Revealing his uncle Pawan Kalyan’s advise to him on “Gelupu” or “Victory”, Sai quoted Pawan, “Kalyan garu had once told me one-thing about Gelupu. When I had shown him that I won an award, he brushed off by saying awards come and go but when hit by failure, one would get to know who real friends are. The people who stays with you even after you fail are the ones whom you won.”.

Sai Dharam Tej quickly added,”I won all of you (mega fans). You’ve been my strength.” It can be noted that Sai Dharam Tej share good rapport with Chinna Mamiaha Pawan Kalyan who said to have played pivotal role behind Tej’s acting debut. Pawan has been supportive of Tej. So, it’s no wonder if PK advises Sai.

“Rakul and me were good friends. But after started working for the film, we really get along well. We’ve become very close friends now. Rakul plays athlete in the film. She’s very hard working and talented actress. Rakul is the only one who fits best for athlete role,” said Sai Dharam Tej.

Thanking Anasuya who did a special song in the film, Tej shared, “Whenever our energy levels are dropped, she boosted us with her energy. Especially, she has inspired Chota garu and thus helped him a lot.” While Tej was talking about Anasuya, she was seen blushing constantly.

Director Teja has been critical about Telugu cinema. And he seldom praises a film or director or an actor. When he does, he does it honestly, genuinely. Now Teja is heaping praises on Rana’s latest offering Ghazi. While the film has been receiving accolades from various quarters already, Teja’s praises are certainly going to standout and expected to further boost the film.

In fact, Teja disliked Rana’s last film Baahubali. SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus had went onto be one of the biggest blockbusters in India and all-time highest ever collected film in Telugu. These didn’t deter Teja from criticising Baahubali openly. Expressing his “dislike” for Baahubali, in one of the interviews he openly said that none of them – whom he got in touch with – have said good things about Baahubali. This was very strong statement. But now Teja is lauding Ghazi.

“I rarely see Telugu movies. I avoid watching them as most of them are formulaic, stereotyped with same old chase scenes, fight scenes, love scenes and poor comedy tracks. Unless and until there’s very good talk, I won’t watch a Telugu film. Since I’m working with Rana for my next, when Rana had asked me to come for the premiere of Ghazi, I went dis-interestingly. But everything changed few minutes into the film. And I’m totally blown away with the film. I’m sure every audience going to enjoy the film. In my opinion, who doesn’t like this film is unfit to watch the films,” Teja shared.

After watching the film Teja has called TV9 saying that he’d interview Rana for the channel and director Krish joined them. Teja said that this is first time ever he is interviewing a celebrity and also quickly added that this would be the last time too.

R. Madhavan usually keeps it simple. He’s far from selfies, poses and doing hungama. But for a change, the star has struck a pose alongside his son. The 46-yr-old actor, who rarely shares pics of his family, shared his selfie with his son. And here is one such beautiful snap with his son Vedant. Vedant was born to Madhavan and Sarita in 2005. He’s 12-yr-old.

Madhavan and Sarita’s was a love marriage. After completing his degree, Madhavan worked as a trainer in communication and public speaking. He has conducted several workshops across the country. At the Maharashtra workshop, he encountered his wife Sarita Birje for the first time in 1991, when she attended his class on the recommendation of her cousins. Sarita was able to use the skills she had learned from Madhavan’s classes to pass an interview to become an air hostess and after completing the course, the couple began seeing each other.

The pair married in 1999 before Madhavan entered mainstream films. It has been described as one of the successful celeb marriages in Kollywood. She also worked as costume designer for Madhavan.

After a lot of thinking, Anasuya has finally agreed to be part of a hot item song in Winner. Already the song “Suya Suya…Anasuya”, named after Anasuya is out and glimpses of Anasuya shaking her legs with Sai Dharam Tej have garnered good response making the song a chartbuster. Thanks to Anasuya’s popularity among TV audiences, the song created good buzz among masses as well.

