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Good News For Bottled Water Buyers

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Responding to plethora of complaints, the government looks to have finally decided to target the companies that have been selling bottled water at hiked prices.

The Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan made it clear that water bottles from now on should be sold at same price across the country irrespective of the place and platform, be it the Cinemas, Airport or railway station. Anyone who will be found selling water bottles at price higher than MRP will be fined, added the govt.

For years, people used to wonder why water bottles cost different at different places, especially at airports and railway stations. After several complaints were lodged against this bottled water mafia, the govt. is now planning to bring a law to restrain such companies and their dealerships. A prior warning has been issued now.

The onus is now on the citizens to inform the authorities if they come across any shopkeeper selling water bottles at inflated prices.

Samantha Yet Undecided On Nag!

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With top actress Samantha just a few months away from becoming the daughter-in-law of Akkineni Nagarjuna, there is curiosity among fans and film lovers over how she will call her future father-in-law.

Well, during a recent chat session with her followers on social media, when Sam was posed the same query, she said that she has yet to decide on it.

It is known that Samantha shared screen space with Nagarjuna in ‘Manam’, in whcih she played his mother character. In a few public events, Nag said that Sam is like his mother, referring ‘Manam’ movie. Sam and Nag shares very special professional as well as personal relationship so how she calls him after marrying Chaitu is exciting fans.

The duo will next be seen sharing screen space in ‘Raju Gari Gadhi 2’.

Sam also said that 2017 will be a special year for her and added that everyone will find out the reason very soon, probably hinting at her wedding.

Rajamouli in Dilemma With 4 Climaxes!

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Director SS Rajamouli is reportedly in dilemma over the climax of his magnum opus Baahubali: The Conclusion. Rajamouli, who has etched out four climax portions for the second part of Baahubali: The Beginning, is now said to be in dilemma over to choose one among the four versions. As the D-day is inching closer and Jakkanna is prepping up to release the film’s trailer in a week, Rajamouli is now under pressure to choose one.

And there’s another side of the story. It’s rumoured that Rajamouli shot four climax portions only to keep his team in guessing and thus to keep everything related to the film up his sleeve. The climax for Baahubali 2 is very very crucial given the hype Baahubali 1 has generated.

Especially the million dollar question of ‘Why Did Kattappa Kill Baahubali’ has been blown out of the proportion and the whole idea to shoot four climax portions is to keep the secret highly confidential. Having said this, it’s not easy given the scale and magnitude of the film with which it’s being shot. Since the film has large canvas that involves a lot of people on set, Rajamouli ensured he shot four separate climax portions and only top brass of the film knew what Rajamouli is going to use in the final version.

When contacted, reliable sources close to Rajamouli divulged, “One can’t guess why did Kattappa kill Baahubali?” It’s not easy to guess.”

Pic Talk: Actress's Baby Bump Show

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Actresses of yesteryear used to stay away from limelight especially during the pregnancy days but the hot divas of current are are proudly flaunting their baby bumps to cameras.

If Kareena Kapoor Khan has a few months ago surprised everyone with her stylish and royal photo shoots during pregnancy, hot actress Lisa Haydon is making pregnancy look hot in her own way.

After announcing her pregnancy by exposing her baby bump in a bikini some time ago, Lisa continues to share the pics of her ever-growing baby bump. Here is another such cute pic.

Australia Captain Says Sorry For Cheating!

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Australia skipper Steven Smith has sought an apology for his controversial act of looking at the dressing room for suggestion on going for DRS review during the fourth innings of the second Test in Bengaluru that India won on Tuesday by 75 runs.

When Smith was given LBW of Umesh Yadav during the second innings of Australia, the skipper first discussed with his partner at non-striker’s end Handscomb on going for DRS review. He later looked at the dressing room for a suggestion, which was completely against the spirit of the game.

Indian players, especially skipper Virat Kohli rushed towards Smith and had a heated chat with him over the cheating act. On-field umpire had to rush to warn Smith and send Kohli away. Later in the post-match press conference, Kohli ridiculed his Australia counterpart for the cunning act.

Several senior players from India as well as Australia and also the commentators found fault with Smith’s behavior and demanded for a stern action against him from the ICC. BCCI also made fun of Smith on twitter by posting, “DRS – Dressing room review system?”

After his act turned highly controversial and got the rebuke from his own seniors, Smith issued an apology. “It was a bit of a brain fade and I shouldn’t have done that,” Smith said.

The Test series is currently leveled at 1-1 with two more matches to go.

She Is Leaving To London After #SuchiLeaks?

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Family of singer Suchitra Karthik, who recently created a flutter in Tamil film industry, is reportedly planning to take her to London for a rehabilitation programme.

It is known that a series of celebs’ private pictures and alleged porn videos were posted on Suchitra’s official twitter account a few days ago. Her account even threatened to post nude and intimate clips of several other celebs.

While some said that her account is hacked, others said that her mental condition is unstable. Even Suchitra’s husband Karthik said that she was not in a healthy state, mentally. Suchitra is reportedly in Chennai only and her family is currently mulling over her treatment plan.

#SuchiLeaks has become a South India-wide sensation in the past few days after private pics of noted celebrities such as Dhanush, Trisha, Hansika, Andrea, Anirudh Ravichander, Sanchita Shetty etc. were posted on Suchitra’s twitter page. Sanchita was the most affected celebrity as her alleged nude video went viral on social media.

