Raising the selling point of his upcoming film LIE, actor Nithin has got Hollywood actor Dan Bilzerian on the board. Dan is an American poker player and stunt master, who featured in some notable Hollywood films including Lone Survivor (2013), The Equalizer (2014), Cat Run 2 (2014) and Extraction (2015) among others.

Confirming Dan Bilzerian’s inclusion in the film, the actor took to Twitter and shared it with a picture – ‘Thanks @DanBilzerian for being such a sport n for being part of our film..u r a total natural!! #LIEthemovie’. However, Nithin was tight-lipped about Dan’s role in the film.

The expectations on the film are already high, after Nithin attracted the audiences with his impeccable stylish look and grown beard.

The film which has Megha Akash playing the female role is being shot in United States of America. LIE, abbreviated as ‘Love..Intelligence..Enmity’, gained the significant craze after makers unveiled its first look recently. Directed by Andala Rakshasi and Krishna Gadi Veera Prema Gadha fame Hanu Raghavapudi, the film is being rolled out by 14 Reels Entertainment banner.

The dissent against Baahubali: The Conclusion in Karnataka is growing with each passing day. The latest is that Karnataka Rakshana Vedike has called for a state bandh tomorrow and stated that the film would not see release there unless Sathyaraj tender unconditional apology over his remarks in the sensitive issue of Kauveri water sharing between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Multiple protests have been held by the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike in front of various popular multiplexes against the release of Baahubali: The Conclusion. The activists have cautioned the exhibitors not to screen the film and told them that there would be serious consequences.

This is after Sathyaraj (who is seen as Kattappa in Baahubali) had allegedly made ‘hurtful’ remarks. The KRV alleged that Sathyaraj had “insulted” Kannadigas and Kannada women and expecting an apology from him for the smoother release of the film.

President of Karnataka Film Chamber is also in favour of the pro-Kannada organisation that’s strongly raising voice against the film’s release until Sathyaraj apologies.

But the major twist is that Rajamouli is caught between a rock and hard place as the film also has a release in Tamil. If anything he does in favour of Kannadigas for the film’s release would affect the prospects of the film in Tamil. Even if Sathyaraj says a sorry, it is expected to have contrary consequences in Tamil Nadu.

Prabhas has hired a personal PR personnel. The Baahubali star said to have roped in a reputed PR personnel in Mumbai who is helping him to further strengthen the brand that he got through epic Baahubali.

As Prabhas next – Saaho (Prabhas 19) – is also going to have release in Hindi besides Telugu and Tamil and being made with a whopping Rs 150 Crore budget, the actor has already signed top PR person to ease his job in Bollywood circles.

While UV Creations is bankrolling the prestigious project, Prabhas is rumoured to have share in the production. It’s known fact that Pramod of UV Creations happens to be cousin of Prabhas. Amidst this, the actor is keenly focusing on his next as he is extremely confident of Baahubali: The Conclusion.

The film being directed by Sujeeth is going onto floors very shortly. Popular music trio Shankar Ehsaan Loy have already started working on the film and music sittings are going on. The action choreography is by Peter Heins, while production design is by Sabu Cyril of Robot and Baahubali fame.

Neil Nitin Mukesh will be seen as a baddie and the film is going to have two female leads. The film’s teaser is all set to be released on April 27 as a mark of tribute to Prabhas’ Baahubali.

Director Sukumar said to have undergone a drastic yet revolutionary and reformist transformation. Sukumar, who is often blamed and criticised for his slow working style and thus delay his films, is said to have totally changed. He is now said to be working rigorously for his ongoing film with Ram Charan.

The shoot of his film is currently starting at around 6 to 6.30 AM in morning and goes on till 6 PM in evening albeit a three-hour break between 12 PM to 3 PM. The production hours are estimated as 9 hours which is exponentially more when compared to the regular shoot hours.

Talk is that the movie is expected to be ready by Sep and makers are contemplating to release it on Sep 27 on Dasara eve.

