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‘I choose Nani over Yash’
Shraddha Srinath, after giving an award-winning performance in U-turn (Kannada), has now managed to grab eyeballs with Nani’s Jersey. The Telugu audiences are highly impressed with this new face and she absolutely made a mark with her debut film in Tollywood.
The offers are a pretty handful for Shraddha now and she also made a debut in Bollywood with Milan Talkies. Currently, the actress is now promoting her film Jersey which has hit the screens yesterday. Her attitude and confidence are receiving huge applause from cinephiles.
Recently, the actress surprised everyone in one of her promotional events for the film Jersey. When asked her to choose between KGF fame Yash and Nani, she said “I have already worked with Nani. But I have met Yash only once and I don’t know him well as a person. So I would choose Nani over Yash”.
She also added, “But Yash is a hard-worker. He had put a lot of efforts to achieve the stardom. Before entering films, Yash also struggled as a TV actor. He proudly showed the potential of Kannada films global wide”. She was also asked to choose between Tollywood and Sandalwood film industries to which Shraddha cleverly replied “I’m a professional person and I treat all industries equally. I wouldn’t choose one industry over another and lose my fans anywhere”.
Kanchana 3 Review: Two Ghosts This Time
Raghava Lawrence’s “Kanchana 3” is awaited with much interest as all its prequels were blockbusters.
Let’s find out how this film has fared up.
Story:
Raghava (Raghava Lawrence) who is scared of ghosts lands to his ancestral village and the house is possessed by a ghost named Kaali. Who is Kaali? What is his story? What is this ghost’s connection with Raghava forms the rest of the story.
Artistes’ Performances:
Raghava Lawrence has done it in his usual style. Kaali, the second role that he has played is exactly like his real life image –a guy who does charity.
Kovai Sarala provides some comedy. Sreeman and Divyadarshini are okay. Vedhika, Oviya and Niki have competed with each other in showing off their skin.
Technical Excellence:
The film has rich production values and rich camera work. Music is not up to the mark. Rest of the technical values are decent.
Highlights:
Some jokes
Bearable first half
Drawback:
Clichéd moments
Boring second half
No logic
No sensibilities
Loud comedy
Analysis
Raghava Lawrence has successfully created super fan following to “Kanchana” or “Muni” franchise. This is the fourth film in this series. If you watch any one of the movie in this franchise, you can easily guess what happens in the other movies. Such a template he has created for this horror-comedy series.
The template goes like this: to take vengeance a ghost comes into the body of the hero and this situation leads to some comedy sequences, and a flashback gets opened to reveal the story of ghost. “Kanchana 2” has followed the same template. The only difference is this time two ghosts appear instead of one.
The film opens in predictable way and provides some laughs here and there and some glamour show by heroines.
Despite formulaic narration and clichéd sequences, the first half is not that bad. It is the later portions that tests the patience. Lawrence in his usual style of loud acting and garish direction makes it too hard to digest.
His movies are aimed for mass audiences. You don’t find any sensible moments. It is too bland.
Those who don’t mind cheap thrills, want to watch glamour show from three heroines may find this an okay horror comedy. But for others, it doesn’t entertain. The comedy is not at all on par with ‘Kanchana’, the earlier movie in this series.
Bottom-line: Sequel Horror
Naidu a caretaker CM or full-time CM?
What are the powers of a chief minister of a state after the conduct of assembly elections but till the announcement of election results?
This has now become a topic of big debate in the political circles, in the wake of Election Commission’s notice to the Andhra Pradesh government calling for an explanation on the conduct of review meetings with government officials on various developmental works.
Telugu Desam Party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu held two meetings with officials on Thursday: one on the progress of works on Polavaram irrigation project and other on the works going on the capital region of Amaravati.
He was also planning to hold a review meeting with top police officials on the law and order situation in the state, but cancelled the same following the EC notice.
This has generated a lot of debate in the political circles. TDP, which has been adopting a confrontationist attitude towards Election Commission, questioned the propriety of the Commission in preventing the chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu in the conduct of review meetings.
