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Will Sneha’s ‘3D show’ shower success?

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Sneha Ullal who is renowned for her striking resemblance to Aishwarya Rai is all set to show her sensuous assets in 3D. She is going to wear bikini for her next movie Action 3D. Sneha will be seen romancing hilarious hero Allari Naresh who turned Sudden Star in his previous film Sudigadu. Film features  Kick Shaam, Raju Sundaram and Vaibhav . It is being directed by Anil Sunkara, the famous producer, who is making his debut as a director with this movie.

Though Sneha made her presence felt in the super hit Telugu movies Ullasamga Utsahamga and Simha (where she was paired opposite Balakrishna), the gorgeous green- eyed beauty never reached the next stage. She is now planning to raise
the temperature with her sexy look. Famous for her girl next door image in Tollywood, Sneha will be wearing a 2-piece on screen for the first time.

A total makeover is what she is looking for in this movie. She has already started her workout regime,working on her body, to tone her stomach and get the curves right.Though she had to struggle in her initial days in the movie industry, she believes that this movie will do wonders for her career and bring her two notches above.

Nagma fans in Maharashtra Congress

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There was a time when south Indian heroes were fighting for the dates of Nagma in their films. But after all these years, Congress leaders in Maharashtra are fighting due to this yester-year heroine. Jumping into the details, there was news that Nagma was contesting in the 2009 elections but that didn’t happen. Now that the same news are flying about the 2014 elections that Nagma is contesting for Rajya Sabha in replacement to the ex-chief minister late Vilas Rao Deshmukh after his demise. Here starts the problem from the other leaders and their supporters who are also trying for that place in Rajya Sabha. Rohidas Patil is one who is also competing with Nagma and was backed up by the chief minister Prithiviraj Chouhan. Others include Naresh Pugalia from Vidharbaha and ex-minister Anees Ahmed also competing with Nagma. But she has enough weight in Delhi, who has supporters that could convince high command in this matter. If everything goes well, Nagma will be seen in Parliament.

Dirty delights in Tollywood

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The sensational lady who even make the TRP ratings of the channels risen up and the circulation of newspapers too. She is Tara Chowdary. Now it seems like she is going to rise up the box office collections too with a script out of her life. Yes, there is a movie being planned on the life of Tara Chowdary. Though Tara is nowhere related to the film personally it is all about just her stories and news in the media. Pakistani lanky beauty Vina Malik is going to do the role of Tara in the film who was in news few weeks back that she is being intimate with a producer. Tara became popular with the CDs she released which contain the romantic conversations of many politicians and police officers with Tara which were even telecasted in TV channels. She used to capture these audio and video clippings of celebrities and popular personalities, who used to come to her place with secret cameras and mikes and she was even alleged for encouraging prostitution in her house and cheating many girls with the bait of movie offers.

Y.S.Jagan and Nagarjuna

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Nagarjuna is called as a gentle man in the industry. Now there is a rumor around film and political circles about a deal he made with a political party. Coming to the details, Nagarjuna demanded a package of few crores for the campaigning of YSR CP for the next elections when the party asked him to do. This news is creating waves across. It was an open secret that YSR helped Akkineni family in the case of seven acres of disputed land in Annapurna studio. Now it is Jagan who thought of asking a favor in return to this help, approached Nagarjuna to be the center of attraction in campaigning for the YSR CP party. But it is heard that Nagarjuna demanded a package of money to do so. To add more to this, even Jagan went mad at Nagarjuna for asking money.
 
But people who know Nagarjuna well are saying, Nag is a gentle man, he doesn’t need to do all this.

Krishnam Vende Jagadgurum Review – 3.25/5

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Rating: 3.25/5.0
Banner: First Frame Entertainments
Presented by: Bibo Srinivas
Cast : Rana Daggubati, Nayantara, Brahmanandam, Kota Srinivas Rao, Posani Krishna Murali, L B Sriram, Raghu Babu, Milind Gunaji, Satyam Rajesh, Hema and others
Script Consultant: Venkatesh Chakravarthy
Lyrics: Sirivennela Seeta Rama Sastry, E S Murthy, Sai Madhav
Dialogues: Sai Madhav Burra
Action: Vijayan
Editing: Sravan k
Cinematography: Gnana Sekhar V S
Music: Manisharma
Producers: Y Rajeev Reddy, Sai Babu Jagarlamudi
Story-Screenplay-Direction: Krish(Jagarlamudi Radhakrishna)
CBFC rating: ‘U/A’
Release Date: 30-11-2012

Story

B.Tech Babu(Rana) wants to go to US for higher studies and good earning, Rana does some key roles in the dramas with his grandfather(Kota Srinivasa Rao) who is member of Surabhi Drama Company. His grandfather is against to his wish. Babu wants to perform lastly in a drama “Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum” written by his grandfather in Bellary. Devika(Nayanatara) is Tv journalist who comes to Bellary to shoot a documentary on mining mafia. What happens after that? What changes babu and what he learns in his journey is what the movie is about.

