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Pakistunned! India lift Twenty 20 World Cup
2007-09-25 23:20:00
A youthful India n cricket team, full of vigour and determination, made history here Monday by beating Pakistan by five runs to clinch the Twenty 20 World Championship when all seemed lost. India kept their nerves to clinch the win with three balls to spare and sent the New Wanderers Stadium, packed with Indian supporters, into wild celebrations. There were also millions of Indian across the globe who rejoiced the sweet triumph. Off the last over, bowled by pacer Joginder Sharma, Pakistan required 13 runs to win with the last wicket remaining - and all seemed lost for India. But Joginder, the man with the golden arm - he had also bowled the crucial final over in the semi-finals upset of Australia - castled Misbah-ul-Haq to help script an epoch-making win with and signal wild celebrations at the New Wanderers Stadium. Scores: India 157 for five in 20 overs after winning the toss and Pakistan 152 all out in 19.2 overs. While Joginder successfully bowled the final over, it was left-arm ...
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‘Padma’ Award Proposal For P Susheela
2007-09-25 22:59:00
P Susheela is the legendary singer in Telugu film industry. She sang more than 40,000 songs so far. Padmabhushan Vara Prasad Reddy of Shanta Bio-techniques said, “It is really a surprise to underline that Susheela hasn’t given Padma award till now. But there is no loss for her if she didn’t get that. That loss is ours and our own Telugu film industry”. That is a really a right note. P Susheela, the senior most playback singer was not given right recognition that was given to her other colleagues. Grapevine also says that some recommendations are moving on to consider Susheela for Padma award in the coming slot of award announcement. Susheela sang with two generation of male singers, Ghantasala and SP Balasubrahmanyam.
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Ashwini Dutt Recalls SV Krishna Reddy’s Help
2007-09-25 22:57:00
Ashwini Dutt had dug into nostalgia and shared his past. He said that he started his career as producer at a very tender age of 19 and has seen many ups and downs in the business. He said that he lost 3-4 films in series and almost got bankrupted. Then SV Krishna Reddy saved him, he recalled. “I cannot forget SV Krishna Reddy. He directed the film ‘Subhalagnam’ and made that a very big hit. That film cleared many of my problems. In the same way, another film that brought me big happiness is Pelli Sandadi. I was confined to make films with big stars till then. But, to do some variety I planned films with new actors. The success of Pelli Sandadi had wet into my head. Then I planned for Paradesi with all new faces that was flopped miserably”, he shared. “Coming to the films like Subhash Chandrabose and Govinda Govinda, my reading habit pushed me to make those films. I like fiction and hence out of passion I made then without making calculations”, he...

What Is The Strength Of This ‘Creative Star’?
2007-09-25 22:56:00
The new unknown actor Kiran Tej could make it news with his first film ‘Brahma’ stating that it was ran for 150 days. That was really a wonder even for the trade experts, how the film could run for 150 days despite no collections after first week. Then he announced ‘Rudra’ and the shooting is going on now. Interestingly, his third film was also announced with the title ‘Vaadusthaadu’. How could he hit the tinsel town like this like a child’s play? He has no big following and no recognition at all for that matter. But he is making everything happen like that happens to be a big hero’s son of nephew. What is his strength? Many say that his sole strength is money and his passion to stand as hero on silver screen added fuel to that. Then who can stop him? After all, film industry is a self employment scheme. There is no boss here for the man who has big money.
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Will This Tamil ‘Yamadonga’ Materialize?
2007-09-25 22:55:00
Grapevine says that ‘Yamadonga’ is going to be remade into Tamil with Vijay in lead. Vijay always eyes on hit films in Telugu and wishes to make them in Tamil. He is now thinking to do Yamadonga in Tamil. The concept of yama is not that popular in Tamil but the audience would certainly relish it there, says the sources. If everything goes well Vijay may do the film in the first half of 2008. It is also said that Mamata Mohandas will be retained in the same role in Tamil as well. Well, why to leave Priyamani? Even she is a known Tamil actress who ruled the screen with the film ‘Paruthi Veeran’ there. Let us wait and see how far it will materialize.
