Mumbai-Australia-Mumbai, that’s how curvaceous Goan siren Ileana’s journey went recently. She’s always posting pictures of her rumoured beau Andrew Kneebone, an Australian based photographer, and used to give lectures on life and times, along with love and laughter.

Nearly after three years of big break from Tollywood, this hip beauty is trying to make her comeback into industry. Unfortunately there are those who could offer her item bomb roles, but none is taking her onboard as a lead girl.

To penetrate deeply into casting minds, Ileana now wants to come up with a saucy new shoot. Though her boyfriend himself is a photographer, we hear that she didn’t like the shots he clicked. Sometime back there is buzz that a famous Chennai based photographer who charges nearly 10 lakhs per a day’s shoot is being roped by Ileana for a new portfolio.

That’s sad to hear, because this hottie left Tollywood in a super stardom but now the position seems to be totally different.

Popular as Mahesh Babu’s Brother-in-Law, Sudhir Babu is trying to prove his mettle as a dependable hero from a long time. Though he’s coming up with some good films, commercially they are not working at box office. Here comes his next flick. Titled “Bhale Manchi Roju”, this film is being directed by newcomer Sriram Aditya.

It’s about the kidnap of film’s leading lady Wamiqa Gabbi and how our hero rescues her. While the plot sounds routine, Sudhir’s looks and director’s presentation through cinematographer Shamdat’s meritorious visuals and MR Sunny’s soothing music are very interesting.

For now, the trailer looks very promising for its content, dialogues and performances from Sudhir and Saikumar. Song teasers are also increasing hype on the movie. We have to see if this film could be the biggest break our BIL is waiting for.

Vijayawada: With prices of land and rented properties at an all-time high, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu warned that the land prices have become sky-high in Krishna district. Naidu said that the rates were higher than the prices in Hyderabad and Mumbai.

He said while malls are coming up in Vijayawada, people too must co-operate and have a check on their spending. He requested the businessmen not to hike prices so that the market remains balanced and added that the city must inculcate a cosmopolitan culture. He said unnecessary increase in rates would be counter-productive to progress and added that it would be tough to provide basic amenities in Amaravathi, if the situation continues like this.

Sankarabharanam is readying for release and the team is out to promote the film. So in conversation with the film’s hero, the film’s writer Kona Venkat has done a small on-video interview. During conversation, he gets Nikhil to talk about the film and his choice of films and why people like Allu Arjun and Naga Chaitanya feel that he has the knack to smell a good and salable script.

Speaking about Sankarbharanam, Nikhil says he grew up watching films like Aditya 369 and says that he prefers to do different films. While he reveals that he does like films like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, he confesses he is scared of that genre and that he would prefer doing good and commercially successful films. Click here to find out more about what Nikhil and Kona Venkat have to say about Sankarabharanam…

Superstar Mahesh Babu’s next under the direction of AR Murugudoss will have ace cinematographer Santosh Sivan. He is the country’s top cinematographer with 13 National awards and a Padmasri. He is also the first Indian cinematographer to be inducted into the American Society of Cinematographers.

Santosh Sivan himself confirmed this development in his Twitter account. The film will have its launch for Ugadi the next year. The regular shooting will however begin only after the release of Brahmotsavam.

Senior Producer Dil Raju is likely to produce the movie. Murugudoss may make this film simultaneously in Tamil with some other hero. The makers are currently in talks with Bollywood beauties, Alia Bhatt and Shradda Kapoor to play the female lead. More details of this project will be out very soon.

Our readers are aware that Creative director Krishna Vamshi is working on a film in Dil Raju’s Production for his next project. He is trying to rope in Anushka for the movie which will have one more heroine and five other young actors in its ranks.

The movie is reportedly of horror genre and will be made in limited working days. They say the movie will have some good CG content and they are planning it like never before in Telugu Cinema. Rudraksha is the title in consideration.

Krishna Vamshi’s last outing, Govindhudu Andhari Vaadele is an average grosser at the box office. We will have to see if this new project will be a comeback film for the ace director.

The huge row of criticism targeted at Aamir Khan and his family members against the ‘increasing intolerance’ comments made by him at a recent interview will no more subside for now. The star Bollywood actor is under the fire for expressing his intentions clearly. However, Aamir’s idea of leaving the country is completely a trash and he himself offered the clarity. ‘First let me state categorically state that neither I, nor my wife Kiran have any intention of leaving the country. We never did and nor would we like to in the future. Anyone implying the opposite has either not seen my interview or is deliberately trying to distort what I have said. India is my country, I love it, I feel fortunate for being born here and this is where I am staying,’ Aamir said in a media statement.

