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Sachin Confirms No Retire from ODIs !

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Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has said he has no plans to retire from One-day Internationals and that he opted out of the upcoming Sri Lanka tour to spend time with his family.Sachin said he would continue playing as long as he enjoyed the sport.
“It’s not what xyz thinks. As long as I am enjoying and I feel like being part of it (ODIS) I’ll continue. I felt I shouldn’t be part of T20 squad in 2007 and I have been asked but I feel I should not be part of the T20 squad because the team did well and when I get that feeling in one day cricket I would take that decision,” Sachin told CNN-IBN.
On missing the Sri Lanka tour beginning later in the month, Sachin said: “I just want to spend time with my family so I spoke to BCCI and requested them. To be able to spend time with children is also important because once we come back they will get busy with their schools. The time spent with them will keep me going for the next 10 months.”
The batting maestro has been involved in only two one-day series since India’s World Cup triumph in 2011.
Former greats Imran Khan and Kapil Dev had earlier said that Sachin should have quit the game after the World Cup high. The 39-year-old, however, said he did not think of calling it a day after India’s historic feat.
“I never thought about taking all those decisions so again coming back to the same thing that when I feel like taking that decision I will take it. I don’t want rest of the guys take that decision for me and as long as I am enjoying it makes sense to carry on.

State Govt withdrawn cases on T-Students !

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The state government has withdrawn some more cases registered against students during the Telangana movement. The government which has been withdrawing cases in a phased manner as per the assurance given on the floor of the state Assembly, has issued orders on Friday, withdrawing 984 cases pertaining to 15 different incidents. The government has issued 18 GOs for the purpose. Cases against Telangana student movement leaders Pidamarti Ravi, Rajaram and Balka Suman were among those withdrawn by the government now. The government which has been taking legal advise at every stage, is likely to withdraw some more cases soon.
There are dozens of cases against each student leader. There are 20 cases against Pidamarti alone. Ravi said, of the 1900 cases registered during the agitation against students, the government has not withdrawn even half. Stating that Telangana was more important to them than withdrawal of cases, he however said as they were relieved of stress because of withdrawal of cases, they would once again launch movement for ‘T’ with renewed vigor. He said they would have been happier if the government introduced Telangana bill in the Parliament than lifting of cases against them. He has asserted that they would now launch movement for introduction of the bill in the Parliament now.
Cases were registered against students who have participated in the Telangana movement in Gopalapuram, Punjagutta and other police stations of the twin cities. As per the assurance given to leaders of all parties including Congress in the assembly, government has started withdrawing cases in a phased manner.

Minister Ponnala gets shock from Supreme Court !

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IT Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah has suffered a setback when the Supreme Court upheld the High Court judgment to recount votes in his election.Ponnala was elected to the Assembly from the Jangaon constituency of Warangal district in 2009 over his TRS rival by a slender majority.
Kommuri Pratap Reddy, the defeated TRS candidate, had filed a petition in the High Court challenging Ponnala’s election. He contended that 80 votes were irregularly added to Ponnala and the invalid votes of postal ballot were also added to his account.
Accepting the contention, the High Court ordered recounting of votes. Then, Ponnala challenged the High Court’s judgment in the Supreme Court. His counsel argued that there was no evidence to show that his client’s election was irregular. However, the Apex Court did not accept the argument of Ponnala’s lawyer. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the IT minister for wasting its time.
Responding to the judgment, Ponnala said that there was no truth in the argument of the petitioner. Stating that truth would ultimately win, he said he was not afraid of anything.
TRS CANDIDATE HAILS JUDGMENT
Kommuri Pratap Reddy, the defeated TRS candidate, has welcomed the Supreme Court’s judgment. He said that with the judgment, it became clear that Ponnala had resorted to irregularities. He demanded that Ponnala resign from both posts as minister and MLA if he had any moral values. He said that Ponnala should come forward voluntarily for recounting.

Eega Movie Review – 3.5/5

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Rating: 3.5/5
Banner: Varahi Chalana Chitram
Presented by: D.Suresh babu
Cast: Sudeep, Nani, Samantha, Srinivas reddy, Thagubothu ramesh
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry, Anantha Sreeram, Chaitanya Prasad and Keeravani
Styling: Rama Rajamouli
Dialogues: Janardhana Maharshi
Art: S Ravinder
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Cinematography: Senthil Kumar
Music: M M Keeravani
Producer: Sai Korrapati
Story-Screenplay-Direction: SS Rajamouli
CBFC rating: U/A
Release date: 06-07-2012
Theater Watched: Bramarambha, Premiere show with Eega Team.

