Top 5 hits of 2011

2011 witnessed very less hits and has seen huge disasters. Here is the list of top 5 hits (straight films) of this year.

1)      Dookudu: This sensational movie is the biggest hit of the year and all time top 2 grosser. The makers of this film claim that it is the all time no. 1 grosser, but the fact is, it stays at 2 in the all time records list.

2)      Mr. Perfect: This wholesome family entertainer turned out to be the biggest hit in Prabhas career. This was the best film in 2011 summer.

3)      Mirapakaya: Raviteja has pulled off yet another hit with Mirapakaya, which was the best Pongal film in 2011. It is one of the best grosser in Raviteja’s career.

4)      100% Love: This youthful film was lapped up by the youngsters. Sukumar is back in form andNaga Chaitanya is here to stay. It also marked the strong comeback of Tamanna.

5)      Kandireega: Ram has broken the shackles and is back on track. This is a paisa vasool mass entertainer with ample comedy.

Other hits: Ala Modalaindi is one of the notable hits of the year. Made on a very less budget, this film has turned out to be a good hit. Solo and Nuvvila did well in the small films league. Dubbed films like Kanchana, Rangam, Naa Peru Shiva and Journey brought handsome profits to the dubbing rights holders. 

Siddharth as Sukumarudu

Actor Siddarth has been on signing spree these days. Currently he is busy with Love Failure movie which would be ready for release in March. He has signed Nandini Reddy’s project under Bellamkonda Suresh banner. Samantha will play female lead in this film.

The latest news is Siddarth has agreed to play the lead role in the film titledSukumarudu. This film will be directed by Ashok of Pilla Zamindar fame. K.Venugopal produces this film. Rest of the cast and crew are yet to be finalized.

This film will go to sets very soon. Siddarth will be available for this film once he is done with Love Failure. KVV Satyanarayana presents Sukumarudu film which will be made under Sri Sowdamini Creations banner. 

NTR Jr, Vytla Film titled ‘Action – with Entertainment’

Dookudu tema is coming up with their next film very soon. NTR Jr plays the lead role in this film directed by Srinu Vytla. Dookuduwriters Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan are providing the script for this movie. This film is titled ‘Action – with Entertainment’.

NTR is currently busy with Dammu movie which is slated for summer release. He will be in ‘Action’ shortly. This film is being produced by Bandla Ganesh under Parameswara Arts banner. Kajal is roped in as the heroine for this film.

Thaman will compose music for this film. Writers say that this film will live up to its title and will be another wonderful entertainer from their team. 

The Year in Computing

2011 saw the personal computer continue to be marginalized. Although PCs are still the workhorse computing device in homes and offices, the most exciting innovations over the last 12 months were centered on very small-scale computing, very large-scale computing, and networked combinations of the two.

Developments in small-scale computing, in the shape of consumer mobile hardware such as the iPad2 tablet or Galaxy Nexus smart phone, were naturally the most visible. Most of these lightweight devices use ARM-based chips, prompting Intel, best known for its desktop and laptop processors, to develop prototype smart phone and tablet devices that will almost certainly herald the arrival of new challengers to Apple's iPad and iPhone in 2012 and 2013.

The software that runs, and run on, these devices saw tremendous development activity as well. Hewlett-Packard tried (and failed) to break into the mobile market with an operating system, WebOS, that was generally judged to be better than the hardware it ran on. The jury is still out on whether Research in Motion can revive the flagging fortunes of the BlackBerry following the announcement of its new mobile OS. And there were major updates from the two heavyweights in the mobile OS world, Google and Apple, with Google releasing Android 4.0 (also known as "Ice Cream Sandwich") in September. With Android 4.0, tablet and smart-phone makers no longer have to run separate versions of Android, and the operating system also boasts features such as facial recognition. In October, coinciding with the launch of the iPhone 4S, Apple released its iOS 5 operating system, featuring the Siri voice-activated digital assistant.

These new devices and operating systems have driven an explosion of mobile applications for areas such as electronic payments, health care, augmented reality, and games. The richness and range of these applications is causing a shift in corporate IT, with increasing numbers of companies allowing workers to bring their own devices to work. 

