Abhishek Bachan following Chiru's Stalin Concept

In Twitter Abhinshek Bachan asks people to stop using electricity on 27 mar from 8.30 to 9.30 and says "Have an Idea, which I got from one of my favourite Chiranjeevi films Stalin. I'm requesting you to tell at least 2 people about earth hour"

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VARUDU Overseas Business Update

IKON entertainment would like to thank the exhibitors for their interest in securing the screening rights for the movie in Canada and the US. The Business for all centers in US and Canada is closed except for the following centers –

Open Centers:
Chicago
Detroit
Denver
Buffalo, NY

As an added benefit to the exhibitors and telugu movie patrons in the US, we would like the announce the launch of varudu movie website will downloadable web content, movie updates, music and overseas specific information and content.

www.varudumovie.com

Universal Media Banner is producing the mega film ‘Varudu’ with Stylish Star Allu Arjun in the direction of Guna Sekhar. DVV Danayya is producing the movie.

Allu Arjun’s character will be a completely different one, and would remain as his best one of his career. Similarly, Tamil actor, Arya, who played villain in the film, has done a wonderful job. Over 100 real life families with their family members have acted in the film. All the songs of the film are penned by Veturi. Added to these, with high technical values and wonderful effects, the film is going to be a visual grandeur.

‘Varudu’ stars a new comer as heroine. This high-budget film includes Naresh, Suhasini, Sayaji Shinde, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ahuthi Prasad, Brahmaji and Vinaya Prasad among other star cast.

Music is scored by Mani Sharma.

We are planning to release the movie in maximum theaters with maximum prints with premiers in more than 25 locations, IKON Entertainment is a group that aims to bring quality entertainment events for Indian community in the US & Canada

IKON Entertainment in association with CINEGALAXY also acquired overseas theatrical rights of Nandi award winner “Gamyam” Krish's prestigious project “VEDAM” starring Allu Arjun, Manchu Manoj, Anushka and Manoj Bajpai in the main Leads

Thanks,
IKON Entertainment
Sandeep
Ph: 949-241-5363
Ph: 714-415-9136
Bhanu Prakash
Ph: 504-782-3411
Email: ikonentertainment@live.com

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Varudu Satelite Rights Sold for 3.5 Crores

The satellite rights of Varudu have been reportedly sold for Rs 3.5 crores! The film is doing good business and the USA, Canada theatrical screening rights and Overseas DVD rights were earlier bagged by IKON Entertainments. Mani Sharma is composing the music of this film. He’s currently engrossed in the re-recording process of this film. The entire shooting of the film has been completed except for one song which will begin shortly. Bhanu Mehra is making her debut opposite Allu Arjun and Arya is playing a negative role. Suhasini and Ashish Vidyarthi are playing other major roles.

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Vedam in overseas

VEDAM OVERSEAS BY CINEGALAXY AND IKON ENTERTAINMENT

CINEGALAXY in association with IKON Entertainment acquired overseas theatrical rights of Nandi awardee “Gamyam” Krish's prestigious project VEDAM starring Allu Arjun, Manchu Manoj, & Anushka in the main leads.

A tasteful director whose film Gamyam won three other Nandi awards in the categories of Best Film, Best Story and Best Supporting Actor (for Allari Naresh), Vedam details multiple narratives that see an intriguing culmination in the end.

Highlights -

• This is Krish’s second venture after his first award winning movie “Gamyam” which was a runaway hit across the world.
• This is going to be tollywood’s first multi starter movie presenting two successful heroes Allu Arjun and Manchu Manoj.
• Popular Hindi actor Manoj Bajpai is also playing a crucial role in the movie.
• There will be five interwoven stories in the movie and each story belongs to one of the 5 main characters.
• M.M Keeravani is providing the music for the film

Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni are jointly producing this film along with S.S.Rajamouli's "MARYADA RAMANNA" under the banner of Arka Media Works.

We thank Shobu Yaralagadda and Prasad Devineni for giving this opportunity.

For Trade Enquiries Contact:
Sandeep
949-241-5363
Bhanu
504-782-3411
Sanjay
214-207-8208

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Jr NTR Jerkin Rs 50,000/-

The Tollywood Movie Artists Association (MAA) is auctioning jr NTR sported Jerkin and hat in Adurs movie. The money coming in this fund raising activity would be donated to the education of the underprivileged.
 
The Tollywood cine goers across the globe have evinced great interest in this activity so far and the response is unprecedented. The bidding has reached Rs. 50, 000 within in 6 hours of auction.
 