Story Line: Nani (Nani) is neighbor to Bindu (Samantha), he falls in love with her and she too responds positively but doesn’t express it. Sudeep(Sudeep) is multi- millionaire who runs construction business, and he lusts Bindu. Sudeep comes to know about their affair and kills Nani. Nani, in his rebirth is born as ‘Eega’ (a housefly) and remembers the incident occurred in last birth and how he takes revenge on Sudeep is what the movie is about?
Performances: Nani’s role is limited to a run time of 20minutes. He came up with some good work. Samantha is cute and lovable. Sudeep steals the show with fantastic performance in the negative role. Other than the three characters there are very few notable characters. The visual effects have come out very well. The cinematography is good. Music is hum able. The background score is superb. Considering the special effects part the Direction is good. But overall the movie lacks a gripping and interesting narration. The production values are rich.
Analysis: The most anticipated film of the year 2012, ‘Eega’, is a fantasy film written and directed by Tollywood’s ace director SS Rajamouli. The movie is simultaneously released in Tamil and Malayalam also. The very idea of making the Fly (Eega) as protagonist is unique and interesting. The Execution part could have been better (The way story was told). Janardhan Maharshi assisted Rajamouli in the Telugu script (Dialogues) work and Crazy Mohan in the Tamil script
Nani is good and natural. He is confined to only a few romantic & love scenes with Samantha which came well. The song picturised on them was decent. Samantha suited to the role well. She looked girl next door in those costumes. Sudeep is the show stealer with fabulous acting (It’s difficult to come up with such expressions and acting with no real character around). He impresses well as the bad guy. He evoked some laughs when Eega irritates him.
Rajamouli is weak in comedy department and this movie too has very limited comedy (only the Eega and Sudeep episodes designed in the typical tom and Jerry style) but the movie entertains in the form of Visual effects. The CGI and VFX work is top notch. As Rajamouli said Eega was started as a small-budget experimental film but when it started developing it grew bigger with the budget of quality VFX work. With over 90 minutes of realistic animation and visual effects, the total film costed more than 30crores.
Music has already a couple of chart busters aired on TV. The Background score by Keeravani is very good. He delivered the required output. He usually comes up with very good score in Rajamouli movies and this one is not an exception. The Art work is good. The editing by Kotagiri is fine. Cinematography by Senthil is promising. The film has very limited characters. It bores you in the middle and if you are not connected to the point then it may even irritate you. The locations are also limited and repetitive. The logic has gone for toss many times (since the script is highly fictional & fantasy filled).The narration of the film in the non graphics part is slow and repetitive(point). If you go with the logical issues you will be highly disappointed. So make-up your mind and watch it in a relaxed mood to enjoy more. If you have an interest for animated/cartoonist movies then this movie is for you.
There are some scenes which came up well— Eega teasing and irritating Sudeep, the scene where Eega reveals that he is Nani, the car accident and interval episode, the Climax. The presence of a Star hero could have helped Rajamouli in pulling up the movie. The Brand name Rajamouli is the force which drags you to the theaters. Rajamouli has definitely taken the Tollywood Industry to the next level with quality effects. It’s up to the masses to decide the collections of this flick at the Box-office. “Eega” is a visual feast which will appeal to the children more.
Plus: CGI & VFX, Sudeep, Background score
Minus: Slow narration, Story, Screenplay
Verdict: Average flick with extra-ordinary visual effects which thrills you.

Kalyan Ram’s special party to media !

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Nandamuri Kalyan Ram had celebrated his birthday on Thursday. The otherwise media reclusive actor had hosted a special party to the media at Hampi Multi cuisine restaurant in Banjara Hills and served numerous foodies and cocktails to the press. He had requested the media to give special coverage to his upcoming movie, Om which is incidentally the first 3D cinema in Telugu.
Kriti Karbandha and Nikesha Patel will be the heroines in this movie and Kalyan Ram himself is producing this film. Sunil Reddy is the director of this action thriller that has a mythological backdrop. ‘OM’ is the most expensive movie in Kalyan Ram’s career and the movie will release in multiple languages. Currently, the movie is in post production phase and work is coming to an end.

