In his stellar career spanning more than two decades, Pawan Kalyan has romanced several non-star heroines, and Kannada beauty Kriti Kharbanda was one of them. Currently testing her luck in Bollywood, she is awaiting the release of her November 10 release, “Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana”.

The makers of the film have divulged that they had selected Kriti to play the female lead in their film after auditioning more than 100 girls. They had a specific vision of the heroine character and found the gorgeous actress fit impeccably. The film’s producer revealed that he was so confident of Kriti pulling off the role that he convinced two other producers to release her dates.

Kriti had two Bollywood releases thus far, and both bombed at box office. She is hopeful of striking gold with her new film, and make inroads in the Hindi film industry.

She is counted among the unlucky set of actresses who failed to make it big in Tollywood despite having gorgeous looks and decent acting skills. Her luck didn’t favor her even after playing Pawan’s love interest in “Teenmaar”. She is currently dabbling with Kannada and Hindi films, and is awaiting for a good opportunity to make her comeback to Tollywood.

Senior actors Rajasekhar and Jeevitha are one of the ideal couples in Tollywood. Rajasekhar often says marrying Jeevitha was the best decision he has ever taken in his life, and that she is his biggest strength. The actor has recently talked about the only time when he got angry with and felt jealous of her.

On a chat show hosted by comedian Ali, Rajasekhar recollected his first film with Jeevitha, “Talambralu”. “I didn’t want to act in that film in the first place. I however signed it after listening to the story, which was arresting.

During the making, I used to take 2-3 takes for scenes where dialogues were lengthy but Jeevitha would complete every scene in single take however lengthy the dialogues are. I felt very jealous of and got angry with her as she was making me look like an amateur. I waited to see her taking a second take for at least one scene but she never game me that joyous moment.

I thought that she would win huge appreciation after the film’s release, but I got bigger name with that film. In fact, a girl kissed me in a theatre after watching the film. Later, “Aahuthi” and “Ankusam” also became hits, and Jeevitha eventually became my life partner,” Rajasekhar revealed the interesting stuff from past.

Rajasekhar won the Nandi Award in “Best Villain” category in 1986 for “Talambralu”. The actor is currently enjoying the success of his latest film, “Garuda Vega”.

From a long time, we have these Mallu beauties dominating the telugu film circuits. From Radha to Nayantara, Sobhana to Nitya Menon always they have excelled in either glamour or acting prowess or sometimes both. But here is a new trend coming off these beauties.

Making Telugu industry go gaga with their performances, many Malayalam beauties are on the top even now. However, some talented Mallu girls who come from Kerala are not willing to flaunt glamour. The likes of Anupama Parameswaran, Nivetha Thomas and also Keerthi Suresh are best examples. At this juncture, some foreign raised Mallu beauties are threatening these hotties.

Firstly it is USA based Anu Emmanuel who is becoming the former Nayantara, by teasing everyone with her glamorous looks. And then, we have Dubai bred Catherine Tresa, Bahrain raised Ester Noronha doing their best. There comes Priya Lal from United Kingdom who is debuting with Guvva Gorinka movie and soon may sizzle in her glamorous avatar. Earlier another Bahrain based hottie Mamta Mohandas also took Tollywood by a glamour storm.

With glamorous NRI Mallu divas giving strong competition to local Mallu divas whose gang consists of mostly non-masala loving starlets, it looks the fight is going to get interesting in the coming days.

A director feels very happy when his assistants go on to make him proud. Ace director SS Rajamouli, who has arguably become the country’s top director with “Baahubali”, however is facing embarrassment as his assistants are delivering disaster after disaster.

This weekend release, “Angel”, which starred Hebah Patel in lead role, has received scathing reviews, and is being predictably by trade pundits to end up as a disaster at box office. The film, a socio fantasy, was directed by Palani, who assisted Rajamouli for “Baahubali”.

One of last year’s high budget films, “Jaguar” (a launch pad for former Karnataka CM Kumara Swamy’s son Nikhil Gowda), which eventually became a huge disaster, was also directed by a Rajamouli’s assistant, Mahadevan. The film had story by Rajamouli’s father, Vijayendra Prasad.

