What happened to Mallu beauty Asin Thottumkal’s wedding? She was to get married to Micromax founder Rahul Sharma on November 26. The date has passed and there is no news of the wedding. Nor is there any news of the cancellation as in Trisha’s case. Asin has gone utterly silent.

Rahul, 10 years older than Asin, was introduced to her by her co-star Akshay Kumar cupid struck instantly. Asin was gloating about her marriage and the pre-marital functions have become the talk of the town. But, suddenly nothing is being heard about it. Asin, who debuted with Amma Naanna O Tamil Ammayi, made it big in Bollywood and gave three successive hits. Yet, her career did not take off.

The second half of the year saw several big budget movies going bust. Bruce Lee, Akhil and Size Zero have ended up as disasters both in the local market and in the world market. Bengal Tiger has however reached Rs 30 crore level business. Another film too is doing robust business. That is Sharwanand starrer Express Raja. Buyers are evincing keen interest in buying the movie. Trade sources say that the film was sold for fancy rates both in domestic as well as overseas market. Distributors are vying to buy the film. There are several reasons for this.

Firstly, Sharwanand is on the upswing. He has given quite a few hits. His range has gone up after the ‘Run Raja Run’ movie. Director Merlapaka Gandhi, who scored a hit with his first film, is another reason. Gandhi waited for quite some time after the first film and then did lot of exercise on the second film. Trust in both the director and the hero has reportedly helped the film zoom into the Rs 20 crore level. One has to wait for some time to know if the raciness in the film’s title lives up to the expectation and the collections justify it.

Mumbai: Actress Rani Mukerji and filmmaker Aditya Chopra were on Wednesday blessed with a daughter, whom they have named Adira, an amalgam of their names. Rani has described the baby as “god’s greatest gift”. The baby, who is “healthy and feisty”, was born at the Breach Candy Hospital on Wednesday morning. “I would like to thank all my well wishers and fans,” Rani said in a statement issued by Aditya’s production banner Yash Raj Films. “Today life has given us god’s greatest gift with Adira. We thank fans our friends and well-wishers for their unconditional support and blessings. With joy we begin this new chapter in our lives,” she added. Rani and Aditya, who had for long been in a relationship, had entered wedlock in April 2014 in Italy.

They are both accomplished in their fields of acting and filmmaking in Bollywood. Their friends and family members are excited about the news. Aditya’s younger brother Uday announced on Twitter: “ITÂ’S A GIRL!!!!!”; while the couple’s close friend and filmmaker Karan Johar shared: “Am an uncle to a beautiful baby girl today!!!!! @udaychopra !!! Rani and Adi had a baby girl!!” Actress Parineeti Chopra also shared her joy by posting: “IT’S A GIRL !!!! So so excited baby Adira is born !! #Adi #Rani”; and veteran actor Rishi Kapoor said: “Rani and Aditya Chopra become proud parents to a baby girl named Adira. Congratulations!”

Puri Jagan makes films in a jiffy. But, for some films, the film bombs as quickly too. Due to this, his market value is on a down spiral. With Jyothi Lakshmi’s going bust at the box-office, his stocks are further down. Before Jyothi Lakshmi, he made Iddarammayilato, Heart Attack and Temper. All of them didn’t turn out money spinners for the producers. All these seem to be affecting his latest flick ‘Loafer. ‘Though, the producers managed to sell the rights for Nizam area, the deals are still underway for the other regions.

These appears to be major mismatch between Puri Jagan’s market and producer C Kalyan’s demands. They are afraid of underselling too as it could mean losses. There’s something more to this story! Wags tell us that Puri Jagan has been demanding Rs 7 crore for the movie. Initally, it was decided that Rs 5 crore would be his remuneration. Now, Puri is confident that the product is very good and would rake in moolah. So, he hiked his fee by Rs 2 crore.

Milky Beauty Tamannah and Young Tiger NTR romanced each other in Oosaravelli. If the rumours in Filmnagar are to be believed, she will be shaking her booty for a Special song in the actor’s next, Nannaku Prematho. This is the only song that will be left out in Nannaku Prematho after the ongoing Spain schedule.

The rumour mills say that the Milky Beauty had demanded hefty pay cheque for this song. Tamannah Previously danced for an item number in Bellamkonda Srinivas’ debut film, Alludu Seenu. As a sentiment she is doing another such song in his second film as well. Plans are on to release Nannaku Prematho for Sankranthi-2016.

Post Production works of the Sukumar’s directorial, are going on simultaneously. Rajendra Prasad and Jagapathi Babu are playing important roles. Devi Sri Prasad is the music composer. BVSN Prasad is producing the film under his Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra banner.

Superstar Mahesh Babu had headed to Ooty for a new schedule of his next, Brahmotsavam there. The team recently completed the third schedule of the film in RFC recently. The Ooty schedule will go on till this month end and several crucial scenes of the film will be canned there.

They have decided that the movie will be releasing on April 29th. The agreements with the distributors are being made accordingly with the same date. They are planning to complete the entire movie shoot by March.

