CELEBS FACTORY

Lakshmi Rai, the suave actor best known for her roles in year 2011s biggest hits Kanchana and Mankatha celebrated her 31st birthday on the 5th of May, 2012.

Born in Belgaum, Karnataka, the sexy model turned actor made her cinematic debut with a Tamil film 'Karka Kasadara'. She soon started working in all the four southern languages and predominantly appeared in Malayalam films like Annan Thambi (2008), 2 Harihar Nagar (2009), Chattambinadu (2009), Evidam Swargamanu (2009) and Arabiyum, Ottakavum, P. Madhavan Nairum (2011) that helped her gain the success and fame to establish herself in the industry.

Lakshmi Rai was recently roped in to play a pivotal role in A.L Vijay's Thandavam alongside Vikram, Anushka and Amy Jackson. She has also signed up a Bollywood project with Himesh Reshammiya, a Telugu film with Nandamuri Balakrishna and the Kannada remake of Kanchana opposite Upendra.

Celebs Factory wishes the pretty actress a happy birthday and a very prosperous year ahead.

Raghava Lawrence is currently directing a Telugu film called Rebel that will have Prabhas and Tamannah in the lead.

After this project Lawrence will give directing a rest and return to acting. He will be the hero in Rasu Madhuravan's next film entitled Paraman. The duo had worked together in a film called Pandi and are looking forward to working together again.

Muni 3 is also in the works for Raghava Lawrence following the super success of Kanchana or Muni 2. There is also talk of a Hindi remake of Muni 2 which will have Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt reprising Lawrence and Sarathkumar's roles.

It was not too long ago, when actress Anushka Shetty had walked out of Raghava Lawrence's film Rebel that starred Rebel Star Prabhas.

There were rumors of Anushka's fallout with the director following which, she chose to walk out of the film.

Despite all these rumors, Anushka had rubbed off the repors citing date issues for not working on the project.

But now, Anushka is all set to be paired opposite Prabhas, but this time - it is for a film directed by Koratala Siva.

Post "Billa" this is the first time the duo will be seen together.

Also sharing screen space with Prabhas is actor Richa Gangopadhayay.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has become the highest paid actor in Indian film industry as his remuneration touches the scale of Rs.50 Crores after his consecutive hits.

The actor is now close on the heels of completing 'Bodyguard’, that has already done big business amongst the distributors.

Post Bodyguard, Salman will be a part of a film that is tentatively titled as ‘Wanted-2’ and has also agreed for the remake of Raghava Lawrence's Kanchana: Muni-2 in Hindi.

Salman Khan, being very impressed with the outstanding style of Raghava Lawrence in ‘Kanchana' would come together for its Hindi remake once Lawrence wraps up his shooting for the Prabhas-Anushka starrer ‘Rebel’.

Guess who’ll be donning the role of Sarath Kumar? Sanjay Dutt?

Kanchana, the sequel to Muni, is doing good business at the box office.

This has led to the inevitable talks about getting the project remade in Hindi and Actor Salman Khan is said to be showing keen interest.

Happy over the success, Raghava Lawrence, the director and hero of Kanchana, revealed that he is planning for a third part to this series and added that an official announcement will be made very soon once the discussions come to a fruitful conclusion.

Looks like Raghava Lawrence is looking to create a franchise out of this.