‘I stand by everything that I have said in my interview. To all those people who are calling me anti-national, I would like to say that I am proud to be Indian, and I do not need anyone’s permission nor endorsement for that. To all the people shouting obscenities at me for speaking my heart out, it saddens me to say you are only proving my point. To all the people who have stood by me, thank you. We have to protect what this beautiful and unique country of ours really stands for. We have to protect its integrity, diversity, inclusiveness, its many languages, its culture, its history, its tolerance, it’s concept of ekantavada, it’s love, sensitivity and its emotional strength.

I would like to end my statement with a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, it’s a prayer really: Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, Where knowledge is free, Where the world has not been broken up into fragments, by narrow domestic walls, Where words come out from the depth of truth, Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection, Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way, Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit, Where the mind is led forward by thee, Into ever-widening thought and action, Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake,’ Aamir added.

After Surya Prakash Rao and Raghavendra Rao, thankfully Kovelamudi Prakash Rao continued their family legacy by becoming a director. However, he took to a different path by remaining distant away from regular commercial cinema wherein his father KRR created a niche. Trying the hand first as romantic hero, Prakash was good at judging himself and immediately closed this option in no time to confine for those activities to be done behind the screen.

‘Anaganaga O Dheerudu’ starring Siddharth, Shruti Hasan happens to be the first main stream cinema from Prakash with fantasy and adventure backdrop done in association with Disney World Cinema. This film has shown the focused approach of Prakash towards serving a different and new age cinema to new age audience. Despite a weak commercial result, his efforts haven’t gone without recognition.

After a decent gap, Prakash is back to direction with ‘Size Zero’ hitting the screens tomorrow. Lots of promotions from producer Prasad V Potluri and presence of star names like Anushka, Arya made this film hog the limelight. It’s the good fate of Prakash as movie is also getting positive pre release buzz which should help in decent Box Office openings. Wishing all the best to Kovelamudi Prakash, let us see how his career takes a sharp turn from here on.

Mahesh Babu is the best looking hero of South Indian cinema and there will be no more cross arguments in passing this inference. His handsome looks and settled attitude are an instant connect with Fans. Off late, success bought much more glow and confidence in his face which is evidential in past couple of movies where in his charm is enhanced.

However, Mahesh Babu’s presence yesterday at his brother-in-law Sudheer Babu’s ‘Bhale Manchi Roju’ audio function has thrown the huge gathering of Fans in a panicky situation when they have seen Mahesh in a fortuitous hair do. From the days of ‘Murari’ till ‘Srimanthudu,’ there was a consistent change in Mahesh Babu’s styling of hair. As a part of professional grooming, the aspects of fashion or cosmetics and hair dressing also grew in due importance.

To everyone’s shock, there were clear doubts on whether Mahesh is using a wig or has undergone some sort of transplantation in last few months for the sake of ‘Brahmotsavam.’ The glow in his face is although in-tact, problem definitely lied with some oddness in hair dressing which distracted the common audience attention.

Akhil Akkineni’s debut venture has evenually turned out to be the biggest disaster of recent times which made buyers suffering with 80% of losses. To those distributors who have gone depressed with the ‘Akhil’s result, director of the movie Vv Vinayak turned as a ray of hope. If the report from a leading English daily is to be believed, Vv Vinayak has come forward to offer compensation to the suffered distributors. This is the first time in the history of Tollywood, a director taking such a welcoming initiative.

Vv Vinayak has reportedly called up the Kranthi pictures of Visakhapatnam and a distributor from the Krishna district, who have been distributing his films for a long time. Vizag distributor has reportedly got Rs.1 crore from the director. Also it is known that the director paid Rs.3 crores back to the producer from the remuneration he received earlier.

It is also being buzzed that hero Akhil is also returning some of the money he received as part of his remuneration. As we know, hero Nithiin has produced this prestigious project on his Shresht Movies.

Hero Sudheer Babu’s new film ‘Bhale Manchi Roju’s audio launch was held grandeur at Shilpakala Vedika last night. Prince Mahesh attended as the chief guest of the event. In the meanwhile, theatrical trailer was also launched in function.

The trailer appeared to be promising with punch liners of Sai Kumar, interesting kidnap drama, heroine’s funny anger and dialogues. Sudheer Babu looked handsome and stylish in the trailer. On the flip side, it appeared something like a routine kidnap drama. However, a better screen play with good number of hilarious and action moments might make the movie scoring a success as the trailer assured to all these elements.

Wamiqa Gabbi has paired up with Sudheer Babu in the movie. Sunny MR has provided the music of the movie. The movie was directed by Sri Ram Aditya. Vijay Kumar Reddy and Shashidhar Reddy have produced the movie.