srk, priyanka bag top honours at apsara awards

Shah Rukh Khan bagged the best actor award for the movie "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" while Priyanka Chopra was adjudged best actress for "Kaminey" at the fifth Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards.

A.R. Murugadoss bagged the best director and best screenplay awards for "Ghajini", which was also adjudged best film.

The Chevrolet Heartbeat of the Nation Award (Male) was bagged by Shahid Kapoor for "Kaminey" and Deepika Padukone (Female) for "Love Aaj Kal".

The other special award, Guinness World Record for the Most Public Appearances to Promote a Film went to Abhishek Bachchan. He travelled to seven cities in 12 hours to promote "Delhi-6".

The outstanding debutant director award went to Ayan Mukherjee for "Wake up Sid", the best singer female award was bagged by Shreya Ghoshal for "Tujh mein rab dikhta hai" from "Rab Ne Bana...", and for best male singer to Mohit Chauhan for "Yeh dooriyan" ("Love Aaj Kal").

Imtiaz Ali bagged the best story award for "Love Aaj Kal". The best performance in a comic role went to Ajay Devgn for "All The Best", while best in negative role award went to Amol Gupte for "Kaminey".

Pritam Chakraborty won the best music award for "Love Aaj Kal", while Jaideep Sahni won the award for best lyrics for "Rab Ne Bana Di..".

Amitabh Bachchan won the Best Lifetime Achievement award. He was there with his entire family at the venue - the Chitrakoot Grounds at Andheri.

Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena performed on stage to some of their hit songs to entertain the crowds.

Shah Rukh enthralled the audience by dancing to his song "Love mera hit hit soniye" from "Billu".

The Guild jury, including Ravi Chopra, Ketan Desai, and Sajid Nadiadwala, had chosen the winners.

prabhu grabbing prakash raj roles

Prakash Raj, the numero uno villain in south is very busy after the success of Bollywood film ‘Wanted’. As Bollywood offers pouring in one side, his production house is keeping him busy on the other side. So he is not reachable both in terms of money and time. So Tollywood producers who are disparately looking for some one to replace Prakash Raj found one in Prabhu.

For the first time Prabhu has agreed to act in couple of Telugu films. One of the films is titled Darling. Prabhas and Kajal Agarwal are in the lead roles. Prabhu is donning an important role in this film. Karunakaran hailing from Tamil Nadu is directing this film.

He is also doing an important character in Ramcharan Teja’s ‘Orange’. In both the films Prabhu will act by speaking in Telugu.

bipasha loves birthdays but john does not

Bollywood beauty Bipasha Basu, who turned 31 this month and enjoyed every bit of attention on her birthday Jan 7, says she is completely different from her model-turned-actor beau John Abraham who "runs the other way when it comes to cutting cakes".

"John runs the other way when it comes to cutting cakes. I spent my whole birthday cutting cakes with different groups of family members and friends. I couldn't take all the calls and SMSes. But I answered all of them on the day after my birthday.

"My house was filled with flowers. You've no idea how wonderful flowers look in a newly-renovated house. My home was fragrant and attractive. My two sweet maid-servants had arranged the bouquets all over the house," Bipasha said.

While John hates birthdays and went into hiding on his birthday Dec 17, Bipasha grabbed all the attention on her birthday.

She came to Delhi with John and flew back in time to Mumbai for a family lunch.

"It's an annual ritual on my birthday, and one I won't miss for the world. This time one of my sisters was not here for my birthday. She's studying. We really missed her. But my parents and my other sister, brother-in-law and nephew were home for my birthday." John was not invited for the lunch.

"This was my first birthday in Delhi. I was born in Delhi and have special links with it. So when I got a chance to be in the capital for my birthday I grabbed it."

"It was the Auto Expo and as you know John loves anything on wheels, but hates birthdays. So he was just happy being around some of the best cars in the world."

shah rukh pitches for hockey team

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who played a motivating hockey coach in "Chak De! India", has now expressed solidarity with the country's hockey team, which boycotted a training camp in Pune over non-payment of sponsorship money and match fees.

"(I) feel awful for the Indian hockey team. To play for the country. (the) national sport and (they) have to ask for salary. And (then) we complain (that) we don't win gold," Shah Rukh has posted on popular social networking site Twitter.

