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Finally a respite for Sai Dharam Tej

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YVS Chowdary’s new film Rey introducing Sai Dharam Tej in the lead role has finally reached the last schedule of shoot. The film has been in production from more than a year and now has finally reached the final schedule shoot. The movie unit had recently completed a marathon schedule in US and are currently being shot in Ramoji Film City and the movie is being planned for release on March 28th release.

Saymani Kher is the first heroine, while Shraddha Das (of Arya2 and Mogudu fame) is playing second fiddle to Saymani.  “Rey” is a high budget film, this music oriented love story is coming with the caption “Shout for success”. Rey is also being produced by YVS Chowdary on his Bommarillu vari banner. Chakri is composing the music.

Life threat for Vamsi

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TDP Vijayawada Urban President Vallabhaneni Vamsi has alleged that he faced life threat from former minister and congress leader Devineni Nehru. Talking to the media here, he said Nehru was getting his movements recorded, to harm him. He said one Arava Satyam, a rowdy-sheeter and follower of Nehru has sent a videographer to record his as well as his associates’ movements.

When caught, that videographer has said that Arava Satyam has asked him to shoot his movements. He said this pointed at the involvement of Nehru and a possible life threat to him. He said he has complained about the threat to Machavaram police and asked them to arrest Arava Satyam.

Aishwarya all praise for Modi

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Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai was all praise for the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. She said she was amazed at the fast pace with which the state was advancing under the leadership of Modi.

It may be noted that Aishwarya’s father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador of Gujarat. This remark of the beauty would surely boost the morale of Modi, who is already leading in the election race as per several surveys.

All-party meet will not be postponed

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Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has made it clear that there is no proposal to postpone the all-party meeting on Telangana, scheduled to be held on December 28. He said postponement would be considered only if all the political parties ask for it.

‘T’ Congress MPs Manda Jagannatham, Vivek and Rajaiah have met Vivek met Shinde and requested him not to postpone the meeting, in view of reports that the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and the PCC Chief Botsa Satyanarayana had sought postponement because of the World Telugu Conference.

Mopidevi seeks bail for Sabarimalai pilgrimage

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Former minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana has sought interim bail for visiting Sabarimala as he has donned the sacred mala of Lord Ayyappa.

In his petition he has explained that he has been going on the pilgrimage since the last 18 years and hence should be given bail from December 24 to January 2 to visit the sacred place.

Jayaprada to join YSRC ?

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Former actress and Rampur MP Jaya Prada has said that she has decided to come back to state politics. She has however said that she has not yet decided which party to join.

Jaya Prada has participated in a private programme here on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, she said she had not yet taken decision on her future plans as elections were still far away.

Jaya Prada has earlier represented the TDP in Rajya Sabha. However, she has left the party because of her differences with the party chief Chandra Babu Naidu.

She has joined the Samajwadi Party and was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Rampur constituency of UP. However, as her mentor Amar Singh has diferred with the party chief Mulayam Singh and was later expelled from the party, Jaya Prada also fell out. She was also expelled from the SP. Though Amar Singh has launched a new party, it has flopped during the recent elections. Now she has no future in UP. With this there has been debate on her future plans. She has indicated that she was thinking of a come back to state politics on an earlier occasion also.

According to speculations, Jaya Prada has no chance of joining the Congress. She also cannot rejoin the TDP say some sources. However, she has recently stated that Chandra Babu Naidu was a great administrator, giving rise to speculations that she might return to TDP. However, sources say that there are strong indications that she might join the YSR Congress, as most of the TDP leaders were already joining the new party. It is being said that Jaya Prada was thinking of joining the YSR Congress because of the strong winds blowing in favor of that party.

Jaya Prada is however keeping her cards close to her heart. Whenever media asks her about her future plans, she has been replying that she could not talk about AP politics as of now as she represented UP and was engaged in politics of that state. Sources point out that she has been considering both the options of joining the TDP or the YSRCP.