Now, Trump Targets Spouses of H-1B Visa-holders!

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Going by the policies of Donald Trump, his administration looks to be on the mission of getting rid of not just the illegal immigrants but also those who have permission to work legally in the US.

In a latest move, Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly appealed the Washington DC court seeking a 60-day freeze in cases involving employment authorization for H-4 visa-holders, who are mostly dependent spouses of H-1B visa-holders.

Several thousands of Indian spouses come in the above category. And, they won a hard-fought allowance to work in the US in February 2015 during the Obama administration. At that time, an organization called ‘Save Jobs USA’ filed an unsuccessful petition against the Obama ruling.

Soon after the Trump administration took charge, ‘Save Jobs USA’ has once again come into picture and filed a fresh petition. This time, it found immediate support from the administration.

Aman Kapoor, president of Immigration Voice, which has now filed a motion on behalf of thousands of H-4 visa-holding spouses, said that the DoJ attorneys have no solid basis to repeal the H-4 visa-holders’ right to work in America. He added that the administration cant downplay the fact that the H-4 visa facilitates several highly qualified spouses strengthening the US economy in terms of revenue and jobs.

Why Samantha Changed Her Mind??

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Apparently, Samantha is in the news yet again for two reasons. One is that she agreed to play the role of a ghost in the movie Raju Gari Gadhi 2, where she will be seen scaring people in typical black costumes look. The second one is about Ram Charan’s movie.

Buzz has that Samantha is ready to leave this project as she wants to get married to Naga Chaitanya at the earliest and take a break of 3 months from work. But suddenly it came out that Samantha will join shoot from March 22nd and director Sukumar is going to roll all the key scenes on Ram Charan and our starlet from then. So, why did Samantha changed her mind?

Some say that issues related to Akhil and Shriya got sorted out, and Chay-Sam could now take more time for marriage without any pressure. With Nagarjuna also joining the shooting and saying that he’s back in business, maybe this is true.

Sources from mega camp have revealed that Sukumar gave an assurance that he will wrap the whole of Samantha’s part in two months and only songs will be kept pending, which has really excited Samantha to join the shoot shortly.

Anyway, both Charan and Samantha are supposed to work in movies like Yevadu and Bruce Lee, and if Samantha was shunted out once she opted herself out another time. So their first coming together will be really interesting for movie lovers.

Need Of Money Made Megastar A Hit

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Generally after watching Nagarjuna and now Chiranjeevi in the most successful TV program, Kaun Banega Crorepati’s local version, one gets a big doubt.

Like these two big Telugu stars here, Surya, Prakash Raj and Arvind Swamy hosted Tamil version, Suresh Gopi in Malayalam and Puneet Rajkumar in Kannada, have hosted the local versions of this game show. But none has got the fame like Amitabh Bachchan, and even Shahrukh Khan too failed in Hindi version. Wonder why?

There are many discussions and comparisons about these stars and how they are doing when it comes to hosting KBC local version, Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu, in Telugu. Of course, all the above said stars are very good actors as well and they too won many awards like Big B along with fame, money and craze. Some film critics, however, made an interesting comment that only the ‘need of money’ has made Megastar Bachchan a super hit.

“At the time of KBC, Amitabh Bachan was in neck deep financial troubles. His ABCL went bankrupt and he has to repay the loans at any cost. And when the show was offered to him, it was purely for money he took up and only it’s success would bring him a jackpot. So Big B made sure that his hosting is special, natural and terrific, such that the ratings would go up. And it happened. He got 20+ advertisement contracts post the first season and all debts cleared”, a critic commented.

Well, it sounds logical, as the likes of Nagarjuna and Chiranjeevi didn’t have any such pressure and that’s why their hosting looks as if they just do some acting and leave, though millions are liking it.

First Look: Mahanati

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On the eve of Women’s Day, the much awaited first look of ‘Mahanati’, a biopic on yesteryear actress Savithri was unveiled by the makers.

Keerthy Suresh will be essaying the titular role and Samantha will be seen in a crucial role in the biopic. To be directed by Nag Ashwin, the film will be be produced by his wife and senior producer Ashwini Dutt’s daughter Priyanka.

Keerthy is an apt choice for the character of Savithri and the makers must be commended for finalizing her. Casting process is still going on and the shoot is expected to commence once the casting is done.

Actress Used Advance Money for Honeymoon

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We occasionally come across reports of actresses opting out of fashion shows and other events at the last minute owing to payment and other issues. Bengali bombshell Bipasha Basu has now hit headlines by indulging in similar controversy.

Basu has been accused of allegedly refusing to walk the ramp at the recently held India-Pakistan Fashion Show in London at the last minute. Ronita Sharma, who was the organizer of the show, alleged that Bipasha ditched her clients even after all her starry demands were met.

Sharma alleged that they had paid more than what Bipasha deserved and bore all her tantrums ever since she landed in London so that she could take part in the show as per the agreement. ‘Bipasha was such a cold-hearted person that she spent the advance given by us for honeymoon and didn’t bother to show at least some professionalism,’ Sharma reportedly accused Bipasha.

She also alleged that her client faced huge losses, to the tune of a few lakhs, and added that they will take a legal action against the actress.

Responding to the allegations, Bipasha said that she had to opt out of the show as she was disrespected by the show’s organizers.

People who have witnessed the happenings from close, reportedly said that Bipasha’s headstrong attitude caused all this mess.

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.

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