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Box Office: Kittugadu Safe!

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Raj Tarun’s latest offering Kittu Unnadu Jagratta is turning safe for its distributors, buyers. The film that received last Friday said to have raked in approximately 3 Crore share in 3 days in AP and Telangana. It’s said that interestingly the film has crossed ‘Monday test’ in trade and said to have got good turnout.

Meanwhile, it’s estimated that the film would break-even by the figures of Tuesday or Wednesday and likely to enter profit zone from Thursday on wards. While Kittu showing its dominance here by standing at No. 1 out of the last week releases, the film is in second position in the United States while Vijay’s Dwaraka is slightly higher than KUJ there.

On the whole, KUJ is expected to enter profits before this Friday that is going to see a slew of releases including Sundeep Kishan’s Nagaram, Aakatayi, Anjali’s Chitrangada, Lakshmi Manchu’s Lakshmi Bomb.

Will Luck Favours Him?

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Sundeep Kishan has been working hard but luck hasn’t favoured him during his last releases. However, in a dramatic turn his Nagram (originally Maanagaram in Tamil) – – that has been on hold for a while – is now all set for release and interestingly the talk from its premiere in Chennai is now source of all the good buzz about the film online. Now this buzz is bringing hopes on the film and naturally trade, industry circles too got alerted and looking forward to the film’s fate at the Box Office.

Sundeep, who is quite confident about the film, has been promoting the film for quite sometime. Usually, actors won’t promote their films that were signed long back or that were put on the backburner for long. But surprisingly, Sundeep has taken up the responsibility and doing his bit as a passionate actor.

Billed to be an urban thriller that follow hyperlink format where four separate stories converge at a point to complete the remaining film, the film also stars Regina.

Let’s wait and see whether Sundeep’s passion would pay off this time around or not and whether Nagaram would overturn his fortunes or not.

Andhra, Telangana Bhai Bhai..

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Here is another example to show that people of the two Telugu states still harbor the same bond even after the separation of states.

In an incident that reflects humanity and kindness, an Andhra lawyer fought for several years to rescue a Telangana laborer who was sanctioned death sentence by the rigid Saudi law.

Limbadri, a TS laborer, spent more than 20 decades in Saudi working as a laborer. The last time he came to India was back in 2007, for his daughter’s marriage. After going back to Saudi, he reportedly had a scuffle with a local and was framed for the murder of him.

Known for its resentment towards laborers from other countries, the Saudi law awarded death sentence to Limbadri. Thousands of kilometers away from his home land, there was no one for his help until an Andhra lawyer named Rasool came to Limbardi’s rescue.

As per reports. Rasool fought for years, took the issue to the notice of High Court and later the Supreme Court, took the help of a few NGOs and convinced a big Dubai Sheikh, and after going through all these hardships, he managed to rescue Limbadri from the claws of death in Saudi.

Humanity doesnt know region, religion, caste, race etc. Would there be a better example than this story?

Case Booked Against AP Speaker In Telangana!

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A case has been booked against Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker K Siva Prasada Rao in Karimanagar district based on a complaint lodged by YSR Congress party leader.

On the instructions of Chief Magisterial Judge, Karimnagar police registered a case against the Speaker. YSR Congress leader S Bhaskar Reddy lodged a complaint before magistrate that Kodela confessed to have spent Rs 11 crore to win in 2014 election and his comments deserved punishment to him.

The complaint argued the Speaker’s comments attracted the violation of election code. Taking serious note of the comments, the magistrate booked case and summoned him to attend the court by April 20.

Review: Jagan's First Speech in New Assembly

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Opposition leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s first-ever speech in the AP’s new Legislative Assembly turned out to be damp squib. Yet again, Jagan has failed in delivering an impressive speech as what he offered was a lackluster one.  If this is not enough, the numbers in his speech and his illogical math behind them is inviting all the brickbats. Check out where Jagan went wrong.

Performances:

Jagan performed well. He boasted off his confidence although he was losing. He tried his best to manage in covering up and buying time while he was searching for the portions he was quoting during the speech. Roja was often seen laughing in the background and seen strongly supporting her leader while other YSRCP members joined the chorus.

