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Valentine’s Day is synonymous to Love! Passion! Romance! Young and dynamic designer Sounia Gohil trail-blazes an exquisite assortment characterizing the un-expressed love!
 

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Zee Cine Awards 2014: Will Deepika Padukone Win Best Actress Award Again?

The year 2013 has been a stupendous year for Deepika Padukone. She has had three big hits in her kitty - Chennai Express, Ram Leela and Race 2. Her performance in the film Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani was much appreciated. Now, it remains to be seen if she will walk away with the best actress award at the Zee Cine Awards 2014 as well. Deepika Padukone bagged all major awards so far at all award ceremonies. The leggy lass has been nominated for Best Actor (Female) at the Zee Cine Awards 2014 as well. Deepika has been nominated in the best actress category for three films (Chennai Express, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani). The hot actress competes with Parineeti Chopra for Shuddh Desi Romance, Shraddha Kapoor for Aashiqui 2 and Sonam Kapoor for Raanjhanaa.

 Deepika Padukone has been a stunner so far and has given her best in all these films. The lass has grown as an actress in leaps and bounds since her debut in Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om opposite Shahrukh Khan. While she is competing with actresses who too have done extremely well in the given roles, the fact remains that Deepika is the hot favourite among the mass today. Apart from that, all the three films in which she has been nominated were super hits at the box office.Now, let's keep our fingers crossed and see whether Deepika will take hope the Zee trophy as well!Zee Cine Awards is all set to take place tomorrow, February 8, 2013. Stay tuned for latest news and live updates from the award ceremony.

'Kochadaiiyaan' Audio to be Launched on Feb 28?

It's already known that Rajinikanth's much-awaited magnum opus, Kochadaiiyaan, is all set to hit screens in a big way on April 11. Now, the latest is director Soundarya R Ashwin and her team are planning to launch the film's audio by the end of this month.

 A source says, "AR Rahman has composed some fabulous tunes for the film, and the team wants to launch the songs on February 28.

 An event, at a grand scale, is being planned in Chennai, and the guestlist is being prepared now. Official announcement regarding the audio will be made in a couple of days."

 A single, Enge Pogudho Vaanam, has already been released and was received well by the audience.

Eega director Rajamouli to spend Rs 85 cr on VFX of ‘Baahubali’

Baahubali is a period action drama and will have plenty of visual effects in terms of creating extravagant sets, palaces and even kingdoms.

After the success of Eega, director S.S. Rajamouli is busy with the making of Baahubali. Apparently an amount of around Rs.85 crore will be spent on the special effects, making it the costliest VFX in Bollywood. Baahubali is a period action drama and will have plenty of visual effects in terms of creating extravagant sets, palaces and even kingdoms.
The film stars Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Ramya Krishnan, Nasser, Sathyaraj and Sudeep. Produced under the banner Arka Mediaworks, by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni. Presented by K. Raghavendra Rao, Baahubali has been shot in Telugu and Tamil and dubbed in Hindi, Malayalam and other foreign languages, will release in 2015.

Melattur Bhagavata Mela artists perform for Ramanujan 

Keeping in mind the authenticity of the film, makers of the English – Tamil biopic Ramanujan had artists Dr. Aravindh and Master Kailash among others from Melattur Bhagavata Mela to perform the dance drama for the film. The artists performed for a scene in the film wherein Ramanujan’s family, comprising Anmol (young Srinivasa Ramanujan), Suhasini Maniratnam who plays the role of Komalatammal and Nizhalgal Ravi playing the role of K. Srinivasa Iyengar, watches the Bhagavata Mela. The artists performed the dance drama in a small village late into the night, which ended at four in the morning and had the local villagers as audience.
Melattur Bhagavata Mela Natya Vidya Sangam artists are not professional performers but are from other professions who preserve this ancient art form that collaborates three forms of performing arts; music, dance, drama. The entire theme of the dance shoot was Lord Narasimha tearing apart Hiranyakashipu and that day of the shoot turned out to be the exact day of Narasimha Jayanti, according to Hindu Calendar.
Ramanujan is an Indo-British collaboration film directed by National Award winning director Gnana Rajasekaran and produced by Camphor Cinema, an independent film production company co-founded by four young entrepreneurs: Srivatsan Nadathur, Sushant Desai, Sharanyan Nadathur and Sindhu Rajasekaran. The film tracks the journey of the ace mathematician from Kumbakonam to Cambridge. It’s been simultaneously shot in Tamil and English. The film stars Abhinay Vaddi, Bhama, Suhasini Maniratnam, Abbas, Nizhalgal Ravi, Delhi Ganesh, Y. GEE. Mahendra and Sarath Babu and British actors Kevin McGowan, Michael Lieber, Richard Walsh, Cloudia Swann and Elizabeth Bourne.

