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Actress Esha Gupta is glad that Indian models are appreciated worldwide for their unique looks.

Gupta, the second runner-up at the 2007 Femina Miss India contest who later took to modelling before venturing into films, was attending an event in the city when she held forth on the fashion scene in the country.

"I think India has great models. From Kamal Sidhu to Lakshmi, we have beautiful models in our country," said Esha, who featured in the Kingfisher swimsuit calendar in 2010.

She said that foreigners often look at India for its beautiful models, and comment on how "earthy" and "different" they look.

"In fact, every girl is unique, whether it's a northeasterner, Punjabi or south Indian," noted Esha, who made her Bollywood debut earlier this year with Mahesh Bhatt's crime thriller "Jannat 2" opposite Emraan Hashmi and Randeep Hooda.

She also featured in Vikram Bhatt's "Raaz 3", starring with Bipasha Basu and Emraan, and Prakash Jha's "Chakravyuh", with Arjun Rampal, Abhay Deol and Manoj Bajpayee.

Actress Sonakshi Sinha, who made her big Bollywood debut opposite Salman Khan in "Dabangg", says she is thankful to the star for his constant support and constructive criticism.

"Whenever Salman criticizes me, he does it in a very positive way. Because of him only I lost so much of weight. I am an actress because of him and he is very happy about it. Whatever he says, I take it in a very positive spirit," Sonakshi told.

Sonakshi was over 80 kgs before she joined the industry, and worked hard to get into shape to get into filmdom. Recently, a lot has been commented regarding her weight issues, but she says it doesn't make a difference. 

"It doesn't affect me. I think I read about it, I see it on TV, I sit and I just laugh, because tomorrow my film will become a hit and people will shut up," Sonakshi said.

So far, Sonakshi has donned a desi look in all her films - "Dabangg", "Rowdy Rathore", "Joker" and "Son Of Sardaar". But she says in "Bullet Raja", she sports a fusion look.

"In 'Bullet Raja', my look will be a western fusion kind. It has been a coincidence that so far that my look has been Indian, but I am really not complaining because all these films have done good business and been appreciated a lot. If in future, some different look suits my character, then I will do that," she added.

The 25-year-old has got a good taste of success within two years of being in the industry, but she says nothing has changed in her personal life.

"Nothing has changed so far in my life - neither in my family nor outside. Even today if I get up late, my mom gets angry. Personally, nothing has changed and I am happy about it. After achieving success so soon, many people could get spoilt, but thanks to my friends and family, they have kept me so grounded," said the daughter of veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha.

As of now, she is busy promoting "Dabangg 2", directed by Arbaaz Khan. It will hit the screens Dec 21.

Beautiful and talented actress Asin was once the leading heroine in South Cinema. She has taken the number one throne in Tamil cinema and starred opposite all the top heroes of Telugu film industry. While her career is booming, Asin chose to step in Bollywood. She got a grand entry in Hindi films with Ghajini.

Later she has fumbled a bit and recovered with a string of commercial hits. However, Asin didn't get credit for the success of those films. Her role in those films was just a glam doll and hence the actress didn't leave any mark of her own despite delivering a row of hits. Right now she don't have single movie on her hand.

Asin is not getting any offers from South cinema and opportunities almost dried up in Bollywood. Asin says that she has taken a break from the monotonous movies. But the fact is she is not being offered any. Not just Asin, every actress that goes to test Bollywood waters are finally ending up in this way. Not everybody can be Sridevi!

Ullasamga Utsahamga hero, Yasho Sagar who made foray into films with Ullasamga Utsahamga died in freak road accident at 4 am on Wednesday. The incident took place at Shira near Tumukuru district in Karnataka when he was traveling from Mumbai to Bangalore along with his friend and driver Viswanath Reddy in a swift car. The vehicle rammed into a bridge, Yasho Sagar and his driver who were in the front seats died at the spot. The friend of the actor sustained severe injuries and rushed to a nearby hospital.

The film Ullasamga Utsahamga (2008) which stars Sneha Ullal and directed by Karunakaran declared as a smash hit in Tollywood and later dubbed in Tamil as 'Ayyo Pavam'. All the songs of the movie have become chartbusters and a hot favorite for music lovers even Today. It's really sad to hear the news of a young talent breathing his last.

Gulte.com expresses heartfelt condolences to the family of Yasho Sagar and may his soul rest in peace.

Dublin, Dec 19: Ireland has decided to bring a legislation to allow abortions in hospitals when doctors determine that a mother's life is at risk. 

The Catholic nation has taken the decision in view of world-wide protests over the horrible death of an Indian dentist from pregnancy related complications, when doctors refused to perform abortion, because of the strict Catholic rules prohibiting it. 

Savita Halappanavar (31) a Karnataka-born dentist was rushed to a Galway hospital following complications when she was 17 weeks pregnant. But doctors refused to terminate her pregnancy. Savita died of septicaemia, three days after requesting a termination. Her husband has alleged that Savita died because doctors could do nothing as Ireland was a Catholic country.

Abortion is banned in Ireland as per a papal diktat. Savita's case drew world-wide criticism of the inhuman rule, forcing Ireland to amend the law.

The talk doing rounds in tinsel town is sexy siren has slapped a popular Telugu director who bagged an industry record this year. According to grapevine, heroine had recently (on Saturday) visited the director's office at on odd time where the director was not sober and reportedly in an intoxicated condition. The director apparently lost his sense and misbehaved with her.

