Give a reference to Pawan Kalyan in a scene and that scene will click big time. Or make the hero character a Powerstar fan, that might click as well too. Not all the time, but the likes of Nitin and Sai Dharam Tej have tasted few successes by using Pawan’s name.

It’s the turn of Abbai Varun Tej now if we have to believe as his latest film “Fidaa” is getting ready. This Sekhar Kammula directorial already got huge attention, thanks to the leading lady Sai Pallavi. The way she got projected in the trailer with her waist-curve grabbing all the attention, Fidaa scored a brownie with romantic films’ lovers.

Buzz is that Varun Tej will not be playing any Pawan Kalyan fan in the movie, but it is Sai Pallavi who will be seen as one. If you could remember, during the script narrations sessions earlier, Sai Pallavi is seen practicing that hand on neck gesture which was iconised by Pawan Kalyan. A Telangana girl, who is also a Powerstar fan, will now have this love-hate-love story with Varun Tej, a mega hero. What a setup indeed!!

On the flip side, we have to see if Sai Pallavi could create a magic like Swathi Reddy who earlier stunned everyone with her Mahesh fanism in Ashta Chemma movie.

Serena Williams, the winner of 23 Tennis Grand Slam Singles titles and the most popular female athlete across the globe, has flaunted her baby bump in a topless photo shoot.

This is the first ever time Williams posed topless. She is seen completely naked, except for the hand covering her breasts and a nude underwear covering her modesty.

The tennis star found out that she was expecting her first baby with her fiance, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in January this year. And, she made the formal announcement about her pregnancy on social media platform in April. The 35-year-old Williams is currently enjoying a break to enjoy the perks of motherhood, she is expected to return to the pro tennis in January next year.

It may be noted that Serena, arguably the greatest female Tennis player of All Time, had won the Australian Open title this year, while she was pregnant.

On Wednesday, ace producer Dil Raju has approached officials of CCD (Cyber Crime department) to seek their assistance in pulling out those people who are spearing some online piracy links of DJ (Duvvada Jagannadham) on social media platforms, particularly Facebook and Twitter. Director Harish Shankar also joined him when the producer complained police about piracy and they addressed media later.

Speaking to the journalists, Producer Dil Raju made an shocking comment – ‘Our film DJ is being deliberately targeted by someone who can’t digest its huge success at box-office.’ The producer also submitted some information about listed Twitter, Facebook profiles that are continuously posting trolls and passing negative posts, comments against the movie.

Later, Harish Shankar spoke to media and urged audiences and anti-fans to stop spreading such piracy links as it will no way effect the director & actor of the film. He further said, ‘we have already received our payment from producer and if your intention is to defame the actor or director, you wouldn’t be successful. And, in-a-way, it will impact thousands of workers who’re dependent on films.’

On other hand, the makers are quite happy about collections as the film managed to pass the weekday test also. In first 5 days, DJ raked in 46.76 Crore share in Telugu speaking states and a worldwide share of 58 Crore (approximately).

Those who watch Hollywood films are aware that aliens attack the world, US primarily, in almost all alien-themed films. Aliens are generally portrayed as vicious creatures. In contrast, only a handful of Indian films have so far dealt with Aliens and in all of those films, only Good Aliens have come to India.

Take the recent biggies that dealt with Aliens – Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Koi Mil Gaya’ (alien was Hrithik’s friend), Akshay Kumar’s Joker (2012) and Aamir Khan’s PK (Aamir himself was an alien), in all these films, aliens are good-natured species. Not a single Indian film has ever portrayed aliens in negative shade. Well, this may change very soon.

It is heard that the first ever bad alien is going to come to India in Superstar Rajinikanth’s sci-fi film ‘2.0’. Latest reports suggest that Akshay Kumar is not playing the ‘Crow Man’ but an alien instead in this Shankar directorial. The tagline of the film, ‘The world is not only for humans’, strengthens this speculation. If this happens to be true, Akshay’s Alien character will be the first bad alien in Indian movie history.

Also starring Amy Jackson, ‘2.0’ is slated for January 25, 2018 release.

