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Her last day in front of the camera was at Ramoji Rao Film city in Hyderabad on June 25.

After the wrap up of the shoot, the actress presented gifts like watches and gold rings to her assistants and say a good bye to all with tears.

When Balakrishna asked her about the post marriage acting plans, the replied that her fiance strictly asked her to quit films after marriage.

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Nanna and Sega will flag off this season and there are as many as dozen dubbed films that are ready to hit the theatres any time. Karthi’s Naa Peru Siva, Renigunta, Mynaa (Prema Khaidi), Goa, Urumi, Bala Surya, Dhanam, Sishira, Chikku Bukku (Fair and Lovely), Rajani, Ragile Kasi and few more dubbed films from various languages are ready to take on straight Telugu movies.

Our government doesn’t levy high taxes or take necessary measures to cut down on the heavy inflow of dubbed films. Therefore, they are troubling straight films and eating into their business at times. Recent dubbed hit Rangam is one of the reasons for this sudden boom.

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According to reports, the actor is going to play the lead role in the the remake of the Bollywood hit ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’. The film is a bilingual and will be simultaneously made in Telugu and Tamil with Ravi in the lead.

Sources reveal that Trisha has been roped in to play the heroine. ‘Bum Chik Bum’ is the title under consideration for the Telugu version and for Tamil the crew is yet to be decided the title.

‘Band Baaja Baaraat’, a romantic comedy set in the backdrop of a wedding, was directed by Maneesh Sharma with Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh in the lead.

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The war of words between the two has been going on for nearly a year as Azhikode supported Thilakan who had declared war on AMMA.

Azhikode at that time had said that Mohanlal had become too old and should do roles that fit his age. He also hit out at Mohanlal for endorsing jewellery ads and doing surrogate liquor ads.

Mohanlal hit back, saying that Azhikode must be in a different world and he will take it as old Ammavan joke.

Azhikode then served a legal notice to Mohanlal, asking him to apologise or face legal action.

Now the defamation case has been filed after Mohanlal did not respond to Azhikode’s earlier legal notice.

As per legal experts the court will now have to find whether there is a prima facie case against the actor.

The case will now come up on March 17 at the Thrissur chief judicial magistrate court.

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The Shivaraj Kumar Sena Samithi, the fans association of the actor had organised a big funciton on that day at the Narthaki theatre which also coincided with the 50 days of the actor’s 99th film Mylari.

Ambareesh, Raghavendra Raj Kumar and Narendra Babu were the chief guests at this function which was also attended by the artists and technicians of the film.

Mylari film distributor Basha and Santhosh who is now in charge of Narthaki theatre was also present. A big crowd of Shivaraj Kumar fans had assembled at the venue. Earlier a blood donation camp was organised in Narthaki-Santhosh theatre complex where 57 bottles of blood were collected by the Dr. Raj Kumar Blood Bank.

It was a memorable moment to see two of Shivaraj Kumar’s childhood friends from Chennai- Vijaya Prasad and Shekhar- attending the function and receiving felicitations from the fans.

Genelia, one of the leading actress in South is shifting her concentration on a new game. It is none other than the risky skating.

Recently she got a very good instructor who boosted her confidence to go ahead and do it. Having no fear of heights, the actress took to sky diving like a fish takes to water.

The actress is very busy in Tamil and Telugu now. Her recent release in Tamil is Uthamaputhiran. Her next release will be Velayudham with Vijay.

Last year after the super hit Hindi film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na with Imran Khan, Genelia was avoiding signing south Indian films especially Tamil films.

Now that her Life Partner with boy friend Ritesh Deshmukh and Govinda has bombed badly, Gene is having a rethinking of her strategy.

All of a sudden, she was more than willing to do her Telugu film Ready remake in Tamil with Dhanush and sending feelers to big directors.

Genelia after a short lived honeymoon with Bollywood is turning her attention to south in a big way.

In Telugu, her Katha with Ram is ready for release while she has signed the biggest movie, Ram Charan Teja’s Orange.

The big question now being asked in Kollywood is whether Asin will also rethink her strategy and come back to Tamil after London Dreams turned out to be a disaster at the box-office?

Producer Johnny Sagariga has informed this to the trade circle Today at Kochi.

The film will be releasing big in 100 screens across Kerala. Johnny who had earlier planned it as a Ramzan release, then a Christmas film has now preponed the release by two weeks!

First and foremost, Dileep’s market is at an all time low after his recent crop of films have bombed at the box-office, the trade is cautious. And it would not be wise to compete when Mammootty’s Chattambinadu, Mohanlal’s Ivide Swargam Aanu, Vijay Tamil mass masala entertainer Vettaikaran and Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots are planning to release big in Kerala this Christmas.

Johnny Sagariga wants to recoup the losses he suffered early this year due to the colossal failure of Cat & Moz. So if he releases on December 4, he is likely to get a solo opening for two weeks before Vettaikaran releases on December 18.

And he will get dates in all main stations in best of screens and continue for three weeks before Christmas films releases. The film carries very good reports as Siddique is the man with the golden touch and has never failed. He is a director who goes by the script and National award winning music director Ouseappachan has given great melodies. Added to that Dileep is being paired with Nayanthara for the first time, making it even more exciting.

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Moser Baer has launched the DVD of their Jayaram- Padmapriya Onam (Sep 4 release) film Kana Kanmani, 26 days after its theatrical release.

It has created shockwaves in the placid Malayalam film world where normal DVD release window is 100 days after theatrical release.

The bold and daring move has to be appreciated as it is keeping with international and Bollywood standards where the release window has come down.

Says G Dhananjayan, CEO of Moser Baer Entertainment: “The film has not done well at the box-office and it made better sense for us to release it on DVD, as it will prevent piracy.

Shorter release windows on DVD means the producer will be able to recoup some of his losses if the film fails at the box-office.”

Meanwhile producers and theatre owners in Kerala are perturbed that films are getting into DVD format officially faster than ever before.

Says a prominent distributor and theatre owner: “ If DVD is released so fast how can the film get money from theatre run from B and C centers? We will be taking up the issue at our general body meeting next week.”

Vikram starrer Kandhasamy’s original length of 3 hours 12 minutes has been chopped by 22 minutes by producer Kalaipuli S.Thanu.

Some of the Vadivel comedy scenes and a few other scenes have been cut. Now the running time of the film has been reduced to 2 hours and 50 minutes.

The theatre owners who were finding it difficult to screen the film, has now heaved a collective sigh of relief.

The Telugu version of the film also trimmed.