Although it isn’t officially announced it is pretty clear that Akhil Akkineni’s engagement was called off. The actor has moved on and concentrating upon his career.Akhil is currently busy with Vikram Kumar’s film that is being produced by his dad Nagarjuna.

Meanwhile, Akhil’s ex-fiancé Shriya Bhupal is reportedly getting hooked to an NRI. The match is fixed and the wedding will take place shortly as per sources.Shriya’s parents also are not letting info out to the media. They are keeping it a private affair without grabbing the media attention of any sorts.

On the other hand, Akhil decided to concentrate upon his career for the moment. Nagarjuna is sparing a lot of time to shape up his son’s career. He is very much involved in the pre production and production work of Akhil’s next with Vikram Kumar.Nag is aware that this film is key for Akhil’s future as his first film ended up as a disaster.

Charan appeared in his beardy look at many recent filmy events and though many expected it to be the look for Sukumar’s directional, here comes out the real look. There is a leaked picture from the shooting spot of the film from Rajahmundry, where in Charan is seen as pure village chap.

The attire and beard suited Charan very well and only Sukumar knows why he wanted Charan in that look.

Veteran director Mani Ratnam’s latest offering ‘Cheliyaa’ opened to below par reviews and disappointing box office numbers in the Telugu states.

The romantic drama starring Karthi and charming Aditi Rao Hydari could rake in only a meager share of Rs 60 lakhs in the Telugu states.

Below is the area wise break-up of share.

Nizam – 22,00,000

Ceded – 10,00,000

Nellore – 2,75,000

Guntur – 4,50,000

Krishna – 4,81,000

East – 5,50,000

West – 3,70,000

Uttharandhra – 6,50,000

Total 1st day AP & TG Share – 60 lakhs

Although the film was praised for its astounding visuals and technical finesse, the dull screenplay made the film a tiring watch. The IPL fever and the strong run of Guru might also prove deterrents for Cheliyaa at box office.

While Bollywood star actor Akshay Kumar is riding high after winning national award in best actor category for his performance, in Ruston, there have been speculations doing rounds about the actor that he offered some kickbacks to the jury in order to receive the national award.

>Excited about award, Akshay expressed his contentment saying, ‘National award is highly prestigious for any film actor in India. Like everyone else, I too worked very hard to achieve it but I didn’t believe it immediately.’ The actor said he thought he was being April fooled about award-win.

While responding to rumors about bribing jury members, the actor took to media and clarified that he did not make any kind of contributions to win the award. ‘I neither phoned nor bribed anyone to get this award. Even in the past, I was offered an award prize as compensation to my stage performance- but I denied it outrightly.’

On other hand, chairperson of feature film section for national awards – Priyadarshan expressed his displeasure saying ‘I don’t understand why is everyone questioning Akshay’s award win?’

On the acting front, the Khilladi star is currently shooting for Neeraj Pandey’s Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and wrapping up Shankar’s ‘Robot 2.0’ where he’s playing antagonist role opposite Rajinikanth.

It is quite often that people in country make Bollywood responsible for growing attacks on women and eve-teasing but this time, it’s union minister for woman and child development – Menaka Gandhi, who made those sensational comments against Hindi film industry.

Menaka Gandhi, who attended as speaker on day-2 of Goa-Fest 2017, delivered a key message that ‘push woman through advertising’, besides taking a swipe at Bollywood Industry for generating content which is leveraging youngsters in nation to harass women in the name of love and Eve teasing.

‘Almost every Hindi film features an Eve teasing scene, objectionable content and boys pestering girl scenes. Even regional film makes no exemption to it,’ she said by adding ‘we would want Bollywood films to showcase our women in a respectable manner.’ Apparently, her comments drew mixed reactions from Bollywood industry.

Film director and social activist Ashok Pandit strikes back saying, ‘it has become fashion for everyone to attack Bollywood’ and appealed union minister not to under-estimate the power of film industry. He further added, ‘we had many directors right from Shyam Benegal to Madhur Bhandarkar who’ve always presented women respectable roles and made female-oriented films too.

Although National Awards in India cover wide range of categories, from best actor to best make-up artist and from best film to best costume designer, but they always missed to include an important category in list of awards – Best stunt choreography.

Only after continuous demand from fight masters over last few years, the jury team considered to perceive their request this year and recognized their efforts by introducing a new category in the 64th national film awards – Best Stunt Choreography.

Having declared the choreography award to India’s No.1 Peter Hein for Pulimurugan (Malayalam), the jury recognized his talent. Peter worked for many monstrous movies in the past, like Baahubali and Robot, but he finally received a national award for Puli Murugan starring Mohanlal.

The high ratings and critical reception for the film Puli Murugan also credit the top-notch action episodes designed by Peter Hein. And it is no surprise to have awarded him the very first national award (in stunt choreography category).

Venkatesh’s ‘Guru’ held pretty strong over the week days and posted a decent first week total in the Telugu states.

As its competitors Katamarayudu and Puri’s ‘Rogue’ failed to make any impact, Guru enjoyed maximum foot falls. The first gross is reportedly Rs 19cr approx. and Share is about 12.4 Cr.

Below is the area wise break-up:

Nizam – 4,25,00,000

Ceded – 1,52,00,000

Nellore – 31,00,000

Guntur – 82,17,158

Krishna – 96,41,659

West – 54,00,000

East – 95,00,000

Uttharandhra – 1,54,86,457

Total 1st week AP & TG Share – 10.91cr

Karnataka – 90,00,000

Remaining – 60,00,000 (estimated)

Total 1st week Worldwide Share – 12.41cr

As this week’s release ‘Cheliyaa’ failed to meet the expectations, Guru is expected to have one more week of unopposed run at box office before Varun Tej’s ‘Mister’ arrives on April 14.