Gorgeous actress Rakul Preet Singh’s filmy career may have witnessed a downward trend in the past few months, but she is a success story on business front.

While her contemporaries are investing in Food, Jewellery and Hospitality sectors, Rakul chose “Fitness” field, owing to her passion and penchant for fitness. She first launched a worldclass fitness studio, F45 in Gachibowli area of Hyderabad, and employed her younger brother to take care of it.

Since the idea became a massive success, she expanded her business to Andhra Pradesh as well. Afresh, she has opened a new branch in Kokapet. Generally, celebrity fitness studios cost very high but Rakul kept her studio accessible to middle class people as well, and succeeded at large.

The ‘SPYder’ actress now aspires to open branches in Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, and eventually place F45 in Top 10 Best Fitness studios in the country.

On work front, Rakul is awaiting the release of Karthi-starrer actioner, “Khakee”. She doesn’t have any other South film to boast of, but has a Bollywood film opposite young hero Siddarth Malhotra.

Enigmatic filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who allegedly targets Pawan Kalyan while claiming he is the biggest fan of the actor, has once again unleashed his witty side as soon as Pawan’s youngest son’s name ‘Mark Shankar Pawanovich’ became official. The kid’s name has led to RGV waging a verbal war with his daughter, Revathy Varma.

Earlier, RGV made a post on FB linking Pawan’s son’s name to the medieval era of history, and said that it is the greatest name he has ever heard in history.

Responding to this post, RGV’s daughter said that she hadn’t understood even a single word of his post. She accused him of using a bunch of complicated words and unrelated historical references to Pawan’s son’s name, and that his post didn’t make any sense at all.

Sharing his daughter’s message on his timeline, RGV answered at his satirical best. Calling Revathy more Pawan Kalyan fan and less his daughter, Varma said that she has very low understanding levels and that’s why she failed to understand his post. He wittily said that he loves Pawan more than her.

Meanwhile, Pawan fans are also fuming at RGV for allegedly making fun of their idol time and again.

Next Friday, on November 10, a spate of Telugu films are slated to hit screens, and one among them is ‘C/o Surya’. The film has the interesting combination of a hero, who has been delivering only flops, and a heroine, whose all releases so far have hit bull’s eye at box office. Can this unusual combo score a hit?

C/o Surya stars Sundeep Kishan and Mehreen in lead roles. Ever since ‘Venkatadri Express’, Sundeep Kishan has had around 10 releases but none of them could strike gold at box office. What’s shocking is that, Sundeep failed to score a hit even with a critically acclaimed film like “Maa Nagaram”. It seems good content isn’t enough for him to hit bull’s eye at box office.

On the other hand, all three releases of Mehreen so far – Krishnagadi Veera Prema Gatha, Mahanubhavudu and Raja The Great have become success at box office. Predictably, she is being called the new ‘golden leg’ in Tollywood. She has what Sundeep lacks, ‘luck factor’. We have earlier seen the likes of Samantha, Shruti Haasan and Kajal proving lucky for star heroes. Can Mehreen end Sundeep’s hit drought by casting a lucky spell on his film? We can find it out in 10 more days.

C/o Surya is a Tamil-Telugu bilingual directed by Suseenthiran of ‘Naa Peru Shiva’ fame.

Actor Rajasekhar turned very emotional over his mother’s death. The grief-stricken Rajasekhar was later caught in a roadside brawl.

When asked about what really happened and why his mother’s demise has affected him so much, Rajasekhar explains, “I am feeling like a criminal.  I am guilty that I couldn’t save my mother.  My mother complained about pain in the stomach on the day when she died. I spent five minutes’ of crucial time thinking about whether I should give her the same tablet that I had given her the previous day.  Had I given her the same tablet on time, she might have been alive today.

Talking about his film Garuda Vega which is going to hit the screens this week, he said he would like to thank his family for the film, he said, “This film is Jeevitha’s gift to me. She had always wanted me to do a film like this.”

None other than Superstar Rajnikanth went gaga over the way Rajamouli has planned Baahubali and executed it. He came to all praises for the director after he carved such a magnum opus that brought pride to South Indian movies. Here is what now people are talking about this star’s latest film ‘2 Point 0’.

Actually, Rajamouli’s intense marketing ideas worked big time for Baahubali to make huge noise much before release, resulting in mammoth collections. Releasing every single poster for each character, selling merchandise and advertising at unconventional places helped the film better. Treading on the same path, Kabali took promotional plans to next level.

During the release of Kabali, we’ve also seen how an air travel company painted a couple of their planes with Kabali posters. And that worked very well for the film; courtesy is the staggering 300 crores gross the film made despite flop talk. And now, 2 Point 0 is beating both Rajamouli and Kabali’s plans.

From advertising in the big LED screens at India Vs Newzealand T20 match other day to hoardings in Times Square, New York, and Dubai as well, Lyca Productions is taking the film much deeper into audiences. This penetration will sure mint crores for this Shankar marvel, no matter how the talk of the film is.