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Priya Banerjee on 'Rana Naidu': It really challenged the actor within me

Actress Priya Banerjee, who made her Telugu debut with Adivi Sesh... Read More
Actress Priya Banerjee, who was seen in 'Hello Mini', 'Twisted 3', 'Jamai 2.0', and 'Bekaboo 2', will be seen playing the female lead in the upcoming web series 'Rana Naidu', directed by Suparn Verma.

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The web series is a Hindi adaptation of the American crime drama TV series 'Ray Donovan' starring Liev Schreiber in the titular role and is mainly set in the cities of Los Angeles and New York.

It is the story of Ray Donovan, who manages everything and arranges bribes or payoffs or opts for other illegal means to protect his clients.

Speaking about her character in the web show, Priya shared: "Suparn Verma contacted me regarding the role that Katie Holmes performed in the American series. When I auditioned for it, I was immediately selected."

"I am portraying a super interesting character in the show, it's something I have never done before, it really challenged the actor within me so altogether it was an incredible experience shooting for it and people will love it, I'm sure," she added.

Directed by Karan Anshuman and Suparn Verma, 'Rana Naidu' stars Rana Daggubati and Priya Banerjee.
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Priya will also be part of the web series 'Adhura', produced by Nikhil Advani's Emmay Entertainment. The series is directed by Gauravv K Chawla.

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​These unconventional and self-centered behavior of Telugu stars on social media will surely amaze you!​

Social media is a strong means to express one's mind in the modern world. While most of the film stars are making full use of the platform, there is an entire film industry that has amazed the fans with its surprising behavior. Yes, we are talking about the Telugu stars. who indeed enjoy heavy fan following but fail when it comes to 'Follow' their counterparts and film fraternity on social media. It can be assumed that Telugu actors seem to be more self-centered, which is openly expressed in the public domain. If you still couldn’t guess what it is, then you got to scroll down this piece till the end.

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‘Pushpa’ star Allu Arjun who made his Twitter debut on April 2015, followed a couple of people such as the Prime minister of India initailly, but unfollowed him later and right now follows no one on his official Twitter handle including his cousins Ram Charan, Varun Tej and others, besides not following any of his uncles namely, Chiranjeev and Pawan Kalyan.

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Like Allu Arjun Ram Charan too doesn’t follow his cousins Allu Arjun or any other but follows his father and family namely Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, Upasana, and his directors SS.Rajamouli and Shankar Shanmugam but not his ‘Naatu Naatu’ co-star JrNTR again.

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JrNTR who was one of the early Telugu stars to make his Twitter debuts didn't follow anyone initially but later started following the one and only SS.Rajamouli and that’s it. He had a no.of tweets posted after "RRR's release about the film and his fellow actors but surprisingly doesn't follow his ‘Naatu Naatu’ counterpart Ram Charan on the micro-blogging site but show so much of love on each other when they are together in media events.

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Actor turned Politician Powerstar Pawan Kalyan too wasn’t following anyone until he became a politician and recently started following a couple of film actors from the Telugu film industry whom he worked such as Samantha Ruth Prabhu and the list from film fraternity is here...Varun Tej, Sai Dharam Tej, Ram Charan, Chiranjeevi, Devisri Prasad, Amitabh Bachchan, S.Thaman, and James Cameron.

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One of the Top south stars and Telugu Megastar Chiranjeevi who made his Twitter debut a little late in 2020, doesn’t follow any actor from the Industry or neighbouring industries. However, His actor son Ram Charan follows him and his family on Twitter.

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One of the earlier Pan-India stars from The Telugu film Industry, actor Nagarjuna is also one of the early stars from Tollywood to make their debut on the micro-blogging site, he’s been very active since then and also congratulates his fellow actors from the Industry upon their important updates but follows none from the Industry.

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The same goes for another senior actor Manchu Mohan Babu from the Telugu Film Industry, who is generally not very regular with the micro-blogging site, but follows his children, his education Institution and Prime Minister Narendra Modi but no other top star/actor from TFI or any language to that matter, including his personal friend Rajinikanth.

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The recent Telugu sensation, ‘Pelli Choopulu’ and ‘Arjun Reddy’ fame Vijay Deverakonda too doesn’t follow anyone on his official social media page Twitter, but chit chats, congratulates and does masti with several of his colleagues by tagging them but follows none.

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These star Telugu actors haven’t made their Twitter debut yet but their unofficial pages run by their fans will keep updating their news. However, Prabhas is on Instagram and Balakrishna is on Facebook with their official verified handles. Balakrishna follows none as it is a Facebook page and Prabhas only follows his co-actors and technicians that he worked with and that list doesn't include either SS.Rajamouli or Rana Daggubati.

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