From Amitabh Bachchan’s new role to Jr NTR’s Varalaaru connection, here’s a roundup of all the news in cinema today.
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Nagarjuna has been approached to play Karna in Mahabharatham.
Shaam has been cast in a road thriller.
Balaji Sakthivel and Vijay Milton will team up for a new project.
Amitabh Bachchan has been approached for Chiranjeevi’s next.
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Jr NTR’s Jai Lava Kusa might be inspired by Ajith Kumar’s Varalaaru.
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Deepika Padukone might play the lead in Badlapur 2.
Hugh Bonneville says that a Downton Abbey movie is “very likely”.
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Six minor girls from Nasik went to Mumbai on their own to meet their idol, Shah Rukh Khan. The girls were traced by the police to Mannat, Shah Rukh Khan’s home. They were later handed over to their parents.
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Lakshmy Ramakrishnan’s talk show Solvathellam Unmai is in the news once again, this time for making a young woman confront her rapist on live television. In the show aired recently, a Tirunelveli based woman tells Lakshmy about being abused for almost a decade by a ‘friend’ of her mother’s. The girl eventually got pregnant, and delivered a baby boy, who is around 7 years old now.
While Lakshmy tried to discuss a solution, the rapist said that he’d already paid for his sins by supporting the family financially for so long. The mother and daughter were to meet the press this week, but are reportedly missing now.
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Late actor Manorama, actor Dilip Joshi, and wrestler Sushil Kumar will all turn a year older today!
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