But a lot of this mobile flexibility is possible only thanks to cloud computing, which lets devices seamlessly hand off complex tasks to data centers. The Kindle Fire is essentially just a front end to Amazon's cloud services, for example, and Apple's Siri won't work without a network connection.  Consequently, companies have been building a new generation of data centers, designed to handle cloud-computing loads as efficiently as possible. HP and Calxeda are pioneering the use in servers of low-power chips originally designed for battery-constrained mobile devices, in a bid to slash the massive electricity bills of data centers.

Tying cloud computing to consumer devices meant that a lot of personal (and corporate) information migrated into cyberspace this year, putting an even sharper emphasis on security and privacy issues. While some argue your data is better off in the cloud, researchers continue to worry about holes that can be exploited by criminals.

The Year in Materials

Light warp: This is the largest sheet ever made of a metamaterial that can bend near infrared light backward.
Credit: John Rogers

Tiny crystals called quantum dots emit intense, sharply defined colors. Now researchers have made LED displays that use quantum dots. Five years ago, QD Vision demonstratedits first, rudimentary one-color displays, using the nanoscale crystals. This year it demonstrated a full-color display capable of showing video. The company says it could be another five years before the technology appears in commercial displays. Samsung might get there first—it's also developing quantum-dot displays, and demonstrated a full-color onein February.

Quantum-dot displays could use far less energy than LCDs. Another ingenious way to reduce energy use is make displays that emit no light at all, but instead reflect ambient light, an approach being taken by Qualcomm with its full-color Mirasol displays, which use only a tenth of the energy of an LCD. The technology has started to appear in tablet computers in South Korea.

No display looks good after it's covered with fingerprints. A new coating based on soot from a candle flame could provide a cheap oil-repelling layer that could eliminate smudges.

Novel nanostructured materials could greatly enhance the power output of solar panels and make them cheaper by capturing light that would have otherwise been reflected. They could also achieve these goals by converting near infrared light into colors that conventional silicon solar cells can absorb. Another material could render stealth aircraft invisible at night—and invisible to radar night and day.

Metamaterials offer another approach to invisibility: instead of absorbing light, metamaterials bend it around an object. Until this year, researchers have only been able to make metamaterials on a small scale—less than a millimeter across. Now they've made them big enough to be practical. They don't work yet for all wavelengths of light, but they could render  objects invisible to night vision equipment.

Stanford researchers built a battery electrode that can be recharged 40,000 times—compared to the 1,000 charges you'd get with a typical laptop battery. Since the electrode lasts so long, and is made of abundant materials, it could provide an inexpensive way to store power from wind turbines and solar panels.

Other researchers have developed inexpensive materials that can store 10 times as much energy as conventional graphite electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. Paired with an equally high-capacity opposite electrode, these could transform portable electronics and electric vehicles. One technology in particular, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, seems promising because it uses a conductive polymer that can be incorporated into existing manufacturing lines, instead of requiring the expensive new technology for making nanostructures required by others.

New tools could speed the next materials breakthroughs. A modeling program developed at Harvard has led to one of the best organic semiconductors ever made. And a robotic system for making thousands of battery cells with unique electrode chemistries has discovered materials that could boost lithium-ion battery storage capacity by 25 percent.

Nippu Audio Songs Release Date

Nippu songs:  Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja’s upcoming movie ‘Nippu’ is closing on the release date – Jan13.  However, there’s no update on the movie’s audio front. Freshly, it’s been buzzed that Nippu songs launch would be on January 2, although not confirmed officially by the makers. The movie has completed the entire talkie part and the post production works are currently on in Hyderabad. Nippu audio release date already been postponed couple of times but let’s hope the makers lock this date this time around.  Nippu movie is directed by Gunasekhar and produced by VYS Chowdary. Ravi Teja will be romancing with Deeksha Seth in this film.

Businessman Censor Report on Jan 2?

Businessman Censor: Mahesh Babu’s upcoming movie ‘The Businessman’ movie censor is likely to take place on January 2.  The movie is almost done with the post production works and is likely to complete censor formalities shortly.  Businessman movie is also gearing for simultaneous release (dubbed version) in Tamil and Malayalam. The movie posters and trailers have already swept the fan base of their feet triggering huge expectations after Dookudu. The movie is directed by Puri Jagannath and Kajal Agarwal is playing the female lead.

