Producer: Bandla Ganesh
Director: Puri Jagannadh
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Casting: Allu Arjun, Amala Paul, Catherine Tresa, Devshi Khanduri, Brahmanandam, Nassar, Ali, Subbaraju, Srinivas Reddy, Kaajal Vashisht and others
Rating:2.25/5.0
Story:
Akanksha (Catherine Tresa), daughter of central minister leaves for Spain to pursue masters in psychology. She finds a diary in her rented apartment which was left there by previous tenant. Story unfolds as Akanksha flips the pages on installment basis.
Sanju (Allu Arjun) and his friends’ gang make their living by singing in streets. Sanju bumps into Komali (Amala Pal) who travels from India to Spain to learn music from Fidel Brahma (Brahmanadnam). Both Sanju and Komali fall in love and convince their parents for their marriage. The dairy ends abruptly covering their story till four days before the marriage.
Meanwhile, Akanksha who also bumps into Sanju in Spain. She surprises him by asking about Komali and their marriage. Sanju shocks her by saying Komali is dead.
Rest of the story is a revenge drama with hero becoming victorious in the end.
Performance:Allu Arjun as usual excelled in dances and fights. But his role lacks opportunity to showcase variations. As most of his scenes are with heroines, you see lot of sarcastic comments on girls and become monotonous after a while. There are no punch dialogues in the movie as there are hardly any scenes between the protagonist and the antagonist.
Two heroines Amala Pal and Catherine Tresa justified their roles. Amala Pal suited well in traditional Brahmin girl role while Catherine sizzled in shorts in modern girl role. Catherine acted freely and danced well especially in ‘Ammai Manasulo’ mass song.
Brahmanandam is highlight in the first half as Fidel Brahma. Ali is wasted as Mental Krishna in second half. Rao Ramesh, Shawar Ali and Subba Raju justified their selection in villain roles. Nasser, Tanikella Bharani, Pragathi and Tulasi appear in brief roles.
Technical:Puri Jagannadh chose a routine revenge drama and tried to impress the audience with screenplay. Unfortunately, it boomeranged making into stereotype. There is nothing much in the first half except songs and Brahmanadnam comedy. The story picks up towards the break, but failed to maintain the tempo with weak screenplay and forced comedy bits. Twist towards the climax is little too late before the routine ending.
Devi Sri Prasad music is good and background score is also highlight. Amol Rathod did good job behind the camera especially in action sequences. Kicha, a world renowned fight master composed deadly fight sequences. Choreography is good in couple of songs elevating dancing skills of Allu Arjun.
Plus Points:Songs, Dances and fights
Funny dialogues between lead pair
Allu Arjun dance to Gang Leader and Shankar Dada songs
Minus Points:Puri Jagannadh
Slow Pace
Analysis:‘Iddarammayilato’ is a romantic love story which turns into a revenge drama. The screenplay of the movie is so bad that it will not appeal to either romance genre audience or action genre audience. Puri has to slow down his pace and concentrate on his screenplay technique. It is better for him to start the next movie with a bound script rather than starting the movie and banging the head for ideas.
Allu Arjun who enthralls the audience with his all-round skills, was under utilsed by the director in this movie. Puri would have get more chances of incorporating more entertaining elements in the screenplay had the story run in Indian backdrop instead of Spain. Routine story, Poor screenplay and lack of entertaining elements hamper the chances of movie at box office.
Final Talk:Finally, ‘Iddarammayilato’ is yet another failed attempt from our fast paced director Puri Jagannadh. Stay away from it unless you are a die hard fan of Allu Arjun fights and dances.
In the wake of various MPs and MLAs jumping political parties, TRS MP Vijayasanthi met CM Kiran today. However, her reason for meeting CM seems to be the development of Medak. Vijayasanthi revealed that she has given 1 crore rupees cheque to CM Kiran from MP Funds for the sake of developing Medak-Akkannpet railway line works. Also she is heard demanding a medical college for Medak and raised constituency related issues. However, none in political circuits believe in these developments and they say that the real reason behind Vijayasanthi's meet is something else.
