Director’s off-screen romance with a young heroine is becoming talking point in the industry circles. Rumours are rife that the director is often spending quality time with the actress and the duo is comfort in each others company. While he is much elder to her, it’s said that age doesn’t have much role to play and both are happy in others space.

It’s rumoured that the director is spending more time with her and leaving his ongoing project aside. Talk is that this has also led to the increase in the production cost of the director’s ongoing film. Although she made quite a good name, the actress still has to go a long way. And perhaps she has no other option but to please him.

Since the director is already happily married, these rumours tend to irk his closed ones.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan proves that he’s not just the Sultan of box-office, but also the proves to be ‘Baap’ of taxpayers by paying an advance tax of 44.5 crore. He paid that amount for the financial year 2016-17 to top the list of ‘leading advance taxpayers in Bollywood’. Whereas for previous year 2015-16, Dabangg star paid out 32 Crore as advance tax

The list also includes female actors like Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt and Kareena Kapoor whose tax numbers are also quite high. It can be remembered that Forbes named Deepika as 10th highest paid actress in world. Comedian and TV host Kapil Sharma also finds a place alongside these superstars for a straight second year.

Other B-town stars who entered into top 10 list are: 2. Akshay Kumar (29.5Crore), 3. Hrithik Roshan (25.5 Crore), 4. Kapil Sharma (23.9 Crore), 5. Ranbir Kapoor (16.5 Crore), 6. Aamir Khan (14.8 Crore), 7. Karan Johar (11.7 Crore), 8. Deepika Padukone (10.25 Crore), 9. Alia Bhatt (4.33 Crore) and 10. Kareena Kapoor (3.9 Crore).

Compared to last year, majority of stars have scaled up their advance tax payments and interestingly, King Khan Sharukh didn’t find a place in the list.

As per the latest information, the release of Venkatesh’s Guru would be advanced by a week against its original date of April 7th. The makers of Guru are contemplating to prepone the film’s release to March last week contrary to April 1st week release.

When contacted, a source close to the development said, “It’s not official yet. It could be on March 31st or could be on March 29th. Makers are also considering Ugadi date.”

If Guru is advanced to March, it would invariably clash with Puri Jagannadh’s Rogue that is slated for release on March 29. Already Puri’s team is worried over clashing with biggie like Katamarayudu that is releasing on March 24th and if Venkatesh too join the clash, it’d be a trouble for Puri as Ishan is a newcomer.

Given that Puri’s Rogue is already battling with low buzz, it has to be seen whether Puri steps back or would he request Guru to step back. As of now, there’s a great confusion among the release dates and looks like, it all depends on the response of Katamarayudu. If Pawan’s Katamarayudu gets good word of the mouth, these films are predicted to postpone. Let’s wait and see.

Pia Bajpai, who is known to Telugu audiences as the cute actress from hit film ‘Rangam’, has explored her wildest side in her recent photo shoot. While the unbuttoned white shirt is giving an irresistible view of the valley of Pia’s cleavage, the lustful eyes are making her look more desirable.

The bold lady is currently waiting for the release of her new Hindi film, ‘Mirza Juliet’. This explosive photo shoot just two weeks ahead of the film’s release looks to be a great ploy.

Pawan Kalyan’s hysterical laugh during the pre-release event of Katamarayudu has remained a mystery ever since the event was held the other day.

As Pawan seemingly laughed after Ali said something, it was speculated by some people on social media that the ace comedian might have cracked an adult joke, for which he is quite famous. During his speech at another event, Ali has finally put an end card to the suspense of Pawan’s animated laugh

Ali said, ‘When producer Sharrath Marrar kept on praising Pawan’s dressing and stylish looks in ‘Panche’, I said, ‘Malli Pelli gani chesthada’ enti? Although I said it casually, it made Pawan crack up uncontrollably. I didn’t think it would become a rage on social media’.

Ali is known to be a close friend of Pawan. They share so great a bond that even a joke on his marriage (Pawan already married thrice) made Pawan laugh. We wonder how the actor would have reacted if someone else had said the same thing right on his face.

Is Mani Ratnam’s much-awaited “Cheliyaa” losing the craze that it has generated with the first teaser and first two songs? Recently theatrical trailer came out and all the audio tracks were released.

But both the new trailer and the remaining songs have failed to trend on the social media.