The players, who are preparing for the World Cup at Pune's Balewadi Complex under chief coach Jose Brasa, Thursday decided to "boycott" the camp until their dues are paid and the issue is resolved.

Actress Gul Panag also joined King Khan and rued the condition of the hockey team.

"Sad that our hockey team has to constantly fight for its dues and not just financial. Whereas cricket." she posted.

Movie baron Pritish Nandy too is upset with the way the players are being treated.

"I feel sad for our hockey players. India has won eight Olympic golds and one World Cup in hockey and we now treat them as beggars," he said.

Review: 'Dulha Mil Gaya' is a mess

Film: "Dulha Mil Gaya"; Cast: Sushmita Sen, Shah Rukh Khan, Fardeen Khan, Ishita Sharma; Director: Mudassar Aziz; Rating: 1.5


There is only one reason why this hideous satire gone awry can be tolerated for a bit. Sushmita Sen playing the broadly satirical and hugely self-important Shimmer just simmers on screen!

Dazzling despite her fluctuating weight, in-sync with her character in spite of a script that doesn't seem to know its mind, and utterly oblivious of the bustling mess that first-time director Mudassar Aziz has created, Sushmita just has so much fun with her character.

Sadly no component in the plot supports Sushmita's unique ability to create a woman who is simultaneously sexy and cerebral. How did Aziz think he could pass off this exotic but idiotic echo of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 1969 "Pyar Ka Sapna" as a contemporary take on commitment-phobia?

There are some interesting sporadically-touching moments in the mish-mash of chaotic comic timing and misguided social messages. Watch Sushmita in that moment when all her cynicism about the validity of the sweet innocent village girl from Amritsar dissolves in a fleeting close-up. That moment is worth more than the entire film.

"Dulha Mil Gaya" seems to endorse garishness in place of glamour, hedonism rather than a high-life and a ceaseless stream of awkwardly-written jumble of scenes that would probably be rejected in a halfway decent American sitcom on the haughty heiress and the incorrigible playboy.

Sushmita is every inch the haughty heiress. But how much of the rest of the cast ranging from Fardeen Khan to the over-the-top Howard Rosamayer (playing the effeminate man Friday) can she control?

One expects the screen to light up when 'guest' star Shah Rukh Khan turns up in the second half. Tragically the anarchic humour of the second half dips to an all-time low, leading to a fractured climax that even the most diehard romantic would find hard to stay awake for.

Yes, the first half has its interesting interludes. Shimmer's first encounter on flight with Samarpreet (Ishita Sharma), the poor lost bride looking for her playboy husband in Trinidad, crackles because of Sushmita's patronising preening. The way Shimmer takes the bereft Samarpreet under her wings could have been done with more restraint and panache.

The gaudy interiors just don't match with the natural scenic splendour of the Trinidadian outdoors. Artificiality is the middle-name of this wacky wedding on speed.

Most of the time we get the feeling that the crew of this film went to Trinidad to party with noisy music for company. Someone forgot to carry the script for this corny Caribbean cruise.

It's largely unbearable even for diehard Sushmita Sen fans.

Deepika 'Break Ke Baad'

Right after Deepika Padukone's breakup with Ranbir Kapoor, the actress is coincidentally doing a film titled "Break Ke Baad" with Imran Khan.

That's what Kunal Kohli has chosen to call the first film that he is producing and not directing.

Says Kunal: "I and director Danish Aslam always wanted to call his film 'Break Ke Baad' because it's about a couple played by Imran and Deepika who breakup and want to come back together. But since we didn't have the rights to the title, we didn't want to announce it officially."

Kunal and his team couldn't locate the legal owners of the title anywhere in Mumbai. "We finally tracked it down to Bangalore to a 60-year-old gentleman who deals in electrical goods. He owns a company called Seva Films. 'Break Ke Baad' is one of the titles he had registered."

"He loved our idea and gladly parted with the title. Just like 'Break Ke Baad', while writing 'Hum Tum' I wanted my film to be called only that. Milind Soman had that title. I called him for it and finally he sold it to us for Rs.1.5 lakh," he added.