Well guys! Interested to take part in this bidding? Then quote your bidding till March 28.
 
For further details about this bidding, please follow MAA website. You can even bid through SMS.
 
To bid online for these accessories log on to www.maastars.com. The bidding can be done from mobile phone as well; to bid for the jacket, type JKT and send to 5600610 where as to bid for the hat, type HAT and send to 5600610.

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Jr NTR-Ileana to go to Egypt for Shakti

Jr.NTR’s latest film, ‘Shakti’ unit will be leaving to Egypt for the next schedule of its film shoot in the month of March. The shoot will take place for 10 days.
 
This big budget film is being produced by Ashwini Dutt under his banner ‘Vyjayanthi movies’.Meher Ramesh is the director. Ileana is playing the female lead in the film. Mani Sharma is composing the music and the cinematography will be handled by Sameer Reddy.
 
This film has multiple locations backdrop from all over India and world.

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Rana wants to remake Leader in Hindi

Rana who entered into Tollywood with the film Leader, now he wants do Remake that movie in Hindi. Rana entering into Bollywood with the movie Dum Maro Dum under Rohan Sippy’s direction.
 
Hero Rana says "The political message of the film is definitely not restricted to AP and it belongs to all the politicians. I wouldd like to remake the film into Tamil and then maybe Hindi. After completion of my hindi debut Dum Maro Dum movie.

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Siddharth-Shruti Haasan Telugu fantasy being produced by Disney

Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, known for American animation films has entered movie production in Telugu Cinema. The Walt Disney Company India announced a Telugu movie with Siddharth and Shruthi in lead roles.
 
Disney will partly produce Siddharth, Sruthi Hassan’s fantasy movie which is being directed by Prakash. Siddhartha is playing the super hero in the movie and there is also a 11 kid involved in the story and so the Disney is interested in the movie.Lakshmi Manchu is also playing an important role in the movie. The movie is getting ready to hit screens next year 2011.

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Samantha finalized for Mahesh next film

Samantha has become the most preferred actress for all the heroes of tollywood after her debut film ‘Ye Maya Chesave’ opposite Naga Chaitanya had hit the big screens.She has already signed jr NTR Brindhavanam and she has signed one more big project opposite Mahesh Babu.
 
The movie will be produced by Majula under the banner ‘Indira Productions Pvt Ltd’. This will be her second project under this banner. More details of this film are awaited.

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Varun Sandesh next Movie ‘Vennello Varsham’

Varun Sandesh is now basking in the success of his second film Kotha Bangaru Lokam The film is a hit and is now racing towards the 100 days mark.Varun Sandesh next film would be titled as ‘Vennello lo Varsham’.‘Oye’ fame Anand Ranga is directing this film, produced by Mahi under Moon water pictures.
 
The story is in the final phases of discussion and might hit the production after summer.

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Shivaji’s "Taj Mahal" Releasing Poster

Sivaji’s debut film as a producer is all set to hit the screens on 20th March finally. The film was initially set to release in December but due to the Telangana agitations it has been delayed.
 
This film is a remake of a Kannada film titled ‘Taj Mahal’. Shruti a new debutante is pairing with sivaji. This film is being directed by Arun Singaraju,Hero Shivaji is producing this film under ‘Sri Sivaji Productions’ banner. Abhiyan has composed the music for this film.
 
Shivaji’s Taj Mahal Movie Releasing Poster

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NTR National Award for Jamuna

For her services to the film industry,Veteran actress Jamuna got the NTR National Film Award for the year 2008. Yester year actor and director Vijaya Nirmala will be honoured with the Raghupathi Venkaiah Film Award.Director KB Tilak got the BN Reddy Film National Award, while well-known producer and Prasad Labs owner A Ramesh Prasad got the Nagireddy and Chakrapani National Film Award.
 
These awards will be presented at the Nandi Awards- 2008 ceremony to be held at Lalitha Kalathoranam on March 16 on the occasion of Telugu New YearUgadi. Chief Minister K Rosaiah will be coming as chief guest to this function and he will felicitate actress Jamuna. A five-member committee led by film producer G Adisheshagiri Rao presented the list of winners of the prestigious national awards to Chief Minister K Rosaiah at his camp office.

