‘Bigg Boss Telugu 5’: Toughest phase ahead for contestants

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‘Bigg Boss Telugu 5’: Toughest phase ahead for contestants

With most of the contestants in the nominations, this week is one of the toughest weeks for the ‘Bigg Boss Telugu 5’ contestants to survive.

Eight members are in the danger zone, as they got into nominations this week. The list of nominations has Siri, Shannu, Anne, Kajal, Sree Rama Chandra, Sunny, Manas, and Priyanka.

To predict which contestant would face the eliminations this week is a bit difficult thing even for the viewers. But which of the nominated contestants would face more threat due to their performances based on the recent happenings, can be estimated.

At this juncture, going by the trends and social media activity of ‘Bigg Boss Telugu 5’ followers, it is seen that three of the players might face a threat. Anne Master, Siri, and Priyanka are the three contestants who might be the weakest nominees this week.

As RJ Kajal’s performance has got a grip, her graph popped up higher, suddenly over the recent episodes. So, the voting patterns indicate that there are more chances, Kajal would get saved with a huge border of votes from the audience.

Sunny, Shanmukh, Sree Rama Chandra, and Manas are the strongest contestants, whose voting percentages indicated that they need not worry for at least a couple of weeks now.

On the other hand, Siri’s provoking nature and her recent behaviour has drawn much negativity to her. So, it appears like she is one of the first contestants who fall into the ‘danger’ zone.

Anne Master’s cheap imitations and wrong portrayal of inmates’ characters has irked the ‘Bigg Boss’ followers to the extent that they no longer want Anne on the show.

Priyanka Singh has been one of the weakest contestants, who has survived solely by building relationships with the other contestants, which would no longer work on the show.

So, Anne, Siri, and Priyanka Singh might face the toughest phase in the coming days on the show.

‘Liger’: Vijay Deverakonda enters the ring with Mike Tyson

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‘Liger’: Vijay Deverakonda enters the ring with Mike Tyson

Telugu hero Vijay Deverakonda is prepping up to cater to a pan-India subject with his upcoming movie ‘Liger’.

Helmed by popular director Puri Jagannadh, the movie has got too many exciting aspects, which include the ensemble cast.

Boxing legend Mike Tyson is making his Indian cinema debut with the most anticipated sports action flick ‘Liger’, which is captioned ‘Saala Crossbreed’.

The ‘Liger’ team is currently in the US to shoot the crucial sequences involving Mike Tyson and Vijay Deverakonda. The current schedule begins Tuesday, as the ‘Arjun Reddy’ star comes face-to-face with Mike Tyson. The team shares an exciting update, as the poster features Vijay Deverakonda with Mike Tyson. Both of them heartily smiling, as they share a memorable moment together.

“And then they met – face to face! Absolute fire ?? The Legend vs Liger ???? #Liger #USAscheduleBegins ?? @MikeTyson @TheDeverakonda #PuriJagannadh @karanjohar @ananyapandayy @Charmmeofficial @apoorvamehta18 @DharmaMovies @PuriConnects @IamVishuReddy,” reads the statement of the team.

The much-anticipated sports drama is to feature Deverakonda in a never-before-seen avatar, and will also feature numerous foreign fighters in the high-octane sequences. ‘Liger’ is bankrolled in association with Puri connects and Bollywood’s leading production house Dharma Productions.

Cinematography is handled by Vishnu Sarma, while Kecha from Thailand is the stunt director. Puri Jagannadh, Charmme Kaur, Karan Johar, and Apoorva Mehta together are bankrolling the film.

Ananya Pandey plays the female lead opposite Vijay, while Ramya Krishnan and Ronit Roy play prominent roles in ‘Liger’, which is being made in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam, simultaneously.

Much-awaited trailer for Venkatesh’s ‘Drushyam 2’ unveiled

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Much-awaited trailer for Venkatesh’s ‘Drushyam 2’ unveiled

Billed as the sequel to superhit crime thriller ‘Drushyam’, Venkatesh Daggubati’s upcoming movie ‘Drushyam 2’ is all set to enthrall the audience.

Prime Video, on Monday, launched the theatrical trailer for its Telugu crime thriller ‘Drushyam 2’.

‘Drushyam 2’ will premiere on November 25 on Prime Video in India and more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. With this, the makers kickstarted their promotions, and the theatrical trailer launch hypes the movie as an edge-of-the-seat family thriller.