Analysis

Starting the speech about criticising Governor ESL Narasimhan’s speech, Jagan labelled it as State government’s write-up and even pointed out their vision upto 2050 while he cracked satire that people’s mandate for the government is only upto 2019. Jagan went into serious debate and started questioning the figures of growth rate claimed by the state government FY 2015-16 and the first quarter of 2016-17. Jagan mentioned the growth rates of Tamil Nadu with Chennai, Karnataka with Bangalore, Maharashtra with Mumbai and Gujarat with Ahmedabad as examples FY 2015-16 and tried to prove that AP government is showing wrong figures. At one point, Jagan openly stated that the figures quoted by AP government’s growth in Governor speech were impossible and only possible by Naidu’s tall claims.

As he began analyzing what is GDP and what are the sectors – Agriculture and allied, Industry and Services – that could lead to increase of GDP, Jagan started quoting numbers of each sector in Agriculture such as fisheries and other industries of the before last year and the before last year when Naidu is not power.

Shocking towards the end, Jagan totally lost his point. Jagan tend to have stated that the figures of 2015-16 would be correct but Chandrababu can’t take credit for it as it was natural growth. Jagan went onto add that Chandrababu has nothing to do with the growth. And this has invited laughs from the members of TDP in house.

When TDP leaders directly shot back Jagan whether actually he is agreeing to the figure or disputing, Jagan remained silent and started reading his own speech by looking at papers in hands and this further only invited laughs.

Whereas climax turned out to be comedy as Jagan turned rhetoric and said by taking dig at defected MLA Jaleel Khan, “People who studied physics in B.Com can’t understand my statistics.” And as one can expect, TDP leaders openly said in house that Jagan’s statistics were such that as if he studied physics in B.Com.

Plus Points

Use of vocabulary and few rhetoric in the speech. And Jagan’s confidence even as he losing the debate are all the plus points.

Minus Points

Lack of proper homework is the big fault as well as lack of clarity are the big minus in Jagan’s first speech in Assembly. Throughout the speech Jagan struggled for exact words and even seen stuttering at portions while pronouncing Telugu words. His speech turned repetitive and often reiterated the abbreviations. He also got confused at times on the key points. Once he said MPEDA as nodal agency of private but later he quickly corrected it as of government’s.

Akkineni Heroes Make A Comeback

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Ever since the news of Akhil Akkineni’s engagement cancellation came out, the Akkineni family heroes had been keeping a very low profile. After more than two weeks of silence, they have finally made a sort of comeback on social media.

The other day, Nagarjuna took to twitter to share his look from his new film, ‘Raju Gari Gadhi 2’. He wrote ‘Back in Business’ on his twitter page, probably to announce his comeback after the disastrous result of ‘Om Namo Venkatesaya’ and also the embarrassment caused by Akhil’s marriage cancellation.

Following his father, Akhil too put an end to his strategic silence on Twitter by sharing a few pics from his latest activity. Akhil took part in a charity event in Bangalore to educate youth on safety while driving.

It may be noted that the social media-savvy Akhil tweeted for the last time when ONV hit screens, almost a month back. Akhil was reportedly disturbed with his marriage cancellation and hence he maintained a low profile.

Now, it seems that the young actor has finally decided to leave all that behind and look forward to his relaunch, a Vikram Kumar directorial, which is scheduled to go on floors on April 1.

Mahesh Goes with Abhimanyu?

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If latest reports are anything to go by, there is a new title in consideration for Mahesh Babu-AR Murugadoss’ film. Buzz has it that the movie would be titled as Abhimanyu. After breaking heads for long over film’s title and considering titles such as Sambhavami, Agent Shiva, Marmam and et al, finally makers seem to have voted for Abhimanyu.

It’s learnt that even the film’s title song revolves around the word ‘Abhimanyu’ much. And taking all the feedback of fans, industry circles and media reports into consideration, finally Mahesh and Murugudoss are looking towards going ahead with Abhimanyu.

A formal announcement on the title is expected soon and the film’s title logo is likely to be revealed for Ugadi. Touted to be a thriller, the high-budgeted film will have simultaneous release in Telugu, Tamil. For the first-time, Rakul Preet is paired opposite Mahesh Babu.