Performances
Rana is good and he performed well. His muscular body and expressions overshadowed his performance in crucial scenes, his expressions are hardly visible in emotional scenes. Nayana tara suited to the role of TV Reporter. Kota Srinivasa Rao, Milind Gunaji, Murali Sharma, Posani are okay. L.B.Sriram sparkled once again in a brief role. Brahmanandam delivered poor show. The remaining supporting cast are okay. Music by Manisharma is fantastic. The technical departments Cinematography, Editing score good marks. The Story is good. The screenplay is racy in the second half. The Direction is good in parts.

Analysis

Krish’s much-anticipated follow-up to his ‘Gamyam’ and ‘Vedam’ features Rana Daggubati as B Tech Babu and Nayantara as Devika, a documentary filmmaker. Rana is good, he has given decent performance and in action sequences he is too good. Nayanatara suited to the role. she dubbed her own voice for the first time in Telugu and she is okay. The chemistry between the lead pair is okay. There aren’t much scenes to depict that.

Kota Srinivas rao is good, he was restricted to only a couple of scenes. Posani Krishna Murali is good as cab driver and he evokes some laughs. Brahmanandam have been wasted. Raghu babu and Satyam Rajesh are okay in their roles. Murali sharma is okay. Milind Gunaji suited to the role of antagonist. L.B.Sriram once again tops the others in a brief role in the second half. He delivered good performance. Venkatesh-Rana shared silver screen for the first time (though it’s for few minutes) with Sameera Reddy in an item song and the response in the theaters is huge.

Cinematography is okay. Art work and editing are neat. Music by Manisharma is fantastic , he has come up with some soulful tunes supported by good lyrics. Manisharma once again proved that he is best in BGM. The background score is fantastic. Lyrics by Sirivennela and ES Murthy are good. The story is good and has a lot of potential. The screenplay is also engaging in parts but the Direction could have been better. There are some scenes which appeared dragged. The Dialogues are good in most of the places. The dialogues have deep philosophical insight. The dialogues are big asset to the movie.

The director should first decide on which pattern and mode to proceed. The characters and the roles of the protagonist and antagonists are not properly etched. If the movie have been taken in the artistic way it could have turned into a master piece by showing the struggle and pain of the villagers who lost their land, children and food.. The unnecessary inclusion of so called mass elements and the ups and downs in the graph effected the flow of the movie. Some scenes appeared forced and artificial. The personal grudge and the public frustration/anguish weren’t well balanced towards the end. Krish failed at places in blending the mass elements to a classical and subtle treatment.

Rana has put a lot of effort and it’s evident, He tried his best in the diction of Dialogues in the Drama sequences. All the songs are well picturised. The item song in the Second half is a pop-up. The Climax get-up as Lord Narasimha Swamy in the song just before the climax is very good; for the common mass movie lovers it’s hard to bear the typical Drama sequences which may bore them.

The first half is okay(even though nothing much happens) and the second half is just okay(with good climax). Krish should definitely be commended for the effort made to portray the essence of Bhagavad-Gita; the movie has a subtle message and is thought provoking. The movie surely gets good reviews from intellects but it’s commercial success solely depends on how it fares at the B,C Centers. How family Audience receive this flick is awaited.

Plus: Music, Dialogues, Performances

Minus: Slow beginning, Comedy, drama scenes,Artificial scenes

Verdict
: Decent Attempt, Krish tried to narrate a serious issue in a commercial way and succeeded to some extent

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Salman becoming Bollywood’s “Stalin”

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Salman Khan is extremely intelligent and can easily guage the pulse of viewers. That is the reason he shed all his inhibitions and forgetting his super star status decided to star in the remake of Southern superhit film ‘Pokiri’ featuring Mahesh Babu. The film went on to create sensation in Bollywood and he never looked back.

He scored hattrick of hits with Ready and Bodyguard and is now busy with Kick. As if this is not enough sources say Sallu Miya is keen to become Bollywood’s ‘Stalin’. The film is a south Indian starrer featuring Megastar Chiranjeevi directed by top director Murugadoss. Murugadoss recently scored a hit with Tupakki and is taking it to Bollywood presenting it to Akshay Kumar.

