After Charmi Breakup, Puri Holidays with Wife!
While news of Puri parting ways with Charmi doing the rounds, here is the latest development about Loafer director. The writer-director is all set for an abroad trip. Puri will be soon heading to a foreign location where he is going to work on the script for his next film. What’s more? Puri’s wife Lavanya will be accompanying him during this trip.
Whenever Puri goes to Bangkok to write script, he avoids others and prefers to go single as he says it allows him to write well. Now that his wife Lavanya is accompanying Puri after 10 long years, it’s setting tongues wagging in tinsel town. So it clearly confirms that it’s Puri’s permanent break up with Charmi.
Puri apparently decided to pay keen attention on the script and decided to not to go to shoot until he is convinced totally. Puri, who is known for wrapping up films in very fast span, now wants to spend more time on script and filming to give better output. Looks like, Puri is completely changed person.
Now, See Anushka Only In Sarees
In the third installment of Singham, Singham 3, Anushka Shetty will be totally seen in Sarees. Anushka, who plays house wife in the film, will be seen dressed in sarees. In the second installment, Singham 2, Anushka marries Suriya. Since it’s a proper sequel, director Hari wants Anushka to be seen in a simple attire. Also, set against rural backdrop, the film will see Anushka in a village belle.
However, the makers are keen that she shouldn’t give up her glam avatar completely. For songs, Anushka going to go glam and may tease with her sarees itself. After essaying Devasena in Baahubali and seen as warrior queen Rudhramadevi and as fatty girl in Size Zero, Anushka definitely given her glam treat a miss. Even Anushka doesn’t want to give a miss to her glam treat and disappoint fans.
In this Singham franchise, Anushka going to get tough competition from Shruti Haasan who is going to sizzle with her glam treat.
3 Muhurats for Balayya To Enter on Stage
It’s well-known fact that Nandamuri Balakrishna is devotional, great follower of astrology and has strong belief on auspicious muhurats. Proving this yet again and taking his belief on muhurats to new high, the grapevine is that Balayya had got to fix 3 muhurats for his entry on to the stage of Dictator audio launch.
Though Balayya had fixed a muhurat initially, he couldn’t make it on time. Balayya wasn’t lucky second time either. Since he was going to audio launch venue as a rally, he missed second muhurat too. At last, Balayya was third-time lucky. While the Legend star finally walked onto the dais for the third muhurat.
There is no denying that film personalities have this habit of following astrology, predictions. And most of them are particular about having auspicious muhurat for movie launches or audio launches. But having muhurat to step into the dais is something unusual, unheard of. Balayya proved that he is unique, different from the rest. That’s Balayya!
Smartphone-based Systems help Driverless Cars ‘see’
Scientists have developed two new smartphone-based systems for driverless cars that can identify a user’s location and various components of a road scene such as street signs, pedestrians and buildings in places where GPS does not function. The systems can perform the same job as sensors costing tens of thousands of pounds, researchers said. The separate but complementary systems have been designed by researchers from the University of Cambridge in UK. Although the systems cannot currently control a driverless car, the ability to make a machine ‘see’ and accurately identify where it is and what it is looking at is a vital part of developing autonomous vehicles and robotics.
The first system, called SegNet, can take an image of a street scene it has not seen before and classify it, sorting objects into 12 different categories – roads, street signs, pedestrians, buildings and cyclists – in real time. It can deal with light, shadow and night-time environments, and currently labels more than 90 per cent of pixels correctly.
Previous systems using expensive laser or radar based sensors have not been able to reach this level of accuracy while operating in real time. Users can upload an image or search for any city or town in the world, and the system will label all the components of the road scene. The system has been successfully tested on both city roads and motorways. For the driverless cars currently in development, radar and base sensors are expensive – in fact, they often cost more than the car itself. In contrast with expensive sensors, which recognise objects through a mixture of radar and LIDAR (a remote sensing technology), SegNet learns by example – it was ‘trained’ by the researchers, who manually labelled every pixel in each of 5000 images.
Once the labelling was finished, the researchers then took two days to ‘train’ the system before it was put into action. “It’s remarkably good at recognising things in an image, because it is had so much practise,” said Alex Kendall, a PhD student in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge.
