Veteran actress Amala Akkineni, last seen on screen in “Hamari Adhuri Kahani”, will be seen playing a lawyer in the upcoming Malayalam film “C/O Saira Banu”, which marks her return to the industry after two decades.Amala’s last Malayalam outing was the 1991 Mohan Lal-starrer “Ulladakkam”.

“Amala plays a lawyer called Annie John Tharavadi, and will be sharing screen space with Manju Warrier, who will play the protagonist Saira Banu,” a source from the film’s unit told IANS.To be helmed by debutant Antony Sony, the film is slated to go on the floors soon.

Nani has completed all work for ‘Majnu’, his next release. Recently he released a first look of the movie and a teaser. Although he is planning to release the movie in the third week of September, the makers are waiting for more clarity on the releases of September.

In the month of September, we are going to witness many releases from NTR’s “Janatha Garage” to Naga Chaitanya’s “Premam”. Although as many as eight movies have announced their plans to release in September, there are many doubts how many of them actually make it to the screens.

Nani has this sentiment for this month as some of his big hits including “Bhale Bhale Magadivoy” released in September. He doesn’t want to compete with another movie this time. If “Premam” or similar lovestory comes in competition, collections will be divided. Hence he is waiting for the clarity.”Majnu” is going to be Nani’s third release this year, the first two being “Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha” and “Gentleman”. The film is directed by Virinchi Varma of “Uyyala Jampala” and it features two new heroines.

Mumbai: Bollywood’s power couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who had featured together in the 2008 film “Sarkar Raj”, will not be a part of the third instalment of the film franchise, said filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma.”‘Sarkar 3’ first look will be launched on August 26. Going by the story, both Abhishek and Aishwarya will not be featuring in this segment,” Varma posted on his Twitter page on Saturday.

The first film in the franchise, “Sarkar”, released in 2005 with megastar Amitabh Bachchan as the protagonist. It is still not clear whether the screen veteran will return for the upcoming thriller. But Varma has vouched the third movie will be bigger than the past movies.

“Scale of ‘Sarkar 3” will be much more larger and intense than the earlier two…Rest of the cast details will be soon announced,” he added.Big B also featured in “Sarkar Raj” with Abhishek and Aishwarya.

Everybody is questioning ace director Rajamouli as to what the release date of Baahubali-2 is. He knows very well about the kind of curiosity it had generated in everybody. But he is not willing to come under pressure and complete the film in a hurry.

Though it is believed that the film would be released on April 28, Rajamouli has not set any such deadlines for completing the film.Obviously, Rajamouli knows Baahubali-2 will have its own craze among the audiences irrespective of its release. So, he is not unduly worried about deadlines. It means, this Jakkanna continues to chisel the sculpture till he is satisfied with the figure.

But, what about the star cast and technicians, who have been committed to this project and have not been doing any other project for years together?Yes, there is a pressure on Rajamouli from them, but he is not succumbing to such pressures keeping in view the scale and craze for this film. Apparently, he has fixed mentally to make Baahubali-2 much grandious than the part-1.

Abhishek Bachchan has acted in several films but except ‘Dhoom’ series no other film could make any magic at box office. Now, the actor has been ousted from his only potential career saver.

Junior Bachchan’s first commercial success came in the form of ‘Dhoom’ in 2004. Two years later, he scored another hit with ‘Dhoom 2’. After delivering a spade of failures, Bachchan’s last hit and career saving project turned out to be ‘Dhoom 3’. He was not the lead in none of these three films but played the role of a cop, who hunts the villain aka the hero of ‘Dhoom’ series.

As per latest reports, Abhishek Bachchan has been replaced in ‘Dhoom’ 4 with Ranveer Singh. This is a big jolt for junior Bachchan as his career is almost nothing without Dhoom series. Which film will come to his rescue in future to save his career?Meanwhile, after Salman Khan had refused to play the villain in ‘Dhoom 4’, Shah Rukh Khan is heard to have been roped in. An official announcement is awaited. The cat and mouse game between SRK and Ranveer Singh will be too much fun to watch on silver screen.

There is a perception in society that few beautiful women trap rich and successful men only for the sake of alimony that they are bound to pocket at the time of divorce. However, Hollywood actress Amber Heard has proved this notion wrong by donating her $7 million (Rs 47 Cr) divorce settlement to charity.

Amber Heard, who was seen in notable Hollywood films like ‘The Danish Girl’, ‘Drive Angry’ etc. married Johnny Depp, one of the highest paid actors of Hollywood who is best known for “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, in February 2015 after meeting him on the sets of their 2011 film “The Rum Diary.”

Sadly, their marriage did not lost for even one and a half year and ended after Depp agreed to pay $7 million alimony to Heard. Contrary to the claims of Depp that Heard was harassing him for alimony, she went ahead to donate the entire settlement to charity.Amber Heard, 30, divided the full settlement equally between the American Civil Liberties Union, an NGO that aims to prevent violence against women, and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.