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It is already announced that Pawan kalyan’s next film will be directed by V.V.Vinayak. The latest news is that the Power Star will be playing the role of a college student in this movie. Pawan Kalyan has played college student roles in his early films such as Suswagatham, Thammudu, Kushi,Jalsa and also had a good success rate in it. Now, the forthcoming Vinayak’s directorial will show Pawan again in the college going role. Sources say that the film would be a full length comedy entertainer. Speaking about this film director V.V.Vinayak said, “This film is an out and out entertainer. Fun is the buzz word for this film and it is set up in college backdrop.” Pawan Kalyan who had seen good number of successful films in his early days has not had his range of success in his last few films. The film sources are in a hope that this college backdrop film will again lead him to his earlier successful days.
Prabhudeva is my guru and I am always his student Lawrence
Raghava Lawrence, who turned a director and brought out two successful films like 'Mass and Style' in Telugu condemned the newspaper reports which stated that there were difference of opinion between him and Prabhudeva. Talking to film journalists at Hyderabad, Lawrence says, 'I am a group dancer who stood at the fourth row. It is Prabhudeva who encouraged me and made me a dance director in Telugu. He is my master and he is still a guru to me. Several newspapers and magazines wrote that we both have differences of opinion. They are wrong and I am condemning them. In case my master beat me, I will keep quite and silently give way to him by keeping myself aside. There is no chance of me fighting with my guru. In fact, Prabhudeva Master had kept an appeal with the Film Chamber to halt the release of 'Style' in Tamil. However, the film was released and left. The details of the release of the film and other issues are related to the producer and basically my job as director is to finish the product and hand it over to the producer. I am no way concerned with the release of the film in other languages. For me Prabhudeva is like a god. I always honour him and his sentiments. When I narrated the Style story, he immediately accepted to play the role. He is such a great personality.'
Telangana students express ire over Posani
Produced and directed by Posani Krishnamurali on the banner of Aman International, 'Operation Duryodhana' with Srikanth and Kalyani in the lead and Mumaith Khan in a special role, was released recently. The students of Telangana region belonging to Osmania University staged protests in front of 'Aradhana' theatre in Tarnaka and also at Gokul theatre in Yerragadda, alleging that the film was against the interests of the people of Telangana. They prevented the management from screening the film in the morning show. They demanded that the film be banned with immediate effect. Responding to the allegation and the agitations, director cum producer Posani Krishnamurali in a private TV channel says, 'I am not against separate Telangana State. Our film had no scenes that hurt the sentiments and feelings of any particular region.'
Telugu Students Arrested In Sarrainodu Theater At USA
A group of Telugu students were caught red handed while watching Allu Arjun's Sarrainodu movie without buying ticket in USA. A ccording to reports, the three students from a local university in Kansas were watching the film without buying tickets BB 16, Overland Park. The management of the theatres caught them red handed and tried to inform the police but they were let off after the local exhibitor intervene din the matter. There are reports that it has become common for several Telugu students to watch films without buying tickets. Apparently, some Telugu students often sneak in and watch movies without buying tickets. Earlier a group of four were arrested by the cops while they were watching Oopiri movie in a theater in Texas. This incident came across as a rude shock to several Telugu students at the university and President of Telugu Association of Greater Kansas City (TAGKC) warned the students and said such offences would show impact on their immigration status.
Indian student visas fall by half in Australia
The number of Indians granted student visas in Australia during the last financial year has fallen to 29,721, less than half of the number in 2008-09. Overall, the number of international student visas dropped more than 16 percent. The results follow a year of turmoil in the education sector, with legislative changes, the global financial crisis and student security issues putting pressure on student numbers, The Age newspaper reported Thursday. In 2008-09, 65,503 Indian passport holders were granted Australian student visas across all education sectors. But in 2009-10, the number fell to just 29,721. Overall, 50,540 fewer international students were granted visas to study in Australia in 2009-10 compared with 2008-09. A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Chris Evans said despite the fall, Australia was still receiving large numbers of applications for student visas, but that “the government understands it is a difficult environment for the international education sector at the moment”. She said the government had made changes to “protect the quality of education Australia offers and ensure the skilled migration programme is more responsive to the nation’s skills needs”. “Education is a major export market for Australia and there must be a focus on the quality of the export, not just numbers of students enrolling in courses,” the spokeswoman said. Stephen Connelly, president of the International Education Association of Australia, said the drop was not surprising but very worrying. “There is so much goodwill we generate from having international students in our country, and we are absolutely shooting ourselves in the foot at the moment,” he said. Connelly said the government and opposition had sent negative messages to potential students during the federal election campaign and work had to begin on improving Australia’s reputation. If the problems were not tackled quickly, Connelly said, there would be a further significant drop in student numbers. “Applications being received by agents would indicate that the numbers will go down even further. There’s a lot more pain in store, I would say.” But he played down the significance of student security issues, which flared up in Victoria last year following a series of allegedly racist attacks on Indian students. “(Student security) would be lower down on the list of reasons than the difficulties of getting a visa and the lack of differentiation among providers,” Connelly said. National Union of Students president Carla Drakeford said: “International student decline is dangerous for the university sector – not only because it creates a hole in university funding, but also because of the innate value international students bring to our community and higher education sector.” Drakeford said student security, accommodation and cost of living were all contributing factors in the drop, but she welcomed the government’s recent legislative changes designed to weed out “dodgy” providers. Matt McGowan, Victorian secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union, said the drop had “very real potential to undermine the financial viability of some of our universities and other education providers”. The acting chief executive of the Australian Council for Private Education and Training, Claire Field, agreed that the government needed to act quickly to reverse the decline. “The current and projected downturn in international student numbers is placing our economy, our education industry, and Australian jobs at risk.”
Indian student visa applications for Canada rising
At a time when countries like Britain and Australia are seeing an unprecedented rise in student visa applications from India, Canada is not concerned about this as it has seen a 100 percent rise in applications, a diplomat here said Sunday. “During the last few years, we have seen a 100 percent increase in the number of Indian students applying for study visa’s to Canada. We do not see any threat in the unprecedented rise, rather it’s an issue that how we manage all this,” Canada’s consul general here, Scott Slessor, told reporters. “Students are welcome to Canada but at the same time we have to check the authenticity of their documents,” he added. The UK Border Agency had stopped taking applications for some time after it received a record number of applications from the Punjab region. Similarly, Australia has also tightened its rules to keep a tab on unscrupulous and non-serious students. “India is one of the biggest sources of international students to Canada. Canadian institutes are known for their world-class infrastructure and international exposure. That is why we are seeing a surge in the number of Indian students applying for study visas every year,” said Slessor. He also said that the Canadian government is continuously monitoring the quality of the institutes. “The education sector is booming in Canada. But our universities and colleges are not coming up overnight. There is a regulatory authority in Canada that keeps a tab on the status of quality education. There are very strict rules that every institution has to follow,” Slessor pointed out. Slessor inaugurated a Canadian education road show, which was organised by city-based Canam Consultants Limited. More than 500 students participated in the event. Slessor said after China, India is probably Canada’s biggest source of international students. Gurbans Sobti, trade commissioner of the Canadian consulate here, said: “Last year, around 5,600 Indian students had gone to Canada for higher studies and we are expecting this number to considerably increase this year. From China, there were 15 percent to 20 percent more students who go to Canada for studies.”