Signaling the making of a sequel of Akshay Kumar-Sonakshi Sinha starrer Rowdy Rathore in Hindi soon, the remake of the same in Telugu has been announced. The Hindi film, that was directed by Prabhudeva, was a remake of the Telugu Film <em>Vikramarkudu</em>. Sources have confirmed that the sequel to the Telugu version which was directed by S S Rajamouli would be made. It has also been confirmed that Rajamouli won’t be wearing the director’s cap; instead his assistant Koti will direct the film. The sequel would however be produced by Rajamouli.

Rowdy Rathore’s maverick director Prabhu Deva is all set to do a Sonakshi Sinha on Shruti Haasan. The so-far luckless in Bollywood star from <em>Luck</em> will be re-launched in style and with substance to go, by Prabhu opposite Kumar Taurani’s son Girish in a hard-hitting massy love story that begins shooting next month. Prabhu Deva and Shruti go back a long way. Shruti’s father Kamal Haasan has worked closely with Prabhu’s choreographer-father. Says a source, “Prabhu has taken on himself the onus of re-launching Shruti in Hindi.”

Six years after Telugu superstar Ravi Teja’s Virkramarkudu stormed the box office, news comes from Hyderabad that the makers are all set to do a sequel to the blockbuster. Interestingly the sequel to <em>Rowdy Rathore</em>, the Hindi remake of <em>Virkramarkudu</em> is also being planned. But at the moment Ravi Teja has an edge, since his director already has an idea for the sequel. The <em>Rowdy Rathore</em> team is clueless as to where the sequel goes from here.

The trend of Bollywood music composers singing their own tunes is now passé. Music composers are now singing other composers’ tunes. Vishal Dadlani sang for composer Vishal Bhardwaj in <em>Kaminey</em> and for Abhishek-Akshay in <em>Vicky Donor</em>.

Action star Akshay Kumar and his current leading lady Sonakshi Sinha who set the cash registers ringing at the box office with their livewire performances in <em>Rowdy Rathore</em>, have been engaged in a tiff lately. Akshay, who threw a grand bash on Sonakshi’s birthday recently, is now at the receiving end of the belle’s ire. Trouble has been brewing, quite literally, between the two co-stars.