Many actresses come, rule and go but no actress has remained as long as Shriya Saran as one of the hottest fantasies of youth and most adored actress of Southern film industry.

The hot lady has just dropped a bomb on social media by sharing a red hot picture of hers in bikini. Her amazingly toned curves have been captured in the most aesthetic manner by an under water photographer.

As evident from the pictures that Shriya often shares on her social media pages, she is an avid ocean lover. She has recently shared a couple of pictures from a yacht where she was seen wearing a knitted white top on a bikini. This latest picture in true-blue bikini however is too hot to handle for weak hearts.

Director Surender Reddy, who is gearing up to film the biggest project of his career, ‘Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy – a biopic on Telugu freedom fighter Narasimha Reddy’, the ambitious project starring Megastar Chiranjeevi in titular role, said that the patriotic film would make the entire country proud.

The other day, Surender Reddy and film’s cinematographer Rathnavelu visited the legendary freedom fighter’s ancestral home in his native village in Kurnool district while scouting for locations. They paid a visit to the Durga temple in the village where Narasimha Reddy used to pray, and also spent some time at ‘Koilakuntla’ where the British had hanged him.

During the visit, Surender Reddy interacted with the descendants of Narasimha Reddy and promised them that the film will make not just them but every Indian very proud. He said that the film will be a milestone in the annals of Indian cinema.

Said to be made on a whopping budget of Rs 200 crore, Sye Raa boasts of a stellar cast and crew. The film is being planned for a multi-lingual release. Shooting is expected to commence in December.

Young hero Ram’s latest release, “Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi” has performed very well in its opening weekend despite receiving mixed word of mouth on Day 1. By raking in a worldwide gross of 18 Cr, VOZ posted Ram’s career highest first weekend collections, beating his previous best, Nenu Sailaja, which had collected Rs 16 Cr gross.

Area-wise break-up of Share:

Nizam – 3,78,00,000
Ceded – 1,40,00,000
Nellore – 25,00,000
Guntur – 75,00,000
Krishna – 66,61,050
West – 47,10,000
East – 63,57,201
Uttharandhra – 1,15,00,000

Total 3 days AP & TS Share – 9.10 Cr (Gross – 14 Cr)
Karnataka – 75,00,000
Rest of India – 30,00,000
Overseas – 1,00,00,000

Total 3 days Worldwide Share – 11.15 Cr (Gross – 18 Cr)

The film has managed to recover half of distributors’ investment in the first weekend. Can it recover the remaining half, especially considering that as many as 4 notable films are slated to hit screens next week.

Ever since director Anil Ravipudi has scored average success with “Raja The Great”, there have been umpteen speculations about his next film. Surprising all, the director has disclosed that he is working on a multistarrer subject.

Speaking at the success meet of RTG, Ravipudi revealed that he was penning a multistarrer subject to be produced by Dil Raju. He didn’t divulge anything about who the heroes under consideration for his film. Well, not many heroes would refuse to work with a commerical director like Anil, especially when the film would be bankrolled by Dil Raju. Further details would be disclosed when the director locks the script.

Dil Raju, who brought back the trend of multistarrers by roping in Mahesh Babu and Venkatesh for SVSC, has been longing to make more multistarrers. He seems to have found a reliable director to be entrusted with that responsibility. It may be noted that Dil Raju himself bankrolled Ravipudi’s last two films.

Meanwhile, RTG is doing decent business in the domestic circuit, all thanks to the fun factor.

Senior actor Rajasekhar has pinned all the hopes on his upcoming action thriller ‘PSV Garuda Vega’ and he looks very confident that he’s already calling it a ‘Hit Film’. But, the trade pundits are wondering how it will be a success, given that the film’s budget is close to 25 Crore!

If at all Garuda Vega was made on budget of 5-6 crores, it would be comfortable for for Rajasekhar to achieve the break even. Given the market for Rajasekhar and his films, it would be a heavy daunting task for PSV unless a super strong subject & execution. Even if the film, which is popular among netizens, manage to attract overseas and A center audiences, 25 Crore share looks highly impossible.

Also, there is no proper backing from any big distributor for this Praveen Kumar’s directorial. Although PSV looks promising with stunning trailers, it remains to be seen whether it will be a successful one at box-office or not.

What’s an iota of advantage? – Sunny Leone’s item song.

It is science, technology, and innovation that make lives prosper. Since ages, it is these developments that took mankind forward while ‘art’ is seen as torch-bearer of carrying culture forward. And then, is our cinema really one such art we should be proud of?

