Shazahn Padamsee to Pair up with Pawan Kalyan

Shazahn Padamsee's first Telugu film was Orange with Ram Charan Tej. Though this movie had the average talk at the box-office, the short role played by Shazahn Padamsee had created an impact on the film makers. The latest buzz is that the actress will play opposite Pawan Kalyan in a movie to be directed by Vishnuvardhan. The movie is produced by Sobhu Yarlagadda and Neelima Nagesh under the banner Sanghamitra Art Productions.Shazahn Padamsee’s debut as heroine was in Rocket Singh, a bollywood film which was released a year ago.

Tips for Glowing Skin

Follow these 7 simple beauty tips for glowing skin and there’s no reason why you should n’t be able to have beautiful glowing skin for many years to come. . . . . .

Beauty tips for glowing skin

1. Try to avoid the sun: Extensive expose to sun really damages your skin. Avoid it by  wearing  protective clothing or use a safe sunscreen. Be especially careful when choosing a sunscreen – get something natural that do not contain chemicals.

2. Drink lots of water: Try to drink as plenty as water you can. Doctors suggest to drink around 10 glasses of water per day. Having  alcohols and coffees are also not the solution as they dehydrate you. Drink an extra glass of water for every cup of coffee you drink.

3. Regular Exercise and Sound Sleep: Regular exercise not only helps to relieve stress, but it also gets plenty of life giving and healing oxygen pumping through your veins. Sleep helps your body relax and restore itself. Try to get at least 8 hours a night.

4. Maintain Healthy diet: Eat lots of raw, natural foods and avoid sugars or processed foods. A healthy body will naturally maintain healthy skin.

5. Avoid smoking

6. Help your skin rebuild itself: Use a topical cream that stimulates the growth of collagen and elastin in the skin. These two proteins give the skin its structure and elasticity. As their levels decrease and the elastin fibres wear out with age, your skin becomes more prone to wrinkling and sagging. An example of a skin care ingredient that performs this function is Cynergy TK, found in the Xtend-Life skin care range.

7. Moisturize and antioxidize: Don’t let all that water you’re drinking go to waste. Help your skin to retain its natural moisture by using a cream that boosts your levels of hyaluronic acid. This aids the skin immensely in retaining moisture, which in turn helps to hide the visible signs of aging, in particular wrinkles.

Never forget about the importance of skin care that actively helps your skin to rejuvenate itself, as described above.

Tips for good sleep, Tips for better sleep

There are over 70 types of sleep disorders. Consider the following steps that may be helpful for u

1. Don’t tend for short sleeps in afternoon: You have probably heard it before, but to say again practice to avoid shorter period of sleeps. If it is unavoidable try to keep it to fewer than thirty minutes and do not nap after three in the afternoon.

2. Have a Limited Caffeine(especially in after noon): We all know that coffee has caffeine (105 mg. in a 6 ounce cup, brewed) , so it may cause unbalance in sleep. Try soda (40 mg.) and tea (35 mg.) of .

3. Have a Regular Exercise: Try to work out it in the mornings or early afternoon. Good Exercise tends at mornings help to stimulate the body muscles and will cause a relaxness at nighte. Late evening workout will make getting to sleep more difficult.Relax with yoga before bed. Studies have shown yoga to be effective against insomnia because of its relaxing effect on both the mind and body.

4. Keep a regular sleep schedule. Practise having a uniform sleep schedule. Keeping a regular schedule will teach your body to become sleepy at the same time each evening.

5. Don’t consume alcohol before bed: General notion is that alcohol gives drowsyness..... alcohol may help you initially doze off, the late night beer and wine can interrupt your normal sleep patterns and cause you to feel unrefreshed in the morning.

6. BEST BEDTIME SNACKS : Foods that are high in carbohydrates and calcium, and medium-to-low in protein also make ideal sleep-inducing bedtime snacks.
Try these for better results in your menu:
a)apple pie and ice cream
b)whole-grain cereal with milk
c)hazelnuts and tofu
d)oatmeal and raisin cookies, and a glass of milk
e)peanut butter sandwich, ground sesame seeds (It takes around one hour for the tryptophan in the foods to reach the brain, so don't wait until right before bedtime to have your snack.)

