Amidst much confusion and hype, finally the much awaited sequel of Superstar Rajnikanth’s “Robo 2.0” has taken off recently. With Rajni in a dual role, Akshay Kumar as the villain and Amy Jackson as a robo heroine, this time Shankar is making the film just big with nearly 400 crores of budget. And here is the twist.

In a way we couldn’t understand if the film is Robo 2.0 or the man directing the film is Shankar 2.0. Never in his career, this talented director wraps up his movie schedules so fast, but now, he’s making 2.0 at a record pace.

A week after starting the first schedule of 2.0 with Rajni and Amy taking part in the shoot, it is heard that the schedule will get wrapped by December 30th. Second schedule will take off in January 2nd week.

Though Shankar is known for taking many retakes and extending film shoots, we couldn’t say that he’s the same always, by looking at the speed his 2.0 is being wrapped up.

Even as she is slowly coming out of the public humiliation during the winners announcement in the recently concluded Miss Universe pageant, Miss Colombia Adriana Gutierrez has now found herself in an even more embarrassing situation when a startling offer to act in porn films came her way.

Porn king and Vivid honcho Steve Hirsch wrote a letter to Adriana Gutierrez offering $1 million to act in adult films. This staggering offer doesn’t stop here as Steve goes on to offer her a freehand in choosing the male porn stars she wants to act with, the type of sex she wants to have and also the number of porn movies she would like to appear in.

Steve then tries hard to convince Adriana by giving her an example of Miss America 1984 Vanessa Williams and how she rose to fame after her nude pictures were published in the popular adult entertainment magazine, Penthouse.

Steve’s pitch continues to say how the celebrity sex tapes distributed by Vivid  glorified the careers of stars such as Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian, Kendra Wilkinson, and several others.

Lastly, Steve tries to melt Adriana’s heart by even promising her to commission the making of the first Vivid Girl Crown for her, which will be grander than anything Miss Philippines, the Miss Universe crown winner, will ever wear.

Young Tiger NTR had made his Kannada Singing debut the other day. He recorded a song for Kannada Powerstar Puneeth Raj Kumar’s landmark 25th film, Chakravyuha. NTR and Thaman posted few pics of the recording in their Twitter accounts.

Very soon, Puneeth and NTR were trending on Twitter across the country. This is the first time any Kannada hero trending on Twitter. It was possible because of NTR’s fan following.

Coincidentally, both NTR and Puneeth are doing 25th films of their career. The Producer of Chakravyuha is a close friend to Tarak and he convinced the actor to make this happen.

After a disastrous last outing with Bruce Lee, Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s next project, the remake of Tamil blockbuster, Thani Oruvan will be launched on January 16th as Sankranthi Special.

The movie will start rolling in the first week of February and it is planned for the second half of the next year. Rakshak is the title in rumour mills for the film.The makers are in talks with Shruti Hassan to romance Charan in the film.

Ram Charan’s uncle, Allu Aravind and Senior Producer NV Prasad will be jointly producing the film which is being directed by Surender Reddy. NV Prasad earlier produced Charan’s Racha. Hiphop Tamizha will be composing music for the film.

50 Films old, another film rolling and several other in discussion, Allari Naresh, is all set for the release of his landmark 50th film Mama Manchu Alludu Kanchu. He is as nervous as he is waiting for the release of his debut film. In a one-on-one interview, Naresh gets candid and looks back at how his career shaped up.

You scored Half Century. How’s it?

For me every film of mine is equally important. 49th film is as important as 50th and 51st is as important as 50th. For me, 50 is just a number. It’s not cricket to count number, it’s cinema.

50 Films in 13 Years!

I haven’t planned. It just happened. In fact, when I first started with Allari, I thought it’d be an achievement if I do 5 or 10 films. Time just flew. I never thought that I’d do 50 films as hero. But content is important than count. Fortunately I tried several genres. I did films like Nenu, I did films like Danger, I did films like Gamyam and a lot of hilarious films too. I’m very much lucky to act under the direction of legends like K. Viswanath garu, Bapu garu.

Any Regrets?

No regrets at all. I’m happy with all my films. Even failures have a great significance. Because of my Visakha Express, Krish cast me in Gamyam as Gaali Seenu. Had I not done Visakha, I’d not have got Gamyam. After watching my work in BendApparao, I was offered Shambo Shiva Shambo. So one doesn’t know how few films turn out and change your career. Especially in film industry, everything has got connection, link.

How Mama Manchu Alludu Kanchu happened?

I wasn’t the first choice for the role. Before me director Srinivas Reddy had considered few other actors but decided to zero in on me as I could balance Mohan Babu garu.

One day Vishnu called me and asked me to watch a Marathi film. When I watched the film, I loved it very much. I had told Vishnu that I’m interested to do the film, but told him that I’ll do another film before this. To which Vishnu and Mohan Babu garu didn’t budge and convinced me to do this. I’m happy to work with Mohan Babu garu in my 50th film. The film has very good moments.

On Mohan Babu

When the news of my film with Mohan Babu broke out, many people told me how difficult is to work with him. But all turn out to be false. He is strict, he is disciplined and at times, he might be angry. But he’s angry when there’s a strong reason. If you’re on sets on time, he won’t ask you anything. Mohan Babu garu was very friendly. When I first met him, I told him that I respect him a lot. But I had told him that I might not act well on screen, if I fear for him or has very much respect for him. Since he acted in over 500 films, he knew, he understood. And scenes involving both of us going to be hilarious.

You’re acting with Poorna for 3rd time. Anything cooking between you?

No, it wasn’t my decision. Producer Vishnu suggested to have Poorna as he liked our pair in Seema Tapakai. It’s completely professional decision.

Roles or films you’d like to do

I’d like to do ghost comedy. I’m great fan of silent movies. I’d like to do a movie like Pushpaka Vimanam (Kamal Haasan, director Singeetham Srinivas film). Also, I’d like to do emotional films like Nenu. But I don’t want to miss comedy element in all my films. I see to it that comedy would be there.

Directorial Debut?

I’m planning to direct a film soon. It will be a refined love story. I’ll not be acting in it. I’ll only direct the film. Few producers have approached me but mostly it’ll be produced on my home banner.

What’s stopping me from my directorial plans is my acting because I don’t want to lose newcomer directors who would afraid that I might finger in their direction If I had directed a film. So, it’ll take sometime.