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This Heroine Missed Both Baahubali & Saaho
The world is still waiting for the announcement on the leading lady of Prabhas in his new film ‘Saaho’. Now, we have come across an interesting piece of info in this regard.
The likes of Shraddha Kapoor and Disha Patani were approached for ‘Saaho’, and they were dropped following their astronomical demands. Reports are now emerging that much before these aforementioned beauties, Sonam Kapoor was approached for this action entertainer to be made on a budget of 150 crore.
The filmmakers have reportedly given Sonam a brief idea of the project, and she agreed to meet them for full narration. The meeting however never happened for the reasons best known to makers of Saaho. In fact, after unfortunately missing Baahubali (she was approached to essay the role of Avantika, which was finally played by Tamannah), Sonam Kapoor was willing to work with Prabhas in Saaho.
While this Bollywood fashionista turned down Baahubali, makers of Saaho allegedly closed doors on her, making her the only actress to lose two golden opportunities to star opposite Prabhas.
Hero’s Shower Selfie Drove His Female Fans Crazy
Actor R Madhavan has started experimenting with his roles of late but in his hey days, he has earned the image of a ‘Lover Boy’. A series of Mani Ratnam’s romantic films made him the crush of many girls in early 2000s. Years have passed but his charms haven’t. He still makes women go weak in their knees, and here is the latest proof.
Madhavan has recently surprised his fans by sharing a selfie right after taking a shower, flaunting his bare chest. No sooner had he uploaded the picture on social media, thousands of comments started pouring in from his female fans, with many pleading the actor not to be so hot and ruin their married lives.
Humbled by the love showered by his fans, Madhavan retweeted most of the tweets he could and also replied to a few of them.
After wining accolades for his performance as an arrogant boxing coach in ‘Irudhi Suttru’, Madhavan is coming up with another gritty thriller, ‘Vikram Vedha’.
Boyapati to Go With Akhil Akkineni!
Director Boyapati is now all set to release his current youthful action drama “Jaya Janaki Nayaka” featuring Bellmkonda Srinivas and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead roles in the month of August.
As per his earlier commitment, he ought to take up Chiranjeevi’s 102nd movie but now he is going to direct Akhil Akkineni.
As Chiranjeevi will be occupied with “Uyyalavada Narasimha Reddy” for more than one year, Boyapati has enough time on his hands to finish another movie. Hence, he has decided to go with Akhil Akkineni who is currently finishing his second movie.
According to reliable sources, Boyapati got a tempting offer from Nagarjuna to direct Akhil Akkineni.
The director will be receiving remuneration in the range of Rs 12 – 15 Cr per this movie. Final amount will be decided after further discussion.
Nagarjuna is very particular that his son Akhil needs a big director to handle his career at this moment. Hence he is offering such huge remuneration to Boyapati.
More clarity about this project will come in August.
80 Dancers For Mahesh Babu’s Song
Mahesh Babu who is currently shooting for Koratala Siva’s “Bharath Ane Nenu” will return to the shoot of “Spyder” next week.
If reports are to be believed, he will be dancing with 80 dancers for this movie which will be canned next Monday at a set erected with the cost of Rs one crore.
There are many rumors doing rounds that Mahesh Babu will also be working for talkie part of “Spyder” next month. But the team has already denied these reports. Only two songs are left to be filmed and one of them is going to canned from 4th July.
The makers reiterate that the film will release on 27th September at any cost. There will not be any further postponement as Mahesh’s “Bharath Ane Nenu” is slated for Sankranthi release. There should be minimum gap of four months between two releases.
I’m a bad Producer, says Young Hero
Actor Ranbir Kapoor, who has co-produced “Jagga Jasoos”, says he is a bad producer and finds acting more challenging.
“I am a bad producer. I can’t get things done, can’t do man management. I was lucky that a lot of the work was taken care of by Anurag Basu. I can be happy that I can just collect awards for the film,” Ranbir said at a press meet here on Thursday.
“As a producer, I was handling the egos of people. Whenever there were fights between Disney and Anurag, I was just handling them. Acting is a more challenging part,” he added.Basu, who has also directed the film, spoke about why he chose to make the film.
He said: “I used to love all adventure stories. One has to discover the child inside us and know what one likes watching. It was challenging to make a musical out of an adventure story. But there is always fun in challenges.”The film is slated to release on July 14.
Jagan Finds Nothing To Gain In Garagaparru!
Wherever YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy goes in Andhra Pradesh, he ensures that he gets some political mileage because the issues give him an opportunity to take a dig at the Chandrababu Naidu government.
But when he visited Garagaparru village in West Godavari district, where there was alleged outcast of Dalits by the local Raju community, Jagan could not find anything that would benefit him politically.