Charan quit twitter for Upasana?

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Its been three days since Ram Charan quit twitter, the fans are equally worried and had been requesting his come back but the reason behind his exit is not known exactly. We spoke to few people who are active in Mega camp and tried to find a reason behind this.
According to them, From the time he joined the social network site twitter, he started receiving hatred and abusive messages from anti-fans. Haters were not just targeting him alone, he was getting abusive messages on his dad too on every move of his Dad’s political or public life. When it was just on his Dad and him Charan wasn’t bother to care about those messages.
But, after his marriage it took different turn that haters were posting different morphed pictures of his and Upasana with abusive titles to his handler. it will be hard to digest comments on your family who is no way related to his filmy world. It’s very difficult task to see the messages filled with abusive. Cherry’s better half Upasana had reportedly looked at those message and was visbly disturbed. Hence Charan decided to quit twitter for good.

Rana’s girl to try her luck in Bollywood !

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Priya Anand who shot to fame with Rana Daggubaati’s Leader and went to do films like 180 and Rama Rama Krishna Krishna in Telugu had bagged more Tamil offers than Telugu. And now she is all set to test her luck in Bollywood now.
Apparently Priya Anand has signed a three film deal with mega producer Vashu Bhagnani who made hit Hindi films such as Hero No 1 and Coolie No 1 in the past. Priya will make her debut alongside Vashu’s son Jacky Bhagnani in a film titled Rang Rez. She will also feature in the production house’s next two movies in the future.

Raghu Kunche to score music for Bunny – Puri movie?

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Raghu Kunche started his career as a TV anchor later became a singer. His journey did not stop there. He turned out as a music director with Bumper Offer. Later, he has worked as a music director for a few films like ‘Aha na Pellanta’ and ‘Daggaraga Dooramga’. However, he did not earn the stardom of a big music director with these movies. All that might change with the release of the movie ‘Devudu Chesina Manushulu’. Raghu Kunche’s tunes for this movie have already become popular and might be his ticket to stardom.
And now the latest we hear is that Puri Jagannath had decided to rope him in for his upcoming movie with Allu Arjun as the main lead. If he pulls it out, this might be one big oppurtunity for Raghu.
Lets see if he can grab it with both the hands!

Eega – Tremendous expectations from Rajamouli !

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Eega, the much awaited film from director SS Rajamouli is all set to release this Friday. The film which began as a small 2 Cr venture has now turned into a 30 Cr plus biggie with VFX of international standards.Owing to immense hype and international standards of making the film is carrying tremendous expectations among the audience.
Director SS Rajamouli is the films biggest strength and positive. He knows the pulse of the audience very well that can be seen with his track record which has no failures at all.It’s a right venture to showcase the might of the director. It is also an oppurtunity for Rajamouli to expand his market in Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam as well.
Given the track record of Rajamouli, he should make it comfortably. Lets see if he will!

Athiloka Sundari comes back to Telugu audience today !

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‘Athiloka Sundari’ Sri Devi is all set to start her second innings. For the first time in several years, She will be seen on big screen to Telugu audience as the the much-awaited film’s trailer of her English Vinglish will be released along with SS Rajamouli’s Eega, from today.
The story of the film revolves around Sridevi. She will be seen as a middle class housewife who is weak in English. She takes it as a challenge to learn the language when people tease her for poor English.French actor Mehdi Nebbou is playing male lead role in this movie. He played one of the lead roles in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Munich. Priya Anand of ‘Leader'(Telugu Film) fame is playing one of the key roles. Except for Sridevi, most of the faces are relatively unfamiliar to Hindi audience. Amit Trivedi is the music director.

Rajamouli reveals Tollywood No.1 Hero !?

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The war of words between fans and the fight for sharing collections is all for the sake of finding out whom exactly is the No.1 of Tollywood now. But ace director Rajamouli is having a different view on this, which will shock you to the core.
With the superhit success of Dookudu and Businessman, many have felt that Mahesh Babu is the No.1 Tollywood. Then Ramcharan and Jr. NTR tried with Racha and Dammu, but failed to reach the throne. Now with the success of ‘Gabbar Singh’, Pawan is hailed as a numero uno of Tollywood. However, ace director Rajamouli felt that there are no no.1, no.2 and no.3s in Tollywood. ‘It is only legendary Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao and Megastar Chiranjeevi to get addressed as top star heroes of Tollywood. There are no one in the present brigade to hit into that place’, confirms Rajamouli.
Till date, everyone is worried about the number one slot of Tollywood. With Rajamouli confirming that no one can replace NTR and Chiru, film circles are putting their finger on mouths as there is no immediate answer.

