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by Rinku Gupta The team of director Naveen's Agni Sirugugal has taken off for the next leg of the shoot. The team of Arun Vijay, Vijay Antony and  Akshara Haasan left for Russia. This is the final leg of the shoot for this action film. Sharing the news, director Naveen says, “We will be shooting major sequences in this schedule, which involves some breathtaking action blocks as well. We were supposed to kick-start this second schedule by last month itself. However, we had to wait for the dates of all the artistes, who are very much busy with other projects. In addition, it demanded a long phase to scout the locations and we found the locales of Moscow and Saint Petersburg as the appropriate backdrop for what we had visualized. I thank producer T. Siva sir for being so much generous in giving us time and support. It’s because of such a gesture; we are able to carry forward this project to bring the top-notch quality as we planned. We will be completing this schedule in a...

By Rinku Gupta Konidela Productions' Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy is a mammoth, lavish production, a fictionalised account, based on the life of  Uyyalawada Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, who took up arms against the oppressive British rule. Megastar Chiranjeevi plays the role of the illustrious warrior, in an ambitious project which aims to bring to the fore a freedom fighter whose rebellion preceeded the 1857 Mutiny and whose contribution thus deseves the spotlight. Made in Telugu and dubbed in Hindi, Tamil, Malyalam and Kannada, the film will no doubt thus take the story to a wider audience, and rightly so. Without giving away spoilers, the story in brief is about how a Palegaar ( one among 64 in the region) Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy from Rayalseema, moved by the plight of the poor farmers oppressed by unfair, cruel taxation by the British, brings together the local rulers around his kingdom, to fight the oppressors. In this journey he meets dancer Lakshmi ( Tamannaah ...