A couple of days back, the government of Telangana has set up a special committee to deal with the women harassment cases in the Telugu film industry. Many noted technicians like Nandini Reddy, Paruchuri Gopalakrishna, Supriya and Jhansi have been appointed as the panel members for it.

Following its footsteps, Kollywood has also set up a similar committee. Nadigar Sangam, the body of the Tamil film industry, had started a panel to deal with the MeToo cases in the industry. It will be headed by senior actor Nasser and will also have other actors like Suhasini, Kushboo, Rohini, Karthi, Vishal and Murugan as the panel members.

MeToo movement has gained momentum in India during last year when many actresses and technicians came out and shared their sexual harassment stories. Many big names from the Tamil industry were also accused of sexual harassment, by a few female artists in the industry.

Actress Bhanu Sree was quite unknown to the Telugu audience even though she acted in a handful of small budget films as a heroine. But, she got fame when she entered the Bigg Boss house. The actress entertained the audience with her typical Telangana slang during season 2 of the popular reality show.

After that, she was seen as a host in a couple of TV shows as well. Now, she is all set to enter the Tamil industry. According to the sources, Bhanu is playing the female lead opposite actor Jai in a Tamil film called Breaking News. Jai is known for his work in the film Journey.

Touted to be a fantasy action drama, this movie is being directed by Andrew Pandian. Apparently, the film chronicles the life of a common man turning into a superhero. Bhanu already flew to Chennai and started shooting for the film. Stay tuned for the more details about this film.

Sayesha Saigal who made her debut in Tollywood film industry with the film Akhil was immediately seen in Ajay Devgn’s Shivaay. Later the actress could not make it big in either Telugu or Hindi industries. Sayesha Saigal has found Tamil film industry to be a flexible one for her. The actress is currently busy with a couple of interesting projects in Tamil. She is acting with Jayam Ravi in an upcoming movie titled as Vanaman.

Sayesha who is popular for her dance skills is also a part of Karthi’s upcoming film Kadaikutty Singam and Vijay Sethupathi’s upcoming film Junga. She is also said to be a part of Ghajinikanth starring Arya in the lead role.

On the other side, she is also acting with Suriya in one of his upcoming movies. It looks like she has settled in Kollywood.

Amyra Dustur is the young Telugu heroines who made her grand debut with the film Manasuku Nachindi in the direction of Manjula Ghattamaneni. The actress has impressed everyone with her cute looks and performance and look forward to more good offers. The Mumbai beauty is said to have signed a new Tamil film right now. G V Prakash Kumar is playing the lead role in a film directed by Adhik Ravichandran and the film is said to be a fantasy love story. The actress is going to be a part of the project in the leading lady role.

Earlier G V Prakash and Adhik Ravichandran have teamed up for the film Trisha Ledha Nayantara. This is the second time collaboration after the super successful movie. She made her Tamil debut with the film Anegan with Dhanush playing the lead.

On the other hand, the actress also has another movie for release which is titled as Raju Gaadu in Telugu. Raj Tarun is playing the male lead in the film.

We have already reported that the producers in Telugu film industry decided to shut down the theatres from the month of March 1. As the producers are having problems regarding the agreements with digital service providers, the producers council has decided to shut down the theatres from March 1st.

The Telugu film chamber of commerce has taken this decision and also requested the other south film industries to extend their support this bandh. Already Tamil Nadu Madigar’s Sangam extended their support for the same and reveal their friendly gesture.

The digital service providers are charging 20 thousand rupees for the digital production which is actually high and also creating a huge loss for producers and theatre management. The producers have requested providers to decrease the fee, but they are not giving attention to this demand.

As a result, having left with no other option except to go on a strike, the producers have finally taken this decision. The discussions are going on, but still, we have to wait few more days for the final decision.

Most happening young hero Vijay Deverakonda who gained enormous craze and fans frenzy with Arjun Reddy is all set to make his debut in Kollywood that too under a film to be produced by a top production house.

