Young Telugu film hero Aadi forayed into Tollywood as the heir of Saikumar. Five years after his debut, amidst a streak of flops, the actor has now opted for a name change.

Although Aadi’s first two films performed decently, he has delivered only flops ever since. The young actor will be next seen in July 14 release, Samanthakamani. From this film onwards, his name in title credits will not be displayed as Aadi but ‘Aadi Saikumar’. The actor himself has confirmed opting for a name change.

Before you jump into conclusion that he may have decided to add his ‘famous’ father’s name beside his in order to gain popularity across Southern film industries or in his bid not to get confused with the likes of Aadi Pinisetty, Hyper Aadi etc., here is the reason divulged by the actor.

‘Sriram Aditya, director of Samanthakamani used to tease me saying that my name was the shortest among all the actors of our film. Then I suggested him to add my father’s name to my name. ‘Aadi Saikumar’, I liked this new name and hence decided to keep my father’s name beside mine,’ Aadi revealed.

The young hero is hopeful of returning to success with Samanthakamani.

Generally, celebs don’t choose to respond, keep their phones off and stay away from media when accusations like ‘consuming drugs’ surface against them. But here is the first actor to respond about the ongoing drug menace that is shaking Telugu Film Industry.

Actor Subba Raju who is pretty close to director Puri Jagan and hero Raviteja spoke to media briefly about receiving the notices. “I didn’t understand why I got these notices? I’m always health conscious and shocked why I got notices in this drugs menace. But I’m asked to attend for an inquiry and I’m ready to go” said Subba Raju, confirming about the notices.

He further stated that he’s not either a consumer of drugs or never met the so-called drug peddler Kelvin. “It’s a shock for me with news reports coming that my number is in Kevin’s (drug peddler) call list” he added.

“I will respect the system and support the police department to get the truth out. On 21st I’m requested to attend the investigation and I’m ready to go. Honesty prevails”, he says, exuding confidence.

Had Subba Raju made any moves to bring the whole thing to the notice of Movie Artists Association? “I informed MAA that I got notice, but even me or they didn’t know why I got a notice,” he said.

“Being a vegetarian, I drink only wine occasionally. And I’m also shocked as to why all those other celebs who are close to me got the notices as in reality no one is not into this drugs thing” Subbaraju stresses.

In the wake of their names coming out in the latest drug scandal that is shaking Tollywood, young heroes Navdeep and Nandu have responded.

Speaking to a TV channel via phone, Navdeep confessed to have receiving notices from the Excise officials but he denied having any sort of links with the drug mafia which was recently nabbed.

Explaining further, Navdeep said, ‘As part of our event management activities, I have recently collaborated with a firm that was later found to have connections with illegal people. As I have interacted with this firm, authorities may have thought I am too involved in this. It is a general notice asking me to come for questioning, and i am sure that my name will be cleared once I answer their questions. In the meanwhile, please don’t sensationalize my name in connection with drugs’.

Reports are coming that a pub, in which Navdeep allegedly has a major stake, is the hub of drug trade in the city, and that he frequently arranges booze-filled parties to Tollywood celebs. The actor however denied all this.

On the other hand, Nandu denied having received any Notice. He further said that he was ready for blood test on any platform and that he would even voluntarily offer his call and Whatsapp records to police to check if he had ever contacted the drug peddlers.

‘In the past, the director of one of my films was arrested in drugs case, and then also my name cropped up. The authorities however cleared my name then after an inquiry. I am sure that my name has surfaced this time because of that incident. I want to make it clear that I have neither used drugs nor received any notice. I have come from a decent Brahmin family and I am ready for blood test to prove my innocence,’ he reiterated.

Bigg Boss, the first ever Telugu TV show being hosted by NTR Jr is all set to go on air this Sunday. What could have been a better start than opening the show with a bang in the form of a stunning dance by NTR.

According to the latest updates, the first episode of Bigg Boss will commence with an amazing dance performance by NTR. The actor is already in Pune shooting for the show. It will be a kickass opening for the debut of Bigg Boss on Telugu TV say the reports.

The official list of contestants is yet to be revealed.

After school kids to college youths, now the whole of Drug Menace got shifted its spotlight to Telugu Film Industry with Excise Enforcement Officials revealing the names to a couple of top Telugu TV channels who have aired them in no time.

