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DevaDas to start off with a ‘small peg’
Heroes Nagarjuna Akkineni and Nani are teaming up for a crazy multi-starrer titled ‘DevaDas.’The first look of the film has garnered a good response and now the makers are ready with the teaser.The teaser of ‘DevaDas’ will be released tomorrow. Accordingly a brand new poster is unveiled, calling it a ‘small peg.’ This is probably the best way to start off the movie’s promotions.
Sriram Adittya is directing the movie while the shooting is almost done. Director Sriram took it on his official Twitter handle and shared this update.The film has Rashmika Mandanna and Aakanksha Singh in the female lead roles. Mani Sharma is composing music for this out and out entertainer.
Ashwini Dutt is producing ‘DevaDas’ under Vyjayanthi Movies banner.
US judge could halt arrests of immigrants seeking green cards
Washington: An American federal judge could rule as early as Thursday whether to order the Department of Homeland Security to stop arresting undocumented immigrants who come to government offices for interviews as part of applying for green cards.US District Judge Mark Wolf heard testimony from people who had been unexpectedly detained when they sat for marriage interviews as part of the application process to prove that their marriages to US citizens were legitimate, reports CNN.
Emails entered as evidence in the case show what appear to be efforts between US Citizenship and Immigration Services employees and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees to coordinate the interview appointments and arrests.There are five couples named in the suit, each consisting of an undocumented immigrant married to a US citizen and attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) say there are other couples in the New England area who are facing similar situations.
While the ACLU and attorneys at the firm WilmerHale have asked for the injunction to apply to the Boston ICE office’s region, the impact could be felt nationwide.”The reason that these arrests happened according to ICE itself is President Trump’s (January 2017) executive order — and that is an executive order that is nationwide,” said Matt Segal, an ACLU attorney.”The issue in this case is one that is important for the entire country.”
Attorneys for the plaintiffs argue that the practice of arresting immigrants with deportation orders who are attempting to apply for green cards goes against their own agency’s 2013 policy of creating “provisional waivers”, which were created to allow people in those situations who have US citizen family members the opportunity to become lawful permanent residents, reports CNN.ICE officials testified that they believe the arrests were justified, citing the executive order calling for “the faithful execution of immigration laws of the US… against all removable aliens…”
When Sunny Deol got beaten up by Dharmendra
Mumbai: Veteran actor Dharmendra has revealed an incident when he thrashed his elder son Sunny Deol.Dharmendra and his sons Bobby Deol and Sunny shot for an episode of the show “Indian Idol 10”.
On the show, its host Maniesh Paul played rapid fire with Dharmendra. He asked the actor about Sunny and Bobby. When Dharmendra was asked whom he loves more, he said one is my left eye and the other is my right eye. He also revealed the time when he had thrashed Sunny, read a statement.
“Both the kids are my two eyes and I love them very much. Once I had got a toy gun for Sunny and he broke all the mirrors in the house. That was when I had lost my temper and given him left and right. Later I felt very bad about this,” Dharmendra said.
The three will soon be seen in their film “Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se”.
pHOTo Alert: Savyasachi Heroine Is A Stunner
Nidhi Agerwal who made debut in Bollywood with Munna Michael caught the attention of Telugu filmmakers.She is making her Telugu movie debut with Naga Chaitanya’s yet to be released Savyasachi.She bagged the female lead role in Akhil Akkineni’s upcoming film even before Savyasachi is released.
Nidhi like many contemporary actresses love to pose in revealing costumes. She always grabs the attention of photographers in star studded events.Besides doing hot photo shoots for magazines, Nidhi also posts many sizzling private photos for the delight of her social media followers and fans.
With a beautiful face and stunning body, Nidhi is up for a long innings in Telugu film industry for sure.
Actress posts hot pic, gets called ‘aunty’ by trolls
Ameesha Patel did a smoking hot photoshoot with Subi Samuel earlier this month, and the pictures are finally here.She took to her Instagram account to share a sultry picture from the shoot, in which she is dressed in a black tube top, with a liberal dose of body shimmer applied all over her.
The picture has grabbed eyeballs, with over 23,000 likes in just an hour. While many compliments poured in for Ameesha, the picture also attracted a barrage of negative comments from trolls.Ameesha will be seen next on the screen in the action-comedy Bhaiaji Superhit, directed by Neerraj Pathak.
Prabhas Defers Next Movie Launch?
Prabhas may be big superstar in India but he’s very slow on finishing movies. He takes plenty of time to complete a film or to green lit the new one.He has once again deferred the launch of his new film that was to go to the sets mid-August.
As per grapevine, Prabhas has asked his producers and director Radhakrishna to put hold on the movie launch of his next film for some more time.This period drama is to be directed by Radha Krishna Kumar who earlier directed ‘Jil’ with Gopichand for UV Creations.
The same production house that is also producing “Saaho” will bankroll this romantic drama which is said to be predominantly shot in Europe and the story is set in the pre-Independence era.As per the buzz, Prabhas is said to be playing the role of a palmist.
Pooja Hegde will be playing the romantic interest of Prabhas in this film and it will also be dubbed into Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi languages.
Sunil’s Remuneration as Comedian
Sunil is arguably one of the best comedians in Telugu cinema and he has not really entertained us with his peculiar style comedy in last eight years. That is from the time he started acting as lead and had to pull off the whole movie on his own. His bad choices of stories distanced him from the audience and now he is coming back to his old himself.Sunil has been saying in many recent interviews that he never wanted to give up comedian roles in other heroes’ films and keeping his word, Sunil appeared in Trivikram NTR’s Aravinda Sametha teaser.