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Anushka in Kanchana

Buxom beauty Anushka signed a new movie with actor, choreographer and director Lawrence.This movie is sequel to his earlier directorial movie Muni, the new film tentatively titled as Kanchana.This movie is Lawrence fifth directorial and it will be a bilingual in Tamil and Telugu.Anushka is doing a movie Singham in Tamil with Hero Suriya.Anushka, lawrence’s movie will hit the floors by end of the April month.

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Shilpa Shetty to launch club ‘Royalty’ in Mumbai

Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty, who is also the co-owner of IPL team - Rajasthan Royals, has announced her latest business venture on celebs’ favourite micro-blogging site Twitter. The actress has revealed that she’s all set to open a new club called ‘Royalty’ in uptown Mumbai with her businessman husband Raj Kundra.
 
Shilpa’s latest post on Twitter reads: “Okay guys this is the news. Our newest venture is Royalty - the newest club in town, nearly ready, have been busy with that, so happy nearly done.”
 
“You heard it here first as promised. Having our first party here after the Rajasthan Royals match, hope we win…more reason to celebrate,” she adds.
 
Buzz has it that the happily married couple has already bought ‘Poison’, a club in Bandra, and plan to re-open it by the name ‘Royalty’.

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Aamir on a break till 2012

When it comes to planning a filmi career, no one knows it better than Aamir Khan.
 
Many of our B-town beauties would hit the panic button if they didn’t have atleast one movie in hand, and even sign up for mediocre projects in desperation (no faults of theirs, blame it on the rat-race). But this Khan man has a strange way of planning his career. Well, call him an idiot if you please, we think he’d love that too. After enjoying one of the biggest successes of Indian cinema, Aamir has pulled the brakes on his career. Currently he is only focussed on his wife’s directorial debut, Dhobhi Ghat, and his next production Peepli Live. Soon after that all his attention will be on nephew, Imran’s Delhi Belly. So dearies, chances are that we won’t be seeing AK in a full-fledged role till 2012. Hmmm… suddenly ‘all izz not well’ with your fans, AK. C’mon, you can’t do this to them, yaar.

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Priyanka Chopra banned from using Twitter

Priyanka Chopra’s Twitter obsession has been curbed. And it’s all owing to her latest film producer Sajid Nadiadwala who has banned the actress from posting any kind of information on the social networking site.
 
So while most filmmakers are still looking for ways to approach their actors on the issue, Nadiadwala has taken stringent steps to assure that no member of the cast or the crew will leak any kind of details about his project ‘Anjaana Anjaani’ on any networking site.
 
The producer took the strict decision after he saw a constant inflow of pictures and information being put up on the said site. And with his both lead actors Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor being active users of the site, Sajid had little choice but to impose his will.
 
Confirming the news, Sajid told a daily, “I actually took the decision to forbid my cast and crew from putting any information on websites after an incident that happened with Sajid Khan, my director of ‘Housefull’. We were doing a photo-session with the film’s stars. We weren’t even finished and Sajid Khan had already put one of the pictures on the site. I was horrified. That’s when I decided it was time to make the confidentiality clause a legal issue in all my contracts.”
 
Regretting the lack of privacy among stars, Sajid further added, “I remember when my father produced JP Dutta’s Ghulami, we’d stand outside Dharmendra’s van for hours waiting for him to emerge so we could see what he wore, how he styled his hair, what watch he had on, etc. Today the stars volunteer all this information on the social networks even before the director takes his first shot. I think all of us need to make confidentiality compulsory for every film."
 
Well, looks like Piggy Chops will have all work and no play on this one!

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Big B to promote Kerala tourism

Amitabh Bachchan has accepted Kerala’s request to become the state’s brand ambassador to promote tourism, state Tourism Minister, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said Thursday.
 
As soon as Big B expressed his willingness to become a brand ambassador to promote Kerala tourism last month, a letter to this effect was written to him, Balakrishnan added. "Yesterday (Wednesday) I got his letter stating that he is willing to become the brandambassador and for that he is prepared to start a dialogue. I have asked the tourism director to have a discussion to this effect," said Balakrishnan.
 
Big B was in the state for a few functions last month. It was then, during an interview to a TV channel, that the actor said he would gladly accept the offer to become Keralatourism’s brand ambassador.
 
" I tried to get in touch with him, but I was told he was out of station. The government is willing to go ahead with him and the final decision to this effect will be made after knowing all the conditions he puts forward," said (IANS)

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Puppies in Paathshaala!

Who would’ve imagined that a one-minute scene with tiny, harmless puppies would require a whole day of hard work?
 
