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The Congress leaders owing allegiance to Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in Guntur district have demanded that a murder case be filed against Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao for allegedly causing the death of a Congress worker.

Taking strong exception to Hanumantha Rao’s comments of “bogus deaths,” the Congress workers in Guntur district burnt his effigies and staged a dharna in front of the Guntur (rural) police station demanding that a case be registered against Hanumantha Rao under Section 302 of the IPC for being responsible for the death of a Congress worker P Subba Reddy (56). They alleged that Subba Reddy died of heart attack after watching the unsavoury comments made by the Congress MP in the television debate.

Though the police did not book any case against the Congress MP, the incident shows how serious the situation is in the state Congress. So, from murder threat to murder case, it is a troubled time for

Shraddha Das has acted in couple of movies in Tollywood and has set the screens on fire with her presence. Her glamour and oomph factor has made many men go weak on their knees and has probably given other heroines a run for their money.

She was recently sharing her thoughts about skin show in an interview. She said that she looks at glamour as a requirement on the screen. She has reportedly emphasized that she has no reservations about appearing in bikini if the script demands.

Meanwhile she is all set to appear in the sequel to the hit flick 'Arya'. Let us wait and watch if she adds more to her glamour in the movie.

The Kadapa MP, Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, around whom the politics are running, said he was pained at the resignation and other threats being issued by some of the MLAs and Ministers in his support. He wrote an open letter to all his supporters on Wednesday, in which he wanted the party leaders and cadre to leave the decision (of making him as the Chief Minister) to the high command.

Jagan said the party high command was aware of the reality in the State and expressed confidence that the high command would take right and acceptable decision.

He said every attempt to harm the interests of the party would also be considered as insult to late Dr Rajasekhar Reddy. He wanted every leader to restrain from causing damage to the party and wait for the high command to act on the issue.

He also appealed to the party cadre to extend support to the leadership in the membership drive. Jagan is likely to join the membership drive in Kadapa on October 2.

Though Jagan did not make his mind clear on the demand for his appointment as Chief Minister, it is understood that he is also aspiring for the top slot. It is interesting to note that he remains non-committal on the issue which is rocking the State politics.

He said the Congress was able to retain power both in the State and at the Center because of Dr Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi. However, in Andhra Pradesh, the Congress got benefited mostly because of the leadership of Dr Rajasekhar Reddy, he said and added that Dr Reddy was able to retain power for the party against all odds.

He said Dr Reddy’s hard work was now visible in the election of five zilla parishad chairmen for the Congress in the State, besides the victory at Tekkali.

The Chief Minister reiterated that the government would continue it the welfare programmes initiated by Dr Rajasekhar Reddy. He said he would not stop even a single welfare programme of Dr Rajasekhar Reddy.

However, Rosaiah refused to comment on the statements of Rajya Sabha member, V Hanumantha Rao. He said the high command would take care of the statements and counter statements, while he was concentrating on the administration.

Interestingly, Rosaiah is getting greater support from several quarters of the Congress and it is to be seen whether he would be able to complete the term or would be asked to vacate the seat before he sits comfortably in the seat.

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Srikanth's 100th film Mahathma in the direction of Krishnavamsy will be releasing on 9th of October instead of 2nd October. The censoring of the movie was done recently and they had given quite a few cuts.

We have already informed to our readers that the film is with revising committee of Censor Board, so it may take some more time for RC to look in to the film.

So the producer has decided to release the film on 9th October.

Ghajini producers Allu Arvind and Madhu Mantena are going to make a Hindi remake of Telugu blockbuster Magadheera and they are reportedly considering Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan to play the main leads.

"Yes Allu Arvind and I are remaking Magadheera in Hindi. As for the cast, it's too early to talk about it. But Magadheera is definitely being planned to be bigger than Ghajini," said Mantena.

Released in July this year, Magadheera has already grossed over Rs 65 crore in India alone and is said to be the second-biggest Telugu hit after Ghajini.

With this Telugu remake into Hindi that is expected to take off early next year, Arvind and Mantena hope to raise the bar for action-drama cinema in Hindi once again.

The remake, to be budgeted at Rs 70 crore, is highly ambitious. While in the original, which is set in 17th century and present, the hero Ram Charan Teja plays a double role, the remake will split the hero's personality into two parts. Apparently Hrithik will play the samurai from the Middle Ages while Aamir will play his present day avatar.

Allu Arvind who made sensational hit Ghajini in Hindi is planning another huge budget film , this time it is the remake of Telugu hit Magadheera.

He is likely to spend Rs 100 Crs budget to make this film in Hindi and he is planning to rope two heroes for this film,Khalabharava role would be played by Hrithik and rebirth with Amir Khan.

Arvind wanted SS Rajamouli to direct the Hindi version of the film, but Rajamouli politely said no to Arvind and the makers are in search of suitable director to deal this project.