Apparently, some images doing rounds on social media are quite shocking that films and film heroes are becoming ‘cult figures’ than scientists, innovators, and other achievers. What is said to be a project-work done on Telugu hero Jr NTR by a school student, shows how white-page-notes are turned into scrapbooks that show adulation for the actor. This doesn’t look like an encouraging sign in any angle, even if it is not a project work but just a scrapbook.

Perhaps, project works should be done on how poor-lives could be made better, how poverty could be eradicated, things to be done to keep malnutrition at bay, improvise education system, make welfare fruits reach all the citizens, improvise socio-economic conditions and ideas to strengthen the economy. What will any student learn by writing pages about the character an actor plays on screen, the kinds of dances he does, his twirled mustaches and box collections?

Such mass worship of films and film heroes from only a ‘heroic’ point won’t yield anything for the families and countries. Cinema is a preservation of history if subjects deal with social and economic conditions, culture and history. But cinema will not be an art for punch dialogues, comedy and shaking waists.

During the pre-release event of “Jai Lava Kusa”, NTR said that he had taken the opinion of two persons before agreeing to do the film and added that he would reveal the two names after the film becomes a hit at box office.

Its been more than a month since the release of the film, but NTR hasn’t yet revealed who the two persons were. Most fans guessed that they could be Rajamouli and VV Vinayak, since these two are very close to NTR and have given huge blockbusters to him.

Now, Kona Venkat, the writer of JLK and a close companion of NTR, has revealed that fans only succeeded fifty percent by guessing the name of Rajamouli correctly but failing to predict the second person, Koratala Siva. While answering a question posed by a follower on social media, Kona made this big revelation.

Over the course of filming ‘Janatha Gagare’, NTR and Koratala became good friends, and that could be the reason why the star hero chose to take the latter’s opinion before take the decision of doing JLK. Rajamouli is the go-to man for NTR for obvious reasons.

Tamil star hero Chiyaan Vikram’s daughter Akshita got married to Manu Ranjith, the great-grandson of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. The wedding took place in the presence of Karunanidhi, at his residence in Gopalapuram, Chennai, today.

Reportedly, the marriage was a simple family affair, with only family members in attendance. It is heard that Vikram will soon host a reception for his friends and well-wishers.

Akshitha got engaged to Manu Ranjith in July, last year. The lovebirds took the decision of tying knot after reportedly having been in a relationship for long time. The wedding took place with the consent of both families.

For the kind of hotness she poured other day at the interview session while promoting her latest movie “Oxygen”, Mallu girl Anu Emmanuel rightly earned the tag sex bomb. And this spicy lady is here for more glamour, she says, and also looking forward to strengthening her place in Tollywood and Hyderabad as well.

Just two films old, Anu Emmanuel has impressed Telugu audiences with her looks and presence in Majnu and Kittu Unnadu Jagratha. And now, she’s part of Allu Arjun’s Na Peru Surya, Naga Chaitanya’s next and also Pawan Kalyan’s 25th film Agnathavasi. Prod her how she felt when Pawan’s flick was offered, she says, “It’s an unbelievable thing. When they first called me, I thought that they will offer me Pawan’s sister role. But to my surprise, I’m playing his love interest”.

Furthermore, Anu avers, “Pawan Kalyan is a simple person who doesn’t carry his stardom around. I felt amused and scary to meet him on sets and forgot my lines on the first day. But with his jokes and cool attitude, I came to normalcy”. Giving the message straight, she also added, “Both good roles and glamorous roles are my cups of tea. What matters is the director whom I’m working with”.

While the success of those films will strengthen her career in Tollywood, she fortified her presence in Hyderabad by buying a flat here. “Yes, I thought Hyderabad is the coolest place to live and I’ve purchased a flat here” she adds, signing off.

Legendary playback singer S. Janaki, crowned with the title of “The Nightingale of the South”, gave her last performance, and announced her retirement.

On Saturday, Janaki bid adieu to singing with an emotional public concert in Mysuru. The night was indeed an emotional affair for Janaki, who had given her first public performance in Mysuru only, in 1957. Her fans gathered in huge number to listen to her for one last time. The crowd was so high that some couldn’t get tickets to the concert.

The 79-year-old singer reportedly said that she was happy and content having sung so many songs. She announced that it was her last concert, adding that she wanted to quit while she was doing well, while her tearful fans were listening.

In fact, she announced her retirement last year itself, after recording a song for a Malayalam film, and abstained from public performances as well. However, she agreed to perform for one last time, when a fan approached her with the proposal of raising funds for charity.

The four-time National Film Award winner started her singing career in 1957. In her six decades of career, she sang nearly 48,000 songs in 17 languages. She is one of the most prolific singers of her era in the history of Indian music.