2017 is turning out to be a year that leggy lass Deepika Padukone can remember for a long long time. From making her Hollywood debut with “xXx: Return Of Xander Cage” to her sultry appearances on the red carpet of international events, the most recent being the Cannes Film Festival, Deepika has ruled the roost.

Now, Maxim India has rated Deepika as the “Hottest Woman of the Year”. She has pipped professional rival Priyanka Chopra to achieve this feat.

The sexy lady is seen on the June edition of Maxim flaunting her towering frame in customized two-piece attire. It is an understatement to say that Deepika is slaying hearts in the most sensual manner.

From being an Indian actress to globally popular star, Priyanka Chopra has gone a long way and she’s leading a dreamy life of any Indian heroine would wish for. But, the PC’s recent meeting with Indian PM landed her in an unintended trouble.

The Baywatch beauty has attracted severe criticism and bashing from her Indian fans, for the way she dressed and sat in front of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Berlin, Germany. But, the actress is no way undeterred with what is being commented against her on Instagram & Twitter pages. Priyanka made a strike back with another image with her mom where she posed her toned legs quoting ‘legs for days’.

Despite the disrespectful comments on her social media page, Priyanka Chopra is least-bothered and gives a damn to such responses. Having reached the heights where she is now, without a godfather, Chopra is unanswerable about what she wore and how she dressed. Had this been in western countries, no one would have pointed at it. Her ensemble was the talking point only because it was an Indian Prime Minister.

Definitely, the top actress needs nobody’s advise and she has the complete freedom to wear what she can. Unhappy with her short dress and cross-legged sitting posture, Indian folks have showered her with some extremely harsh remarks which she did not deserve. ‘Wear proper dress’, ‘Cover full body’, ‘wear something decent’, ‘dress up responsibly’ and ‘you are an impolite woman’ were few comments Priyanka was hit with.

However, we wish this won’t follow up with any other Indian actress and a woman has full rights to live the way she wanted to. On that note, we would like to remind a short line from actor Siddharth’s latest series of tweets- ‘Live and let live.’

Actress Anushka Shetty, who is currently basking in the worldwide success of ‘Baahubali 2’, has received a rude shock from Tamil Nadu police officials.

Anushka is currently shooting for her new film ‘Bhagmathi’ in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu. The other day, when the police officials stopped her caravan and inquired for documents, the driver allegedly failed to produce the necessary legal papers. The caravan was hence seized and Anushka had to reach the shooting spot from hotel in some other car. The production team is reportedly indulged in resolving the matter.

Interim, the shooting of Bhagmathi is progressing at brisk pace. Ashok of ‘Pilla Zamindar’ fame is directing this film being produced on UV Creations banner. The film will be high on visual effects. Makers are planning an August release.

On personal front, Anushka’s parents have reportedly intensified the search for a perfect groom for this gorgeous diva.

Nagarjuna Akkineni, who is elated with the success of his elder son Chaitu’s latest release ‘Ra Randoi Veduka Chooddam’, is leaving no stone unturned to establish his younger son Akhil as hero.

Afresh, we hear that Nag has reportedly convinced his good friend and actress Tabu to play a crucial role in Akhil’s second film. Tabu hasn’t yet started playing mother characters in South films but she couldn’t say no when Nag himself asked her. However, it is not clear if she will be seen as Akhil’s mother or heroine’s mother in #Akhil2, a Vikram Kumar directorial.

Tabu has proved to be a lady luck for Nag after pairing opposite him in hit films – Nine Pelladatha, Aavida Maa Aavide and Sisindri. Nag hopes that she will cast similar luck on Akhil as well.

The first schedule of #Akhil2 was finished a couple of days ago and the second schedule will commence soon once the makers resolve the heroine issue.

Of late, this young hero who has been reeling with flops from a time is picking up some interesting projects. We are talking about young hero Sandeep Kishan, whose success streak took a beating these days with back to back flops.

While Nakshatram is expected to be his game changer, somehow the film is not hitting the marquee from a time due to reasons unknown. Moving on, Sandeep has a couple of other films from Tamil arena like Maayavan which are supposed to have some good content value. More than all these projects, his newest films are much more interesting actually.

Suddenly Mahesh Babu’s sister Manjula announced her film as a director and it has Sandeep in the lead to romance Amyra Dastur and Tridha Chaudhary. This piqued interest as yet another lady director is making her debut in Tollywood. And then Fanaa movie fame Kunal Kohli started to shoot his debut Telugu film in London with Tamanna. Guess what, this film has Sandeep in the lead. And now, he grabbed the lead role in ’16’ movie fame Karthik Naren’s next Telugu-Tamil bilingual film, by replacing Naga Chaitanya.

Even after 33 days of a great run at box office, Baahubali 2 is showing its potential at the ticket counters. Despite coming up with some good releases, native Bollywood movies failed to beat the craze around this dubbed Telugu movie. Guess what, three south hotties are now getting ready to beat this mania.

Currently, if we look at Bollywood columns, three hotties including Shruti Haasan, Kriti Kharbanda and Kriti Sanon are taking by a storm with their charms. While Shruti and Kriti Kharbanda are south girls, Kriti Sanon made her debut in southern tinsel town before climbing Bollywood bandwagon. So why are these hotties radiating their scorching looks around in the North right now?

Shruti is promoting her June 9th release “Behen Hogi Teri” where she got paired with talented Rajkumar Rao. Kriti Kharbanda is also doing the same for her next Hindi movie “Guest In London” which releases on June 16th. And then, there is this Raabta hitting cinema on June 9th itself which has Sushant Singh and Kriti Sanon in the leads. Our hotties, who lead in these three films are right now leaving no stone unturned to get maximum attention.

Definitely, these films want to take on the baton from Baahubali 2, and we have to see if they will disrupt the run of the gigantic film created by SS Rajamouli or not.

If we have to name one actress who is steadily increasing her fan base despite not having even a single film in her kitty, it has to be lethally sexy Disha Patani. It is heard that she is spoiling her career either by acting too pricey or by demanding films opposite only A-list heroes.

Although Disha has appeared in two movies, none of them really helped her career. The young actress however is a social media sensation with 5.5 million followers on Instagram. Her photo shoots and dancing videos are quite a rage among youth.

Considering her craze, several filmmakers are approaching her with offers but she is said to be outright rejecting them. Disha is demanding only leading lady characters that too in the films of A-list actors such as Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh etc.

She was even approached to play the female lead in Prabhas’ Saaho but she lost the golden opportunity by demanding 5 crore remuneration. Isn’t it too much to ask for when you have very limited acting skills? If not for her super hot looks, she may not get even supporting characters.

It is heard in Bollywood circles that the talent management that Disha is associated with, is vexed with her headstrong attitude and they are planning to cut ties with her. Its high time Disha opened her eyes and save her sinking career.