This hot heroine was shocked initially, got miffed and slapped the young director and left from there. This hot actress was last seen in an item number for the most recent film released.

If the gossip mongers are to be believed, the director is none other than who made an industry hit this year and his next film is with Jr NTR. While many in the industry say that it is a cooked up story, others claim that it has been a hushed affair, and is being covered up

The audio launch of SVSC was a star studded affair at Nanakramguda Ramanaidu Cine Village on the evening of December 16th. With all the cast and crew of the film flowing in, and lakhs of fans gracing the event, producer Dil Raju got on a high note of happiness.

Most noticeable part of the event is that producer Dil Raju made sure that the feel of Teluguness will not give a miss at any time. Like the most celebrated Sankranthi festival, SVSC audio launch is full of kolatams, traditional dances and native kickups along with the regular dance-performances for songs and the kickass anchoring of loud-mouth ladies Suma and Jhansi. Along with them, biggies including Mahesh, Venkatesh, Samantha, Anjali, Dil Raju, Prakash Raj, Sreenu Vytla, Boyapati Seenu, Vamsi Padipalli, SVSC director Srikantha Addala and music director Mickey J Meyer and others graced the event.

Special attractions of the evening are young chief guests, Mahesh's son Gautham and Venky's son Arjun, while Mahesh's wife Namrata Shirodkar too sparkled on the stage.

Speaking at the event,

Sensuous beauty Samantha expressed happiness for being part of this prestigious project and thanked her director, producer and co-stars for this amazing flick. As usual, this enchantress wooed spectators with her Telugu words.

Other heroine, Telugu girlAnjali too felt happy for being part of this multi-starrer movie. She revealed that her character's name is 'Seetha' in this flick, before the anchors Suma and Jhansi are dumbstruck with her Telugu speech.

Producer Dil Raju stressed that making multi-starrers is difficult as handling two big heroes is a big challenge, and handling their fanbases is another challenge.  However, he thanked Mahesh and Venky for giving his production company a lifetime opportunity of making a multi-starrer flick. He dedicated this movie to all big families of Tollywood.

Ace director Sreenu Vytla, Vamsi Paidipally and Boyapati Seenu congratulated director Srikanth Addala for coming up with a novel point for this new generation.

Mahesh Babu is the show stealer of the evening with his simple talk. Addressing venkatesh, he told that he has learnt a lot from Venky about punctuality, discipline and humbleness. He congratulated the day's hero Mickey J Meyer for the wonderful tunes and wished everyone a great success. Meanwhile he joked at the audiences asking them to keep quiet by saying 'Chinna pillalu bayapadataru...'. His son Gautham and Venky's son Arjun went blushing after that.

Victory Venkatesh stated that he is pretty excited to this project with his 'brother'. (read Mahesh). 'Mahesh became my brother from day one and we delivered a decent product which you should watch with an open mind', said Venky. He reiterated that director Srikanth Addala and producer Dil Raju have done a fantastic job.

Finally, the future superstars and chief guests for today's event, Venkatesh's Son Arjun and Mahesh's Son Gautham unveiled the audio. The movie has garnered enough hype right from the beginning of project and now, the audio launch event too became memorable for fans.

New Delhi, Dec 17: A girl in her 20s was gang-raped in a private moving bus here, police said Monday.

The incident took place Sunday night, when the victim and her boyfriend boarded the bus from Munirka to go to Dwarka.

Police said that around five to seven bus crew started misbehaving with the girl a few minutes after she boarded the bus, which was traveling without other passengers.

The victim's boyfriend tried to prevent the men from molesting her, but the men beat him up and sexually assaulted the girl.

The accused then threw the girl and her boyfriend out of the bus near Mahipalpur in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar area.

Both victims were rushed to Safdarjung Hospital by a PCR van. Doctors said the condition of the girl is critical.

Police is yet to record the statement of the victim, but a case has been registered.

New Deldi, Dec 14: Christian evangelist and Praja Santi party founder KA Paul has appealed to the government of Norway to release the Telugu couple Chandrasekhar and Anupama who were convicted for harassing their son. He said they should be at least released for the sake of their children or sent away from that country.

Paul spoke to the media here with Bhargava, brother of Anupama. He said the children were weeping for their parents and the Norwegian government should release the couple or send them out, on humanitarian consideration.

It may be recalled that the Oslo court has convicted the couple and sentenced Chandrasekhar to 18 months in prison and Anupama to 15 months. The couple have appealed to the high court, challenging the Oslo court’s judgment.  Norwegian prosecutor Kurt Lir has charged that the couple had beaten their boy with belt and had even scalded him with heated metal. However the couple had denied doing that. Their lawyer has also told the court that they might not have behaved properly with their son, but have not tortured him. It may also be mentioned here that the Norwegian police have arrested the couple 9 months after the incident.

Chandrasekhar, an employee of the software giant TCS, has gone to Norway 18 months ago. He has then taken his wife and two sons also along with him. As it was a long stay, he has admitted his sons in a school in Oslo. It was then that their elder son Sai Sriram has complained to his teachers of the ill- treatment being meted out to him by his parents. However, before police could act, the couple came back with their children. Chandrasekhar was given another assignment and not knowing that a case was waiting for him there, this time the couple went to Oslo, leaving the children behind. Police arrested the couple during their second trip.

Mega Power Star Ram Charan is very busy person attending the shootings continuously for Telugu film ‘Nayak’ and his Bollywood debut film ‘Zanjeer’. But, still able to find time to attend the wedding anniversary bash of Salman Khan brother Arbaaz Khan and Malaika Arora in Mumbai.

