The issue of fake visa and the smuggling of people, in the name of artists and technicians has taken a big twist. The US consulate officials state that there are some very big names in the list of 200 people who have been banned from entering into the US forever.
A bit producer, a leading hero and also a leading comedian are said to be in the list that is in the possession of the investigating agencies in Chennai. The gossip in film nagar is now about the identity of these three people. Many names are coming out but no one is yet to come out on record. Till then, the suspense over the names of the big fish involved in the fake visa racket will remain under wraps.
2008/3/14 8:11:11 The issue of fake visa and the smuggling of people, in the name of artists and technicians has taken a big twist. The US consulate officials state that there are some very big names in the list of 200 people who have been banned from entering into the US forever.
A big producer, a leading hero and also a leading comedian are said to be in the list that is in the possession of the investigating agencies in Chennai. The gossip in film nagar is now about the identity of these three people. Many names are coming out but no one is yet to come out on record. Till then, the suspense over the names of the big fish involved in the fake visa racket will remain under wraps.
Chandrabau Naidu who made a personal appearance at the US embassy in Chennai has been granted visa to visit the US. Babu spent about five minutes at the embassy. He has been given a visa for 10 years. His visa has expired and he applied for a fresh visa. Babu is visiting the US for about 10 days. He will leave Hyderabad on June 26. He is expected to take part in the TANA conference during his visit.
Ever since ace comedian Sunil upgraded to hero position with film ‘Maryada Ramanna’ movie, he couldn’t comedown to act as a comedian any more. Producers and directors are also now approaching him with hero roles only, instead of comedian roles. His KSD Appala Raju,’ his upcoming action movie ‘Napoleon’ and by latest his next film with Dil Raju all makes him settle as a hero. Hence, the Telugu film industry is loosing an ace comedian like him for his signing of hero roles. He will be acting in the lead role of Dil Raju’s film which is a remake of Hindi film ‘Tanu weds Manu.’
Dil Raju, Nallamalupu Srinivas (Bujji) and Tagore Madhu are joining hands to produce this film. The details of the star cast and the technical team will be announced soon.
Former chief minister and TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu will wait for his turn like ordinary mortals for a visa at the US embassy in Chennai. Chandra Babu’s visa has expired and he needs a fresh visa to go to the US in the last week of June. Chandra Babu Naidu was exempted from physical appearance at the US Embassy all theses years in his capacity as the Chief Minister.
The US embassy normally waives the rule of personal appearance for certain categories of people like chief ministers. It would be a new experience for Babu, who is attending an interview for visa. Babu has rubbed shoulders with non other than the then US president Bill Clinton when he came to Hyderabad. Babu as the chief minister had issued recommendation letters to the US Embassy requesting visas for many people including party legislators. He even saw to it that his personal staff was not required to go to Chennai for a visa while he was in power.
However, it is learnt that Chandra Babu did not seek an exemption to make a personal appearance at the embassy for the visa. If he had sought permission, he would surely have been granted the privilege.
The fake visa scam and the issue of actress Asha Saini being arrested for trying to smuggling out a girl by claiming her to be her make up artist has sent shockwaves in Tollywood. Many top producers and director are also said to be involved in this. Mallikarjuna Rao said to the media that some time back a delegation of about 20 artists went to the US to take part in TANA conference.
AVS tried to include his brother in the delegation as an astrologer. The US consulate did not issue a visa to him stating that the services of an astrologer were not needed in a cultural team. AVS now wants to know what this has to do with the visa scam.
2011/12/10 3:34:01 The Padmasri awarded famous Kollywood comedian Vivek is planning to direct a Tamil film very soon in which he may debut as hero. Vivek, who is a good script writer and writes dialogues for his roles in several films, has prepared a story for his directorial venture. According to reports, he wants to give a message about pollution and the importance of greenery. However, the film will have all those commercial elements to entertain the masses. He is looking for a producer to make his dreams come true.
The sexy Sada is playing the tile role in a new film titled ‘Mohini 98867 38888’. The film is a suspense thriller. Rajendra Singh Babu is the director and G Balakrishna is the producer.
Sada plays the role of an investigative journalist in the film. The story is about the murky sex racket that is now going on in the city and elsewhere in the name of massage parlours. Hamsa Nandini and Suhasini are among the star cast. Nazar is playing a special role in the film. The film is set for release on May 9.
Comedian Brahmanandam is playing hero once again. The actor is going great guns as a comedian but the itch to play hero keeps bugging him every now and then. His earlier films as hero like Babai Hotel and Loafer Mama Super Alludu did not fare well at the box office but that is all in the past. He now wants to try his luck once again as hero.
The reason for this is not far to seek. Sunil played hero successfully in Andala Ramudu. Venu Madhav, Ali, and now even Krishna Bhagavan and Raghu Babu are playing heroes in films. Brahmanandam is the senior most among them and or is only natural that he is piqued at some of his juniors getting offers as heroes in film.
Now Brahmanandam has finally landed a film titled Evadi anandam Vaadidi. Aarthi Agarwal will play opposite him in the film.