The Khans are all set to take their battle to a new level this season. According to Mumbai Mirror Salman Khan has roped in his new best friend Aamir Khan to walk for his line at the Couture Week. To be held in Mumbai, Salman is showcasing his foundation Being Human at the high profile event.

Khan already has Katrina Kaif walking for him, but Salman doesn't believe in keeping it small. Mumbai Mirror reports that Salman has personally requested the usually shy Aamir to walk for a noble cause. Ever since the release of Ghajini Salman has successfully broken the ice with Aamir.

Ironically Aamir and Salman had quite an uncomfortable working relationship during the making of Andaz Apna Apna.

Aamir's entry is Salman's counter attack to Shah Rukh Khan – who will reportedly walk at the same event along with wife Gauri for director Karan Johar. Both SRK and Salman are pitching for the show finale and the paper says that a final decision is yet to be taken.

But regardless of whichever Khan ends up walking at the Couture Week, this will be one hell of a treat for all fans.

Director Shankar is getting irritation over the way the Robot still are on Internet. Some of the still of Robot are published on Internet, this caused Shankar to declare war on Internet Cyber crime.And is in touch with Cyber Crime department to track down Internet leakages.

What ever may be the reason for the leakage, the film is getting huge free publicity from the leakage stills .

The film ‘Yaagam’ is an action romance flick with chocolate boy Navdeep in the lead. While the glowing beauty Bhumika Chawla plays the female lead, the Bollywood sex bomb Kim Sharma provides for the glamour quotient. Yaagam is slated for a November release. Navdeep would be seen in a total action avatar in this film. He has done some real sincere work for this film and worked real hard.

Sources say his efforts have paid off and the consequences turned out to be really fruitful on the screen. So Navdeep takes care of the action, Bhumika takes care of the romance and Kim takes care of the glamour.

We know that the simple yet stunning beauty Soundarya Rajinikanth is working on a film starring her super star dad. The film is in an animated format and is titled Sultan...The Warrior. Now what’s more? The film is in the making for the last four years and is also being produced by his daughter. Sultan has crossed the budget of Rs. 5 crore, probably the most expensive animation flick.

Sources say that even this film has a trademark punch dialogue to be delivered by Rajini like in all his films and it will be released in as many as fourteen languages which will set a new record. Seems like Soundarya wants to leave no stone unturned to give her daddy the best…

He has been Tollywood’s favourite “family hero” for more than a decade. Non-controversial, reserved, suave and professional, Srikanth, who is known as a “producer’s actor” has created a record by acting in 100 films in a short span of time. While his upcoming film Mahatma will make him 100-films-old, Srikanth says that the numbers were never intentional.

“I began my career as a villain and played negative roles in my first 13 movies. After Thammareddy Bharadwaja gave me an opportunity to play the lead in One By Two, there was no looking back. After that a lot of scripts came my way and here I am doing my 100th film,” says Srikanth, who is feeling the heat before the release for the first time.
“I didn’t even realise that this would mark a big milestone of my career. It was only when my friends started telling me about it did I became conscious of the number. I wanted my 100th movie to be special. Since director Krishna Vamsi is a good friend of mine for the past 17 years, I asked him to direct Mahatma,” says the actor, who plays a goon who enters politics, only to learn about Gandhism eventually.

The star who is excited about the “different” role he plays, admits that he has been typecast in all the family entertainers he has acted in. “In the early days of my career, I did act in offbeat flicks like Nidhi and Gamyam, but they didn’t do well. On the other hand, the family-oriented films were blockbusters. After that, I have been getting only a certain kind of films. If this film does well, filmmakers will hopefully see a different side of me,” adds Srikant.
The actor also observes that he needs to keep up with rapidly changing trends in filmmaking and understand the pulse of the current audience. “If we were to make the yesteryear blockbuster Pellisandhadi today, it will be a flop. The industry has transformed from being hero-centric to director-centric. Unless a story is presented differently, it is tough to draw the crowd to theatres. Youngsters too are keen on watching only quality cinema and this is a good trend,” he adds.

With his acting career going great guns, there has been much speculation about whether Srikanth will enter politics like many of his Tollywood contemporaries, especially since he is a close friend of Chiranjeevi.
To this, the actor says, “I don’t know anything about politics. My relationship with Chiranjeevi is on a personal ground, I have no political ambitions. I am very shy and I can only act in front of the camera. Chiranjeevi knows I am not interested in politics and has never forced me to join his Praja Rajyam.”

This reticent attitude of the actor also reflects in the fact that he makes few public appearances. “I am not a party animal, I’m a complete family man. Whenever I have free time, I spend it with my family. My wife Uha who was also an actress, is my biggest support system. I’m happy being this way,” says Srikanth.