Follow these tips and see if your sleep improves. If you still have sleep-disorder problems consult your doctor.

Shivaji Rao Gaikwad @ 60

Born  on December 12, 1949 , an absolute professional still continues to remain as the same simple Sivaji with his hardwork and discipline. He is none other than South-India's top Actor Rajinikanth. When he was discovered by the legendary director K. Balachander, Shivaji renamed himself as Rajinikanth. With his remarkable style, heroism, stunts, body language, dialogue delivery, even with his romantic scenes he was able to captivate all kinds of viewers .  Appreciation from audience for his inevitable acting helped him to achieve star status . Later he became as the invincible 'Superstar'. Even actors who are stars in other languages hold great regard and reverence for Rajni. In fact, his powerful appeal and strong impressions go beyond movies.
 Rajni’s family :  Rajnikanth family has four members (Rajini, his wife, two daughters). Rajni’s elder daughter Aishwarya is married to Dhanush, another Kollywood hero; the couple has two sons: Yatra and Linga. His second daughter Soundarya is into graphics and designing. She has set up her own company Ocher Studios in Chennai. Soundarya’s very first project is an animation movie Sultan featuring the Superstar in an animation role. While Soundarya worked on the framework of Sultan’s hero, the Superstar participated in the shoot and acted under his daughter’s direction. Soundarya Rajinikath is married to industrialist Ashwin Kumar. His latest release was Enthiran, directed by Shankar, is the costliest Indian film ever made. And for the first time Aishwarya Rai Bachchan teamed up with Superstar in this technical wonder. It shattered all the records ever set by an Indian Cinema and depicted the standard of Indian Cinema.

Nenu Naa Rakshasi to be released for Sankranti

Daggubati Rana-Ileana starrer 'Nenu Naa Rakshasi' directed by Puri Jagannath is being planned for release on Sankranti festival day i.e on January 14, 2011. This movie is described as a romantic action thriller as Rana playing the role of an assassin. This is Rana’s second film after his successful debut in Leader directed by Sekhar Kammula. The film is being produced by Nallamalapu Srinivas (Bujji) under the banner of Lakshmi Narasimha Productions.  Music has been composed by Vishal Shekar, Bappy Lahari and Viswa. The Audio of the film will be released in the market on December 14.

'Magadheera' crosses 500 Days Mark

Tollywood's  block buster  “Magadheera” completed a successful run for 500 days on 12th dec. It made both th director (Rajamouli) as well as producer (Allu Aravind) overhelm with joy. Mega fans are celebrating it in a grand style at Lakshmi theatre for running their favorite star Ram Charan’s movie “Magadheera” for 500 days successfully. It had  created a record in that particular theatre as no other film has run for an year and above . This record is going to be unbeaten until the other movie would break the records set by “Magadheera”.

Nagavalli's Overseas rights bagged by 'Blue Sky cinema'

Victory Venkatesh’s most awaited supernatural thriller, a sequel of Chandramukhi in telugu directed by P. Vasu is going to be released for this december. It's overseas rights was bagged by Blue Sky cinema. Starring Venkatesh and Anushka are in leading roles followed by Richa, Priyamani, Vimala Raman, Kamalini Mukharjee, Poonam Kaur, Shradda Das and Bramhanandam. Music was composed by Guru Kiran. Movie is set for global release on Dec 16th with premiere shows on Dec 15th but unexpected tug of war between Producers Council and Workers Federation poses a dilemma on release date.

Prakash Raj's Second marriage Registered

CineActor Prakash Raj had earlier marrried Lalitha Kumari who was the sister of Disco Shanti (wife of actor Sri Hari) on December 25th , 1994.  Prakash Raj was able to get  divorce from her after a prolonged battle in court. Now he had second marriage with  choreographer Pony Varma which was registered in Hyderabad.
Pony Varma choreographed most of the films directed by Priyadarshan. Her name was registered as Reshmi Varma in the marriage certificate. Making  Hyderabad  as their home place the couple will work for movies by shuttling between Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad  work areas.