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Hyderabad Buzz: City celebrates Twenty20 victory
2007-09-25 22:52:00
Hyderabad: The city erupted in joy and celebrated India’s win over Pakistan in the final of the first Twenty20 World Cup with fireworks, motorcycle rallies and silent prayers late on Monday night. Sending a message that India will not be cowed down by terrorism exported from across the border, several youth took the celebrations to the sites of the August 25 twin blasts — Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat, Koti. During the final few overs, the city roads were virtually empty, bringing back memories of the curfew. And minutes after the match-deciding catch was taken by speedster Sreesanth, the city kicked off a night-long party with major celebrations at Banjara Hills, Necklace Road, Tank Bund, Koti, Abids, Charminar and Secunderabad. When Pak’s Misbahul-Haq tried to hit Joginder Sharma over wicketkeeper Dhoni for a six, a million hearts missed a beat, but the Kerala speedster latched on to the catch in the short fine leg, giving India victory and sweet revenge over arch rivals Pakis...
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Shah Rukh Khan helps India ‘Chak De’
2007-09-25 22:52:00
Johannesburg, Sep 25 (IANS) The surprise attendance of actor Shah Rukh Khan in the stands and the numerous ‘Chak De! India ’ being waved with gay abandon spurred India to victory in the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship at the Wanderers here. With spectacular performances by both India and Pakistan, the game had the capacity crowd on the edge of their seats as the pendulum violently swung either way. In terms of crowd support, India clearly had an edge over Pakistan, with the tricolour hugely outnumbering the Pakistan flags. Clapping vigorously from the VIP area, Hindi film icon Shah Rukh blew kisses to the crowd when they cheered him as loudly as the teams each time his face appeared on the giant TV screens at the ‘bullring’ as the Wanderers is fondly referred to by the locals for being the hub of Johannesburg’s sporting activity for almost 75 years. Sporting a velvet shirt to promote his forthcoming movie “Om Shanti Om”, Shah Rukh occa...

Telugu Film News September 24, 2007
2007-09-24 22:41:00
2.5 crore table profit to Sekhar Kammula Sekhar Kammula who spent a whopping 7 and half crores on Godavari minimized his production cost for his next venture ‘Happy Days’ and made it in a reasonable budget of 3 crores. He sold the exhibition rights of entire AP to Dil Raju at a fancy amount. He also sold off USA rights to a nice price. He sold music rights to Big Music (from the stables of Ad Labs, Reliance) for 20+ lakhs. He is said to have made a solid table profit in excess of 2 and half crores. He still retains the satellite rights which are expected to fetch a minimum of 1 crore. Uday Kiran’s Gunde Jhallumandi Uday Kiran is all set to hog the limelight with nice projects this time. His latest film Viyyalavari Kayyalu is going to hit the marquee in the month of October. He signed another film to be directed by Madan (Pellaina Kothalo fame). Paruchuri Sivarama Prasad produces this film on United Movies banner. This film will go to the floors on Dasara. Bhayya in October Vis...
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Ram Gopal Varma Is Still A Great Director (!)
2007-09-24 22:30:00
Ram Gopal Varma made the film ‘Aggi’ that kept down many from Kashmir to Kanya Kumari. There is no film viewer who praised the film. Everybody blasted it and also called the ‘worst movie; in the career of Ram Gopal Varma’. But Abhishek Bachchan in an interview given this morning says that Ram Gopal Varma is the most talented director. Yes, his talent was seen earlier but not seen now, is the comment from audiences. Well, there is a reason for this statement of Abhishek Bachchan. Ram Gopal Varma is now making Sarkar Raj with entire Bachchan family- Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya- and hence the relation ship management is required. No one knows if Bachchan family works for another film after Sarkar Raj! Indeed, that all depends on the success of Sarkar Raj
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Tempting Sex Appealing Poses Of Charmy
2007-09-24 22:30:00
Charmy will be seen in sensuous poses in the film ‘Sundara Kanda’ of Bapu. Bapu is known for showing heroines as embodiments of beauty in his films. He has shown Aamani, Sneha, Divya Vani and others so beautiful that they keep those films as top ones in their filmography. Now the turn has come for Charmy. Bapu draws the sketch of the scene he visualizes and then shoots it with camera. It is said that he has drawn about 65 poses of Charmy that shows her sexier and sensuous. He is going to shoot all of them down the line in this film. So we may see the most beautiful Charmy in this film. Indeed, Charmy is also given modern look in the film for many scenes. So, Bapu is coming out from the brand mark of showing his heroines in typical saris and half saris.