TDP MLC and party’s official spokesman Y Babu Rajendra Prasad said what was wrong in Naidu holding review meetings.
“He is not a caretaker CM, but a full-fledged CM. He took oath as the chief minister on June 8, 2014 and till June 7, he can be the chief minister. He is responsible for all the developmental works in the state till then. If not the chief minister, who else will review the progress of works in Polavaram project to ensure water supply to farmers by coming season?” he asked.
Another TDP leader and minister Nakka Ananda Bab also pointed out that Naidu would be the chief minister till the new government forms. So, as the chief minister, he has the powers to hold official meetings.
“Moreover, the polling for assembly elections was over on April 11 itself and so, there is no way, the TDP can gain political advantage from the official meetings,” he said.
YSR Congress party MLA Buggana Rajendra Prasad, however, said the code will be in force till the declaration of results.
As such, the chief minister had no powers to conduct any reviews when model code of conduct was in force.
“He is just a caretaker CM. He can do review meetings only under emergency situations,” he clarified.
Another YSRC leader Botsa Satyanarayana said Naidu would, no doubt, continue as the chief minister till the new government is formed, but he had no authority to hold official review meetings during the poll code.
“He has no faith in the systems and democracy,” Botsa alleged.
Why is KCR not backing federal front allies?
During the campaigning for recent Lok Sabha elections in the state, Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had extensively propagated that he would play a big role in the national politics by forming a federal front government at the Centre, if his party was given 16 MP seats.
He already held talks with Janata Dal (S) leaders Deve Gowda and H D Kumara Swamy in Karnataka, DMK president M K Stalin in Tamil Nadu, Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik in Odisha, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, Jharkhand Mukthi Morcha leader Hemant Soren in Jharkhand, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav in UP etc.
Whenever he talked of federal front, KCR used to take all these names and asserted that he would rope in more regional parties to form a federal front and fight against both the BJP and the Congress.
Till recently, KCR was busy campaigning for the TRS in Telangana. Now that elections are over in the state, the TRS president has got the excellent opportunity to improve the winning chances of his federal front partners so that they would get good numbers to form the next government.
Now that he is free, KCR could as well participate in campaign in support of his federal front partners extensively. But he has not done so, for reasons known only to him.
“Before elections, he claimed that he would bring all the regional parties together under one umbrella against the BJP and the Congress. After talking to so many parties, one wonders why he is silent now. He could as well go to Tamil Nadu to campaign for DMK, Odisha for BJD, West Bengal for TMC and UP for SP-BSP. When he wants all of them to be part of the federal front, doesn’t KCR have the responsibility to campaign for them and help them win more seats?” Congress star campaigner Vijayashanti asked.
She reminded that KCR had claimed full support from JD (S) in Karnataka and went to the extent of saying JD (S) had come to power only because it copied the Telangana schemes.
“Why hasn’t KCR gone to Karnataka to campaign for his friendly party?” she asked.
Vijayashanti gave the answer to her own queries.
“The answer is very clear. KCR’s federal front concept is a humbug. It is only a drama enacted on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party to prevent the Congress party from coming to power at the Centre. It shows KCR is indirectly helping the BJP by dividing the anti-establishment vote,” she asserted.
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There might be plethora of super hot babes who can dare to bear, but no one comes close to Sunny Leone when she slips into a bikini for a steamy photo shoot.
Sunny may not be rocking the B town as she used to do until a couple of years ago, but she is still amongst the most wanted actresses in the industry today.
The ex porn queen is all set to sizzle in an item song in upcoming Garuda Vega. Before that she is raising the mercury levels with this hot pose.
Demonestisation is ‘Tughluq plan’ of Modi: Chandrababu
In a joint address of the anti-BJP parties which have come together to form the Mahaghatbandhan, AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu along with Congress President Rahul Gandhi appealed to voters in Raichur in Karnataka to ‘remove Modi as Prime Minister.’ Stating that Bengaluru is always on the map of most developed cities of India, he said that Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have grown rapidly duo to the absence of the BJP. Interestingly, Chandrababu was welcomed with a thunderous applause by the crowd in Raichur.
