PRIYAMANI SHARES SCREEN WITH AISHWARYA IN TWO FILMS

Currently Priyamani is ruling the roost with the nation-wide recognition after winning the national award for the best actress category, for her fabulous performance in the Tamil film 'Paruthiveeran'. She has now grabbed the opportunity to be the part of Maniratnam's latest venture that is to be made both in Hindi and Tamil simultaneously. While Abhishek plays the lead man in Hindi and Vikram in Tamil and Aishwarya Rai plays the female lead in both the versions. Priyamani enacts the role of second heroine pairing with Prithviraj, who is said to be playing the negative shade. This project will commence in September. AR Rahman will compose music and PC Sriram for the cinematography.

Out of the blue, Priyamani gets a telegram from director Shankar. The telegram congratulates her for winning the National award for best actress for Paruthiveeran, and praises her performance in it. Now comes the interesting part - at the end of the mail - Shankar signs off suggesting they should meet.

Industry insiders are reading this as an offer to play an important character in Robot.

DIL RAJU TO INTRODUCE NAGA CHAITANYA

The most successful producer Dil Raju succeeded in convincing the Tollywood bigwigs like ANR and Dr Ramanaidu to launch their grand son Naga Chaithanya to Tollywood as hero. The Akkineni family and Dr Ramanaidu family has tremendous confidence on Dil Raju and Dil Raju's track record also proved several times at the box office.

Though the debutant director Vasu Sharma name was heard, it isn't confirmed. But an young debutant director will handle Naga Chaithanya?

The film will roll in couple of months. The other heroes from Akkineni family-Nag, Sumanth and Sushanth were launched on Annapurna banner.