Reportedly CM Kiran is leaving for Delhi tomorrow to meet high command and Vijayasanthi is heard requesting him for an MP ticket from Medak, provided which she will jump into Congress party. Right now TRS is not keen on making our former heroine contest from Medak again and also BJP is not showing interest in Vijayasanthi's comeback to party anymore.
Recently, Priya tasted her first big success she always dreamt with Tamil flick 'Ethir Nechal' which was produced by Kollywood star Dhanush. She is now trying to make most out of the success she earned and demanding a whopping remuneration for her upcoming films. Couple of big production houses have decided to drop her from their projects for acting too pricey and a showroom owner has ran away when he heard the astonishing amount quoted by her for just one-hour appearance.
Priya Anand made foray into films with Sekhar Kammula's Leader and has been part of films like 180 and Ko Ante Koti. Even though she has done a role in Bollywood film 'English Vinglish', 'Ethir Nechal' is her first success as a leading lady. Looking at the current developments, one get the feel that the newfound success has already gone to the head of this svelte beauty. Too much of anything is bad! What do you say Priya?
Pawan in Shankar Dada, NTR in Chintakayala Ravi and Nara Rohit in Sarochcharu appeared in such roles. Even Allu Arjun is starring in special in Ram Charan's Yevadu.
Now Sunil will be showing his specials in 3d in Allari Naresh's 3D action adventure Action 3D. Buzz is he will appear for five minutes and entertain viewers.
Sunil according to sources will be appearing in cameo even in Power Star Pawan Kalyan's Attarintiki Daaredi. It is time even Sunil have some name in front of him!
Talking to the media here on Wednesday, he said TDP would not get even deposits whenever elections could be held. He reminded Bala Krishna that his party lost deposits in all the by-elections held in the Telangana region after 2009.
Kajal Agarwal is reaching new heights by bagging most of the bilingual films made down South and that too each one of them opposite top stars. After getting paired with Suriya, Karthi and Vijay, now the saucy seductress will be romancing none other than Kamal Hassan.
Reportedly, Kamal will be directing one more flick after 'Viswaroopam 2' and this new project is a collaboration of the actor's home production 'Raj Kamal Internations' and director Lingusamy's banner 'Tirupati Brothers'. After spy-thrillers like 'Viswaroopam' & 'Viswaroopam 2', Kamal has inclined towards action-adventure and this film is going to be a proper commercial entertainer unlike most of his earlier films. Interestingly, Kajal who is having the same age of Kamal's elder daughter Shruti Haasan has been roped as leading lady.
Film observers say, Kamal looks much younger than his actual age and also more handsome than most of his counterparts in the Industry. They question, what's the big deal if he romances an actress half of his age! After all, they are just playing characters and definitely not real life love-birds.
For youths who have fallen flat and went head over heels for the super sensuous village belle looks of this tantalizing siren as Pawan's Bhagi' aka 'Baghyalakshmi', here comes the hot jolt. Reinventing her way of projecting glamour and shedding oomph on silver screen, striking beauty Shruti Hassan comes back again, bewitchingly.
After an year of 'Gabbar Singh', here is Shruti giving a full meals of her curvaceous figure in 'Balupu'. Highlighting her hour glass figure in some tight costumes, she knows what exactly to be projected if the wickets of Telugu youths are to be bowled out. Her tempting cleavage shows in that bright pink top is sure gonna blow wind out of your ears, while those bulging fats around her waist area are not making eyes to blink. Enjoy the feast folks.
Hyderabad, May 27: Youngsters want to romance whenever they have chance. But these chose a weird place. A temple! May be they thought there is nothing wrong in romancing in a temple as the temple walls themselves contain some exciting sculptures.
Caught before camera is this young pair. They did much more than what is shown in these pictures, with a video camera rolling.
Youngsters such as these used to choose parks. However, parks have turned out to be dangerous joints. If Bhajrang Dal volunteers catch them, they force them to get married in the nearest temple. Bajrang volunteers, devotees of Lord Hanuman, an ardent bachelor are averse to love. They carry mangal sutras ready in their pockets and force youngsters found romancing into marriage. Parks are also dangerous because police also are not too kindly towards lovers. If caught by a cop, it would be an expensive and embarrassing affair to come out.
