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Jr NTR wishes SS Rajamouli on birthday, says ‘he keeps raising the bar and then jumps over it himself’

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Mumbai, Oct 10 (IANS) Actor Jr NTR extended a heartfelt birthday wish to filmmaker SS Rajamouli. celebrating the director’s readiness to raise the bar with his cinema and then surpass his own achievements.

The actor shared a warm picture with Rajamouli on his social media account, offering fans a glimpse of the camaraderie they share beyond the screen.

In the picture, Jr NTR can be seen hugging Rajamouli from behind, wrapping his arms around the filmmaker as the two share a cheerful moment.

Rajamouli, dressed in black, smiles as Jr NTR affectionately holds him, while the actor is seen leaning over his shoulder smiling.

Alongside the picture, Jr NTR wrote, “Happy Birthday to the man who keeps raising the bar and then jumps over it himself. Love you Jakkanna @ssrajamouli.”

For the uninitiated, actor Jr NTR and ace filmmaker SS Rajamouli share a long-standing professional association that began with Student No. 1 in 2001.

The film marked an important milestone in the actor’s career, with their collaboration continuing with Simhadri in 2003 and Yamadonga in 2007.

The duo reunited after a gap of 14 years for RRR in 2022, which also starred Ram Charan.

Over the years, SS Rajamouli has built a reputation for combining emotionally charged storytelling with high-octane action sequences and large-scale cinematic worlds. His filmography includes Magadheera in 2009, Eega in 2012, Baahubali: The Beginning in 2015, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion in 2017 and RRR in 2022.

The Baahubali franchise established his ability to mount large-scale historical fantasy dramas.

Rajamouli is currently working on Varanasi, which he has called an ambitious action-adventure film featuring Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prithviraj Sukumaran. The project marks Priyanka’s return to a major Indian movies after focusing extensively on international projects.

Mahesh Babu plays Rudhra, Priyanka portrays Mandakini, and Prithviraj takes on the role of Kumbha. The makers have scheduled its theatrical release for April 7, 2027.

–IANS

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Khalistani extremists seek to exploit Alberta’s independence referendum, pose danger to Canada

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Ottawa, Oct 10 (IANS) Canada cannot preserve its sovereignty by accommodating movements that reject the sovereignty of other nations. It can protect Sikh religious life, free speech and political participation without legitimising a separatist agenda, a report has stated.

It noted that this should include enforcing terror designations, denying platforms to groups that glorify the Air India bombing perpetrators, and refusing to let a foreign referendum share the news cycle with a vote on Confederation.

As Canada’s Alberta province prepares to vote on October 19 on whether to begin the constitutional process for a binding independence referendum, billboards near Airdrie are drawing attention to an “Alberta Referendum on Independence of Punjab” planned in Edmonton a day earlier, according to a report in Khalsa Vox.

Behind the billboards is terror group ‘Sikhs for Justice’, the US-based Khalistani outfit that has publicly cast a Khalistan convoy in Calgary city in Alberta as a vehicle for both the Punjab referendum and Alberta independence, while praising Ottawa for allowing Albertans to “exercise their right to self-determination”, the report highlighted.

An Alberta independence speaker has reportedly told a Khalistan rally that the spectacle inspires his own cause. The dates are deliberately adjacent. The confusion is the tactic, it mentioned.

“This is how a fringe operates once a host country has taught it that sovereignty is a suggestion. Sikhs for Justice’s votes are unofficial, non-binding, and irrelevant to the Government of India. They are not irrelevant to Canada. A movement that has spent four decades using Canadian streets, gurdwaras, and ballot-theatre to prosecute a foreign territorial claim is now hitching that claim to the most serious unity vote this federation has faced in a generation,” the report detailed.

“Separatism is contagious precisely because it is procedural. Once you grant that any motivated diaspora may stage a referendum on someone else’s map, you have conceded the premise Alberta’s own hardliners need: that borders are a campaign, not a settlement,” it added.

According to the report, fringe secessionists pose a danger not only to their targets but also to the host country.

Highlighting the wider implications, it said, “They import a doctrine that the nation is provisional. They launder foreign intelligence rivalries into domestic policing. They intimidate co-ethnics who dissent, which is a sovereignty problem in any country that claims a monopoly on coercion. And they look for the next open constitutional wound.”

“Alberta’s October 19 question asks whether the province should remain in Canada or start the legal path to a separation vote. It is a Canadian argument, conducted under Canadian law, among Canadian voters. A Punjab referendum staged in Edmonton the day before is an attempt to borrow the legitimacy of that argument for a cause that has already killed hundreds of Canadians,” Khalsa Vox mentioned.

–IANS

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