Hot Pic: Pawan's Panjaa Heroine

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Remember model turned actress Sarah Jane Dais, who romanced Pawan Kalyan in ‘Panjaa’?

The hot lady is not much seen on silver screen these days either in Tollywood or Bollywood but she surely is making her presence felt in the glamor world as one of the top models.

Slipping in cheesy attires for photo shoots is one thing and wearing more or less similar attires off-the-camera is another. The hot lady has surprised the onlookers by attending a recent event in this alluring black outfit, giving a teasing view of her cleavage.

Doesn’t she look a Seductive Siren?

TV9 Ravi Prakash Is Not Going Anywhere

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From the last couple of days, there is news everywhere that TV9 Ravi Prakash is soon going to change his address. Well, the name Ravi Prakash is the brainchild that developed TV9 into a brand and we cannot imagine him disassociating with it, do we?

Couple of web media houses has in fact published that Ravi Prakash is spending time these days at a specially allocated chamber to him at NTV office in Jubilee Hills. Rumours have flown that he’s going to sell out his stake in TV9 and move towards starting an entertainment channel now. In association with NTV and couple of other investors, Ravi Prakash will now venture into entertainment wing rather associating with News channels, the rumours said.

Basing on these rumours, a couple of astrologers who run the early-morning TV shows in rather small TV channels, have shared this news everywhere as if it is their personal prediction. Looking at these developments, people close to Ravi Prakash have chosen to respond. Close associates of Ravi Prakash have rubbished all these reports as baseless rumours.

“There is no such idea of moving out of the No.1 news channel he has carved out. Also, he’s said to be making moves to further strengthen the channel and make it deliver much better news that could reform the society to a newer and transparent level” a close source shared.

Nagarjuna's Silence Upset Them!

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With Nagarjuna’s latest film Om Namo Venkatesaya turning out to be biggest disaster beating the likes of Brahmotsavam and Sardaar Gabbar Singh, naturally, there has been a great pressure from the distributors and buyers of the film over their compensation.

In overseas alone the film incurred a massive loss as the overseas distributor who invested nearly 3.6 Crore said to have lost almost all. And the situation is no different in domestic market too as distributors suffered great losses cutting across the regions. While it’s buzzed that the producer assured them of compensating with his next film that is said to be a bigger film, distributors are still looking towards Nag’s assurance or his intervention in the matter.

Given that almost all the distributors have invested in the film by taking finance for interests, they are looking up to Nag for a meager compensation now before producer compensating with his next that may take nothing less than a year-and-a-half.

It’s learnt that Nagarjuna has charged a bomb for the film i.e around 8 Crore. And this is certainly huge for a devotional film. So, distributors of ONV are hoping that Nag would step in for them. Even for Brahmotsavam, Sardaar Gabbar Singh, star heroes Mahesh, Pawan too intervened in the issue along with producers and said to have settled for most of the distributors who were hit badly.

Now the moot question is whether Nag will do it or not. Let’s wait and see.

NRI Abused in NZ, Told to Go Back to India

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Amidst the concerns over how Indians are being subjected to racial attacks in the US, it looks the situation is no different in New Zealand, albeit a tad less severe.

As per media reports, an Indian living in New Zealand was recently subjected to racist abuse and told to go back to his own country during a road rage incident.

Narindervir Singh, the Indian who had to face this assault, filmed the entire incident from inside his vehicle and live-streamed it on facebook.

“It really shocked me and I was really shaken. I didn’t know what to do at that time. The first thing in my mind was that he might hurt me with some weapon. ‘The abuser tailgated and also made derogatory remarks about Punjabi community,” said Singh as per reports.

Another Indian, Bikramjit Singh had also suffered similar racial assault in a similar incident a few days earlier. People say that discrimination and racial abuses started increasing in the recent months.

US Warns Its Citizens About India

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In what could be a shocker to India, the United States has issued a travel warning for its citizens saying that extremists elements are active in India. A travel warning for US citizens was also issued visiting Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. It told its citizens to avoid travelling to Afghanistan as it stated that no region in the country is free from violence.

