Tollywood

<p>Wednesday was indeed a blessed day for Tamil-Telugu actress Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, with two chance meetings, one at the airport and another on a flight.</p>

<p>Thanks to 'Kartikeya 2', Tollywood actor Nikhil Siddhartha is the latest pan-India star to emerge from down South. The movie which has catapulted Nikhil Siddhartha to the Rs 100-crore club, is a sequel to his earlier Telugu hit movie 'Kartikeya'.</p>

<p>Ever since it started streaming on Netflix, S.S. Rajamouli's blockbuster 'RRR' has been acquiring a growing international fan following.</p>

<p>Clarifying that he was not against temples and that he himself was a big devotee of Goddess Meenakshi, actor Soori said that his statement that providing education to the poor was better than building a 1000 temples had been misconstrued by some.</p>

<p>Actor Dulquer Salmaan, who is on cloud nine following the rave reviews his just released film, 'Sita Ramam' has been receiving, has called the film's music director Vishal Chandrashekar its 'heartbeat'. Just before the release of the film, music director Vishal Chandrashekar took to Instagram to pen an emotional post. In it, he said:</p>

<p>After the pandemic break, the body of Malayalam film actors- AMMA is seriously engaged in a rehearsal of their upcoming show organised for a leading TV channel, and will be aired on the channel over two days starting August 27.</p>

<p>The much-anticipated premiere of 'Karthikeya 2' has caused issues for the young actor, Nikhil Siddhartha though. In a recent media interview, Nikhil stated that he now realised how challenging it is to set a release date and then carry it out.</p>

<p>Actor Jayam Ravi, who plays the titular role of 'Ponniyin Selvan' (also known as prince Arun Mozhi Varman) in director Mani Ratnam's upcoming magnum opus, 'Ponniyin Selvan', has said that it was actor Karthi, who plays the pivotal character of Vanthiya Thevan in the film, who motivated him to learn horse riding for the film.</p>

<p>Naga Chaitanya, who will set foot in Bollywood with Aamir Khan-starrer 'Laal Singh Chaddha', revealed that he has purposefully avoided Hindi movies for a long time when talking about his Bollywood debut.</p>

<p>After the world outside Tollywood discovered her in the web series 'Family Man 2', Samantha Ruth Prabhu has been in the news for one reason or the other.</p>