Mega Prince Varun Tej had a rather slow start to his career. A couple of his first two films failed to perform at the box office. But he came back with flying colours and scored two back to back hits in the form of Fidaa and Tholiprema.

Now, another two of his films, Anthariksham 9000kmph and F2 are getting ready for the release. Out of the two, Anthariksham will be out this week. Meanwhile, there was news circling around saying that Varun has been roped in for a negative role in Telugu remake of Jigarthanda.

When asked about the same in a recent interview, Varun said that director Harish Shankar has approached him for the negative role in the film. Varun added that currently, Harish is making necessary changes to the script to suit it for Telugu audience sensibilities. This confirms that the project is still on and rest of the updates might be out soon.

The Villain is the latest film in Kannada film industry which is generating a huge buzz. The movie stars Shuva Raj Kumar and Sudeep in the lead roles. Prem is the director of the film. The fans of Shiva Raj Kumar were literally unhappy with the way Sudeep slapping Shiva Raj Kumar in the movie. They are making comments on Sudeep and the film’s director over the same.

They were severely upset and angry with Sudeep and it has caught the attention of the actor as well. Apparently, speaking to the media recently, Sudeep said, “Don’t unnecessarily get into the conclusions. Shivanna was in the industry for a long time. He is still a great star. Why would he accept a film without knowing the script? I have no objections if the makers chose to remove the fight scene from the film.” said Sudeep.

The fans are demanding to remove the fight sequence and are threatening the producers that they will handle protests in the theatres. We have to see if Shivanna comes forward and responds to the same.

Rakshita is a Telugu heroine who was seen with Jr NTR in Andhrawala, Mahesh Babu in Nizam and Ravi Teja in Idiot. She has bagged back to back offers in Telugu during those days. After encountering failures, she faded out and stayed away from movies. Now we have come to know that she is going to make a come back in films after a long time. Though she is not acting in films she turned a dubbing artist for her husband’s film Villain.

Villain is the film directed by Prem which stars Shiva Raj Kumar, Sudeep, Amy Jackson and Srikanth in the lead roles. Rakshitha is roped into dub for Amy Jackson in the film and the actress revealed her experience recently.

“My husband is a tough taskmaster. He made me deliver each dialogue 20 times. If he fixes on something, he won’t get compromised. He is more concerned about dubbing for each and every artist. I enjoyed the process so far I gave my voice only for my roles.

The actress has acted in almost 30 films in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada as well and she is in plans to make her comeback into acting as well.

Glamorous doll Rashi Khanna is going great guns in South India with many movie offers. She has now bagged a big film in Malayalam industry.

This year, some Telugu actors are debuting into Malayalam Film industry, thanks to superstar Mohan Lal for acting as a bridge between Telugu and Malayalam industries. His next which is titled as Villain is being made as the costliest film ever in Malayalam Industry. For this movie, the Tamil hero Vishal is playing the role of the antagonist. In the same movie, our hero Srikanth is playing a supporting role. Sources say that our Delhi beauty Raashi Khanna was roped in the role of a corrupted police officer and her character is termed as Villain which is the title of this story. It will be interesting to see cute Rashi in a negative role.

This movie is being made with 8K resolution cameras for the first time in the Indian Cinema history. Rockline Venkatesh is bankrolling this high budget flick.

Even though his close competitors and fellow superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have played negative roles, in a career spanning close to three decades, Salman Khan has never played a negative role so far.

However, Salman is going to change this as latest reports reveal that Salman is in talks to play the villain role in not just one but two upcoming action thrillers, ‘Dhoom 4’ and ‘Race 3.’ It is known that ‘Dhoom’ and ‘Race’ series are popular for slick visuals and uncompromising action sequences.

John Abraham, Hrithik Roshan, and Aamir Khan have played villain roles in the first 3 parts of ‘Dhoom’ series. Salman might grab the 4th part and essay the suave and stylish villain role.

Coming to ‘Race 4’, the series is noted for having uncountable twists and turns. Villain role has huge scope in this film and Salman’s decision is awaited by all.

Multi talented Raghava Lawrence will be seen in a new avatar. He is busy with his projects as hero and director-producer, now getting ready to act in a negative role in a sequel of Tamil hit movie Jigarthanda starring Siddharth, Lakshmi Menon and Bobby Simha in lead roles.

As per the reports Jigarthanda director Karthik Subbaraj approcahed Raghava Lawrence with an offer to play the antagonist in the sequel of Jigarthanda. Bobby Simha played the same role in Jigarthanda and he also won a national award for the film. Now Raghava Lawrence playing the role of Bobby Simha in the sequel of Jigarthanda.

Karthik is said to be planning a sequel to Jigarthanda, which is likely to go to the floors in the middle of this year.

Meanwhile, Raghava Lawrence acting as a lead role in a Tamil remake of Telugu movie Pataas. Apart from this, he is also directing a couple of projects in Tamil. Now he will be seen in a villain role in Jigarthanda 2 if every thing goes well.

Tamil star hero Vikram, who is noted for picking challenging roles, has yet again selected an experimental role. After essaying diverse roles in a number of movies, Vikram is now set to play dual roles as hero and transgender villain in his forthcoming film titled Marma Manithan.