Now little birdie tells us that Anasuya was promised an interesting sum of Rs 25 Lakh for the special song and she was paid an advance of Rs 10 Lakh.

As the film is now gearing up for release this week, it’s buzzed that Anasuya hasn’t received her total remuneration yet. She is reportedly waiting for the balance Rs 15 Lakh. Let’s see whether it would get sorted before the film’s release or not.

Chennai: Actors Jai and Anjali, who are said to be in a relationship, have featured together in a special poster of their upcoming Tamil horror-thriller “Balloon”.

In the film’s latest poster, unveiled on Saturday, Jai and Anjali strike an intimate pose together.

Directed by Sinish, this is the second time Jai and Anjali have teamed up.

They had previously worked together in the 2011 Tamil romantic drama “Engeyum Eppothum”.

The film also stars Janani Iyer, who will be seen in a retro avatar.

“She plays a character called Shenbagavalli, and her portions are set in 1989. Janani will be seen in a full-length retro avatar in this flashback portion. She will join the sets in the next schedule in Kodaikanal (in Tamil Nadu),” Sinish had told IANS.

The main villain in Allu Arjun’s blockbuster Race Gurram – Ravi Kishan had joined BJP in the presence of the party national President Amith Shah in New Delhi. The Bhojpuri actor has been Congress leader till recently.

Ravi Kishan had played important roles in Kick -2 and Supreme films. He is a noted TV actor in the country as he played different roles in TV serials. He was also one of the finalists in Big Boss programme in 2006.

In 2014, Ravi fought election on Congress but defeated. Since then he is staying away from active politics and concentrated only on his film career. He will be given a big post in the party’s national committee soon. Amith Shah held one to one meeting with the film actor for more than 30 minutes after his formal joining of the the saffron party.

British model turned Indian actress Amy Jackson is making headlines of late. After posing “nude” on her bed recently, she has now set the ramp ablaze. Amy who walked the ramp at LFW. Amy has opened the show of popular fashion designer Rocky S at the London Fashion Week on Saturday night.

Amy is also popular to Telugu audiences. She’s seen in a special song in Ram Charan’s Yevadu. After her stint in Shankar’s I gone unnoticed, Amy is pinning all her hopes on her next 2.0 that stars Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar.

Meanwhile, the latest is that Amy has been chosen as the new face of Salman Khan’s brand Being Human clothing line. Amy and Salman together have shod for an ad and going by the pics of Amy and Salman, the duo looked quite comfortable in each other’s space.

Actress Charmee Kaur has been in the industry for more than decade-and-a-half years and after such a long stint as an actress, she’s hardly finding offers coming her way. So, the buxom beauty decided to don the new hat in the industry.

With an experience of supervising the production work for film Jyothi Lakshmi, Charmee is now prepping up to widen her opportunities and begin a new job in Tollywood. The Mantra girl is already part of Puri Connects, a talent hunt team and management company, and now looking forward to oversee the publicity formalities of Puri Jagannadh’s upcoming directorial ‘Rogue’.

With a view to promote the film all over, Charmee seems to have instructed her PR team to make sure that ‘Rogue should hit the movie headlines at least 2 times a day.’ Since the actress never had a dominant acting career, she is expecting to have a fairly settled career as a film campaigner.

The film Rogue marks the debut of Ishaan, younger brother of Kannada producer CR Kumar, and will have a bilingual release – Telugu and Kannada. So, let’s hope Charmee will lay down a marker as the publicist and producer.

Director VV Vinayak said to have got bored of routine and formulaic commercial films that he’s been churning out. Now Vinayak is now in retrospection mood.

After making lackluster films like Alludu Seenu and Akhil, Vinayak had directed Chiru’s landmark Khaidi No.150. Although Khaidi turned out to be one of the highest grossers, the film hasn’t garnered any name to Vinayak in particular. Chiru has walked away with all the laurels, glory.