Tollywood industry under Crisis

Tollywood industry is in crisis situation as the Producers council called for halt of all the cine activities. We knew that the incident between stunt men of Telugu and Tamil film fields on the sets of Kandireega made the Telugu Film Producers Council call for a one day strike. The Council  called the stunt men unions for discussions but the Federation of cine workers is reportedly seeking settlement of all other related issues related to workers. As a result big releases for this month  (Venkatesh’ Nagavalli, Ravi Teja’s Mirapakaya and Nagarjuna’s Ragada) are facing release troubles. However  it seems that the shootings  cancellation may continue few more days until all the issues related to workers are settled.

Nagarjuna to take up Rajanna

With his recent completion of the movie 'Ragada'  Nagarjuna is now ready to participate actively in shooting  for 'Rajanna' film unit from tomorrow. The film was officially launched in September and will start his shooting from  tomorrow.  A model Telangana Village setup was built for this film under the supervision of Art director Ravi. Sneha will be playing the female lead role for the film. Producer of 'Rajanna' is the hero himself ( Nagarjuna) and will be picturised under the banner of Annapurna Studios. The theme of the movie is based on a story of a freedom fighter who fights against Razakars during the Nizam’s era.

Ram Charan gets ready to deal 'Merupu'

Ram Charan Tej enjoyed the gap given by Orange and is now back in Hyderabad . Charan is said to be busy working in gym to shape his body to suite for Merupu film. His next film Merupu is set to go on-floors in a week’s time and Cherry plays the role of a football player in Merupu. This movie will be directed by Tamil director Dharani. Search for an Artist who will look strong for Coach role is still going on. Latest update is that the Bollywood actor Nana Patekar has more chances of bagging this role.

Deepika Padukone expressed her wish to act with three top stars

 Having being successfully casted in Nine Bollywood films during the past Four years, Bollywood Actress Deepika Padukone seems to be now looking forward to pair with Bollywood Superstars Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan.
Deepika Padukone emerged as top heroine  in Bollywood with the movie 'Om Shanti Om' co-starring Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan and Arjun Rampal. She was later seen in various other movies sharing the silver screen with Bollywood Actors Akshay Kumar & Saif Ali Khan. After her two back to back releases 'Break Ke Baad' and 'Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey', Deepika Padukone recently said in an interview “I am looking forward to working with Aamir, Salman and Hrithik ”. Even though she is juggling different genres with ease at an early stage in her career, Deepika says the process she undergoes as an actor is same for every film.

Saif Ali Khan & Aishwarya Rai to perform together ?

Director Vishal Bharadwaj impressed Aishwarya Rai with his script and asked Aish to act in his film . He has been trying to work with Ash for the last 14 years but things did not work out till now. Sometimes,  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan cites  problem of busy schedule or very often the script failed to impress her. But this time Vishal’s script has won over the actress’s heart and she has said yes to the project. If all goes well then soon we will get to see the two most popular actors of Bollywood sharing screen space i.e stunning Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and handsome Saif Ali Khan.  If this turns Yes then it'll be the first time that Saif and Ash will share screen space.

Hero Srikanth and Tarun to act together

Debutant director Ashok Alle will direct a movie with  Srikanth and Tarun in lead roles for a movie titled 'Anucharudu'. This is for the first time where srikanth and Tarun are performing together. This movie has Praveen Bala as the producer. New comer Jasmine will be playing the lead female role.  Minister for Cinematography D K Aruna attended for the launching  ceremony held at hyderabad on December 8th along with director Boyapati Srininvas .
Hero Srikanth said that the director had worked out a good script and Tarun said that he is feeling happy to share the screen with Srikanth . He said  "We played cricket together on many ocassions and  we are acting together for the first time".

Mahesh Out of '3 Idiots' remake?

The suspense continues over 3 Idiots Telugu remake whether actor Mahesh is in / out of the project. Most of the sources say that Mahesh opts to stay away from this '3 Rascals'. On the other hand, Vijay who is supposed to play main lead in Tamil version too dropped out of it.
Now, Shankar is in wild search for an apt replacement  into Telugu and Tamil remakes. As per the latest updates, Shankar is trying for Surya to perform in both the languages. He is also considering Ajith Kumar in this role.