Jayaprada as Mom to Mahesh, Venkatesh

Yesteryear actress Jayaprada is being roped in to play as mother for brothers Mahesh Babu and Venkatesh in their upcoming multi-starrer movie Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (SVSC). It is already known that Prakash Raj is playing the father’s role and the fresh update being that of Jayaprada’s character. The movie is directed by Srikanth Addala and produced by Dil Raju and Mickey J Meyer is scoring the music. Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu shooting is currently delayed due to date problems with Samantha. The regular shooting is supposed to be commenced from December 15 but now producer Dil Raju has pushed the regular shooting from January 18. Samantha plays Mahesh’s lady love while Amala Paul plays Venkatesh’s love interest.

Kolaveri Di is Song of the Year: CNN

Kolaveri Di song: Kolaveri Di song has been recognized as ‘Song of the Year’ by CNN, USA. After becoming the blitzkrieg on the Internet and acquiring millions of hits, Dhanush’s Kolaveri di song has set yet another record. CNN has taken special note of this viral sensation and has christened Kolaveri di as the Top Song of the Year 2011. Kolaveri di song is currently ruling the roost on the Internet (YouTube) and has become and sensation of viral fever.

 

The song and its Tamlish lyrics is now transcending geographical boundaries, and garnering worldwide acclamation as people groove to its unusual rhythm in pubs across the globe. Already, we witnessed several remixes into regional languages and also saw people using the song as a satirical gesture. Just imagine, the Kolaveri di song went to such great heights that its singer Dhanush was even invited as a special guest at visiting Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshiko Noda’s dinner party. Now that’s quite an achievement! 

Sonu Sood was Paid 80 Lakhs

Make hay while the sun shines! This is what exactly Bollywood actor Sonu Sood is doing.  Yuppie! The so called Tollywood baddie Sonu Sood has charged Rs. 80 lakhs for enacting in Allu Arjun’s movie directed by Trivikram Srnivas. Sources say that after Dookudu turning out to be a blockbuster, Sonu Sood has decided to hike his remuneration and pocket more from Tollywood. The last time Sonu Sood is was in the news for his remuneration was after ‘Arundhati’ release.

 

Sonu Sood these days also become choosy as the chiselled actor turned down an offer in Pawan Kalyan’s ‘Gabbar Singh’. But there’s a reason since he played the same character in Dabangg and also in Tamil remake Oosthi. So with Allu Arjun’s movie being in the news as a ‘budget-slashed’ movie, producer Danayya has no choice but to pay 80 lakhs to Sonu Sood for an agreement of 50 days. 

Dil Raju with Snehitudu, Love Failure

Telugu cinema star producer Dil Raju is releasing ‘Snehitudu’ (Tamil dubbed version of Nanban) under his home production Sri Venkateswara Creations. Nanban, starring Vijay and Jeeva, directed by Shankar, is a Tamil remake of Bollywood blockbuster 3 idiots starring Aamir Khan. Snehitudu audio release will be on January 8 while the movie release will be in the later part of the month.

Similarly, Siddharth’s upcoming bilingual movie ‘Love Failure’ (co-starring Amala Paul) will also be released by Dil Raju in Telugu. Love Failure movie is directed by debutant Balaji Mohan and produced by YNOT Studios ad Etki Entertainment. SS Thaman is scoring the music for this movie, which is tipped to be a youthful romantic entertainer.

Dookudu is Better than Businessman

Although Mahesh Babu and Puri Jagannath completed ‘Businessman’ movie in record time, reports say that Prince Mahesh was not happy with the Businessman shooting schedules. For Dookudu, Mahesh Babu was given ample time between the shots and the shooting schedules were also relaxed and planned.

 

However, for Businessman, the makers have erected a special set costing few crores, in Mumbai, and the cast eventually had to hurry to complete the shooting within the stipulated time. Now this is something that does not interest Mahesh. But RR Movie Makers, a prestigious banner, has this habit of announcing the release date at the time of movie launch. So Mahesh eventually was forced to cope with the time. This has made Mahesh feel that Dookudu shooting schedules were better than Businessman.

