Chaitanya and Samantha Not Hiding Anything
We have been reporting about Naga Chaitanya and Samantha’s love affair and how they got blessings from both sides of their families.
Recently there were speculations that Daggubati Suresh Babu and their family was not positive about this marriage and Naga Chaitanya’s mother is also reconsidering her decision. Naga Chaitanya’s mother is Suresh Babu’s sister. But these speculations turned out to be false.
They are happily readying up for marriage early next year. They are not even hiding their relationship status. At Nimmagadda Prasad’s daughter’s marriage, both Nag Chaitanya and Samantha were cynosure of eyes as they came together accompanied by Nagarjuna and Amala.
Buzz is that entire Nagarjuna family is now treating Samatha as Kodalu and she is enjoying the status. But there is confusion over when will be their engagement. Some say it would happen by end of this year. But insiders say the marriage will only take place next year, so engagement will be a month before the wedding date.
Samantha Finally Joins Promotions
She is back. Samantha has started promoting her latest film ‘Janatha Garage’, putting an end to rumors and speculations that she is not happy with the team.
Samantha has completed her shooting part for the movie long back and she has no movie on her hand. Despite so much free time, she didn’t attend the audio launch of ‘Janatha Garage’ but the next morning she was seen attending an event in Bangalore. This sparked off many rumors.
As the release day is nearing, she has now joined NTR to promote the film. She is now giving TV interviews and actively promoting.
But Samantha is evading the most important question – when would she get married to Naga Chaitanya. So far the in TV programs she recorded for, she stuck to the movie and nothing else.
Samantha has played NTR’s love interest in the film along with Nithya Menen. Directed by Siva Koratala, ‘Janatha Garage’ is set for 1st September release.
Control On Poster Publicity To Target NTR?
We have reported in these columns recently that the Andhra Pradesh government is coming out with a new policy to curb publicity through wall posters all over the state. The latest information is that the new rule is coming into effect from September 1.
According to this rule, it is not possible for any organisation to go in for publicity through indiscriminate pasting of wall posters. This will hit the film distributors below the belt. Though all posters might not necessarily be of films, most of those depending on pasting of wall posters belong to film industry. It would help film producers to get into the people without spending crores of rupees on publicity.
With the new rule coming into effect from September 1, the first film that would get affected will be Janata Garage, starring Junior NTR, which is releasing on the same date.
There is a talk that the Telugu Desam Party government in Andhra Pradesh was acting with vengeance on NTR and his films.
It is an open secret that some bigwigs in the TDP government made an attempt to deny availability of theatres to release NTR’s film Nannaku Prematho on Sakranthi this year.
Naturally, one would get the doubt that the Chandrababu Naidu government might have brought in the wall poster rule only to deny publicity to NTR’s film. Is it coincidental or deliberate?
‘Pawan, Don’t gain Zindabad by using Murdabad on us’
The politics in Andhra Pradesh is heated up, following the Pawan Kalyan’s ‘special status’ speech in Tirupathi, with counters from TDP leaders flooding in. In his bid to oust the inability of TDP leaders, Jana Sena founder said, ‘we have our MPs looking after their businesses, not the people and their need.’ Making a precise reference of those MPs, he named Kesineni Nani, Avanthi Srinivas, Murali Mohan and others.
Now, in the counter phase, Ananthapur MP JC Diwakar Reddy dispensed a strong reply to Pawan. Speaking to media, the senior politician strikes against Kalyan and asks him to get things right.
“We are doing business to fund for our election and do not try to gain ‘Zindabad’ (hail) by using ‘Murdabad’ (criticize) against us,” he outbursts by adding “Pawan is too young and an inexperienced politician to comment on parliamentary process. So, I do ask him to come up with a practical and possible strategy to gain special status for AP.”
This is not the first time JC Diwakar Reddy striking off someone with his kind-of attack. His comments against centre, congress and Sonia in the past made it to the talking points in state.
Brothers, Did I Fear Anyone In My Life?: Chandrababu
During his speech in Tirupati a couple of days ago, Jana Sena President Pawan Kalyan targeted his 2014 poll partner and AP CM Nara Chandrababu Naidu and alleged that Babu is scared that the centre will unleash CBI against him if he raised his voice against the centre’s betrayal to AP on special status.
In his sharp counter to Pawan Kalyan field how Chittor tour, Chandrababu said that he feared no force throughout his decades long political career and that he did not even worry about his own life during the Alipiri naxal attack a decade ago.
Babu went on to say that he didn’t fear YSR when the late CM filed 25 cases against him. Babu said that he has been sincere in his mission to develop the state and that he has no reason to fear anyone and asked the TDP cadres, “you tell me brothers, did I fear anyone in my political life?”
