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.

The pure romantic feel in ‘7/G Brindavan Colony’ kept many of the youth cinema loving audience in absolute hangover for many weeks after watching the film. Directed by Selva Raghavan with AM Rathnam’s son Ravi Krishna as hero and Sonia Agarwal as heroine, Yuvan Shankar Raja’s music also added the extra romantic flavor.

After few years and many false starts, here comes the exact sequel to ‘7/G Brindavan’ colony in the name of ‘Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam’ starring Kola Balakrishna and Wamiqa Gabbi under the direction of Geethanjali Selva Raghavan while Selva himself worked as writer in penning the whole script. The same is dubbed into Telugu as ‘Nannu Vodili Neevu Polevule’ which might hit the screens in January.

Wamiqa Gabbi although debuted first in Tollywood with ‘Bhale Manchi Roju,’ truth is that her talent is first picked by Selva with this sequel. Let us hope that Wamiqa will enjoy a second break in Telugu with this dubbing flick, produced by Kola Bhaskar and music is from Amrit.

Before taking off for a family vacation, Puri Jagan has left enough food for gossip mongers as his teammates gave enough leaks about break-up with Charmi, shelving of Rogue, and our director bidding adieu to Bangkok as his script writing place. But reality seems to be something else.

Keeping Charmi aside is not equivalent to a breakup because they are not in a relationship in the first place. So that could be understood as an over-blown publicity to make everyone believe that Charmi is out of Puri’s compound. Maybe or may not be, but our director shelving Rogue seems to have a reason.

The whole of this film, from script to casting, ideas to a crucial character in the film, Charmi is said to have played an important role. To erase all the traces of her, we hear that Puri has shelved Rogue movie.

“If Puri has shelved Rogue for a better story, then he would have shelved films like Devudu Chesina Manushulu, Nenu Na Rakshasi and even Loafer in the first place”, say some movie lovers. Only Puri Jagan knows all the reasons.

War between Jr NTR’s hardcore fans and Nandamuri fans who are more loyal to Balayya Babu has gone to next level with Nannaku Prematho not even thinking about dropping from the Sankranthi race.

Forget these movie clashes, some fans are however concerned with speeches given at Nannaku Prematho audio launch, where Hari Krishna stressed that Jr NTR is next to Sr NTR. This has hurt many loyal fans and they are circulating one sensible logic in this regard.

A post being circulated by loyal Balayya fans reads as follows:

“If there is any actor who could match NTR’s stature and stardom, then its none other than SV Ranga Rao. Recently SVR’s grandson debuted as a hero and a villain, but none noticed him (Mr 7 movie). Because none of SVR’s sons have debuted as heroes, the legendary senior actor lost his loyal fan base.

Time made people forget him. Coming to NTR, his legacy is carried by Balayya and a loyal fan base developed for him through his father. It’s the same fan base which helped Jr NTR to stand up as a hero in his initial days”

“Without Balayya in the middle, will it be possible for Jr NTR to stand up as a hero in the first case? Without those hardcore Nandamuri fans who are ardent devotees of Balayya, how come Junior would have succeeded in Tollywood? How far it is correct now to say Jr NTR is next to Sr NTR?“, the post from fans asked.

Explanation given by these hardcore Balayya fans sounds logical. We have to see what Jr NTR fans will say.

Hebah Patel who played a glamorous and bold role in Sukumar’s first production venture, Kumari 21F, is one of the prime reasons for the movie becoming the biggest hit of the year in terms of the return on investment.

Sukumar was very impressed by this actress and gave her a little chance in NTR’s Nannaku Prematho. Beside this, she is currently working with a project featuring Raj Tharun and Manchu Vishnu and also accepted two more projects.

Hebah Patel had decided to cash the demand has increased her remuneration. Suddenly she is demanding a whopping 50 Lakhs as remuneration. Looks like she definitely knows how to make hay while sun shines!

Ahead of their release for Sankranthi, the makers of Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Dictator have intensified the promotions of the film. They are planning the Platinum disk function of the film on January 4th.

The audio launch event of the film was held at Amaravati and so the makers are planning this platinum disk function at Hyderabad. The movie shooting is currently in the last leg and January 14th release is targeted.

On the other side, Ram’s Nenu Sailaja which is releasing on January 1st as New Year Special, will be carrying the theatrical trailer of Balakrishna’s Dictator attached to its prints. Dictator is the prestigious 99th film of the actor’s career.

Our readers are aware that Malayalam Superstar Mohan Lal will be playing an important role in their film. Reports are now emerging that the makers have roped in one more Malayalam star, Fahad Fazil to play a key role in the film. The official confirmation regarding this news is awaited.

The makers are considering Janatha Garage (with a tagline – Ikkada Anni Repairlu Cheyyabadunu) as the title of the film even though they did not announce it officially. They are planning to release the movie on August 12th, 2016.

The release date working in the movie’s favour as there is a long weekend holiday due to Independence day holiday on Monday. Mytri Film Makers who turned producers with Srimanthudu will be producing this film as well.

Yerineni Naveen, Yalamanchili Ravi Shankar (Thammudu) and CVM (Mohan) are the producers. Devi Sri Prasad will be composing music as Koratala’s previous films – Mirchi and Srimanthudu.

Mega Prince Varun Tej despite his hard work, is yet to taste a success in his career. His recent film, Loafer is a terrible disaster. Varun Tej is now looking forward on his next project once again with his Kanche director, Krish.

The film is tentatively titled Raayabaari and Varun Tej will be seen as a spy in the movie. To get in shape for the character, the actor is losing some weight. Pragya Jaiswal who romanced Varun Tej in Kanche may be repeated in this film as well.

Krish is planning to shoot this film extensively abroad in Europe and USA. Currently the film’s pre-production and casting works are going on. The official announcement of this project is expected in January.