However, he said, getting permission to shoot in Delhi was far more difficult. "So many recent films have been shot in Delhi. Now the rules for shooting in the Capital have changed. I could write a thesis on what I've gone through to get permission to shoot in Delhi."

Kunal's problems as a producer don't end there. He has been denied permission to shoot in Australia's Gold Coast. "So we'll have to shoot in Cape Town and fudge the Gold Coast."

'Break Ke Baad' is set in Delhi and Australia.

pavan kalyan heroine is requesting Rs.25,000 a day

’Suswagatham’ was the movie through which Devayani gave first break to Pavan Kalyan is now an actress with no demand. Years rolled out, Pawan Kalyan has become the top hero in Tollywood while homely actress Devayani has now become fit for nothing. She tried her luck in all South Indian languages but luck never turned her way and Kollywood news now is saying that, Devayani is requesting the small screen producers for role in daily TV serials with a minimum pay of 25000 bucks / day. That’s the fate of hot actresses who once shined on big screen go out of focus once their age starts running above 25+.

Nagarjuna's Kedi missing Sankranthi

Kedi movie is going to miss Sankranthi too. Yes! This film which is still in the final leg of its preparations is now going to be released only in February as producer D Siva Prasad Reddy is planning for an audio launch only during January end. A debutant director Kiran is not only directing this flick but also providing the story, dialogues and screenplay. Mamta Mohandas is playing Nag’s lady love and the ‘Ringa Ringa’ girl Linda is essaying another important role. Inside sources claim that Sandeep Chowta has provided some interesting tunes for ‘Kedi’ in which Nag is seen as a swindle.

NTR's 'Simhadri' now shoots in kannada

Simhadri- a big hit film in the combination of NTR and SS Rajamouli. And this film is to be remade in Kannada after 7 years.Vijay is portraying the role that was done by NTR while Pooja Gandhi is doing Bhumika’s character. The film goes to the sets very soon. Remakes of super hit Telugu films are now hot in Kannada.

Allari Naresh Betting Bangarraju under Ushakirana Movies

Usha Kiron Movies’ new film is Betting Bangarraju that is directed by E. Sattibabu. The shooting part is completed, currently the post-production is on. Nidhi is the debutante heroine. Chalapati Rao, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Giri Babu, Jayaprakash Reddy, Krishna Bhagawan, Pragati, Surekha Vani, etc., are the cast.Story is by Lankapalli Srinivas, music by Shekar Chandra, cinematography by Karuna Murthy, editing by Gouthamraju and dialogues by Nagaraju Gandham.

Bollywoods top 10 Desirable Women, Check yours

Whether it is Katrina’s sweet sexuality and the line-up of gorgeous men trying to woo and win her; or Kareena’s continuing size-zero phenomenon along with the super sexy Khans teaming up with her. Priyanka’s high glam-quotient (read: her micro minis can’t get any ‘hauter’) and the numerous avatars she portrays on-screen or Bipasha’s sheer sizzle, with or without Johnny boy. And, of course, Deepika’s sensational love (aaj kal, we mean) —whatever are the reasons, this is what makes these gals so desirable.

Yet, only one of ‘em wins the cat-race – of beauty, sensuality and desirability. On the ‘most-vaunted’ hot list of the year – the ‘ZOOM 50 Most Desirable People’ of the year.

This is hot enough to scorch any man’s wildest imagination. It can’t get hotter than this, can it?


Top 10 Desirable Women
1 Katrina Kaif

2 Kareena Kapoor

3 Priyanka Chopra

4 Bipasha Basu

5 Deepika Padukone

6 Lara Dutta

7 Aishwarya Rai

8 Malaika Arora Khan

9 Mallika Sherawat

10 Shilpa Shetty

Happy Birthday to Tarun

Chocolate hero and lover boy Tarun entered into movie field as a artist in 1990 with Manasu Mamatha movie. After 10 years of Manasu Mamatha, Tarun came up with the movie "Nuvve Kavali" in 2000 as a hero which became a super duper hit, earning him a lover boy image in Tollywood.

This lover boy celebrates his birthday today and Chitramala.com wishes him a happy birthday and all the very best in his future endeavors. On his birthday today he went to Tirupathi with his family to darshan Lord Venkateswara and to take the blessings from lord Balaji for his upcoming film "Chukkalanti Ammayi Chakkanaina Abbayi".

