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Bharat Parepalli’s directorial ‘Siri Malle Puvvu’ was launched yesterday morning. Congress leader G Venkata Swamy sounded the clap board for the muhurat shot while, Sudharshan Reddy, the state minister switched the camera on. The movie has Nitish, Keerti, Nagasri, Jyothy and Rashmi in the main leads. It also has Kota Srinivasa Rao and Ali as other supporting cast. The film is being produced by Neelam Shankar. ‘Siri Malle Puvvu’ is the remake of a Kannada blockbuster hit titled ‘Moggina Manasu’ which had won five filmfare awards. The film is based on a college backdrop.
Bharani felicitated for 'Sira'
Sira, the short film made by writer, actor, Tanikella Bharani got very good reviews at the Mumbai International Film Festival and has been winning accolades ever since. So, local filmmakers decided to felicitate him for making such a wonderful and path-breaking contribution to Telugu cinema. They unanimously felt that Tanikella Bharani was a multi-faceted personality, who still had many latent talents that needed to come to the fore. They lauded him for making surreal cinema possible in Telugu and confessed to not understanding most of his film. However, his take on global terrorism was praised as many felt it was something that needed immediate attention. Among those present were CC Reddy, Janardhan Reddy, Nannapaneni Rajakumari and leading names from various fields. Speaking at the special do, Muralikrishna said Tanikella Bharani was indeed like a bharani or a box which is full of talents. He said after making Telugu people proud with his short films, Bharani should now try making full-length features. He was looking forward to Bharani's book Nakshatram, he added. Jhansi, who got to be a part of 'Sira' too confessed to not understanding the film while she acted in it. She however added that it was director Bharani who should be given full credit for the film's success. Jhansi pointed out that every time one watched Sira, a new meaning emerged redefining earlier held beliefs. She said it was a brilliant move by Bharani to release a DVD of Sira in order to reach out to people. Among those who could not stop praising Bharani was another parallel filmmaker KNT Sastry. Sastry had directed Bharani in two of his films, Tiladanam and Kamli. He said that after watching Sira two years back at the Hyderabad Film Festival, he felt that he himself and B Narsing Rao were far away from the expertise of Bharani. He pointed out that he particularly liked the shot where Bharani used a picture of the master of surrealism, Salvador Dali. He also eulogized Bharani for the scene where he interprets the true definition of Brahmana. Sastry hoped that Bharani would soon start making 90-minute features soon. Yet another director Neelakanta said it was a beautiful experience working with Bharani. He said Bharani's short films have inspired him to take up short film making. Sira is a celebration of Telugu cinema, he added. Shekhar Kammula, director of films such as 'Godavari' and 'Happy Days' said 'Sira' was a surrealistic gem. He said how he failed to understand surrealism as a student in the US and was nearly shocked to know that such films could be made in India, that too by a Telugu filmmaker. He added that Bharani was a great visualiser, which helped him in making Sira as it is. Kammula compared him to Srinatha kavi and said Sira was the process of a writer becoming a filmmaker. He suggested it would be wonderful if Bharani added some voice-overs at certain points, for people to understand to Sira. Lastly but surely not the least, it was the turn of the director himself to speak about his film. Tanikella Bharani started off by pointing out that complaints about not understanding his film were unjustified as the whole effort of Sira was to make the film and leave it for audience interpretation. He said we live in a world of constant fear being constantly dragged into a quagmire of human greed and selfishness. He quoted the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Second World War to profess the futility of war. His protagonist was a poet who had a series of thoughts all of which were interlinked, he added. And this could be explained best in surrealistic terms as we live in a make-belief world, full of hypocrisy, he clarified. Bharani pointed out that we enjoy a lot of things, without knowing what they actually meant. Similarly, he said, his film was not bound by one interpretation. The idea was to instigate people into deriving their own interpretation from the content that he had provided, he said. If he could do this, he added, he would feel successful.
Collection King to play special role in Siri Creations movie
A film is likely to be launched with Collection King, Padma Shri, Dr Mohanbabu, in a special role on the banner of Siri Creations with M Satyanarayana is the producer. Producer Satyanarayana's son is being introduced as hero through this movie, which is to be directed by Sai Balaji. The character in this film was designed in a different style by keeping Mohanbabu's image and body language in view. It is worth mentioning here that it was the next film after the prestigious film 'Yamadonga' in which he played a mythological role as Yamadharma Raju. The film is all set to go to sets very soon.
Shivaji stars the lead in Siri Films's new movie
The makers of the movie 'Punadi Rallu' is set to start its new project with Shivaji as the lead. The movie is directed by debutante Sharath Chandra who erstwhile was a software engineer. The producer was a director when the production house with the banner Siri Films was initiated. The movie about to be made is a full length comedy entertainer blended with an element of crime. The regular shooting is proposed to begin from the first week of October and is expected to be completed in the schedule allotted. The shooting schedules are in the months of October, November and December, said the producers. Once, the heroine and other casts of the movie are finalized, the shooting will commence.
64 soldiers killed in ISIS attack on Egyptian Army's Sinai checkpoints
Islamic militants on Wednesday unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks on Egyptian Army checkpoints in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 64 soldiers, country officials said. The coordinated assaults, which included up to 70 militants, came a day after Egypt's president pledged to step up the battle against Islamic militants and two days after the country's state prosecutor was assassinated in the capital, Cairo. The BBC reported that the clashes are ongoing, with militants reportedly overtaking a main police station.
Why Amazon's Echo is better to talk to than Siri
Artificial intelligence and voice-based computing are likely two of the main components of the smart devices of the future, and Amazon's surprisingly popular Echo is certainly one device to beat. The home assistant can offer fast responses to some of your immediate needs, like playing music, or giving you the information you require the most, including weather, traffic, sports scores, to name just a few. To many people, the Alexa assistant that powers Echo is about as robust as Siri. Apple's voice-assistant that resides inside the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and iPod touch, can easily do the same things. But Alexa does things better and faster than Siri not because Amazon is better than Apple at processing voice requests, but because the devices offer vastly different experiences. In a post on Medium about his experience with the Amazon Echo, M.G. Siegler explained why Alexa beats Siri when it comes to voice control. What Amazon has managed to achieve is to train users to think differently about voice-controlled computing when having to use a static, home device like the Echo. "First and foremost, as I noted in the original post, the Echo is always listening," Siegler notes. "There is nothing to pull out, no button to push. Yes, with the iPhone 6s line, Siri is also always listening. But the key difference is the hit rate. Saying 'Alexa' always seems to work. Saying 'Hey Siri' appears to work about half the time or less, in my experience." Furthermore, Alexa always sits out in the open in your house, readily waiting for your commands. Meanwhile, the iPhone isn't always placed in the same position. That means it might not hear your voice if you keep leaving it in different places, and it might not respond. Even the Apple Watch, Siegler says, isn't reliable enough to offer a steady Hey Siri experience. "These low hit rates and slow speeds effectively train every user not to use Siri in this way," he says. Siegler argues that a vocal-only device is necessary "to force the paradigm shift in getting people comfortable talking to these devices," and Alexa is the kind that gives you no other options of interacting with it than by using your voice. It's not that Siri did it first, it's that Alexa is more efficient at doing what Siri did first. The success of the Echo did not go unnoticed. Google announced Home, a clear Echo alternative that will be infused with its unnamed assistant, and Apple is rumored to be working on a similar device.