Salman in the meanwhile sources say will reprise Chiranjeevi’s role in this Bollywood version, which is to be directed by brother Sohail Khan.Salman is yet to give the nod for Stalin and the filmmaker might announce the project once the actor agrees to it.

Stalin was written and directed by AR Murugadoss and the film had Trisha, Prakash Raj and Khushboo essaying important roles. The movie, which has the music of Mani Sharma, was a successful film at the Tollywood box office and is one of the highest grossers in 2006.

Can Dalapathi team create Double Dhamaka?

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Two decades mesmerising director Maniratnam teamed up with Super Star Rajanikanth to create a sensation on Southern screen. He transformed Rajani as ‘Dalapati’  turning him the commander. The film had terrific storyline coupled with beautiful tunes from Isaignani Ilayaraja. Mammutty and Rajanikanth’s powerful performances coupled with young and charming Arvind Swamy’s debut created a stunning impact. All across the country hailed Maniratnam’s creative genius of imbibing Mahabharata storyline of Karna and Duryodhana friendship in the current context.

Even now the film is remembered and now sources say both the stars are getting ready for another Dalapathi. Insiders reveal that  Maniratnam’s office is full of discussion with superstar’s film. Superstar’s fans are discussing what deadly impact the film will create. One wonder whether the film includes the same starcast of Malayalam superstar Mammutty and retired but not tired handsome hero Aravind Swamy.

Aravind Swamy is currently starring in Maniratnam’s Kadal while Superstar is busy with his film Kochadiyan. The moment official announcement comes the project will be closely followed with scribes competing between themselves as to what could be the storyline.

Moms and grannies silver screen sizzlers

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Film industry always oozes with glamor and most of the times public is under the impression that only beauties in the age group of 16-25 are fit for acting and the moment they cross the line or gets married, they are unfit for acting. However things are getting changed and now many moms have made their re entry into the film industry impressing viewers with their performances.

Now moms and grannies are getting ready to sizzle on silverscreen. It is not that moms and grannies are going to rock on silver screen but beautiful stars are getting ready to sizzle in the roles of moms and grannies. While Sneha is getting ready to star as mom of ten year old boy in the film Haridas directed by Kumaravelan, Bollywood beauty Rekha is going onestep ahead turning grand mother of Sharman Joshi in her next film directed by Indra Kumar.

Sneha says she agreed for the role as it is important role in the film and director insisted and impressed on her that only she can do justice for the role while sources speaking about Rekha’s role says “The actor plays a US-returned guy, who is extremely fond of his naani (Rekha). He stands up for her when she is ill-treated by the family. Randhir Kapoor plays Sharman’s grandfather.”

Brahmanandam insulting brahmins?

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When Denikaina Ready was released and it generated immense controversy, Brahmin Organisations demanded action against the stars featuring in the film for hurting the sentiments of priests and brahmins. When Brahmin organisations met Brahmi particularly, he apologised the leaders and promised them not to star in such roles. However it seems Brahmi did not mend his ways or film makers are scripting the same scenes again and again which feature him as priest and get thrashed by heroes who make him a laughing stock.

The same incident repeated in King Nagarjuna starrer Damarukam where he was seen as a brahmin house owner who rents his house to Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna enjoys merrily with out paying rent and when Brahmi asks rent, he takes him to task beating him to the core. One wonder how could Nag who robs people of lakhs and crores and donates to orphan homes stay for free at Brahmi’s house.

Even now in Rana starrer Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum, Brahmanandam is seen as a drama artist and he is shown at the recieving end with the hero and other characters. It seems film makers in their effort to show Brahmi as comedian is making laughing stock of him and in turn insulting various communities.

Rana’s battle with Amir

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Tollywood hot hunk Leader Rana who made his presence felt in Bollywood with ‘Dum Maro Dum’ and ‘Department’ is known for his bold, courageous and daring guts. He decided to take on Mr.Perfectionist Amir Khan who as Inspector Shekawat is in ‘Talaash’ of criminals. While Amir is in search of criminals , Rana as B.Tech Babu in ‘Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum’ is taking on mining mafia and politician nexus in Bellary, Karnataka.

While Amir promoted his film on a huge scale even appearing in small screen exclusively on CID screened on Sony TV, Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum is releasing across the world in a grand manner in about 1000 screens. KVJ will surely affect Talaash collections atleast in AP for the first couple of days.

