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Arrest of Dasari at any minute

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Noose is tightening around noted director and former union minister Dasari Narayana Rao’s neck in the coal scam. Reports suggest that the CBI might arrest him any minute as it was now found that Dasari gave away coal to the Jindal group, ignoring the directions of the then Energy minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

CBI found that Dasari disregarded the directions of Shinde, not to allot 4 coal blocks to the companies owned by Congress MP Navin Jindal. Dasari was minister of state for coal and mines at the time.

Navin Jindal’s company applied for allocation of 4 coal blocks in Jharkhand. Apart from Jindal’s company, ‘Bhshan Energy’ also applied for the coal blocks. When Shinde directed that that the two companies be allotted two blocks each, Dasari sanctioned all the four blocks to Jindal Steel and Power company.

CBI seized the correspondence between the departments of Energy and Coal and Mining before and after the allocations. Because of the decision taken by Dasari, coal mines of 663 million tons were given away to Jindal. CBI also found that in a quid pro quo operation, Jindal Group invested Rs. 2.25 crore in the Siri Media, owned by Dasari.

Govt. gives major shock to Raghavendra Rao

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The state government is all set to give a major shock to Darsakendra Raghavendra Rao by taking back 2 acres of land it gave to him for developing film related facilities. Raghavendra Rao instead of setting up recording or dubbing theatres as committed, constructed a mall and Cinemax theatre, in the property worth several crores of rupees in the posh Jubilee Hills area.

When Raghavendra Rao started construction of the mall and the theatre in 2006, the Information and Public Relations department which gave the land, issued notice to him to stop the construction. Raghavendra Rao challenged this in the high court. The high court however rejected his contention. After this, the Hyderabad district collector gave a notice to Raghavendra Rao and in his reply, Raghavendra Rao assured that he would not construct any buildings in the place. Still he went ahead and constructed the mall and the theatre.

Taking serious note of it, the district collector recommended to the Information and Public relations department, that the land be taken back. The department in turn, sent the report to the government, recommending that the land be taken back. This would mean a major problem for Darsakendra as he had constructed the mall and the theatre, borrowing crores of rupees from financial institutions.

Kodanda, Ramulamma Arrested

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Police have on Friday taken into custody TRS MP Vijaya Santi and Telangana Political JAC chief Prof. Kodandaram on Friday.

Kodandaram and Vijaya Santi tried to rush towards the Assembly as part of the Chalo Assembly progamme for which the JAC gave call, and were picked up by the police. Vijaya Santi stunned the police by coming very near to the Assembly despite all the barricades. There was tension for a while as Vijaya Santi and police pushed each other.

Police arrested Kodandaram, employees leader Srinivas Goud and BJP workers at the Indira Park. Speaking to the media, Kodandaram has charged the government of murdering democracy. He faulted illegal arrests and detentions. Stating that they would continue their protests, Kodandaram said they would announce the future course of action on Saturday.

At the RTC cross roads, police took employees leaders into custody. As there was resistance, police used tear gas. At that time TRS leader Dr. Sravan fell down and fainted. He was rushed to the hospital in the 108 ambulance. Meanwhile, CPI (ML) New Democracy workers, Vimalakka and others were arrested by the police. People proceeding to Hyderabad were stopped at the borders of the districts of Telangana. However, common people who are to make urgent trips to Hyderabad were terribly inconvenienced.

At the Ravindra Bharati, TDP women MLAs of the Telangana region staged dharna and raised slogans. TDP MLAs were take into custody at the main gate of the Assembly, when they tried to block it. When police shifted the arrested MLAs to the Golkona police station, they held mock Assembly in the station.

Something Something Review- 2.75/5

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Rating 2.75/5.0

Film:Something Something
Starring: Siddharth, Hansika Motwani, Ganesh Venkatraman, Brahmanandam and others
Producer: B Subrahmaniam, S Suresh
Director: Sundar C
Music: Satya C

Story

Kumar (Siddharth) an IT professional stays away from females in his office and even requests his bosses not to put him in teams that include females. Kumar avoids females and turns female hater after he had bad experiences with them since his childhood.

However his life takes sudden change after he meets Sanjana (Hansika), a new employee in his organisation. Though he falls for her, he couldn’t express himself due to fear and in the meantime, he faces competition from his charming and handsome colleague George (Ganesh Venkatraman). To win sanjana he in his desperation meets Love Guru Premji (Brahmanandam). What happens next should be enjoyed on screen.

Performance

Siddharth came with a neat performance. He looked like Lover Boy once again with his cute looks and expressions. Hansika is a big disappointment in the film as she looked older to Siddharth. Even in songs she disappointed a lot. Her role did not have scope to perform.

