Nitya Menen, one of the most talented actresses down south, has always been lauded for her matured performances as well as her zero controversial professional life. The actress, in her 10 year long career, has never been linked up with any of her fellow actors, quite a rare feat for a successful heroine.

But now, a shocking rumor has been doing the rounds in the Kannada media circles. For the last few days, the Sandalwood media has been gung ho about an alleged romance brewing between Nitya and Eega villain Sudeep. The two actors have been acting in a Tamil-Kannada bilingual titled Mudinja Ivana Pudi in star director KS Ravi Kumar’s direction.

Apparently, both Nitya and Sudeep got too close during the making of the film and Sandalwood media is reporting that this even led to Sudeep’s much-in-news divorce with his wife of 14 years, Priya, recently. While these reports could be mere speculations, certain section of media also states that it was Sudeep’s affair with Kannada bombshell Ragini Dwiwedi which led to his divorce.

Yesteryear onscreen diva Sridevi made her comeback to Kollywood with a straight Tamil film after nearly 3 decades. Her latest Tamil film, Ilayathalapathy Vijay’s Puli, released recently and bit the dust miserably. While millions of her fans down south were thrilled with her comeback, Sridevi too expressed her joy over her comeback in south.

However, looks like Sridevi’s happiness is short-lived. After the film’s disastrous result at the box-office, Sridevi is also perturbed with the film’s producers not paying her balance remuneration of 50 lakhs. It was rumored that Sridevi was paid a whopping 5 crore for her comeback stint. Out of this, the producers seemed to have failed to pay 50 lakhs.

After several requests, Sridevi failed to get a proper surety about her payment and this led to her filing a complaint against Puli producers PT Selvakumar and Shibu Thameens in the Mumbai producer’s council. The producer’s council further referred Sridevi’s complaint to the Tamil producer’s council, which will now carry out the proceedings.

Ace writer Kona Venkat is donning many hats in real life. After tasting success in his debut production Geetanjali, he’s producing another film Sankarabharanam which is slated for release soon. While he has plans to make his directorial debut soon, the latest we hear is that the multi-faceted Kona now ventured into construction business.

The writer of films like Dookudu, Adhurs, Loukyam forayed into the business of properties. Spilling the beans, Kona took to his social-networking page and wrote, “Venturing into construction business in KAKINADA starting with “Kona’s Vishnu Priya” !! Will come up with more such projects in the near future!!”

Already, Kona’s family is into politics. Kona’s grandfather Kona Prabhakar Rao was a great leader and served as Governor for the states of Maharashtra, Sikkim and Pondicherry. Presently, Kona Venkat’s Baabayi Kona Raghupati is sitting MLA of Bapatla constituency.

Once a year go someplace you have never been before said Dalai lama. This family of four, Anand Baid-38, his wife Punita Baid 36, and their two children Yash-1 and Dhriti-8, drove across 11 countries in a year and as a departure from the cliched “Travel after retirement or explore while on a vacation” this family took life for what it is- Life is for risks, enjoyment, that adrenaline rush and the love of family .

A middle aged wife and husband with their two young children took off from Bangalore to Paris by car, If you have to ask a commoner about this their only answer would be – Only next to Impossible!! But this family of globetrotters just took it off and proved that life is short, the world is wide so take the shot while you still are young and energetic.

The Baid family took off from Bangalore on a 15,000 km road trip via Nepal, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkry, Greece, Italy, The Alps(Switzerland) Spain and finally reached their destination Paris! What rich world heritage they have passed by to the world’s favourite city of Love- Paris.

Inspired aren’t you? dont wait pack up now and leave. Always remember all journeys have a secret destination of which the traveller is unaware of. Like the fame, Experiences and happiness the L.I.F.E has got from this globetrotting of theirs.

“Gandhi ji has protested against the British, but he has never given back his Law Degree that was given by the British. Had he?” asked iconic actor Kamal Haasan, who reiterated that he’s firm on his words that there is no need to return awards if someone has to protest intolerance.

Kamal felt that those who are calling him insensitive for not returning his three National Awards despite the growing ‘intolerance’ in the country, are not even thinkers. “By giving awards, I’ll be humiliating the jury but not government. If intolerance is rising, then we could raise our voice, but what’s the need and use of returning awards?” he questioned. At the same time he clarified once again that he’s not starting any political party nor inclining with one.

Kamal Haasan’s words are being praised by many. Also a Whatsapp joke is doing rounds about this #AwardWapsi this way: “An award is useful is twice. For the first time when you get it, you’ll become celebrity. After years, when you return it, again you will become big celebrity”— Returning awards is not solution for intolerance.

In a major blow to Telugu Film Industry, not even a single Telugu film has been selected to be screened in the Indian Panorama section of the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2015. Even SS Rajamoui’s epic Baahubali, Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu have failed to make it to the list. Among the 26 films selected under this section are seven Bengali, five Hindi and four Malayalam films where they will be screened at the festival held in Goa from Nov 20 to Nov 30. It’s learnt total 5 Telugu films have been sent for nominations including Baahubali, one of the biggest blockbusters this year.

However, much to everyone’s shocker, selection committee, jury which watched Baahubali was not impressed with the film and didn’t send it to the central committee. “The jury members took 27 days to finalize the selections,” IFFI said in a statement, adding that the films are chosen for thematic and aesthetic excellence. This clearly means, Telugu films, particularly Baahubali, failed to meet the thematic, aesthetic excellence.

This is not first time not a single Telugu film is selected for the Indian Panorama. Even last year, not a single Telugu film made it to the festival despite the fact that two Telugu directors were in the selection panel. Since the emphasis was on quality , the two selectors K N T Sastry and Ganga Raju Gunnam went by the prescribed norms. This time, Telugu director and national award winner Praveen Sattaru was among the 13 jury members. “There is a criteria for selecting movies for the Indian Panorama. The Telugu films did not meet it,” Praveen was quoted as saying.

On whole, Telugu film fraternity and Telugu film lovers are in a deep shock that Baahubali, Srimanthudu couldn’t make it to Indian Panorama. It’s high time, filmmakers should introspect on films that churning out each year. Movies might be commercially successful, yet they should also be screened at International Film Festivals to spread the glory of Telugu films.

Senior actor and star comedian in Tollywood Ali has been in wrong news for his controversial and regressive comments on leading star actresses like Samantha and Anushka. Recently, Ali’s comments on Anushka’s thighs during the audio launch event of Size Zero have sparked off a huge controversy, with media houses attacking Ali.

To this, Ali cleared the air in a recent TV interview and apologized to all those who are hurt by his comments and even promised to not make such comments in the future. In the same interview, the TV channel aired the views of Ali’s wife Zubeida about the controversies surrounding her husband.

A visibly upset Zubeida said that her husband steps out of their home each day with the sole intention of bringing a smile on people’s faces. Zubeida further added that Ali was born only to make people laugh and pleaded everyone not to make him a victim of his own jokes.

Talking about the much-discussed video of the Telugu NRI girl Annapurna Sunkara where she lambasted Ali’s chauvinistic comments and alleged that Ali had bought his doctorate, Zubeida said that just Annapurana had so much problems with Ali’s comments, she too has similar issues with Annapurna’s comments about her husband. Well, no wonder that Zubeida spoke like a doting wife.