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Upset With Balayya’s Treatment, Boyapati Finding Options
During the times of Kathanayakudu release, Nandamuri Balakrishna himself has announced that his next production venture will have Boyapati Sreenu as the director. But surprisingly, we got KS Ravikumar’s film being rolled on by the mass star, and Boyapati’s film got postponed for more than four months.
According to the grapevine, Boyapati got hurt with this and he’s said to be finding a new hero for his next. Especially he is looking at the likes of Ram and RX100 Karthikeya, and a couple of others, to get his next rolling. With script almost ready for another masala entertainer, the director wants to take off this project very soon as a fitting reply to Balayya’s ill treatment.
However many heroes are actually worried that a film with Boyapati will cost them their career. This is because the director will not stick to timelines and makes his producers invest a bomb on the project. Even though if the film gets hit talk, it might end up as a cost-failure. We have to see who will agree and join the dashing director now.
Logo Look: Sudheer Babu’s Thriller ‘V’
After a beatiful love story like Sammohanam, Sudheer Babu and the talented Indraganti Mohan Krishna joined their hands again for a thriller this time. The movie is titled V, an action thriller and with the logo look and announcements, Sudheer Babu asks the audience to ‘Expect the Unexpected’.
We know how Indraganti Mohan Krishna can keep us intriguing as we all watched Nani’s Gentleman. We can expect a next level suspenceful and gripping screenplay from V too.
Both the beautiful and talented Aditi Rao Hydari and Nivetha are playing the female leads. Dil Raju is producing the movie and Amit Trivedi is composing the music.
Hollywood Star Calls Mahesh Babu For a Spy Movie
It’s Hollywood calling for Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu. Well-known Hollywood actor Bill Duke, who is popular for his roles in Predator and Commando, has invited Mahesh Babu and director Vamshi Paidipalli for lunch. Bill asked Mahesh and Vamshi to drop in at his place in Down Town Los Angeles (DTLA) and asked them to join for lunch. He said he would like to discuss collaborating on an international spy movie.
“@directorvamshi @urstrulyMahesh When you come to #LosAngeles, Stop by #DTLA for Lunch to discuss collaborating on International #SpyMovie,” tweeted Bill Duke.
In another tweet, Duke invited both Mahesh and director AR Murugadoss to talk about the international spy. He asked the Spyder director to join for the lunch as well.
With Duke naming one and only star from India i.e Mahesh Babu, fans of Mahesh are on cloud nine. While Mahesh Babu has maintained over the years that Tollywood is his place, one has to wait and see whether Mahesh would accept the offer of Bill Duke and expand his base to Hollywood. So far many Bollywood actors have already acted in Hollywood films, but none of the prominent stars from South have tried their hand in Hollywood. Let’s see whether Mahesh will be the first from South to go to Hollywood.
Kajal has a huge crush on ‘THIS’ cricketer
Gorgeous lady Kajal Aggarwal is currently busy with a humongous number of projects in hand. She is working on two Tamil films called Paris Paris and Komali and two Telugu films namely Sita and Sharwa27. With more than 10.1M followers on Instagram, this beautiful woman has opened up about her favourite people and things.
In one of her interviews, she was asked who is her favourite sportsperson to which she immediately replied, Indian cricketer and right-handed batsman Rohit Sharma. She said she has a huge crush on him and love watching him on the ground. She also said that, just like everyone, she is an ardent fan of his batting skills.
We wonder what Rohit Sharma has to say on her feelings. Earlier, Kajal said that she would like to marry someone outside the industry. Also, Rohit Sharma married his longtime girlfriend in 2015 and is now a proud father to his daughter, Samaira. Well, not only Kajal, every girl in India is crazy for Rohit Sharma’s looks and there are even instances where ladies fantasize about him.
Nevertheless, both Kajal and Rohit has a huge fanbase and they enjoy love and respect from their fans all over the country.
Jagan supports RGV, attacks Babu
As reported earlier, AP Police officials on Sunday did not allow filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma to hold a press meet in Vijayawada regarding his film Lakshmi’s NTR, which is slated for release on 1st May in Andhra Pradesh. After detaining the director and movie unit at Gannavaram airport, they were sent back to Hyderabad forcefully to avoid the uninvited situations.
Unsurprisingly, in next few hours, the director has gained support of YSRCP Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, who already is drawing sharp criticism for being tight-lipped on TRS government over the irregularities in Intermediate board which led to suicides of 21 students so far.