Rambabu (Venkatesh) trying to protect his family, brings an intense and gripping tale. How the lives of the family members were altered irrevocably following the events of that one fateful night six years ago, forms the narrative. Venkatesh plays the family man, who covers up a mystery and leaves no stone unturned to protect his family.

The ‘Drushyam 2’ trailer hints at the mystery and drama in the subject, with the main leads sticking to their well-written roles.

The Jeethu Joseph directorial has an ensemble of a cast that includes Meena, Kruthika, Esther Anil, Sampath Raj, and Poorna. Jointly produced by D. Suresh Babu, Antony Perumbavoor, and Rajkumar Sethupathy of Suresh Productions, Max Movies, and Rajkumar Theatres, it is an Amazon Original movie.

Double delight for GV Prakash as ‘Bachelor’ gets release date, ‘Jail’ gets U/A,

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Double delight for GV Prakash as ‘Bachelor’ gets release date, ‘Jail’ gets U/A,

Music director and actor G.V. Prakash has every reason to smile for it looks like two of his eagerly-awaited films will release shortly.

On Monday, the team of director Vasantha Balan’s hard-hitting ‘Jail’, that deals with the difficulties of the poor, announced that the film had been given a U/A certificate and that they would be announcing the film’s release date shortly.

Almost at the same instant, news broke out that the romantic drama, ‘Bachelor’, featuring Prakash and newcomer Divya Bharathi in the lead, will release on December 3.

In ‘Jail’, Prakash plays Karna, a youngster who has just finished school and is yet to get into college. The actor is betting big on this film, which deals with the lives of people living in resettlement colonies.

On Monday, the actor took to Twitter to break both news stories.

“Jail is censored with U/A & gets big appreciation … release date announcement soon,” he said and followed it up with a post on the release date of ‘Bachelor’, which has been directed by Sathish Selvakumar.

‘Bigg Boss 15’: Kartik Aaryan finds a fan in Salman Khan

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‘Bigg Boss 15’: Kartik Aaryan finds a fan in Salman Khan

Kartik Aaryan has been keeping busy with the promotions of his upcoming action thriller ‘Dhamaka’. Continuing the promotional spree, the actor recently visited the ‘Bigg Boss 15’ sets.

The actor was left pleasantly surprised to find a fan in none other than the ‘Bhaijaan of Bollywood’ Salman Khan. The ‘Dabangg’ actor heaped praises on Kartik for his choice of projects.

Salman said, “Feels good that you are doing such wonderful films Kartik. Your choice of films have started getting better, earlier too you did good films but your choices have gotten better”.

Kartik and Salman spoke on a range of subjects as the two had an amazing time together on the sets. From rapid fire questions, to identifying real news from fake ones, to industry talks, the actors shared a good rapport and gave the audiences a lot of reasons to laugh.

Talking about ‘Dhamaka’ the film directed by Ram Madhvani of ‘Neerja’ fame, features Kartik as a journalist. It shows how being over-ambitious can lead to dangerous consequences.

Recently, the makers released the song ‘Khoya Paya’ from the film which showcases Kartik questioning his own actions.

The film which also stars Mrunal Thakur and Amruta Subhash is all set to stream on Netflix from November 19.

Lakshmi Manchu’s Malayalam debut with Mohan Lal grabs audience attention

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Lakshmi Manchu’s Malayalam debut with Mohan Lal grabs audience attention

Lakshmi Manchu has announced her Malayalam debut with Mohan Lal. Lakshmi is all set to share the screen with Mohan Lal in his upcoming movie titled ‘Monster’.

The ‘Gundello Godari’ actress, who even commenced shooting for ‘Monster’ in Kochi, seems excited about her Malayalam debut. The actress mentions her role as challenging, as she also hints at “the various shades” of her role in ‘Monster’.

Sharing Mohan Lal’s poster from ‘Monster’, the actress wrote, “The cat is finally out of the bag!! New Language, New Genre!!! Super duper excited to be shooting My first Malayalam film with the one and only!! Cannot wait to showcase what we’ve got in store for you. Having the best time shooting this film Mohan Lal”.