He realised that the issue was just blown out of proportion and that it was just an ego clash between two groups, both supporting the Telugu Desam Party.
So, all that Jagan did in the village was to play the role of preacher, He advised both the warring groups – Dalits and non-Dalits to sink their differences and maintain harmony.He met both the groups separately and asked them to stay united.
He said acts of omission or commission of one of two persons should not be attributed to the whole village. He counselled them that it was important to stay united and stay together.
While non-Dalits sections said that they wanted peaceful co-existence with everyone and that they had no objection to the installation of Ambedkar statue in the village, the Dalits said that they had no clash with the other castes for over 50 years.
Jagan demanded that the Dalits should be given compensation as per the SC ST Atrocities Act and wanted both the groups to forget, forgive and forge ahead.
Here Comes The ‘Tatkaal’ Scheme for H1-B Applicants
Now that the new rules of travel ban has gone into effect in America, the US citizen Immigration Services (USCIS) has some good news for Indian IT firms, who were taken back, a little, by the slow processing of H1-B petitions of their employees.
After announcing that premium processing of H1-B would be suspended, the USCIS is again planning to take it up and re-initiate it as workloads permit. The agency in an official statement said, ‘We will resume the fast-processing procedure soon. Further information about it will be disclosed over the time.’
‘This move will help to process the long pending petitions, which we have currently been unable to process due to the high volume of incoming petitions and the significant surge in premium processing requests over the past few years; and prioritize adjudication of H1-B extension of status cases that are nearing the 240-day mark,’ added USCIS in the statement.
Similar to Tatkaal scheme in India, the H1-B procedure will be dealt quickly (in just 15 calendar days), if an applicant furnishes USD1225 for the same. Certainly, it’s a huge benefit for Technology companies that are expecting smoothening of rules for work visas.
However, the Donald Trump-led America administration has previously clarified that H1-B visas will be allotted only to high-salaried and high skilled employees.
If DJ Is Fake, Who Got Original Collection??
Currently, an interesting discussion is going on in film circles about Allu Arjun’s latest release “DJ Duvvada Jagannadham” movie. As the makers have directly released posters all over with a caption, “100 Crores Gross In 7 Days”, there is an accusation that all these collections are fake. Social media is right now buzzing with Allu Arjun blasting for giving fake numbers.
Cut to facts, not just the producers, but both the distributors and popular trade-trackers who are considered to be very honest have shared similar numbers about DJ collections. If producers stated that DJ collected 50.60 crores ‘share’ from two Telugu states after a one-week run, trade trackers have stated that the number is 50.50 crores. Except that 10 lakhs difference, what is the major thing faked by Allu Arjun and Party here is not known.
In case if we have to find out what is a fake collection, what’s the mechanism available to find out such stuff? Only buyers, exhibitors, distributors and producers will know the true numbers but not any. And whatever they announce is going to be the final collection of a movie. This happens to be a business, so the final figures revealed by anyone can’t be cross-checked by outsiders. As a popular English daily other day published reports that the collections are fake, Allu Arjun fans are breathing fire at it.
“If DJ Duvvada Jagannadham collections are fake, then which movie’s collections are original and true?” they are asking. “It’s the same trade trackers who published collections of Baahubali, Khaidi No 150, Srimanthudu and Janatha Garage have announced collections of DJ too. Then how come they call it fake? This is media’s personal vendetta on Allu Arjun” some fans shared.
If the numbers are really inflated, then it is not good for the film industry. And if the vendetta is really happening, then it is not good for media. Integrity matters!!
Mahesh Ready to Fight Nandamuri Heroes
Pulling curtains down on the rumors of another postponement, Mahesh Babu’s Spyder has been confirmed for Dussehra release. One of the producers of this upcoming action thriller, Tagore Madhu has confirmed this news.
Ever since the release date of NTR’s ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ was announced as September 21, speculations have been doing rounds in film circles that Spyder had been postponed to Diwali.
With the fans hysterically discussing about the release date on social media, Spyder producer jumped into action and clarified that the Mahesh starrer will surely hit screens for Dusshera, as announced earlier. Madhu further said that they are however undecided about the release date. September 22 and 29 are the two probable dates for Spyder to hit screens.
While Jai Lava Kusa is scheduled for Sep 21, Balakrishna Nandamuri’s ‘Paisa Vasool’ is the first film to confirm Dussehra berth, a Sep 29 release. If none of the three heroes back out, it will be Mahesh vs NTR vs Balayya for this coming festival.
Reports are emerging that Kalyanram Nandamuri, the producer of Jai Lava Kusa, is contemplating on preponing the film by a week and release it on Sep 14 or 15.
