Sneha is one of the most talented actresses in Tollywood today. Sneha is also a busy actress in Tamil. This talented girl has both acting talent as well as good looks and this has earned her a loyal band of supporters.

Sneha looks good both in traditional dress like sari and is equally elegant in modern outfits. Sneha with her big and expressive eyes is the dream girl of many youngsters.
Sneha is now said to be deeply in love. The lucky guy is Girish. He is a singer and that she has even decided to get married to him. Acording to the rumors doing the rounds in Chennai, Sneha will get married to Girish on February 1.

When it comes to celebrities and charity, each of them have their own style of benevolence and things tend to pass on as the celebrity kids also follow a similar path laid by their peers. Now, one star who has been hitting the headlines for his star presence and background is none other than Ramcharan Teja.

Apparently, Charan is said to have bread packets in the back of his car. Ask him why and he says that these are for those needy people who are hungry but can work and earn money for themselves. Charan also adds that money is given to only those who are physically challenged and are seriously old.

Charan says that this is something he has learnt from his father megastar Chiranjeevi and he also mentioned that by giving money to those who are not worthy, he does not want to become a reason to spoil them and make them lazy. Well, those are few sensible points spoken Charan.

Although this time of the year is for Tollywood to shake the Box Office, it seems that like the New Year, Sankranti too is going to be a low-key affair, going by the fact that there are no big star releases this year.

Quite a surprise, given that Sankaranti is considered the most auspicious festival in these parts and the stars have always vied with one another for a release this time of the year. With no star wars, looks like the festival will lack its characteristic zing. What's even more surprising is that this year, of the six films
lined up for a Sankaranti release, only three finally made it. The biggie among them is Maska, starring Ram, Hansika and Sheela. The other two being Allari Naresh's Fitting Master and Anushka's Arundhathi.
"Filmmakers have always cashed in on the festival," says producer council chairman, Tammareddy Bharadwaj.

Yesteryear stars too played a key role in creating this trend, says Tammareddy, as he goes on to explain, "NTR always opted for a December release, while ANR preferred Sankranti. Later, Krishna joined the Sankranti bandwagon. Even I believe there's something auspicious about this festival. My film Pachani Samsaram with Krishna in the lead actor which released on Sankranti was a blockbuster. It was not only a commercial hit but also won accolades for me as a director."

Another sentiment that's attached to this festival is that since it's the first festival in the year, filmmakers want to come up with a blockbuster and hope that the good fortune sustains till the end of the year. MS Raju, who is popularly known as Sankranthi Raju, is ready with Maska this time. "I am confident about my film and I have always had the Sankranti sentiment," he said. Most of his films that were released on this particular day were hits, the most memorable being the Mahesh Babu starrer Okkadu.
Vouching for the Sankranti effect is director EVV Satyanarayana, "I got my first break with Prema Khaidi, which was a Sankranti release, and I firmly believe that there's something auspicious about the festival." No wonder, he is releasing his film Fitting Master at this time, with son Naresh playing the lead role.

The surprise this year is Arundh-athi. And we wonder if this is the beginning of a new trend considering the theme is women-centric. Arundhati took almost two years in the making because of the graphic element and other technical work and also because Anushka, the glam girl of Telugu cinema, dons a new avatar in this period flick, directed by Kodi Rama Krishna.

Coming to the films that were postponed –– Siddharth's Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam, the Nitin and Priyamani starrer Drona and Rajasekhar's Satyameva Jayathe –– we hear that they will be released by the end of the month. Apart from these, according to industry sources, there are some more films lined up for release next month, that's before the exam fever takes a grip in March. An estimated Rs 80 to 100 crore business is expected in the first two months.



Source: timesofindia

She is known as the milk white beauty of the cine fraternity and surprisingly, her skin glow and complexion is growing with each passing day. She is none other than the hot and beautiful Tamannah and recently, the pretty starlet revealed her secrets on how she maintains herself like that.

Speaking at an interview given to the famous NTV channel, Tamannah recommends a lot of fruits and that too in an aggressive manner. She also said that a lot of fruit juices form her daily diet and that is why her skin keeps glowing all the time. An element of positive thought along with some meditation is also said to be the key.

So folks this does not mean that you have to end up guzzling down jugs of fruit juice and only fruits, all this has to be done in proportion and consulting a nutritionist always helps. For now, Tamannah has given the opening door so make good use of it. Meanwhile, we would love to see more of you pretty girl.