Vikram will be seen in two completely different avatars in the film directed by Anand Shankar of Arima Nambi fame. The film is being made on massive budget, and it will be shot in Malaysia for the most part. Vikram’s acting prowess is well known to audience and this challenging role as a transgender villain will only add few more awards to his resume which already is glorified with many awards including 1 National Award for Best Actor.

Nayanthara and Nithya Menon are playing female leads in this movie.Vikram will romance Kajal in his new film to be directed by Thiru.

Previous generation heroes, who saw super stardom with super hits, are currently turning into villains. With lack of success and films, they opted for negative roles and are gaining good opportunities with big films. Now, following this rule, hero Rajasekhar has decided to act in a villain character.

Rajasekhar, who once did angry hero roles, bagged super hits with family oriented films. Later on his films started making less money and tuned out to become flops. With fewer offers and those too turning out to become flops, Rajasekhar gave a gap to films and didn’t come out much into public.

Now, the angry hero is making his way to begin his second innings. This time he will be seen as a villain. Following his co-actor Jagapathi Babu footsteps, Rajasekhar has decided to play a negative role. The film that he does this role is also a special one to him. His daughter Sivani, who is being launched as a heroine with ‘Vandaku Vanda’ is the film that Rajasekhar will the role of an antagonist.

Earlier producer Dil Raju approached this hero to do as the villain in Ravi Teja’s next ‘Yevado Okadu,’ but he didn’t like his role and rejected acting in it.

After giving a promising entry with Donga Dongadi in 2004, Manchu Manoj had most of the times stood up to the expectations that Tollywood has believed on him. He is the youngest son of Mohan Babu and has a lot common with his father. In Most of his films, Manoj tries to imitate his father Mohan Babu by his dialogue delivery just to create some comedy.

Manoj has done three films as child artist and fourteen films as a full length hero and two films as character. His upcoming film ‘Attack’ is ready for its release in December. ‘Attack’ was directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Manoj is currently shooting for Dasarath’s ‘Shourya.’ Manoj who is in the shooting of ‘Shourya’ took some time and spoke with us. Read what he has to say.

“My father is a much disciplined personality. Every profession needs disciplined behavior, he feels. The way he raised us is the only reason why we are here” said Manoj about his father.

Speaking about his upcoming films, Manoj said “Attack is directed by Ram Gopal Varma has completed its shooting process and will release in the month of December. Currently I’m doing ‘Shourya’ under Dasarath’s direction. Apart from these few other stories are lined up.”

Manoj was seen as a Rockstar in Vedam which also has Allu Arjun as a hero. When asked about his favorite character, he has to say Police Officer is what I like to act in. As an actor everyone wants to act in different characters. I love to act not only as a hero but also as a villain.”

With 19 films in his bag, he was chosen to pick his favorite, he laughed and said “Each and every film is a special one. If I wouldn’t like, I wouldn’t have done those films. Apart from all my films ‘Shourya’ will stand the best. It is a different subject. Regina, Prakash Raj and my characters are very variety in this film. People accept different films. I think Dasarath is making a different film.

That was Manchu Manoj for us. Lets wish him for the success of his next release.

Kollywood hero Suriya whose upcoming film’s ‘Pasanga-2’ and ‘24’ are getting ready for release. Now the buzz is that Suriya will be seen in a negative shade role as Villain in 24.

‘Pasanga-2’ is a sequel of 2009 super hit ‘Pasanga.’ This film is produced by Suriya himself and directed by Pandiraj. Amala Paul too has a cameo in this children’s film. According to the director, ‘Pasannga-2’ is ‘the world of ‘Tiny Tots’ and will offer a beautiful experience to all.’ This film is said to be a message oriented one that is sure of wetting the audience eyes. ‘Pasana-2’ will be in theatres from December 4th.

On the other hand, there is ’24.’ This is a unique one in Suriya’s career, as he is playing three different roles in this time travelling movie. Suriya will be seen as an elder brother and younger brother. Apart from that he will also be seen as the son of the elder brother. Samantha and Nithya Menon are the heroines in the movie.

Among these three characters lay a negative shade. This is what made Suriya more interested in accepting the film. This character’s first look was revealed on last Monday. The negative character is reported to be the main plot of the film that makes the film more amusing.

Suriya has always tried different characters with his films. Most of his films have a role that aren’t usual from other commercial cinemas. It was always on Suriya’s mind of playing a villain character, thanks to Vikram who is the director for this film.

King Nagarjuna will soon be seen in a negatively shaded character? Well, the tinsel town is saying yes. Nagarjuna is interested in a negative role in the Telugu remake of “Thani Oruvan,”

“Thani Oruvan” is Tamil thriller directed by Mohan Raja. This film received many applause for its screenplay and direction. The director earlier has shown this movie to Mahesh Babu and Ram Charan. Since Mahesh committed himself to not doing remakes, Charan was finalized to do the lead role that was done by Ravi in the original film. Kajal Aggarwal was recently roped into this project, and will play the lead heroine opposite Charan.