Ram Charan is now part of the Salman Khan gang is getting warmth of Khan hospitality whenever our hero visits Mumbai.  Ram Charan even gets the lunch boxes to the shooting spots in Mumbai from Salman house.  Ram Charan is working hard to prove his mettle in Bollywood with the remake of ‘Zanjeer’ which was written by Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan in 1973.

Superstar Salman Khan, Arpita Khan, Alvira Khan, Amrita Arora Ladakh and husband Shakeel Ladakh attended Malaika-Arbaaz's anniversary bash.

Nalgonda, Dec 12: Uneasy calm prevailed in the district when the BJP activists attacked Inspector General of Police Rajiv Ratan at Yellareddiguda under Narketpally mandal on Wednesday. The BJP enforced district bandh in protest against an attack on one Hanuman Swamy and arrest of several Hanuman devotees in Nalgonda town on Tuesday. As part of bandh, BJP activists staged a rasta-roko at Yellareddiguda village adjoining Narketpally-Nalgonda road.  Annoyed over the road blockade program, Rajiv Ratan, who was traveling on the same route to review bandh situation in the district, beat one of the activists when they obstructed the IG’s vehicle. In retaliation, the lathi-wielding activists attacked Rajiv Ratan, who was in plain clothes. As a result, the IG sustained simple injuries on his neck and hand in the attack. Alerted by the sudden attack on the IG, the police personnel stopped the agitators and escorted him from there. Ratan took treatment at the SP’s office in Nalgonda town and relaxed for a while. Later, accompanied by DIG and SP, he visited Nalgonda Old City.  Speaking to the media after the review meeting on the situation prevailing in the district, Ratan said the situation was under control. He said the Narketpally police have registered a case against the youth who had attacked him. Meanwhile, the district wore a deserted look due to the total bandh. Business, commercial and educational institutions and petrol bunks remained closed. The police stopped the Hanuman devotees’ rally taken out from Ayyappa Temple in Ramagiri as prohibitory order under Section 144 Cr.P.C. was in force.  In Miryalaguda town and several mandals in the district, the BJP activists staged rasta rokos and took out processions.

New Delhi, Dec 2: TDP leader and MP Nandamuri Hari Krishna has expressed anger at both his brothers-in-law Chandra Babu Naidu and Dr. Venkateswara Rao. He said both were dragging the image of the family to roads, over the statue of his late father N T Rama Rao. 

Stating that it was the desire of all the family members that NTR's statue should be erected in the Parliament, Hari Krishna said it was not important as to who was responsible for it. He said it was improper on the part of any one to politicize who was instrumental for it. He also felt that it was just a family matter and neither the TDP nor the sons-in-law (Naidu and Daggubati) should intervene in it. 

Hari Krishna has also said that the party's image has suffered because of three MPs abstaining from the voting on the FDIs in the Rajya Sabha. He said because of what they had done, they were unable to stand upright and show their faces to other opposition members.

Hyderabad, Dec 12: The union home ministry has invited nine political parties from Andhra Pradesh for an all-party meeting on Telangana scheduled to be held Dec 28 in New Delhi.

Ignoring the demand from some Telangana parties and leaders of Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) that one representative from each party be invited, the parties have been asked to nominate two representatives each.

A ministry letter said a number of representations were made by MPs to restart the dialogue on Telangana.

The letter from K. Skandan, additional secretary in the ministry of home affairs, was received by the parties Wednesday.

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has clearly rejected the demand of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy to postpone the meeting in view of World Telugu Conference at Tirupati Dec 27-29.

The ministry has invited Congress, TDP, YSR Congress Party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and Lok Satta for the meet.

TRS leader Harish Rao said it proved that the Congress was not sincere in solving the issue. TDP leader from Telangana E. Dayakar Rao termed the meet as another ploy by the Congress.

Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) chairman M. Kodandaram said irrespective of the number of representatives invited from each party, all parties should take a clear stand on the issue.

At the two all-party meetings convened by the centre in 2010 and 2011, the representatives from major parties were divided along regional lines.

While representatives from Telangana wanted separate statehood to the region, those from Andhra and Rayalaseema opposed bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

The Congress, TDP, YSR Congress party and Lok Satta have not yet taken a clear stand on Telangana. The TRS, BJP and CPI are demanding separate Telangana state while CPI-M and MIM are opposed to it.

Hyderabad, Dec 10: India's ace shuttler Jwala Gutta Monday welcomed Bombay High Court's observation that it is ethically wrong for chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand to run a private academy in Hyderabad.The women's doubles player also questioned Gopichand Academy for collecting huge money from the budding players despite the fact that it came up on a government land and is funded by the Sports Authority of India (SAI)She told reporters here that the academy was running fully on commercial lines though it was the government which allotted land for it and was also giving the funds.The 28-year-old alleged that only those who get coaching at the academy were being selected for the tournaments. "I know a player who was among the top five but was not sent to nationals because he is from LB Stadium," saidJwala supported Prajakta Sawant, who dragged Gopichand to court, alleging that Gopichand was "mentally harassing" her by not allowing her to participate in the All India National Coaching Camp in Hyderabad. The Mumbai shuttler alleged that Gopichand was out to ruin her career by promoting only those players who train at his academy.Though a relative of Gopichand, Jwala never had good terms with him. She trains at LB Stadium here under former national chief coach Syed Mohammed Arif. "Arif sir also had an opportunity to start an academy but he was never interested in turning badminton into commercial activity."Jwala said the boys and girls from even middle class families were not in a position to afford playing badminton. She said the government should create the infrastructure to nurture the young talent. "Why should we pay money to private academies," she asked.The doubles player hit hard at the Badminton Association of India (BAI), terming it a one-man show and said it was high time to set things right in the interest of the game. 