The year 2008 has been extremely good for the talented actress Trisha. She had several hits in the last year both in Tamil as well as Telugu. Trisha’s King opposite Nagarjuna is a hit and the film is raking in the moolah at the box office. Trisha’s bank balance swelled in 2008 is charging upwards of 70 lakhs per film and she made a neat pile in 2008.

In addition to her film assignments, she was the chief guest at the inauguration of textile and jewellery showrooms. She was paid a bomb and was even allowed to come by a chartered flight to Vijayawada as well as Hyderabad

Trisha earned in a 15 minute appearance at the malls what a normal heroine would make for working in a full length film!

Prince Mahesh Babu will finally don the grease paint on January 18. The fans of Mahesh Babu waited eagerly all through 2008 for him to commence work on his new film. But the film got delayed for one reason or the other.

The actor has taken a long gap after Athidhi. His new film will be directed by Trivikram Srinivas. The film will be an all out action thriller. Trivikram has been reworking on his script after Mahesh Babu made some suggestions.

The hot Parvathi Melton has been signed up as the leading lady. The film will have toe heroines but the name of the second heroine has not yet been finalized.

Genelia hardly exposes. Even she exposes the oomph-factor sounds less as many men say. She looks like a minor girl in gowns in general. But look here. She is sounding a thunder in the hearts of men with this thigh show. The photographer has rightly captured her in right angle proving that she too has big 'asset-value'. Let us wish Genny gain lot of oomph in 2009.

Tattoos have become the latest fashion and the film folks are often the first ones to adopt these styles. It is being noted that many starlets including those in the top most league have taken to the tattoos in a big way and they have been getting their body done with tattoos at some of the most sensuous spots.

In this process, the petite beauty Trisha also has got a tattoo near her cleavage and it has been quite a while since she has got it done. It is heard that her friends are saying that this has got boring and it is time for change. So that is said to have got Trisha thinking about it and now she is said to have decided to get her tattoo changed.

While she is busy trying to figure out ways and means to erase the existing one and get a new one, folks say that her return from Australia will have some surprises in store for her fans and followers. Currently,the pretty girl is busy holidaying in the beautiful Australian shores.

Gowri (28), an actress who appears in the popular TV serial Kolangal was arrested by the City's anti prostitution wing police last night.

According to the police, the actress was arrested while she was in the companyof some 'customers'.

Earlier the police had got information from their secret sources about the prostitution racket working in the luxurious Sujatha apartments located in the posh area of Raja Annamalaipuram, the place where some VIPs have their residences.

A team from the anti prostitution wing headed by Deputy Commissioner Vijayakumari conducted a thorough raid in the apartment late in the evening and found some girls inside the apartment. Gowri was also in that house at the time. Later all the three accepted that they were involved in prostitution.

Gowri is an actress and she had appeared in Tamil films like Paravaigal Palavitham, Moondru Natkal, Kadhalukku Mariyadhai and some Telugu films as well.

She is presently acting in Kolangal. Interestingly, she is playing the role of a tough cop in the serial!

Actress Neetu Chandra who is acting with hero Rajasekhar in his next movie Satyameva Jayathe an email complaint to Hyderabad City Police Commissioner stating that hero Rajasekhar and his wife Jeevitha who is directing the movie harassed her last month during the shooting of Satyameva Jayathe. Neetu Chandra being a Bollywood actress, Mumbai Mirror news paper wrote an article about Neetu Chandra being bothered by Jeevitha and Rajasekhar.

City Police Commissioner confirmed about the complaint through e-mail and also said that he was not sure whether Neetu Chandra herself sent the complaint or somebody else sent it using her name. The Police Commissioner also added that he would not register a complaint against Rajasekhar and Jeevitha couple until Neetu Chandra personally lodges a complaint in any of the Hyderabad Police Stations.

Speaking on this issue, Jeevitha said that this is not at all true and is a cheap trick by people in film industry who does not like her husband and hero Rajasekhar.

Hero Vishnu who is right now shooting an action sequence in Thailand for his next film Saleem has escaped a major accident during the shooting of one of the chase sequences. He just missed a major accident when he was to jump onto a bike from a car. However the local Thailand fighters got minor injuries and were immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. The shooting was stopped for one day and was resumed after the fighters came back from hospital.

