South Superstar Rajinikanth, who generally shies away from promoting his own films, has done the rarest thing of promoting an upcoming film. Well, Rajini has done this favor for his ‘2.0’ co-star Akshay Kumar by making a tweet to wish the actor for his August 12 release ‘Rustom’.”Dear @akshaykumar… I wish you all success for your forthcoming release #Rustom,” tweeted Rajinikanth. An elated Akshay replied saying, “Thank you so much Rajni sir. Would love for you to see it.”

Rajinikanth seems to have made an exception for Akshay Kumar as the highly popular Bollywood actor has accepted to play the villain in his ‘2.0’ just out of sheer respect for him. Rajini is not the first celebrity to promote Rustom but even Bollywood Superstar Salman Khan and Ranveer Singh have already done their bit to promote it. Still, Rajinikanth’s tweet was crucial as it has the capacity to pierce into the masses and bring craze for the film especially in south India.

‘Rustom’ is based on the real-life incident of decorated Naval Officer K M Nanavati, who was charged for the murder of his wife’s lover. Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai, the film also stars Ileana and Esha Gupta. Rustom has been in news of late owing to its box-office clash with another high profile film, Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Mohenjo Daro’ on this Friday.

Senior actor Venkatesh’s ‘Babu Bangaram’ is going to hit the marquee this Friday amidst huge expectations. As the trailers impressed the audience big time, trade experts say that this film will be a successful venture. But, Sai Dharam Tej’s ‘Thikka’ which is competing with Venky’s film is suffering from low promotions.

The entire focus is on ‘Babu Bangaram’ that ‘Thikka’ is completely ignored. The advance booking of both these films shows the difference. Though Sai Dharam scored two bback-to-back hits with ‘Subramanyam for Sale’ and ‘Supreme’, the expectations are quite low on ‘Thikka’. The makers need to take care of promotions as films like ‘Manamantha’ which got positive talk is suffering from poor collections due to low publicity.

But, the team ‘Thikka’ are pretty confident on the film’s content. The film is directed by Sunil Reddy, who delivered a disaster like ‘Om 3D’ earlier. Thaman’s music too got good response. We need to wait till 13th to know what happens.

In this temperature soaring photograph, Bollywood hottie Ameesha Patel oozes unlimited sensuousness as she teases the beauty admirers by dropping the strap of her black lingerie which reveals her luscious curves.

Going by the picture, one can’t fathom that Ameesha is 41 years old as she still manages to woo beauty lovers with her bold show. After a 3 year gap, Ameesha will soon release he latest film, Desi Magic, which she is producing on her home banner.

Finding her name involved in controversies is nothing new for the South India’s Lady Superstar Nayanthara, who has tasted her first flop in three years with her latest film, the Jiiva-starrer Thirunaal.Apart from the film’s disappointing box-office result, what’s irking Nayan the most is the murky controversy about a scene in Thirunaal in which a school kid gives a lip-lock to Nayan.

In the scene, Nayan is shown offering gifts to several school kids and asking them to kiss her on her cheek in turn. However, a naughty kid, after taking his gift, kisses Nayan on her lips much to her shock.While the scene was not vulgar, many child and women’s rights activists are seething in anger and are demanding the film’s unit to delete the scene ASAP, claiming that the such scenes will corrupt the minds of young children.

The protesting activists also breathed fire on the cheap taste of director lambasted Nayan saying that the address shouldn’t have given her consent to shoot the lip-lock scene. On the other hand, Thirunaal’s unit is silently cashing in on the controversy.

Kannada actors Yash and Radhika Pandit, who have delivered a resounding hit with ‘Mr & Mrs Ramachari’, are gearing up to become partners in real life.

The actors, who have been in love for five years, have decided to take the big leap by entering into wedlock. Their engagement ceremony will be held in Goa on August 12, tomorrow. Only the family and friends are invited to this cozy affair. The wedding will happen by the end of this year.

With the two most happening actors from sandalwood gearing up to wed each other, several celebs have expressed their happiness and wished the couple for a prosperous life.

Even though Nayanthara is the most in demand Southern actress at this point, she is also notorious for not promoting her films.

Nayan not only charges more than a whopping Rs 2 Cr for each movie, but she also puts conditions to producers that she will sign the films only if she is allowed to skip the audio launch and movie promotional events. Filmmakers reluctantly agree to her conditions as she is a capable actress and has been delivering hits in a row.

Nayanthara seems to have a reason behind not promoting her films. She believes that her highly promoted films have not worked, but low-key releases worked big time. Producers also don’t force her after she quotes this reason as they are happy as long as the film becomes a hit. Nayan also is happy as she can skip strenuous promotional events.