KE Gnanavel Raja who made several sensational hit films in Tamil under Studio Green will bankroll Vijay Deverakonda’s Kollywood debut film. Anand Shankar of Arima Nambi (remade in Telugu as Dynamite) and Iru Mugan (dubbed in Telugu as Inkokkadu) fame will helm the project.

Vijay Deverakonda is bowled out by an innovative script narrated by Anand Shankar. Thus, he gave immediate nod for the project to be made as bilingual in Telugu and Tamil. Moreover, the film is offered by Gnanavel Raja who is known for making high budget commercial entertainers.

Currently, the movie is in pre-production stages and it will go on floors early in 2018. Meanwhile, Vijay Deverakonda is busy with few commitments in Telugu.

Mega girl Niharika Konidela made a huge buzz when she made her debut in Telugu film industry with the movie Oka Manasu.

Oka Manasu stars Naga Shaurya and Niharika Konidela in the lead roles. Post release, the movie ended up as a massive disappointment at the box office after which she left no signs about her second film in Tollywood. Though a project with Vijay Devarakond was supposed to hit the floors, it did not happen. She settled back to doing a web series in Telugu again but this time with her father. Now, the latest buzz is that she is going to make her Tamil debut soon.

She has been roped to play the female lead beside Vijay Sethupathi in his upcoming movie which will be directed by Arumuga Kumar. The film also stars Gautham Karthik who made debut with Mani Ratnam’s Kadali. More details about the film will be out soon.

Anjali, who is popular for her role as ‘Seetha’ in ‘Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’, has done only few films but she is more popular for her alleged personal affairs. Insiders say that she has not learned from her mistakes and is continuing her bad reputation with media. Despite her career is going on smoothly in Tollywood, it is heard that Kollywood media has decided to boycott her for her recent actions.

Going into the detail, Anjali’s latest Tamil film ‘Sakalakala Vallabhan’ starring Jayam Ravi in lead role is slated for release soon. When a pressmeet was arranged for the promotions of this film, Anjali not only attended late, but also has spent most of the time talking on her phone. She didn’t even care for media when she was asked for photoshoot after the press meet. Angered Kollywood media, has decided to boycott her and not cover her stories.

Well, this talented lady must learn to how to behave with media if she wants to sustain in the film industry.

Bollywood heroines who are currently invading Tollywood are now putting Anjali back on the list. As per the talk, Anjali who was busy for a while in Tollywood lost the track and is now looking towards Kollywood again.

It seems that the Bollywood beauties who are bagging several flicks in Tollywood are the reason for this act of Anjali. After Kajal, Samantha and Tamanna, a new set of heroines got launched into the Tollywood in the recent times. Anjali, managed to cross few of them with thriller flicks like “Geethanjali”.

But, she lacked in getting big offers from present generation heroes. This factor made Anjali look back at Kollywood film industry. As per the recent talk, Anjali is trying hard to bag Kollywood flicks. She may go back to that industry in the next few days.

Tinsel town is one busy place where newcomers have the hard task of getting themselves noticed as being unique or having that x factor. Sometimes it takes years of working in the industry and sometimes it’s just the matter of catching that big break that will land the spotlight on them. So it comes as no big wonder that passionate actors, especially female ones, tend to start very early in the industry in lead roles – maybe even in their mid-teens.

If we start naming the contenders in this list it would go on and it is hardly a new trend.

In recent times in Kollywood though, Lakshmi Menon is a good example for having started down the celebrity lane at a very tender age and also achieving start status and mass popularity before graduating high school! For goodness sakes, the actress is landing one smash hit after another and is drawing a salary of nearly Rs 1 crore now.

But it looks like not all the people watching the scenario are happy with what they are witnessing. In fact, one such individual recently decided to take legal action against this.

Against what, you may be thinking right now. Success? Fame? Hardly…

No, Muthuselvi of Tamil Nadu Makkal Katchi, filed a petition in court asking that actresses under the age of 18 years should be allowed to act in movies, as it is detrimental to their welfare. In fact, Muthuselvi claims that working at such an early age in such projects would hurt them psychologically in the long run.