The first teaser and the songs of “Humsaaro” and “Maimarupaa” were received well prompting huge expectations on the movie. Mani Ratnam generally never goes wrong with love stories.

“Cheliyaa” seems to be more about India-Pakistan border fight than intense love story. So, the theatrical trailer has focussed less on romance.

Starring Karthi and Aditi Rao Hyderi, “Cheliyaa” is hitting the screens on 7th April in Tamil and Telugu languages worldwide. The movie is presented by Dil Raju but he is absent at recent promotional event at Park Hyatt in Hyderabad as he is grieving the loss of his wife Anitha.

Karthi has good market in Telugu states and he may start doing promotional activity before the release to create some buzz.

On the other hand, Mani Ratnam will be launching a new movie with Ram Charan in Telugu in the month of July which will also be co-produced by Charan.

When the teaser of Sreenu Vaitla’s ‘Mister’ starring Varun Tej was released, it seemed as if the director has changed after tasting successive disasters. But, the just released trailer poured water on all such hopes.

Mister trailer gave an impression of this film too falling in his typical formulaic filmography. The film surely has vibes of Vaitla’s classic ‘Anandam’ which he directed during the initial stages of his career, but the overdose of routine comedy, action and forced emotions look to have dominated what could have been an interesting triangular love story.

It seemed as if each scene shown in the trailer was lifted from the Telugu movies that we have seen in the recent times. The poor editing could also be the reason for generating this negative impression on the trailer.

Mickey J Mayer’s soothing background score is the biggest positive of the trailer. KV Guhan’s visuals too deserve appreciation. Mister has an impressive cast with Lavanya and Hebah as the female leads. Lets hope Vaitla doesn’t deliver another flop to the Mega family after Andarivadu and Bruce Lee.

Other day while speaking at “Cheliya” Telugu trailer and audio launch, legendary AR Rahman made an interesting comment. “Telugu cinema has evolved so much now and I’m happy for that. You have a Baahubali now, and I wish four of such movies will come every year from this tinsel town” said Rahman. While some took it like a satire, there is absolute truth in what Rahman said as Baahubali made the Telugu flag fly so high.

So the moot question now is, what to expect after Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Conclusion releases? Either some other director has to take up such enormous project or Rajamouli should come up with another interesting Baahubalian kind of film. Insiders revealed that Rajamouli wants to make two simple movies after Baahubali. In that case, which director is ready to come up with movies of such grandeur and stature?

In the first place, if a producer needs to invest 100s of crores on a director to carve out films like Baahubali, surely the track record of that director should be strong. Probably we have only Trivikram’s name popping up in that case but he’s more of dialogue-based than visuals. So who will carve out another Baahubali for Telugu industry is the question now.

Actor-turned-producer Bandla Ganesh has been off from production for quite sometime. After a long hiatus, Ganesh had recently announced to media that he would soon start his production ventures. Now the latest we hear is that Ganesh wants to comeback with a star-studded film only rather than small and medium budget concept films and has put those plans on the back burner.

Apparently, Ganesh is in touch with Pawan. He had met him recently and a pic of Ganesh with Pawan was also circulated earlier. After Bandla’s thunderous speech at the pre-release function of Katamarayudu, Pawan is said to have quite impressed and toying with the idea of doing another film for Ganesh.

Earlier Ganesh had produced Teen Maar and Gabbar Singh with Pawan and has been waiting for Pawan’s nod after the blockbuster success of Gabbar Singh. It’s said that Ganesh would announce it once the story and director get finalised. Ganesh has decided not to announce any other films till his film with Pawan. Given that Pawan has a pipeline of commitments already, it has to be seen when and where he would accommodate a film for Ganesh.

At the moment, it’s certainly big news for Bandla Ganesh.

Actor Ram Charan has taken time off and met guru and director Mani Ratnam who was in Hyderabad on Tuesday for the audio launch of his forthcoming film Cheliya. Mani had stayed in a star hotel where Charan said to had met Mani and discussed their next film.

Although usually, Mani doesn’t prefer to stay and flew-back on same day, apparently he agreed to stay in hotel and a room was booked for Mani as the director wanted to meet Charan and discuss their up next project.

It’s common knowledge that Charan and Mani Ratnam are going to team up for a power-packed action film. This would roll on after Charan’s present commitment with Sukumar.

