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In the world of cinema, the hero rules the screen while the director calls the shot from behind the camera. There are many filmmakers turned actors who have proven their prowess both onscreen and off screen. Telugu film industry is witness to the journey of many filmmakers who have become quite popular as actors. Former Tollywood directors like K Vishwanath and Kala Tapaswi have changed their profession to acting and have shown their strength not only behind the camera but also on the silver screen. Here is a look at the some of the directors who have changed their career to acting in Telugu film industry: K Ragahavendra Rao – The veteran director has decided to turn into an actor in a film that will be written and directed by Tanikella Bharani. Raghavendra Rao will be acting for the first time at the age of 78. VV Vinayak – Famous director VV Vinayak has been a successful director in Telugu film industry. He will soon be sharing the screen with Pawan Kalyan and Rana Daggubati … [Read more...] about List Of Telugu Directors Who Turned Into Actors

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 SANTA ANA ZIROSTO, Mexico (AP) — It is a long and sometimes dangerous journey for avocados destined for guacamole on tables and tailgates in the United States during the Super Bowl. It starts in villages like Santa Ana Zirosto, high in the misty, pine-clad mountains of the western Mexico state of Michoacan. The roads are so dangerous — beset by drug cartels, common criminals, and extortion and kidnap gangs — that state police provide escorts for the trucks brave enough to face the 40-mile (60-kilometer) trip to packing and shipping plants in the city of Uruapan. Truck driver Jesús Quintero starts early in the morning, gathering crates of avocados picked the day before in orchards around Santa Ana, before he takes them to a weighing station. Then he joins up with other trucks waiting for a convoy of blue-and-white state police trucks — they recently … [Read more...] about Route to Super Bowl is long, dangerous for Mexican avocados

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email There are many, many reasons why you don’t just give a chat show to a demonstrable idiot with absolutely no relevant experience whatsoever but they do now at least distil down to two short words: Nadine Dorries . “Friday Night with Nadine” was an embarrassment long before it was ever broadcast. A disgraced former prime minister being interviewed by his most sycophantic cabinet colleague, whose political career obviously came to an end the second his did, would have been nauseating in the extreme whatever happened. It could have been vaguely pleasant to watch and still been a horrendous crime against every single principle of journalism. But in the end it was neither. It was far, far worse than surely anyone dared imagine. TalkTV employs large numbers of excellent journalists, not one of whom whispered a word out of … [Read more...] about Nadine Dorries might be a genius – this was the most embarrassed Boris Johnson has looked

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Opéra Bastille was a laughing stock before it was even built. Turning 30 this year, the larger and more modern of the Paris Opera ’s two theatres is widely regarded as one of the ugliest in Europe. And the comically embarrassing story of its origin – which even Stéphane Lissner, the company’s director, tells through chuckles – begins with a mistake. The long-serving French President François Mitterrand ordered a new opera house to be built in the early 1980s as one of his Grands Projets, like the IM Pei-designed Louvre Pyramid and the Grande Arche of La Défense. After receiving more than 700 proposals, with the architects’ names kept hidden, Mitterrand and his aides chose a design they thought was by Richard Meier, then a star (and now disgraced). It wasn’t by him. The name that was unveiled was … [Read more...] about Why the ugliest opera house in Europe was worth building

L ike Paul McCartney and “Yesterday”, Mark Wirtz had a dream . In 1967 Wirtz was a producer at EMI ’s Abbey Road studios: “I saw this door-to-door grocer who was taken for granted by the village and taunted by the children,” he said, explaining his vision. But after the death of Jack the grocer, the town folk and the village children were heartbroken. It wasn’t an obvious topic for a hit single, but in 1967 pop gathered in bright ideas from every quarter. Wirtz wanted to tell his dream-story using rock music: “Not just a rock record – a rock opera . A movie on record. Wide screen, Technicolor. Special effects. With a cast of hundreds.” Wirtz worked on the soundtrack with a fellow Abbey Road producer, Geoff Emerick, between legitimate EMI sessions, burying the extra expenses in his studio budget. The pair layered on brass and strings and a Clavioline motif for the introduction. Keith West, the singer with the psychedelic band Tomorrow, was invited to prepare a “libretto”. … [Read more...] about Excerpt from a Teenage Opera by Keith West

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email As traumatic learning encounters go, work experience is pretty tame compared to being mugged at knifepoint. Still, it remains something of an adolescent curve ball. Having gone through the first ordeal last week, my 16-year-old son is now obliged to cope with the second. In a proper, big office. At a proper, big newspaper. And he is quite nervous about it. “What will I do at lunchtime?” he asks his older sister, who went through the ritual two years ago. She looks at him as if she had gone through an experience far, far out of his comfort zone. “You will eat alone,” she decrees. Really? I think. “Every day. I ate alone.” A terrible silence descends over the kitchen. “I’m sure people will be nice to you,” I say brightly. I can almost see him squaring his shoulders, preparing for endless days of getting lost and solitary … [Read more...] about Be kind to those on the way up the career ladder – they’ll soon be gliding past you

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The Met Opera will not start a new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle in 2025 and is not sure whether it will move ahead with plans to present a staging of the tetralogy by director Richard Jones . The Met had announced in February 2021 that it would present a co-production of “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)" with the English National Opera directed by Jones, which began in London with “Die Walküre (The Valykrie)" that November. “Das Rheingold (Rhinegold)" is to open in London on Feb. 18 but the English opera said Tuesday it will not go ahead with “Siegfried" next season due to uncertainty in funding. “With the ENO not being in a position to continue with the production of its Ring Cycle, it obviously makes it impossible to help produce it with them," Met general manager Peter Gelb … [Read more...] about Met uncertain about producing Richard Jones’ Ring Cycle

The average UK house price has fallen for the fifth month in a row – dropping by 0.6 per cent in January – according to one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders, Nationwide. Annual house price growth also slowed to 1.1 per cent, from 2.8 per cent in December. The typical property value is now 3.2 per cent lower than the peak seen last August. The average UK house price in January 2023 was £258,297. The annual growth rate of 1.1 per cent is the lowest since the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, in June 2020, when house prices fell by 0.1 per cent annually. … [Read more...] about Average UK house price falls again in January

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email As a parent in the SEND (special educational needs and disability) world, I find that I constantly have that famous tagline from Jaws 2 on my mind: “Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…” There you are enjoying a gentle swim, when suddenly you’re confronted by a great white shark. Except that, in the case of the Department for Education’s Tony McArdle, it might just be something even bigger. Perhaps a more apt comparison would be the 2018 monster movie The Meg , where Jason Statham and friends battle a Megalodon that has been resurrected from extinction. McArdle, a former council CEO, chairs the SEND leadership board for the Department for Education, where he also leads the negotiations with councils that have the most financially challenged SEND systems. He’s the man with the money to prevent … [Read more...] about Parents of SEND children like me are not ‘entitled’

L ast week in the Commons, MPs debated a subject that rarely rears its head in the Palace of Westminster. They sang the praises of opera. It feels a world away from strikes and the cost of living crisis . But opera too is in crisis. For some unexplained reason, there is a clear campaign to diminish and quite possibly destroy some of our best-known and best-loved opera companies. I have already written about the startling and frankly appalling decision by the funding body, Arts Council England, to cease giving money to English National Opera (ENO) unless it leaves London and sets up in some unnamed city, without of course most of its company of singers and musicians (just yesterday it was given a year’s reprieve. But after that the future looks just as uncertain and bleak). … [Read more...] about Stop the war on opera