The movie ‘Monster’ is being directed by Vysakh, which is being produced by Anthony Perumbavoor under the banner of Aashirvad Cinemas. The makers commenced the shooting on November 10, and are to complete the current shooting schedule soon. On the occasion of its launch, Mohanlal shared the first look poster.

Mohan Lal is featured in a turban-clad look in the poster, as he will be playing the role of Lucky Singh in the movie. Lakshmi would feature in an important role, in the Vysakh directorial, which is slated to hit the screens in early 2022.

Lakshmi was last seen in Netflix’s original anthology series ‘Pitta Kathalu’. Earlier, Lakshmi had drawn attention for the movies ‘Ananganaga Oka Dheerudu’, ‘Gundello Godari’, ‘Chandamama Kathalu’, and more.

‘KBC 13’ to see students on the hotseat and Big B’s hip look

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‘KBC 13’ to see students on the hotseat and Big B’s hip look

‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 13’, hosted by megastar Amitabh Bachchan is going to have a Students Special Week. Kids from the age group of 8 to 15 years will be on the hotseat and answer questions of the host.

For this particular Student Special Week, there are certain changes made in the look of Amitabh Bachchan. As he will be seen sporting street-style hoodies, jackets and more.

Beside this, the amount won will be termed as points for the Students Special Week as kids are participating. And the winning amout that is called points for this special week can be utilised by the kids after they turn 18 years old.

The Students Special Week of ‘KBC 13’ will start from November 15 on Sony Entertainment Television.

Rajinikanth praises ‘Annaatthe’ director Siva, says he delivered a hit as promised

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Rajinikanth praises ‘Annaatthe’ director Siva, says he delivered a hit as promised

Stating that his recently released ‘Annaatthe’ was a film that he could not forget in his life, megastar Rajinikanth on Monday showered praises on the film’s director Siva, saying he had delivered a hit just as he promised he would.

The actor put out two voice messages on Hoote, an app launched by his daughter Soundarya Rajinikanth, in which he spoke at length about how the decision to make ‘Annaatthe’ was taken.

Stating that he was mighty impressed with Siva’s earlier film ‘Viswasam’, which released on the same day that his ‘Petta’ released, Rajini says he expressed a desire to meet and congratulate director Siva to ‘Viswasam’ producer Thyagarajan.

“Siva came home to meet me and I really liked him. He was like a child as there was truth in every word that he said,” the superstar recalls.

When the topic of doing a film together came up, Rajini says he pointed out that doing a film was not important but delivering a hit was. To this, Rajini says Siva told him, “Giving you a hit is easy sir.”

Admitting that Siva’s reply took him by surprise completely, Rajini says, “Nobody has said that to me so far. People usually tell me, ‘We can make it a hit sir or we can try sir.’ There has never been a director who has told me that giving me a hit is easy.”

Rajinikanth then says he asked Siva how he was so confident about delivering a hit.

To this, Rajini says Siva pointed out two factors. “One, you must be in a film with a good story and two, you must play a village character as it has been a long time since you have done such a role.”

“If we have both these, it will be enough,” Rajini recalls Siva as telling him.

“I really liked the way he said it. I told him to come back with a good story. In 20 days time, he called me and said he had a story and would want to give me a narration. I asked him to come over and he said it would take two and a half hours. I agreed,” the actor says.

The superstar admitted that he was moved when Siva began narrating the story.

“I had tears in my eyes without my knowledge by the time Siva was narrating the climax,” he said and added, “I shook Siva’s hands and said, ‘Super. You must make a film exactly the way you have narrated.’ To this, Siva replied, ‘I will make it better than this. You will see that hordes of people will come to watch the film sir. I will make a film like that.'”

“Just like what he said he would do, he has done. This film is a big success. There were a lot of problems while making the film but Siva faced all of them with a smile,” Rajini pointed out before signing off.

Smriti Kalra on playing a free-spirited woman in upcoming web film ‘Cash’

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Smriti Kalra on playing a free-spirited woman in upcoming web film ‘Cash’

Actress Smriti Kalra will be seen in upcoming OTT movie ‘Cash’ opposite Amol Parashar.

She opens up about playing an independent and confident woman and expresses her excitement for her debut film after doing a number of television shows.

Smriti says: “I play ‘Neha’ in the film who is a smart, independent and confident young woman. And she is someone who lives her life on her own terms. And if she wants something, she orchestrates a way to get it. She doesn’t need a helping hand from anyone.