Vishnu and Ileana are playing the lead roles in Saleem while Mohan Babu is playing an important and vital role in the movie. YVS Chowdary is directing the film while Mohan Babu is producing it on Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures banner. Kanal Kannan is composing the fight sequences in Thailand.

The shooting of Saleem will continue till 25th January in Thailand where two major fight sequences will be shot.

The heading entices many but we are missing that now. Nayantara is supposed to pose in bikini for NTR-VV Vinayak's film as per a grapevine but she requested Vinayak to make some changes and avoid that. Vinayak instantly agreed to her as he is no way in idea to trouble her feelings. Although the scene required her to wear that, Vinayak decided to delete that scene from the script, says Nayantara.

Nayantara made a big surge in cinema world with her bikini act in the film Billa with Ajith. And she said that she is no way willing to act in Bikini again as she feels that is not a compulsory aspect to turn the heads of people.

Now the shooting of her film with NTR is going on in brisk pace and recently a song was shot in Ramoji Film City. Nayan is being paid huge amount for her role in this film but still Vinayak is not taking any liberties with her like that of bikini acts.

Vallabhaneni Vamsi and Kodali Naani are the producers of the film. Devi Sri Prasad is scoring the music.

After successful Ammoru years back, director kodi rama krishna along with producer Shyam Prasad reddy is again coming up with similar film Arundhathi.The movie is all set to hit the screens on 9th January. Anushka is playing the dual role in the film. The film was censored and awarded with A certificate. It is graphical extravaganza. The budget of the movie is already in news.It is said that producer invested a whooping sum of 13 crores on this project

Industry pundits have predicted that Tamannaah is going to be the person to watch out for in 2009.
She has everything going her way — the right looks and attitude, is a complete professional, disciplined and above all, she has made the right choice of films. All her forthcoming films are with young heroes —Surya (Ayan), Dhanush (Padikathavan), Bharath (Raja Rani), Karthi (Paiyya) and Siddharth (Ananda Thandavam) and a big Telugu film with Boys Siddharth (Koncham Ishtam Koncham Kashtam).

During the last year, she had no releases, but things seem to be looking up for the actress as she will have more films than her rivals. Suddenly, Tammu, as she is affectionately called by her friends and folks, has become hot property in the south Indian advertising endorsement market, after Asin took the aerial route to Mumbai. At the moment, the 19-year-old from Lokhandwala in Andheri, Mumbai, is the highest paid actress in Tamil cinema, without a single hit to her credit!

When asked about her phenomenal rise in Kollywood, without any releases in 2008, Tamannaah says, “Two of my 2007 December releases —Shekhar Kammula’s Happy Days in Telugu and Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori in Tamil, were path breaking films that received critical acclaim. Both were performance-oriented roles and the audience loved my characters. I am eternally grateful to Sekhar sir and Balaji sir, two people who moulded me as an actress.”

How has she managed so many films that are coming up for release this year? The actress says, “At least two of them, Ananda Thandavam and Padikkathavan, were due for release last year, but were delayed because of technical reasons.” So, this year she will have six releases spread over eight months.

On her choice of films, Tamannaah is very clear. “What counts is the script, director, hero and the banner. The director should be able to give me a good narration of the script and a good role. The story of Lingusamy’s Paiyya was narrated to me in three hours. If I am attracted to the story, I try to squeeze my dates for the film.” About doing too many love stories, she replies, “Ayan is an action film and Padikathavan is a rip-roaring comedy. I try my best to do all genres of movies.” She says that it’s her aim to dub in her own voice by the end of the year. “I’m trying to learn the language and also picking up many words when on the sets where everybody talks in Tamil. In fact, I heard the entire script narration of Paiyya in Tamil,” says the actress, who is a keen observer.

About the talk that she is charging a bomb, without actually having a hit, she says, “In this industry, you get what you deserve. It is all a question of demand and my producers feel I’m worth it. If not, they will not pay me so much.” The fringe benefit of stardom, according to her, is travel. “Last year, I went to the US, Switzerland, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore and Namibia,” she says.

On why she avoids parties and has no link-ups, Tammu says, “I work 24X7 trying to finish my films, and I love to read and browse the Internet during my free time. As far as love is concerned, I’m yet to meet the right guy. Love is unpredictable and can happen to anybody anytime.”

