Photo Feature: Gopala Gopala 2nd Look Poster
Venkatesh is playing an antique dealer in the film which is the official remake of Oh My God. Shriya Saran is playing Venky’s wife in the film and Pawan Kalyan is playing the role of lord Krishna. Sharath Marar and Suresh Babu are co-producing the producing the movie. Mithun Chakravarthy is also doing a special role in the film.
Reddys Dominate KCR Cabinet
Although Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has tried to strike a caste-balance by following majoritarian theory, it is likely to incite the debate of proportionate representation by some castes or communities who felt left-out in the process of cabinet formation or expansion. Reddys continue their dominance and constitute one-third of KCR’s Council of Ministers although they constitute nearly six per cent of the State’s population. Of 18, six ministers belong to Reddy community.
They are Nayani Narasimha Reddy, Pocharam Srinivasa Reddy, Ch Laxma Reddy, Jagadish Reddy, P Mahender Reddy and A Indrakaran Reddy. This move by KCR could be aimed at the Congress which is generally viewed as the Reddy-dominated party. The next dominant community in the Telangana Cabinet is Velama. Besides KCR, his son K Tarakarama Rao and nephew T Harish Rao, the new minister Jupalli Krishna Rao belongs to the Velama community.
Despite constituting less than half percent of the total population in the State, Velamas’ representation in the State Cabinet is almost 22 per cent. With the inclusion of Talasani Srinivas Yadav, the representation of Backward Classes in the State Cabinet has increased to four. All BC ministers in KCR’s cabinet represent dominant castes. Finance Minister Etala Rajendra is a Mudiraj, Jogu Ramanna a Munnur Kapu, T Padma Rao a Goud and Talasani is a Yadava.
Tummala Nageshwara Rao represents Kamma community exists in large numbers in Khammam, Warangal, Nalgonda, Nizamabad and Hyderabad. Traditionally, the community had associated itself with the Telugu Desam Party. While Deputy Chief Minister Dr T Rajaiah represents Madigas, the Malas have no representation in cabinet and therefore, there were strong protests in Karimnagar and other places demanding cabinet berth for Koppula Eshwar, who has been nominated as Chief Whip.
Ajmeera Chandulal, who has been inducted into the cabinet today, belongs to Lambada community and is the lone representatives of STs. Similarly, Deputy Chief Minister Mahmood Ali is the lone representative of minorities in the State cabinet. Interestingly, the Chief Minister has promised 12% reservation for both STs and Muslims in jobs and education although their representation in the State cabinet is mere five per cent each.
Vishnu’s Rigorous Training in Bangkok
Vishnu Manchu is undergoing special freestyle martial arts training in Bangkok for two weeks for his upcoming Telugu film, remake of super hit Arima Nambi. We hear that it was rigorous training where the Dhee star sweating out. Vishnu who is already an expert in Wushu is now mastering in martial arts and he is expecting that this film will stand out in martial arts in Tollywood.
The movie is being helmed by none other than director Deva Katta and the actor himself is producing the film as he acquired remake rights. Vishnu is on a spree of making remakes and his last venture Erra Bus was also remake of Tamil film Manjapai.
‘Kill Me But Leave Children’
Nobel Peace Prize 2014 winner and child activist Kailash Satyarthi has made strong comments on the vile attack of terrorists on a Pakistan school in Peshawar. Reacting to incident, Kailash termed it as “darkest day” in the history of humanity. This is not all.
Kailash has offered himself as “prey” to the terrorists and in return he asked to leave those innocent children who were held as hostages. “If they can hear me, they can keep me hostage, kill me but release those 400 children of mine who are trapped there,” he said. Kailash added, “The Taliban terrorist who have held them hostage, who are shooting them down are enemy of humanity, they are enemies of Allah, enemies of religion, enemies of Islam.
They are enemies of all of us. I pray to God that they get wisdom from somewhere.” Expressing his deep condolences for the bereaved families, Kailash said that his heart bleeds for them. He has recently received Nobel Peace Prize 2014 award and he shared it with Pakistan teen activist Malala Yousafzai.
Legendary Director’s Condition Still Critical: Doctors
According to a fresh health bulletin, released by a team of doctors of Kauvery hospital in Chennai, the condition of veteran director-actor K. Balachander is still “critical”. “Mr K. Balachander, 84 years, is suffering from urinary tract infection and has been admitted to ICU for further treatment. He is in critical condition but his general condition is stable. He is ably managed by a team of senior doctors,” said a statement released by doctors.