CPM and CPI fight favors Telugu Desam !

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With the ‘red’ parties fighting to the core in public itself, the ‘yellow’ flag is slowly gaining popularity among the ‘red’ sympathizers. We are talking about CPI, CPM and Telugudesam.
Both CPI and CPM used to go hand in hand earlier and used to support Telugudesam in the state many ways. Now, with CPI maintaining close rapport with TDP, cadres who used to work for CPI are slowly turning towards Naidu’s policies. On the flip side, CPM has dramatically distanced itself from the other left party. During by-poll, CPI Narayana pleaded CPM Raghavulu a lot to join hands with them, but the later one declined it. Now, Raghavulu is writing some public letters to CPI through media, to join hands. Narayana has stated that he is not ready to consider all these letters. Indirectly this fight is helping the yellow-flag party as the red-flag sympathizers especially in T-area are doing TDP ‘japam’ now.
They say that Naidu is playing all these cards to split the vote banks of these ‘red’ parties to fetch TDP in 2014. One will wonder if Communists are really having any vote banks still!

Vijayamma deal with Congress to save Jagan ?

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Political developments in the state are quickly taking turns to set up new equations. One of the major among them according to prime opposition Telugudesam is the deal between Congress and Jagan.
Right from her visit to PM’s office and meeting other party leaders, Telugudesam is accusing that Vijayamma is striking a deal with Delhi parties, especially Congress in order to save her son. In the name of farmer’s problems, Vijayamma is knocking doors in Delhi to save Jagan from the hands of CBI, the cyclewalas felt. ‘She met Delhi people only to set a deal with Congress party by declaring her support to Pranab in the presidential election. She is expecting Jagan’s release as quid pro quo’, stated TDP leader Kodela Sivaprasad. He is directly questioning Vijayamma whether the deal between YSR Congress is set or not.
It can be understood that TDP supreme Naidu has opted to focus on other problems in state and pulled his associates to take on Jagan’s issues. Already, TD lost credibility during 1lakh crores accusation on Jagan, let us see how will they take if forward now.

Ileana’s perfect kissing session !

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Making big in Bollywood is the usual dream of every actress who worked in southern films. They always wanted to work in Bollywood movies to get the national level fame and more money. Ileana is not an exception for that and she is all set to make her Bollywood debut with BARFI. Looking at the recently launched trailer, she seems like shares a sizzling chemistry with co-star Ranbir Kapoor and she even having a intimate kissing scene with Ranbir.
Talking about the scene Ileana says, ”It wasn`t the kiss that I was nervous about.. It has the emotions behind the kiss, which was the key element of the scene, that I was nervous about. I am happy that the kiss came out pretty well.”

Nayantara booked for 2 years !

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During the same time Last year, Nayantara was in full cheers with the married life dreams with Prabu Deva. But things turned topsy turvy with the break up from Prabu Deva.She was almost a written off heroine since she bid farewell to movies. Her last appearance was in Telugu for Ramarajyam. But things of uncertainty hung over her life regarding her possible reentry.
The red carpet welcome unleashed to her is the hot topic for discussion. As on date, her dates are full at least for the next full year. She is on the sets of Vishnuvardan directed Ajith film and her diary is filled with select films.With handful of Tamil films in the kitty, She is currently the lead actress in Rana’s Krishnum Vande Jagadgurum and Nagarjuna’s Love Story.

One more TV show on the lines of Satya Meva Jayate !

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The popular TV show by Bollywood’s Mr.Perfectionist Aamir Khan had motivated one more Bollywood personality to plan a similar show. And we are speaking about Shabana Azmi. Azmi is in US on a private visit. She attended a private program conducted for the NRIs there and expressed her interest in making a TV show on the similar lines of Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate.
Azmi has appeared in over 120 Hindi films in both mainstream and independent cinema, and since 1988 she has acted in several foreign projects. In addition to acting, Azmi is a social and women’s rights activist, a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. She is married to Indian poet and screenwriter Javed Akhtar.

Trisha is featured in a PC game?