So these youngsters chose a less crammed temple to romance. However, how a video camera rolled is suspense. May be the boy or the girl or both agreed to be shot. Or may be they themselves shot their romance through a static camera, to stash away fond memories for future. But some how this video made its way into the internet and from there into the porn sites. So girls beware. When you romance, ensure no camera is watching, as the video might land in wrong hands. Also try to avoid temples. Help the believers keep them clean.
The situation worsened especially in the past four days with temperatures crossing 45 degrees celsius at several places in the State. Palvancha and Kothagudem towns in the coal belt region of Khammam district recorded maximum temperatures of 49 and 48 degrees celsius repectively on Saturday while Rentachintala in Guntur district recorded 47.3 degrees celsius. It was 47 degrees in Vijayawada, Bapatla and Machilipatnam.
The Met.department has forecast that heat wave conditions would continue over coastal Andhra and parts of Telangana over next 48 hours. The Health authorities issued an advisory yesterday asking people not to venture out between 10.30 am and 4 pm to avoid sun stroke.
Meanwhile, deaths due to sun stroke are reported from several areas every day. A note issued by the State Disaster Management Department has put the number of deaths due to sun stroke at 274 since April this year.
Meanwhile, the Opposition parties demanded that the government declare heat wave conditions as a natural calamity and pay ex gratia to those who died due to sun stroke.
According to Muimbai police, the victim studying in ninth standard had befriended Naved on social networking site Facebook in November last year. Later they started meeting. After a few months, Naved proposed marriage to her but the girl refused. However, Naved kept pursuing her when she stopped meeting him and discontinued her FB account.
angered by her act, Naved along with Sana and friends attempted to drag the girl into Sana's car while she was returning home in Sanpada. Fortunaltey, the girl managed to free herself and ran towards her house.Sana, Naved and his friends even went to victim's home and threatend the family of dire sequences. The girl's mother subsequently approached police and lodged a complaint.
Based on the complaint, Navi Mumbai police have already arrested four persons --Sana's cousin Naved Khan (22) and his three friends Kshitij Dubey (22) and Vismit Ambre (23) and a 17-year-old boy minor -- in the case.
Hunt is on to trace the 25-year-old actress. Sana Khan is playing the female lead in Salman Khan starrer Mental. As Sana has gone into hiding, Mental's shooting schedule has reportedly got disrupted.
The news created a sensation as earlier filmmakers scouted other renowned stars. However Anasuya shocked the filmmakers by rejecting the offer. She said ‘Though I was approached for item number in Pawan Kalyan film, unfortunately I am not able to do it. I am not interested in starting my film career with item numbers. First, I want to prove my acting prowess and then try for other things. Currently, I am also quite busy with TV shows. In fact, Gunasekhar Garu also approached me to play a key role in ‘Rudramadevi’ but he wanted me to shed 10 kgs of weight for which I said no. I do not have any regrets for missing all these chances,'.
Anasuya is currently killing people with her small screen programs like ‘Jabardasth’ and ‘Bindaas’ along with compering audio releases and functions.
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Indore, May 18: The district district court sentenced a 45-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for putting “chastity lock” on his wife's genital area.
Special additional sessions judge A K Singh found Sohan Lal Chouhan guilty under sections 326 (causing grievous hurt) and 498 A (subjecting married woman to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on him.
Meanwhile, public prosecutor Jyoti Tomar said Chouhan was arrested in July 2012. Out of the 14 witnesses presented before the court, three — including the couple's son and daughter — had turned hostile.
"However, the son admitted Chouhan had not allowed him to meet his mother in the last four years," Tomar said. "Besides, the statements of the doctor who had removed the “lock”, the policeman who had recovered the key from Chouhan and an independent witness helped in nailing Chouhan," he added.
Chouhan's cruelty had come to light after his wife tried to commit suicide by consuming poison. While trying to insert a tube to extract the poison, hospital doctors were stunned to see the genitals “locked”. She then revealed her husband had done this by performing a crude surgery on her four years ago. In a statement, she said that her husband suspected her of having an extramarital affair.