Shruti Haasan, who played Bhagya Lakshmi in Gabbar Singh, has won the hearts of Telugu film audience. She is not the same after the mega success of that film. Shruti is the most sought after actress in Telugu film industry now. But she is extremely choosy in picking up new films. Recently she signed up Yevadu movie by replacing Samantha.In this film Shruti will be playing the role of a modern girl. We have seen her as village belle in Bhagya Lakshmi. In Yevadu her role will be complete contrast to the roles she has done in her previous films. We can expect Shruti Haasan to put up glam show in this movie. She is not against to donning bikinis and all. In fact Shruti has done a bikini clad scene in her debut movie Luck (Hindi).Yevadu would be her first film to show the spicy side of Shruti in south. Well, get ready for 'Bhagya Lakshmi Bumper Show' guys! 

Hyderabad December 10/2012 : on a tip off, the Commissioner's Task Force, North Zone Team conducted raid on premises No. 1-6-197/1/F, Bapuji Nagar, Musheerabad, Hyderabad and arrested six Bangladeshi nationals and one customer and seized Rs. 2000/- cash, One Passport, various identity cards, 5 cell phones and condoms. .

Details of the accused

1) Bithi @ Roma @ Raman Mandal D/o Binod Biswas, age; 28 years, r/o Bapuji Nagar, Ram Nagar, Hyderabad, N/o Satpar (V), Gopalgunj (Thana and dist), Bangladesh Country.
2) Shamim Hossain @ Deloyar Hossain S/o late Munser Khan, age; 42 years, Occ; Garments business, N/o and R/o near Jame Masjid, Kalikapur (V & Post), Madaripur district of Bangladesh,
3) Raj Mondal S/o Nepal Mandal, age. 30 yrs, Occ: working as assistant to Dr. Bose at Charminar Bus Depot, r/o Maa Clinic, beside Charminar Bus stop, Punch Mohalla, Hyderabad, N/o Arpara (V), Gopalgunj district of Bangladesh country,
4) Bapi Ghosh S/o Anil Ghosh, age; 43 years, Occ; Orchestra, r/o Bapuji Nagar, Ram Nagar, Hyderabad, N/o Sonapur (V), 24 Paraganas, West Bengal district. India. (Customer)
5) Liza D/o Mohd. Muslim, age; 20 years, N/o Purbamiyapura (, V), Dawangunj (Tq), Jamalpura district, Bangladesh country,
6) Julie D/o Gesh Promic, age; 25 years, N/o Milpur (V), Bogura (thana), Sherpur district, Bangladesh country
7) Mithu Biswas D/o Sushantho Biswas, age; 14 years, N/o Satpar (V), Gopalgunj (thana & dist), Bangladesh country

Details of the case:

Bithi @ Roma is Bangladesh National. About eight years back she came to India and stayed illegally in Nadia District of West Bengal along with her husband by name Kalkal who is also a Bangladeshi National. After few years she divorced her husband. On the instigation of one Payal, about four years back Bithi @ Roma came to Hyderabad and became a sex worker. Later she went to Bangladesh. There she came in contact with one Shamim Hossain. To earn easy money Bithi @ Roma hatched a plan with Shamim Hossain to organize brothel business at Hyderabad. Accordingly she came to Hyderabad and with the help of Raj Mondal (brother of husband of Bithi @ Roma) started brothel business at Musheerabad area. In this process they brought three sex workers namely 1) Liza, 2) Julie and 3) Mithu Biswas from Bangladesh. All these three sex workers are Bangladeshi nationals and have been brought to India for human trafficking and are staying illegally at Hyderabad, India without any valid Passport or Visa. Since few months she is organizing brothel business at Bapuji Nagar area, Hyderabad. One person by name Raj Mondal who is also a Bangladeshi National came to India few years back and opened a Maa clinic at Charminar and attracting customers in the name of treating various sexual diseases including impotency. The customers are seduced and sent to Roma. He styled himself as doctor though he is not holding any official degree of either allopathy/Ayurvedic/Unani or homeopathy.

Way of crossing the border:

In the border area of India and Bangladesh there are two check posts i.e Bangaon at West Bengal in India and Benapole in Bangladesh. There are some brokers on either side of the borders who are hand in glove with each other and allow Bangladeshi Nationals into India, without any valid Passport or Visa by taking just Rs. 1500/- to Rs. 2000/- per person. During interrogation it came to light that, accused Roma and Shamim have taken the help of these brokers to get those sex workers into India from Bangladesh for crossing the Indo-Bangladesh border.

The arrested accused persons were handed over to Musheerabad Police Station for necessary action.

The arrests were made under the supervision of Sri. P. Rameshaiah, Addl. Dy. Commissioner of Police, Commissioner's Task Force by Sri. A.P. Anand Kumar, Inspector of police, North Zone Task Force Team with the assistance of SIs and staff of North Zone Task Force team.

Hyderabad, Dec 10: Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was reportedly injured in the Chanchalguda jail and was unable to walk because of it. 

According to information, Jagan has sustained an injury to his toe a week ago. He has neglected it, as it was a small injury. However as the injury had not healed, he was unable to walk for the last one week say these reports. 