Condemning the incident, Jagan Mohan Reddy issued a statement “Such incidents are a blot on democracy which are deplorable.” On Monday morning, he also dropped a tweet saying : “Our democracy is in such a situation that we cannot hold a press meet in Vijayawada. Our police men are being used like a pawn in this democracy.” He also questioned: “Chandrababu Garu, what wrong did Ram Gopal Varma do?”
Jagan reacting to RGV’s issue in few hours has called for a discussion on social media and some section of netizens are pointing out that “why is Jagan concerned about a movie and a filmmaker who was denied permission for a press meet to only avoid unwanted situation.”
Pic: Blue Moon Kajal with a shimmery crown
Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her demise. Currently, Sony channel brings India’s first premium video portraying Victoria’s inspiring and fascinating life story. Depicting her confidence and integrity, the platform launches three new English shows with the premium offer to consumers.
Gorgeous actress Kajal Aggarwal came up with a new picture that captioned ”A show that’s inspiring, powerful and captivating. Victoria, on @sonylivindia, had me crowning myself with my head held high. #VictoriaIsHere #LIVtoBinge#welivtoentertain”.
The actress is seen in a Persian blue coloured gown and donning a rhinestone crown. The episodes of Victoria has highly inspired the actress and looks like Kajal is totally involved in the character. She also looked like a queen from heaven in the beautiful picture. With minimal makeup, Kajal stands tall with confidence and class.
This Bengaluru Hottie is Nagarjuna’s Dream Girl
Bengaluru hottie Akshara Gowda is well known to Bollywood and Kollywood audiences.
She made a special appearance in Vijay starrer “Thuppakki” and also did major role in Jayam Ravi starrer “Bogan”. She also appeared in Bollywood movie “Rangrezz”.
Now she is all set to enter into Tollywood. Akshara Gowda will be seen as Nagarjuna’s dream girl in director Rahul Ravindran’s “Manmadhudu 2” that is under progress in Europe. Akshara will join the shoot in Hyderabad.
She is excited to be part of this prestigious movie but she make it clear that hers is cameo appearance.
Retired Andhra HC judge booked for dowry harassment
Hyderabad: The daughter-in-law of a retired Andhra High Court judge on Sunday succeeded in getting custody of one of her two daughters, hours after her in-laws and husband were booked by for subjecting her to dowry harassment and domestic violence.
After nearly a day-long protest along with women activists outside the residence of former high court judge Justice Rammohan Rao here, Sindhu Sharma managed to get the custody of her younger daughter, one-and-half-year-old Srividya, with the intervention by police.
The 30-year-old also demanded the custody of her elder daughter. She vowed to continue her protest till the in-laws also hand over three-and-half-year-old Rishika.
Tension prevailed at the retired judge’s residence in posh Jubilee Hills as various women’s groups also joined her in her protest. Holding placards and raising slogans, they demanded justice.
Sindhu alleged that in-laws were refusing to hand over the elder daughter as they fear that she would speak out about the ill-treatment and physical assault.
She told media persons that Rammohan Rao suggested divorce with mutual consent. She, however, made it clear that the police case against them should first come to a conclusion.
She said that if her husband N. Vashista comes forward to live with her, she may give him a chance.
On a complaint by Sindhu, the Central Crime Station of Hyderabad police on Saturday filed a criminal case against Rammohan Rao, his wife Lakshmi and their son Vashista, charging them under sections 498-A (punishment for subjecting a married woman to cruelty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code and Dowry Prohibition Act.
Sindhu and Vashista had married six years ago and her father M. V. Sharma had given cash and gold as dowry. However, for last few months, her in-laws and husband had been allegedly harassing her for dowry and subjecting her to physical and mental torture.
Last week, she had to be admitted to a hospital after they allegedly thrashed her mercilessly. With the physical assault becoming unbearable, she decided to approach the police.
Rammohan Rao was a senior judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court who retired in 2017 while serving at Madras High Court.
T teacher sacked for giving ‘0’ marks instead of 99
Hyderabad: Telangana Board of Intermediate, which is at the centre of a row over goof-up in declaring results of Intermediate examination, suspended a teacher and imposed fine on another for giving a student ‘0’ marks instead of ’99’ on Sunday.
A day after three-member committee submitted its report to the government, Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) began action against those found guilty of dereliction of duty.
BIE announced late Sunday that it has imposed Rs. 5,000 fine against Uma Devi, a teacher of a private school who evaluated Telugu paper of Navya, a 12th standard student but instead of giving ’99’ marks gave her ‘0’ marks. Uma Devi has also been sacked by her school management.