“I have never played a character like this before. ‘Neha’ is a natural fixer and has a long list of useful contacts which she accesses at any time of the day. She’s sexy; she’s feisty and will make you believe that she’s someone you really want on your team. The only trouble is, she won’t even bat an eyelid before double crossing her foes.”

The movie ‘Cash’ is directed by Rishab Seth and produced by Vishesh Bhatt. It is based on the issue of demonetisation and how it affected people.

The movie stars Amol Parashar and Smriti Kalra in the lead roles. Smriti adds on her working experience with the co-actors, saying: I got lucky! It was a mixed bag of experience, a creative, fun loving, and supportive group of co-actors. I got to work with the ‘Bad Man’ of Bollywood, Gulshan Grover sir, the very versatile and talented Swanand Kirkere, our very beloved ‘Baba’ Amol Parasher. Kavin Dave too who has an excellent comic timing, theatre veteran Krishna Bisht. So you can see, I got to learn so much from all and to top that, I had so much fun.”

‘Cash’ will be released on November 19 on Disney+ Hotstar.

Notice to ‘Jai Bhim’ team demands apology, Rs 5 cr in damages

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Notice to ‘Jai Bhim’ team demands apology, Rs 5 cr in damages

Angered at the “wrongful” depiction of the Vanniyar community in the Tamil film ‘Jai Bhim’, starring Suriya, the Vanniyar Sangam president, Pu. Tha. Arulmozhi, has sent a legal notice to the producers, director and Amazon, which operates the OTT platform Prime Video, where the film is being streamed.

The notice, which claims Rs 5 crore in damages and a public apology, was issued to 2D Entertainment, Suriya Sivakumar and his wife Jyothika, because their company A.K. International has co-produced the film, the director-screenwriter T.J. Gnanavel and Amazon.

According to the legal notice, the movie is claimed to have been based on a real-life incident and its storyline draws upon a decision of the Madras High Court.

It retains the names of the people who were involved in the incidents shown in the film, so we have a Rajakannu, Advocate Chandru and the police officer Perumalsamy. The name of the sub-inspector of police involved in the custodial death of an undertrial, however, according to the legal notice, was “deliberately” changed from Anthonysamy to Gurumurthy, and he’srepeatedly referred to as ‘Guru’.

In one of the scenes in the movie, the notice points out, the ‘Agni Kundam’ (fire burning from a holy vessel) symbol of the Vanniyar Sangam is shown in the calendar behind the sub-inspector of police, who commits the atrocity.

The notice says that the makers of ‘Jai Bhim’ had “deliberately” got a calendar made for the year 1995 with the ‘Agni Kundam’. He said it had been done with the “mala fide intention of defaming members of the Vanniyar Sangam and damaging the image and reputation of the entire Vanniyar community.”

According to the Vanniyar Sangam, changing the name of the villain to Gurumurthy, which resembles that of one of its frontline leaders, and projecting him to be from the community by showing its ‘Agni Kundam’ symbol, implied that the members of the community are prone to committing wrongs and taking illegal actions.

“My client states that by various symbolic representations in your movie, you have wantonly, wilfully and intentionally portrayed the character of the sub-Inspector of police, who is guilty of committing a custodial death in the film and also in the real-life story, belongs to Vanniyar community, whereas the said sub-Inspector does not belong to Vanniyar community,” the notice states.

“It cannot be considered as a casual, innocent, inadvertent mistake and natural sequence in the movie,” the legal notice reads. It adds that the scene was included only “with a view to maligning the image of the Vanniyar community people in the society and with a view to defaming the entire community as a whole.”

Apart from demanding Rs 5 crore in damages, the Vanniyar Sangam has also sought the removal of the “defamatory scenes”, references to the Vanniyar community and its symbol, the ‘Agni Kundam’, from the movie. And it has sought an unconditional apology from the film’s producers and writer for tarnishing the reputation of Vanniyars.

Earlier, PMK leader and Rajya Sabha MP Anbumani Ramadoss had written to Suriya citing the objectionable portions in the movie, alleging that they deliberately targeted the Vanniyars.

Responding to the charge, Suriya had pointed out that the ‘Jai Bhim’ unit had put out a disclaimer right at the start of the movie, saying that this was a story that had only been inspired by a real incident and that the characters, names and events were entirely fictional.

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