The YSR Congress chief was then taken to the jail hospital and X-ray was taken. It is learnt that he had sustained a fracture. Doctors have put bandage to his leg and asked him to refrain from straining his leg and take total rest. 

Reports say that he is recovering and would be totally fit in two or three days. 

It is learnt that initially jail authorities thought of taking the Kadapa MP to the Osmania hospital, but gave up the idea because of security problems. They brought a technician and equipment to the jail to have the X-ray taken.

The young brigade of female Telugu singers is known not just for their sweet voices but also for their glamourous looks. Lots of youths became fans to the like of Geetha Madhuri, Sunaina and Sravana Bhargavi for the same reason. One of them is finally tying the knot, disappointing their bachelor fans.After lending hero voice to the popular number 'Simhamanti Chinnode' from super hit 'Simha' movie, Telugu girl Sravani Bhargavi became a hot name in the circuits. Latest we hear is that Sravana Bhargavi is all set to tie the knot with another talented Telugu singer and composer, Hema Chandra. While giving stage shows abroad, love blossomed between the two and on Sunday they got formally engaged and they will tie the knot on February 14th 2013.That's good news for the couple anyway, while the hardcore fans of Sravani have to pour water on their dreams. Let us wish the couple good luck!

TDP supremo Chandrababu Naidu has reiterated that TDP was not against statehood for Telangana. Babu said these words at a face-face communication with public at Bhainsa today as a part of his padayatra Vastunna Meekosam. He has lashed out at Congress alleging that Congress has been deceiving on Telangana issue time and again. He further said that the all party meeting was just a trash. To make a point Chandrababu said Congress party was politically using Telangana issue.

Chandrababu earlier stressed he stand by letter he gave to the Centre in favour of Telangana state. Also, he said TDP decision would be officially told at the all party meeting. Accordingly, Centre convened all party meeting on December 28. There has been so much debate on the date of all party meeting as PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana urged the centre to postpone the date of all party meet.

Magadheera Ram Charan Teja's Nayak audio, which was scheduled to be released on December 14, got postponed to December 16. The sources close to film unit revealed this to Andhra Wishesh this evening. As per the sources, the film unit is most likely to announce the audio release date on Saturday wherein the unit would also tell the venue of the audio release.

It has to be mentioned here that Nayak audio release has gained so much of prominence in the wake of the buzz that mega brothers would come together on one stage after a long time. If buzz has to be believed, then it would be one of the biggest treats to mega fans. Nayak has Chiranjeevi's only son Ram Charan Teja as the male lead. This movie happens to be Ram Charan's fourth film to be released and also first film in a dual role. If we look at the history, legendary actor Chiranjeevi's fourth movie was his first movie in dual role (Nakili Manishi). Anyway, it's good that Ram Charan is following the foot steps of his father, who is like God to scores of people in Andhra Pradesh.

Mahesh is all geared up to do films continuously... his 'Seetamma Vaakilto...' is completing the shoot and meanwhile the Actor has succeeded in making his another film, Sukumar's directorial to reach in the shoot of climax sequences. And after these two, the Actor has agreed to work with Director Krissh.

Now, there is another update about Mahesh-krissh's project... according to the sources, Sonakshi Sinha will be the heroine in this film.

This 'Dabanng' beauty has done couple of B-Town films and all of them turned out to be a success... though earlier, Sonakshi was considered to play a role opposite Kamal Hassan in 'Vishwaroopam', the actress could not be a part of that project.

Now, if everything goes as planned, the chances of Sonakshi being the next heroine of Mahesh are very high.

Banner: Sunray International Cinema

Director : Nani Krishna

Producer : Kiran Jakkam Shetty , Nani Krishna

Music Director : Chakri

Cast : Srikanth, Meenakshi Dikshit, Vidisha, Jayaprakash Reddy,Sivaji Raja and others

Rating 2.0/5.0

Story

Dorababu( Srikanth), Amalapuram playboy tires to woo Swapna(Vidisha) just like he did for others. However he has change of mind when his grand mother blasts him after knowing his evil instincts. Swapa (Vidisha) however fall in love with him after watching him undergo change which is not appreciated by her Grand Father (Ranganath) who happens to be a teacher. In the mean time Peddayya(Jayaprakash Reddy) and his brother tries to demolish old hidden temple for his cement factory.

Archaelogist(Sivaji Raja) tries to find out the connection between the temple and Sri Krishna Devaraya,by entering the village. Suddenly Dorababu starts behaving in a odd manner and tries to obstruct his evil designs. What is the connection between Dorababu and Royal King Srikrishna Devaraya has to be found on silver screen.

Performance

Srikanth's role as Dorababu has nothing much to offer while in Sri Krishna Devaraya he used the mannerisms to NTR and Balakrishna to the core. He reminds all of Balakrishna in Aditya 369. Both heroines Vidisha and Meenakshi Dixit did not get much scope for performance.

Vidisha looked hot, while Meenakshi sizzled in traditional dances during Devaraya sequence.  Balayya, Ranganath, Sivaji Raja, M.S. Narayana, Raghu Karumanchi and Jayaprakash Reddy completed the other cast.

Technicals

Production values are below standard. Chakri failed in giving good music and background score. Cinematography, eidting and everything failed collectively. Director's weak storyline and unconvincing screenplay showed his inexperience.