2011/9/4 10:26:18 The East Zone team of Commissioner's Task Force on Sunday busted a racket involved in betting on India-England one day series matches.
According to police, the police generated actionable information after making sustained efforts and conducted raid and apprehended one cricket betting organizer by name Anil Kumar Agarwal, who was running cricket betting racket. He was accepting cricket betting amount directly and indirectly over cell phones from his house at Jambagh. Police also seized net cash of Rs 43,000, one television set, six cell phones and other incriminating materials from his possession.
Police say that Anil Kumar, a collection agent in Sree Lakshmi Chit Fund located at Koti, was facing financial problems and started cricket betting racket to earn easy money. He collected contact numbers of some known and unknown punters and contacted them over their cell phone in Hyderabad and running cricket betting in an organized manner. The arrested accused along with seized material was handed over to Afzalgunj Police Station for taking further action. (INN)
2011/9/2 3:10:48 Visa related services will soon be available in post offices -- in remote areas.
India Post Friday said it has signed an agreement with VFS Global to provide the services. VFS Global is a leading outsourcing firm providing administrative functions for diplomatic missions across the world.
The agreement was signed Aug 8.
Under the pact, post office counters will be used for fee collection, sell visa application forms, provide information and other services.
India Post and VFS Global are also planning to cooperate in utilizing India Post?s courier service, Speed Post for moving passports to VFS offices and embassies, and their delivery back to the applicants.
Currently people from smaller cities and rural areas travel long distances to avail passport and visa services.
Lack of information is a major area of concern as this allows unscrupulous elements to cheat unsuspecting people. (IANS)
2011/10/18 3:04:41 The recent denial of visa to the Dalai Lama by the South African government has been dragged to courts here.
In an affidavit before the Western Cape High Court, representatives of the Tibetan spiritual leader in South Africa said the country's High Commission in New Delhi had declined to accept a visa application on his behalf on two occasions.
Then on the third occasion, the application was directed to a private processing agency. Since a reply to the request for visa was not forthcoming, the Dalai Lama eventually cancelled his visit.
He had been invited to attend the 80th birthday celebrations of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in Cape Town Oct 7. He was also scheduled to speak at other engagements.
Indian officials accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said this matter, however, will not come up during his discussions with his host and South African President Jacob Zuma, since New Delhi considers it an internal matter of Pretoria.
Ali had the distinction of playing in over 790 films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi languages. He entered the film industry as a child artiste and later proved himself as a good comedian.
Though he played hero in some films, he continued his acting career as comedian. In an interview recently, he admitted that he would play hero or any other role which will have a comedy touch. He says, 'It is SV Krishna Reddy who gave me a life as a hero.
I am indebted to him for my life.' Presently, Ali is playing hero in 'Tinnama, Padukunnama, Tellarinda' and the film is almost getting ready for release. Meanwhile, there were reports that Ali gave his nod to play hero in a film 'Somberi' to be produced and directed by PN Ramachandra Rao. The film has story and dialogues from Jonnavittula. Presently the script is getting ready and the film may go to sets by Diwali.
Mumbai, April 22 (IANS) Singer Sonu Nigam, who was due to perform at London's O2 arena Sunday, is disappointed after he had to cancel his visit following visa issues.
Nigam was due to share stage with Pakistani singer Atif Alsam at Dhamaka Bollywood Concert London 2012, but had to pull out after his group members failed to get visas.
"Disappointed and enraged to inform everyone that I'm not coming to London. Hard to believe that except my visa, not a single visa for my group was done. Never happened in 20 years of overseas travel," Nigam tweeted.
"Don't know whom to blame. Our entire team's time and repute has been wasted. Only if the show is postponed now to another date, would we be vindicated. Prayers everyone," he further posted.
Comedian Brahmanandam is now playing hero once again in a new film. The ace comedian has accepted to play hero in a film to be produced by Nagarjuna college chief B Sudhakar. The film will be a total comic entertainer with a strong dose of Brahmanandam mark comedy.
Sudhakar is a big fan of Brahmanandam and he arranged a felicitation function for him. The felicitation was arranged to mark Brahmanandam's entry into the Guinness Book of world records. The staff and students of the Nagarjuna College took part in the unction.
2011/4/21 9:28:50 Telugu film industry might have taken pains for importing glamour dolls from north and Kerala. But, the industry has never faced scarcity for heroes, because the industry had enough of them in its back yard. All our actors have contributed a lot in this regard and saved the industry from running around in search of heroes. The industry has been assured for the next one or two centuries in getting an uninterrupted supply of heroes. The latest addition to this list would be the son of our ace comedian Dr.Rajendra Prasad. He is planning to introduce his son as hero in Nidhi Prasad direction. We can expect the full details of this new hero’s film very soon.
2012/2/12 7:51:31 The family members of Jangam Praveen Reddy, the city youth who has been stabbed in London, have been granted UK visa.
Praveen, who was doing MBA from London School of Business, was critically stabbed on Friday night in the Newham borough of London.