On top of it the film being the remake of Tamil film Kaththi and not being the original film has had its impact. As the makers didn’t make any major changes in the script or execution, neither critics nor audiences have given thumbs up to Vinayak. He realised that he’s being stereotyped with masala films.

This said to have made him ponder over. Vinayak apparently told his close aides that he wants to try different. Vinayak has now asked a few story writers to come up with unique stories for his next film. And he said to have expressed to try out-of-box films like Bollywood. Writers team is now busy weaving a story for Vinayak’s next.

Since Vinayak isn’t a writer by himself and he is only a director who has mastered in taking and elevating scenes. The director of films like Aadi, Chennakesava Reddy, Dil, Tagore, Adhurs is now keenly wanting to prove himself once again. And said to be trying to do something really out-of-the-box. Let’s see what his next film would be.

While the abduction and molestation of actress Bhavana is receiving a massive backlash from social media users and celebrities, Malayalam actors like Prithvi Raj posted a message to stand up in support of her during these tough times. On other hand, the police investigation is unmasking shocking facts about this incident and people who involved in it.

Actress Bhavana was returning from Thrissur to Kochi when the incident took place. It all started off then her driver Martin hit a tempo traveler and men from than vehicle joined Martin and drove the car around the city for more then 2 hours. In those couple of hours, she was badly molested and was harassed sexually. In this regard, the police authorities have already arrested seven suspects including the victim’s previous driver Sunil Kumar, who reportedly for her in the past.

Having taken both drivers into custody, Police officials officially list Sunil as prime suspect and he also is said to have several criminal cases registered against him in the past. Sunil, Martin and others who’re part of this incident have mediated her movements through text messages & more than 40 calls, according to the police report.

Arresting all seven suspects and registering the molestation case under IT act against them, Kerala police are further investigating into the case wherein other details would be expected soon.

Rakul Preet has pulled Sai Dharam Tej’s leg in a recent interaction with media. Going all out in teasing his Winner co-star, Rakul said that she would “die” if Tej proposes her.

When asked Sai Dharam Tej how would he propose Rakul, Rakul intervened and said, “Please don’t propose me. If you propose, I’ll die.” (laughs). Sai didn’t budge and further requested Rakul, “Please give me one chance Rakul.” But Rakul looked stubborn and she didn’t pay a heed to Sai’s request.

And again it’s turn of Rakul. When media asked Rakul how she would if she wanted to propose Tej. “For Dharam? I’ll never do,” Rakul made it clear. Tej took it in his stride and said, “Don’t you? Am I not even suitable for proposing? Ok, no problem.” Rakul too quickly added, “Ok, no problem.”

Both Sai and Rakul are aggressively promoting their upcoming film Winner that is slated for release on Feb 24. Directed by Gopichand Malineni, Rakul & Sai have paired up for the first time on screen and hence it has to be seen how their on-screen chemistry turned out.

Despite continuous efforts to make big in Tollywood, actress Colors Swathi was unhappy about how she was ignored in Tollywood and so, she slowly moved over to Kollywood and managed to grab good offers there. Also, the anchor turned actress won good praise from Tamil folks. Although she scored a couple of hits with Swamy Ra Ra and Karthikeya, Swathi wasn’t the kind of actress Telugu viewers wanted.

Since glamour quotient is prime for any heroine to lead in TFI, Swathi was always ignored by our filmmakers and on top of it, her selection of films is pulling down her career. Her last Telugu film Tripura wherein the actress had put on good weight and looked very fat invited much criticism from audience. Since then, Swathi hasn’t signed any film.

As per the latest reports, the bubbly Telugu girl agreed to act under the direction of newcomer Aditya. Touted as a romantic entertainer, the film has Guntur Talkies fame Siddhu in the lead. The 29-year old Swathi, who’s two Tamil projects in her kitty, has lost her glow in one of her recent photo shoots.

So, audiences opine that if she does not focus on physique and glamour it’s going to be an end of the road for her in Tollywood.