Brahmanandam is excellent and created laughing riot as Love Guru Premji. Minus Brahmanandam, the film has nothing to see. Samantha in her little role thrilled all, while Rana came and supported Brahmi.

Technical

Editing could have been better in the second half. None of the songs is enjoyable. Cinematography is ok. Director could have created some romantic comedy scenes between Hansika and Siddharth.

Analysis

Director Sunder chose a script which is routine. However he tried to treat it differently, giving comedy flavor to it. In the first half, his treatment is ok as Brahmanandam’s comedy made everyone forget the other drawbacks. The moment he went and the director came to the story and tried to bring it down to the logical conclusion, his drawbacks came out into open.

Director failed to create interest in the film with lack of romantic scenes and love elements between Hansika and Siddharth. Simple storyline and predictable climax are the drawbacks. Though the climax seemed ok, nearing towards it like pregnant experiencing pains.

Final Verdict

Except for Brahmanandam, Something Something has ‘Nothing’ new for movie lovers.

Chiranjeevi behind CBI attacks on Dasari Narayana Rao .

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CBI officials conducted raids on veteran filmmaker, distributor and former Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao’s house and offices on Tuesday in connection with the coal scam issue. They will be questioning Dasari more on the issue and a charge sheet is also filed. As per the inner reports, Dasari followers are claiming Mega Star Chiranjeevi as man behind these CBI attacks.

Chiru is currently playing active role in Congress Politics. There is rivalry between Chiru and Dasari since ages. “While Dasari is trying to maintain healthy relationship with Mega family by attending Mega events and buying their films, Chiru is in no mood to mingle with him. Using the influence of Central Ministry, he made CBI to target Dasari. Truth will come out soon,” say followers of Dasari.

With this scam, the ‘Bobbuli Puli’ maker Dasari is renamed as ‘Boggu Puli’ by media agencies. We need to wait and see how Chiru reacts?

Pawan kalyan all time record price of Rs.9 crores.

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Power Star pawan kalyan has again shown his powerful charisma in tollywood. As per the reports, it is learnt that his upcoming untitled movie’s rights have been sold out to MAA TV for an all time record price of Rs.9 crores. This movie is being directed by Trivikram. Incidentally, we have recently heard that a hero’s movie rights were sold out to a big price. Sources, say it was a fake news. Anyways, whoever wants to create new satellite record of their movie, pawan kalyan sets them the target of Rs.9 crores.

Devi Sri Prasad is scoring the music of the film while Samantha and Pranitha are doing the lady leads of this family and comedy entertainer. The movie is being produced by BVSN Prasad on Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra in association with Reliance Entertainment. The movie is gearing up for release on 7th August.

 

Maruthi Making Bridge for Mega and Super Star fans

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Mega Star (Konidela) and Super Star (Ghattamaneni) family Fans are always at war these days for the sake of records. Each of these camps wanted to continue their dominancy on Tollywood BO with new records. Now, here comes one director who is connecting both these opposite compounds. He is most successful Maruthi of ‘Ee Rojullo, Bus Stop and prema katha chithram’ fame.

Ever since Maruthi delivered first hit, he is more or less rated as a man belonging to Mega group because of his closeness to Bunny, Sirish, Bunny Vaas and their publicist SKN. As we know ‘PKC’ had Mahesh Babu’s brother-in-law Sudheer Babu in hero role, this can be obviously seen as a movie connecting Mega group director with a Super Star camp hero. In fact, Mahesh Babu also began promoting Maruthi which means to show that there is nothing like this camp and that camp…its all of them together belong to one group of Tollywood.

Jagan ultimatum to Rama Krishna

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YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy reportedly gave a clear signal to Konatala Rama Krishna to leave the party if he cannot abide by the discipline.
Rama Krishna, a former minister of the YSR cabinet has been unhappy and inactive ever since TDP leader Dadi Veerabhadra Rao was admitted to the party. Though Rama Krishna tried to block his admission, Jagan did not bother to heed his advice.
Konatala met Jagan in the jail and elaborately explained that admitting Dadi would be counter productive for the party and that he would not be able to work with Dadi. Still Jagan did not bother about his advice. Now it is learnt that Jagan gave an ultimatum to Rama Krishna that if he wants to continue in the party he should burry the hatchet and work with Dadi. Jagan also made it clear through mediators that Rama Krishna could leave the party if he could not adjust himself to the situation.
    

Is Hari Krishna Launching new Party

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Nandamuri Hari Krishna, the estranged brother-in-law of the TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu is said to be making efforts to launch a political party once again. It is also being said that the YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy has become very happy at the development as TDP votes would be split between the two, benefiting his party.

