The leaked teaser of NTR’s “Jai Lava Kusa” is not at all impressive. While the team was quick to nab the culprit Ganesh for leaking the work-in-progress teaser output, the damage has already been done.

Even after multiple incidents of leakage from editing table, why the filmmakers are not taking extra security measures? Repenting after the damage has been done has become norm in Tollywood.

The concept of the teaser is nice. Revealing NTR’s villainous side in the film seems to be the idea of the teaser. NTR plays three roles in Bobby directed ‘Jai Lava Kusa’.

There are a lot of grey shades to one of NTR’s character in this triple role act. But the teaser hints that the work lacks finesse and the team is rushing in wrapping the work than focussing on quality.

“Jai Lava Kusa” is produced by Kalyan Ram. It is a very important film for producer Kalyan Ram as his recent “Kick 2” put him in heavy losses.

He may be the badshah of popularity charts but Shah Rukh Khan says that he has never been ‘desperate’ to maintain his stardom, adding that he never came to films with the aim of becoming a superstar.

“I wake up and I go and act…Sometimes well, sometimes badly. I feel bad if my film doesn’t do well, I feel good if it does well but all these things last just for about six hours and I move on,” King Khan aserted recently.

We would aspire to greatness too if we could practice such restraint.

The 51-year-old superstar completed the 25-year milestone on June 25, a date which saw the release of his debut film Deewana back in 1992.

Shah Rukh is now gearing up for his upcoming film Jab Harry Met Sejal, which is directed by Imtiaz Ali. The romantic film is extensively shot in Lisbon, Prague, Budapest and Punjab.

The film also stars Shah Rukh’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi co-star Anushka Sharma. This is the third time the two will be seen sharing screen space together.

Ever since Duvvada Jagannadham hit the screens, Pooja Hedge’s glamour has been the talking point. Not that she is beautiful before, but the way – ravishingly beautiful – she is shown in DJ has instantly won hearts. While Pooja’s looks have struck a chord with the youths her talent also got noticed with the film. And this in turn is getting her raining offers. Cashing in on her latest success, Pooja has signed her next Telugu film without further delay.

Pooja will be cast opposite Bellamkonda Sreenivas in director Sriwass’ film. The yet-to-be-titled film is being produced by Abhishek Nama. The film’s first schedule has been shot in the outskirts of Hyderabad in a massive set erected in a private studio. Pooja is expected to join the film’s shoot shortly.

Pooja isn’t a new face in Telugu. She did couple of films (Mask, Mukunda). Even her Bollywood stint Mohenjo Daro opposite Hrithik has failed to meet the expectations. However, it’s Duvvada Jagannadham that overturn her fortunes and brought her to limelight. Besides Bellamkonda, Pooja, the film’s ensemble cast includes Jagapathi Babu, Ravi Kishan and other prominent cast.

Be the cast or crew, the film’s makers are not leaving a single leaf unturned to bring hype to the project. While Sai Madhav Burra is penning dialogues, most-successful Devi Sri Prasad has been roped in to score music. Baahubali fame Peter Hein is going to direct the action sequences. Senior cinematographer Arthur Wilson is the director of photography.

It’s learnt that the film’s first schedule saw shoot of some scenes on Jagapathi Babu and the second schedule will see Bellamkonda and Pooja participating in the shoot.

Is NTR pressuring director Bobby to wrap ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ in a hurry in order to cash in on Dussehra holidays? Buzz in film circles says so. In such case, Bobby will be facing the pressure that he had borne in the case of ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’.

It may be recalled that lion’s share of the shoot of Sardaar was completed in around a month’s time as Pawan was then adamant on the release date deadline. Even though Bobby became fortunate to have signed NTR despite that disaster, he is reportedly looking at similar frustrating situation in the case of ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ too.

Reportedly, NTR has issued an ultimatum to Bobby to finish the shooting of Jai Lava Kusa by the end of August so that the film can be released on the announced date, September 21. The actor is hell bent on taking advantage of the Dussehra holidays, and he doesn’t want to miss the season. On the other hand, Bobby has a highly difficult task at his hands since he has yet to shoot about forty percent of the film.