Rana and even the film makers are planning to take the film even in Bollywood considering Rana’s image there. KVJ is an action adventure film , directed by the renowned director Krish . The story of the movie is set in the background of the Surabhi theater play and Bellary which is currently in news for the mining controversy. Rana plays the role of B Tech Babu and is a somewhat reluctant theater actor.

Amir’s Talaash, on the other hand, is a psychological thriller starring Aamir Khan as the cop. IThe story of this movie isthat a police officer Aamir Khan as inspector Suri is trying to solve the murder mystery of a high-profile actor, who was killed in an accident. The story actually brings together the life of three unrelated people in different ways.

Tamil small film makes merry

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Pizza, a small Tamil film had once again proved the stamina of small films if innovatively made. The remake of rights of Pizza were hot in the market, with the Kannada rights being sold for Rs 35 lakh and the Telugu rights for Rs 72 lakh. The latest is that the Hindi and other North Indian language rights for the film have been snapped up by director Bejoy Nambiar, reportedly for Rs 1.5 crore. The film was made on a budget of about Rs 1.5 core and the makers are said to have spent about Rs 2 crore on its publicity.

The movie had also reaped good amount of money at Tamil box office. Superstar Rajinikanth is said to have enjoyed the movie and called up its director, Karthik Subburaj, to congratulate him.

Rajinikanth in Mani Ratnam’s next?

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If the grapevine in Kollywood is to be believed, Super Star Rajinikanth and ace filmmaker Mani Ratnam are going to join hand for a project very soon. The last time the legends came together was for Dhalapathi, which was a runaway hit. While both the parties are not available for comment, few Kollywood sources tells us that this combination is on cards.

Superstar Rajinikanth has just completed the work on Kochadaiyaan, directed by his daughter Soundarya R Ashwin. The film is expected to release in January 2013 for Pongal. And on the other side, Mani Ratnam has wrapped up the shoot for his upcoming movie Kadal.

Will Review turn in to money for KVJ?

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Rana’s Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum is getting positive reviews from all quarters. Initial reports say that KVJ’s interval bang, climax episodes and dialogues are its major highlights. Director Krish has come up with a gripping screenplay and plot line and Rana’s performance hogs the limelight.

Rana who had been longing for a commercial success had pinned high hopes on this movie. Director Krish is also known for making many honest movies but fail to garner success at the box office. Lets see if this movie changes their fortunes!

Salman Khan calls Siddharth

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Actor Siddharth’s interest in Cricket is well known with the actor cheering Deccan Chargers in IPL in many matches. Recently, Siddharth got a surprise call from none other than Salman Khan asking him to play for Mumbai Heroes at the Celebrity Cricket League next year. He himself revealed this in Twitter.Apart from Mumbai, Sid also received calls from Bangalore and Hyderabad teams to play for them next year, but unfortunately the actor cannot take part in the sport as he is nursing a shoulder injury and has been advised rest from participating in any heavy physical activity.

Siddharth is currently busy wrapping up Jabardasth. He had couple of Tamil movies in shooting which will also be dubbed in to Telugu.

Manisha Koirala down with Cancer

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Veteran actress Manisha Koirala who recently made her come back with RGV’s Bhoot Returns is reportedly suffering from Ovarian Cancer. The 42-year-old actress reportedly fell unconscious, she was immediately flown to Mumbai with her mother for further check-ups, leading to her hospitalisation at Jaslok Hospital. The hospital sources remained tightlipped about her health condition.

Manisha made her debut in 1991 in Saudagar and recently made her comeback in Ram Gopal Varma’s Bhoot Returns. She is well known to Telugu audience with a few notable films to her credit like ‘Bharateeyudu’, ‘Bombay’, ‘Baba’, and ‘Criminal’.

California to experience ‘Dirty Lecture’

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No, this is not her role in her next movie. The national award winning actress, Vidya Balan, is actually going to lecture students in California. How the students feel after the ‘Dirty Lecfture’ from Voluptuous Vidya should be analysed after some time.

A film school in California has invited Vidya Balan to visit their university and deliver a few lectures on cinema to the students there. Vidya, who made her debut with Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Parineeta and has been riding high on success with her hit movies like No one Killed Jessica , Paa, The Dirty Picture and Kahaani, was considered by the university to be an apt example for their students. Apart from the National Film Award, she has also won four Filmfare awards four Screen awards.

Clearly, her talent is being recognized internationally. Vidya was reportedly very happy when she received the invitation and agreed to visit the film school. Though she has been busy with her movie schedule, she would be leaving for US the moment she finds some spare time.