It may be recalled that Hari Krishna was very unhappy at the way Naidu has been projecting his son Lokesh as the future leader, against his own son Jr. NTR who is more charismatic. Though Hari Krishna attended the recent Maha Nadu of the party, he refused to wear the scarf of the party. Jr. NTR excused himself from the Maha Nadu totally, by stating that he was not invited.

Now reports are doing the rounds that Hari Krishna was thinking that it would be good to launch a party and campaign that Naidu had given a go-by to the ideals of TDP launched by his late father N T Rama Rao. Sources said he was no longer in a mood to bear the insults being heaped on him and his son.

There is also another possibility, say political sources. If his health does not permit launching a party and vigorously campaign for it, Hari Krishna may campaign for some leaders who left TDP and joined other parties as they too felt that NTR’s ideals were diluted by Naidu. Kodali Nani who is a close follower of Hari Krishna and Jr. NTR joined the YSR Congress, charging that Naidu bade bye to the ideals of NTR. If Hari Krishna decides to campaign for NTR followers, he may opt to campaign for leaders like Nani who are now in the YSR Congress, say sources.

It may be mentioned here that Hari Krishna had turned against Naidu earlier also and launched Anna Telugu Desam. But that venture flopped. However he might once again launch a party or work for those who left the TDP on NTR’s ideals, say sources. It is learnt that Hari Krishna has already started hectic parleys with his followers. Though his health might not permit to campaign for the new party, his followers are encouraging him to launch it, as NTR could take care of the campaign. It is being said that a decision would be taken very soon.

Miss India Rejected Balayya

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Miss India 2012 Erica Fernandez dismissed reports that she accepted to act opposite hero Bala Krishna in his forthcoming movie with director Boyapati.

Erica tweeted that she has not accepted the offer and has not in fact committed to any film with Balayya. Erica is acting in ‘Dega’.

Reports earlier said that Boyapati gave up trials for Nayana Tara after she declared she would not act with senior actors. Later reports said Erica was signed against Balayya.Boyapati wants the new film to be a bigger hit than ‘Simha’ and hence the hunt for a hot heroine.
    

Is Jr. NTR campaiging for YSRCP?

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Surprising! But true. V V Vinayak, one of the top directors of Tollywood, wants to become ‘Nayak’ for his constituency. He is currently focusing on his political entry, working behind the screen to contest as MLA. He is not on the sets directing a movie any longer.

Nayak has close contacts with the YSRCP and his best friend Kodali Nani who has recently joined the party, is playing a major role in Vinayak’s political debut. Buzz in Film Nagar is that Vinayak and Nani are trying to convince Jr. NTR to campaign for them in the 2014 elections.
   

Vijayamma and Anil Banned from Christianity

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State Christian Political Awareness Conference declared that they were banning the YSR Congress honorary president Y S Vijayamma, her son-in-law Br. Anil and K A Paul as they were indulging in unchristian activities, while holding Bible in their hands.

In a statement, the organization said the three were insulting Christianity and hence it was decided to banish them from religion. There was a symposium on ‘To Whom would the Christians vote’ in Ravindra Bharati on Wednesday under the auspices of the organization. TDP senior leader Peddi Reddy, Congress leader Santa Raj and TRS leader Sanker Luke participated in the programme.

The meeting resolved to excommunicate Vijayamma, Anil and K A Paul from Christianity. It also called upon Christians to vote for only those who would work for the betterment of the Christian community.

Dusky beauty’s Double Dhamaka with Pawan & NTR

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Dusky beauty samantha is doing the female lead of Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s Aththarintiki Daaredi( working title). The latest we heard is that she might be pairing up with Pawan Kalyan once again for ‘Gabbar Singh-2’. With these back to back movies with Pawan Kalyan, samantha’s range would be reached at its peaks.

Incidentally, samantha is doing two consecutive movies with Jr.NTR as well. Currently, samantha is working with Jr.NTR for ‘Ramayya Vastavayya’. Harish Shankar is directing this movie. On the other hand, samantha has been selected as the heroine for Jr.NTR’s next venture ‘Rabhasa’ as well. This movie will be directed by Santhosh Srinivas. Rarely do we see a heroine doing back to back films at once with two superstars of tollywood such as Pawan Kalyan and Jr.NTR. And samantha is likely to achieve this rare feat.

Shocking statement from Krishnam Raju on Prabhas

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How far is it feasible for a star hero to do two films at one time? Well, some heroes are doing it easily but when it comes to directors like rajamouli, minimum he will ask the hero is by laying a condition to stay out of other commitments before accepting the call sheets. So, Prabhas may not be provided with extra comfort of working for one more film in parallel to ‘Bahubali.’

