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’.

Nagarjuna’s upcoming film Soggade Chinni Nayana has a village backdrop. He plays a dual role one of which is that of a typical villager and the actor says that the inspiration for this character is his father, the late Akkineni Nageswara Rao.

Most of ANR’s films that had a village backdrop were huge hits and Nagarjuna has taken a leaf out of his father’s books. Also, the dhoti that Nagarjuna wears in the film is the same one worn by ANR for his films. He is also wearing his father’s watch that the latter had bought in 1959.

The film is directed by debutant K. Kalyan Krishna. Ramya Krishna and Lawanya Tripathi are playing the female leads, while Anasuya and Hamsa Nandini are playing cameos. The film is scheduled for a Sankranti release.

After the success of Loukyam and Jil, actor Gopichand is following the same commercial formula with his upcoming film Soukhyam. “It’s a new story told in a new manner,” he says, adding, “It’s a typical family entertainer with comedy and action.” He says that he always follows the same commercial formula as the audiences do not come the theatres to see experimental films. “Yes, I like to do the same kind of commercial films with loads of entertainment as everyone wants to feel good when they watch a film. I don’t want to take a risk by doing an experimental film at this point of time,” he says.

He adds that a producer, who puts a lot of money in a film, should get his money back. “There are many families living on a film’s production. So I can do an experiment film but the producer is going to suffer a big loss and he may not make another film,” he says. Gopichand’s father, the late T. Krishna, made great films and most of them were successful. “It was a long time back and at that time the audience mindset was different; now it has changed.”

The actor says that these days a film can make money in just 10 days. “It’s not like earlier days, when films needed to run longer. If the first weekend’s collections are good and if it runs for another week, then the 10 days’ collections are enough. Whether the film is a hit or flop is also known after the morning show,” he adds. Does he still watch his debut film that released 15 years back? “Yes, I do because I want to know what mistakes I made.” The actor has recently signed Oxygen, with director Jothi Krishna, son of popular producer A.M. Ratnam. Jothi Krishna had directed a film long back.

“The good thing about him is that he realises his past mistakes. That’s why I believe him,” he says. Talking about his co-star Regina, he says, “This is the first time I am working with her. I haven’t seen much her films, but she is a very good actor.” The actor is at present enjoying fatherhood with his one-and-a- half-year-old son. “Yes, he is walking now and I am spending most of my time with him. If I am not shooting I will be at home with my son.”

Mahesh Babu is a good human being giving the utmost support to brother-in-law Sudheer Babu at every stage of his career. Unfortunately, Sudheer had a long dry spell in career after the break he got with ‘Prema Katha Chithram.’ Later on, both Mahesh and Super Star Krishna tried to push Sudheer up in career and not it looks like ‘Bhale Manchi Roju’ is all set to give a big boost.

Mahesh attended ‘Bhale Manchi Roju’ audio launch and would definitely come out before media immediately as the movie opens to positive mouth talk on day one. This one factor of Mahesh can provide enormous publicity for the film and raise its commercial status. If Sudheer is aiming at winning a new stardom, this could be the better movie from his side.

Some sources have already began murmuring that Mahesh is the one who helped Sudheer in bagging a commercial brand endorsement and would continue the same kind of support in coming days till the time he achieves stardom. That’s with-in-the Ghattamaneni family.

One by one, senior actor Ranganath’s passing away shocked the entire Tollywood. This year has been saddening as we have seen plenty of talented artists ending their journey of life. In fact, Ranganath never looked so weak and timid to attempt a suicide in this stage of his life. Though family members expressed suspiciousness behind his hanging, some of the reports say that Ranganath is disturbed mentally after the loss of his wife six years ago and this could be the only reason behind suicide.

‘I do not have any complaints on life. I did not fight for anything. I leaded my life happily and took whatever it gave me to the fullest. I’ve succeeded in enjoying every moment. As of now, it’s just my body living on this earth because my soul already passed away with my wife. I do not believe in reincarnations. For me, death simply means a deep sleep.

In fact, I too made a suicide attempt in young age by sleeping on railway track but the train was late and I changed my mind. If Uday Kiran met me when he was suffering with suicidal tendencies, my counseling would have definitely changed his mind set,’ Ranganath said few months ago. How tragic the life is? A man with such strong will power committed suicide.

Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are top stars of Indian cinema. Every film from them will obviously open to thunderous opening collections. Same happened to Salman Khan’s ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ and ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ released in this year. Finally, when it came to last few days of this old year, Shah Rukh arrived as ‘Dilwale’ in his old romantic company of Kajol, directed by Rohit Shetty.

As per the official trade reports, ‘Dilwale’ raked Rs.21 Crores on day one (that is Friday) within the domestic market. In view of protests in various places and cancellation of many shows, these are very good numbers. In parallel, ‘Bajirao Mastani’ made Rs.12.80 Crores on day one which is again just an average figure.

Whatsoever, ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ with Rs. 40 Crores and ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ with Rs.27.25 Crores still stood as highest opening films in Bollywood for this year. Shah Rukh Khan ‘Dilwale’ stood in third place unable to beat either of Sallu Bhai records.

Stylish Star Allu Arjun stood as the only hero of Tollywood this year to have delivered two 50 crores share projects ‘S/o Satyamurthy’ and ‘Rudhramadevi’. He has also completed a successful hattrick of three movies entering in Rs.50 crores share club which also include ‘Race Gurram’ apart from above films.

Currently, ‘Sarainodu’s shoot is progressing in a rapid pace. The makers are all set to unveil the first look of ‘Sarainodu’ soon. The audio launch will be held in the month of February next year while the movie is expected early summer release. All in all, ‘Saraina’ occasions are fast approaching for ‘Sarainodu’ to cheer the fans.

Rakul Preet Singh has romanced with Allu Arjun in this mass masala entertainer. Thaman is heard to have delivered his career’s best album for the movie. Boyapati Srinu is directing the movie while mega producer Allu Aravind is producing the movie on Geetha Arts.

Puri Jagannath introduced many glamorous faces to film industry. While some had a short life here in Telugu, some others shined so brightly. For the moment, Puri’s new girl Disha Patani debuted into films with ‘Loafer’ is heard about receiving numerous offers from many producers and directors.

In fact, Puri has that special style of presenting heroines in best of their sensuous looks. One song of ‘Jiya Jale’ from the movie was enough to show the sensuality in Disha and this worked well for her. Despite a fact that she hasn’t got anything to prove on performance front with this movie… who cares for it?

‘I received few calls from my friends asking about details of Disha. This shows her success with ‘Loafer’ and she will have a good future,’ Puri said. Keeping Disha for almost two years in wait after the initial photo shoots and preliminary tests, Puri thought that Disha would make a perfect match besides Varun as they both are tall.