Jr. NTR Directing Fights in Dammu

Young tiger Jr. NTR is currently shooting for ‘Dammu’, directed by Boyapati Seenu. Now here’s an interesting byte! To unleash his acting prowess, Jr. NTR has been reportedly directing few action sequences in Dammu movie. The young tiger is advising Boyapati Seenu to use different camera angles to capture the scenes effectively. And that’s not all; NTR was also advising the action choreographers to compose fights in a new dimension to reach the fans expectations. In this connection, the actor is taking special care and advised all the concerned to compose mindboggling fights unprecedented in Tollywood.

Shruti walks the ramp for Nishka Lulla

The four-day fashion extravaganza, the Hyderabad International Fashion Week came to a glitzy and colourful end. The fashion shows saw some big names in the fashion business show off their collections as well as celebtiry showstoppers. Shruti Haasan joined the ranks of celebs on the ramp when she walked the ramp for acclaimed designer Nishka Lulla. Clad in a beautiful Kalamkari lehanga. Nishka Lulla's line named 'Indian at Heart' saw a series of Indian wears in silks, chiffons and nets in Kalamkari art

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Nippu is complete

​Ravi Teja'sNippu has completed its entire shooting, except for one song, which will be filmed at a set to be erected in Hyderabad. The team has landed in Hyderabad after wrapping up two songs in picturesque locations in Turkey. Directed by Gunashekar and produced by Y.V.S. Chowdhary, the film has music by Taman. The audio is likely to be launched by the end of this month. The producer informed that the film would be released during Sankranthi 2012. A high voltage mass entertainer, Nippu is said to be a true blue Ravi Teja film coupled with high technical values that one expects from Gunashekar. Brahmnandam's comedy will be the highlight of the movie. Deeksha Seth, who earlier paired with Ravi Teja in Mirapakaya, is the heroine .

Mahesh’s Businessman New Dialogue

Well, the fresh dialogue that’s raising the heat amongst the film buffs and Mahesh fans is this one - “Nenu kodithe ela untado aallu eellu cheppatame kani naaku telidu”. Now this dialogue leaves something to think about Mahesh Babu’s powerful characterization the movie’s . Now this dialogue was followed by ‘Yuddham Chethakaanivade Dharmam Gurinchi Maatlaadathaadu’. We have seen such powerful dialogues from Mahesh Babu in Pokiri and Dookudu – perhaps Puri Jagannath can better write than anyone else.  Looks like there’s a lot in store with Businessman movie as these dialogues are raising expectations. Meanwhile the Businessman theme song (promo song), sung by Mahesh Babu, will be released on December 22 on the audio release function. Kajal Agarwal is being paired up with Mahesh Babu in this action entertainer.

Businessman Audio Songs Track List

Businessman audio songs: Glance at Mahesh Babu’s Businessman audio songs track list below. Businessman audio release date is December 22 and its being buzzed that director Puri Jagannath would be hosting the music launch to be held at Shilpa Kala Vedika. And Mahesh Babu might co-anchor as well so let’s await more info on that. NTV, who has bagged the Businessman audio launch telecast rights for 15 lakhs, will telecast the event live along with Gemini Movies.

 

Aditya Music has bagged Businessman audio songs rights. The music provider will perhaps officially release the audio songs in the market on December 24. During this audio launch, Businessman makers will release 5 Trailers (3 trailers songs, Businessman making song, and an action trailer). So guys get ready for all the action!

Businessman Audio Songs Track List

Song: Chandamama
Singers: Haricharan

Song: Saar Vasthara
Singers: Thaman

Song: Bad Boys
Singers: Priya Hemesh, Geetha Madhuri

Song: Pilla Chaav
singer: Rahul Nambiar

Song: Businessman Theme
singer: 'MAHESH', Puri, Chorus

Song: Mumbai Mubai
Singers: Thaman

Venkatesh, Meher Ramesh Film from Jan

Venkatesh and Meher Ramesh movie might start its regular shooting in January. Venky will be simultaneously shooting for   Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu and Meher Ramesh’s movie. The star hero would embark completely on this movie once he wraps up with multi-starrer film. This script for Meher Ramesh’s film has been penned down by Telugu cinema ace writers Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan. Paruchuri Prasad is producing this untitled movie under United Movies banner. Richa Gangopadhyay is playing the leading lady for the second time after ‘Nagavalli’.