It may be recalled that in the case of ‘Janatha Garage’, the film was originally planned for Independence Day weekend release but it was pushed to September 1 in order not to compromise on the quality. Fans wonder why NTR is ready to put quality at stake this time just to have a festival release.

Fans hope Bobby doesn’t produce ‘Sardaar’ kind of output.

Here is the shocking and bold trailer of upcoming Hindi film, ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’, which was dubbed as the ‘Most Controversial Movie of this Year’ by the Pahlaj Nihalani-headed Central Board of Film Certification. The Board even put in its best efforts to stop the film from releasing in India.

The film is based on the stories of four women who set out on a ‘forbidden’ path to explore their dreams, desires and sexuality. The trailer is loaded with sassy lines, lots of sex, and pretty much everything that can make a conservative man uncomfortable.

After watching the trailer, one would get a vague idea on why the film was dubbed ‘too lady oriented’, ‘contains contagious sexual scenes’, ‘audio pornography’ and ‘unfit for Indian society’ by the Censor Board. “Lipstick Under My Burkha” was initially denied a certification by the Board but the makers managed to get ‘A’ certificate by appealing to the FCAT (Film Certification Appellate Tribunal).

Calling itself a ‘film exploring women empowerment and an attempt to challenge the patriarch society’, ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ is slated to hit screens on July 21.

After raking in record moolah over the fortuitous four-day weekend, Bunny’s DJ has reportedly passed the first weekday test as well. With the film showing minimal drops on its fifth day, buyers are confident of recovering their hefty investment.

By collecting decent Rs 4.38 crore share on Tuesday, which happens to be the first weekday for DJ in theatres, the Bunny starrer took its total to 46.76 crore share across the Telugu states.

Duvvada Jagannadham Five Days Collections:

Nizam – 16,40,00,000
Ceded – 7,90,00,000
Nellore – 1,99,27,976
Guntur – 4,45,00,000
Krishna – 3,19,45,907
West – 3,30,94,015
East – 3,79,05,166
Uttharandhra – 5,73,00,000

Total 5 days AP & TG Share – Rs 46.76 crore approx.

Despite the film was met with poor response in the US, DJ still managed to collect approx. 58 crore share and 82 crore gross at the worldwide box office in just 5 days.

With steady run, the target of Rs 80 crore worldwide share looks very much possible, and that too in very short span. While the Ramadan holiday weekend helped the film initially, lack of competition at box office is helping it now.

Literary meaning of “Rangasthalam” is ‘stage’ and everyone believed that mega hero Ram Charan will be seen as a drama-artist inside his new film.

Directed by Sukumar and featuring Samantha in the lead, “Rangasthalam 1985” completed its Godavari schedule other day and the team will soon fly to Kerala and the return back to Hyderabad to finish total work. Insiders have revealed an interesting thing about the title of this film, which we hear that Megastar Chiranjeevi hasn’t liked initially.

Actually, the name of the village where the whole story happens is “Rangasthalam”. Though such village didn’t really exist in Godavari’s Konaseema region, we hear that Sukumar has come up with this idea as there is a link to it in the story.

Meanwhile, the scenes involving Ram Charan and Samantha are said to be a revelation both for their romantic content and comedy timing as well. Both the leads are flaunting their village-laced looks in some leaked pictures and they are a hit with fans. Rangasthalam 1985 is set for 2018 January release.

Gorgeous beauty Shruti Haasan has wowed everyone with her fashionista avatar on several occasions. With the status of a star heroine, crores of remuneration and potential opportunities to grace events where she can flaunt her curves in designer wears, one would expect Shruti to shop branded and costly attires from across the world.

But, Shruti has an extremely shocking answer when asked abut her dressing style. The ‘Gabbar Singh’ beauty divulged that she doesn’t like to wear branded attires and that she usually prefers simple clothes, something that she can get from ‘discount sales’.

Don’t be surprised, Shruti herself revealed that she prefers to shop non-branded clothes, that too during the time of ‘discount sales’. She continued that almost all the branded clothes that she own were not bought but gifted by her friends.

‘One doesn’t need to wear costly and branded clothes to flaunt rick look. Instead, one can look great even in simple clothes by picking the perfect color combination that suits to one’s body. That’s my secret,’ Shruti said.