Rakul says she has had beautiful career in Tollywood. The tall actress says she never faced casting couch problem in her entire career.She was quoted saying that no filmmaker demanded sexual favours from her in return of film chances even during her initial stage of career.

Rakul has been telling the same since the controversy of Sri Reddy episode blown out of proportion. In a magazine interview, Rakul said she never went through casting couch.It is silly to say that there is no casting couch menace in Tollywood. But she claims she never faced it.

While many top ranking actresses have kept mum on this thorny issue, Rakul has been in denial mode.

Actress Shruti Haasan is back from London, and has started shooting for a sequence of her upcoming film, helmed by Mahesh Manjrekar, in Goa.After shooting in Mumbai, Manjrekar moved his entire team to Goa to shoot a schedule of his gangster drama. The yet untitled film is a period drama and also stars Vidyut Jammwal, said a statement to IANS.

Shruti, after taking some time off to complete her international music based commitments in London, has joined the team in Goa to shoot her portions.Her spokesperson confirmed the news of her joining the team in Goa for the film shoot, which is expected to go on for a few more weeks. “Soon after completing the shoot for this film, Shruti is expected to resume shoot on her father Kamal Haasan’s bilingual project ‘Sabash Naidu’,” added the spokesperson.

According to a source, she plays a character who is a catalyst for many ups and downs in the lives of the others.

“It has been quite an exciting journey for Shruti as she is being guided by a master visionary like Mahesh Manjrekar on this film. He is someone who’s an expert with making people get completely under the skin of the characters and helps them breathe life into them in their own unique style.”The film is in its second schedule and Shruti is really looking forward to seeing this shape up even better than what she read on paper,” added the source.

How different will Nani’s anchoring be from NTR’s in “Bigg Boss 2”? Sources say Nani’s approach will be more localised with whistles, songs and humour.NTR set the bar very high with his maiden TV show in “Bigg Boss”. To raise to that standard, it would be tough for Nani given the fact that his star charisma is not as huge as NTR’s.

The creative team at “Bigg Boss” have designed the new style for Nani after studying his movies and are trying to bring his ‘Nenu Local’ persona on to the television screen.Nani has allotted his dates for three months for the show. He will have to shoot every weekend for this programme.

He has also cut down his movie assignments for this show and he is confident that he’d easily pull off the show.He is aware that SRK didn’t create much magic with “Kaun Banega Crorepati” when he stepped into the shoes of Big B. Similarly, Chiru failed to bring the same magic that Nag brought to “Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu”.

In Srimanthudu and Bharat Ane Nenu, Mahesh touched upon social issues to a certain extent. They clicked and the films did well too. Talk is that he will be dwelling on similar issues in Vamsi Paidipally’s film.In the film, he will be touching upon the farmers’ issue say unit members. Being made on the lines of Krishna and Kuchela, the film will have Mahesh and Allari Naresh playing the two roles.

While the film will unfold in the US and India, farmers’ issues will be dealt with when the story happens in India.Incidentally, the story was finalized a year back. Since the Telangana government has been taking quite a few pro-farmer initiatives presently, it remains to be seen if the story has been changed or if the initial track is being retained.

Since both Vamsi Paidipally and Dil Raju belong to Telangana, efforts could be made to tone down the intensity of the issues.The film will be shot in Dehradun on the 10th or 11th of this month for a fortnight. Once done, a schedule will be shot in the US.

Overseas market is turning out to be the key market to decide a film’s success range.Films that does well in overseas are making huge profits and films that don’t appeal to overseas audience are not earning much profits even if they score hit in the domestic circuit.

This is the reason why all the top heroes are concentrating heavily on capturing the overseas market.Ram Charan who struggled to get a foot hold in overseas market for a long time has finally arrived with Rangasthalam that went on to become non-Baahubali hit in USA.His cousin Allu Arjun who has been very consistent in the local circuit is unable to be as successful in overseas.

Allu Arjun is the only hero in mega family who hasn’t entered the $2 Million club as yet.Chiranjeevi, Pawan, Charan and Varun have achieved this feat while Allu’s last three films didn’t even collect $1 Million in USA.His latest film Naa Peru Surya turned out to be a disaster in overseas and domestic markets as well.

Perhaps this is the time for him to get back to family entertainers that fetched universal hits for him.

Aahana Kumra shot to fame with acclaimed Bollywood black comedy Lipstick Under My Burkha.She entered the glam world by setting her foot in Television field and slowly paved her way into cinema industry.

Besides enjoying her stint in Bollywood, Aahana is also fulfilling her desire to travel the world. She visited Turkey recently and made sure to keep her fans updated through social media.

Aahana claimed herself a beachoholic and said “Call it what you wanna call it.” She sure had a gala time at the beaches in Turkey which is evident in this picture.

Ravi Teja might have had flops in his career earlier as well. But the disaster result of his latest outing Nela Ticket has caused more damage to actor’s image and market than anyone else like before. Apart from his continuous flops, Nela Ticket result is said to be worrying the producers of his next.

Ravi Teja has inked a two-film deal with Mythri Movie Makers who bankrolled blockbuster films. While one film (Amar Akbar Anthony) is being directed by Sreenu Vaitla which will see him playing three roles and the shoot is planned widely in the United States with big budget, the second film is the Telugu remake of Theri under direction of Kandireega fame Santosh Srinivas.

With the directors of his next two films are also on downward spiral, naturally doubts are looming large over these two films of Ravi Teja. Particularly, trade is said to be not very keen on these two films of Mass Maharaj at the moment. It needs to be seen how the production house would pull it off given its hit track record.