Currently, she is busy shooting for her upcoming Ghanchakkar , also starring Emraan Hashmi, who was also Vidya’s co-star in The Dirty Picture. She is also going to star in Shaadi ke Side Effects , which is expected to release in 2013.

Will Lawrence’s mystic magic impress Super Star

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The superstar Rajnikanth’s biggest fan Raghava Lawrence, who is a choreographer-turned-director, has
decided to dedicate a special album to him on his birthday. Rajnikanth will turn 62 on the 12 th December
2012.

In his recent statement, he revealed that he is a really big fan of Rajnikantth, and that he also holds
Rajnikanth in a high pedestal as he is really a very good human being. So he is dedicating a special album
for Rajni sir for his birthday this December, which will be on 12-12-12. The music for this special album
will be composed by music director Vijay Antony. This album will also be a treat for all of Rajnikanth’s
fans.

However, unnamed sources have revealed that Raghava Lawrence has other intentions behind this
birthday gift. It is said that his recently released movie Rebel which had starred Prabhas and Tamanna as
the lead pair did quite poorly at the box office. The producers have put the blame for the losses of this
movie on the shoulder of Lawrence. Post this debacle, none of the producers are agreeable to work with
him and invest in his projects.

This birthday gift is, thus, being seen as his stunt to establish a gateway to get an opportunity to work
with Rajnikanth.Now it has to be seen whether Lawrence’s mystic magic will impress Super Star or not.

Can Princess Priyamani become another Mitravinda

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The glamorous actress Priyamani is now all set to don the avatar of a tough warrior princess in her
upcoming Telugu movie. Till now she has done mostly performance-based roles and some glamorous
roles as well.

The movie is a period film as the story is set in an era of 400 years ago. The man who will be donning
the director’s hat for this movie is Prem Arya, who was the former associate of filmmaker Anishankar.
He revealed that it is Priyamani who will play the warrior princess in the movie. He also informed that
the film will be shot at an ancient fort in Chandragiri near Tirupati, which will tentatively start around 5 th
December.

Most actresses have attained huge success after working in period films. Right from Anushka, whose
work in Arundhathi did wonders to her career graph, to Kajal Agarwal, who acted in Magadheera
(Maaveeran in Tamil), another period film, marked the rise for her. Whether this period film is able to
work the same magic for Priyamani, will be decided only after the release of the movie.

However, she has also said yes to act in another movie to be directed by director Samudra.

Ileana’s romantic Bollywood ride

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Shahid Kapoor and Ileana D’Cruz can be seen riding a scooter in an upcoming movie Phata Poster Nikalo,where they have been paired together for the first time. Ileana D’Cruz, who acted in various south movies and romanced with top south stars, made a dashing entry in Bollywood with Anurag Basu’s super hit Barfi! , where she was paired opposite Ranbir Kapoor.

Phata Poster Nikalo is directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, whose last movie was Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani . This movie is about a young boy who wants to be a superstar, against his mother’s wishes.Shahid Kapoor plays the role of a cop named Vishwas Rao and this is the first time that Shahid Kapoor donning the look of a cop.

This movie is being produced by Ramesh Taurani who revealed that this movie is an entertainer, with romance and action as its core element and that it is a complete masala movie.Rmesh Taurani had been planning this movie with Shahid Kapoor for quite some time, but the actor,who had his hands full with a movie with Manish Sharma and another with Prabhu Deva, accepted the
movie only in July. The movie is expected to have a 2013 release.

Will Mumbaikars forgive RGV?

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Ram Gopal Varma who invited the wrath of Mumbaites when he visited Hotel Taj right after 26/11 attacks seems to be making amends with his acts over the last couple of days. “The Attacks of26/11” is Ram Gopal Verma’s upcoming movie starring Nana Patekar and Sanjiv Jaiswal and is based on the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Ramu some time back released 7 min clip of the film during which he apologised for his acts. Now he went even further when the the producer Parag Sanghvi has declared that the proceeds of this movie will be donated to the victims of the attack and the heroes of that tragic event.Sanghvi said that this is not a commercial movie and therefore, the profits earned from this movie will be dedicated to the cause which is the subject of this movie.The movie has Sanjeev Jaiswal playing the character of Ajmal Kasab. The art director is Uday Singh. The Promos of the movie has already been released.

It has to be seen whether Mumbaikars accept RGV’s apologies and forgive him for his acts. RGV interacted with police force and even families of Mumbai victims.

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