LBW launched

The mahurat and poster unveiling of the Marathi film titled LBW was held on January 28 at Shock in Bandra Mumbai. Directed by Ankur A.Kakatkar for producer Sandeep Nadange, the film stars Jitendra Joshi , Sushant Shelar, Amruta Khanvilkar, Sanjay Mone, Milind Phatak, Suchitra Bandekar, Sulekha Tawalkar, Ruturaj Padke, Sneha Deshmukh, Ashish Kulkarni, Raj Anjute, Sayai Marathe and Suhas Joshi.
Written by Milind Pathak, it has music by Nilesh Moharir, Pankaj Padgham, Amit Raj, Vaibhav Panch.

Aaha Kalyanam music launched 

The music of Yash Raj Films maiden Tamil venture, Aaha Kalyanam was launched in Chennai in the presence of lead actors Nani and Vaani Kapoor, director A. Gokul Krishna, music composer Dharan Kumar and the entire unit. The theme for the launch was an authentic wedding setting and everyone was dressed in traditional wedding attire with men wearing pattu veshti and pattu sattai with angawasthiram and women in pattu pudavai with flowers adorning their head.
Also seen were music director Dharan Kumar, guest director Dharani, Usha Uthup, Simran. The film is a remake of the successful Hindi movie, Band Baaja Baaraat, Aaha Kalyanam. The launch of the Telugu audio soundtrack, was scheduled for January 23 but was cancelled as a mark of respect to the doyen Dr. Akkineni Nageshwar Rao, who passed away that day

Kejriwal's sharp letter to Lt Governor on Jan Lokpal Bill

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today escalated his confrontation with Congress by asking Lt Governor Najeeb Jung not to protect the interest of Congress and the Home Ministry, which were keen on stalling his government's Jan Lokpal bill.

"Now it is for you to decide whether you will be able to stand up to the pressure or not. You are a genuine person. But I humbly want to suggest to you that you had taken an oath to protect the Constitution and not the interest of any party or the Home Ministry," he said in a strongly-worded letter to Jung.

The letter of Kejriwal, who shares a good equation with Jung, was sharp in tone and came a day after reports emanated that the Lt Governor had sought Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran's opinion on Delhi government's Jan Lokpal bill.

The law officer had conveyed to him that it will be illegal if prior consent was not taken from the Centre. It also came on a day when his party colleague Ashutosh called the Lt Governor a "Congress agent".

Yuki sinks Somdev to reach Chennai Challenger final

Yuki Bhambri beat top seed Somdev Devvarman 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals. Photo: K.V. Srinivasan

 

Yuki Bhambri brushed aside the challenge of Somdev Devvarman in straight sets to breeze into the final of the ATP Challenger event on Friday.

Yuki beat top seed Somdev 6-2, 6-4 in one hour and 41 minutes in the semifinals.

Later, Yuki also made the doubles final with New Zealand partner Michael Venus as they trounced Ruben Gonzales and Artem Sitak 6-2, 6-1.

Yuki did not face a breakpoint in the first set and capitalised on two of the five he earned on Somdev’s serve to nose ahead.

An intense battle followed in the second set and both the players struggled to hold serve. Yuki lost his thrice but managed to break Somdev four times to close the contest in his favour.

Yuki will now fight it out with Alexander Kudryavtsev, who shocked second seed Evgeny Donskoy 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the other semifinal.

In the doubles, the Indo-Kiwi pair will face India’s Sriram Balaji and Blaz Rola, who defeated Ti Chen and Marek Semjan 6-3, 7-6 (5).