In a major disappointing development, the dusky Malayali beauty Amala Paul and her director husband AL Vijay have filed for divorce with mutual consent through their advocate Saib Jose Kidangoor at a principal family court in Chennai this morning.

This news comes just a couple of weeks after the reports of cracks in Amala and Vijay’s marriage emerged in the media. Amala Paul and Vijay fell in love on the sets of Deiva Thirumagal (Nanna) and tied the knot in 2014 in both Hindu and Christian traditions.

There were reports that Vijay’s parents and even Vijay opposed Amala’s decision to act in films even after marriage and that this eventually led to irreparable damage in the couple’s relationship.However, Vijay recently issued a press statement and said that their marriage is ending on a sad note due to breach of trust. Amidst gossips that Amala is seeing a Punjabi designer New Delhi, Vijay’s statement added fuel to the fire.

Latest reports says that, Senior most Congress leader Devineni Nehru from Krishna district is all set to join ruling TDP soon. His son and Andhra Pradesh youth congress leader Avinash will also switch loyalties to TDP.Speculations doing rounds for the last one year that Devineni will join TDP but it was not materialized as TDP Chief Chandrababu Naidu did not accept the wishlist put before him by the Congress leader.

Fresh political news is that Nehru will be given a nominated post and his son will get a party post once they joined. Nehru will be given freedom to strengthen his group in the party.

Meanwhile, giving credence to media reports, Nehru met AP TDP President K Venkat Rao and held talks for more than two hours. Nehru discussed in detail his political career in TDP.

Director Puri Jagannadh is an experienced campaigner who can deal star heroes as well as young heroes relevantly. The filmmakers who once made films with stars like Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, NTR is now doing a film titled Ism with medium range hero Kalyan Ram whose last movie Sher was a flop.

Latest we heard is Puri Jagannadh is planning to make a multistarrer film with young heroes, since Mahesh Babu who was supposed to work with him had delayed the project to sign another film with Koratala Siva. Naga Shourya and Vijay Deverakonda are considered for lead roles in Puri’s film.

This would be first film for both Shourya and Vijay with Puri. The yet to be titled movie which is billed to be an action entertainer will go on floors after Puri wrapping up the film Ism which is slated for release during Dussehra.While Naga Shourya is going through tough phase with flops, Vijay Deverakonda is enjoying the success of his first heroic film Pelli Choopulu. Working with Puri Jagannadh will definitely be a big boon for careers of the young heroes.

Bollywood Superstar Salman Khan is going to catch the special screening of superhit Telugu film Pelli Choopulu. Producer Suresh Babu, who released the film in Telugu, is apparently going to arrange the special screening of the film for Salman shortly. Hearing the reports, reviews, Salman too reportedly evinced interest in watching the film. However, the Telugu producers are waiting for Salman’s free time to screen the movie.

Considering that Salman Khan has good bond with Daggubati family and is a very close friend of Venkatesh, and even visited Daggubati brothers’ house in Hyderabad a couple of times, Suresh said to have smartly made this move to rope in Salman for the film’s Hindi remake. While it’s too early to say whether Salman would be part of Hindi remake or would he just produce the film, but Salman watching the film would definitely take the film to the next level and create buzz in Bollywood market for the film’s Hindi remake rights.

Made in a shoe-string budget, the film turned out to be sleeper hit of this year and reaping profits to producers, buyers. In US alone the film has made 0.5 million dollars so far.

Director Chandrasekhar Yeleti likes to experiment with different genres and scripts. He mostly did thrillers and action adventures in the past. Perhaps he won appreciation for every film, but none were commercial hits, except for Aithe. Yeleti’s latest film Manamantha hit the screens yesterday amidst low expectations which become affirmative.

Manamantha is a result of perfect planning and team effort. Lives and mind set of typical middle class people are shown efficiently. Yeleti described how different persons of different age groups react to odd situations in their life.Mohanlal shines as sales manager at a super market. Gautami did full justice to her role. Most of her gestures reminded of a typical wife, who takes best care of family with limited resources. ‘Superb’ is one word that will describe her astounding performance.

Viswant Duddumpudi of Kerintha fame was good. But, Raina Rao steals the show with outstanding and emotional performance. The way Yeleti connected four characters in the end makes us moving. Audience will definitely come out of theaters with teary eyes.The care with which the script is done, the grace with which the direction part is executed and the characterization and performance makes Manamantha worth real appreciation.

With the stupendous success of Bichagadu, actor Vijay Anthony has become a known face to Telugu audiences. As the low-budget film set cash registers ringing by raking in around 25 Crore and still continuing it’s successful run in theatres with good crowds and racing towards 100 days, naturally all eyes are on Vijay Anthony’s next.

The latest is that he’s bracing up with his next Saithan and the film is also being dubbed into Telugu. The film has been titled as Betaludu and plans are afoot to release the film simultaneously in Telugu, Tamil.

Apparently buyers are keen on bagging the theatrical rights of Betaludu. It needs to be seen whether Vijay Anthony is just one-time wonder or will he repeat Bichagadu magic with Betaludu again. Let’s wait and see.

Anushka Shetty’s first look from Om Namo Venkatesaya is out. The devotional film features Akkineni Nagarjuna as the lead protagonist. Nag will be seen essaying the role of Baba Hathiram, the 18th century aficionado of Lord Venkateshwara. Anushka too will be seen as an ardent devotee of the Lord Balaji. It’s learnt that Anushka’s role has significance and takes the story forward. The Rudhramadevi actress has already started shooting for her part and this could be her most de-glam role she’s playing on screen. Stylists have been roped on to style Anushka in very simple, traditional look.

It’s common knowledge by now that ace director K Raghavendra Rao who had directed Nag’s three previous devotional films – Annamayya, Sri Ramadasu and Shirdi Sai – is directing the film that seeks to recreate the life and times of Baba Hathiram. The movie, set in 18th Century, also chronicles the history of Tirumala. The movie is tentatively titled as Om Namo Venkatesa. The film’s principal shoot will begin in July.

Pragya Jaiswal, of Kanche fame, is also seen in a special role. After hits like Soggade, Oopiri, Nagarjuna is back with a devotion film.