Mollywood diva Bhavana will tie the knot with her beau Naveen on January 22 (Monday) at the Jawaharlal Convention Center at Kovilakathum Padam, Thrissur.Only the couple’s close friends and family members will attend the wedding ceremony.

On the same day, a grand reception will be held at Lulu Convention Center in Thrissur in the evening for the celebrities and other VIPs from both movies and politics.Bhavana’s brother Rajesh had confirmed the wedding date brushing off rumors about the marriage being called off.

Both the families had, earlier, stated that they had pushed the wedding date further due to Naveens’ mother’s sudden demise.Rajesh said that the news about Naveen postponing the wedding was completely false. The couple got engaged in March, 2017, at Thrissur.

Naveen is a popular film producer in Kannada industry. Bhavana’s debut movie in Kannada, Romeo was bankrolled by Naveen.The couple have been dating each other since then. Bhavana had revealed about her relationship only after four years of courtship.

The span of an actress is too short when compared with heroes and so, they would want to make hay while the sun shines as the conditions may not remain good in the long time. When it comes to young actress Regina Cassandra who was on a roll with continuous offers is seeing a clear decline in her career graph.

Many heroines fade out in no time and they fail to assess what’s the reason behind it, Regina is too quick to figure out the reason behind the decline in offers.

Although Regina kicked off her career with some successive films, she couldn’t catch up to it in the coming days and she has an absolute reason for it. “As I have always dreamt of becoming an actress, I have opted this route but in 10 years of journey, I have committed mistakes by falling in Love,” confesses Regina in one of her recent interview. However, she did not reveal who her love was. In the past, she was reportedly linked with several actors like Sai Dharam Tej, Sundeep Kishan.

In her assessment, Regina figured out that her love life has tinkered the growth graph and also lost several offers. As a result, Regina could not achieve the star status, that her peers are enjoying. Alerted with it, she would now like to focus completely on career and wanted to grab more filmy offers.

It is heard that both NTR and director Trivikram have become alert after the epic disaster of ‘Agnyaathavaasi’, and are indulging in a series of discussions about their combo film. And, Trivikram might have to back out from his promises in order to assure NTR and avoid ‘flop sentiment’.

Trivikram is one director who repeats his heroes, heroines and technicians. Of the countable number of films he has done so far, he has repeated Ileana twice and Samantha thrice. Impressed by beautiful Malayali beauty Anu Emmanuel’s work in ‘Agnyaathavaasi’, the ace writer-director had reportedly promised her earlier to cast her as main female lead in his next film starring NTR.

But, as Agnyaathavaasi bombed at box office, he may not fulfill his promise to Anu since NTR has reportedly asked Trivikram not to rope in any heroine from the Pawan-starrer. NTR, who allegedly has significant belief in combinations, expressed his concern that the just proven disaster combo (Trivi-Anu) may bring bad luck to their film as well.

Heeding to the star hero’s demand and understanding his concern, Trivikram has conveyed his apology to Anu Emmanuel and started hunting for another actress. He however has promised the Mallu beauty to consider her for his future projects and also recommend her to his filmmaker-friends in industry.

According to reports, Trivikram may also go back to Devi Sri Prasad as NTR asked him to do so, dropping ‘Agnyaathavaasi’ composer Anirudh from their film.

Admired by his fans as the ‘Kissing Star of Indian Cinema’, Emraan Hashmi is all set to take on the education system in the country in his upcoming film titled, “Cheat India”.

Announcing the project, the ‘Murder’ star reportedly said that it is his most ambitious project to date. He described “Cheat India” as an edge-of-the-seat drama and one of the most riveting scripts he has read in a long time, that will unfold the startling crimes in the Indian education system.

“I am sure that every student, youth and parent will hugely relate to the subject. I’m very excited to be essaying a character which I believe will be a landmark one in my filmography. For an actor, there’s always the greed to essay a character that tests his skills and this one, I know, will keep me on my toes,” he reportedly said.

Emraan Hashmi will play lead role and also co-produce the film.

Despite taking an average opening on the first day, Balayya’s “Jai Simha” is growing from strength to strength with each passing day. The collections of 3rd day were better than 2nd day’s, and of 4th day are much better than 3rd day’s, hinting how well the film has consolidated its position at box office.

On Monday, which is the Makar Sankranthi holiday and its 4th day in theatres, Jai Simha showed huge growth and collected a commendable distributor share of 3.36 Cr (much higher than day 2 and day 3 collections). The 4 days total share from the Telugu states accrues to 15.17 Cr with a gross of 26.5 Cr.