'Manmadha Banam' slated to release on DEC 17th

Kamal Haasan’s latest Tamil film 'Manmadhan Ambu' that is dubbed in telugu is given the title 'Manmadha Banam' and is scheduled to release on December 17.  The movie rights in telugu version is bagged by Lakshmi Ganapathi Films .
The film is produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin and directed by K.S. Ravi Kumar. Devi Sri Prasad scored some nice numbers for this film. The film stars Madhavan, Trisha and Sangeetha in major roles. Kamal Haasan plays a private detective who will be hired by Madhavan to test his love affair with Trisha. Audio launch in Telugu version will be done soon.

'Nagavalli' team celebrates double platinum disc function

The double platinum disc function of Nagavalli  was held at Cinemax on Monday. K. Raghavendra Rao was the chief guest and he presented the first memento to Venkatesh on token of sales of Audio cassetes. Director Vasu, producer Bellamkonda Suresh, Venkatesh, Anushka, Shraddha Das, Kamalini Mukherjee, Richa gangopadhyay,  Boyapati Srinu, Paruchuri Brother Raghavendra Rao, Chandrabose and others attended the event.Producer Bellamkonda Suresh shared few words on the dias . He said "songs have come out very well. Venkatesh will play dual roles i.e as  a king as well as a doctor. The best part about Nagavalli is that there are no heroines. All the heroine characters in the film share equally substantial roles".

New Version on Pawan Kalyan's Jesus Christ ?

It was believed that Power Star would appear as Jesus Christ in the film written by J.K Bharavi and as of now it's heard that the actor would rather appear as a  director but not as Jesus Christ!
According to latest version the film revolves around a popular director who is shooting a film on the life of Jesus Christ with a few children. In this process the director comes to know about the greatness and facts about Jesus Christ. Greatly moved by such facts in  the life of Jesus Christ, the director finally changes his religion and becomes as a Christain. It is directed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao and produced by Konda Krishnamraju under the banner of Aditya Productions, the film is reportedly titled " Traffic Jam ".

Comedy Movies battle in Bollywood

Anees Bazmi's "No Problem" could pose a good competition  to Yashraj's Film "Band Baaja Baaraat" , as both the films are slated to release on December 10th. But what remains as a question is that who wins this battle of the comedies.
When asked about this clash director Anees said "I won't believe in lucky dates, but I do believe in commitments. We had decided to release 'No Problem' on Dec 10th long ago and  I have three releases next year, so I should  get the film out of the way this year. We worked hard for the speedy  finish of 'No Problem' and announced  release date months ago. It was only later we heard Band Baja Baaraat is going to come on the same date" .
This is not the first time in bollywood that a clash arise between two big-budget films. "Gol Maal 2" and "Action Replayy" were previous ones that were released on Diwali this year and one of them had to go out of race.
Produced by Anil Kapoor, the star-cast of "No Problem" includes Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Khanna, Sunil Shetty, Kangana Ranaut, Sushmita Sen and Paresh Rawal. While "Band Baaja Baraat" features Anushka Sharma with newcomer Ranvir Singh.

Siddhath's 'Anaganaga O Dheerudu' Trailer launched

Hollywood Production house Walt Disney’s first Telugu movie 'Anaganaga O Dheerudu' trailer was launched here on Saturday at Cinemax Theatre, Hyderabad. Prominent personalities like Rama Naidu, K Raghavendra Rao, Suresh Babu, Shyam Prasad Reddy, KL Narayana Rao, Ganaraju Gunnam, KS Rama Rao, SS Rajamouli etc attended the event.
Anaganaga O Dheerudu is directed by Prakash Rao. Other cast members like Lakshmi Prasanna and Shruti Haasan who were present at the event. Coming to the details of the film 'Anaganaga O Dheerudu', it is a socio-fantasy film and first one to be done by Siddharth under this category. Shruti Hassan does the leading female role beside Siddharth. Cinematography was done by Soundar Rajan. MM Keeravani, Saleem – Suleiman, Koti and Mickey J Meyer scored music. The visual effects had been done by Firefly, EFX, Pixelloid and Labyrinth animation institutes. The movie is said to be a Graphical wonder that has graphical standards equivalent to Hollywood. The movie is expected to release this next month.