Nandana sen hot photo

Nandana Sen is the daughter of "Nobel Laureate" and Bharat Ratna economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the most prominent authors in the contemporary Bengali literature. Sen started her career with the movie "The Doll". Nandana’s first appearance in Bollywood movies was as Rani Mukherji’s 17 year old sister in the movie Black.

New movie is a story of three childhood friends

What kind of changes the corporate culture has brought among three childhood friends is portrayed on screen in the film ‘New’ directed by Shyamprasad and produced by Bhargav Kodavanti and Vachan Setty under the banner of Bhargav Pictures.

The film is slated for release in January. Nishan, who played hero in ‘Manorama’, Reema and Asif are in the lead cast. One of the producers, Bhargava Kodavanti says, “As the title suggests, the film is definitely novel. We held the premiere of our audio on popular FM channels. We will soon launch the audio.”

Music is by Rahul Raj, lyrics are by Haranath, Sarikonda and Vagesh, editing is by Vinod Sukumaran, art is by Prem Chandran, camera is by Shyam Dutt, dialogues are by Mahesh and Venkat, while script is by Joshua Newton.

Tila Tequila Mourns

Tila Tequila, aka Tila Nguyen, poses for photographers and talks to the media outside of her home in Los Angeles, California today. Tila seemed rather chipper despite the recent passing of her fiance, Casey Johnson.

Paa declared tax free by Modi govt

Gujarat government today declared Amitabh Bachchan’s Bolywood movie Paa tax free in the state.

Sources in the government said that a three-member committee consisting of Principal Secretary - Finance, Secretary, Youth and Culture and State Information Commissioner recommended exemption of the movie from entertainment tax for all the cimema houses in the state.

The government’s decision has come after Big B’s AB Corp organised a special screening of the latest flick for the Chief Minister Narendra Modi in presence of superstar Bachchan at a multiplex in Gandhinagar.

Bachchan had specially come from Mumbai for screening of the movie and had appleaed the Chief Minister to exempt it from the entertainment tax in the state.

"We have organised the screening of Paa so that the film which is based on subject of physically challenged children gets tax exemption," Bachchan had told reporters.

It may be noted that there are hundreds of cinema houses including 22 multiplexes in the state and annual income from the entertainment tax is around Rs 22-crore.(PTI)

Britney Spears dumps boyfriend?

Pop diva Britney Spears has reportedly split from her boyfriend Jason Trawick after he was spotted getting close with other women at a bar.

The "Toxic" singer is said to be distraught after learning that Trawick had been flirting with two women at a bar.

"Jason left the bar with two bottles of water and a stunning blonde who looked like Britney. He had his arms around her and they looked very much like they were together for the night," said a source.

"When she heard he had been caught cosying up two girls in the bar, she got furious. Jason is really not like this and quickly tried to calm down Britney and rectify the situation. He explained the girls were just friends and there was nothing in it but they still had a massive row. Everyone is assuming it is over for the time being," he added.

After the argument Britney called her mother who has flown in from Louisiana to comfort her.

Sun Direct to offer Telugu movies on demand

India's second largest direct-to-home (DTH) player Sun Direct TV Pvt Ltd will launch the country's first regional language video on demand service Saturday, with Telugu movies.

Sun Direct's chief operating office Tony D'Silva said: "With the lifespan of films in theatres reducing to an average of two to three weeks and piracy eating away the revenues, DTH platform on television will emerge as an attractive alternative for production houses."

New movies on DTH can be effectively leveraged between the theatre release and CD/DVD launch, making it a win-win scenario for all the parties including the subscribers and an additional revenue stream for the DTH platform, he said, according to a statement issued here Friday.

Sun Direct which has more than 2,000 Telugu movies in its library will launch the service with Chiranjeevi starrer "Shankar Dada Zindabad".

According to the company, the movies are priced at Rs.25 with flexible show timing beginning at 11 a.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

Teetotaller Vidya does the drunken act for 'Ishqiya'

Vidya Balan, who never touches alcohol, has shot a special risque number entitled "Ibn batuta" in "Ishqiya" with her co-stars Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi.