Besides Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, the US state department cautioning its citizens about India has now become subject of discussion. Although this was part of its cautioning to its citizens about South Asia travel warning, mentioning of India has kicked up a debate.

While a few international affairs analysts say that the US was referring about the Naxalite elements active in India and also about the terror strikes that struck India once in a while, the timing of mention of India is raising questions as these have been there for a while.

B.com physics MLA Doing Comedy On Pawan

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MLA Jaleel Khan, who has become quite popular online with ‘B.com physics’ remark, is back in news. Following reports that Governor ESL Narasimhan wanted defected MLAs to resign and contest election and win to continue in the new government, Jaleel Khan has responded saying that he is not scared of election. “I’m not at all scared of elections. I’m always ready to face whenever they’re conducted.”

He further boasted his ‘confidence’ and said that he would win even if he contest against Pawan Kalyan. He said that he would win with margin of 10 votes at least if Pawan Kalyan is pitted against him. Meanwhile, Jaleel heaped in praises on CM Chandrababu Naidu. Drawing comparison with PM Narendra Modi, Jaleel said that even Modi couldn’t equate with Chandrababu. Jaleel added that TDP doesn’t need BJP but BJP needs TDP.

When asked about whether he is expecting a minister post ( probably in minority quota)  in the next cabinet expansion, Jaleel gently said he doesn’t know whether he would get a chance to be minister or not but he opined that it’d be better to be a MLA than becoming minister.

Jaleel is presently MLA from Vijayawada West constituency. He won in 2014 assembly elections from YSRCP against TDP candidate V Srinivas with slighter margin. However, this is not his first-time he has become MLA. Earlier he won as MLA from Congress party in 1999. He started as a scrap dealer and later became an MLA. His remark of studying physics in B.Com has gone viral and invited a lot of satire, criticism from various corners. Pawan#sthash.m9YyUvrQ.dpuf

Mahesh's Dates to Bellamkonda?

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Bellamkonda Srinivas, son of popular Telugu film producer Bellamkonda Suresh, is heard to be making all the efforts to pair up with only top actresses.

After shaking his leg with top actresses like Samantha and Tamanna in his first two films, Bellamkonda is romancing happening beauties Rakul Preet Singh and Pragya Jaiswal in his third film. As per latest reports, he might romance cute beauty Keerthy Suresh in his fourth film.

Keerthy has become an in-demand actress in Tollywood with just one film, last year’s super hit romantic entertainer ‘Nenu Sailaja’. Her second Telugu film ‘Nenu Local’ has also become a super hit. Interim, she added another feather to her cap by signing Pawan Kalyan-Trivikram’s crazy project.

In fact, Keerthy was also considered to romance Mahesh in Koratala Siva’s new film. Reportedly, she even reserved her dates for this project. However, after she was recently sidelined from this movie, Bellamkonda has reportedly sought those dates initially allotted for Mahesh’s film for his next film.

Keerthy hasn’t yet signed on the dotted line but she was reportedly offered a lucrative sum to come on board.

On Location Pic: Samantha In Raju Gari Gadhi 2

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A day after Nagarjuna Akkineni unveiled his look from the new horror-comedy that he is playing a key role in, ‘Raju Gari Gadhi 2’, his future daughter-in-law, Samantha shared an intriguing pic of herself from the film’s sets.

Dressed in all-black, Samantha is seen sitting on the floor in this pic. Neither her full face nor her complete body can be seen in the pic. It may be noted that even Nag shared a pic which didnt reveal his full look.

Sam and her father-in-law are making sure to create intrigue and raise expectations on this Ohmkar directorial with these half-revealing photos.

Mega Sister-Brother Combination In #RC11

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Mega fans who are already elated with the official announcement of Ram Charan’s new film #RC11 going on floors on march 20, are in for another pleasant news.

As per official reports, Sushmitha, who styled for her father, megastar in ‘Khaidi No.150′, has been roped in to continue her good work for her brother, Ram Charan this time.