Billed to be a romantic drama set in rural milieu laced with action, drama, sentiment and humour. Samantha is pairing up with Charan for the first-time. Contrary to rumours that Sam is doing a physically challenging role, it’s learnt that Sam is doing very entertaining role and scenes involving her with Charan would be the highlight. The pair’s chemistry is said to be USP. Given that Sukumar is fond of love stories, he said to have etched a good love story between Sam and Cherry. Sources in the know claim that this is Aarya director’s best script till date.

Has Sukumar really changed a lot? Well, we’ll get to know only after the film is out.

A project in the combination of Ram Charan and veteran director Mani Ratnam has been in discussions for a long time. As Charan wasnt willing to experiment initially, he continued to put it on hold.

After the success of Dhruva, he grew confident and in his endeavor for an image makeover, he reportedly decided to work with Mani Ratnam after Sukumar’s film.

Charan however has reportedly changed his mind after the disaster of Ratnam’s latest film ‘Cheliyaa’. Learning this, Mani too has moved on and he is planning to make a Hindi film starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek bachchan.

Dil Raju, most active and successful producer of Tollywood in the past few years, has divulged that he thought of a story idea while mourning the death of his wife.

‘I didn’t come out of my house for two weeks after my wife’s death. I spent those days listening to the evergreen songs about life to overcome my grief. During this mourning phase, I thought of an idea and I am planning to make a film on it,’ revealed Raju during a recent interview.

The ‘Nenu Local’ producer said that he had experienced mixed things in life in the last five months. “Just when everything was going great with the success of Shatamanam Bhavathi and Nenu Local, and the birth of my grandson, God gave me a jerk in the form of my wife’s death. When I was immersed in grief, he brought me out of it by gifting me a national award. I have seen all this in a span of just five months,’ recalled the SVSC producer.

Like selling satellite rights and audio rights, these days selling the rights of film’s trailers, teasers, song videos for digital platforms became another interesting game. And this game is turning dirtier due to the greed of those YouTube companies that buy content, which is, in fact, turning into a mafia.

You would have already noticed that many popular TV channels’ YouTube pages are not showing cinema related teasers and song content anymore. This is because, even if a 10-second clip from a teaser or song from a film is used with video on YouTube, immediately the company that bought Digital Rights is sending a copyright violation notice. And they are demanding huge money to go back on their copyright claim.

Same is the case with short films and spoofs, wherein some creative guys use a small video from a film song or use an audio song in the background. A short film with 1 lakh hits may fetch a revenue of 2500 rupees in long run, but just for using a 30-second clip, the Copyright owners are demanding 15,000 rupees nearly. This YouTube mafia is sure slowly crushing creative talents who want to make some good content on films.

Either the YouTube channel owners (TV channels and individual guys) have to pay these original copyright holders (even for a 10-second clip) or they have to remove the videos. If they don’t remove the video, then YouTube will shut down the channel after three such strikes.

In the wake of all these happenings, Tamil Producers Council president, hero Vishal, has urged all the producers to give teasers and song videos content to all the TV channels for free and to upload on YouTube as well. We have to see how Tamil producers will respond about this and if Telugu producers will also take a clue from it.

There was a time when a big league of young heroines are partying with this guy, surrounding him always. And those hotties got offers in big films through his contacts. But now, none of them is showing interesting to meet up this young hero.

Especially this group used to make others envy with their get-togethers and parties. As our young Telugu hero rose to a happening hero level, he slowly started to bring various new girls to the industry too. While everyone claimed that they are just friends, it’s always rumoured that those hotties are in an affair with him. Suddenly all those hotties have kept him aside for reasons unknown.

At the same time, films of this hero started biting the dust at box office and those hot girls have risen to stardom with other big hits in their kitty. That finally led to this guy’s alienation from the group though all other girls and boys are regularly partying together.

Other day when this Young Hero tried to call up few of his hottie friends for an event, we hear that none picked up his phone. One such starlet is heard telling him that she’s out of town, but an hour later he has accidentally met her at a posh hotel lobby in the city, and she just gave him a stare and left.

One wonders what is that big reason all those hot girls started keeping him at distance. Some say, he has been asking them too many favours. Pchh!!