Bollywood has witnessed a saddening and disheartening incident on Friday when one of the most talented filmmakers of this generation was grabbed and slapped by a group of protesters in Jaipur.

Going into news- the ace director, master story teller Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is well known for making several classics in Hindi Cinema, had this very unpleasant experience on the sets of his upcoming film ‘Padmavati’.

A few angry members of Rajput Karni Sena, who allege that the director is misshaping historical story of ‘queen Padmini’, has barged into the sets and destroyed them after attacking director and destroying the shooting equipment.

Karni Sena, a Rajput caste organization, claimed their attacks as a response to the love scenes between Padmini and Aladdin Khilji in the film. According to protesters, ‘Bhansali is picturing a false version of queen who actually took her life rather than submitting to Alauddin Khilji.

The protesters have further demanded the filmmaker to project queen Padmini in good light by deleting the love scenes with Khilji. While Deepika Padukone is playing Padmini’s role, Ranvir Singh is donning the character of Khilji.

Shocked with physical attack on Bhansali, Bollywood expressed its complete support and many took to Twitter to stand by him. Starting from Bhansali’s fellow filmmakers to actors and actresses of Bollywood, almost everyone felt strongly for him and expressed their feelings.

Hrithik Roshan said, ‘Mr. Bhansali , Sir. I stand with you. This is so infuriating!!!!’

Farhan Akthar tweeted, ‘My fellow film folk, if we do not unite now against these recurring incidents of bullying, it’s going to get much worse. #IstandbySLB’

Karan Johar said, ‘Am appalled at what has happened with Sanjay Bhansali….this is the time  for all us as an industry to stand by our people and fraternity!!’

‘It’s appalling to hear what happened to #SanjayLeelaBhansali .im so saddened..Violence is not what our forefathers taught us..’ tweeted Priyanka.

Other Bollywood people who stood in support of Sanjay Leela Bhansali include Arjun Rampal, Alia Bhatt, Shreya Goshal, Yami Gautam and many. However, the main cast of the film did not offer any comment yet.

Don’t get a shocker by the heading, as that’s not real. But this is what ‘Sukumar Writings’ is saying to everyone, thereby creating a sensation on YouTube. Let’s get into the details.

Inside the film “Kumari 21F”, a gang of friends of hero (played by Raj Tarun) actually sedate the movie’s heroine (Hebah Patel) and then molest her (of course raped her). When scenes from this film are being uploaded officially, one doesn’t expect this molestation scene to surface. Even this scene surfaced, many expect headings like: “Hero’s realisation scene from Kumari 21F”. But cutting this scene out, Sukumar’s own production house “Sukumar Writings” has uploaded it with the title “Raj Tarun Freinds Molest Hebah Patel after Sedating her”.

As you could read between the lines, it could be understand that the mere thought process behind such creation is only to ‘sensationalise’ the content. Some other headings for clips include “Raj Tarun Tries To Force Hebah”, “Raj Tarun Goes To His New Girl Friend”, “Kumari Goes Topless For Raj”. These are only a few titbits to tell what’s being done on the YouTube channel.

With a talented and star director like Sukumar owning the YouTube channel as well, one wonders why such a content is being uploaded to create a sensation. This banner doesn’t need such, does it?

Cinema has the power to recreate any real-life scenario, says actor Rana Daggubati as he gears up for the release of Telugu-Hindi bilingual “Ghazi”, India’s first submarine warfare film based on the mysterious sinking of PNS Ghazi, a Pakistani submarine, during the 1971 India-Pakistan war.

For Rana, “Ghazi” was an important tale to tell.

Explaining why he decided to do the film in between the two parts of Rajamouli’s “Baahubali”, Rana told IANS: “Post ‘Baahubali’, everybody would have expected me to do a commercial film. But I chose ‘Ghazi’ because it has an interesting story to tell. Although made as a bilingual and also dubbed in Tamil, this is a national film.”

“The story is about India and Pakistan. It’s set in Visakhapatnam, making it a Telugu film. We’ve also dubbed it in Tamil. The Hindi theatrical rights have been bagged by Karan Johar and Anil Thadani, who will release it across the country.”

