After stepping into the Indian mainstream film industry, Sunny Leone has entertained fans with vastly varying appearances from slippin into bikinis to sporing elegant saris, gyrating in item sings to shedding all inhibitions in eroticas etc. But, for the first time, this ‘queen of seduction’ has turned into a man.

Sunny has posted a few pictures and a video of her transformation from herself to a man. This new look is for an upcoming film. Sunny said that her ‘man version’ is strikingly similar to the real life looks of her brother and father. It may be difficult for Sunny’s fans to see her as a man, but the sexy lady is quite excited at the opportunity of playing an opposite sex character.

While both Balakrishna Nandamuri and Ram Gopal Varma are yet to take their respective films on Sr NTR onto floors, another film on NTR, “Lakshmi’s Veeragrantham” is already making noise in the Telugu states.

To be produced and directed by senior filmmaker Kethireddy Jagadeeshwar Reddy, ‘Lakshmi’s Veeragrantham’ traces the story of Lakshmi Parvathi’s first husband, as well as NTR’s. The film was officially launched recently at NTR Ghat in Hyderabad. The police however stopped the unit from shooting the film there citing permission issue.

Jagadeshwar Reddy then planned to start the shooting at NTR’s native village, Nimmakuru in Krishna district of AP. On Monday, the crew reached the village and asked the Panchayat heads to allow them to shoot certain crucial scenes in the village. The village heads however refused to let the shooting happen there citing the film would bring bad name to NTR as well as their village. They even advised Reddy to abstain from making the film on NTR.

With no other option left, Reddy left the village after garlanding NTR’s bronze statue in the village.

Is macho hunk Rana Daggubati is on a periodic film signing spree? Looks so. We can’t blame him as he is being offered very interesting periodic projects ever since “Baahubali” happened for him.

Rana has just announced that he would be playing 18th century Travancore king Marthanda Varma. It will be another king’s role for him after the epic ‘Bhallala Deva’ in Baahubali. The film’s pre-production is currently in progress. It will be made as a Telugu-Malayalam bilingual, and will be dubbed in Tamil too.

It’s been a fantastic year for Rana, who is basking in the back-to-back success of Ghazi (underwater war drama – historical), Baahubali 2 (fantasy) and Nene Raju Nene Mantri. He is currently shooting for “1945” (pre-Independent war drama – historical), where he plays a soldier in Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army.

Tollywood’s top starlet Samantha always felt that she should retire while on the top and get married just when she touches 30. And as she always aspired, she did the same, walking the sacred seven steps with her beau Naga Chaitanya, she turned the ‘kodalu’ of Akkineni clan.

Ever since getting married twice to Naga Chaitanya on October 6th and 7th, the hottest couple of t-town is quite busy in their own way. After three days of non-stop partying in W Hotel, Goa, the Akkineni clan retired to their homes. Later Chay’s mother Lakshmi hosted a grand Daggubati-ish reception in Chennai, where the newlywed stunned everyone.

And that led to Samantha admiring her mother-in-law’s house and interior decoration skills as well. Later the couple has flown to London, United Kingdom and spent their time hopping the streets, living on food, visiting museums and spending time at coffee shops.

Later both Chay and Sam joined the shooting of their respective movies for a couple of movies. While the Akkineni boy kickstarted his next under Chandu Mondeti’s direction, Sam attended Rangasthalam song shoot. Also they celebrated their first-month anniversary with Chay surprisng Sam with a candle light dinner at home. But their marriage festivities are not yet over until they concluded it with a reception.

The much awaited and pending reception event happened in Hyderabad other day where the who’s who of Tollywood made their presence felt. While Sam’s Chennai friends and Tamil celebs aren’t seen around, Tollywood gave its attendance felt big time. And that marks the end of #ChaySam festivity after nearly 40 days.

On one side, Akkineni Nagarjuna has announced that whatever happy and sad times are over and they are moving to say #Hello from today. After the release of teaser probably today, they want to stick to the plan #HelloOnDec22nd. And that’s a concern now.

Apparently, Nani’s Middle Class Abbayi, aka MCA is also set for same date only. Already teaser of this film is released and it garnered immense attention. Even though if Akhil’s Hello teaser gets similar attention, distributors are now worried as to what may happen to the fate of both these films if they clash.

MCA is produced by Dil Raju and the mega movie maker will leave no stone unturned to get maximum attention for the film. At the same time with numerous theatres in hand, the release will also be bigger. Considering Raju’s golden luck this year and Nani’s terrific form at the box office, MCA is sure gonna hit the bullseye in the first week.

Cut to Hello, Nagarjuna also had upper hand at the box office when it comes to positioning his films. However, if Nani is there in the race, then surely that will eat away into first day and first-weekend revenues big time. For that reason, distributors are requesting both to not say, Hello to MCA!!

Vijay Antony has made Chadalavada Srinivas richer with his Bichagadu minting money. Released with less than a crore investment, the film raked in a producer share of Rs 25.1 Crore through theatrical and another Rs 1.85 Crore from satellite rights.

Now, Vijay’s next Indrasena has been bagged by producer Neelam Krishna Reddy who released Vikram’s Inkokkadu and Srinivas Reddy’s Jayammu Nischayammu Ra. Although the deal value has not been disclosed, it is learnt that Krishna Reddy has bought the entire AP & Telangana theatrical rights for over Rs 2.5 Crore. Including the publicity costs, the film may land up at Rs 3 Crore.

Called in Annadurai in Tamil, the film is going to release in Telugu simultaneously with a wide release. Krishna Reddy and Vijay Antony are predicting a huge success in Telugu. Let’s wait and see.

Srikanth Addala’s rise and fall is a very curious case. He was very lucky to have got the chance of directing Superstar Mahesh babu and Venkatesh in his second film itself, and he made his mark with SVSC. ‘Mukunda’, and ‘Brahmotsavam’ especially however have pushed him into abyss. The director had to wait for around 20 months to get the approval for his next film.

Sometime ago, reports emerged that Allu Aravind asked Addala to come up with a family subject for his son Allu Arjun. Addala kept working on the script, and Bunny got busy with other films. Now, Gulte has exclusively learnt that Allu camp has given a go ahead to Addala, but his film will star Sirish instead of Bunny.

Our sources have informed that Allu Aravind was impressed with the script, a family subject, penned by Addala and hence offered to produce the film on Geetha Arts banner, with Sirish playing the hero. Addala was anyway in no position to let go an offer from the Mega producer, and he agreed. This could be Sirish’s immediate next film after he wraps up Vi Anand’s sci-fi thriller.

An official announcement regarding this project will be made soon.

As per the trade reports, Balakrishna and KS Ravi Kumar’s Jai Simha is doing a solid pre-release business. Including the Satellite rights, the film is expected to register Rs 50 Crore business.

The theatrical rights of the film has registered good numbers all over. The latest is that the East Godavari rights were sold for Rs 2.75 Crore. Since the film has Simha in the title and has combination of Balakrishna, Nayantara, it is doing good buzz in trade.

Balakrishna’s films have standard market. Although 50 Crore pre-release business is risky, since the film is releasing for Sankranthi festival, buyers are keen that the film would do well at the Box Office. Balayya’s Gautamiputra Satakarni that released for last Sankranthi had worked at the marquee as well.

So smartly, producer C Kalyan is releasing the film on Jan 12, two days after Pawan-Trivikram’s Aganatavasi (Jan 10) is scheduled for.