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Reel Talk: Ravi Teja Is Warned For Monotony!
2007-09-11 00:39:00
Ravi Teja received a friendly warning from VV Vinayak while shooting for the fresh film on the outdoor set in Vijayawada. It seems that Vinayak asked Ravi Teja to take care to avoid monotony as that would disturb his success graph. Ravi Teja’s recent films have noticed him in monotony of performance that brought boredom to audience. In both Khatarnak and Dubai Seenu he did monotonous performance. It is said that Vinayak said to Ravi Teja, “The soul is not seen in both Khatarnak and Dubai Seenu. Act with a feel and do something different. Forget your stereotype style and bring out something new. That works out now”. Sources also ay that Ravi Teja took it in positive spirit and adapting to the advice of VV Vinayak. So we may see different Ravi Teja in this new flick. Well, the tentative title of the film is ‘Bezawada Bujji’.
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Screen Talk: Hero With ‘Half-Dasavataram’!
2007-09-11 00:38:00
There is long time for us to watch Kamal Hasan’s ‘Dasavataram’ on big screen. But before that freshly we can watch half-Dasavataram, the shooting of which is going on very fast. Its Vikram’s Tamil film ‘Kandasamy’ that is getting dubbed into Telugu as ‘Mallanna’. Vikram will be playing 5 different roles in the film as per the theme. Make up artistes from Hollywood are working on Vikram for this film. It is hard to make out Vikram in some roles, say the makers of that film. The shooting will be completed in 3 months as per the talk but Dasavataram may take further time to complete shooting , PP, RR and release as per the grapevine. Apart from this Bollywood actor Kay Kay Menon is acting in 14 roles in a Hindi film. So, it appears to be a trend to play multiple roles in single film.
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Fly-over collapse: Rescue work on to clear debris
2007-09-11 00:34:00
HYDERABAD: Rescue workers were engaged in removing the debris at an under-construction flyover in the busy Panjagutta area which collapsed on Sunday night killing two persons and injuring 10 others. The mishap initially triggered fears that at least 15 persons could have lost their lives as the giant iron girders and concrete slabs caved in and flattened several vehicles. However, after clearing most of the rubble on Monday morning, the police said two persons — Ankit Arora from Haryana, an executive in Infosys and M B Kumar, a close aide of TRS leader S Santhosh Reddy were killed and condition of one of the injured was serious. The vehicles parked under the flyover took the brunt of the crash as tonnes of steel and cement came down after the iron scaffolding, supporting the pre-fabricated cement segments, gave way. “We hope to complete the debris clearance work in a couple of hours. A departmental inquiry has been ordered and action will be taken on the basis of its...
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Buzz: Actress Angry For Being Photographed
2007-09-11 00:33:00
The sexy belle apparently didn’t like the presence of shutterbugs when she was shooting for a sizzling dance number. We know that Amritha Rao is making her foray down south with Mahesh Babu’s ‘Athidi’. Amritha Rao doesn’t like the presence of media persons or photographers when she is shooting. So she made it clear to the producers of the film that she wouldn’t shoot in front of paparazzi. But when some portions of the song were shot on a road in Hyderabad a couple of days back, a number of photographers and local people were able to shoot Amritha Rao through their phone cameras. The next day when Amritha Rao saw her pictures circulated in through mobiles, she was angry. On the following day, there was no respite for Amritha Rao as a number of people gate crashed and entered the shooting location to photograph Amritha Rao. This infuriated the actress and she refused to shoot until every single photographer was shown out of the place. It is re...
