Satya Sai's Coffin Was Ordered On April 4th

This is startling news. The details were officially grabbed by a TV channel. As per the channel, Satya Sai Trust ordered for a coffin on April 4th itself. As per the order the coffin was sent to Puttaparthi from Coimbatore's Kumar And Co. This has turned evident with the dated receipt and the order copy in the form of email.

So, the doubts surrounding Satya Sai's death and the announcements made by doctors and Trust people are to be investigated.

This is apparently implying that Baba didn't breathe his last at 7:30 AM on Apr 24th but happened long ago.

Rana Goes Beyond Nagarjuna

Rana Daggubati, the hot sensation of Bollywood with the film 'Dum Maro Dum', also bagged the lead role in RGV's 'Department'. He is well known with his gossips and alleged link ups with heroines right from Priya Anand, Ileana, Shriya and Bipasha Basu. He is just 2 movie old but enjoyed huge attention on par with any leading Bollywood hero all these years.

He is replacing Nagarjuna as a media-playboy and we have to see if he maintains long term relation with any heroine like Nag carrying with Tabu and Anushka.

So far all the links with Rana have been temporary.

Ram Charan shocks Tamil journalists

Mighty hit Magadheera is being dubbed in Tamil as Maaveeran and the release is just days away from now. Audio launch of Maaveeran was done a couple of days ago in a grand manner. Ram Charan surprised Tamil journalists by speaking in perfect Tamil.

Even Rajamouli and Allu Aravind too spoke in Tamil. Ram Charan spent most of his childhood days in Madras and it is no wonder that he can speak fluent Tamil. When actresses from other languages couldn’t speak a word of Tamil even after acting in numerous Tamil films, a Telugu hero addressing in their own language shocked the journalists who were present at the audio launch.

Geetha Arts collaborated with Red Giant films and releasing Maaveeran in a spectacular fashion. No dubbed film was released in Tamil with so much hype says analysts from Tamilnadu. Let’s hope Maaveeran live up to all the hype and extend our business frontiers to Tamilnadu.

Satya Sai enters Maha Samadhi

India’s most revered spiritual guru Satya Sai Baba entered “Maha Samadhi” on Wednesday, amid chanting of Vedic rhymes.

The last rites of Sai Baba, who passed away on Sunday, were performed at Sai Kulvant Hall in Prasanti Nilayam, in the presence of hundreds of select devotees and VIPs, while thousands of devotees watched it on giant television screens outside Prashanti Nilayam.

The last rites were performed as per the Hindu religion by his nephew and Satya Sai Trust member R J Ratnakar Raju. As many 15 priests from various temples like Srisailam and Kalahasti read Vedic hymns, conducted “prayashchitta” and conducted proceedings like “dasa danams” (10 donations).

Ratnakar sprinkled holy water brought from nine sacred rivers and soil from the Saraswati Teertha, a pilgrimage spot – near present day Kurukshetra - from where the ancient Saraswati river is said to have emerged.

After the rituals were completed at around 9.35 am, the process of laying Baba to rest in a pit (7ft deep and 12ft length) began. The pit is 10ft behind from where his body was placed in the glass casket in the hall since Sunday evening. Thick red colour curtains were pulled over the area so as to ensure that the Samadhi proceeding remain a private affair. Only key members of the Sai Trust and some family members would stand witness to the rituals.

Once the body was placed in the pit, holy ash was poured over the body, along with salt, silver, gold and navaratnas, to fill up Baba’s Samadhi. Later, soil brought from various religious places was filled in the Samadhi. After the Samadhi is built, a memorial with a golden statue of Baba would be built at the spot, which would be developed into sanctum sanctorum of Sai temple.

The location of his ‘Maha Samadhi’ has been chosen as per Sathya Sai’s own wish. It is the same place from where he used to address his devotees and give darshan to them.

A host of VIPs including Governor, ESL Narasimhan, Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, LK Advani, Punjab Governor Shivraj Patil, Venkaiah Naidu, Chandrababu Naidu, and Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa are attending the funeral ceremony.

The state government, which had declared four day mourning since Sunday, also honoured Baba with a gun salute.

Naga Chaitanya’s New Hairstyle

Variety is the name of the game when it comes to film industry and it is not just about the title or the script, it is also about the look and appearance of the protagonists. That has been imbibed by hero Naga Chaitanya and here is an interesting tidbit about his new project and his efforts for that.

We are talking about the film ‘Bezawada Rowdeelu’ and sources reveal it is hitting the floors in May second week. It is heard that Chaitu will be seen in a completely different look for the film and his hairstyle will be the highlight. This is being directed by Vivek Krishna and produced by the duo of Ramgopal Varma and Kiran Kumar Koneru.

For now, Ramu is busy with his Hindi movie ‘It’s Not A Love Story’ in Mumbai and he is expected to Hyderabad in few days. On the other hand, unit members reveal that testing for Chaitu’s new look is happening with various hair stylists and this will be kept under wraps for a while.

Gaganam bags awards at Norway festival

Nagarjuna starrer bi-lingual film ‘Gaganam’ has won international acclaim now. In the film festival held in Oslo the capital city of Norway, ‘Gaganam’ won the ‘Best director award’ and ‘People’s Choice award’.

The film released both in Telugu and Tamil. The Tamil version of the film ‘Payanam’ was sent to the film festival. Dil Raju produced the flick in Telugu while actor Prakash Raj produced it in Tamil. This hijack action drama with no songs and duets where Nagarjuna plays a NSG Commando did good business at box office.

Poonam Kaur acted as air hostess in this movie which was directed by Radha Mohan.

Prithvi, Bharath Reddy and Bramhanandam too were seen in the film.Nagarjuna’s voice was dubbed in Tamil.

Satya Sai Samadi live on puttaparthi