Meanwhile, actor Kamal Haasan who is presently in Los Angeles and busy with the sound-recording of upcoming film Uttama Villain, released a video message.wishing speedy recovery for his father-figure. He stated, “My brother told me that I can’t do anything by coming all the way from Los Angeles to Chennai and my honorary doctorate won’t do the needful.
Also K Balachander won’t be pleased if I visit him without completing the post production work of Uttama Villain.” Kamal had telephoned Balachander but he couldn’t understand what the latter trying to say. Kamal added, “My wish is to show the complete film of Uttama Villain to KB and also want to know what he tried to tell me during the 130 seconds conversation.”
Anup Gets A Call From Pawan Kalyan
It’s a memorable moment for music director Anup Rubens. It’s been an exceptionally good year for Anup with films like Heart Attack, Manam and Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham turning out to be big hits. Currently, Anup is working for Venkatesh and Pawan Kalyan starrer ‘Gopala Gopala’.
This ‘Manam’ composer has completed the music part long back and Pawan Kalyan was happy with the tunes. Pawan personally called Anup and appreciated his work. Getting compliments from such a Superstar is not a small thing for a music director.
Anup said “#PSPK OMG!Best day of my life!!!Pawan Kalyan sir just called and said’I Luv u Anup!’Next line he said was’We are working soon!’Delighted :D”. Well, Pawan promised a film to Anup Rubens and we are yet to know whether it would be Gabbar Singh 2 or any other project.
Terror attack: Renu Desai called it as Dinosaurs era
Once again Horror prevailed in Pakistan and at least ten armed terrorists in military uniform attacked an army school.Total 126 innocent kids died in the attack.Whole world got shocked with the news.Many celebrities termed the Taliban militants attack as sickening and appalling. Actress-turned-Filmmaker Renu Desai who is very active on the social media platforms opened on the attack.
Deeply pained by the massacre, she responded: “I feel we still live in Dinosaur era!That is the only justification my brain accepts for the barbaric murders in the name of religion! When schools become battle grounds & innocent kids die, just remember the word civilisation has no meaning left! In which religion is this ok?!”.
The former actress also took potshots at politicians across the world who usually issue a condolence note and forget everything.Other side Rescue operations are on and soldiers have surrounded the school. Latest reports suggest of three terrorists are killed in rescue and three blocks of the school are freed. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is in Peshawar to monitor the situation.
“Pawan Hatao” book writer gets police security!
If there is a firebrand leader, then there would be other firebrands coming out. People of AP & Telangana state cannot forget the war cry of power star Pawan Kalyan before 2014 polls with the slogan Congress Hatao Desh Bachao.
Now the same slogan has come back to haunt him. Sources say that the writer of controversial book ‘Pawan Hatao Politics Bachao’ Boggula Srinivas has received threats. In this regard, the home ministry of Telangana has ordered extra police protection for the writer. This is due to the threats he has been receiving.
The writer in this book has stated that Pawan Kalyan is an opportunistic politician who only comes out to strike deals before elections and other controversial matters! Whether it is Srinivas’s individual opinion on Pawan or if he was made to write this out of some political interest is yet to be known but as long as the issue is alive, he will become famous and earn a lot of attention and mileage. It has to be seen what Pawan will say to this issue.
Balayya Facing Heat From Telangana Producer
Post bifurcation, some serious frictions are expected between producers, directors and heros hailing from the two Telugu states. But surprisingly, nothing sort has happened till date as any issue is being solved amicably. But this latest issue involving Andhra MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna and a Telangana producer is billowing seriously it appears.
Coming to Balayya’s next flick, newcomer Satyadeva is carving him as a powerful CBI officer. Title of the flick is kept under wraps from a while and we heard it through sources that it is ‘Lion’. But there is a fight regarding this title at the moment as the makers are getting ready to release first look of the movie on Dec 31st.
A producer from Telangana has claimed that he has registered the title ‘Lion’ with Telangana Chamber of Commerce long back and he is not willing to give up regarding it. As the heat pulls up between two parties, due to the obvious reason we could see, we have to wait to find out what happens to Balayya’s movie.