"We shot the song last month after the entire shooting was completed. I don't drink and I had to act sozzled along with Naseer saab and Arshad," Viday told reporter.

The song will be used in the opening and credit titles of "Ishqiya".

"Arshad is a fabulous dancer. And Naseer saab was having a ball dancing to the song Vishal Bhardwaj had composed. I think the last time he danced was for 'Oye oye' in 'Tridev'. But you can't tell. He's so good. Both the guys were having so much fun and I had to join in pretending to be totally drunk," said Vidya.

The song came out so well that the director Abhishek Choubey was thinking of using it in the narrative. But since it didn't fit in, "Ibn batuta" will now just be part of the credit titles.

That isn't the only daredevil thing Vidya has done in "Ishqiya". She had to suck Arshad's thumb in the movie.

"Fortunately, Arshad is a friend. We've gotten along well from the time we did 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai' together. I don't know if I'd have been able to do a scene like putting my co-star's finger in the mouth with someone else. That gesture of sucking Arshad's thumb was so raunchy and sexy, so not me, I couldn't connect with it all," she said.

That sense of non-connectivity, says Vidya, runs through her character in the film that is releasing Jan 29.

"I play this rustic, voluptuous woman. All my weight-loss happened after I did this film. I had to look filled up for this part. In 'Ishqiya', everything - from the way I wore my sari to the way I looked at men - was alien to me. The role exposed me to a new way of interpreting a liberated woman. My character in 'Ishqiya' may not know about feminism. But she's truly liberated."

"Abhishek Choubey had to constantly keep giving me a pep talk. Quite often I was stuck because of the language and content," she added.

Vidya is now looking forward to the release of the movie.

‘Namo Venkatesa’ movie rights sold for 1.55 Crores in Guntur?

Victory venkatesh’s latest upcoming movie Namo venkatesa is doing a big business in the state as well as in the overseas.The overseas rights were already sold at a recorded price in venky’s career and now, the price sold for distribution rights also creating wonders. According to sources, the distribution rights were sold for Rs.1.55 crores in just Guntur district alone.

Srinu Vytla- Venkatesh and Brahmanandam’s combination and the film being full-length comedy entertainer is the main reason for the distribution rights being sold at high prices.

The film’s music is launched recently in Bangkok and is already available in the market now.14 Reels Entertainment is presenting the film and Ram Achanta, Gopichand Achanta and Anil Sunkara are producing the film. Sreenu Vaitla is directing this comedy entertainer. This movie is all set to release for Sankranti.

Namitha’s Hoo

Popular sexy and buxom beauty Namitha recently spoke about her third Kannada film, Hoo. She loved working with actor Ravichandran and actress Meera Jasmine, with whom she has got closer.

She believes that she has got the chance to prove her actress prowess in the film and also the songs have been beautifully captured.

In the film, Namitha plays Ravichandran’s wife and the role of his childhood friend is played by Meera.

Shruti Hassan on Elle Jan’2010

Shruti Hassan is 24 and one film old. Judge her by this and you’d be mistaken. The brown-eyed beauty lets her hair down for this month’s issue of Elle and gives us a peek into her world: her career in music, star parents and her insecurities about not fitting into Bollywood.

The daughter of legendary Tamil actor-director Kamal Hassan and actress Sarika, Shruti has a keen ear for music. Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Tamil music and RD Burman find place on her CD rack. On doing the music for her father’s remake of A Wednesday, the singer-songwriter-composer tells the mag, “After doing the music for a film, it kind of changes your perspective on your own music… I’ve found a new phase in my life, I’ve found a new sound, and now I’m setting up a new band.”

Eedu Jodu Movie Audio Launched

The youthful entertainer ‘Eedu Jodu’ featuring Sridhar, Narendra and Sunita Varma in lead roles had its audio launch on Wednesday at Hyderabad. The film is being directed by Garagavarthi Ramakrishna and produced by R Seetaramaraju. Kodi Ramakrishna graced the audio function and released the CDs. The first copy of it was received by Satellite Panduranga Rao. Likewise the first cassette was released by C Kalyan. Aditya Music is marketing the music. Other prominent guests in the function were R Prasad Raju, Vinjamuri Madhu, Vanamali, Jonnavithula, etc. According to director and producer this is a romantic entertainer handled in a delicate manner. Satyam provided very good music. Efforts are being made to release the film shortly.