A separate but complementary system uses images to determine both precise location and orientation.This localisation system runs on a similar architecture to SegNet, and is able to localise a user and determine their orientation from a single colour image in a busy urban scene.The system is far more accurate than GPS and works in places where Global Positioning System (GPS) does not, such as indoors, in tunnels, or in cities where a reliable GPS signal is not available.
The localisation system uses the geometry of a scene to learn its precise location, and is able to determine, for example, whether it is looking at the east or west side of a building, even if the two sides appear identical.
Sadhana framed her picture with Ranbir,
Mumbai: Veteran actress Sadhana, who mesmerised audience with her beauty and powerful performances in timeless hits like Hum Dono, Love in Simla and Waqt, died on Friday at a hospital in suburban Santa Cruz here after a brief illness.
Bollywood celebs and showbiz personalities including Lata Mangeshkar, Karan Johar, Rishi Kapoor and Anushka Sharma mourned the demise of veteran actress Sadhana and remembered the iconic songs she featured in.
Many celebrities recalled old fond memories of Sadhana as they expressed their grief. Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor, who went to veteran actor’s house to pay his condolence, found a framed picture of Sadhana along with his son Ranbir Kapoor and Shaina NC beside the veteran’s bed.
Surprised by this, the actor took to his official Twitter account to share Sadhana’s unknown treasured memory.
Hrithik Roshan goes skiing with his kids
Mumbai: Bollywood’s Greek God, Hritik Roshan took off to Switzerland with his kids Hrehaan and Hridhaan as soon as he wrapped up the last leg of ‘Mohenjo Daro’.
The actor celebrated Christmas by taking his kids to skiing to Geneva, a beautiful city in Switzerland. In the video, we see Hrithik and his little ones gliding through the snow gracefully.
The actor has often taken off to exotic locations with his kids whenever he had a chance. Since it’s Christmas season and the actor was closing in on his film’s schedule, Hrithik decided to take his kids on a sweet Chirstmas vacation to Switzerland.
Three women raped a young guy in SA
India and few other countries are making amendments to the laws to punish rapists severely. We might have heard lot about man rapists, but in a conflicting incident that happened in South Africa, three women raped a young guy, took away samples of his semen before dumping him. Oh man, even men are victims of rapes and this incident proves the same.
In a bizarre occurrence, the unidentified 33-year-old man was allegedly kidnapped by three women at gunpoint and assaulted him at the back of a black BMW. This happened shortly afterwards the three women pulled over in the Kwazakhele Township, Port Elizabeth, and asked for directions from the man.
When the man failed to get aroused while being driven away, the women forced him to drink an “unknown substance” and then took turns to rape him. They also took samples of his semen in plastic bags and stored them in a cooler box. The women left after dumping their victim some 500 kilometres away from where they kidnapped him.As per reports, the victim was fully conscious throughout his suffering and he is still traumatized.
Ajay Devgn goes off the edge for ‘Shivaay’
Mumbai: The first look of Ajay Devgn’s directorial venture ‘Shivaay’, has sent him off the edge, quite literally! The actor, has thrown caution over the ledge, and has shot a few breathtaking scenes in the locales of Landour- lap of the Himalayas. Ajay can be seen suspended in mid-air near a cliff, while holding on to a rope.
Early this morning, the actor took to his social networking handle to share the picture, that he captioned, “Trying to overcome my fear of heights, do you guys think this will help?”
Ajay, who will be seen directing and playing the lead in the film, will push his limits and perform a few adrenaline pumping stunts. The film will be shot in India, and a handful of foreign countries like Canada, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia and parts of the United Kingdom. He recently shot a portion of the film in Mussoorie with British child actor Abigail Eames, who will be playing the role of his daughter.
In the film that is slated for a 2016 release, Ajay will be seen playing Shivaay, the ‘protector, transformer and destroyer’. The film will take on Karan Johar’s love saga ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ at the box office next year. The film has Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Anushka Sharma in leading roles.
Party together at Bosco’s Christmas bash
Mumbai: Shahid Kapoor and his wife Mira celebrated their first Christmas together, partying at choreographer Bosco Martis’ bash. The loved up couple arrived at the party hand in hand, in sexy casual attire.