The young star is very religious and visits temples (her favourite being Vaishnodevi) and believes in numerology.
Her luck changed after she added an extra ‘a’ and ‘n’ to her name. Her most prized possession, at the moment, is her ultra-thin Apple-MacBook which she got as a gift from her brother on her 19th birthday.

2009 is going to be a momentous year for Tammu and if all goes well, she may become the new ‘numero uno’ in Kollywood.

A new trend is going to start in telugu film industry. It is well known that popular hollywood movies will be dubbed into telugu so that masses also can watch the film and takes the movie closest to them. But now its something different.Young tiger NTR starrer kantri will be dubbed into english.

This mean feat of dubbing the Telugu film into English goes to Sri Venkateshwara Tele Films who seem to have taken up themselves to bring Telugu films closer to non Telugu speaking audiences.

One is sure this would set a trend for more films to be made like this. The day would not be far when the financial spin offs of such a move would be huge. Venkatesh, Nagarjuna have good fan following in malaysia nad singapore so the demand for telgu films in english will definitely going to increase.

Movie: Indumathi
My Rating: 2.5/5
Banner: Geomedia Arts
Music: Anand (Mantra fame)
Cinematography: Vasu
Editing: Shankar
Screenplay - Story & Direction: Harsha P Reddy
Producer: Harsha P Reddy
Cast: Shweta Bharadwaj, Sivaji, Vennela Kishore, Harsha Vardhan, Vijay Sai, Harsha, Srinivasa Reddy, Giri Babu, Ravi Prakash, Melkote etc
Release Date: 1st Jan 2009

My Review


Story

A girl (Shweta Bharadwaj) steals a couple of crores from her boss in Vizag and runs away with her boyfriend to Hyderabad. There she rents Ananda Nilayam in Gachibowli. She goes missing and her boyfriend is killed. A group of friends (Vennela Kishore, Vijay Sai and Satyam Rajesh) rent out the same place the next day. And they are visited by a psychopath (Sivaji) the next day. The rest of the story is all about who the psychopath is and what happens to the girl and the friends’ gang.

Artists Performance:

Sivaji did the role of psychopath and he excels with good antics. His dialogues told in Telangana slang are entertaining. Vennela Kishore (Khadir from Vennela) impresses again in this film. His own dubbing (dubbing for Vennela was done by Uttej) in this film is good. He has got good comedy timing. He has the ability to do serious roles as well. Vijay Sai is another guy who seems to have become a definite actor in thriller films. His comedy is pretty good. Shweta Bharadwaj fits the bill and she did a hot scene in this film. But the real hero of the film is Harsha Vardhan (Amrutam fame). His body language in this film is pretty close to that of Vince Vaughn who played Norman Bates character in Psycho (1998). Harsha (TV9 crime watch guy) did the role of private detective. Srinivasa Reddy did a small role and he provides comedy.

Technical Departments:

Story of the film is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Psycho (1960). The character of Sivaji is added to mislead the audiences and at the same time to provide the entertainment. At the same time, heroine character is not killed to show her as one of the suspects. The investigator character in Psycho is split into two characters in the film. Since it is taboo to show mother in a bad way in Telugu films, the director added a brother character to create a new premise for the death of psycho’s family members.

Screenplay – Direction:

Screenplay of the film is little confusing. The original film Psycho is told in a linear format with the vital twist in the climax. For Indumathi, the director narrated it with a flashback format with time stamp. For a first timer, Harsha P Reddy does a decent job. He succeeded in creating humor and suspense element. But he did not narrate the story in a clear way. Though completely irrelevant to the story, he managed to hold most of the second half with the single episode of Sivaji portraying as a psychopath. But, he should have avoided a couple of bad scenes like gay comedy at the beginning and prostitute episode.

Other Departments:

The only song in the film is good. The background score by Anand (Mantra fame) is worth commending. Cinematography of the film is neat. Some of the dialogues are nice (especially Telangana Vastunda – Vizag sim ki roaming padutunda dialogue). The producer has taken lot of care in the postproduction and it shows up on the screen.

Final Analysis:

Indumathi is a kind of film that is made with the purpose of entertainment by leaving the basic plot aside. Hence if you look for entertainment, Indumathi might satisfy you. If you look from a critic’s point of view, you will get disturbed because the plot is diluted to create entertainment. You will get slightly disappointed with ‘Indumathi’ if you had already seen ‘psycho’ (1960). There could be some entertainment value for the others.


Source: Idlebrain.com