Rana is fast becoming the go-to person for larger-than-life stories. With “Ghazi” and his upcoming Tamil war-based film “Madai Thiranthu”, he says he enjoys being a part of such projects because they are “rare” in Indian cinema.

“As a movie lover, these are the kind of films I have watched and enjoyed growing up. The story of ‘Ghazi’ is very historic and one that’s not known to all. It’s a story that deserves to be told, but such stories are rarely made,” he said.

“If not for cinema, these stories will remain history. The whole sinking of PNS Ghazi could be recreated only because we decided to make it as a film. Cinema has that power to bring such stories to life. It can recreate any scenario,” he added.

From playing King Bhallaladeva in “Baahubali” to a navy officer in Ghazi, Rana admits the transition was very challenging.

“Bhallaladeva as a character is very tough to come out of, because it’s so overpowering and larger-than-life. The challenge in ‘Ghazi’ was to get my look right. When you watch both the films, you realise I don’t look like the same person. I could only achieve it due to rigorous cardio training and then I had to do a lot of underwater training because the film features underwater sequences,” he said.

Talking about playing a navy officer and shooting inside a submarine, he said the experience was “claustrophobic” at times.

“It was not an easy film to shoot. Initially, the idea felt so exciting. But until we started shooting, we didn’t realise how challenging it was. You are inside a submarine for the longest time and you don’t know the difference between day and night,” he said.

“After a month of shooting, I knew a lot of actors started to feel very claustrophobic. There were occasions when we didn’t see sunlight for days together. This is when we decided to take a break and shoot other portions which happen on land,” he added.

Directed by Sankalp Reddy, the film also stars Taapsee Pannu, Atul Kulkarni, Kay Kay Menon and Om Puri. Produced by PVP Cinema, it is slated for release on February 17.

The album of Nani’s upcoming film ‘Nenu Local’ is already into market. Although Devi Sri Prasad has composed five songs for this movie, the chartbuster ‘Next Enti’ song is making all the right noise for this forthcoming entertainer.

‘Next Enti’ was the first single from ‘Nenu Local’ to have been released ahead of Sankranthi festival. Although the impact of the song wasn’t felt initially amidst the storm of ‘Khaidi No.150’ album, it was slowly picked by Telugu youth and it has now become a rage.

The catchy lyrics describing the plight of unemployed youth who just finished their studies and the peppy tune worked in tandem to make this song connect well with youth. Quirky lines like ‘Bulb ni chese time lo Edison garini Kalisesi…Next entante paripodaa bulb ni vadilesi’ connected instantly with the youth who is confused about future.

The song is currently topping the charts of FM channels and doing the bulk of promotion needed for the February 3rd release, ‘Nenu Local’.

Leading young Music composer Anirudh who was earlier trapped in a lip-lock scandal video with actress Andrea has now been caught red-handed in another sex scandal video. The video is going viral on all social media platforms.

However, Anirudh denied the reports and said they were fake and the guy who pretends to be him is just a look-alike of him. Well, there are even more clarity explanations describing that it is not him in the video.

Makers of #RamCharan11 made it official that young actress Anupama Parameswaran is not part of the project anymore.

However, they denied the media reports about Anupama demanding high remuneration being the reason for it. But they didn’t tell the reason for showing her the door.

“This is to clarify that while it is true that Anupama Parameswaran is not a part of Ram Charan – Sukumar project, it is not correct that it is on account of high remuneration demanded by her as reported in social media and some news columns. Such news is totally false and she has never made any such demands.

We wish to reiterate that Anupama is a highly talented and thorough professional and she will certainly be a part of our future projects,” stated Mythri Movie Makers in their official note.

So who is going to replace Anupama in this period love story directed by Sukumar? What is the true reason for ousting such a successful and talented actress after signing her up after doing the screen test and photo shoots? Will the makers ever reveal the actual reason for it?

Back in 2007, Ram Charan might have started as Daddy’s boy with Chirutha. Debuted as a heir apparent to Chiru in acting, Ram Charan slowly cemented his position.

When Chiru had taken acting sabattical by getting busy in politics and Pawan was ruling the industry, mega fans were shattered. While Chiru’s hardcore fans have calmed down since Boss is busy with politics, other mega fans were disbursed and a few others were clue less.

