Ram Pothineni booked for smoking in public

Mainstream Tollywood Actor Ram Pothineni was issued a fine of Rs 200 by the Hyderabad police on Monday for smoking a cigarette in a ‘no-smoking’ zone.

The episode occurred close to the city’s noteworthy Charminar, where the on-screen character was shooting for his upcoming film iSmart Shankar. While the entertainer had lit a cigarette as a major aspect of his job for the film, the Charminar police who as of late propelled a drive against open smoking under their locale, slapped a fine.

The Telugu star was fined under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COPTA) 2003 and he paid the fine.

The drive embraced by the Charminar police is a piece of a bigger arrangement by the city police to control open smoking, by forcing fines of Rs 200, on the individuals who are gotten in the demonstration.

Coordinated by Puri Jagganadh, iSmart Shankar has Nabha Natesh and Nidhhi Aggarwal in lead jobs alongside Ram Pothineni other than Brahmanandam, Rao Ramesh, Tanikella Bharani and Pavithra Lokesh among others in supporting jobs. Mani Sharma is forming music for this flick with Raj Thota turning the camera and Junaid Siddiqui responsible for the altering. Shaik Jonny is the workmanship chief of iSmart Shankar with tricks arranged by Real Satheesh. Slam’s look in the film has been revealed and the star is seen wearing a spiky haircut with whiskers alongside pants, a shirt and employing a weapon.

The shooting for the film started in January this year and the third calendar is by and by in progress. The group finished the second calendar in Goa and came back to Hyderabad where the third timetable went on to the floors.