Now its Priyamani Session in tollywood

While all other top heroines of Tollywood is struggling to deliver a hit, hot babe Priyamani is the only actress who seems not concerned about her hits or flops. She is doing one after the other and seen nowadays ruling the silver screen.

Her latest film ‘Pravarakyudu’ with Jagapati Babu received mixed response and in some centres not doing well. However, she has signed another film titled ‘Sadhyam’ with the same hero. Currently, the shooting of her film is in brisk progress.

Even before finishing the present project she has signed one more film ‘Bet’ which have a tag ‘Denikaina Challenge.’ This is a remake of a super hit Tamil movie. Priyamani is pairing with Tamil hero Barath in this film. The director of the film Suresh Krishna said that it’s a film with whole new concept which tries to differentiate the thin line between friendship and love.

Balakrishna Next Flick Sarwabhowma

Dasari Narayana Rao who has directed 149 films, is now all set to direct his 150th film with Nandamuri Balakrishna in the lead role.

The movie is titled as ‘Sarwabhowma’- Sambhavami Yuge Yuge. According to the sources, the movie is likely to start this year.

Till date, Dasari Narayana Rao has not worked with Nandamuri Balakrishna although he had delivered blockbuster hits with his legendary father Late NT Ramarao.

Balakrishna is currently busy with his upcoming flick ‘Simha’ in the direction of Boyapati Seenu of Bhadra fame which is produced under the banner United Movies

India beat Bangladesh by 6 wickets

India won the match against Bangladesh.Skipper Dhoni (101*) and Kohli (91) put on a record 152-run fourth wicket partnership to help India beat Bangladesh by 6 wickets in the third ODI. Raina scored 51 runs.

Stars @ Auto Expo

It’s raining Bollywood stars at the ongoing Auto Expo 2010 with the likes of Shah Rukh Khan, Sonam Kapoor and John Abraham launching one car or the other. Actor Viveik Oberoi and Anil Kapoor was also present at the Auto Expo

Jr NTR’s Seven roles

The crazy combination in tollywood is Jr Ntr and director VV Vinayak. They both started their career almost at the same time in Tollywood. In their combination after Aadi , Samba and now they are eagerly waiting to release Adhurs movie.

Director VV Vinayak has brought a special package for young tiger Jr Ntr. Both of them have accepted that there is an extraordinary story line with them in which Jr Ntr has to portray seven roles in single movie and all of them are different and action oriented.

Jr Ntr said, that movie title would be ‘Seven’ and VV Vinayak said that ‘Seven’ roles in one movie and junior ntr would beat Senior NTR in that movie. It is not ‘Dana Veera Shura Karna’ as you may be expecting…it’s a modern trendy movie both of them are planning.

Tamannah acting with Sachin and Dhoni

As per the sources milky beauty Tamannah is going to share the screen with cricketers, they are none other than legendary Sachin Tendulkar and hot sensation M S Dhoni. Presently Tamannah acting in a Tamil film "SURA". Producers are planning to rope those cricketers to act in that movie. Even if the cricketers refuse, they are said to be in the mood to get the duo through graphics on the screen. So whatever it may Tamannah is going to share the screen with Sachin and Dhoni.

Comedian M S Narayana getting threat calls

Comedian M S Narayana and his family members are having sleepless nights from past 20 days because of unknown person making threat calls and sending abusive text messages to MS Narayana. Now Police arrested a 26-yearold post-graduate for allegedly sending abusive text messages and making threat calls to actor M S Narayana and his family members since the last 20 days.

On January 4, Narayana lodged a complaint with the Jubilee Hills police. Police laid a trap and acting as Narayana’s associates invited him to Hyderabad to meet some film stars. When Ravi landed in Jubilee Hills to meet his favorite film stars, police arrested him on Tuesday night and produced him in court on Wednesday.

Sizzler: Shriya in South Scope

Trisha love for animals changed her

Trisha, the beauty from south India plans to turn vegetarian in the year 2010. "I earnestly feel that it's a sin to kill living beings and eat them. But have got to admit that I'm a non-vegetarian myself and relish the meat items. My New Year resolution would be to turn a complete vegetarian in this year" says the lass.