A sudden statement from Krishnam Raju yesterday on himself debuting as director to deal Prabhas as hero is ending shock waves in Telugu industry. ‘Our film will start shooting from August,’ Krishnam Raju is reported to have quoted. If this is really true, how can Prabhas manage himself between Krishnam Raju and rajamouli will be a big question. On the lee side, Jakkanna can neither tolerate nor encourage such unprofessional behavior from his artists?

Allu Arjun is madly in love with…

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Looks like the gossips circulated by few media sections on allu arjun’s divorce with Sneha Reddy have hurt the Allu family sentiments a bit. While none from the family condemned the rumors but allu arjun was quick to react offering a clarification.

‘We both are madly in love ever since we started seeing each other. As I am in show business, I know the severity and got habituated to the rumors while it is still new to Sneha and her parents. Only one thing I can say you all is, we are a happy couple and have no issues. For all my yellow media friends, we are happy in our relation and planning to have kids in few years,’ Bunny said. Will this end the baseless news around Allu family or will Yellow media target any new members in Mega camp? 

Arrival of Balupu on 28th

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They have wasted a long time in summer season which was left out empty without much competition and heat at BO. More importantly, two films which have struck up in release for their own reasons are ‘action 3d’ and ‘Balupu.’ While ‘Action’ is an experimental flick with 3D technology used for first time for a Telugu movie, ‘Balupu’ is a commercial pot boiler with trade mark Raviteja energy.

As per official reports flowing in, ‘action 3d’ will grace theatres on 21st of this month and ‘Balupu’ makers announced 28th as date of their arrival. ‘Balupu’ team is currently in Bangkok shooting a pub song on Raviteja, Lakshmi Rai which will complete the entire shoot. Primarily, glamour show of Shruti Hasan is becoming the driving force for ‘Balupu’ business and ‘action 3d’ is mainly targeted at family audience with thrilling hilarious episodes promised. Let us wait for two more weeks to see these two films coming in light.

Is Mahesh Twitter Hacked by Somebody?

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Prince mahesh Babu’s twitter hacking has been a hot discussion topic now. Many techies are of the opinion that the twitter account of a person cannot be hacked that much easier. On the other side, it was gossiped that mahesh’s better half, Namratha, has tweeted about ‘MAA TV’ awards. “But then, who has been operating mahesh’s twitter all these days? is one more debatable question. However, a few of the gossipmongers predict, mahesh’s recent tweet was posted by ‘somebody'(hackers? or not?) in some ‘strange’ conditions.

Meanwhile, mahesh is busy completing his ‘1-Nenokkadiney’. The new schedule of this movie will start in Northern Ireland from 18th of this month onwards. Kriti Sanon is teaming up with mahesh in this action entertainer. Sukumar is directing this movie while Anil Sunkara, Ram Achanta and Gopichand Achanta on 14 Reels Entertainment.

 

Government reject permission for T march

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The Andhra Pradesh government Wednesday ruled out permission for a march to the assembly proposed to be conducted by the Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Friday to press the demand for formation of separate Telangana state.

The state government said since the march could lead to violence, no permission could be granted.

Major Industries Minister J. Geeta Reddy has made it clear that the government can’t allow the ‘chalo assembly’ march. The minister, who is looking after home portfolio during the current assembly session, said if the JAC wants to hold a meeting on the city outskirts, the government may consider giving permission.

The ministers from Telangana had Tuesday urged Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy to give permission for the ‘chalo assembly’. The chief minister, however, rejected the appeal, saying the rally could disturb the peace. Meanwhile, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) once again appealed to the chief minister to allow the march. TRS legislators submitted a memorandum to Kiran Kumar Reddy in the state assembly on Wednesday.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Communist Party of India (CPI) have also requested the chief minister to allow the march. TRS and BJP are constituents of JAC, which has vowed to go ahead with the march even if permission is not accorded.

The police Tuesday imposed prohibitory orders in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad till June 18, banning meetings, rallies and processions.

NTR is ready to Expose

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Prabhas, Allu Arjun, Rana, Sunil, Nitin were seen sporting six pack abs on silver screen. Now NTR is joining this list and getting ready to go shirtless in his forthcoming film Ramayya Vasthavayya, said reliable sources.

NTR is getting trained under international fitness trainer, John Shumate, who was introduced to him by his co-actor Ajaz Khan. Nandamuri fans are all excited that their hero will be sporting six pack abs and give tuff competition to heroes in Tollywood.

Until or unless there is no requirement in the subject no Six Packs and Zero sizes can save the movie. Six pack doesn’t suitable to all heroes like in Bollywood. Let’s wait and see whether NTR pass out with flying colors in the six pack test before audiences or not.

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