Impressed with her work, both Charan and Sukumar have reportedly offered her the opportunity to design costumes for #RC11. As the film is set completely in village backdrop and that Charan will be sporting the most unconventional look of his career, designing costumes for him will surely be a challenging task.

Sushmitha’s work in Khaidi No.150 was well appreciated. The credit for showing megastar ever-younger in Khaidi No.150 must be given to two persons, Cinematographer Ratnavelu’s immaculate eye and Sushmitha’ trendy costumes.

Mega fans hope that Sushmitha will once again shine with #RC11.

'DNA Test To Prove You Are Reddy'

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Diwakar Travels bus accident, which happened a week ago, has created a ruckus in AP politics with the ruling and opposition party leaders indulging in heated debates and using unparliamentary language against each other.

After TDP leader JC Prabhakar Reddy’s outburst against YCP chief Jagan, the opposition party’s vocal MLA Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy has come down heavily against JC. The words used by Chevireddy against JC were so abusive and unparliamentary that we are unable to report all of them here.

Calling JC Diwakar Reddy a mental patient, Chevireddy alleged that he needs a veterinary doctor instead of a human psychiatrist to treat him.

‘He is an animal and should not be let roam freely in the society. He instead needs to locked in zoo along with other animals. Even pigs have better decency than him,’ uttered Chevireddy. He even used “Oorakukka”, “Maada” and a few other slurs to describe JC.

‘DNA Test needs to be performed upon you to ascertain if you are a Reddy or not,’ retorted Chevireddy.

Using slurs and ghastly remarks like the above against a public representative show to what level our politicians are stooping down to.

Nation Salutes Viraat on Retirement

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INS Viraat, credited as the world’s oldest aircraft carrier, was decommissioned on Monday, after serving the Indian Navy for close to three decades.

The decommissioning ceremony was attended by Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar and several other dignitaries. The event saw the lowering and wrap-up of the naval flag installed on the warship.

INS Viraat was built in 1943, during the Second World War. After serving the Royal British Navy for 27 years, the warship was commissioned in Indian Navy in 1987. It held the Guinness Record for being the oldest serving warship. INS Viraat is known as the ‘Mother’ in the Indian and global naval circuit.

The warship has reportedly provided utmost protection to the country during several tense situations. The decision on the future of this iconic warship has not been taken yet. It would possibly be converted into a museum, hotel or preserved as a relic of maritime history.

NTR's Dubai Trip secret Revealed

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Over the years, young tiger NTR Jr has been credited with so many titles like powerful performer, best diction, finest dancer, mass star, major crowd puller at bpx office etc. However, the actor was rarely acknowledged for his style statement. It seems that NTR has finally decided to concentrate on this style factor.

We has exclusive news that NTR has personally shopped his costumes in Dubai for his new film, #NTR27. This is probably the first time that NTR has done anything like this for any of his movies.

The ‘Janatha Garage’ actor is playing three different characters in his new film, tentatively titled ‘Jai Lava Kusa’. With three diverse roles, he will have the opportunity to satisfy all sections of audiences.

NTR has changed gears from ‘Temper’ and has been putting full efforts for an image makeover. Mass audiences have always been his forte. With films like Nannaku Prematho and Janatha Garage, he grew close to class and family audiences as well.

With ‘Jai Lava Kusa’, NTR looks to be targeting urban youth, who generally likes stylish actors. Get ready to witness a super stylish NTR on big screen in a couple of months.

The shoot of ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ has already commenced and NTR is expected to join the team soon.

'My Body, My Rules' Says Begum Jaan

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National Award winning actress Vidya Balan, who is known for her power-packed performances in movies like ‘The Dirty Picture’, ‘Kahaani’ etc. is coming up with yet another film having a bold theme.

Vidya is playing the madam of a brothel in her upcoming film titled ‘Begum Jaan’. The film’s first look poster was released today and Vidya is introduced as an intimidating lady. Holding a hookah pipe in hand, Viday is seen sitting on a chair in the poster. The tagline of the poster reads, “My Body, My House, My Country, My Rules”.

‘Begum Jaan’ is inspired from the real story of a brothel, that was divided against the will of its inhabitants during the India-Pakistan partition in 1947. The film is slated to hit screens on April 14.

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