Samantha, Kajal Aggarwal and Pranitha are playing the female leads in this film. Srikanth Addala who delivered a super hit to Mahesh with Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu is wielding megaphone for this film once again. Potluri Vara Prasad will be producing the film on his PVP Cinemas banner. Mickey J Meyer is the music composer.

Mumbai: Veteran actor Anupam Kher, who was at the forefront of slamming Aamir Khan’s views on intolerance in the country, says he’d love to work with the actor-producer, whom he has now called a “dear friend”. “I have great friends, including Aamir. I would like to believe that he is a very dear friend of mine,” Anupam said here at the launch of a Society magazine cover featuring him. Anupam had shared a series of tweets when Aamir’s statements on intolerance made headlines, and had expressed concern about the latter’s views. Justifying his action then, Anupam said he was informed about the controversy by his taxi driver who wanted to know if Aamir was right in saying that there is “growing despondence” in the nation. “That triggered it off.

It was a spontaneous reaction and I’ve stuck to it because there is nothing wrong (in what I said).“I just said that this is a great country, so as celebrities we have to say things which do not create fear in smaller places. I don’t want to raise a flag on the issue. If I was politically correct, I wouldn’t have said it. I don’t want to come across as a crusader who wants to talk about it everywhere. I have great love for Aamir, and for everybody,” shared Anupam. Surprisingly, Anupam and Aamir haven’t shared the frame since 1990, even though they were part of “Rang De Basanti”. When asked if they will work together, Anupam said: “I would love to. He’s a producer-director; he can cast me anytime. I would love to work with him. I’ve not worked with him for 25 years, I miss him.”

Couple of weeks ago, we have informed our readers that Senior distributer Dil Raju will be distributing Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Dictator in the Nizam region. But now the senior distributor is out of the race for Nizam rights.

We are said that the makers and Dil Raju could not arrive at common ground regarding the price of the Nizam rights for the film and so Dil Raju dropped. Eros International will now release the film themselves there. Dictator business in both the Telugu states is almost complete.

Anjali is romancing Balayya in this film directed by Loukhyam fame Srivas. Popular writers Kona Venkat and Gopimohan are working for this film, their first time with Balayya.

Sudhir Babu’s latest offering, Bhale Manchi Roju’s Nizam rights were bagged by Dil Raju and the Guntur rights are bagged by Vamsi of UV Creations. Usually Dil Raju is considered as Golden hand for small films. Bhale Manchi Roju is all about a memorable day in the lead actor’s life.

The film revolves around what happens on that ill-fated day when he meets some weird characters and how things take a turn in the protagonist’s life.

Wamiqa Gabbi makes her Telugu debut with this film. Sudheer Babu’s close friends, Vijay and Shashi, produced this film under their 70mm Entertainments banner. A new comer Sriram Aditya is directing the film.

Naga Chaitanya’s Majnu, the remake of Malayalam blockbuster, Premam is being canned in Vishakapatnam. The other day we have got a news that Regina Cassandra is brought in to the project in place of Aisha Sharma.

But the makers say it is not true and Aisha Sharma is still in consideration for the role. Majnu will be shot extensively in the exotic locales of Visakhapatnam, Rajahmundry, Goa, Europe, Pollachi and Araku.

Anupama Parameshwaran is the other heroine in the film. Buzz is that Nagarjuna will be seen in a little cameo while Victory Venkatesh will play the hero’s father in the movie. More details of this project later. Karthikeya fame Chandoo Mondeti is wielding megaphone for this remake venture.

Film critics and anti fans of Naga Chaitanya ridiculed his choice of doing the remake of Malayalam blockbuster Premam. Many pointed out that he cannot pull off the massy ‘college student’ character in the film. Nivin Pauly has set a very high benchmark by perfecting this character in the original. Naga Chaitanya took it as a challenge and believed that he could do justice to this film. He competed with many other heroes and producers to bag the Telugu remake rights of the movie.

Yet to be titled Premam remake started rolling few days ago. College episode involving Naga Chaitanya (student) and Shruti Haasan (junior lecturer) is being shot at the moment. Naga Chaitanya is looking superb in that bearded getup. He is strikingly charming in the getup and looks promising to pull it off. This should shut the mouths of his critics who raised doubts over his capabilities. Talented director Chandu Mondeti of Karthikeya fame is directing this remake.

Director Sampath Nandi dedicated himself for Gabbar Singh sequel for more than two years. He worked day and night on the screenplay and treatment and despite his hard work Sampath Nandi was asked to leave the project. Sampath was replaced by director Bobby for Gabbar Singh 2, but the former didn’t make hue and cry over it. Sampath Nandi was matured enough by taking it with a smile and moved on. He has immediately announced Bengal Tiger with Ravi Teja and finished it off even before Sardaar Gabbar Singh is done.Anybody would have sympathized with him as he spent more than two years on that film that too after scoring a big hit with Racha.

Still Sampath Nandi chose to remain silent and even today he is not making any comments against Pawan Kalyan. Sampath Nandi is not willing to say what went wrong but maintains that he still shares a very healthy relation with the Power Star. He says that his aim is to direct Pawan Kalyan and is readying a script for the same. Sampath Nandi is pretty confident about Bengal Tiger’s success and is getting ready to narrate a script to a big star shortly.