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Screen Buzz: Genelia Refuses to Expose!
2007-09-11 00:32:00
Actress Genelia has turned down a Bollywood movie offer because she was required to expose more than she is comfortable with. Genelia’s acting career has been on the rise ever since her award winning (as best actress) performance in Dil Raju’s movie ‘Bommarillu’. Today she is having handful of offers from south. But the girl who did a couple of films in Hindi always wanted to make a mark in Bollywood too. One of the Bollywood Filmmakers had recently approached Genelia for a role in his movie. The film has Tushar Kapoor in the lead role. Although Genelia liked the movie’s script, she was not comfortable about the fact that her role in the film required her to expose a great deal. Genelia says she doesn’t mind exposing to a certain limit, but the exposure that her role in that movie demanded would certainly have made her “very uncomfortable”. In Genelia’s words, if she were uncomfortable in playing her role then it would show in...
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Sailaja’s Joke While People Were Killed
2007-09-11 00:31:00
Singer Sailaja cracked a joke, probably not knowing the intensity of the Punjagutta flyover collapse last evening. A live event was organized in public by ZEE Telugu channel for the finals of ‘Little Champs’ program of Sarigamapa. Sailaja was asked to dance by Singer Janaki in the event reminding the audiences about her ‘Sagarasangamam’ role. Negating the request, Sailaja in lighter note implied, “I stopped dancing 15 years ago. Just now I heard the flyover collapsed in Punjagutta. If I dance things of that sort may happen”. Whole lot of audiences along with Koti, Janaki and all laughed from the dais and off the dais. But the TV channels on other side were showing miserable plight of people killed in that mishap.
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Gallery: Prakash Raj and Meera Chopra in Lee
2007-09-10 18:28:00
Lee Album
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Telugu Film News September 10, 2007
2007-09-10 18:22:00
Ram Charan Teja’s Chiruta on Sep 28th The much-awaited Megastar Chiranjeevi’s son debut film “Chiruta” is all set to release on the film’s director Puri Jagannadh’s birthday, September 28 th. Sources say the shooting and major work of the film has finished. Producer Aswhinidutt is so happy with the final product of the film and glad to release it on September 28th. Charan Teja has Neha Sharma as heroine in the film. Music by Manisharma has already became a sensation. It tops the chartbusters. Preeti Jhingiani and Isha Kopikkar as Ramachilakalu Preeti Jhingiani is acting in a sexually themed film. She did an adult movie in Hindi titled “Haseena” along with Isha Koppikar. It is being dubbed into Telugu as “Ramachilakalu” by well-known distributor N. Ram. The film’s dubbing has started on Friday at Supergood Recording theatre in Hyderabad. Vikki Rana has directed the film. Shashank Vennelakanti is writing the dialogues. ...
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Nostalgia: Keeravani About NTR’s Singing
2007-09-10 18:15:00
Keeravani shared his nostalgia saying that he was exposed to Jr.NTR’s singing talent during the vijaya yatra of ‘Student Number one’. “NTR and I traveled together in a bus during the vijaya yatra of Student No 1. Then NTR started singing many songs. He sang complete songs from many films which made me confident that he is a good singer. I decided to make him sing in any film. Now the opportunity has come. I made him sing ‘Olammee Tikkareginda’ in Yama Donga. NTR has good memory. He will not forget when learns something”, said Keeravani. Well, it is not new for Keeravani making actors singing in films. He first made Sreedevi sing for ‘Kshanam Kshanam’. He made Kannada hero Vishnu Vardhan sing for a film, ‘Karnataka Suputra’. Tamil hero Arjun also sang for the film ‘Sevagan’ in Keeravani’s direction. Srividya sang in Malayalam film ‘Neelagiri’ in Keeravani’s direction. Nagarjuna san...