Logically, it does make sense doesn’t it? Meaning, we do have Child Labour Laws in place to prevent exploitation of kids… hmmm… something to think about.

However, in this case the Court dismissed the petition filed by Muthuselvi on the grounds that the law does not have the rights to interfere with the dreams and ambitions of young actresses, regardless of their age. They may only get involved in such matters if there is an explicit breaking of current law.

So, many actresses who are working hard to stay in the industry doing something they love, it seems, will live to fight another day.

Lakshmi Menon must be thanking her lucky stars right about now!

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Kajal Aggarwal has finally confirmed that she will be starring in the Dhanush starrer to be directed by Balaji Mohan. The film is supposed to go on floors this September, and the fair starlet says the script is an interesting one and her role has a lot of scope in terms of performance.

This would be the first time the Jilla girl romances the VIP star on screen. Dhanush is, of course, on a career high right now with the success of Velai Illa Pattathaari, and his upcoming Bollywood flick Shamitabh too being hugely anticipated.

Yes, there were a few legal/social issues and hassles with VIP regarding him smoking in the film and commenting in an insulting manner about a certain chain of schools, but on the whole, the positives far outweigh the negatives with this flick. After all, Dhanush was also the producer of the movie and it was a milestone in his career being his 25th one.

So Kajal’s decision to star opposite Dhanush comes at a very good time for her too, considering the actress does not have a lot of projects in her kitty right now. Her huge pay demands recently made news and one wonders if she is still holding on to that with the Balaji Mohan film as well.

Rs 1.5 crores is a hefty sum after all…

This would of course mean that the actress would most probably only grace the screens in big projects with massive funding behind them.

However, when asked if she would consider acting alongside junior stars like Vijay Sethupathi and Sivakarthikeyan, Kajal said the script was the primary deciding criteria for her and nothing else.

However, it would be… erm, interesting to see the younger heroes’ films employ the diva at that exorbitant a rate.

Well, who knows… stranger things have happened in show business, right?

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Yesteryear hero, Aravind Swamy, who created sensation in Tollywood with the films “Bombay” and “Roja”, left film industry and got settled as a businessman. This actor voluntarily took retirement few years back, in spite of having highly paying offers.

Now, Aravind Swamy is retuning back to Kollywood as villain. It seems that this actor will be seen in antagonist role in an upcoming high budget Kollywood venture. Previously, popular yesteryear hero Suman acted in the role of villain for Rajinikanth’s “Shivaji”. Now it is the turn of Aravind Swamy to create impact on Kollywood.

As this actor is popular in Tollywood as well as in Bollywood, offers may shower on Aravind Swamy on this aspect. He may get calls from these regional film industries for villain roles. Stay tuned to know more details.

R Madhavan’s return to movies after a lengthy break had been very publicized and followed by his fans everywhere, and now that day is finally upon us.

The actor’s upcoming Tamil flick, Irudhi Chutru, launched a couple of days back on July 14th, when the Pooja of the movie was held. The entire cast and crew of the movie attended the function including Madhavan.

The shooting is set to launch on July 21st in Chennai, if things go as planned and Madhavan’s parts in the flick will be among the first to be shot. The director of this film is Sudha K Prasad of Drohi fame, and Sashikanth of YNot Studios will be the man producing it. Santhosh Narayanan will score the tunes for this one.

Now about the story..

Apparently, the plot of the movie revolves around women’s boxing. Madhavan plays a boxing coach and the purpose of the movie, or at least one of its main intents, is to raise awareness about the female division of this sport in our nation.

This is exemplified in the movie as many real life female boxers will be tackling some onscreen roles for it.

Madhavan has gone through an intense physical transformation to get in to character for this film. Gone is the boy next door charming quality he carried through in many of his movies and here comes the new persona of the rough and tough, no nonsense weathered sportsman.