As per the reports, the list of drug addicts included Raviteja, Puri Jagan, Charmi, Subbaraju, Shyam K Naidu, Mumaith Khan, art director Chinna, Tarun, Navdeep, Tanish and Nandu. But what’s surprising is the name of one Srinivasa Rao, whom the Excise officials say is a known face from Tollywood, also got the notice. It is said that Srinivasa Rao is not just an addict but also a peddler and the main link to drugs supply in Tollywood. Who’s this Srinivas Rao anyway?

There is an actor, a big producer and also hero in this name in Telugu film industry who are quite popular. And now media is trying to find out who that Srinivasa Rao mentioned by Excise department is.

Till now 12 persons from received notices from Excise Enforcement department and they should give an explanation and attend investigation as well within a week.

Sensational director Shankar and Lyca productions, who have teamed up to make the country’s highest budgeted film, Superstar Rajinikanth’s ‘2.0’, will be joining forces once again, and this time for star Tamil comedian Vadivelu.

Telugu movie lovers may have seen ‘Himsinche Raju 23 Va Pulikesi’, a 2006 historical comedy film starring Vadivelu in lead role. This film was produced by Shankar himself. After more than a decade, he is now planning to make a sequel to it with Vadivelu reprising his lead role. While the first part had Vadivelu in dual role, this sequel will have him essaying triple role.

Even though Shankar spends money like water for his directorials, he spends only adequate for his production ventures. But, Shankar has reportedly decided to make the sequel of Himsinche.. on a grand scale. For this, he will be investing the huge sum that he has earned as the remuneration of ‘2.0’. Whatmore, Shankar has joined hands with Lyca Productions to pump in even more money for this sequel.

Chimbu Deven of Vijay’s ‘Puli’ fame will direct the sequel. He was the director of the first part as well.

Team India skipper Virat Kohli and happening Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma always leave their fans short of words with the adorable pictures of them together. The duo are no more hiding their relationship from public gaze, and instead are very comfortable sharing the lovely moments spend together with fans.

Here is the latest selfie shared by Kohli which features his beautiful girlfriend Anushka Sharma. Don’t they look adorable together? The picture has already received over one million likes on Instagram and has gone viral among fan clubs.

A section of audiences have reportedly walked out of Oscar-award winning musician AR Rahman’s concert in UK’s Wembley recently. Considering that Rahman is a flawless composer and have entertained people of all walks of life across the globe, the incident has come as a shocker to many ARR’s fans. Going into details, Rahman’s concert was held on July 8 at SSE Arena, Wembley in London . Rahman had sung “most of Tamil songs” and that said to had not gone well with the Hindi-speaking audiences.

The Hindi-speaking crowd then walked out of the concert midway accusing that “most of the songs in the concert were in Tamil”. This is not all. The disappointed Hindi-speaking audiences are now reportedly ‘demanding’ a refund because they were made to sit through ‘Tamil songs’ that they could not ‘understand’. Many took to Twitter to express their angst, displeasure over Rahman’s concert.

While a section claims that the concert was titled as ‘Netru, Indru, Naalai’, the Hindi-speakers allege (through Twitter) that they were ‘cheated’ by the ‘false advertising’ and only 1 percent of the songs Rahman sung in the concert were Hindi.

More than Prabhas, director Sujeeth and UV Creations, Bollywood hero Neil Nitin Mukesh is quite excited about ‘Saaho’. This Bollywood actor has been singing praises of Prabhas, Sujeeth and the technicians of Saaho, ever since he had signed this project. Afresh, Neil has once again talked bout Saaho.

“I was wowed by the vision of Sujeeth when he first met me to narrate the story. I knew that I was going to do this film even before he completed the narration. Sujeeth has full clarity on how he wants to make Saaho, and am I sure that this action film will be beyond the expectations of anyone,’ said an excited Neil, who is playing the antagonist in the film.

He further said that the kind of international technicians on board for this film speaks volumes about the sort of high-octane action in it. ‘I have done many action films but Saaho will be a special film not just for me, but for the entire crew and also the Indian audiences,’ he added.

Neil is raising expectations on Saaho with his statements. Prabhas’ fans hope that the film will be a sure shot blockbuster if Sujeeth can conceive even half of what Neil has been boasting of.