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Star Talk: ‘NTR Gave This Status To Me’
2007-09-10 18:13:00
Kaikala Satyanaranaya recalled his relationship with NTR and said that he is in this position only because of him. He said that he has given many villain roles in his films and only by playing opposite to NTR, he was grown in his life. He said, “NTR has given me Duryodhana’s role in Krishnavataram as SV Ranga Rao was busy. He has also given me a role in Ummadi Kutumbam and I portrayed a sympathetic role in that. He used to treat me more than a younger brother. People weren’t allowed near NTR when he was residing in guest house during out door shooting. But there were no such restrictions for me. He called me while establishing party and said to me to be with him for entire life. In 1996 I became MP from Machilipatnam. But I shunned politics after my term knowing that the field is not for fair people”. Saying about his acting career he said, “I played Yama’s role in Yamagola Mallee Modalayyindi’. I’m very selective in acting now due t...
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Celina appointed brand ambassador of Egypt!
2007-09-08 17:38:00
Celina Jaitley is literally going places these days. From a great career in Bollywood to presiding over as a Chief Guest at London’s India Now Festival to bagging her first mega Hollywood project, Quest of Seherzade, it’s raining work for her. And now the latest in her kitty is another important assignment. She has just been appointed as brand ambassador of Egypt . She will help promote this ancient exotic country throughout the world by using her name, beauty and charm. “It’s a great honour and I am looking forward to take up this new challenge and assignment. I will be leaving for Egypt in the middle of this month on a state visit,” she says. Another feather in her cap.
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Press Note: SriMovies bags Raghavan OverseasPress Note: SriMovies bags Ragh
2007-09-08 17:37:00
Kamal Hassan gives another stellar performance in this Murder Mystery with his exemplary acting, tough Looks brought authenticity to his role. Excellent Cinematography by Ravi Varman. Great Dialogues by Dasarath (Santosham movie director) Very Nice Music by Harris Jayaraj Neat Stunts by Siva Stylish Direction with brilliance in shot-making by Gowtam Menon SriMovies would like to Thank the Producer KVV Satyanarayana garu and our Uncle Pandurangarao garu for entrusting us to market Raghavan in overseas. For Trade Enquiries Please ContactSriMovies.comRavi614 204 5660Contact@SriMovies.com
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Press Note: SriMovies bags Raghavan Overseas
2007-09-08 17:37:00
Kamal Hassan gives another stellar performance in this Murder Mystery with his exemplary acting, tough Looks brought authenticity to his role. Excellent Cinematography by Ravi Varman. Great Dialogues by Dasarath (Santosham movie director) Very Nice Music by Harris Jayaraj Neat Stunts by Siva Stylish Direction with brilliance in shot-making by Gowtam Menon SriMovies would like to Thank the Producer KVV Satyanarayana garu and our Uncle Pandurangarao garu for entrusting us to market Raghavan in overseas. For Trade Enquiries Please ContactSriMovies.comRavi614 204 5660Contact@SriMovies.com
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Reel Buzz: Krishna Vamshi’s Tackling Abhinaya Sri
2007-09-08 17:33:00
In the film Chandamama directed by Krishna vamsi, there is an item song. Abhinayasri features in the song along with the heroes Siva Balaji and Navdeep. For the song, the director shows Abhinayasri as never seen before in any film. If you are wondering what, then hear this. Perhaps for the first time in her entire film career, Abhinayasri is shown wearing a full-length saree and is all fully covered up, from head to toe. There is no skin show at all. And she does not even drop her saree pallu even once during the merry dance number. Hats off to Krishnavamsi for showing Abhinayasri like never before! Well, he has shown the typical East Godavari ‘Bhogam Melam’ also called ‘Mejuvaani’. The bhogam ladies will not do exposing but they lure men with their acts and dances.