It can be noted that Charan took up Dhruva (Thani Oruvan in Tamil) only after Mani Ratnam’s advice to try out-of-the-box scripts. And as the film worked well in Telugu despite several odds, Charan said to have thanked Mani for his piece of advice. Meanwhile, reports are rife that Mani is planning to rope in Aravind Swamy in the film. If it happens, it will be a big casting coup.

In what could be a path-breaking breakthrough in the artificial intelligence (AI), a Barcelona-based engineer Sergi Santos has created a sex robot that has fully functioning vagina and has a high response for sex. The robot has been named as Silicon Samantha. The robot has a functioning G-spot and also has a high desire for sex. This is not all. It has sensors that can feel touch on its hips and shoulders.

It responds to the touch and says arousing lines such as “I’m on for you all the time” and “nice and gentle” when contacted. Samantha has a flexible and fully functioning mouth as she loves kissing and being touched. She has different interaction modes including family mode, romantic mode and sexy modes. She is also prone to fall in love with the human companion and the sexy mode is meant to make her orgasm.

As Europe already has its first sex robot brothel in Spain, the invention of sex robot Samantha seems to be transforming a key human experience of sexual intercourse. After sex dolls that can tell jokes and express emotions and sex dolls with functioning genitalia, here comes sex robot with functioning G-spot.

Shruti Haasan, who time and again thanks Pawan Kalyan for giving her the first ever blockbuster of her career with Gabbar Singh, which was one of the prime reasons for her current star status, is surprisingly giving a miss to the promotions of Katamarayudu.

The makers of the March 24 release action entertainer are now releasing video bytes of Shruti, which were shot while the actress was on the sets, to compensate for the lack of promotions from her side. It is known that Shruti even missed the pre-release event of Katamarayudu.

Being a busy actress in Tamil and Hindi film industries too, Shruti may have failed to adjust time to attend promotional interviews. Katamarayudu team however is planning to pursue her to take part in at least post-release promotions.

Given Pawan’s reluctance to promote films, the responsibility of giving interviews to media has fallen on the shoulders of Shruti.

Tollywood people and Telugu film lovers call Rajamouli’s magnum opus ‘Baahubali’, our pride. It doesn’t mean that the film has no detractors, but they are far and few. It seems that legendary Telugu actor Kaikala Satyanarayana is one among them.

In a recent interview, Kaikala found fault with the popular perception of ‘Baahubali’ being called the pride of Tollywood. ‘What is so great about that film. If one makes a film with huge sets and graphics, will it be a great film? We used to call them tricks and now they call Graphics. Does Baahubali has any story,’ he questioned.

He went on to say that 500 films can be made with Rs 500 Cr budget, which was reportedly splurged to make Baahubali. ‘We have seen all that grandeur very long ago in Hollywood. Wasting crores of money and luring people with graphics won’t make a film great,’ he jibed.

Some time ago, veteran actress Jamuna too expressed similar views. Generation gap could probably be the reason for the veterans having such contrasting opinions on big budget visual extravaganzas, which are loved by this generation.

‘Run Raja Run’ fame Seerat Kapoor looks to be trying very hard to get the image of a sex bomb.

Following the route of the likes of British Bombshell Amy Jackson, Seerat too is startling her fans and enticing the beauty admirers with topless photo shoots. In this pic, bearing all, Seerat is seen covering her cleavage with her tiny hands. The monochrome adds extra hotness to this sexy click.

We wonder what’s next in store from this bodacious hottie.

Malayalam superstar Mohanlal has amassed huge fan following not just with his unparalleled acting talent but also because of his unconventional lifestyle. The ‘Complete Actor’ has the other day traveled around Kerala capital, Trivandrum by a bicycle. This came into light only after a vernacular media house published the news along with images.

Reportedly, the actor chose early morning 4 AM for his bicycle ride as he couldn’t afford to attract public attention. Public floating will surely be less at such early morning and moreover, Mohanlal was wearing a normal white shirt and lungi like any average Malayali.

He successfully completed his journey as no one noticed him. He even took several pictures and they are currently making hulchul on social media. It was said to be Mohanlal’s longtime wish to travel around Trivandrum by bicycle.

On work front, Mohanlal will next be seen on Telugu silver screen in war film, ‘1971 – Bharata Sarihaddu’, which also stars Allu Sirish.