Analysis

Director Nani Krishna seemed to be lost as to where to begin and where to end. First half of the movie is substandard and doesn't appeal even to masses. Heroism is not highlighted in any manner and females willnot appreciate Srikanth's characterisation of Dorababu. Love track is not established properly and even the connection between Dorababu and Devaraya is not convincing.

Srikanth's dances are below average. However he looked royal as Srikrishna Devaraya. Director tried mixing chandramuki, damarukam and many other films and successfully failed even in copying them.Climax insults the intelligence of movie lovers.

Final Talk

Devaraya turns disastrous for Srikanth.

Hyderabad: The much-awaited audio album of actor Ravi Teja's upcoming Telugu movie Sarocharu has hit the stands with a formal audio release function. Aditya Music, which has acquired the rights of the film, has directly released the music album into the market. Sources from the market say that it has received good response from the music lover.
Sarocharu has five songs - Two duets, one mass number and two peppy tracks. Popular musician Devi Sri Prasad has composed tunes for them, while Ramajogayya Sastry, Srimani, Anantha Sriram, Chandrabose have written lyrics. Venu, Ranina Reddy, Javed Ali, Rita, Sagar, Sunitha, Khushi Murali, Swetha Mohan, Chinna Ponnu and Devi Sri Prasad have given their voice for them.
Devi Sri Prasad has delivered a decent music album for Sarocharu, which has some of the typical Ravi Teja songs. Two tracks like 'Jaga Jaga Jagadeka Veera' and 'Gusa Gusa' are very melodious to listen. This album is surely going to impress the listeners and will do good business in the market.
However, Sarocharu is a romantic entertainer, which is directed by Parasuram and produced by Ashwini Dutt's daughter Priyanka Dutt. Ravi Teja, Kajal Aggarwal and Richa Gangopadhyay are playing the lead roles in this movie, which is slated to hit the screens on December 21.

When a survey revealed that 60% woman love to get beaten by their husband, everyone got shocked. But our filmmakers are not getting shocked and they are incorporating in films it seems.

These days it has become a norm for our heroes to slap their sensuous heroines. Mahesh slapped Samantha in Dookudu, Raviteja slapped Deeksha Seth for Nippu, and Tamanna too got spanked on her rose cheeks a couple of times. Right now, Kajal became hot topic for taking a strong slap from Raviteja in the upcoming 'Sarocharu'. Earlier she took same kind of offer from Jr NTR in 'Brindavanam'. Is this a sentiment or something to give a dominating colour to our heroes? Woman activists are saying that these kinds of slaps might send negative vibes to audiences and will encourage young lovers to hit their ladies. Hope this will not become a controversy.

On the other hand, Kajal is once again doing a lively character for 'Sarocharu'. We have seen how she sizzled in such roles earlier in 'Darling' and 'Arya 2' and we have to see if she could gleam a ray of hope on Raviteja's flop streak.

Tapsee is one of the most out spoken actresses in the South Film Industry. Everytime she interacts with the media, there will be an interesting revelation coming from her side. What could the TRP craving journos as for more!

The latest we hear from this bold beauty is about confirmation that she isn't one of those actresses who make false claims like money doesn't matter, only the role. "Never had I told, I will be acting in a film sans money. Even if it's a very good role, money is a must as I know its value. Nevertheless, I willn't sign a film blindly just for the sake of remuneration. I have to do a few calculations before giving my nod to any project," declares the beauty.

Tapsee's upcoming film Gundello Godari is due for release in this month, Bollywood debut film Chashme Buddoor will be hitting the screens in the first half of February and the action entertainer Shadow opposite Venkatesh and multi-starrer film with Ajith-Arya are currently on the sets. She has acted in nearly a dozen films in a short span of time and also endorsing several brands. This itself is an indication of this sizzling beauty's successful journey in the glamour world.

New Delhi, Dec 5: India was ranked 94 out of 176 countries surveyed in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2012, with a score of 36 on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), the Transparency International India (TII) said Wednesday.

Last year India ranked 95 out of 183 countries. However, due to an update in the methodology, CPI scores of 2011 cannot be compared with this years' score, S.K. Agarwal, vice-chairman of TII told. He added that India had the same score of 36 in 2011 as well.

"The 2012 index ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption and assigns scores of between one (highly corrupt) and 100 (clean). Ten independent data sources specialising in governance and business climate analysis have been used," Agarwal added.

While Somalia, North Korea and Afghanistan were the most corrupt countries with a score of eight, Denmark, Finland and New Zealand tied for the first place of the least corrupt with a score of 90.

China had a CPI score of 39, which is better than India, while Pakistan's was 27.

CPI scores and ranks countries based on how corrupt a country's public sector is perceived to be. It is a combination of surveys and assessments of corruption collected by a variety of reputable institutions.

Hyderabad, Dec 5: "One of the most horrible features of politics is that all the political-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not committed to the objective cause."

Showing obeisance to impatience of Telangana MPs, the Centre on Wednesday decided to convene an all-party meeting on Telangana after the conclusion of the winter session of the Parliament on December 28. It appears that hectic confabulations by KCR brought the Congress around. Thus, the decision to call for the all-party meet could be a counter-move to KCR’s designs of encouraging defections of Telangana Congress MPs into TRS.

With the above decision, the Congress wily leadership somehow managed to appease the restive T-Congress MPs for time being and in fact extended the December 9 deadline set by T-congress MPs to decide their future course of action for 23 more days and in the process the Congress think-tank, as its wont, once again demonstrated its mark of intelligence.

