harpreet singh refused to divulge more information on the issue.

Nagarjuna’s niece booked for Drunk Driving

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In a surprising incident, actor-businessman King Nagarjuna’s niece (mena kodalu) got booked by Banjara Hills police for drunk driving. On Saturday night when Nag’s sister Naga Susheela’s daughter Sahitya was stopped at Road No 14 when she is way ahed in her Hyundai Verna car, alcohol was found in her blood in more than permissible limits. 
While the allowed limit is 30mg/100ml, Sahitya’s breath analyzer sample contained 45mg/100ml as per media reports. Her car was seized and she’s called to counselling on Monday. Popular hero Sushant is her brother.

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