Chandrababu’s counter to Purandareswari

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The TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu has written an open letter to the fans of the founder of his party late N T Rama Rao, countering the allegations made by his daughter and union minister Purandareswari against him.

Alleging that Purandareswari was trying to politicize the issue of erection of NTR’s statue in Parliament, he has questioned the union minister why she had not questioned about the statue when Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy was alive. He said she should also explain why she had kept quiet then and opened her mouth now. Naidu has alleged that there was no mention of NTR’s name in any of the books brought out on the occasion of the World Telugu conference, Naidu has alleged that though such great insult was heaped on her father, Purandareswari was not talking about it. He has also questioned why Purandareswari had not brought pressure on the central government to name the Shamshabad airport after N T Rama Rao.

He said the letter written by Purandareswari was just a pack of lies.

It may be recalled that Purandareswari has written an open letter to the fans of NTR making a serious charge against Naidu that he was responsible for blocking erection of the statue in Parliament. She said in the letter that it was due to her efforts that the Speaker Meira Kumar has given clearance to setting up the statue in Parliament. She said she had even given a model and got it approved by the committee without divulging the information as she feared that Naidu would once again throw spanner in her works.

Rajyasabha MP Sujana Chowdary resigns !

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Congress ruled UPA Government had safely crossed the voting barrier on Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) Bill in retail sector introduced in the Parliament few days ago, but the Opposition party in the State TDP, which was already facing troubles, was in neck deep crisis after the voting on FDIs. The reason was the three TDP Rajya Sabha members T Devender Goud, Gundu Sudha Rani and Sujana Chowdari  abstaining  from  voting,  attracting  severe criticism from not only opposition parties but also from own party leaders.

TDP Chief N Chandrbabu Naidu summoned them to give explanation and within the TDP, several leaders have been criticizing the action of the three members and demanded them to tender resignation and public apology. Following this, the three members have given their explanation to the party Chief giving various reasons for their absence. Senior leader Devender Goud said that he took the permission from the party Chief and went for medical check up. Devender Goud also indulged in counter attack on Party leaders. Gundu Sudha Rani said that she came to Hyderabad on the day of voting on FDI to console her relative who was under going treatment. She also said that she missed the return flight from  Hyderabad.

The third member Sujana Chowdari, who was basically an industrialist, met Chandrababu Naidu at Adilabad and has given his explanation on Saturday. Speaking to the media later, he said that it was a mistake on his part to abstain from  voting. He also said that he has no business links with the Congress party leaders.

But the party leaders were not sparing their criticism on three Rajya Sabha members alleging that the TDP was losing credibility just because of such leaders.

Responding to the unexpected criticism within the party, Sujana Chowdari tendered his resignation on Sunday. He sent his resignation to the party Chief. He said later that he was feeling uneasy with the consequences taking place in the party. He also said that he was already given explanation to the party Chief but some leaders in the party were making it as an issue intentionally. Sujana Chowdari also said that he will continue in the party though he tendered resignation to the Rajya Sabha seat.

Government roped in flop heroine for Aakash-2

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Traditional beauty Priyamani is at the verge of disappearing from Tollywood despite catching the attention of all winning National Award for a Kollywood film. However it seems lady luck is smiling on her once again as the Government had decided to rope in her to endorse Aakash-2. Aaakash was launched recently in a proud manner by UN Secretary General couple of days back.

Union minister of communications and information technology Kapil Sibal brand Aakash as “small computer to empower the aam admi and students”. Now Priyamani revealed that she is in talks to promote Aakash tablet. Priyamani says “Negotiations are going on but nothing has been finalised. If this happens, it will be my first assignment as a brand ambassador.”