Now, rumors have that “King” Nagarjuna is keen in playing the negative character in this film. Arvind Swamy played the villain character called “Siddharth” in the original film. His character had many variations throughout the film, and many were impressed the way he played the role of villain.

Nagarjuna experimenting with his character isn’t a new one. Since Annamayya, he was seen in many challenging roles. “Ramadasu” “Shirdi Sai” and his latest “Oopiri” are all mixed characters in his film career. Since Nag didn’t attempt any negative character or was seen in as Villian, this film will be a tailor-made one for him, says Tollywood.

Earlier, Rana was considered in the role of Arvind Swamy, but no updates about him featuring in this remake were said. Surender Reddy is rumoured of directing this remake. Ram Charan and his team also thought of roping Arvind Swamy but dropped their later idea. At one point of time Ram Charan, who fell in love with the villain character thought of himself doing that role.

This much-hyped remake has become more talkative subject than any other film. Let’s wait and see whether Nagarjuna will play as the villain or someone else will play this role.

Natasimha Nandamuri Balakrishna came up with the film “Legend” in Tollywood. This venture got immense craze in the audience. In fact, Jagapathi Babu played vital role in raising the standard of this flick. He turned into an asset for this venture and the fights between Balayya and Jagapathi Babu turned out to be the main highlights.

Looks like Mega Family too is feeling like having Jagapathi Babu in their ventures. As the top villain in present Tollywood film industry, Jagapathi Babu signed for Allu Arjun’s upcoming venture. Trivikram Srinivas is directing this flick and hence we may expect good sequences between the hero and villain combinations.

In “Julayi”, we can see Trivikram giving good scope to both hero and the villain. We may expect the same for this upcoming venture. After “Legend” and “Linga”, Jagapathi Babu is taking on this project and this means that Allu Arjun’s flick will get good craze due to Jagapathi Babu.

It was confirmed a couple of days ago that Malayalam actor Jayaram had joined the upcoming Suriya – Venkat Prabhu venture Masss. But now the rumour mills are turning out a fresh piece of info. It says that Jayaram might be playing the villain in the movie!

Now, Jayaram is a very versatile actor and he has donned the role of the antagonist before in movies like Saroja, but most fans know the actor as the amicable and hilarious hero or the supporting character.

Who can forget his performances along with the Ulaga Nayagan Kamal Haasan, in comedy classics like Thenaali and Panchathanthiram? He also played the role of the supporting character with some comedy shops in the Vijay starrer Thuppakki recently.

However, his most recent venture in Kollywood would be his yet unknown but pivotal role in Uttama Villain.

So, the news that he might be playing the baddie to Suriya is an intriguing one to all the fans of the actor. Surely, this would be an opportunity for the Kerala State Award winning actor to show case his sheer range in acting.

Recently, Jayaram was in the news but indirectly – it was his son Kalidasan that grabbed the spotlight at the Vijay Awards, when he expertly and to the delight of the stars in attendance, mimicked superstars like Ilaya Thalapathy Vijay and Suriya.

So it seems talent runs in the family. It is to be noted that Kalidasan is an award winning child actor as well.

All in all, good days for Jayaram and his hardcore fans who are spread across state and language boundaries…

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In an era where Villains are hotter and stronger than the heroes, Akki loves to embrace that side and want to play villainous roles more often.

Akshay Kumar, was recently spotted saying that he wants to play grey shades character more often. And when asked why, he has a very interesting take on that. He says that the villain actually enjoys throughout the film and it is just in the last five minutes that he gets beaten up. He lives in luxury and vies for the girl, whereas the hero is caught up in protecting all around him.

Nicely put Akki! And if the villains are as hot as you, who wouldn’t want to watch such sexy baddies. The villains have always been an integral part of the story and it can be rightly said that they are the piece that complete the puzzle.

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.

Yes, it’s true folks! In a daring move that hasn’t happened recently in any big budget, high profile flicks in Kollywood, the AR Murugadoss – Vijay mega movie Kaththi will not showcase a single fight sequence between the hero and the villain!

The fact has been confirmed by the baddie of the movie himself, Neil Nithin Mukesh, who by the way is thrilled with the whole experience and has definitely put forward that extra effort in order to make the movie a success.

The dashing Bollywood star has slimmed down quite a bit and lost almost 10 kg for the film. “The idea was to get in to the shape I was in when making Johnny Gaddar.” He says. The young actor, who has been in a few ‘star related’ controversies back in Bollywood also adds that he was pleasantly surprised by Vijay.

“I still can’t believe he is a superstar. He is always so humble and mild mannered with no airs about him at all.”

Neil says that the project has been a blessing and working with Murugadoss and Vijay would be the perfect debut for him in Kollywood.

He confirmed though, amidst showering praises on the cast and the crew, that he would not be trading punches with Vijay’s characters in the film. Instead it would be a battle of the wits and cunning in this story.

It is worth mentioning at this point that Vijay is playing dual roles in the movie and no, as it was rumoured earlier, it is not a father – son duo.

Samantha plays the lead female role and young musical wizard Anirudh Ravichander is the one scoring the tunes in the film. The soundtrack will feature a song, a ‘love kuthu’ song to be exact, sung by Vijay himself.

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