While Mira got into the festive spirit and put on a red and black outfit, Shahid kept it simple in a blue tee. Shahid’s ‘Rangoon’ co-star and leading day Kangana Ranaut later joined the gang and partied together. Ever since news of their paring in the upcoming periodic love saga broke, the actress has been seen attending several parties with the couple.
Kangana is going all out to become good friends with her lead actors’ wives. While she has parted with Shahid and Mira, Kangana was recently seen chatting up a storm with Saif Ali Khan’s wife Kareena Kapoor Khan. The two ladies met up at a conference in Delhi and even flew back to the city together.
For last evening’s bash, Kangana opted for a beautiful pink and red printed dress, that she paired with a pink coat and a peach bag. The actress, also smiled, waved and blew flying kisses to the cameras as she posed for a few pictures.
Megastar laud RGV’s ‘Killing Veerappan’ trailer
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and actor Riteish Deshmukh have lauded the theatrical trailer of filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma’s Kannada directorial debut “Killing Veerappan”, which is based on the shooting down of the forest brigand.Amitabh, who has woked with Varma in films like “Sarkar”, “Nishabd” and “Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag” .
The filmmaker responded to Big B’s tweet and quipped that the forthcoming film will help him “pour some water on my ‘Aag'”. “@SrBachchan Thank u Sarkar! I think with “Killing Veerappan” I really managed to pour some water on my ‘Aag’,” Varma wrote. Riteish also heaped praise on the trailer and said that the promo was “outstanding”.”What an outstanding promo: #KillingVeerappan : @RGVzoomin Sir your casting can’t get more real than this,” the “Bangistan” actor wrote.
Varma, who has helmed movies like “Satya”, “Bhoot”, “Daud” and “Phoonk” among many “hopes” that “Killing Veerappan” helps him “come back alive”. “@Riteishd Hey Riteish thanx! I am hoping that the dead Veerappan will make me come back alive,” Varma wrote. A multilingual project, “Killing Veerappan” will also be made in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.
Actor Shivarajkumar will play the central role of the officer who kills Veerappan.Sandeep, an aspiring youth from National School of Drama, was selected to play the role of the sandalwood smuggler. The crime thriller also features actresses Yanga Shetty and Parul Yadav.
I Will Miss Mega Family, KCR, Jagan
As we reported earlier, maverick director Ram Gopal Varma is shifting his base to Mumbai from Hyderabad. RGV likes to be busy bee and moves to place that keeps him busy. After delivering consecutive disasters for few years in Telugu, RGV who indeed feels Tollywood is not his destination, targets Bollywood.
The controversial filmmaker waiting for the release of Killing Veerappan reveals the list of whom he will badly miss after his shifting to Mumbai. “After “Killing Veerappan” releases, I am shifting back to Mumbai… I will miss Puri Jagan, KCR, My Mom and my tweets on the Mega Family,” affirms RGV.
When RGV got a Bollywood offer Daud, he left Chiranjeevi’s film (Vinalani Vundi) midway and went to Bombay. After the disaster result of Nagarjuna starred Govinda Govinda, RGV then revealed not to make films in Telugu and shifted to Mumbai with an intention to make only Hindi films.
He didn’t look back for long time, until offers dried up in Hindi. Then RGV made comeback to Tollywood with Sunil’s Katha Screenplay Darshakatvam Appalaraju, a flop. The director hasn’t scored a commercial hit in his second innings in Telugu and no filmmaker here is keen on working with him.
Fortunately, he got calls from Bollywood filmmakers and is now leaving to B-Town again. RGV who usually spends his free time on Twitter has given finishing touch to Tollywood with his mark tweet- targeting KCR, Mega family and others.
Aishwarya Rai – Ranbir Kissing Scene Dropped?
According to DNA website, the script of Karan Johar’s next directorial project, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, demanded is a kiss and a passionate scene between the leading man Ranbir Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Although Ash has done a kissing scene in Dhoom:2, with Hrithik Roshan, after she got married, she isn’t comfortable doing it now.
She made her reservations known to director KJo. Given his relationship with the Bachchan parivaar, he didn’t want any awkwardness and agreed to shoot the scene in such a way that it would not involve an actual liplock.
He will now also shoot the intimate scene in such a way that there is no skin-show by the actress. So now, you won’t see a liplock between Ranbir and Aishwarya Rai.