In doing so, the Congress high-command has rekindled the Telangana issue, notwithstanding the move was to save its skin in the light of voting on the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the retail segment in Parliament.

The Telangana Congress MPs, who were crestfallen until Tuesday with the party high command could-shouldering their demand, suddenly became excited and began to hail the decision as historic moment and tried to claim credit forgetting that their own leadership led by Ghulam Nabi Azad not very long time back uttered that an all-party meet was not required to take a decision on Telangana. They are acting like real life Gajnis forgetting that their own party itself is undecided on Telangana so far.

It is conveniently being forgotten by the now exuberant T-Congress MPs that there was no need to convene an all-party meet if the Congress decides to concede Telangana. Then who are they trying to convince by hailing the decision a historic moment.

Telangana Congress MPs, TRS leaders and their puppets in JACs always give a convenient slip to one pertinent issue. They ask the other parties like the Telugu Desam Party and the YSR Congress to spell out their point of view on the separate Statehood issue while comfortably forgetting their own failures to exert pressure on the Union Government and the Congress party to spell its stand. They have been riding on this false premise for too long and have been living in fantasy world that the people can be rallied around these false accusations against the TDP and YSRCP being the main hurdles of Telangana statehood in their eternity.

The Congress and TRS, which have been trying to pass the buck onto others always, may not be able to do so this time. Before asking the TDP and the YSR Congress to come up with their stand, the ruling Congress will have to take a stand and pronounce the same. If the Congress asserts that it is in favour of the separate State, the other two parties too can easily make their policies public. In such an event, it will be a real politic that decides their fate.

The Congress MPs, who have been demanding that only one representative should go to Shinde’s meeting to express their respective parties’ point of view, also must ensure that their party does the same first. Will the Lagadapatis, Kavuris, Rayapatis and Gades of the world accept a decision in favor of a separate Telangana? Would there be no possibility of some more regional parties sprouting in the wake of any decision — be it for or against Telangana separation?

If both the TDP and YSRCP declare that they are fully in favor of Telangana separation, but completely against the politics of KCR, TRS, Kodandaram and Telangana Congress MPs, what would be the tactics of TRS and the Congress in the region? How would they counter such a strategy of TDP and YRCP?

Having said the above, it is yet to be seen whether the Congress is trying to wriggle out of the current crisis on FDI by calling for an all-party meeting on Telangana. Once the Government crosses this bridge, it may not evince as much an interest as it did on Wednesday on the Telangana issue. Also, Seemaandhra MPs, who are more in number in the Congress, too can arm-twist the party.

The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leadership is looking at encouraging defection of the elected representatives of the ruling Congress in the region. At the backdrop of such moves by KCR, Congress needs to find ways to check KCR’s designs by somehow placating the ever restive T-MPs.

Though the T-MPs supported the government by voting in favour of the FDI on Wednesday, all eyes are focused on them on their future course of action after Tuesday night’s developments in which they closeted with KCR. Congress high-command is unlikely to take these tantrums of its MPs to embarrass it frequently and in times of crisis.

Now that the government survived the FDI crisis, what will happen to their fututre? Will Congress president Sonia Gandhi allow them to continue their tantrums? The Congress president may take a very serious view in keeping them under check in the days to come if the government manages to get through the FDI crisis.

The tantrums of KCR would anyhow be taken with a pinch of salt, for even after the Congress managed to overcome the present crisis for it is the Congress high command which would take a decision on what it should with the all-party meet and with its MPs and KCR would have no role in such delicate and crucial issues than keep luring the restless Congress MPs with his mind games.

The Telangana continues to be a thing of intrigue in its eternity, thanks to the machinations of all those political parties involved in the game Telangana and its politics has turned decadent, the political language became decadent, too.

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Young hero Ram has always been known as a hero who can enact 'Mass' roles with an ease, went ahead and experimented with the complete love entertainer like 'Yendukante Premanta' that really did not worked positive for his career... knowing he could do 100% justice to his ‘mass’ image only, the actor has decided to bag a success he did with 'Kandireega'...

As of now, Ram is completing his fourth coming film, 'Ongolu Gitta' in the directorial of 'Bommarillu' Bhaskar... kriti karbanda is playing the love interest of this Actor in this film... the first look of this film has been revealed recently... we can easily make out that the film is a complete Mass entertainer, and Ram is playing a rough and tough desi guy's role in this film.

After this flick that is scheduled for a release in a month or two Ram will work with his 'Kandireega' Director Santosh Srinivas, in 'Kandireega's sequel...

Noted director Puri Jagannadh was said to be leaving the film camera forever. He's all set to go digital with Iddarammailatho, which has stylish star Allu Arjun in the lead role. If buzz is to be believed Puri Jagannadh has selected Arri Alexa digital cameras to shoot Iddarammailatho. Notably, these cameras were so far used by Hollywood directors.

With introduction of digital cinema, Puri Jagannadh is surely going to go miles. Iddarammailatho shooting is schedule to begin in the second week of December. There has been so much buzz on this movie so far. This film has Amala Paul and Catherine Teresa in female lead

'Struggling phase' is not new to Raviteja as he had to struggle so hard to be recognized as a hero by our Telugu film industry. Raviteja never looked back after he has attained stardom with Idiot, ANOTA etc. However, like every hero he too has hit a slump after Mirapakaya. From then on he has delivered five flops in a hero.

These many flops for any hero is a big number and for a hero with 'minimum guarantee' tag it is tad too much. Poor choice of scripts and believing blindly in directors with a good track record has resulted in this slump and this doesn't mean that Raviteja's game is over. He is all set to hit back with vengeance with Sarocharu.