Drugs menace once again in Tollywood

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Small time Telugu cinema actor Abhishek who is known for audience with films like Aithey, Danger, Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana is caught red handed by SR Nagar Police while consuming drugs in his car yesterday midnight. Police seized 10gms drugs when they raided him with definite information. Currently he is in the custody of police. Although Abhishek’s career was never successful, his PR seems to be very efficient because police reports claim that he is supplying drugs to many of the high profile celebrities in industry.

Abhishek received cocaine from a Goa drug peddler before Police caught him. West zone DCP Sudheer Babu is handling the case and we have to wait and see, will he be able to dig few more names who are linked to abhishek. This shows how strong there is a nexus between Tollywood and drug mafia.

Bunny’s costumes costs 1 Crore

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Style had been the core strength of Allu Arjun and that earned him the tag ‘Stylish Star’. And now director Puri Jagannadh is exactly planning to make use of it in his upcoming movie, Iddarammayilatho. The director recently has organized a photo shoot on Allu Arjun with 60 different costumes to test the look and feel of the character for the film. The costumes were costed a whopping crore for the movie. Both Puri and bunny personally selected the costumes at different show rooms.

Amala Paul and Katherine Theressa are the heroines. Puri Jagannadh who earlier delivered a super hit to Bunny in the form of Desamudhuru is the director of this film.. The film is being produced by Bandla Ganesh under Parameswara Arts banner.

Magadheera sentiment for Charan’s Zanjeer

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After roping in some stalwarts for the cast and crew of Hindi version, the makers of Ram Charan’s Bollywood debut, Zanjeer have roped in Srihari in to the Telugu version. It was rumored that he will be reprising the role of Sanjay Dutt from the original. Srihari earlier acted in Ram Charan’s industry hit movie, Magadheera. Mega fans since then feel Srihari as the lucky mascot of them. Incidentally, he did not got to act in any of Charan’s movies post Magadheera. Lets see if he brings the same luck for Zanjeer!

The movie is the remake on 1973 blockbuster movie, Zanjeer. Priyanka Chopra is playing the female lead in the movie. Apoorva Lakhia is the director of the movie which happens to be Ram Charan’s Bollywood debut movie.The movie is being made in Telugu and Hindi and both the versions will have simultaneous release.

Government hikes Movie ticket prices

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The cheapest form of Entertainment is going to cost dearer for AP audience. The state Government  had decided to increase the prices of Cinema Tickets. They have issued a G.O regarding the same. This has brought a great relief for the theatres owners. The areas coming under the Municipalities, the prices of ticket has been increased from Rs.50 to Rs.60 for A.C.Theatres and Ordinary tickets were hiked from Rs.25 to Rs.30 and in other areas AC theaters tickets were hiked from Rs.30 to Rs.40 and ordinary tickets were hiked from Rs.20 to Rs.25.

The theatres owners throughout the state have been requesting the state government to increase the prices as there could not run the theatres due to increase of various prices otherwise there have to shut down the theatres.

Those 3 should unconditionally apologize

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TDP senior leader Payyavula Keshav has said that it was painful that three MPs of his party had not taken part in the voting on the FDIs in Rajya Sabha.

Talking to the media here on Saturday, he has demanded that they should own their folly and apologize unconditionally to the people and the party.

He has said that the sentiments of lakhs of party workers were hurt because of what they had done. Stating that it was improper to act against the policies of the party, he said they should not damage the party’s image because of their personal interests.

CBN must reveal package Cong gave him

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TDP rebel MLA Amaranatha Reddy has alleged that the party Chief Chandra Babu Naidu has mortgaged the party to Congress leaders at Delhi. He has demanded that CBN should immediately quit party president post.

Another rebel MLA Praveen Kumar Reddy has demanded that Naidu should reveal to the people the package he had received from the Congress party in return for making TDP MPs abstain from FDI voting.

Talking to the media here on Saturday, he said Naidu was transforming the party into currency notes. He has also questioned if Naidu had the courage to divulge his call data for the past 15 days. Stating that the MPs were telling others in private talk that Naidu made them scapegoats, Praveen has questioned if this was not true. He said by supporting Congress on the FDI issue, Naidu tried to get political benefit.

