Hot under the heels of the Mahanati’s blockbuster success, Dulquer Salmaan is now one of the most-happening stars in Telugu as well. With Dulquer now expanded his base in Tamil (Ok Kanmani / Ok Bangaram) and Telugu (Mahanati) besides a strong foot hold in Malayalam, he is now the go-to the guy in South for a multi-lingual film.

The latest we hear is that a noted Telugu director Chandra Siddharth who had made promising films such as Aa Naluguru is in talks with Dulquer for a racy youthful film set against cricket betting. The script has been locked and said to have shaped well.

Interestingly, Arbaaz Khan’s recent admission on cricket betting is now adding more attention of the film industry towards cricket betting which is always a hot topic. Apparently, the film to be directed by Chandra Siddharth would revolve around the dark side of the gentleman’s game.

A top production house is said to be in talks with the makers to bankroll this crazy film in multiple languages, all thanks to Mahanati. More details are awaited since the talks are in nascent phase.

Recently there was a buzz in tinsel town that heroine Anupama Parameswaran is forcing her producers to rope in particular fashion designers and costumes to style her. They read that she’s throwing a lot of attitude and making a hell lot of demands. But here is something else to know.

For the uninitiated, if a popular fashion designer has to be hired to style a heroine and hero for a single movie, the designer’s paycheque for a medium budgeted film will be like 15-20 lakhs. And that includes the cost of costumes and designer remuneration too. But for a medium budgeted film, that 20 lakhs will be helpful to shoot a 4-day long song in the beaches of Vizag. So what to do?

To cut the cost for producers and to cut herself the burden of maintaining high-cost stylists, heroine Anupama Parameswaran is said to be giving chance to fashion graduates from popular colleges to do the honours. That way, she could get the latest designs styled for her at low costs and the just-passed graduates will also get an expertise of styling celebrities.

This aspect of the heroine is surely cutting the budget for the producers and where is the part that she’s showing a lot of attitude? Isn’t this a thrilling story when heard from the other side?

She is Kannada Kasturi, but she shot to fame in Tollywood. Even though none of her movies set box-office on fire, she made heads turn with her looks and became part of many young heroes’ movies.The actress was even linked with one of the stars who belongs to a family that is known to be one of the pillars of the industry.

Now she is trying her luck in Bollywood. Her maiden Bollywood movie, a thriller movie in the popular franchise, was just an average grosser. But she didn’t get noticed by many film-makers in Bollywood.Suddenly, she has landed a role in a big movie that is a huge franchise comedy movie. The three earlier movies in this franchise were blockbusters.

This Bangalore babe landing the project is attributed to her close proximity to the movie’s director.Bollywood press is abuzz with the news that the director is smitten by her beauty and is dating her. No wonder then that she clinched such a big deal.

Despite two back to back disappointments, one dubbing film helped him prove his strength. And now, this Stylish Star is putting his big foot forward, seeking fat pay in case if he has to showcase his antagonist acts on the silver screen.Hero Arjun is known for his realistic portrayals in movies like Gentleman and Oke Okkadu. But with hero chances slimming down, he opted for character roles too. With films like LIE and Naa Peru Surya, he turned a stylish looking gentleman on the silver screen. While LIE flopped big time, NPS fared ordinarily and brought no new name to Arjun.

However, Arjun’s portrayal of a digital era villain in Vishal’s dubbed flick Abhimanyudu clicked quite well. And that made him a new villain material with the perfect aura of that bad guy. For that reason, when some big producers of Telugu industry approached him for a role alongside a big superstar in an upcoming film, he quoted a bomb.

It is heard that this Stylish Star villain has demanded around 1.25 crores remuneration for 20 days of dates. Though the producer is ready to pay that much, the hero of the film is said to have asked for alternate options too. We mean, cheaper ones!!

Bigg Boss 2 has begun. Nani, the host of the season has introduced all the contestants and here is the list:

Geeta Madhuri (Singer)
Amit Tiwari (Actor)
Deepthi Nallamothu (TV News Reader)
Tanish (Actor)
Babu Gogineni (Humanist)
Bhanu Sri (Dancer)
Roll Rider (Rapper)
Syamala (Anchor)
Kireeti Damaraju (Actor)
Deepti Sunaina (Dancer)
Kaushal (Model)
Tejaswi Madivada (Actress)
Samrat Reddy (Actor)
Ganesh (Common Man)
Sanjana Anne (Common Lady)
Nutan Naidu (Common Man)

Well, not many among the public know who Bhanu Sri, Roll Rider, Kaushal and Deepti Sunaina are but they were introduced as celebrities.Keeping that aside, the special feature of Bigg Boos Season#2 is that it has introduced three contestants from common janatha into the reality show.

While Sanjana Anne was a model and beauty peagent winner in state and national levels, she was kept under common janatha category. It’s not understood what should be the celebrity quotient to be called a celebrity in Bigg Boss.Apart from this, another personality by name Nutan Naidu was introduced as common man into the show. Though he looked like common man and tried to behave like common man, he has a bigger story like that of Basha, say a few.

The people in politics those know him closely say that he is not fit to be called a common man as he has got his own identity in backing up Samaikyandhra Party started by former Chief Minister of AP, Kiran Kumar Reddy.

Nutan Naidu was the financial backbone for Samaikyandhra Party, as said by many, and he had given several motivational speeches as a part of campaigning in 2014. As shown in the audio visual of Bigg Boss-2, Nutan Naidu is not a middle class person now, but a big shot who lives amidst private gun men and travels in high end cars. There is a grapevine that he is one of the key backups for Janasena as well.

Sources say that Nutan Naidu has some political agenda behind entering into Bigg Boss. He has big political nexus both in AP and Telangana region, say some political sources.

Allu Sirish is all set to begin shooting for ABCD, the official remake of Dulquer Salmaan’s 2013 Malayalam hit of the same title, from next week. In the film, Sirish will essay the role of an arrogant NRI who comes to India.This evening, Sirish tweeted saying that he will reveal the name of a ‘Master’ entertainer who will be playing his best friend in ABCD tomorrow. Soon, his followers started speculating several names.

But we have come to know from our close sources that it’s none other than Master Bharath who’s going to act alongside Sirish. Master Bharath is popular among Telugu audiences for his rib-tickling, cute dialogue delivery in several hit films like Pokiri, Ready and Dookudu etc.

Sanjeev Reddy will direct ABCD and Yash Rangineni and Madhura Sreedhar will bankroll the movie together.

Megastar Chiranjeevi will be the chief guest of his son-in-law Kalyaan Dhev’s debut film ‘Vijetha’ audio launch. The event is scheduled on June 24th in Hyderabad while the venue will be finalized soon.Harshavardhan Rameshwar is composing music for ‘Vijetha’ which is being written and directed by Rakesh Sashii.

The first look of Kalyaan Dhev was well received by the audience and this film is carrying a good buzz and the teaser is going to be out on June 12th.‘Baahubali’ cameraman, KK Senthil Kumar has handled the cinematography Malavika Nair and actor Murali Sharma are playing female lead role and key supporting role respectively.

‘Vijetha’ release date is confirmed on July 6th. It’s a Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram banner production.