The latest buzz from the film nagar reveals that Parasuram who recently scored a hit with Srirasthu Subhamasthu is going to make another film in Geetha Arts banner. Srirasthu Subhamasthu was made on Geetha Arts banner. Apparently, Allu Aravind was happy with the working style of Prasuram and immediately offered him the second film. Parasuram has already completed the script for his next film, and the producers are in discussions to rope in a hero for the film.

If the buzz is believed to be true, Sharwanand might be roped in for Parasuram’s next film which is to be bankrolled by Allu Aravind on Geetha Arts banner. Sharwanand is on a roll now. He has a movie in B V S N Prasad production, and he is acting in Shatamanam Bhavathi produced by Dil Raju.

Young hero Naga Anvesh who was seen as a child actor has turned hero now. He was seen as Venkatesh’s son in Intlo Illalu Vantintlo Priyuralu. His new movie with Habah Patel has started yesterday. The young hero made his acting debut with the film Vinavayya Ramayya which turned as an average fare at the box office. The new film Angel was launched yesterday at an event in Ramanaidu Studios. Young Mega hero Sai Dharam Tej attend as a chief guest. Sai Dharam Tej clapped for the first shot.

Producer Madhu has switched on the camera. Director Palani directed the first shot. This film was produced by Bhuvan Sagar under Sri Saraswathi Films banner. Baahubali writer Palani is behind this film. The makers have been promoting it well even before the film release. Let’s see how the film going to turn out.

With Devi Sri Prasad walking out of Nandamuri Balakrishna’s prestigious film Gautamiputra Satakarni, the makers looked out for another music director. After holding tight discussions, the film unit has finally roped in Chirantan Bhatt as the music director for the film. Chirantan Bhatt is the music director who made his debut with the film Kanche. He has impressed all with his tunes for the film Kanche. He has also given some amazing background score for the film. Initially, the makers wanted Keeravani or Ilayaraja on board, but finally, they announced that Chirantan Bhatt is the music director.

The film unit has completed almost 40 percent of the shoot, and the next schedule is going to begin very soon. The makers wanted to finish the film’s shoot in time so that it releases for Sankranthi next year.

Young actor Vijay Devarakonda, who has become an overnight star with the success of ‘Pelli Choopulu’, has received a call from Pawan’s office.

Latest reports suggest that producer Sharat Marar has called Vijay Devarakonda to appreciate him for the success of ‘Pelli Choopulu’. He also asked the young actor to meet him at the office to discuss something important. Reliable sources revealed that Vijay might be offered a key role in Pawan’s new film ‘Kadapa King.’

Actually, there is scope for two young actors to play crucial roles in the film being directed by Dolly. Vijay might be offered one of the two roles. No official announcement has been made yet but who would reject if given an opportunity to act in Pawan Kalyan’s film?

Suriya is currently very busy shooting for the action entertainer Singham 3. It is the third installment of the popular Singham series. Suriya and Anushka Shetty will be playing the lead roles in the film. Shruti Haasan is another heroine who will be seen as a journalist in the film. The film is directed by Hari. The film unit recently sold away the Telugu rights of the film for a whopping amount to Malkapuram Sivakumar who has produced the film Surya vs Surya.

The latest update on the film is that the overseas rights of the film were sold to an astonishing amount of 15.5 CR to a leading distribution house. The makers have also sold the music rights for 1.75 CR to Eros Music. The audio scored by Harris Jayraj.

Jr NTR’s upcoming film ‘Janatha Garage’, which was already postponed from August 12 to September 2, is now staring at yet another postponement.

Along with Trade Unions, all the Left Parties have called for Bandh on September 2. If this comes into effect on that day as per plan, it will be a huge blow for the makers of ‘Janatha Garage’, who are planning to release the film simultaneously in Telugu and Malayalam on Sep 2. The collections will definitely take a beating with the bandh.

At the moment, makers are in a dilemma. They can neither lose the golden weekend of Vinayaka Chavithi nor risk with the bandh on the opening day itself. Hence, the film might be postponed or preponed for a day. An official announcement will be made by the makers soon.

Ace director SS Rajamouli has revealed that he realized the mistake he has been committing for a long time after watching Chandrasekhar Yeleti’s latest release ‘Manamantha’.

In the film, Gauthami gets a chance to go to Singapore for a job. When she asks her family members, husband agrees as she will earn good sum, son agrees as he thinks his career will be bright with the money, her daughter accepts as she can proudly say her mother got on board a flight. Gauthami feels sad as no one asks her to stay saying they can’t live without her.

Rajamouli draws a comparison and said, ‘During her college days, my wife Rama got a chance to go to Canada. But, she didn’t go saying she can’t stay distant from her mother. I always used to tease her saying her career would have been great if she had gone to Canada. But, after watching Manamantha, I realized that I had been thinking with my mindset and Rama had left that opportunity only for her family’.