Mass layoffs are not just confined to the IT sector alone. Maa TV, which turned as Star Maa after Star group acquired it, said to have sacked 80 of its senior-most employees. People in various senior positions have been asked to quit their jobs and handover their Employee ID cards and leave the office immediately.

This said to have come as a major shocker to its employees who have been working long for the company over 7 years on average.

Ever since Star Maa took over, there have been rumours of the layoffs of old employees. However, the transition of Maa TV to Star Maa reportedly had a clause not to sack the existing employees for certain period. It’s learnt that the period has been completed and Star group said to have voted to fire the old employees.

Despite great planning, Star Maa is not able to deliver as expected. Even the most anticipated Chiru’s Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu has failed to meet the expectations. Now Star Maa is keen on more productive employees and buzz is that it may hire new employees in the old positions depending on the actual requirement.

The decision has come as a shocker days ahead of its most popular Big Boss Telugu with Jr NTR as the host.

Maanayata, wife of actor Sanjay Dutt has been setting internet on fire for last two weeks by sharing her holiday pics from Europe.

The 37-year-old former actress has now shared this unbelievably hot picture of hers where she is seen flaunting her exquisite curves in a red monokini. Her swimsuit pictures have been catching the attention of netizens and they are going viral on social media.

Looking at her smoking hot curves, people are disbelieving that she is a 37-year-old and a mother of two. Some commented that had she not married and stayed away from acting, she would have given tough competition to the likes of even Aishwarya Rai.

We have reached the halfway mark of the year and it is time to look at how our Telugu cinema performed at the US box office.

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion has created history by turning out to be India’s highest grosser in America with nearly $ 20 Million (including all languages).

Chiranjeevi made a stunning comeback with Khaidi No. 150 grossing nearly $ 2.5 Million in US.Another veteran Balakrishna’s 100th film turned out to be a smashing hit at the US box office with over $ 1.6 Million gross collections.

Pawan Kalyan’s Katamarayudu collected over a Million but ended up a huge flop with over Rs. 8 crore losses.Nani’s Nenu Local is the other film that made into the Million Dollar club.

Last week’s release DJ will also make it to the Million Dollar club but is likely to end up a big loser in overseas market due to the high price it was bought for.

Shatamanam Bhavati and Ghazi also performed pretty well by grossing nearly $ 800K.

Baahubali 2 – The Conclusion – $1,99,12,808 (128.44 crores)
Khaidi No. 150 – $24,46,098 (16.33 crores)
Gautamiputra Satakarni – $16,63,041 (Rs 11.1 crores)
Katamarayudu – $11,45,481 (Rs 7.39 crores)
Nenu Local – $10,74,000 (Rs 6.87 Cr)
Duvvada Jagannatham – $9,66,000 (Rs 6.18 Cr) (Still Running)
Shatamanam Bhavati – $7,96,483 (rs 5.32 crores)
The Ghazi Attack-  $7,66,469 (Rs 4.99 crores)
Rarandoi Veduka Chudham – $5,55,068 (Rs 3.59 crores)
Keshava – $2,58,017 (Rs 1.67 crores)

Much before his latest movie SPYder got a release, Superstar Mahesh has decided to move to his next project, Bharat Anu Nenu, which is being directed by Koratala Siva. And the day he joined the shooting of this movie, his on location pictures started surfacing on social media.

With a smart phone in hand, most people find it irresistible to click something and post it on social media. That’s how Mahesh’s look from the Koratala directorial got leaked. But the look once again proves that old theory in the discussion about Mahesh not interested in changing his looks. Like Vijay in Kollywood, Mahesh is not a game to experiment his looks often. Like the way he looked in Spyder, he’s looking the same in Bharat Anu Nenu too if those leaked pics are anything to go by.

In this Koratala Siva film that is coming in their combination after Srimanthudu, Mahesh will be seen as a politician and then as a Chief Minister too. Many expected that the star hero will change his look and present himself in a completely new avatar.

Meanwhile, AR Muruguados directorial SPYder is getting ready for September 27th release as the movie’s team has other day condemned reports of postponing the film to Diwali season.