This film is directed by Parasuram and is carrying a very good talk among the film circles. Raviteja usually releases his films for Pongal and opens the year with a success. This time he is going to sign off this year with a hit if the reports are to be believed. A hero like Raviteja should be in business all the time as he is pretty consistent and also a busy bee.

Hyderabad, Dec 5: Panchayatraj Minister K Jana Reddy has expressed happiness over the Centre announcing a date for the all-party meeting on Telangana issue. 

Speaking to the media at Secretariat here on Wednesday, Jana Reddy thanked the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party high command leaders. He also hailed the Telangana Congress MPs for putting their efforts for the all-party meeting on December 28. 

Jana Reddy urged all the political parties of the State to express a favorable stand on Telangana issue. He requested all the political parties to behave in a manner to eradicate the differences among the Telugu speaking people of both the regions and see that they lived amicably.

He exuded confidence that the all-party meeting will take a decision which will help the Telangana people to live happily in the year 2013. He urged the Telangana leaders to meet the Congress party high command to convince it to take a decision in favor of creation of separate Telangana State. He said that the Telangana public representatives have to properly explain to Sonia Gandhi and the Core Committee members so that they could understand the problem of the Telangana and the feelings of the Telangana people once again.

He warned that serious consequences will follow if the all-party meeting failed to take a favorable decision on Telangana issue. He said that the Telangana Congress leaders have cancelled the decision of announcing of a key decision on December 9 as the Centre announced all-party meeting on December 28.

Oslo, Dec 4: Indian couple Vallabhaneni Chandrasekhar and Anupama were sentenced by the district court here for roughing up their son. While Chandrasekhar was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment, his wife Anupama was sentenced to 15 months. 

The court has permitted the couple to appeal against the judgment in the high court. 

Chandrasekhar, an employee of Tata Consultancy Services has gone on deputation to Norway along with his wife and two sons. 

They have admitted the children in a local school as the deputation was for 18 months. Elder son Sai Sri Ram (7) is mischievous and used to cause trouble to the parents. They reportedly chided the boy for wetting his pants. They even threatened to send him back to India. The boy has complained about his parents to his teachers who in turn complained to the child welfare department. Authorities of the department have taken the boy away and conducted various tests on him to know the intensity of the ill-treatment his parents have meted out to him. After a month, the boy was sent back to the parents after due counseling. 

The authorities have apparently booked a case then and the couple was not however informed about it then. The couple came back to India with their children. Chandrasekhar was asked to go back to Oslo on another assignment recently. Unaware that a case was already registered against them, Chandrasekhar went there again along with his wife, leaving the children behind. Police have arrested both on December 23, for harassment of their son. Prosecutors have even recommended the punishment. On a request from the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, the union minister Vayilar Ravi has contacted the Indian Embassy in Oslo and enquired the possibility of getting the couple released. However after being told that the India could not interfere in the laws of Norway, the central government has expressed its inability to intervene.

Parents shocked 

Back in Hyderabad, The parents of V. Chandrasekhar and his wife Anupama, broke down on hearing the news of their conviction. A family member said they were shocked.

They termed the verdict "one-sided" as the court did not take into account the issues raised by the couple, including the report sent by a psychiatrist from here. 

"There was no response to our concerns. We came to know that the court did not take into account the points raised by our lawyer. This is not a digestible situation," Chandrasekhar's nephew V. Sailendra told reporters at their residence in Miyapur here.

"We have the option of appealing in a higher court and we will exercise that option," he added. The couple's children -- seven-year-old Sai Sriram and his two-year-old younger brother -- are living with their grandparents at Miyapur.

"Our biggest worry is how to handle the children because they are inquiring about their parents. They want to know because newspapers and television channels are carrying their pictures," said another family member.

Sailendra said both the children were depressed and they were sending regular reports to the Oslo police about their health condition.

"What kind of justice is this? This verdict has separated the children from their parents. The children can't live without them. The two-year-old is very attached to them and he needs their care," he said.

The family alleged that the authorities in Norway have blown the issue out of proportion when Sriram had told his school teacher that the parents chided him for bed-wetting.

Psychiatrist Kalyan Chakravarthi, in his report sent to Oslo court, said he had several sessions of counseling with the boy. 

According to him, Sriram is 'mild to moderate' case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (APHD) and was showing positive signs till the situation turned awry with the arrest of his parents.

The family members are also unhappy with the Indian government for not doing anything to help the couple. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid ruled out any intervention, saying the issue relates to a private citizen and to the local law of that country.

The couple was arrested by police in Oslo last week on charges of "gross or repeated maltreatment" of their child.

Justifying their arrest, the Oslo police have termed the case as "very serious". A police officer has been quoted as saying that the boy bore burn marks and scars on his body and that he was beaten with belt.

The couple's lawyer denied that they hurt the boy but said they had some difficulties in handling him. The family members said the boy had sustained some accidental injuries while playing.

The arrest was made nine months after Sriram complained to his school teachers that his parents were threatening to send him back to India for wetting his pants.

Originally hailing from Krishna district in coastal Andhra, Chandrasekhar with his family returned home in July this year. Chandrasekhar again left for Norway on Nov 23 for work. This time he went only with his wife leaving behind both his sons.

The family members said the couple had gone to Norway in response to the summons issued by the Oslo court. "They wanted to close the case and clear their name before returning to India. They did not expect things to take this ugly turn," said a family member.