Is Ash the villain?

At a press conference in Mumbai last week, the 20-something who represents the Indian market for the same beauty brand as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made a statement about walking the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival this year along with international heavyweights including Ash, Elizabeth Banks, Eva Longoria and Rachida Brakni.

Immediately after her announcement came a round of media reports blaming Ash for ‘making sure’ Sonam didn’t get the same Cannes honour as herself. Naturally Ash is disturbed.

The actress who has been representing the brand at Cannes since 2002; fails to understand why her name is being dragged into this controversy especially since the official press note doesn’t even mention Sonam as part of the red carpet brigade. In the meantime, Sonam’s media relations manager has also said that she will get the brand to issue a clarification on this whole red-carpet Cannes controversy so all doubts are laid to rest. And, we guess Anil Kapoor will be a relieved man.

After all, he is currently torn between two beautiful women — his heroine Aishwarya and daughter Sonam.

'Satya in Love' of Genelia in Telugu

The successful Kannada film 'Satya in Love' with Genelia in the lead and Sivrajkumar as hero, is being dubbed into Telugu on the same name by R Shankar on the banner of Sri Choudeswari Prasanna Movies. Raghav Lok is the director.

Producer says, 'Presently dubbing work is in progress. The film has all kinds of elements like action, sentiment and love. We brought out the film in an attractive way to grab the attention of all classes of audiences. We moulded the love story in a different angle.'

MS Narayana, Ajay, Jayaprakash Reddy, Subbaraju and others are in the cast.

Camera is by MR Sreenu, lyrics are by Rama Rao, while screenplay and direction are by Raghava Lok.

Chiru in 'Bangarukodipetta'

The latest film that stars Ram Charan Teja, directed by S.S.Rajamouli, with Allu Aravind as producer is produced by his home production house. This movie could very well hold a big surprise for the fans of Mega Star Chiranjeevi.

As already reported, the super hit number 'Bangaru Kodipetta…' filmed in the locales of Visakhapatnam, from the movie 'Gharana Mogudu' featuring the Mega Star in the lead, is being remixed for this latest flick starring Ram Charan Teja.

The most interesting talk of Tinsel Ville right now is that Mega Star Chiranjeevi is joining son Ram CharanTeja for the dance sequence in this remix song. If the information from sources is true this will really be a pleasant surprise for Chiranjeevi fans, who are very keen to watch their favorite star make an appearance on screen, before entering politics.

Prem Rakshit who made a mark for himself in movies such as 'Chatrapati', 'Yama Donga', and 'Kantri', is the choreographer for this song.

With dad dancing by his side, Ram Charan Teja could very well skyrocket his career big time.

Hare Ram to hit screen on July 18

Produced by Nandamuri Janakiram under the banner of NTR Arts, with Harshavardhan wielding the megaphone, move Hare Ram with Nandamuri Kalyanram and Priyamani in the lead, is all set to hit the screen on July 18.

Kalyanram says, "The story had a fantastic movement on the screen. Priyamani, the national award winner, is playing the heroine. Mickey J Meyer, who gave soulful music for the recent hit Happy Days, gave excellent tunes to our film, while Sirivennela Sitaramastry penned the lyrics. There is a very good response to the audio released into the market recently."

"We are making efforts to release the film on July 18. We are sure that the film would enhance the prestige and image of our banner and it would be another blockbuster under our banner after Athanokkade," he added.

A R Rahman to score tunes for Blue

Music maestro A.R.Rahman has given some really diverse music this year. While he started the year with Ashutosh Gowariker's period film Jodhaa Akbar, he surprised everyone with the young and peppy tunes which he composed for Aamir Khan Productions' Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na.

If you think that's all you get to hear of Rahman this year, then you are wrong. While his music for Subhash Ghai's magnum opus Yuvraaj is being awaited with bated breath, he is also composing the music for Aamir Khan's Ghajini.

And for all you die-hard Rahman fans, there is some more good news. The music maestro has also been roped in by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. to compose the music for their multi-starrer Blue. Blue has been in the news recently as major portions of the film featuring actors like Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan and Katrina Kaif were shot in the exotic locations of Bahamas. With Rahman coming into the picture this adventure ride only gets bigger and better.

Charmi and her 7 angle lip lock with cockroach

Charmi, the hot girl in Telugu, is once again trying her luck in Tamil Cinema through Laadam. Directed by Prabu Solomon, the film is a fast phase thriller without any conventional love sentiments.

When the entire unit of Laadam met the media at Green Park yesterday, the director says that the movie is an unusual script. The story is a compilation of events happened in 16 Days. "The story is very simple. A girl and a boy who are good friends and how they help each other in certain tough situations in their life is the base for the script. But the screen presentation will surely entertain the viewers a lot," says the director.

Charmi, who started her career with Simbu in a Tamil film Kadhal Azhivathillai, plays the role of Angel, a very positive and comical character and hopes a lot for her re entry in to Tamil films again.

Aravindan is the new hero whose tagline in the film's promos reads, 'they called him cockroach (Karappanpoochi)'. In this film, there is also a lip lock with 'Karappanpoochi', which was shot in one take but 'from seven angles' as quoted by Charmi.

Dharan has done the music and one of the songs is written by journalist (Dinakaran) Eknath.

Three completes re-recording

Directed by Sekhar Suri, presented by P Kanakalakshmi and produced by Phaniraj and GS Babu under the banner of Raj (India) Entertainments movie Three with Rishi, Rajiv Kanakala, Santichandra in the lead had completed re-recording process recently. Urvasi Sharma of Bollywood is being introduced as heroine to the Telugu film industry.

Producers say, "We are making efforts to release the film as soon as possible. We will announce the release date in a couple of days."

Director Sekhar Suri says, "It is just a psychological thriller. You just can't predict that the movie runs in a particular way. Each scene would be different and is interesting on its own. The film runs with 13 characters but we titled it as Three. It has to be watched on the screen. Vijay Kurakula's background music would remain an added attraction for the flick."