Glamour and power can be heady. But behind the shosha of showbiz lie the ubiquitous dirt about which reams have already been written. Mafia money, prostitution, the casting couch and drug abuse the not-so-glamorous aspects of the glamour world  are such open secrets they no longer raise an eyebrow

On a Telegu channel, the actress's name was allegedly linked with a Nigerian drug peddler only because designer Sidney Sladen, who is of African origin, is a good friend of hers.

All the arrested were currently in judicial custody. Meanwhile, the counsels of Naresh, Raghunatha Raju and Bharath Raju filed bail petitions in a local court today.

It's straight out of a potboiler. Sex, drugs and celebrity. Only this is for real and the Telugu film industry is upset at how the entire fraternity is being painted as a haven of drug abuse by the Hyderabad police.

The arrests on Thursday of two budding actors and a Nigerian national on charges of drug peddling had literally dissolved the sheen of Hyderabad being a drug-free city. In an alarming disclosure, the city police have announced that they had information about drugs being peddled in nine upmarket pubs.