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Now talk of the Tollywood is the upcoming sequel to the super hit movie Aarya - "Aarya-2". First it made news with leaking of its songs into the market, now its posters too have leaked. Shocked by this, the producer released certain designs officially and solved the problem. He wanted to release the audio by the end of September and the movie in the First week of October. But again he met with a problem.

Movie's hero Allu Arjun is said to be sulking over release of poster designs without his knowledge and is reluctant to do the dubbing work for the movie. On the otherhand, director Sukumar also is in a sllen mood as his remuneration is yet to be paid. So he stopped doing the post production works. With all these, the producer is in dire straits.

Prabhas and Kangana Ranaut starrer film Ek Niranjan directed by Puri Jagannath is scheduled to release on october 29th. Music of the film is by Manisharma and cinematography is by Shyam K Naidu. The film is produced by Aditya Ram on Aditya Ram movies banner. The audio of the film has got tremendous response from all over. The first bunch of CDs and cassettes are being sold like hot cakes.

According to reliable sources, Prabhas plays the role of a police informer in the film. Ek Niranjan is said to be a complete entertainer with all commercial ingredients.

A Trichy-based woman said on Friday that she would file a defamation suit against Sneha for "humiliating" her husband by accusing him of molesting her.

Sneha was in Trichy to participate in the first anniversary celebrations of a jewellery outlet. A huge crowd thronged the outlet to have a glimpse of the actress.

Caught among her fans, Sneha suddenly screamed that someone had pinched her. When her security guards rushed to her help, she reportedly told them that the miscreant was wearing a blue shirt.

Following this, the guards found one Suresh Kumar, a realtor, who was wearing a blue shirt and allegedly assaulted him. They later handed him over to the police. A case was registered and the man later came out on bail.

Suresh's wife Sharmila has come to the rescue of her husband and said that she was along with him when the incident took place and claimed that Suresh never went close to the actress.

Speaking to reporters, Sharmila said she would file a defamation suit against the actress.

Thousands of common pilgrims had a close darshan of the Lord on Friday as the rush dwindled for Brahmotsavams, primarily due to swine flu scare. What’s more, many of them could catch a glimpse of the expensive ‘Abhishekam’ darshan for the first time in their lives. Worried over the low pilgrim turnout at the temple for the Brahmotsavams, the TTD top brass directed officials to allow common pilgrims to have a close darshan, about 30 ft away, from the presiding deity instead of the usual ‘Maha Laghu’ darshan during which the devout could only catch a glimpse of the Lord from as far as 60 ft away.

On a trial basis, the TTD allowed nearly 1,000 common pilgrims during the time of ‘Abhishekam.’ This weekly seva when booked in advance costs Rs 750 per ticket, while under discretionary quota it is pegged at Rs 2,500 per ticket. However, it is difficult to even buy this ticket as the seva has been booked by pilgrims till 2025. “Thanks to the TTD officials, common pilgrims like us could witness the seva,” a pilgrim from Coimbatore said. According to temple officials, over 2.5 lakh pilgrims had a hassle-free darshan in the last four days.

Sources said because of the swine flu scare in metros like Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad, the flow of VIPs to the temple town for the Brahmotsavams has considerably come down. “However, the common pilgrims continue to swarm the temple in big numbers. They were lucky to have a good darshan of the Lord in the last four days,” a senior official said.

How much are you willing to shell out to spend a day with Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy? Perhaps Rs 1 lakh? That’s exactly what Indian School of Business (ISB) students bid in ‘Shadow a CEO’ programme.

Among the 26 business leaders who participated in this programme to celebrate the ‘Joy of Giving Week’ initiated by the Give India Foundation, the highest bid was for Narayana Murthy. Sources told TOI the next highest bid was Kumar Mangalam Birla but refused to divulge the amount.

The online bidding was between September 21 and 23 and process gathered momentum with the maximum bids received in the last 12 hours. There were totally 1,196 bids, bringing the academic, corporate and social sector together. The top three bidders for each CEO will be evaluated and a final decision will be made early next week. Management students will be able to spend a day with a CEO of their choice.

It has been reliably learnt that the Pakistani cricketer Rawalpindi Express Shoaib Akhtar has started shooting for a Bollywood film, Main Aur Mera Himmat with Hansika. Reportedly, Hansika has been paid Rs 2 crore for the film.

According to a reliable source, close to the star, Hansika is “playing the role of an innocent village belle” and will for the first time be seen as a typical Punjabi kudi, far removed from her usual trendy, youthful roles. The film is a story of a Pakistani cricketer who arrives in India on a tour and ends up falling in love with an Indian girl. As to what happens to their love story, forms the crux of the film.

HYDERABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary and official spokesman Prakash Javdekar said after the sudden demise of chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, the true culture of the Congress party was exposed.