Even in this difficult time, Ram Charan showed up a decent performance. As his films were stable at the BO, producers who have worked with him too happy and Charan carved out a niche for himself.

And after almost a decade gap, now Boss is back with his 150th film. Ram Charan who is successful as an actor donned producer’s hat. Though the people on the ground who worked for Khaidi’s success were Allu Aravind along with Gemini Kiran, GK Mohan and others, ultimately it’s Charan who walked away with the laurels.

The success of Khaidi is going to be a huge advantage to none other than Ram Charan himself as mega fans have all united with Chiru’s comeback film and thus it is now expected to help Ram Charan. Even the success as a producer will be great asset as many distributors, exhibitors want to be in good books as he has already announced Chiru’s 151 and this may help Ram Charan’s future projects.

This is the doubt that has arisen in the minds of those intellectual cinema lovers now. Because Megastar Chiranjeevi’s image is so vast and he too never likes such death stuff, will he agree to die on the silver screen?

Not just Chiranjeevi, but many star heroes don’t like to die at the end in a movie like it happened even in Raees movie recently, which gave a shocker to fans when Shah Rukh is encountered in the climax. Especially Telugu stars took such risky moves rarely. After getting a super haze around his mega image and becoming the ultimate Megastar of Telugu films, Chiranjeevi never agreed to anti-climaxes in any of his films.

In films like Tagore, Chiranjeevi insisted his writers to change the climax, where in the original the protagonist shoots himself in the head and dies, but in Telugu version he fights in the court of law and wins sympathy of everyone. But in the case of upcoming film Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, actual history says that the fierce warrior from the Rayalaseema region got hanged to death by the Britishers after he revolted. Will Chiranjeevi now agree to be seen hanged?

Maybe they will not show the final hanging scene, but will indicate with text that “Uyyalawada is hanged to death, but his spirit lived on to inspire Telugus and Indians for next 100 years to fight for Independence”. If this death scene is altered, there is no point in discussing the pre-independent history through this movie.

Telugu film industry is known for ardent fan bases and the adulation of these fans knows no boundaries. When the enthusiastic fans of a mass Telugu hero have recently planned to at least meet him on the eve of his birthday, he disappointed them to the core.

Known for his massy fun entertainers, this aged hero has celebrated his birthday just recently. On the eve, a large number of his fans gathered at his office in Film Nagar to wish him. Despite they waited from the early morning to the late evening, the hero, who is making a comeback after a one year sabbatical, didn’t bother to come.

As the hero’s PR team kept saying that he would come, poor fans waited for close to 12 hours. In the end, they were bombarded with the universal escaping lie, ‘hero had FEVER’.

The deeply hurt fans had to return with utter disappointment inflicted by their star hero on the eve of his birthday. Had he shown some concern for his fans and informed them of his inability to come, they wouldn’t have waited for so long.

He is a senior star hero in Tollywood who still gives the younger heroes a run for their money. Despite getting on in age, he is still as good looking as ever.

Rumour in the industry is that the star hero is suffering from a kidney ailment and is getting treated by a specialist in Bangalore.

As of now, he is just taking medicines and there is apparently no need for any serious medication except or strict diet control.

While the authenticity of the news has to be confirmed, the hero as of now seems to be hale and hearty and going about his activities well without any inconvenience.

In the last few years, Nani has emerged as the most successful hero in Tollywood thanks to his great judgement of subjects and the variety of scripts that he has chosen to enthrall different sections of audiences. It seems that another young hero Sharwanand is going to give a tough competition to Nani by slowly emerging as a contender for the crown of top medium range hero.

After reviving his career with an entertaining thriller, ‘Run Raja Run’, Sharwanand has delivered a slew of hits like Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju, Express Raja and the latest Shatamanam Bhavati. While the earlier films created a reliable market for him among youth, Shatamanam Bhavati has taken him closer to family audiences.

Earlier, Nani was the only medium range to enjoy the adulation of youth as well as family audiences. Sharwa has now joined him after the success of SB. Both these heroes are rated minimum guarantee heroes in overseas as well.