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South glam doll, Trisha has been featured in a PC video game. A fan of Trisha who follows her on Twitter had posted a picture which has Trisha and few other men with Arabic lines.Interestingly, according to internet sources, Trisha is a character created for a psychological horror adventure game Catherine developed by Atlus Persona team.The game begins with Trisha as the Midnight Venus hosting a programme called the Golden Playhouse and provides an introduction to the game. And the character always sports a large red afro. Catherine was released as a full downloadable game for the PlayStation Store in February 2012.
In Hollywood, Nancy Drew assumed great popularity worldwide thanks to her appearance in a number of feature films and computer games.

Will Bunny complete the hat-trick?

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2012 is one of the most memorable years for mega fans with the super success of Power Star Pawan and Mega Power Star Charan, the onus is now on Bunny to come up with a successful film to make it a memorable summer for the family. Bunny is all set to enter the fray this year with his latest movie, Julayi. A hit with Julayi will get the hat-trick success for Mega family this year.
Allu Arjun himself said something similar to this effect at a press meet held yesterday. “After the super success of Racha and Gabbar Singh, the pressure is on me to deliver. But I think we have a good film on hand and we will succeed”, he said. Julayi is all set to release worldwide on 13th July.

Highlights of Eega Trade Market !

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The most anticipated movie of this year , SS Rajamouli’s celluloid wonder ‘Eega’ is all set to release worldwide tomorrow.’Eega’ was supposed to be released long back, but due to the pending technical and graphic works, film release got delayed. However the hype on this movie hasn’t decreased as Rajamouli is the director and ‘Eega’ has created enough buzz all over the nation with National channels too giving it good coverage. Here are the few distinctions of the move trade.
1. The Telugu version of the movie is releasing in about 1200 screens worldwide which is so far the biggest ever release for a Telugu movie.
2. The movie is the biggest budget movie in Telugu among movies with no prominent stars.
3. The movie reportedly has a record number of 2234 CG shots.
4. Eega is the first film to release in 120 centers in North India (with subtitles).
5. Eega is the first film to release in 150 centers of Karnataka.
6. Eega is the first film to release in 27 centers of West Godavari.
7. Eega Producer, Sai Korrapati is one of the senior most distributors in Ceeded region and the movie is getting highest release too.
8. The Malayalam version of the movie is releasing in 100 centers in Kerala
9. The satellite rights for Eega in Telugu were sold for 5 crores and 10 lacs to MAA TV (for a period of 15 years)
10. The Tamil rights of the movie were sold out for 5 crores to PVP cinemas.
11. The Tamil satellite rights fetched 3.5 crores for PVP. They also got a promotional space worth 1 crore in Sun network for free.
12. The satellite rights of the Malayalam version had fetched 90 Lakhs
13. A big Hindi production house is currently negotiating for the Hindi version. The Bollywood version will be a 3D one and will be released for Christmas 2012.

We will not accept Royal Telangana – TDP

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Telugu Desam Telangana Forum today asserted that it was against any move to create a new state comprising Telangana and parts of Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. The TDP wing was reacting to the Congress’ reported move to create a “Rayala-Telangana” state comprising two districts of Rayalaseema and ten of Telangana. “We will not accept Rayala-Telangana. We only want an exclusive Telangana state, including Hyderabad,” Forum leaders and MLAs Motkupalli Narasimhulu and P Mahender Reddy said here.
The so-called Rayala-Telangana proposal was yet another deceitful ploy by the Congress to further delay creation of Telangana state, they alleged. “The Congress had been cheating people on Telangana issue for the past 60 years. The public opinion is clearly in favour of a separate state and it should be honoured.” There was no change in Telugu Desam’s stand on the statehood issue and it remained committed to what it gave in writing to the Pranab Mukherjee Committee, the leaders said.
The TDP leaders were reacting to speculation that the Congress would announce a decision on bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh soon after the July 19 Presidential elections. Talk is that a new state, comprising 10 districts of Telangana and Kurnool and Anantapur districts of Rayalaseema region, would be formed. According to reports, Chittoor and Kadapa, also part of Rayalaseema, will be merged with the nine coastal districts and they would collectively form a new Andhra state.
A large section of Congress leaders from Rayalaseema region are said to be supporting this idea. Majlis-e-Itehadul Muslimeen is also not averse to formation of Rayala-Telangana. Pro-Telangana groups, however, want only an exclusive Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital.
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