Tollywood’s latest music sensation SS Thaman has bagged another offer to score music for Venkatesh’s movie, to be directed by Mahesh Ramesh. Thaman earlier scored music for the ‘Bodyguard’ movie (starring Venkatesh and Trisha) and has grabbed offer in Venkatesh’s successive movie.
 

Endhukante Premanta dubbing commenced

The dubbing of upcoming hero Ram's new filmEndhukante Premanta, directed by Karunakaran and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore under the banner of Sravanthi Movies, has commenced.
The film is said to be a romantic entertainer. As per sources, the makers are planning to release the film on March 23. Tamannaah is the heroine. Well-known writer Kona Venkat is the villain. G.V. Prakash is composing the music, while Andrews is handling the camera
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Device Tracks Blood Flow in the Brain

A headset ultrasound monitor could make it easier to detect the dangerous aftereffects of brain injuries.

A new ultrasound device could make it easier to detect a potentially life-threatening condition that is common in soldiers with blast-related brain injuries and patients who survive aneurysms.

The condition, called cerebral vasospasm, occurs when blood vessels suddenly constrict. The effect is like squeezing a garden hose: the velocity inside the artery builds as pressure grows, and less blood flows to the brain. The condition can develop several days after an initial injury, and is currently detected using ultrasound, which requires a trained technician to find the relevant blood vessels and hold the ultrasound beam in place.

PhysioSonics, based in Bellevue, Washington, has developed a monitor that makes this process automatic, eliminating the need for a technician. The company is adapting the product for military use, and hopes to expand it to also detect a potentially dangerous buildup of pressure inside the head.

The company's monitor consists of a headset that directs an array of ultrasound beams through the head and uses a proprietary algorithm to automatically detect the mid-cerebral artery, one of the major arteries supplying blood to the brain. The device then locks the relevant beam onto the artery and measures its blood flow. A machine attached to the headset gives an index of flow and peak velocity.

"The point is to give you a variable" that could be read similarly to a heart-rate monitor, says Michel Kliot, company cofounder and a neurosurgeon at University of Washington, where the technology was initially developed.

In November, the company received a military grant of $2.5 million to adapt the device for monitoring vasospasm in soldiers. Nearly half the soldiers who sustain blast injuries develop vasospasm, and the company plans to make a more rugged version of its commercial device for the battlefield.

New Camera Captures Light in Motion

Hollywood has to resort to trickery to show moviegoers laser beams traveling through the air. That's because the beams move too fast to be captured on film. Now a camera that records frames at a rate of 0.6 trillion every second can truly capture the bouncing path of a laser pulse.

See a video of a laser pulse moving through a Coke bottle, or bouncing off a tomato.

The system was developed by researchers led by Ramesh Raskar at MIT's Media Lab. Currently limited to a tabletop inside the group's lab, the camera can record what happens when very short pulses of laser light—lasting just 50 femtoseconds (50,000 trillionths of a second) long—hit objects in front of them. The camera captures the pulses bouncing between and reflecting off objects.

Raskar says the new camera could be used for novel kinds of medical imaging, tracking light inside body tissue. It could also enable novel kinds of photographic manipulation. In experiments, the camera has captured frames roughly 500 by 600 pixels in size.

The fastest scientific cameras on the market typically capture images at rates in the low millions of frames per second. They work similar to the way a consumer digital camera works, with a light sensor that converts light from the lens into a digital signal that's saved to disk.

The Media Lab researchers had to take a different approach, says Andreas Velten, a member of the research team. An electronic system's reaction time is inherently limited to roughly 500 picoseconds, he says, because it takes too long for electronic signals to travelalong the wires and through the chips in such designs. "[Our shutter speed is] just under two picoseconds because we detect light with a streak camera, which gets around the electrical problem."