With a success rate and acting abilities on par with Nani and relatively a bit lesser remuneration, Sharwa has become the new crazy star for filmmakers looking to make medium budget films. Despite he is flooded with offers, Sharwa is not accepting all the films coming his way and using his acute judgmental skills to select the best scripts.

This healthy competition between these two youngsters might make them extra cautious while choosing scripts. In turn, Telugu audiences can enjoy a range of good films.

Dil Raju’s Shatamanam Bhavati released as an underdog for Sankranthi this year amidst the hoopla surrounding the clash between GPSK and Khaidi No.150. Many wondered if the family entertainer could withstand the two juggernauts but surprising the entire film industry, SB not just won the Sankranthi winner crown but has also emerged as one of the highest grossers among low-medium budget films.

The Sharwanand starrer has raked in a mammoth share of around Rs 22 Cr in the Telugu states in less than two weeks.

Below is the area wise break of Share:

Nizam – 806 lacs
Ceded – 223 lacs
Nellore – 49.3 lacs
Guntur – 146 lacs
Krishna – 147 lacs
West – 165.6 lacs
East – 237.5 lacs
Uttharandhra – 408 lacs

13 days AP & TG Share – Rs 21.82cr

By raking in USD700K+ in the US, the small budget wonder took its worldwide share to around Rs 27 Cr. While Khaidi No.150 an GPSK could just break-even, SB brought huge profits to all the involved people. Taking return on investment into account, the title of Sankranthi winner can be deservingly attributed to SB.

Collecting Rs 1.7 Cr share on its 13th day is an evidence enough to predict Rs 25 Cr share in the Telugu states and Rs 30Cr+ worldwide share in its full run.

Despite being in her mid 40s, bollywood bombshell Malaika Arora Khan, who is best remembered as the ‘Kevvu Keka’ girl, continues to astonish beauty lovers with her impeccable curves.

Wearing a skimpy bikini, Malaika looks ravishingly sexy in this pic. The lady posses a droolworthy figure and she makes sure to give a sneak peak of it to her fans by posting some titillating pics every now and then.

One wonders, if natural aging phenomenon applies to her or not.

A few days ago, Telugu film lovers were surprised to see superstar Mahesh Babu at 2nd place in the list of Hyderabad Times Most Desirable Men for 2016. If that was a surprise then the Chennai Times Most Desirable Men list is nothing less than a shocker.

4 Top stars (barring Rajini & Kamal) of Tamil cinema – Ajith, Vijay, Suriya and Vikram couldn’t find a place even in the Top 25 in the Chennai Times Most Desirable Men for 2016 list. Interestingly, all these stars were ranked 2nd (Suriya), 3rd (Vijay), 4th (Ajith) & 5th (Vikram) in the same list last year.

So, naturally this year’s list of Desirable Men has come as a shocker to the fans of these stars as they command huge fan following. Ajith is especially known for his charismatic looks and he is often rated one of the most handsome actors in South. The list is prepared through public voting process.

This year, Simbu took the crown and last year’s winner Dhanush occupied the 2nd spot. Young musical sensation Anirudh ranked No.3. Cricketer Ashwin featured at No.6

After Naga Babu & Chiranjeevi, it’s the turn of Pawan Kalyan to lash out at Ram Gopal Varma. Reacting to RGV’s tweets on him, Pawan said, “This is not the platform to talk about him. But I’ll only talk about him once and for all. I’ll never ever speak about him again. He is over 50 years and recently his daughter too got married. And he says he collects porn films. He may praise me one day and he may criticize me other day. It’s not my stature to respond to his comments.”

Earlier during the Khaidi No.150 pre-release function, Naga Babu had made critical comments on RGV and his sagging filmy career.

Even Chiranjeevi had strongly responded to RGV’s comments and advised RGV to consult a psychologist.

While RGV hasn’t reacted to Chiru’s comments, he had given befitting counter to Naga Babu. Now it needs to be seen how RGV going to react to Pawan’s fresh comments. Since Pawan had dragged RGV’s family too into the issue, naturally, many are curious on how embarrassed RGV would react.

Social media is abuzz with Pawan’s personal comments on RGV and they’re reminding Pawan his earlier response when a few questioned about his marriages. Looks like, Pawan has stirred up a hornet’s nest.