The woman was married to Chouhan when she was 16 years old. The cruelty came into limelight after she consumed pesticide after Chouhan tried to rape their elder daughter.
songwriter Beyonce Knowles is reportedly pregnant with her second child with rapper husband Jay-Z.
A week back, the pop star, who is already a mother to a 15-month-old, wore a high-waist Givenchy gown that covered her belly to the Met Ball in New York, reports thesun.co.uk.
If sources are to be believed, Knowles' pregnancy was the talk of the glamorous fashion event.
The rumour spread like wildfire when the 31-year-old pulled out of her Mrs. Carter world tour in Antwerp, Belgium because of dehydration and exhaustion
All the Indian Americans charged are from the Chicago area.
Ankur Roy, Akash Patel, and Dipen Desai, have been charged with six counts of health care fraud each in an indictment that was returned by a federal grand jury last Wednesday and unsealed Tuesday.
The three, who owned and operated Selectcare Health Inc, which provided outpatient physical and respiratory therapy in Park Ridge and Skokie, were charged with submitting more than $4 million in false billings to Medicare between March and July 2011.
Roy, 36, of Miami was arrested Tuesday in south Florida, while Patel, 33, of Morton Grove, and Desai, 33, of Chicago, will be ordered to appear for arraignment on a later date in US District Court in Chicago.
According to the indictment, the three allegedly submitted $4,009,094 in false billings for services that were purportedly provided between April 2010 and April 2011, resulting in payments totaling approximately $2,214,424 from Medicare and $320,881 from Blue Cross Blue Shield.
The indictment seeks forfeiture of $2,535,305 in alleged fraud proceeds, including $446,974 in funds withdrawn by cashiers' cheques that were seized by the FBI in July 2012.
In a second case Dr. Nalini Ahluwalia, 58, was charged with one count of violating the anti-kickback law for allegedly receiving $1,000 in exchange for referring two patients to a home health care agency in Aug 2012.
The charges demonstrate that "we will not tolerate medical professionals and providers who abuse our healthcare system," said Gary S. Shapiro, US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
Raghunandan said Harish Rao took money from him in TIrumala. He said despite taking money, Harish got him defeated when he contested as MLC. He charged Nayani Narasimha Reddy of collecting money by setting up labour unions in companies.
Stating that he was not trying to join any other party, Raghunandan dismissed allegations that he met the TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu.
Veteran director Dasari Narayana Rao is known for his fair blasting against any issue that fails to appease him. The other day he has warned a young hero of consequences if he fails to change his ways, in a smooth tone.
It happens to be the audio release function of Siddharth's latest Tamil dubbed flick 'Something Something'. Though it is a dubbed movie, the makers have reshot few portions of comedian Santhanam replaced by comedy king Brahmanandam. While unveiling the audio of this movie, Dasari, the chief guest, stated that time has come to name all Telugu flicks with Telugu titles. 'Telugu movies should be named with Telugu titles only. Otherwise I'll push people to agitate against them', said Dasari, looking at Siddharth. If you take a look at Siddu's latest movies, of course disasters, Love Failure, NH4, Jabardasth (Urdu word) are all named with other language words only. Many people are appreciating Dasari for this smooth warning, as preferring to Telugu titles will increase the credibility of being a Telugu flick.
On the other hand directors like Sekhar Kammula who always love to name movies as 'Happy Days' and 'Life Is Beautiful' are worried with Dasari's warning. Let us see what happens.
King Nagarjuna is extremely impressed with Andrea Jermiah's bold looks. She acted in Naga Chaiatanya's Thadaka. Though Chaitu's heroine is Tamanna, Nag is impressed with Andrea.
Andrea shocked all with her boldness in having an affair with 20yrs Anirudh of Kolaveridi fame. Eventhough their hot liplock snaps came on net, she did not bother to reply to them.
When some questioned, she stated those were old snaps. Youth love to have her as their friend and celebrities easily fall for Andrea's boldness. Now Nag who is impressed by Andrea's acting started enquiring about her.
Buzz is he wish to romance her in his upcoming film.