Area wise break up of share:

Nizam – 3,11,00,000
Ceded – 3,90,00,000
Nellore – 82,90,613
Guntur – 1,83,00,000
Krishna – 1,04,56,637
West – 1,25,00,000
East – 1,46,00,000
Uttharandhra – 1,74,26,091

Total 4 days AP & TS share – 15.17 Cr (Gross – 26.5 Cr)

Total 4 days Worldwide Share – 18 Cr (Gross – 32 Cr)

The film is well on course to take the Sankranthi winner title as it needs to recover only 27 Cr from theatrical run.

Naturally, there will be many comparisons if one is coming up using the title of an iconic film again. That is happening in the case of mega hero Varun Tej right now whose love story “Tholiprema” is all set to release soon.

Directed by newcomer Venky Atluri, the film’s teaser has created an impression it is another intriguing love story coming from the mega compound. Back in history, we have Pawan Kalyan’s Tholiprema that had amazed everyone in all possible ways. Direction, story, Pawan’s performance and heroine Keerthi Reddy are top notch. So, will the same get repeated now?

All those things will be unveiled only after the film hits on February 9th, but it looks like heroine Raashi Khanna will be dominating Keerthi Reddy for sure. Going by the latest pic of Raashi from the film, who appears in a spectacled look, it looks like her looks itself are so charming and mesmeric. If she could act like the original Tholiprema heroine, surely then Raashi will outshine Reddy.

Meanwhile, Varun Tej is banking a lot on this film because only if this film scores bigger or nearer to his Fidaa then his market will stand at that position. Otherwise, he will have to struggle like a Sai Dharam Tej.

Tamil star hero Suriya, who is currently busy promoting his Sankranthi release, “Gang”across the Telugu states, has made some interesting ‘political’ statements.

During a TV interview given to YSRCP Jaganmohan Reddy-owned News channel, Sakshi, Suriya wished Jagan for the Padayathra he had undertaken. “I know Jagan anna’s family from my college days, we are like family. We often meet but don’t discuss politics. His intention is very sincere and he is doing great hard work for the padayathra. I wish his efforts bring the result he desires,’ Suriya reportedly said.

After Suriya’s comments on Jagan went viral on social media, some of his fans from the Telugu states say that he should have avoided the ‘political’ talk with dignity. They fear that his affinity for Jagan might send wrong indications and distance him from certain sections of fans. They defend the actor saying he felt it as an obligation to talk good about Jagan as he was sitting in Sakshi channel’s office. On a whole, Suriya’s talk on AP politics has become a hot topic in political circles.
It may be noted that Suriya was the brand ambassador of Bharathi Cements owned by Jagan.

The viral video of Nandamuri Balakrishna from his recent film ‘Jai Simha’ wherein he lifts a Mahindra Bolero with single hand is turning out to be a big hilarious campaign on the social media. On Monday, a small scene was tweeted to none other than Chairman of Mahindra group – Anand Mahindra, who also made a hilarious comment on it.

A twitter guy who asked Anand to watch the act that’s trending in Telugu speaking States, got a retweet with an extremely funny reply – ‘Haha. Now all our service workshops won’t need any hydraulic lifts anymore to do Bolero check-ups!!’

However, this hasn’t gone down well with the fans of Balakrishna who referred to it as ‘trolling’ and began to strike at him with the following tags – #BoycottMahindra & #BanMahindra.

Apart from the video, few dance moves of Balayya has exploded fun among all the fans and film lovers across both Telugu speaking states.

Bollywood hero Hrithik Roshan, blessed with the looks of a Greek God, has earlier won titles like ‘Sexiest Asian Man’, ‘Hottest Man on the Planet’ among others. The Indian actor has now been ranked the most handsome man in the world.

A popular website that lists the World’s Top Most, has ranked Hrithik Roshan No.1 in the list of the 10 most handsome actors in the world 2018. Hrithik beat Hollywood heartthrobs Robert Pattinson (2), Chris Evans (4), Henry Cavill (8) and Tom Hiddleston (9) among others to take the crown.

Hrithik is the first ever Indian hero to be named the world’s most handsome man, a proud moment for his fans.

Superstar Rajinikanth and maverick director Shankar’s upcoming visual extravaganza, “2.0” has beaten another record held by “Bahubali 2” by a massive margin. This record pertains to Kerala distribution rights.

