She might have tasted a disaster like Soukyam. But it didn’t deter her. Regina Cassandra is back in form with her latest advertisement. In the latest advertisement by a clothing line, she brilliantly nailed the age-old custom of arranged marriage.

The crisp ad starts on with a girl (Regina Cassandra) getting ready as ‘ladke’ wale wait outside to see her. Her father comes in and asks her to fasten up her make-up as the groom-to-be and his family waiting outside. It’s then she replies to her dad how she can decide if he is the ‘one’ by feeding him samosas. The father leaves her room silently.

When the groom-to-be’s parents expressed their consent for the wedding, bride’s father is seen questioning the boy’s parents whether they can visit their house for ‘Ladka Dekhne’.

Upon asking by groom’s mother why they want to see ‘Ladke’, bride’s father says they want to know if Ladka is capable of running a house. Then the boy’s mother states he can barely cook instant noodles, the girl’s father states how his daughter can’t survive only on noodles. A silent spectator so far, the boy suddenly speaks up and asks 10 days time to learn cooking and asks the girl’s father to take a decision only after that.

Chennai: A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking an interim stay on the release of Ramgopal Verma’s multi-lingual film “Killing Veerappan”, based on the operation leading to the killing of the dreaded forest brigand, on the grounds it is full of “false information.”

Citing the trailer of the film released recently, petitioner Paneerselvi of a village in Salem district alleged that the “entire movie is filled up with false information which is nothing but creating law and order problems in Tamil Nadu.”

Seeking a a direction to the state Home Secretary and the Censor Board’s regional office to file a report with regard to issue of U certificate to the film, she sought an interim injunction on the release of the film, set for January 1. The petitioner claimed that the director of the film, produced by Sivaprakash in various languages including Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi, degraded Tamils, speficically women, and depicted that Karnataka police alone had taken all steps to curb the menace of the sandalwood smuggler who was killed in 2004 in a joint operation by the two states.

The petitioner further submitted that the movie falsely depicted the wife of Veerappan as having killed several persons. The film director had visualised some “negative” images about Tamil Nadu police and politicians, she charged.

Mumbai: After her comeback with “Jazbaa” this year, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is now working on two plum films. And if a source is to be believed, she will also feature in a multi-starrer project.

Currently working on Karan Johar’s “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, and on “Sarbjit”, Aishwarya is “to be seen alongside two of the hottest stars in Bollywood soon”, a well-placed source told IANS. The former Miss World is “excited and thrilled to be working on this project”.

“It will be iconic as it will be surprising, as one will get to see three unique, powerful personalities on screen,” the source added. All one can tell for now is that two other actresses will be sharing screen space with Aishwarya.

Mumbai: In her six-year Bollywood career, Aditi Rao Hydari has tasted both success and failures, but the actress says she still feels like an outsider as she does not have a family clout in the industry. Aditi first appeared as Rama Bua in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s “Delhi-6”, but it was Sudhir Mishra’s “Yeh Saali Zindagi” which brought the actress to prominence.

“I do feel like an outsider in little little ways. For example, on social media, sometimes I feel I don’t have the support system which somebody else has. When I put something on social media, some people will support me and be genuinely sweet about it, but for somebody else, they have all their cousins, friends, uncles and aunts,” Aditi said.

“All they have to do is send them a text saying ‘please do it’ and they’ll do it. It’s natural, which is why I never resent it. I also know it is not important in the larger scheme of things but it becomes important because in today’s digital world we are so image driven…,” she said. The 29-year-old “London Paris New York” star says she neither has a big actor nor a production house back-up, which makes her struggle to be a part of films that she wants to work in.

“I don’t have a big production house, big director or a big actor backing me. I am taking things step by step. I came from outside, I knew nobody, I don’t know how to play the game, I can’t think of schemes or ways to put myself ahead of others or back stab somebody. Everyday is a struggle. Till today I struggle to do the films I want to do,” she said. Even though she has worked with directors like Mehra, Sudhir Mishra, Imtiaz Ali (“Rockstar”), Subhash Kapoor (“Guddu Rangeela”), Aditi says she does not have the liberty to collaborate with a filmmaker of her choice.

“I don’t think I have the power to say today I want to work with so and so. But I do have the power to choose from what is in front of me, and the power to hope. I am a very positive person and I know if something great is meant for me, it will come to me,” she said.

Hyderabad: An online article carried by Hyderabad-based English daily, stunned one and all with its tirade against Pawan Kalyan.

The daily which closed shop for a couple of days recently but again started operations carried an item titled ‘Why Pawan Kalyan delaying ‘Sardar Gabbar Singh’? The article lambasted Pawan Kalyan for the delay in completing the project and thereby disappointing fans.

While that in itself is nothing to be concerned about, it is the choice of language in the article that is indeed worrying. “Sampath Nandi, the director of the movie was necked out harshly”, says the article. It then adds, “Even his (Pawan Kalyan’s) near and dear ones are fed up with his arrogant nature and are seriously complaining about his reckless nature towards filmmaking.”

And finally, here comes the bombshell! The article concludes on the note, “If the film shrinks from impressing upon the auditoriums, then Pawan shallremain to be an arrogant beast.” Whew!!!

Junior NTR’s next movie tentatively titled ‘Janatha Garage’ is although yet to go on sets with shooting schedules commencement, director Koratala Siva is in the process of locking the overall star cast. As we all know, Tarak is going to join the shoot only in February of next year when he is completely relieved from ‘Nannaku Prematho’ tensions.

With entry of Mohan Lal into ‘Janatha Garage,’ there is a heavy star cast value added and latest we hear is Koratala also recommended one more name of Malayalam actor Fahadh Faasil, husband of heroine Nazriya Nazim to get into the final list. Actually, Fahadh is a brilliant actor and ‘Bangalore Days’ stand one of the important flick in his career.

As of now, it is still to be known whether Fahadh will be given a positive supporting character or a negative role but his addition into the casting list is surely going to help the overall performance factor of ‘Janatha Garage.’ None other than Mythri Movie Makers who delivered super hit ‘Srimanthudu’ are producers of this film.

Those who go by Allari Naresh’s thin frame and lanky physique will surely be surprised as they do not know what this naughty star is capable of. Even though the soft spoken actor maintains his gentleman side in public, he also has a mischievous side to him which he unleashes very rarely.

In one such rare display of his mischief, Allari Naresh, who was dancing along with the yesteryear chubby heroine Raasi, shocked everyone by suddenly lifting her up with his hands. While Naresh did this as a friendly act, Raasi too took it sportingly as she knows Naresh since his childhood and from when she used to act in his father EVV’s movies.

The entire incident took place during a promotional event of Naresh’s latest release, Mama Manchu Alludu Kanchu. When Raasi asked Naresh how he handled the heavy weights such as Mohan Babu, Ramya Krishna and Meena during the shoot,  Naresh replied jokingly, “just the way I handled you a while ago.”

This is not the first time that Naresh lifted up a senior actress. In the past, he did the same when he lifted up Roja while participating in a TV show.