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Chiranjeevi Needs Lots and Lots of Navratan oil
2007-09-08 06:02:00
Remember Chiranjeevi ’s ad for a hair oil company – Navratan Kesh Tel to be precise. In the ad, Chiranjeevi says that whenever he is suffering from headache, tension, body pain and sleeplessness, he uses Navratan oil – Challa Challani Cool Cool. Well, he is in the US now, and one doesn’t know if he has enough stock of Navratan oil. He has a lot of headache on 4 counts. First, his SDZ bombed and there is a lot of confusion as well as pressure on him about his 149th film. Many directors and writers are after him to give them a chance to do his next film. The second is Ram Charan Tej’s debut film – Chirutha. The film is giving him sleepless nights. He is worried about the fate of the film and how people will receive his son. The film’s release has been postponed several times on account of this. And the third problem is one that is giving him the biggest headache. The problem has been plaguing him for a long, long time. It is about his entry into politic...
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Nudity Of Indian Heroines On Silver Screen
2007-09-08 05:59:00
Celina Jaitley freshly gave a statement that she would act nude on screen if she gets a Hollywood chance. In fact there has been an opinion that Indian actresses don’t show interest in acting nude on screen. Celina may break that assumption soon, opine many. Let us recall a few Indian actresses who have shown nude on silver screen. It was Anu Agarwal who acted in an English flick showing her naked bust. It was then Deepthi Bhatnagar who has shown every inch of her nude body but with wet element wearing a very transparent white cloth on body. Indira Varma is another actress who acted complete nude in Meera Nair’s Kama Sutra and she got a few Hollywood films too after that. Radhika Choudary is another nude actress in the same film that got no big chances after that. Deepa Sahi, the wife of Bollywood director Ketan Mehta also acted complete nude in Maya Memsaab. Dimple Kapadia also acted topless in Sagar and Jaanbaaz. Simi Agarwal also did the same in Mera Naam Joker. C...
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Chandamama Movie Review
2007-09-07 02:42:00
Film: Chan damama Cast: Navadeep, Kajal, Shiva Balaji, Sindhu Menon, Ahuti Prasad, Nagababu, Radha Kumari, Uttej etcDialogues: Akula VenkatDances: Shankar, Nobel PaulCamera: Prasad MMusic: RadhakrishnanProducers: C Kalyan, VijayanandDirector: Krishna VamshiReleased On: 6th Sep 2007 The film is very much like a ‘Chandamama’. First half is like full moon fortnight and second half is like New Moon fortnight. This waxing and waning is reflected in the film. Story:Maha Lakshmi (Kajal) is the daughter of Ranga Rao (Naga Babu) who lives in a village. Ranga Rao is a rich land lord of the place. Rama Lingeshwara Rao (Ahuti Prasad) is another land lord who is a dipsomaniac and flirt. But he is not harmful to anyone. His son is Dora Babu (Siva Balaji) who is very good natured. Elders decide marriage for Maha Lakshmi and Dora Babu. Maha Rani (Sindhu Menon) is the daughter of Ranga Rao’s younger brother. She is very active and eccentric. After arranging the marriage Maha Lakshmi re...
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Exclusive Sridevi in Pellikani Prasad Gallery
2007-09-06 17:58:00
Sridevi in Pellikani Prasad
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Telugu Film News - September 06, 2007
2007-09-06 17:57:00
Director Veeru K: From Sex to sensibility A Tollywood filmmaker who has made commercial entertainers with good doses of skin-show is now dabbling in a different genre of filmmaking.Veeru.K, the director who knows for his hot films is out to delve into different kind of cinema now.Having been bitten twice with the debacle of his two previous films both of which starred Ruthika, his hot belly, Veeru is now making a “realistic film.” What inspired Veeru to change tracks from his customary style of filmmaking?Veeru says the success of some of the Bollywood films like Page 3 and ChandiniBar has blazed a new trail for many filmmakers like him who want to try some sensible stuff on celluloid.According to the sources, Veeru is set to expose the sordid side of tinsel town in this film.Having been in the film industry for decades, Veeru has seen the world of showbiz at very close quarters. Drawing from his experiences, Veeru has given shape to a story that will bring to light the ...
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Spicy Stills 09-05-07 Album
2007-09-05 16:50:00
Spicy Stills 09-05-07 Album
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