Goonda act on Sex Bomb

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Voluptuous beauty Bhuvaneshwari was arrested by the Chennai police for escaping from the their custody today in Chennai. She was charged with the allegations of cheating some high profile people in prostitution racker. While she was taking out from the judicial custody she tried to escape but the police immediately arrested her and taken into preventive custody. Now the police is planning to open a Goonda act on her.

Meanwhile when the news was spread, people who got cheated by her coming forward and telling their stories , one Gurunadhan a Chennai based businessman says Bhuvaneswari has cheated him for about Rs.one crore and likewise there are several people who got cheated by the lady don. Earlier she was also arrested for running a prostitution racket.

Trisha is down but not out yet!

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Trisha who once ruled Tollywoood may not be a top league heroine now. But she is more popular than Samantha, Kajal, Nayanathara, and Tamannah. She has emerged as the most downloaded South Indian celebrity on mobile phones in the year 2012. Among mobile users, she is more popular than some of top Bollywood stars, according to  to the findings of Airtel Mobitude 2012. Her photos and wallpapers were regularly downloaded by young mobile users, said the study.

Trisha’s last movie in Telugu was NTR’s Dhammu. She is currently acting in handful of Tamil movies. Her movie ‘Samar’ beside Vishal will be dubbed in to Telugu and released as Vetadu Ventadu.

Shruti Hassan kicks out Samantha

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Even though she was starred in the biggest hit of 2011, Shruti Hassan is not in hurry to sign all the films that comes her way. So far she had only committed to Balupu and Yevadu in Telugu. She had completed one schedule of Balupu and will join the Yevadu team  from the next schedule of the movie which will begin from January 4th, 2013. Shruti who is currently busy shooting for Ramayya Vasthavayya, the Bollywood remake of Nuvvosthanante Nenodhantana and Ravi Teja’s Balupu.  She will be shuffling between Balupu and Yevadu till the completion.

Yevadu has Amy Jackson playing the other female lead role. Allu Arjun and Kajal Agarwal makes guest appearance in the film. Vamsi Paidipalli is the director. Dil Raju is producing the movie under his Sri Venkateswara films banner. Devi Sri Prasad is composing the music.

Anything for you dad: Ram Charan

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Call it dependence or affection on his father, Mega Power star Ram Charan is still a dad’s boy even after scoring the biggest hit in Tollywood history.He makes sure his movies contain atleast one remix song of his father and some say he even immitates his father’s style in movies. Chiru also makes sure he attends all the audio functions of Charan with out fail. The audio release event of Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s Nayak which was scheduled to happen on 14th December is now postponed exactly for this reason. The audio function will take place on 16th December instead. This postponement is to facilitate Chiranjeevi’s presence at the audio function. The venue for the event will be confirmed today.

The last schedule of Nayak is currently underway in Ramoji Film City. The movie is currently on track for January 9th, 2013 release.For the first time in his career, Ram Charan is playing dual role in the film. Kajal Agarwal and Amala Paul are the heroines. S S Thaman composes the music and one of the highlights of the audio album is remix version of Chiranjeevi’s super hit song – Subhaleka Rasukunna Eppudo.

Pawan Kalyan’s Spain Trip

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Pawan Kalyan along with director Trivikram and music director Devi Sri Prasad is in Spain. The music sittings of their next movie are going on there. They will also scout pictursque locations for their current film.

The pooja of this film was conducted recently. The story of the movie demands a foreign location, and around 30 -45 days of shooting schedule is being planned there. They are likely to return on the last week of December and the shooting will commence thereafter.

After Jalsa, Pawan Kalyan and Trivikram Srinivas team up for the second time in this action entertainer. Tollywood’s most happenig heroine Samantha will play the lead role. The film is produced by BVSN Prasad under his Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra banner. Reliance Entertainment will be coproducing the movie.

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