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THE GUARDIAN QUICK CROSSWORD - 12022

"All in favour say 'aye'...

all opposed start updating
your resume."

Series
The Perfect Murder on IDInvestigation Discovery brings
some of the most diabolical,
perplexing murder cases to land on
detectives desks the kind of cases
that make or break careers and
provide fodder for some mystery
movies. Watch the show today at 8
p.m. True Crime with Aphrodite
Jones on December 27 at 9 p.m
features intrepid investigations into
headline-making crime stories.

HYDERABAD

THE HINDU

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Across
1 Really annoying person
(4,2,3,4)
8 Biblical garden (4)
9 Gets off the ground
(6,2)
10 Decorative (10)
12 Sausage in a roll (3,3)
14 Chitchat (6)
15 Very surprised (10)
19 City destroyed with
Sodom (8)
20 Skin complaint (4)
21 Issue instructions
dogmatically (3,4,3,3)
Down
2 Lindsay ____, English
film director, d. 1994
(8)
3 Old Japanese hired
assassin (5)
4 Savings (4,3)
5 Core (5)
6 Irritates (7)
7 Golfing equipment (4)
11 Poetic name for Ireland

P2

(8)
13 Precious stone (7)
14 Noughts (anag) (7)
16 Hurl (5)
17 Digging tool (5)
18 Concluding musical
passage (4)
Solution will appear in
MetroPlus dated
December 28, 2015.
Solution No. 12021

Dangal shaping up nicely

Dangal director Nitesh
Tiwari says the shooting of
the film is shaping up quite
well.
When asked about the film,
Tiwari responded: Its
shaping up quite nicely. The
director was present at a
special screening of Star

Wars: the Force Awakens,

where lead actor Aamir Khan
was also present. The films
shooting was held in Punjab
and Pune.
Aamir will portray the role
of former wrestler Mahavir
Singh Phogat in the film that
is jointly produced by the

actor, Kiran Rao and

Siddharth Roy Kapur. It also
stars Sakshi Tanwar,
Rajkummar Rao and Sanya
Malhotra, among others.
Aamir will loose weight
very soon. I think when the
next schedule starts, Hes
going to go back to his earlier

weight which is like in

Ghajini or PK. Right now hes
clearly overweight, said
Tiwari.
The film also stars Sakshi
Tanwar and Aparshakti
Khurrana along with
numerous new faces.
IANS

Patience pays, finally

Actor Prudhviraj is in demand as a comedian
Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY

espite being noticed

in Krishna Vamsis
Khadgam as a
movie star who
keeps harping on his 30
years industry ikkada, it took
a frustrating wait of 18 years
for Prudhviraj to finally get a
big break. In Loukyam, he
reprised Balakrishna and in
Bengal Tiger, he does a
Sreemanthudu by saying
Tollywood manaki chala
icchindi. Manam kuda yentho
kontha tirigiyali kada,
lekapothe laavaipotham.
.
Of late, he has developed a
considerable fan following,
which went delirious at his
work. He is a part of this
weeks release Soukhyam and
will soon be seen in Dictator
and people are waiting to see
him unleash his inimitable
style of comedy once more.
The social media is abuzz
that he has replaced
Brahmanandam and the actor
is not pleased at the remark.
He says, There are 35 to 40
comedians here and every
comedian has a signature
style; they are all doing well.
Brahmanandam is the
Kohinoor diamond of
comedy. Like we had
Rajababu earlier, it is
Brahmanandam now. I feel
happy when I get an
opportunity to act with him in
at least in one scene.
Speaking of the significant
roles he is getting now, he
says, Ganta meda lo paditha
gaani yevaru munduku
raremo (Unless the bell is put
the neck, perhaps nobody will
CM
YK

BEAMING WITH SUCCESS Prudhviraj

come forward); writer

Sreedhar Seepana arrived and
gave me a really good track in
Aahana Pellanta,
Bheemavaram Bullodu,
Loukyam, Soukhyam and
showed the directors that
they could portray Prudhvi in
this format too.
A postgraduate in
Economics and armed with a
diploma in Journalism,
Prudhvi came up the hard
way. He was married by 20
and had two children.
Refusing to give up his
passion for acting, he joined

,,

Prudhvi came up the

hard way.

the television industry to

make his ends meet even as he
made attempted to get into
movies.
Director EVV
Satyanarayana who had a
knack of spotting talent gave
him a role in Aa Okkati
Adakku and then he followed
it up with many other movies.
Though offers kept coming in,
nothing big came his way. It is
only in the recent past that
films like Loukyam and
Bengal Tiger brought him the
popularity he craved for. Now
that both his children are
married, with no major
pressures in life Prudhvi is
beaming with the success
coming his way. I have a huge
responsibility; I want to
spend time with the writers
and discuss what value I can
add to the project, he signs
off.
HY-HY