Jagadeesh Talaseela (Lachhimdeviki O Lekkundi), Trikoti (Dikkulu Choodaku Ramayya), Kannan DS (Saarai Veerraju) and Karuna Kumar (Nithin’s “Drona”) are the other assistants of Rajamouli who disappointed with their debut films.

And, every time a Rajamouli’s assistant fails, he is facing embarrassment for the obvious reasons.

When a film succeeds or a lead character becomes popular, we see films coming in a series retaining that character name, for ex: James Bond, Gabbar Singh etc. Star comedian turned hero Saptagiri seems to have decided to make a series of films named after his real name.

The title of Saptagiri’s debut film as hero was named after him, ‘Saptagiri Express’. He has retained his name in the title of his second film as well, ‘Saptagiri LLB’. Will he continue the Saptagiri brand for next films too? Seems yes.

During the teaser launch event of ‘Saptagiri LLB’, it has been confirmed that his third film has been titled ‘Saptagiri Weds Sunny Leone’. The title is very catchy and what’s most important is the intention of the comedian-turned-hero to retain ‘Saptagiri’ brand. He is probably the first comedian, for that matter first Indian actor to make films named after his own name. If Saptagiri LLB becomes a hit, there might no stopping for Saptagiri series.

Coming to ‘Saptagiri Weds Sunny Leone’, it is heard that Saptagiri is trying to rope in Sunny Leone to play the female lead.

The verbal war between loquacious YSRCP MLA Roja and TDP leaders is a never ending saga. Often, these leaders make some objectionable comments at each other because of their loose tongue.

Andhra Pradesh State Minister for Roads and Buildings Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu has recently called Roja a ‘Thingara Bhcchi’. He reasoned that she doesn’t have iota of knowledge and that keeps commenting on TDP leaders, principally CM Chandrababu Naidu with baseless allegations.

He hit out at Roja for commenting that Chandrababu Naidu was allegedly trying to prevent the Padayatra of YCP Chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. ‘She is a thingara bucchi, who speaks whatever comes to her mind, just with the intention of defaming TDP. People know her very well and that’s why they don’t take her comments seriously,’ he reportedly said.

Not stopping there, the minister went on ranting at Roja allegedly saying that someone who dances in TV shows in revealing clothes doesn’t have the right to comment on the CM.

There are some producers in Telugu industry who invest huge money and make the film rich, but fail to select a proper story. There are some, however, who make films with mediocre budget and also choose similar stories.

Other day one such junior producer is said to have got the class-of-life from his guiding light in the industry. This junior has not much experience in any film-related department but only shadowed a hero and learned about filmmaking. And that makes him feel like the king of the jungle as he gives a coloring that he could judge any story ‘just like that’, say insiders.

But his recent film tanked big time at the box office, and the way he spoke about his picking of the story sounded quite silly after looking at the movie. Rather giving chance to writers and directors, he generally involves in everything and pushes his ideas as if they are Oscar-winning ones.

Talking about the same, the senior producer gave him black and blue, asking him to not suppress the talents of directors and writers with his monopolistic behavior. Since a flopped film does nothing to this junior producer as he would make money out of it anyway, that will destroy careers of director and hero involved, the senior warned.

Industry insiders feel this master class should work on the junior and put him on right track.

No matter how many warnings we see on Silver Screen from celebs saying that smoking is injurious to health and causes cancer, off the screen many of them still good smokers. And guess what, there is always this smoke talk that comes about once struggled and now successful comedians.

There is this comedian who has shot to fame with Jabardasth. And whenever he comes to any events at popular film locations like Prasad Labs and Film Chamber, there is one talk always being heard. Many come and say, this comedian used to borrow cigarettes from me, but then he became a big star now, he’s not even looking at our faces.

To be more specific about this comedian, he’s said to have borrowed cigarettes all the time from everyone, including light boys to production managers. But now that he has become a star, they say he’s not even talking to them. Film industry folks say, many actors, generally forget the ones who helped them after attaining stardom. However, there is another reality one has to understand.

Probably at that time the comedian didn’t have money and borrowed. And now that he got a status, definitely he won’t borrow a smoke. Also, it might look awkward if he does so.