More typically used to measure the timing of laser pulses than for photography, a streak camera doesn't need any electronics to record light. Light entering the streak camera falls onto a specialized electrode—a photocathode—that converts the stream of photons into a matching stream of electrons. That electron beam hits a screen on the back of the streak camera that's covered with chemicals that light up wherever the beam falls. The same mechanism is at work in a traditional cathode ray tube TV set.

Should We Fire the First Shot in a Cyberwar?

Credit: Technology Review

Military bureaucracies around the world are likely to see offensive capabilities as increasingly attractive in any cyberwar, suggests the head of the computer research arm of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Offensive cybertechnology and operations are inherently stronger than defensive operations—that is, offense beats defense in cyberspace, in most cases, and given enough time," says Herbert Lin, chief scientist at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the National Research Council. Lin spoke last week at an MIT workshop on the fast-emerging cyber dimension to international relations.

Cyberattacks could damage or disable military networks or civilian infrastructure like power grids, or they could involve the theft of military and corporate secrets. Experts warn that such attacks could occur at light speed and be difficult to trace, especially if data is routed through computers in many different countries.

"Since you don't know how to do good defense, you can't prevent offensive dominance. And you can't do good deterrence because effective retaliation is hard, so if you want to take advantage of cyberspace, you will do offensive operations for nondefensive purposes," Lin says. "I'd really like to be wrong about that, but I fear that's where we are going."

Lin contributed to a 2009 National Academies report which argued that the situation calls for talks with other nations to establish the rules of the road, open debate in Congress on U.S. strategy, and the development of better tools to detect and measure threats. A later report described the tricky landscape of deterrence.

Last month, General Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, said the U.S. military needs better capabilities to not only defend against cyberattacks, but also to potentially launch them. Speaking at the U.S. Strategic Command's Cyber and Space Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska, he told an audience of 1,500 military and defense contracting officials that the U.S. military should have the power to attack other countries in cyberspace. "We can't just defend," Alexander said.

Seven Ways to Get Yourself Hacked

Credit: Pedro Miguel Sousa

In recent months, I've met at least three people who have been the victim of hackers who've taken over their Gmail accounts and sent out e-mails to everyone in the addressbook.

The e-mails, which appear legitimate, claim that the person has been robbed while traveling and begs that money be wired so that the person can get home. What makes the scam even more effective is that it tends to happen to people who are actually traveling abroad—making it more likely that friends and families will be duped.

Although it's widely believed that a strong password is one of the best defenses against online fraud, hackers increasingly employ highly effective ways for compromising accounts that do not require guessing passwords.

This means that it is more important than ever to practice "defensive computing"—and to have a plan in place for what to do if your account is compromised.

Malware. Sometimes called the "advanced persistent threat," a broad range of software that was programmed with evil intent is running on tens of millions of computers throughout the world.

These programs can capture usernames and passwords as you type them, send the data to remote websites, and even open up a "proxy" so that attackers can type commands into a Web browser running on your very computer. This makes today's state-of-the-art security measures—like strong passwords and key fobs—more or less useless, since the bad guys type their commands on your computer after you've authenticated.

Today, the primary defense against malware is antivirus software, but increasingly, the best malware doesn't get caught for days, weeks, or even months after it's been released into the wild. Because antivirus software is failing, many organizations now recommend antediluvian security precautions, such as not clicking on links and not opening files you receive by e-mail unless you know that the mail is legitimate. Unfortunately, there is no tool for assessing legitimacy.

Windows XP. According to the website w3schools, roughly 33 percent of the computers browsing the Internet are running Windows XP. That's a problem, because unlike Windows 7, XP is uniquely susceptible to many of today's most pernicious malware threats. Windows 7, and especially Windows 7 running on 64-bit computers, has security features built in to the operating system such as address space randomization and a non-executable data area. These protections will never be added to Windows XP. Thus, as a general rule, you should not use Windows XP on a computer that's connected to the Internet. Tell that to the 33 percent.

Kiosk computers. You should avoid using public computers at hotels, airports, libraries, and "business centers" to access webmail accounts, because there is simply no way to tell if these computers are infected with malware or not. And many of them are running Windows XP. So avoid them.