Explaining further, Chandrababu said that he will fight with the centre for the special status till the end and that along with the special status, AP also needs the sanction of the state’s lifeline Polavaram project and several other promises made to the state during the state bifurcation.
Ready To Act With Any Hero: NTR
Young Tiger NTR is busy promoting Janatha Garage which is slated for a September 1st release. Yesterday, the actor gave an insightful interview which was aired on several TV channels.
After asking about his association with Malayali stalwart actor Mohanlal, the interviewer asked NTR if he is ready for more multi-starrer films with other leading Tollywood stars. To this, NTR said that he is always ready to act alongside our star heroes.
However, NTR also said that he would consider doing a multi-starrer provided he is offered a solid script by a capable director who can handle two or more number of heroes at once and extract the best performances out of them.
NTR further said that he doesn’t believe in the concept of star image and said that he is ready to act in even a small role in a multi-starrer if his character touches his heart.
The Young Tiger concluded saying that he is open to acting in other language films as well since he believes that cinema itself is a language in itself.
Star heroes to put off those dialogues?
For star heroes, it has been a big time trend in Telugu Industry to render dialogues about greatness of their family or father or grandfather et al. Even as the frenzy for such dialogues continues, we are very soon to see our industry come off such stuff. Director Koratala Siva, who is busily promoting his upcoming Telugu film Janatha Garage, has made an interesting revelation on these lines.
“We have stars asking us not to turn up with dialogues elevating their clan/father/family since it’s drawing a huge disapproval from movie-goers and they are all set to break the fad,” reveals filmmaker Siva while speaking to media folks in Hyderabad. It’s not very unpredictable to guess who would asked the writer-turned-filmmaker to skip them (conventional-family-elevating-dialogues) in their films.
With new-age films like Pellichoopulu and Kshanam making waves with great content, isn’t it a liberating move by our heroes? However, audience were always ready to embrace stars and their films even without intense and monotonous family sentiment dialogues.
Promising State of the Year-2016
Though Telangana state is just two years old, the laurels it’s earning makes it no less than existing and top states of India like Gujarat and Maharashtra. Acknowledging its good-run, CNBC-TV18 chose the new-born Telangana for ‘Promising State of the Year-2016’ award. The mantra, according to the state government, is pretty simple- Transparent and Accountable Governance!
‘Happy to share that CNBC TV18 has chosen Telangana as ‘Most Promising State of the Year’ as part of prestigious India Business Leader Awards,’ posts KTR, Telangana minister for municipal administration and urban development, on his Twitter page.
Committed to deliver corruption-free administration and development, the Telangana government is working hand in hand with centre in all the aspects. The CNBC award will be received by minister KTR at the awards function in New Delhi on August 30.
The media giant will also host a panel meeting with union Ministers Arun Jaitley, Prakash Jawadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad Smriti Irani and Nirmala Sitharaman at the awards event.
Nag Introduced Samantha to Sachin
Samantha Ruth Prabhu, apparently soon-to-be wife of Akkineni Naga Chaitanya and soon-to-be daughter-in-law of Nagarjuna Akkineni, was introduced to Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar by none other than Nag himself.
Sachin, who is in Hyderabad to meet Olympic champions and handover BMW cars, has attended to the wedding Nimmagadda Prasad’s daughter Swathi along with his close friend Chamundeshwarnath.
Seeing Nagarjuna and his family with whom Sachin share great bond, had conversation. It’s then Nag introduced both Naga Chaitanya and Samantha to Sachin. While Chaitu’s introduction can be understood, Samantha’s introduction to Sachin has caught many eyeballs at the do and we leave it to your imagination.
Sachin and Nagarjuna are good friends from longtime. And Nag’s introduction to Sachin is definitely something that’s seen as inclusion of Sam into Akkineni family.
Prabhas Ran To Escape Media
Baahubali star Prabhas is caught in a tricky situation as he is not able to handle the unwanted attention of media, public. Prabhas, who attended a private event to launch Well Care health card that’s claimed to benefit common man, was mobbed by the gathering and followed by media persons who tried their best to catch Prabhas byte.
In order to avoid media persons and their questions, Prabhas took a back route for the exit. But as the media followed his footsteps, Prabhas had no other choice but to ran towards his car. But by then, few electronic media persons have managed to reach Prabhas and asked the star to talk to which he gently said no.
Prabhas was definitely put in spot as many fans were jostling to catch his glimpse and tried to take pics with him. Meanwhile, Prabhas was spotted with trimmed beard but his hair style remained mostly like his style in the Baahubali: The Beginning.