BIE also suspended Vijay Kumar, a teacher of a tribal welfare school, who had served as scrutiniser but failed to notice the blunder.
The goof-up by the Board has triggered a spate of suicide by students and protests by parents, student bodies and opposition parties. They are demanding action against the higher-ups in the Board and the Globarena Technologies, an IT company, which was allegedly found guilty of the massive bungling.
Suicide by 20 students and massive protests forced the government to announce free re-verification of answer sheets of over 3 lakh students, who were declared failed in the examination.
Mahesh Babu’s Paid Tweet Promotions
Tweeting or posting on other social media platforms for money is a new trend. A lot of media professionals have made this their vocation.
Even in Bollywood and Hollywood, celebrities take money for posting promotional content through their social media handles.
Corporate brands are now paying larges sums of money to celebrities who have millions of followers.
Mahesh Babu too has joined the bandwagon. He has now started promoting Spotify, a audio streaming platform on his Twitter.
Mahesh Babu seems to have inked a deal with this brand that is aggressively promoting in India.
Mahesh is said to be taking lakhs of rupees for single post. He knows how to earn money.
T Intermediate Board postpones supplementary exams
Hyderabad: The Telangana Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has postponed Advanced Supplementary Exams from May 16 to May 25, it was announced on Sunday.
While the Intermediate First Year (Class 11) exam will be held during morning session, Second Year (Class 12) will be held in the afternoon. The exams will continue till June 1.
According to the schedule earlier announced by the BIE, the exams were to begin on May 16. As the re-verification of answer sheets of all failed students and other applicants is likely to take more time, the BIE has postponed the Advanced Supplementary Exams.
A total of 9.74 lakh students appeared in Intermediate First and Second year exams held in February-March. The Board on April 18 announced the exam results.
However, a goof-up by the BIE in declaring the results sparked a huge row and led to suicide by 20 students during last 10 days.
Following an uproar by the students and parents and protest by student bodies and opposition parties, the state government announced free re-verification of answer sheets of 3.28 lakh students who failed to secure pass marks.
Many students who passed the exams but not satisfied with the marks obtained also applied for re-verification of answer sheets.
A three-member committee, formed by the government to probe the goof-up, found that the BIE and Globarena Technologies, the IT firm whose services were hired by the BIE, committed grave mistakes in preparing the results.
Meanwhile, the opposition parties have decided to intensify the protest over the issue from Monday. The Congress, the TDP, the CPI and the TJS have called for ‘chalo Intermediate Board’ to press the demand for judicial probe into goof-up and compensation to families of the students who committed suicide.
BJP’s state unit has demanded judicial probe by a sitting judge of the high court. BJP National General Secretary Muralidhar Rao announced on Sunday that state BJP chief K. Laxman will launch indefinite fast.
Time for the South To Get Its Due From The Centre?
The South states contribute to one-four of India’s GDP that also runs the country. From greater economic progress, employment opportunities, good infrastructure, higher industrialisation, education and human development index to more progress and per capita GDP, the South does it all to run the country.
But, the Centre has always remained unjust to the region. All the Southern states combined contribute more than double to the Centre’s revenues than the Northern States. Development politics and the presence of regional parties in the South is also one of the reasons for such economic progress in the Southern part of India, compared to the Northern belt which is still getting its act together. According to economists, North Indian states get 2.5 times more than what the South gets despite contributing the most to India’s growth.
For instance: While Tamil Nadu gets 40 paise for every rupee it generates for the Centre, Uttar Pradesh gets Rs 1.8 per rupee. One astounding example that shows the injustice meted out to South is the allocation of funds for urban development in Delhi alone by the Centre which was Rs. 20,000 crore in 2016. Meanwhile, this is more than what Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Amaravati, Chennai and Kochi got. Despite all these South Indian cities being top job creators, they have not received the required boost from the Centre.
According to a study quoted by the Hindu Business Line: The simple average per capita income at 2011-12 prices for the five southern States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana was about ₹1,18,070 in 2016-17. In comparison, the per capita income in Uttar Pradesh was about a third of that at ₹38,965 and in Bihar, a little over 20 per cent of the southern average, at ₹25,950. This indicates a stark difference.
While any government at the Centre promises and reiterates the idea of Cooperative Federalism time and again, it hardly implements it when it comes to the Southern States. So, does that mean that the leaders from all Southern States should form a collective and exert pressure on the Centre? May be. But, for starters, all the leaders should first unite and recognise it rather than get into political fights and mudslinging, to demand the South’s rightful share.
