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Shruti Hassan’s spiritual side
Chilkur Balaji temple near Hyderabad has a strange tradition. During a visit the devotee goes through the usual rituals of prayer, including 11 pradhakshinas (rounds) of the inner shrine, and makes a vow. Once the wish is fulfilled devotees then walk 108 times around the temple. Daily 1000s of people come there and this list also comprises of the film celebrities.
Today, the visitors at the temple were surprised to see a beautiful girl. She is none other than Shruti Haasan. It is heard that Shruti visited the Chilkur Balaji temple and some are saying she also followed the 108 rounds pattern. Usually that happens when someone has an oath to fulfill. This got some of them discussing as to what could be Shruti’s wish.
Greekuveerudu audio troubles
Nagarjuna’s films run very well in Vizag area. So the star wanted to release the audio albums of his current film, Greekuveerudu, in Vizag city but police refused to give permission. Then he planned a big event in Hyderabad, same problems cropped up due to the death of a fan at Baadshah audio function.
And finally, they opted for a regular venue of Shilpa Kala Vedika, which is safer and easily manageable. So Hyderabad police gave permission and the audio launch date has now been fixed. The event will be held on April 3rd.
The final days shoot of the movie is going on at Rama Naidu cine village. Nagarjuna romances Nayanathara in the film. The romantic entertainer is directed by Dasaradh. S S Taman has given the music.
Krishna Madhav- Mahesh Babu’s Relative all Set to debut
Another young gun, Krishna Madhav with a successful film pedigree is all set to scorch the Tollyland. The genZ actor is the relative of Prince Mahesh Babu and also the nephew of Galla Aruna Kumari. This handsome new talent has a strong theatre experience in the United States and is leaving no stone unturned in his maiden movie.
The movie has two lead ladies, Samskruthi Shenoy, the noted actor in Malayalam blockbuster “Black Butterfly” and Anusha, a budding actor from Sandalwood.
V.I. Anand, who earlier worked as an associate director for A.R. Murugudoss is directing Hrudayam Ekkadunnadhi, while the music is being scored by Vishal Chandrasekhar, a protégé of A.R. Rahman. Sanjay and Pavan are producing the movie under Kirthi Media and Hima Creations banner. Ahuthi Prasad, Prasad Babu, Harsha Vardhan, Dhanraj, Prudhvi, etc are the other cast of this movie.
Jaffa Movie Review – 1.75/5
Rating – 1.75/5
Film: Jaffa
Starring: Brahmanandam,Ali,Dhanraj,Tagubothu Ramesh
Director: Vennela Kishore
Producer: Ramesh Varma
Banner: Multi Dimensions Entertainments
Music: Sunil Kashyap
Story
Jasmine Falguda aka Jaffa (Brahmanandam) lands in Jail with unfortunate events. He is a software engineer and due to his sadistic boss (Melkoti) and colleague he ends up in Jail. Jaffa is intelligent and his ideas make him popular. Jailer Nikki (Vennela Kishore) takes help of Jaffa to get out of his personal problems. Nikki falls in trouble due to an incident and Jaffa tries to help him out by escaping from Jail. The rest forms the story of Jaffa.
Performances
It is known fact that Brahmanandam is a great actor and he is best in doing comedy. In this, he carried out the role on his shoulders playing the title role but his timing and dialogue delivery couldn’t help at times due to the bad writing.
Vennela Kishore as an actor scored good. Ali is just okay while Thagubothu Ramesh and Dhanraj are hilarious. Melkoti, Venu are decent, Ahuti Prasad was wasted. There isn’t much scope for rest of the cast.
Technical Analysis
Cinematography is not upto the mark and the film carried no songs. Vennela Kishore has penned the dialogues as well for the film which are okay. Direction is bad and screenplay is pretty average.
Analysis
Vennela Kishore scores as an actor and in dialogues but fails in direction department for Jaffa. He has come up with a new thought process but the inconsistent screenplay and slow pace fails in keeping audiences glued to the screens.