She goes on narrating her love for the animals. "Whenever I come across incidents of ill-treatment of animals, I used to get out of my car and fight with the perpetrators of such cruelties. With such a nature in me, I just can't decipher as to how I turned a non-vegetarian. Hopefully, this year would see me going vegetarian, I presume!" says Trisha.

It is a wise resolution on her part as it also gives her good health and slim figure. After all she is a Bollywood heroine now.

'3 Idiots' out-grassed 'Avatar' in Britain

Aamir Khan starrer Hindi film "3 Idiots" has retained its position in the top 10 of the British box office in week two after eclipsing Hollywood's "Avatar" in Christmas viewing charts.

The total overseas box office takings for the film so far is a record-breaking $10 million.

In Britain, "3 Idiots" has grossed more than 1.115 million pounds ($1.8 million), and as the number one film on Christmas Day, out-grossing "Avatar", producers Reliance BIG Pictures said Wednesday.

The film is Britain's highest grossing Bollywood film of 2009 and now the highest grossing Indian film ever to release in the US, beating the takings of "Om Shanti Om".

Unreleased ‘Jaggubhai’ movie on net

How often you see a movie on net even before its release. The Tamil movie ‘Jaggubhai’ starring Sarath Kumar produced by his wife Radhika was available on net for few days. However,the Chennai cyber crime cell arrested Shankar Ganesh owner of an Internet site which uploaded the film illegally on net. Pirated DVDs of the movie were also seized from his café. The pirated version has no background music, so obviously it was taken before the re-recording and final mixing.

As per the sources, the footage available on the internet runs for two hours and is incomplete. The film’s producer who first complained personally to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi about this illegal upload on the web. The whole Tamil film fraternity gathered and condemned such criminal acts and urged people to discourage the cyber criminals by not buying.

In a press release, Radhika thanked the Chief Minister and the police for acting swiftly on this matter.

Anushka kind gesture to her make-up man

After a little break, Anushka is coming back to where she belongs. After working in couple of Tamil films, Anushka is excited about her forth coming movies in Telugu.

She is portraying different characters in her next three films. In Vedham Anushka is playing a bold girl where Allu Arjun, Manoj and Monaj Bajpai are playing other important roles in ‘Gamyam’ Krish direction.

The next biggie is with Mahesh Babu titled ‘Kaleja’ which is a romantic entertainer in the direction of Trivikram Srinivas. And the third one is again female-centric movie. After Arundhati’s success, producers lined up for her call sheets to rope her in heroine centric film. But, Anushka choosed 'Panchakshari' produced by Chandra, more as a favour to her first make up artist in Tollywood.

With three different films on her platter, and a possibility of another film with Nagarjuna, it looks the talented actress is determined to retain her number one slot even in 2010.

'Girl next door' to 'Hottie next door'

Nobody would expect the homely girl Amrita Rao to join 'skin show' competition after having donned only decent roles till recently. But this girl-next-door has turned around following the debacle of her last few films.

The actress has certainly come a long way from being a ‘girl next door’ to ‘hottie next door’.

Striking a bold pose in a halter-neck, short and sexy dress, the girl makes a style statement apt for parties. Not only her pose, her make-up is also bold - it’s shimmery.

As her interview says, “I’ve this image of being a shy girl but ironically, all my friends are guys... just one of my friends is a girl.”

'Baanchen Nee Kallumokkutha’....Inkennallu

The Telugu film industry has landed in a crisis with Pro Telangana and Samaikya Andhra agitations all over AP. With almost all the top film personalities coming from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, the Telugu film industry is virtually ruled by non Telangana personalities.

It is heard that, one of the top film personality even ridiculed about Telangana people saying, they are only good enough to watch the movie, but doesn’t know how to make the film. Director Shankar openly said that he will make a movie only with Telangana cast and crew right after listening the above strong statement.

While Shankar’s plans are at statement level, another director Mr. Ramesh Tummala is making a movie titled as “Baanchen Nee Kaallumokkutha” with Inkennalu as the tagline. This film will not only reflect the culture, tradition and customs of it’s people but also will have the cast and crew from Telangana.