Though there was a Chief Minister in the State, the Congress leaders were speaking about future chief minister. “None is ready to obey Chief Minister Rosaiah’s directions. He is unable to take any decision and the administration is paralysed in the State,” Javdekar said. Addressing a press conference at the party State headquarters here today, he took strong objection to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s statement that there would be shortage of foodgrains and increase in the prices of essential commodities. “Such statements will embolden traders to jack up prices,” he said.

The Congress government could neither help the common man by controlling the price spiral nor the farmer by increasing the Minimum Support Price (MSP).

The BJP leader said that Congress should implement austerity as a way of life but not use it like a fashion statement. The Congress was speaking about austerity only in the context of prevailing drought, did this mean that postdrought, the party leaders would revert to their lavish lifestyle?” Javedkar asked.

The Congress leaders had forgotten austerity in public life after Mahatma Gandhi, while the RSS and other such organisations were still following Gandhi’s simplicity, he said

Heeding Ramlath's request to save her marriage from the clutches of actress Nayantara, several women's welfare organizations have been pitching support by way of letters and calling her.

According to Kalpana, Head of Jhansi Rani Women's Protective Association, it is wrong on the part of Nayantara to come in the way of a marriage which had been strong for 15 years.

“As a reputed actress, Nayantara has many avenues to shape hercareer and should not be the cause to break a marriage. Artistes like her have to set an example as every act is followed by scores of her fans. It could send wrong signals to the society,” said Kalpana.

Kalpana said this issue is no longer an individual's problem, a problem which has snowballed into an ugly episode. “Now Nayantara can no longer evade the issue and has to issue a statement that she has no affair with Prabhu Deva. Till that happens, we will resort to massive agitations and not allow any of her movies to be screened.”

This sensational news appeared in a popular evening vernacular.

If one were to believe Ramlath, Prabhu Deva's wife, then the truth of the matter is that the dancer-actor-director is head over heels in love with Nayantara. Now Prabhu Deva's wife claims that the guy wants Ramlath's permission to marry Nayantara.

Apparently Prabhu Deva has no plans to leave his first wife, he wants to keep the first wife and also marry Nayantara.

Umm good thinking Prabhu Deva you want to eat the cake and have it too!

This incidence happened in Tamanna's childhood. Once she went along her friend wearing gold jewellery to play in the beach. They forgot about time in playing and when they realised, it was already dark. They called for a taxi and started for home. Somewhere in between the taxi driver sprinkled some kind of drug on them. The driver took away gold she was wearing and pushed her out of the taxi. From then onwards, Tamanna says, she is afraid of wearing gold ornaments.

Heroine Sangeetha entered the films with Krishnavamsi directed Khadgam. After that she acted in several movies like Pellam Urelithe, Adirindayya Chandram etc. She was well acclaimed for her performane in hero Vikram starrer Shiva Puthrudu, in a glamour-less girl's role. Later she got married and was away from films for some time. Now she has started again and doing a movie Srimathi Kalyanam with hero Naveen. Speaking with media she said " I like lady oriented subjects very much and in acting, late Soundarya is my idol."

Those who have seen 7/G Brindavan Colony, might be still remembering its heroine Sonia Agrawal. Later Sonia married the director of that flick Selva Raghavan and stopped acting in movies. Due to some reasons, now they are getting divorced and Sonia wants to re-start her career. As a beginning she is acting in Upendra starrer Telugu and Kannada movie. She says she is not interested to act in Tamil flicks, but will act in Hindi films.

Famous cine actress Meghana Naidu who has acted in many Telugu, Tamil and Hindi movies, is shortly going to step in to wed-lock with a Bangkok based Punjabi businessman Kushal. Though their engagement took place six months ago, she says that date of marriage is not yet been finalised. She says that she would continue doing films after marriage also, as she has the consent of her would be hubby. In all probabilities their marriage will take place in 2010. By the way, Meghana is from Vijayawada in A.P.

Young rebel star Prabhas would soon be seen in the picturesque locales of Switzerland along with the saucy seductress Kajal Agarwal and all this is happening for their new movie.

This is part of the second schedule that will commence on the 28th of this month and the film is directed by Karunakaran while ‘Chatrapathi’ Prasad is the producer.

Later on, there would be schedules happening in Vizag, Araku and the film also has the Kollywood senior Prabhu doing a key role.

Music – G V Prakash Kumar, Editing – Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao, Photography – Andrews, art- Ashok, fights – Peter Heins, Producer – B V S N Prasad.

Finally glam-doll Laxmi Rai entered into Malayalam film industry. Her career as usual, 'less flicks and more controversies' - going on. She is now mostly concentrating on Malayalam films only. The moment she stepped over there, some how succeeded in impressing Malayali heroes. She bagged two flicks with Mammutti and one with Mohanlal. She says that Malayali heroes are far better than Telugu and Tamil heroes.