An exclusive bit of information is that Sunil is not charging as a package like he did when he was a hero, but is heard to be charging huge 3.5 lakh rupees for a day of the shoot as a comedian. Most happening comedians usually charge like this as they will be busy with their roles in multiple simultaneous films. Sunil as a hero lost his market and might not have earned much with his recent failures.
This glimpse of him in teaser cheered all the fun-loving audience and being it Trivikram’s film, all are expecting some hilarious one-liners from him. If Sunil gets back on track as the comedian and if he manages to stand the tough competition from Vennela Kishore, we can see more of his comedy in near future.
Naidu frustrated with World Bank?
During his earlier stints as the chief minister of combined Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister was the most favourite political leader of the World Bank.It extended huge loans to the state for power sector reforms, irrigation, AP Reconstruction Project etc.World Bank chairman also visited Andhra Pradesh and appreciated Naidu’s administrative capabilities. In fact, at one stage, the opposition accused Naidu of being a stooge of the World Bank.
But now, as the chief minister of residuary Andhra Pradesh, Naidu has fallen down in the eyes of the World Bank.His application for Rs 4,700 crore loan for the construction of the state capital Amaravati is still pending with the bank, as the latter received several complaints from the farmers about large scale irregularities in the land pooling system and other project works.
Naidu thought the Centre would come to its rescue in the form of funding for Externally Aided Projects as per the special financial package, but with the special category status demand coming to the fore, the Centre, too, stopped supporting his demand.
The latest news is that the World Bank, which almost finalised the loan sanction, has suddenly deferred it by another nine months on the pretext of conducting another investigation. It would examine the feasibility of the project before taking a decision on extending loan.It would mean Naidu would not get the loan before the next elections and the existing works which were launched with a hope on the World Bank would come to a halt. This has frustrated Naidu.
Sources said he is now contemplating cancelling the World Bank loan entirely and explore the other options.“In any case, not many countries and states are preferring World Bank loans these days. We cannot continue to wait for the loan. It is better we go in for other financial institutions,” a senior Andhra official, quoting Naidu, said.
KCR’s early poll talk only to mislead Cong?
The ongoing talk doing rounds in the media circles over the conduct of early assembly elections in Telangana is being taken with a pinch of salt by sceptics who are wondering whether this talk is just a part of the strategy on the part of Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to mislead the opposition Congress party and fooling the people.
According these sceptics, KCR actually has no plans to dissolve the assembly and go in for early elections but floating the idea of early polls, he wants to send a message to the leaders of the opposition parties that they should hurry up to join the TRS.
“His main idea is to convey to the opposition party leaders, particularly the Congress leaders, that there is very little time left for the elections and it is time for them to decide on joining the Congress party and whoever comes first would get the party ticket. His announcement that he would declared the candidates’ list in September should also be viewed in that angle,” a political observer said.
At the emergency cabinet meeting, KCR reportedly took the suggestions of the ministers on early polls without disclosing his mind.“Nobody can guess what is in his mind and what is in store for us in future,” a party leader said.KCR, however, has decided to go ahead with the conduct of massive public meeting in the name of “Pragathi Nivedana” (Presentation of Progress Report) at Kongara Kalan on the outskirts of Hyderabad as scheduled at 4 pm on September 2.
He reportedly directed all the party leaders to make arrangements for the success of the meeting.He called for an executive committee meeting of the TRS at Telangana Bhavan on Friday to finalise the details of the public meeting, party sources said.
Vijay Deverakonda Enters 40 Cr Club
It has finally happened. As expected, “Geetha Govindam” has crossed the share of Rs 40 Cr.The film that took Rs 38 Cr in its first week has raked in nearly Rs 3 Cr share on Bakrid festival (holiday). So, the film has joined Rs 40 Cr club in just eight days.
This is phenomenal record for a young star like Vijay Deverakonda. No young star did achieve such massive amount in just eight days. This is fourth fastest movie to get such amount this year.Among mid-range and young heroes, only few stars have Rs 40 Cr (Share movies).
Even Nani who has impeccable track record of hits didn’t join 40 Cr club barring Rajamouli’s “Eega” (this film is more of Rajamouli’s movie than Nani’s movie). “Geetha Govindam” will certainly cross Rs 50 Cr mark in its full run.Vijay Deverakonda has raised his stardom multifold with this movie. How he will plan his career from hereafter remains to be seen.
Speculations over Balakrishna’s International Studio
Ever since TDP formed government in Andhra Pradesh after bifurcation, speculations over film studios to be set up by film personalities have been doing rounds.However, no big producer came forward to establish a studio in AP as the current regime wanted everyone to establish production facilities in and around Amaravathi, where there is no infrastructure at all. Film producers are okay with Vizag, but not Amaravathi.
However, as the elections are nearing, Chandrababu Naidu now wants some activity to happen in Vizag at least to showcase his ‘achievements’.The latest statement from Ambika Krishna, chairperson of Andhra Pradesh Film Development Corporation, should be seen in this angle.He has announced many sops to Tollywood filmmakers to establish studios and production houses in AP.
He also gave enough hints that Nandamuri Balakrishna will be establishing a sprawling studio with international facilities in proposed studio lands near Rishikonda in Vizag.Balakrishna earlier did a similar stunt with Eros when they came up with the proposal of setting up Media City in Amaravathi. This turned out to be a mere publicity stunt and no further progress was made.
However, Balakrishna may take lands from the government, which incidentally, he is also a part of as an MLA. The lands at Rishikonda in Vizag are precious, they are worth crores of rupees. The filmmakers will be getting them for paltry amount if they set up studios.The Nandamuri family members own a studio named Ramakrishna Horticulture Studio in Hyderabad which was established by late NTR, but it is not running at all.
The studio is used occasionally for Balakrishna’s movie launch events. They can’t even run the studio in Hyderabad but have plans to establish it in Vizag with international standards!