Praveen's brother Jayashankar Reddy told reporters here on Sunday that the family members have been granted UK visa and they were rushing to London. He said Praveen was still critical, but there has been an improvement in his condition. Earlier on Saturday, Foreign Minister SM Krishna spoke to Praveen's father Sudhakar Reddy and assured him of all help from the Centre. Krishna also spoke to acting High Commissioner in the UK Rajesh Prasad asking him to extend all possible help to Praveen's family.
Meanwhile, three Indians have reportedly been arrested on the charges of attempt to murder. However, the motive behind the incident was not yet known. (INN)
2007/3/9 7:08:50 Believe it or not but an income-tax raid on a business man has yielded concealed assets worth Rs. 35,000 crores. The authorities say that this figure could go much higher.
The businessman Hassan Ali operates from Pune but hails from Hyderabad. He is known to own race horses. He owns a stud farm. But the real source of his income is believed to have come from Hawala racket. It is believed that he has been running a Hawala racket for almost 20 years now. The authorities are believed to have frozen 7 of his 10 Swiss bank accounts.
2011/1/20 4:16:15 The shady links between the factionists and the Tollywood film producers turns much spicy stuff than their films. While, producer Singanamala Ramesh is absconding from the police, and the other producer C.Kalyan become a regular visitor to the police station, the new entrant, comedian turned producer Ganesh babu took the responsibility to lead the show with all the spicy contents. When, he came to know the buzzing in the media about his alleged links with factionists Bhanu and Suri, the next moment he called for a press meet and told them that, he don’t have any links with any factionists. He said that, he reached his present status only with his own efforts from the scratch as a small time comedian. He also throws an open challenge to media and public stating if anyone could prove that he has links with the factionists he is ready to hang himself. Hence, he reminds the media that, whatever the huge investments he dumped into the industry is not from any illegal sources, but got it by selling some ancestral properties.
Looks like there’s going to be a shortage of comedy actors in Tamil cinema Since Vadivelu is doing the hero role in ‘Indiralogathil Na Azhagappan,’ he had to turn down about 30 films as a comedian. Vivek is also attempting to become a hero. Through ‘Arai Enn 305il Kadavul,’ Santhanam and Ganja Karuppu have become heroes. That leaves Krunaas and he’s also to become a hero soon.
‘Vadakku Nokki Endhiram’ with its screenplay by Malayalam actor Srinivasan has received several awards. Released in the 80s, it featured Jayaram’s wife Parvathi as Srinivasan’s heroine. An ordinary looking guy gets a beautiful wife. The low self confidence and suspicions that result are shown tastefully with comic overtones by Srinivasan.
Karunaas will do Srinivasan’s role as the doubting husband with the beautiful wife. They are still hunting for a beautiful heroine. The film unit prefers Simran, who is right now acting opposite Telugu comedian Krishna Bhagawan.
It is hoped that she will give Karunaas the green signal
2012/3/22 9:01:14 It is about comedian Sunil who strived hard to reach present position. Recently, his new film to be produced by D.Suresh under Suresh Productions was launched. No need to say Sunil is playing lead role in this film too. When the film makers have approached Tollywood hot girl Tapsi for the female lead beside Sunil, it is learnt that, she refused to pair with him, as she still sees him a comedian who acts beside the hero. This is 2nd time for Sunil to face such bitter experience from heroines. Earlier, Trisha also refused to pair with him. However, Sunil is quite confident that one day all the heroines of the industry will surely accept him as hero and pair with him. Until then, Sunil has to face tough time in finding heroine for him.
The Padmasri awarded famous Kollywood comedian Vivek is planning to direct a Tamil film very soon in which he may debut as hero. Vivek, who is a good script writer and writes dialogues for his roles in several films, has prepared a story for his directorial venture. According to reports, he wants to give a message about pollution and the importance of greenery. However, the film will have all those commercial elements to entertain the masses. He is looking for a producer to make his dreams come true.
Visa related services will soon be available in post offices -- in remote areas.
The recent denial of visa to the Dalai Lama by the South African government has been dragged to courts here.
Telugu film industry might have taken pains for importing glamour dolls from north and Kerala. But, the industry has never faced scarcity for heroes, because the industry had enough of them in its back yard. All our actors have contributed a lot in this regard and saved the industry from running around in search of heroes. The industry has been assured for the next one or two centuries in getting an uninterrupted supply of heroes. The latest addition to this list would be the son of our ace comedian Dr.Rajendra Prasad. He is planning to introduce his son as hero in Nidhi Prasad direction. We can expect the full details of this new hero’s film very soon.
It is about comedian Sunil who strived hard to reach present position. Recently, his new film to be produced by D.Suresh under Suresh Productions was launched. No need to say Sunil is playing lead role in this film too. When the film makers have approached Tollywood hot girl Tapsi for the female lead beside Sunil, it is learnt that, she refused to pair with him, as she still sees him a comedian who acts beside the hero. This is 2nd time for Sunil to face such bitter experience from heroines. Earlier, Trisha also refused to pair with him. However, Sunil is quite confident that one day all the heroines of the industry will surely accept him as hero and pair with him. Until then, Sunil has to face tough time in finding heroine for him. 