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However there are rumors that she deserted Tollywood which gave her immense stardom. Ileana says till now she starred in South without any break and is doing the same in Bollywood.
She says she has no impossible dreams like to be in the industry forever and she is aware that she will be in as long as she and viewers like her work. She says she will quit the moment she can not satisfy
Posing for the latest edition of Maxim India magazine, seductress Shruti Hassan showcases her wilder side you have never seen before. Wearing some skin hugging inner garments, the actress puts up her massive cleavage on display. Her shapely thighs that look firm due to that cross legged pose are making men go weak at knees. After the likes of Anushka Sharma and Shriya Saran, Shruti is the only seductress to go such bold on Maxim cover page. Looks like, our youths are not going to sleep for next two to three days.
Ameesha's upcoming film “Shortcut Romeo”, which also features Neil Nitin Mukesh and Puja Gupta, will be premiered at the prestigious film festival May 22. And the 37-year-old is looking forward to the event.
“It is a huge honour for me to be representing our cinema at Cannes. I am not going there as a brand ambassador. I am going there for my movie and that is a big deal. Manish and I have decided that since I am representing the country on a global platform, it would be perfect to be dressed in something that’s truly desi,” Ameesha said in a statement
“Nothing looks better on an Indian woman than a sari or lehenga. I have to walk the red carpet in the morning and the premiere is at night, so there will be two outfits,” added the actress known for hits like "Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai" and "Gadar - Ek Prem katha".
They urged the commissioner to book the case for the assault on some persons by him and his security staff. They said it was improper on the part of the police to leave the matter, stating that there was no complaint. They told the top cop that there were media reports and visuals in TV channels about the incident.
It may be recalled that some two persons complained to the Banjara Hills police that Ram Charan and his security guards beat them up for not giving way to the hero’s car. The victims showed their injuries and torn shirts to the media. Later no one knew what happened and the complainants themselves asked the media to ignore the incident. Police said they had not booked any case as there was no complaint.
"Slovenia is four hours away from Milan. And it's such an amazing place, so much honesty, peace and calmness. Loving it," Hansika posted on her Twitter page.
She is currently shooting with Vishnu Manchu for the film, which also features Manchu Manoj, Manchu Mohan Babu, Praneetha, Varun Sandesh and Tanish.
Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon will also feature in an important role in the film, being directed by Srivas.
Meanwhile, Hansika wrapped up shooting for upcoming Tamil comedy "Theeya Vela Seiyyanum Kumaru". She is also shooting for Tamil films "Vaalu" and "Vettai Mannan".
While the main allegation of Phani seems to be Charan hitting him on his face, sources at the spot revealed that this guy and his friend irked Charan with their psychopathic acts. Reports have that when Charan is trying to pass GVK Mall in Road No.1, Banjara Hills, Phani and his friend travelling in a Maruti 800 spotted him. They wanted to tease Charan by not giving way to him and blocked his way by not giving space to overtake. Though Charan honked horn many times, these two paid no attention to it. Finally Charan managed to ram his multi-crore Ashton Martin through a small space and in that process the Maruti 800 brushed few scratches on our hero's car.
Miffed with that Charan blocked his car in front of Phani's and stopped the car. With Phani blasting Charan in foul language, our hero is heard calling his security guards who asked these two guys to behave themselves. Apart from this, there seems to be nothing like a scuffle as complained by Phani, where Charan manhandled these two guys along with his security guards.
We have to see what police will actually find out after getting into the scene. Watch this space for more updates.
TV artists have been protesting over the issue for a long time and violence took place even when some groups were peacefully protesting. Left parties and some eminent film personalities support their cause.
Because of the agreements entered in to, it may not be possible to stop the dubbed serials all of a sudden but it can be gradually done so that the local artists' interests will not be hampered.
Film or TV actors have to maintain their physique and glamour and they need to spend good amount of money for that to survive as actors. It is easy for the TV Channels to go for dubbed serials as they are less costly and easy to get sponsors as its success is already proved in other languages. But the local artists find it difficult if ample opportunities are not given and sufficient remuneration is not received.