That’s exactly what happened on the sets of Shahid Kapoor’s ‘Paathshaala’, where a shoot for a 1 minute clip involving small kids and some puppies turned into a picnic of sorts for the cast and crew!
 
The scene involved a child actor who is playing with some puppies in the school premises, while Shahid and the other kids look on. The crew assembled a few puppies, played with them for a while to get them familiar and even fed them well to get their attention. However, just as everything was ready and the Director all set to take the shot, the puppies would fall asleep, leaving the team in a lurch. After a while, Shahid and the kids would again feed the dogs, play with them to get them into action, and just when they’d be ready for the shot, the puppies would run away, scattering in all directions!
 
This repeated a couple times, and it finally took a whole long day to get the desired shot. Meanwhile, Shahid and the kids had a field day, playing all the while with the cute puppies.
 
Talking about the incident, Director Milind Ukey said, “It was a really funny situation we faced that day. We’d never imagined that such a small thing would require so much struggle! But in the end, everyone, especially the kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it was all worth it”
 
Presented by Eros International and Produced by Paperdoll Entertainment, Paathshaala hits theatres on 16th April.

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Sridevi painting goes international

Sridevi’s newly developed passion for painting has gone international. Her painting Thoughts has been accepted by a reputed international art auction house. The proceeds from the auction will be donated to Sridevi’s favorite charity. At the moment, Sridevi is in unwilling to talk about her passion for painting. However, her husband, Boney Kapoor confirms the news and says, “Yes, Sri’s painting has been accepted for an auction by a well-known international art house. The auction will take place in April and all the money that Sri gets from it will be donated.” Incidentally, this is the first time that the now reclusive actress has made her paintings public.
 
Boney says his wife spends 4-5 hours a day painting. “It is generally in the evening. After she has finished with household duties and is done with our daughters’ homework, Sri locks herself away to paint,” adds Boney. “After me and the kids, painting is her main passion. Now her paintings have reached a level of professionalism where they can fetch a handsome price.” Where does this new passion leave Sridevi’s plans to return to acting? Boney replies, “Sri has been acting since the age of four. She is the only child artiste to have reached the number one position in Hindi films. She will return to acting only when something special comes her way.”

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Sonu Sood injured while on shoot

Sonu Sood’s pride — his long Punjabi naak — stands fractured today not in one, but two places! The actor was shooting the climax fight scene with Salman Khan in Wai for his film Dabbang. But a kick on his nose left Sonu bleeding. “A fight master, while showing Salman how to beat me up, jumped from a height and hit me on the nose leaving me bleeding. I was rushed to a hospital with two fractures,” said Sonu.
 
He was told to return to Mumbai. But the actor decided not to and within 48 hours was back shooting, because if he had left, around 500 artists including Salman would be stuck doing nothing on the set. Sonu meanwhile is surviving on painkillers and with padding inside his nose. The pain he can cope with, what is worrying him more is whether the swelling will show on screen. Actually he need not worry… the computer today is like part of the cast and crew and can perform just as well!

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Salman Khan’s new passion


 
Investing in properties seems to be Salman Khan’s latest passion. The Veer star has recently bought a spacious office at Mumbai’s plush Linking road in Khar. The actor will conduct all professional meetings in his new office and operate from there from now on. Apparently Sallu even has plans to venture into the real estate development business soon.
 
“Salman wants to pursue diverse interests. And getting into the construction and real estate business is on his agenda. In fact, he has already zeroed in on a site in Borivali, a suburb in Mumbai. Along with his partners, the actor plans to construct a residential complex there. Sohail, Arbaaz and Atul Agnihotri are all a part of this venture,” said a source.
 
Not too long ago, Salman Khan invested in a plush duplex apartment on Carter Road in Bandra. The interiors of the apartment are being done up now.

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Arjun, John to act with Frieda Pinto

According to the latest buzz, Bollywood actors Arjun Rampal and John Abraham will share screen space with Slumdog Millionaire fame Frieda Pinto. A Hollywood production house has approached the actors for a crime thriller. Director Andy Armstong along with writer Kevin D. Ward and cinematographer Joao Fernandes of Conversations With God will make this film for Edge Filmworks.
 
The film is a dark comedy and will be shot entirely in Florida, USA. It will have other Hollywood actors and actresses too. The film will speak about underworld, politics, crime, stealing and has a tagline, “Betrayal is a contact sport…”
 
It will go on floor soon and expected to release on February 2011.

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