He will be seen sporting a long haired, thick bearded look and a much more buffed up, muscular physique in the movie.

So it definitely feels like Irudhi Chutru is one to look forward to..

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Well, Tamanna is coming out of some rough times, with her Bollywood venture Hamshakals turning out disastrously at the box office and the critics ignoring her presence and performance completely in the flick. This was quite a blow to the gorgeous actress who had her hopes pinned on the film to kick start her success in Bollywood.

Anyway, the milky babe has since decided to concentrate more on her southern film career since, or so say the sources. Though there is still her Akshay Kumar movie It’s Entertainment coming out soon that may bring her some good fortune in the Mumbai film world after all.

It is at this juncture now that Tamannah has bagged the lead role in the next Arya movie to be directed by M Rajesh!

It was reported before that Arya, who has turned producer now, was planning to make a film under the banner of his company The Show People with Rajesh. Now, it turns out when the question of casting the lead actress came up and many names were considered, it was Arya himself who recommended Tamannnah!

The shooting for the movie is expected to start very soon. Arya and Rajesh have of course previously worked together in the hit flick Boss Engira Bhaskaran, which was Rajesh’s second film. Arya has since appeared in short roles in some of the director’s other films too.

Let’s hope this one recreates the Boss Engira Bhaskaran magic, and Tamannah too gets out of the slump she is in right now..

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The Hindi action thriller D-Day (2013) didn’t make much of a mark at the box office but the critics gave the movie a thumbs up, on the whole, and the fans by and large had no complaints. But the movie’s surprising lack of a good financial haul maybe the reason why the makers of the flick wanted to release it in Tamil as a dubbed version.

But one of the stars of the flick raised their voice against this and that’s our very own Shruti Hassan! Now that’s a shock to many, as Shruti, being Tamilian, should have been the one person thrilled with this development.. but no.

Apparently, she felt the movie’s originality would be compromised and that there was no reason to do dub it in Tamil anyway since the Hindi version was released in Tamil Nadu. Surely, she argued, the real movie buffs would have already seen the movie.

Now that’s a flimsy excuse or reasoning if any. Why dub any movie, if not to reach a larger audience and rake in a little more cash? Shruti’s arguments left many confused.

But there is another possible explanation though – Shruti had done a few steamy scenes in the film and perhaps she was not sure about how the Tamil audiences would react to those. But hey, this is pure conjecture at this point..

For better or for worse, the producers were quite decisive and determined about their plan and did go ahead with it.

D – Day was directed by Nikhil Advani and had a cast which consisted of Arjun Rampal, Huma Qureshi, Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Sandeep Kulkarni. It was produced by DAR Motion Pictures in association with Emmay Entertainment.

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Nayanthara is still very well one of the reigning queens of the southern film industries and in that respect controversies don’t seem to touch her. She has landed some biggie roles recently and many of them have turned out to be hits, and her professionalism is a matter often praised by many in the fraternity.

She is now taking another step in the path of versatile choices by signing up for a supernatural thriller. The flick is to be directed by newcomer Ashwin and will feature the music of Sathya. Actor Aari, who was the lead in Nedunchaal, will tackle the part of the hero in this project.

Studio Green have undertaken the task of production.

Nayan’s other upcoming and much awaited film is Idhu Namma Aalu, in which she stars opposite her real life ex boyfriend Silambarasan. The couple haven’t shared screen space in 8 years.

The movie, directed by Pandiraj, also has other interesting aspects working for it like the fact that Simbu’s brother Kuralarasan has donned the role of the music composer and has also roped in Yuvan Sankar Raja to sing a song in it.

The flick, which is being produced by Simbu’s father and veteran actor T Rajendar, is currently being filmed and is near completion.

It is indeed a praiseworthy fact that Nayanthara is starring opposite Simbu after the couple’s much publicised relationship and subsequent bitter breakup a few years back. It was director Kalanjiyam, while in the midst of his own feud with actress Anjali that pointed out Nayan’s professional attitude and suggested Anjali take a cue or two from her!