Allu Arvind said that he had a talk with other TV Channels and also with the artist groups protesting dubbed serials
The internal differences in the Congress party came to the fore with the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme. Ministers were divided into pro and anti Kiran groups. Rebel ministers had met on Thursday morning at the residence of Botsa Satyanarayana. The Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Raja Narasimha, ministers Jana Reddy, Vatti Vasanta Kumar and D L Ravindra Reddy attended the meeting. It is learnt that they mainly discussed about the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme in the one-hour meeting. It is learnt that the ministers expressed displeasure that the Chief Minister had not discussed the scheme in the cabinet and decided to complain against him to the High Command. It may be recalled that Botsa and DL had already criticized the Chief Minister indirectly, by stating that they knew nothing about the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme.
It is learnt that the Deputy Chief Minister Damodara Raja Narasimha expressed anguish that the Chief Minister had not said a single word to him about the ‘Indiramma Kalalu’ scheme. The dissidents are planning to meet the High Command after the Karnataka Assembly elections. Talk in political circles is that they planned to make the complaint to the High Command in such a way that it would take a definite decision on the Chief Minister.
However, pro-CM ministers like Kondru Murali are claiming that the Chief Minister had discussed the ‘Bangaru Thalli’ scheme with available ministers. He dismissed dissidence by saying lightly that it was natural that one or two ministers might defer.
Aishwarya openly declared that her actor-father has given her complete freedom to explore the field and she wouldn't mind doing a kissing scene if the script demands such commitment from her.
It may be recalled that Aishwaya collapsed on the sets while shooting for her debut flick at Thrichy due to severe heat. This incident happened when Arjun is on the sets and the dotting father was the first person to come to the rescue of the beauty. Being a thorough professional, Aish joined the shoot within few hours and wrapped up he shoot of her scenes for the day.
Unit sources say, Aishwarya is a bundle of talent and her acting prowess will be appreciated by one and all. Director Bhoopathy Pandian has been showering praises on the debutant saying she isn't just good looking but a born actress.
'Greeku Veerudu' of Nagarjuna is going to hit the screen in a few hours from now. Story just leaked into the Film Nagar…. According to discussions in Film Nagar, the story is like this…. Chandu (Nagarjuna) runs an event management company in USA. He gets used to the culture there. He also feels that life, sentiments and love relations in India would be no different. He comes to India on an errand and keeps enjoying life here, thinking that the conditions here are more or less the same. He then meets Sandhya (Nayantara), a doctor committed to service. She works with the charitable organization 'Make a Wish'. She believes in sentiments, relations and love. Chandu and Sandhya who have conflicting views about life, get acquainted to each other. Would Chandu change his views on life and understand human relations and family emotions prevalent in India? Would the two ultimately fall in love? This is the crux of the story. It is being said that the character of Meera Chopra is important in the film. It is being talked in the Film Nagar that it is with her entry that the film would take an important turn. The film's story resembles director Dasarath's earlier film 'Mr. Perfect', in which the hero and heroine have divergent views. Ultimately they unite when the hero changes his views. We would know if this is the story in a few hours. King Nagarjuna told the media on Thursday that he liked his character in the film. He said styling and presentation of his character was more like a mixture of 'Santosham' and 'Manmadhudu'. He also said that the chemistry between him and Nayana Tara worked out well in the film. |
Harare, April 30: A soldier complained that he was kept hostage for a week by four women and gang raped, in Zimbabwe.
The soldier found the four women going in a car and requested them for a lift. Then he said he was abducted and kept in an isolated place and gang raped.
The soldier alleged that he was bound, gagged, beaten and eventually thrown in a nearby mountain Dangamvura.
The incident happened after the soldier asked for a lift from a Mercedes car being driven by two women and one male. During the journey, the driver altered the route on the pretext of buying food. The soldier objected and asked to be dropped.
But he was threatened and one of the woman accomplices showed him a knife and he was blindfolded. The accused even snatched his money. He was kept hostage in a secluded location from 19 to 23 April. The man was allegedly gang-raped by four women for one week.
The man was eventually thrown at a nearby mountain of Dangamvura. The man has a deep wound on his left leg- supposedly an injury inflicted by a stone.
The local police have registered the complaint and the investigation is underway.