1 year ago
Telugu filmstars make a beeline to polling booths
Hyderabad, April 16 - Popular actors and other Telugu film personalities, politically active or otherwise, turned out in force here Thursday to cast their votes for the first phase of parliamentary and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh. Leading the list was superstar Chiranjeevi, who is making his debut in state politics. Accompanied by wife Surekha, son and actor Ram Charan Teja and daughter ... read more

1 year ago
Varma's next 'Rakta Charitra' about rebel Paritala Ravi
Mumbai, April 12 - He has travelled jungles for 'Agyaat' and moved into channel studios with 'India 24/7'. Now Ram Gopal Varma is all set to tell a real life story about Paritala Ravi, a murder accused and one of the most feared individuals ever in the blood-ridden faction politics of south India, through his film 'Rakta Charitra'. 'Yes, 'Rakta Charitra' is going to be my next film after I'm thr ... read more

2 years ago
Film producer enters Guinness book
Mumbai, Jan 4 - Hyderabad-based filmmaker D. Rama Naidu has made it to the 2008 Guinness Book of World Records for having produced movies in nine languages. Besides Telugu, his mother tongue, Naidu has made films in all other south Indian languages - Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada - plus in Hindi, English, Bengali, Oriya and Assamese, all under his banner Suresh Productions. Naidu prefers to make ... read more

Hyderabad | 2 years ago
Naidu's son engaged to Balakrishna's daughter
Hyderabad, June 24 - Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam party president N. Chandrababu Naidu's son Nara Lokesh Naidu got engaged to famous Telugu film actor Nandamuri Balakrishna's daughter Brahmani at a ceremony here Sunday.Balakrishna is the brother-in-law of Naidu and son of thespian and TDP founder late N.T.Rama Rao, popularly known as NTR.Family members of Naidu and Balakri ... read more

New Delhi | 3 years ago
CII official gets British Queen's honour
New Delhi, Sep 27 - Supriya Banerji, a senior director of the Confederation of Indian Industry -, has been named a recipient of the 'Officer of the Order of the British Empire'.The earlier recipients include Jamshed Irani, former President of CII and director of Tata Sons, CII said Wednesday. The then co-chairman of the Indo-British Partnership Initiative, Irani was awarded the Knight of the Order ... read more

3 years ago
Outdated theme mars 'Aswaroodan'
Film: 'Aswaroodan'; Cast: Suresh Gopi, Padmapriya and Sai Kumar; Director: Jayaraj; Producer: D. Rama Naidu; Music director: Jassie GiftAfter their last outing in 'Makalkku', an offbeat film that failed to create ripples at the box office, director Jayaraj and actor Suresh Gopi team up again in 'Aswaroodan', an out-and-out commercial film that turns out to be an even bigger letdown.One expected hi ... read more