Jaswanth Reddy is producing the movie on Maruthi Movies banner. Regular shooting will commence after Sankra

3 Idiots remake in Telugu with Mahesh Babu

Aamir Khan’s latest super duper blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’ will soon be remake in Telugu and Tamil. The remake rights were acquired by Gemini Films Circuit which had previously produced Munnabhai MBBS and Lage Raho Munnabhai. Gemini Films Circuit had acquired it for a whopping sum of Rs.10 crores.

Another latest buzz is that Gemini Films Circuit is planning to approach either Mahesh Babu or Pawan Kalyan to play the lead role in the remake of 3 Idiots film in Telugu. But more details yet to known.

Nayanthara stops traffic!

Sexy star Nayanthara brought traffic to a standstill in Kumbakonam, as she tried to board a local bus along with co star hero Arya.The new pair of Kollywood was shooting for Shiva Manasula Sakthi director Rajesh’s new film Boss Engira Baskaran.

Rajesh who believes in shooting in realistic locations went to Kumbakonam main bus stand and asked his lead pair to board a local city bus!

It created a stir and they could shoot only for half an hour before the crowd became uncontrollable. They had to shift the location as almost the entire people near the bus stand came to see Nayanthara!

Hyderabad South scope Calendar Girls

Vijay Mallya’s bevy of bikini-clad beauties in the annual Kingfisher calendar have competition this year — Allu Aravind’s son, Allu Sirish is out with his own calendar featuring a beautiful actress from South Indian cinema for each month of 2010. Ileana, Shriya, Reema Sen, Bindu Madhavi, Kriti, Archana, Mumaith Khan, Nikhita and Madhushalini have all been featured in a limited edition — an exclusive calendar for the first time in Telugu cinema.

Sirish, who plans to distribute it free of cost to a few, says he wanted to publish a calendar with ‘familiar’ faces and so he cast mana Telugu beauties. “I used to follow both Kingfisher and Sports Illustrated calendars, which are very popular. I wanted to come up with something similar, but with known faces. I thought I’d show the glamorous side of actors without vulgarity. It is a limited edition calendar with only 3,000 copies.”

The pictures were shot at Goa and Hyderabad by renowned fashion photographer G. Venkat Ram who shot for promos of movies like Ghajini, Rajnikanth’s blockbuster Shivaji, Boys etc. The ‘calendar girls’ are thrilled with the tasteful photographs and are happy that something like this has come up in the hitherto conservative South.

SRK gets nostalgic at Auto Expo

It was an emotional moment for Shah Rukh Khan when he entered Pragati Maidan on Wednesday as it reminded him of his late father and the time he spent with his family here.

"My childhood was spent here in Pragati Maidan. My father used to have a shop here and when I entered Pragati Maidan (today) after so many years, which is about 30 years now since my father expired, I was very nostalgic and I missed my family… It’s very, very emotional," said Shah Rukh.

Dressed in a jet-black buttoned overcoat, the 44-year-old was here to unveil Hyundai’s environment friendly car I10 Electric at the ongoing Auto Expo in Delhi. He is the brand ambassador of the company.(IANS)

Shreya Saran On Jade Magazine

Recently Shreya Saran appeared on the cover page of South Scope Magazine for January 2010. She also appeared on another magazine called Jade for the January 2010.

Deepika Padukone on Dabboo Ratnani’s 2010 Calendar

Dabboo Ratnani, a reknowned photographer in Bollywood, has been capturing the top stars for his trademark almanac from 11 years. His 2010 calendar is now out. It has only black-and-white snapshots.

Deepika Padukone’s picture in the calendar is now a big talk. It makes her look as if she is not wearing anything as the parts of the body visible in the picture are bare.

Dabboo Ratnani said “I wanted to make her look sensual, but aesthetic. Last year, I had shot her in a sari, so this is in total contrast. She strikes a thinking, dreamy pose, and I have used lighting to match her mood.”

Dabboo Ratnani’s 2010 calendar includes the Big B, Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Kajol, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, John Abraham, Sonam Kapoor and Kangna Ranaut among others. The first-timers on his calendar include Asin, Farhan Akhtar, Genelia D’Souza and Imran Khan this year. (Mid-Day)

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