Superstar Rajinikanth’s sequel to Robo, which was recently announced, will hence forth be called 2.0, and it also happens to be the official title of the film. Lyca Productions, the makers of the project, have confirmed that it will made on a budget of Rs 350 crore, making it India’s biggest motion picture in terms of budget and, hence, superceding SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali in the process.

Speaking after meeting the press in Chennai earlier this week, a representative from Lyca said that the production cost of the film will be around Rs 350 crore. He also said that they are confident about recovering the investment, thanks to the combination of Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar, who was brought into the project in place of The Terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Double Oscar-winning composer A R Rahman has been roped in to compose the tunes, while Nirav Shah will crank the camera. The visual effects work will be taken care by Srinivas Mohan, who had earlier worked in Baahubali.

Star comedian Brahmanandam has been struggling to live up to expectations of late as the writers and directors are letting him down with poorly written characters. Brahmanandam used to be the key factor for any big movie’s success for so many years. Audiences used to enjoy watching him doing the same comedy in almost all the films.

People stopped enjoying it all of a sudden and Brahmi is finding it tough to bounce back because of the mediocre writing. There was a period when Brahmanandam was hardly seen on screen. He was able to get busy after a hiatus but nothing seems to be working for him lately. Anand Prasad, Producer of Soukhyam says that Brahmanandam will bounce back with this film.

“Brahmanandam is being criticized for doing similar characters in all the films. Soukhyam will give him a new dimension. Our previous film Loukyam has given break to Rakul Preet and comedian Prudhvi. Soukhyam is going to make Regina a star and put Brahmanandam back on track,” he said.

Although Harish Shankar has delivered a decent average movie with Subramanyam For Sale, the director is not flooded with offers from the top heroes. At present, he is waiting for a call from heroes. The way the things are happening in the industry, he may have to wait for another four to six months to take his next movie on to the sets.

He hoped that either Chiranjeevi or Pawan Kalyan would give him a chance after the release of S4S, but nothing of that has happened. Harish was hoping that megastar would hand over the job of directing his 150th movie as the film was getting delayed but his hopes were dashed off when Ram Charan announced Vinayak’s name for the remake of Kaththi.

When producer Dil Raju got the dates from Pawan Kalyan, Harish was hoping that the powerstar would announce his name but it didn’t happen. Pawan Kalyan himself doesn’t know when he will do a film for Dil Raju. Harish Shankar’s only hope is now getting nod from his guru and friend Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja’s dates next year.

Sonal Chauhan who has sizzled in a skimpy bikini in Bala Krishna’s Legend is all set to repeat the feat in Dictator. Sonal is getting too comfortable in bikinis that she has done that in Pandaga Chesko too. She was first seen in a red bikini the Hindi film titled 3G.

Almost all the top heroines in Bollywood were seen in bikinis but South heroines usually have reservations for donning bikini. Sonal Chauhan is happy being tagged as the bikini beauty and continuing to do it in every movie she stars in.

Dictator is touted to be a different film from Bala Krishna who has been accustomed to do powerful mass movies of late.Dictator will have high dose of comedy besides the action and mass elements that are associated with Balakrishna’s film.

Sonal is spicing it up with bikinis and skimpy outfits while Anjali plays a conservative girl next door kind of character.

Tamannaah Bhatia, who turns a year older on December 21, has also completed a decade in the industry.

Combining her South commitments with Bollywood assignments, she considers her bilingual epic, ‘Baahubali: The Beginning’, as her landmark film.

To top it all, she shared screen space with Shah Rukh Khan recently for a commercial. There was nothing better to mark 10 years of her acting career.

Mumbai: Seems like Shahid Kapoor, who is currently busy with his upcoming film ‘Rangoon’, is having a fun time these past few days as the actor is quite active on the social media.

Recently, the actor surprised everyone by subtly revealing his look from his upcoming film ‘Rangoon’. In the picture shared by the actor, we saw Shahid sporting a military cut hairdo and a sleek moustache.

The actor, who has openly confessed his love for staying fit and spending hours in gym, took to his official Instagram account to share a video of his ‘serious training session’.