‘Today, there is democratic compulsion to bring in a non-BJP government in India at the national level. I appeal to everyone to vote out Narendra Modi. He has lied to people, made false promises, did publicity stunts but never fulfilled any of the promises he made. He had promise to develop our nation and people trusted him with their mandate. But, he has betrayed the people with demonetisation. It was badly implemented and so was GST,’ he said, adding that development came to a standstill because of such ‘tughluq plans’.
Adding that BJP government hasn’t delivered on its promise of establishing IIT-Raichur, he appealed to people to bring Congress-JD(S) government at the national level too, apart from that in Karnataka. His speech clearly indicated his support to Congress-JD(S) partnership at the Centre, with the support of other regional parties. However, he did not mention about his choice of Prime Ministerial candidate – whether it would be Rahul Gandhi or Deve Gowda.
Chandrababu also picked on the local issues which the BJP has not addressed in Raichur. ‘I have given a call to people to vote out Modi and hence, many Telugus in Karnataka have voted for Congress-JD(S) partnership. I’m happy that the current government is run by this partnership. We thank the Congress for promising Special Status for AP in its manifesto and also mentioning that they will sign the first file on AP special status,’ he added.
Meanwhile, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said: ‘People have decided in 2019 that in Karnataka, Congress and JD(S), in Andhra Pradesh Naidu (Chandrababu Naidu) and across the country those who are fighting against BJP, they will win. Narendra Modi will be removed from Delhi.’ He added that ‘People of Gujarat are saying, leave alone the country, Narendra Modi has not done anything for Gujarat…Lakhs of acres of our land were given to big business people.’
Poll ink On Rajinikanth’s Right Index Finger; EC seeks report
‘Superstar Rajinikanth is always right and cannot be left’ – Looks like this popular phrase has been taken too seriously. An election officer at Stella Marris College polling booth applied the indelible ink on the right index finger of the actor instead of on his left index finger.
When asked on the same, the CEO (chief electoral officer) Satyabrata Sahoo said, ‘Yes. it was a mistake. The official should have applied the ink on the actor’s left index finger. As per rule, if there is any problem on the left index finger, the ink could be applied on the other fingers of the left hand’.
However, the CEO refused to say whose blunder it was. It is also not clear why the actor-turned-politician, who always exercise his right to vote precisely, showed his right index finger to the official. And, why the official was apathetic towards asking the actor to show left index finger? Were both inattentive or careless?
Soon after, the CEO has sought a report from the district election officer. In midst of all these, fans got irked by the whole incident and said that it is a small issue and Rajinikanth casting his vote itself is great. They also claimed that many people do not vote due to inefficiency and EC fighting over the wrong finger is absolutely frivolous.
Here Is Why Vidya Balan turned down Thalaivi
Vidya Balan, eminently known for playing versatile roles like Parineeta, The Dirty Picture, Kahaani and many more, was also seen mesmerizing the Telugu audience with NTR Kathanayakudu as Nandamuri Basavatarakam. During the period, she also grabbed the huge opportunity of playing late J. Jayalalithaa in a biopic named Thalaivi.
The role as a former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has given her all the excitement but it was later reported that the actress said no to the makers for her tight schedule and prior commitments. But, as per her latest interview, the reason was something else.
In a recent interaction, Vidya said that she refused to do it as she did not want to do another biopic simultaneously. The actress was already roped in for a biopic on the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The film will soon go on sets and Vidya will be seen portraying Indira Gandhi. The film is also ready to be made into a web series. “I felt that doing one biopic was enough,” she added.
The role of Jayalalithaa has later been given to Manikarnika actress, Kangana Ranaut, who constantly stays on the headlines for her controversial remarks and taunts against Bollywood film industry.
