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The calm is coming to an end, and there will be more rain pain this week. Meteorologists and weather observers predict that starting from Tuesday, Mumbai and adjacent areas will usher in moderate to extremely heavy rains. According to officials of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), rainfall activity will reappear between August 11 and August 15. IMD officials said there is a possibility that medium to heavy showers may hit Mumbai and the suburbs again.

“We don’t expect the rainfall to be as great as we saw last week, but the possibility of flooding in low-lying areas cannot be ruled out during this period,” an IMD official said. Even after the intensity of the rain weakened this weekend, light showers and thundershowers continued in Mumbai and its suburbs. Experts on the Skymet website, a private weather forecasting agency, said that in the past 24 hours, Colaba and Santacruz observatories both recorded 12 mm of rain. “We don’t expect much rainfall in Mumbai and its neighboring areas on August 10, but a short-term local area cannot be ruled out in the city. Temperatures in Mumbai and suburbs may rise slightly, again leading to muggy weather conditions. The monsoon surges.

Mumbai and neighboring areas are expected to be active again around August 11. It is expected that rainfall activities in Mumbai and the suburbs will also increase by August 11,” Skymet quoted experts as saying. At the same time, the self-taught meteorologist Rajesh Kapadia said: “Monday to Wednesday, Mumbai will witness increased rainfall, cloudy skies and frequent showers, not long and non-continuous, but intermittent. The rainfall will be intermittent. Including some heavy rains and normal monsoons.” Another independent weather enthusiast, the “Indian Weatherman” wrote on Twitter: “Rain activity will increase from August 11th. Rainfall will be the highest from August 12th to August 15th. Total rainfall should More than 400 mm”. Indian meteorologists further tweeted: “Last week Mumbai’s rainfall exceeded 600 mm.

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This week’s rainfall is unlikely to exceed 600 mm. Rainfall in Mumbai and the suburbs will again exceed the surrounding areas. Mumbai’s seasonal rainfall has already exceeded. Our rainfall until September is 30 times a year. The Santacruz Observatory has recorded 2507 mm and the Colaba Observatory has recorded 2441 rains. The catchment area/lake has reached 49% of its full capacity. Given that there will be two back-to-back low pressure zones, too On August 20, the rainfall in Mumbai should exceed 3000 mm, and the catchment area should span 70%.” Although the city needs to store 1,447.363 billion liters of water to provide the city with one year’s water supply, as of August 9, the storage of living water was 731.283 billion liters (about 6 months of water storage).

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

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HT Rewind 2024: Teja Sajja says HanuMan kicking off the year in style is the moment he’d been ‘waiting for’ | Exclusive

In conversation with Hindustan Times, Teja Sajja decodes the success of HanuMan and other Telugu films, talks about his upcoming projects, and more.
When Prasanth Varma’s superhero film HanuMan, starring Teja Sajja, was announced to be released alongside big films like Mahesh Babu’s Guntur Kaaram, Venkatesh’s Saindhav and Nagarjuna’s Naa Saami Ranga in January this year, no one expected the underdog to emerge on top. And yet, the film, made on a budget of under ₹50 crore, managed to collect over ₹300 crore at the box office worldwide in 25 days, becoming one of the highest-grossing Indian films for the year. (Also Read: Ranveer Singh met HanuMan actor Teja Sajja, complimented him even after his Prasanth Varma film Rakshas got shelved)

Ask Teja about the moment he realised his film had not just fought against the tide but also risen to the top; he tells Hindustan Times in an exclusive conversation, “Since I returned to acting (as a lead actor after being a child artiste since 1998), this is the moment I’ve been waiting for. When everything from the HanuMan teaser to the songs was grabbing attention, we knew we had hit a gold mine. But I don’t think we imagined it would cross the ₹300 crore threshold. We were so satisfied with the opening numbers; everything else was a bonus.”

‘Success has given me fear of disappointing people’

Teja acted in Zombie Reddy, Ishq and Adbhutham before HanuMan, but they are what you would call ‘critical successes’, adding to his repertoire as an actor who can perform. But things have changed for him now, says Teja, who is being picky about the roles he says yes to. “Success either makes you overconfident or gives you the fear of disappointing people; I have the latter,” he explains.

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Teja admits he wants to chart out his career in Hrithik Roshan’s footsteps, but not in the way you think. “I have such a fondness for Hrithik due to Koi Mil Gaya and Krrish. No matter how well he performed after that, these left a lasting impression on me; I’m sure 90s kids will agree,” he says, adding, “Similarly, I’ve realised that I have an audience in children now. I want to be conscious of that when I pick roles. I want to make films families can enjoy together.”

But despite people in places like Mumbai or Delhi recognising him, Teja says he’s clear that he wants to cater to the Telugu audience first. “I am conscious that I am making films for my playground – the Telugu states. This is the sensibility I have grown up with, and I don’t know if I can cater to everyone else. Will I promote my films in other languages? Sure. But I also can’t be part of films that aren’t authentic to what I know or understand,” he explains.

‘Rootedness has put us on the world map’

And authenticity seems to be the need of the hour. Be it Baahubali and RRR or the recently released Pushpa 2: The Rule, Kalki 2898 AD and Devara: Part 1, certain kind of stories seem to be finding success. “Rootedness and going local is proving to be such a boon for us, be it in Devara or Pushpa or HanuMan. Kalki 2898 AD was our version of a Hollywood film (the sci-fi concept) with actors from across languages in predominant roles; it put us on the world map,” reflects Teja.

However, the actor admits Tollywood went through a phase of Bollywood-inspired rom-coms and family dramas that worked in their favour for a while. “That wasn’t easy to replicate either, but it’s just that these local stories are what the audience seems most interested in now. It can’t just be chalked up to religion, too. It’s about the morals these films are hinged on, the fighting for righteousness, and how an underdog can find their strength. Introducing Mahabharata or Ramayana to a new audience in a cool way is just a perk,” he says.

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And it’s this rootedness that Teja says his next films, Mirai and Jai Hanuman (the sequel to HanuMan), will also have ample of. “Mirai is also a superhero film that caters to kids, but it’s not an origin story like HanuMan. It has a pan-Asian and Buddhist touch because the story is based on King Ashoka’s ideologies. I hope that I will get to deliver something new to the audience again. I will only feel like I’ve arrived if Mirai is equally, if not more, successful,” says Teja.

Rishab Shetty will headline Jai Hanuman, but Teja also looks forward to shooting that. “I can’t wait to be on that set; it’ll be exciting. Now that we know India is ready to watch our films, I want to step it up. I want to shift gears and shoot for at least two films in 2025,” he says. As for what he will do next, Teja says he wants to up the ante. “When I got a SIIMA award for Zombie Reddy as a debutant, I remember telling Prasanth this would be the last award I get. But now that I won a Radio City Cine Award for Best Actor, I hope more awards will follow,” he signs off cheekily.

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