Bollywood film Raabta, Magadheera’s freemake… err.. not anymore a freemake as just one day before the release, the Bollywood filmmakers had an out of the court settlement with Allu Aravind, has received enough publicity by entangling in a plagiarism controversy with Geetha Arts.

Free of plagiarism allegations, the Sushant Singh Rajput and Krit Sanon starrer finally hit screens today, and unfortunately, it may head in complete opposite direction to Magadheera’s. While the Telugu film was an industry ht, Raabta may turn out to be one of the biggest disasters of this year, going by the terrible word of mouth.

Raabta has received scathing reviews from all major Bollywood critics. The word of mouth on social media also is not encouraging. Despite the film charmed with its reincarnation theme and good-looking leads, the incoherent screenplay, utterly rubbish dialogues and confused story line have reportedly tested the patience of viewers.

To summarize the reviews, everything is a drawback in Raabta except the crackling chemistry shared by Sushant and Kriti, who are rumored to be in a real relationship.

Have a look at the flop films at Telugu box office in the recent times and immediately you can figure out one thing. It’s the remunerations that is bending the back of producer but not the actual production cost.

In a film that’s made with 50+ crores budget, often 25 crores is catering to remunerations only. Even a two-crore budgeted small film is catering around 50-70 lakhs to remunerations as they have to pick some talented character artists. This is no wrong, but actually, with remunerations becoming huge chunk, any slight loss is making producers not being able to make another film soon. Otherwise, if films are made at half the budgets what are being put now, producers could sell them easily, get profits and share to key actors. That way they could make more films too.

Talking about the same, Naga Chaitanya hinted that Telugu heroes especially should work in Bollywood formula. “From a long time, Bollywood heroes are taking a share in profits rather taking huge fee in advance. Even Telugu heroes should do the same to save the producers. I’m ready to work on those lines” said Chaitanya, indicating that the future of Tollywood payment mechanism will change for sure. Already the likes of Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, Allu Arjun and Jr NTR have started this profit-sharing exercise if our sources are to be believed.

“Being son a producer, as his father runs very own Annapurna Studios, Naga Chaitanya could understand all the financial logics easily. But other heroes don’t budge and they take part in shooting only with full payment paid” commented a senior most film industry person.

Hope other star heroes do understand the situation of producers and start this profit-sharing thing.

Actor Suriya’s 2D Entertainment will produce his brother Karthi’s next yet-untitled Tamil film under Pandiraj’s direction, it was announced on Friday.

At the audio launch of G.V. Prakash Kumar starrer Tamil film “Sema”, Rajsekar Pandian on behalf of 2D Entertainment announced the project.

“We are proud to announce that our next project will be with Karthi, and in the direction of Pandiraj,” Rajsekar told the media here.

Suriya, who turned producer with his wife Jyotika-starrer “36 Vayadhinile”, is teaming up with his brother for the first time.

Karthi is currently busy wrapping up Tamil action-thriller “Dheeran Adhigaaram Ondru”.

The project with his brother is expected to start rolling later this year.

Chennai-based producer K Rajashekaran filed a petition against the makers of Rajinikanth’s upcoming film Kaala Karikaalan alleging that the “title, knot and story of Karikaalan absolutely belonged” to his company GSR Vinmeen Creations, reports news agency PTI.

A city court on Friday issued a notice asking Rajinikanth, the makers of Kaala Karikaalan and the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce to submit their replies by June 15, reports PTI.

K Rajashekaran, owner of GSR Vinmeen Creations, said that the title ‘Karikaalan’ was already registered by him with the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce.

He’s accused the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce of misusing the rules by not renewing his title registration to ‘favour some influential persons and disfavouring indigent persons,’ reports PTI.

Mr Rajashekaran said in his petition that he intended to make a film on Chola emperor Karikalan and that he had narrated the story to Rajinikanth Fans Association leader Sathyanarayana.

Mr Rajashekaran also said that another dispute over the film’s title was pending in the city civil court. Therefore, the producers are using the name illegally, reports PTI. Mr Rajashekaran sought an interim injunction restraining the makers to shoot the film.

Kaala Karikaalan is produced by Wonderbar Films and directed by Pa Ranjith (helmer of Rajinikanth’s Kabali).

Rajinikanth completed the first schedule of Kaala Karikaalan in Mumbai on May 7 and returned to Chennai on Thursday. Kaala

Karikaalan features actress Huma Qureshi opposite Rajinikanth. Nana Patekar has been roped in for the antagonist’s role.

Actress Amy Jackson has appeared in a new campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to promote vegetarianism.

In the poster, the 25-year-old actress can be seen dressed in plastic wrap and impaled by a metal hook to perhaps suggest the violent bloodshed of the animals that occurs to obtain meat for consumption purposes.

The tagline for the ad reads, “Hooked on Meat? Go Vegetarian.”

The ad, which is being released in advance of World Meat Free Day (June 12), was shot by top photographer Abhay Singh.

Talking about the idea behind the campaign, Jackson says, “(M)eat products can cause cancer, heart disease, obesity. So for cutting all of that out… it’s just a no-brainer that we’re going to be a lot healthier,” says Jackson.

The “Freaky Ali” actress has joined the list of personalities who have teamed up with PETA, such as Lara Dutta, Shahid Kapoor, Esha Gupta, Hema Malini, Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman, Amrita Rao, R Madhavan, Murali Kartik and Rahul Sharma.

On going vegetarian, the actress explains, “(M)y skin’s got a lot clearer. I’ve noticed a change in my body. I’ve noticed a change in my metabolism. So I feel a lot healthier, a lot lighter, with a lot more energy also.”

A leaked still from superstar Rajinikanth’s most eagerly awaited VFX extravaganza, ‘2.0’ is currently going viral on social media.

In the pic, both Rajini and Amy Jackson are seen wearing robotic body suits. While Amy is seen driving a truck, Rajini is seen holding it from toppling over. The still looks to be from a key action sequence in the film, which is currently in post-production stage.

Fortunately, not much damage happened since the poor-quality leaked pic doesn’t reveal much information. Makers of ‘2.0’ must be cautious since over Rs 400 crore is invested on this film and they can’t risk any potential leakages, which generally happen during post-production phase.

Even Baahubali couldn’t escape leakage fiasco so this is a wake up call for director Shankar and Lyca Productions. Movie is aiming for January 2018 release.

Hip beauty Ileana D’cruz is currently having a romantic vacation at Fiji Islands with her boyfriend, Andrew Kneebone and her fans are glued to her social media account knowing that the bold beauty would share some sexy pictures.

Here comes a dazzling pic from the ‘Devadasu’ beauty. On the occasion of World Oceans Day, Ileana has shared this lovely pic against a serene ocean backdrop. Standing amidst the ocean, draped herself in a blue thigh-high slit robe and giving a sneak peek of her cleavage, Ileana looks like sea goddess.

On work front, Ileana was last seen in Akshay Kumar’s “Rustom”, which wasa decent hit. She will next be seen in two Bollywood films – Ajay Debgn’s “Baadshaho” and “Mubarakan”.