ENTERTAINMENT

Veteran South Indian singer Sangeetha Sajith has sadly passed away. She was 46-years old. According to reports, the noted singer passed away on May 22 in Thiruvananthapuram at her sister's residence. She was suffering from kidney related ailments, and was even undergoing treatment for the same.

Sangeetha's funeral will take place at the Shanthikavadam public crematorium in Thycaud, Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday evening.

Sangeetha Sajith has lent her voice in various genres of songs from Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. She had sung the theme song of Prithviraj-starrer Kuruthi recently.

After basking in the success of the 'KGF' franchise, the makers are now all set to come up with a new film titled 'Bagheera'.

On Friday, Hombale Films announced the commencement of the filming of its next Kannada action movie.

Written by 'KGF' director Prashanth Neel and directed by Dr Suri, 'Bagheera' stars Srii Murali of 'Ugram' fame in the lead.

'Bagheera' is slated to be released next year. 

The movie will be extensively shot in Karnataka and Hyderabad, with major shoots happening on the outskirts of the Bengaluru and Mysore region. 

Once we like a movie, it is difficult to fathom that the original choice of actor was someone else. However, in the entertainment business, it's common knowledge that such things happen often where actors reject films or are replaced due to various reasons. However, there are some films which can alter the shape of someone’s career trajectory. Here are 5 big films which were rejected by actors:

Piku: One of the most sensible and mature movies of our time which also fetched Deepika Padukone a Filmfare award, and major accolades, was originally offered to Parineeti Chopra. In an episode on a talk show, Parineeti expressed her regret at not being able to do the film. “I didn't really turn down the film... There was some confusion. I was going to do another film at the same time and then that film also didn't happen, so it was my loss," she stated in an interview. Well, things would have been very different for the actress if she did the project and delivered a strong performance.

Mrunal Thakur, who made her name right from the very bottom to the top now, has always been quite bold and Frank about her opinions, The actress doesn’t shy away from sharing her bold thoughts and recently opened up about the failure of her recent film starring Shahid Kapoor, Jersey. The film was highly anticipated but fans, but its like warm response at the box office only proved how there was no luck this time, for a South remake!

Talking about the same, the actress who is now gearing up for her next project with Aditya Roy Kapoor shared how she indeed, felt ‘low’ after the failure of the movie. While talking about it, she shared a few reasons why she thinks the movie didn’t quite perform, as they all expected. It was then that Mrunal shared how the movie didn’t work because of the ‘original movie’.

A 21-year-old budding television actress who underwent liposuction, a fat reduction procedure, died at a private facility here on Monday. The deceased, Chethana Raj, has acted in the Kannada serials “Geetha” and “Doresani”.

Chethana got herself admitted to Dr Shetty’s Cosmetic Centre in Rajajinagar on Monday morning. Around 6 pm, she reportedly developed complications. The hospital called up her parents who rushed her to another hospital with an ICU facility. Doctors at the second hospital found no pulse and declared her “brought dead” around 7 pm. Police have registered a case of unnatural death based on a complaint filed by Chethana’s father Varadaraju, a businessman. “The victim’s father has alleged medical negligence by the cosmetic centre. So we have registered a case under CrPC Section 174. Further action will be taken based on the medical and autopsy reports,” DCP (north) Vinayak Patil told TOI.