The film had few good comedy sequences and with Brahmi’s comic timing and dialogue delivery, they work well here and there. But the film had quite a lot of illogical sequences and logic has gone for a toss big time. First half of the film is crisp, thanks to the editor and is passable but the second half is terrible with dragged narration, even Brahmanandam couldn’t help due to the jerky screenplay which ultimately leads to boredom. The climax fizzles out after a while. The film will have good openings due to Brahmanandam but it’s hard to click at the Box-Office.
Final Verdict
Except very few comic scenes, Jaffa fails to keep you hooked!!!
CBN expresses anger at Jagan
TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu has expressed his anger at the YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
Addressing a gathering of party leaders and people on the occasion of the 32nd foundation day of the day on Friday, Naidu said late N T Rama Rao launched the TDP as be believed that society was a temple and people the gods. However Congress believed that people were to be robbed. He has particularly faulted the late Chief Minister Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and his son Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and said the two plundered the state and its resources.
Naidu on Vastunnaa Meekosam Pada Yatra in East Godavari district, he has taken part in the foundation day celebrations at Pedapudi in the East Godavari district he later garlanded the statue of NTR and cut a cake of 32 kgs. He also launched a blood donation camp and distributed clothes to the aged. He said he could never forget the Pedapudi village.
Chandrababu said Jagan earned crores of rupees using the office of his father. He said the Congress and the YSR Congress parties had totally ruined the values of governance. Stating that TDP alone has the power to face Congress, he expressed satisfaction at the response his party was getting now. He made it clear that he had no craze for power and he was only fighting to give a better life for the people. He also reminded that the TDP MLAs have also been fasting since four days endangering their own lives on the power problem faced by the people.
CM is trying to protect his “CHAIR”
State BJP president G Kishan Reddy has said the State government, which was not spending funds, has no moral right to impose taxes on the people.
Speaking to the media here on Friday, Kishan Reddy said the people were suffering a lot due to the menacing power cut and drinking water problems. Alleging that Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was consuming all the time on how to protect his seat and how to impose taxes on the people, the BJP leader has alleged that the much trumpeted ‘Jalayagnam’ has turned out to be a ‘Dhana yagnam’ (minting money) for the greedy contractors and the ruling party leaders. Stating that the government had wasted Rs 85,000 crores of public money in the name of ‘Jalayagnam’, Kishan Reddy said not a single project was completed so far and there was not even a watchman at the project site now.
Alleging that the drinking water problem was severe in the villages, Kishan Reddy said the people were facing hardships to get a pail of water. Alleging that rural population in the State were spending sleepless dark nights due to power cut.
The BJP leader said the people were also suffering from health problems due to lack of sanitation as there were no elected representatives in the local bodies to set right the worsening situation. While the living conditions in the villages were horrible, the Chief Minister was always immersed in thoughts as to how to protect his seat, woo the MLAs and how to impose taxes on the people sitting in the Secretariat, he added.
Pointing out that investments were not coming to the State as industrialists were not happy with the political atmosphere, he said while Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi spread a red carpet to the industrialists, Kiran Kumar Reddy was showing red signal to them.
Alleging that Kiran Kumar Reddy government was the only government that imposed VAT on cloth, he said the State government was not in a position even to spend the Central funds. “Therefore, this government has no right to impose taxes on the people”. Stating that AP stood in the last row in spending Central funds, he asked the State government how the Centre would release fresh funds when it failed to spend the last year’s grant. He said the BJP would oppose the government’s proposal of include the Muslims in BCs for providing reservations to them in the local body elections. He also asked all the political parties to oppose “this political move” of the State government.
Kona Venkat angry on Baadshah
It is an open secret to everyone that writer Kona Venkat is the co-writer of the much hyped action entertainer from NTR’s upcoming film “Baadshah” where he has written some powerful dialogues for this film. Now, the news is that Kona Venkat is busy with his social networking site twitter showing frustration on the publicity posters designed for “Baadshah” with his name missing on the posters.
When fans starting enquiring him why his name was not there he bashed in twitter that it was designer and stated that it would be rectified by tomorrow. He reportedly shared his anguish with Gopi Mohan as he could have easily found Kona’s name not appearing in the list.
After a brief bedlam, he has put a quite quip in twitter that all posters from here on will have his name as well and there is no need for any speculations. So, we can see the new posters with Kona’s name by Tomorrow!