Hansika Turns Gangster in Vettai Mannan

Hottie Hansika Motwani is all geared to woo the Kollywood audience in a gangster role.  It’s been reported that bubbly actress Hansika will be essaying the role of a gangster for her upcoming movie titled Vettai Mannan. The flick which also stars Simbu, Jai and Deeksha Seth, is an action thriller written and directed by debutant director Nelson. Vettai Mannan is produced by S. S. Chakravarthy and features background score and soundtrack composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. This is a contrasting role to Hansika’s previous super hit Tamil movie Velayudham, in which she played a village lassie.

 

After playing some romantic girl and other characters Hansika has finally decided to try out new characters. Also, Hansika is also enacting in M Rajesh’s OKOK co-starring Udaynidhi Stalin and is busy shooting non-stop for Tamil movies. While Hansika is on a signing spree in Kollywood, her Tollywood career in not equally bright. In fact, in her last two Telugu movies Kandireega and Oh My Friend Hansika is being criticized for putting lot of weight. Wonder how offers are raining in Kollywood for the busty actress.

Nagarjuna's Rajanna Release Date Dec 22?

According to the latest buzz, it’s been said that Nagarjuna's Rajanna release date has been revised to December 22. It was earlier said that the movie would hit the marquee on December 23 but reports have it saying as December 22. Rajanna censor formalities have been completed on December 13 and the board would issue the certificate on Dec 19. They board has ordered for 3 minor cuts apart from appreciating the movie, which is hitting the screens in more than 700 theatres. Meanwhile we’ll keep you posted on the official confirmation of Rajanna’s release date. Rajanna is directed by Vijayendra Prasad, action sequences are monitored by Rajamouli and Keeravani has scored the music.

Thaman Starts Composing for NTR Film

SS Thaman is arguably the busiest music director these days in Tollywood. Apart from his current set of Tamil movies, he’s also scoring the music for NTR starrer movie, directed by Seenu Vaitla. And this is the second time Thaman is working with NTR after Brindavanam and with Sreenu Vaitla Dookudu. Brindavanam was a runaway hit and Thaman’s music was one of the highlights. Similarly, Dookudu is an all-time record movie and Thaman was a huge asset in terms of music. Freshly, this talented music director has started composing tunes for this NTR movie, and like always, amid huge expectations.

 

Seenu Vaitla has decided to go once again team up with Thaman, who recently wrapped up composing tunes for Venkatesh and Trisha starrer Bodyguard. The audio was released yesterday to a good response. His recent successes in Tollywood include Ragada, Mirapakaya, Kandireega, Dookudu, Brindavanam, etc. Thaman has almost completed the music for Mahesh Babu’s Businessman, which is readying for audio release on December 22.

Samantha in Controversy for Siddharth Film

Tollywood latest sensation Samantha is in the news for wrong reasons. The actress has freshly landed in a controversy for apparently choosing to walk out from Bellamkonda Suresh’s upcoming movie directed by Nandi Reddy (Ala Modalaindi fame). Samantha is supposed to be paired up with Siddharth and the actress has reportedly taken an advance for the movie. However, her dates have clashed with that of Venky - Mahesh's SVSC and Samantha could not accommodate her dates to the latter. Producer Bellamkonda Suresh has complained in this connection and took this matter to the Producers Council & also MAA to resolve the matter.

Panjaa Title Song Placement Changed

Perhaps too late! After receiving a lot of criticism on the placement of the title song of Pawan Kalyan starrer Panjaa, the makers have finally decided to change the song positioning. The title song (Nee Chura Chura Chupule Panja) was earlier coming after the end-title credits much to the fans disappointment since that was a super hit number. However, director Vishnuvardhan said that they wanted this song to be only a theme song (album) and use it in the background score. But the growing pressure has made the makers to shift the song placement.

 

Freshly, the Panjaa title track is being placed after the first fight and will repeat after the climax (end credits) too. The edited, new prints of Panjaa are sent to theatres and fans can now enjoy this track twice in the movie with different visuals. Mind you, the makers never shot a video on this and it was only after the response they got for the track, they hurried on to shoot a video. And with the time running out, they could not decide on the placement and as such left it towards the end.