According to reliable information from trade circles, the Kerala theatrical rights of “2.0” have been snapped by a leading distribution firm for a whopping Rs 16 Cr. This is the highest ever price offered for a non-Malayalam film, besting the earlier record held by Baahubali 2, whose rights fetched 10.5 Cr. The Rajinikanth starrer should perform exceptionally well in the Malayalam speaking state to break even.

The high budget sequel to ‘Robot’ is scheduled to hit screens on April 27, 2018.

By now, its already evident from trade reports that Pawan Kalyan’s “Agnyaathavaasi” is likely to emerge the biggest debacle in Tollywood history. Apparently, the Sankranthi festival holiday on Monday just confirmed the massive failure in offing.

Despite the huge number of screens across the Telugu states that it has been playing in, Agnyaathavaas could only collect a meager 2.17 Cr share on Monday, the crucial Makar Sankranthi festival holiday. The biggie didn’t show much growth from Sunday and failed to capitalize on the holiday.

Break up of 6 days share:

Nizam – 10,01,00,000

Ceded – 4,75,00,000
Nellore – 2,12,00,000
Guntur – 4,81,54,982
Krishna – 2,84,68,974
West – 4,28,44,950
East – 3,52,00,000
Uttharandhra – 4,72,00,000

Total 6 days AP & TS share – 37.07 Cr (Gross – 58.20 Cr)

Total 6 days Worldwide share- 52.50 Cr (Gross – 85 Cr)

The pre-release theatrical business is about 125 Cr. How the film sustains after the end of festival holidays, from tomorrow, will tell where the film’s disastrous run stops. The current big question is – will it cross the life time collections of Katamarayudu?

Tamil star hero Vijay Sethupathi, the most experimenting star of Tamil cinema, for that matter Indian cinema, has chosen a completely unconventional and most difficult character for his landmark 25th film, “Seethakathi”.

To celebrate the actor’s birthday today, makers of ‘Seethakathi’ unveiled the first look poster featuring Vijay Sethupathi from the film, and it is sensational. Vijay is playing the role of an old drama artist in the film. His make up as an old man is so perfect that hardly anyone would believe that he is Vijay Sethupathi himself.

Reportedly, Academy Award winners from US, Kevin Haney and Alex Noble have done this make up for Vijay Sethupathi to make him look convincing as an old man, and they seem to have done a great job. Reports say that it takes nearly four hours for Vijay to get the make up done, quite a challenging role he chose for his landmark 25th film.

Meanwhile, Vijay Sethupathi will make his Telugu cinema debut with ‘Sye Raa’. He will play Megastar Chiranjeevi’s confidante, Obayya in the historical film.

Veteran actor Manchu Mohan Babu, who is making his comeback to silver screen after a sabbatical of more than two years, is going to take audience by surprise with his dual role.

When the title of Mohan Babu’s new film was announced as ‘Gayatri’, many were puzzled. We have now learnt that he is playing both the Hero and Villain characters in ‘Gayatri’, and the title is named after the bad guy’s character, Gayatri Patel.

The title indicates that Babu’s villain character will take center stage in the film. History is proof that Mohan Babu has delivered his best performances when he played grey characters. So, keeping the film’s result aside, Mohan Babu’s performance is expected to be a major highlight in Gayatri.

Also starring Manchu Vishnu, Shriya Saran and Nikhila Vimal in key roles, ‘Gayatri’ is being directed by Madan of ‘Pellaina Kothalo’ fame.

One of the top actresses of present Tollywood, Rakul Preet Singh, seems to be going back to Bollywood with a bang.

Four years after the release of her debut Bollywood film, Yaariyan, Rakul is going to have her second Hindi release, ‘Aiyaary’, this year, on Feb 9. Even before this film hits screens, Rakul might have just signed her next Bollywood film, a biggie opposite Ajay Devgn.

According to reports, Rakul has been roped in to pair with Bollywood star hero Ajay Devgn in a new untitled project. Devgn, who has earlier romanced Tollywood leading ladies – Kajal and Tamannah, has reportedly eyed Rakul Preet this time. Touted be a rom-com, the film will go on floors in the second quarter of this year. This biggie is indeed a huge opportunity for Rakul to bounce back in Bollywood.

In Telugu, Rakul has Nani-Nag multistarrer and director Harish Shankar’s multistarrer in pipeline.