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Kajal as NRI in Brahmotsavam
uperstar Mahesh Babu starrer forthcoming family entertainer movie “Brahmotsavam�, is progressing under the direction of Srikanth Addala. Three actresses Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha and Pranitha are playing the lead role. Currently makers are keeping everything under wrap and not revealing anything about the movie. According to the latest update, actress Kajal is playing the role of NRI who came to India from Australia to accomplish lot of ambitions. Makers are planning to launch the audio launch event in the second week of April in Tirupati. The music is scored by Mickey J Meyer and Mani Sharma. The makers are planning to release the movie as summer treat.
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NTR to flaunt six pack abs for Garage
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here is good news for the movie lovers and Nandamuri fans. Young Tiger Jr. NTR is going to be shirtless and will flaunt his six abs for his upcoming much hype entertainer drama “Janatha Garage”. Earlier he enthralled the audiences by his six pack avatar with his super hit movie “Temper", once again he is going to create the magic on screen. Jr. NTR has decided to work on his physics and flaunt his abs on screen. He underwent training to get perfect abs. He will make his screen presence in dual shades, in one shade he will be seen as IIT student whereas in other shade he will make his screen presence as mechanic. Two actresses Samantha and Nithya Menon are playing the female lead roles. ‘Mirchi’ and ‘Srimanthudu’ fame Koratala Siva is being helmed this megaphone whereas Mythri Movie Makers is producing the movie. School to raise fund. He himself served food to the staff and others, those who participated in this program.
Mohan Babu
joins Memu Saitham
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ecently Lakshmi Manchu started ‘Memu Saitham’ event for the social cause in which number of celebrities participated. The main intention of this program is to raise the fund for the victim of Chennai flood. Actress Rakul Preet Singh sold vegetables, Rana carried over 100 kg, Akhil drove autorickshaw, Regina turned into salesgirls and Shriya saran was at Supermarket in Manikonda. Now it is the turn of Mohan Babu who joined Lakshmi Manchu’s Memu Saitham. Mohan Babu extended his support for this social cause and organized a canteen at his Sri Vidhya Nikethan
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Sardaar Satellite
Rights fetch record price
Balayya’s next
bigger than Baahubali
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S Rajamouli’s magnum opus has taken
Tollywood cinema at International level and opened the door for other regional movies. Baahubali has broken several pre-existing records at the box office and turned out highest grosser of Tollywood. Recently Shanker revealed that he is planning to break the collection record of Baahubali by his upcoming sci-fi movie “Robo 2.0” which is being made on the budget of Rs 350 Crores. Now one more actor is joining the list, to break the record of Baahubali, he is none other than Nandamuri Balakrishna who is getting ready for his upcoming most prestigious 100th project. The movie is based on King Satakarni, the Satavahana ruler whose capital was Amaravathi and Balayya will essay the character of Gautamiputra Satakarni. Recently he revealed that his upcoming historic movie will be bigger than Baahubali and his expectation is
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he upcoming action entertainer drama Sardaar Gabbar Singh has become the talk of T-town. Makers are busy in the promotional activities, Pawan’s fans are also giving their supports and hype is going to be bigger day by day. Everyone is shocked after hearing the pre-release business of the movie. It is heard that MAA TV has acquired the satellite rights of Sardaar Gabbar Singh for whooping price of Rs 13 Crores which is record price of Pawan. According to the latest update, Eros bought the Hindi rights for Rs 12 Crores and it is scheduled to hit the theaters on 8th April in Telugu as well Hindi throughout the World. Actress Kajal Aggarwal is playing the female lead role. Raai Laxmi is shaking legs on the item number of ‘Tauba Tauba’. KS Ravindra alias Bobby is being helm this megaphone. The music is scored by Devi Sri Prasad who is currently in Mumbai and busy in the work of Hindi album.
very high. He also mentioned that his upcoming drama would reach the Oscar range. The movie will be directed by Krish.
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Baahubali team wishes Sardaar for success
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urrently two movies have become the topic of discussion in T-town, one is upcoming action and romantic entertainer movie “Sardaaar Gabbar Singh” and second is Rajamouli’s directorial venture “Baahubali” which was released last year and turned out highest grosser of Tollywood. The makers of Baahubali used social networking sites to promote the movie instead of using flex or hoardings and updated everything on social platform to gain the craze. During the audio launch of Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s movie “Sardaar Gabbar Singh”, Megastar Chiranjeevi said that Baahubali has broken several records and now Sardaar should break the record of Baahubali and in future, other movies should have the ability to break Sardaar record to develop the Telugu Film Industry. Rajamouli reacted on Chiranjeevi’s intention and said that they had worked hard to break several records in past and now Pawan is also working hard for Sardaar Gabbar Singh. This movie should break Baahubali records. Along Rajamouli, Rana, Prabhas, Tamannah, Anushka and Baahubali producers everyone wished Sardaar for grand success.
SARRAINODU
GRAND MEGA EVENT
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tylish star Allu Arjun starrer forthcoming action and romantic drama “Sarrainodu” is gearing up for grand release on 22nd April. The song of ‘Sarrainodu’ will be released into the market directly on 1st April. The makers are not going to organize any audio release event. They have planned a grand mega event as a part of promotional activities which is going to be held on 10th April in RK Beach, Vizag. It is going to be public function and the preparations will be started very soon. It is expected that entire team of Sarrainodu will grace this event. Currently movie is in post-production stage. Two actresses Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa are playing the female lead roles. The action specialist Boyapati Srinu who has delivered ‘Simha’ and ‘Legand’, is the
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director whereas Allu Arvind is producing the movie under the banner of Geetha Arts. The music is scored by Thaman.
RANA SENDS WISHES TO
SUDHEER BABU
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Brahmotsavam
TEASER
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on Ugadi
ctor Sudheer Babu, the brother in law of Superstar Mahesh Babu is busy in the shoot of his forthcoming Hindi movie “Baaghi” starring Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor under the direction of Sabbir Khan. Sudheer Babu is playing the role of antagonist and recently makers have released its trailer which grabbed several eyeballs. The movie is set to hit the theaters on 29th April. Many Telugu actors are sending congratulating messages to Sudheer Babu for this upcoming action drama through social networking sites. Tollywood hot chunk tweeted,” A good Telugu boy turns bad!! @isudheerbabu outstanding you look brother! Goodluck on the debut.” The movie is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under his banner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.
uperstar Mahesh Babu’s latest offering “Srimanthudu” has turned out second highest grosser of Tollywood and stood after SS Rajamouli’s directorial venture “Baahubali”. Mahesh’s fans and movie lovers are eagerly waiting for the release of his upcoming family entertainer movie “Brahmotsavam” which is progressing at brisk pace under the direction of Srikanth Addala and near the completion of shoot. Makers are taking special care and don’t want to disappoint the audiences. They are not worried about the budget and focusing on quality based output. They are planning to release the teaser on the eve of Telugu New Year, Ugadi. Three actresses Samantha, Kajal Aggarwal and Pranitha are playing the female lead roles. Prasad V Potluri composes the tunes whereas Mani Sharma is working on background music. The movie is expected to hit the theaters in May.
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Dheewara song tribute to
Baahubali by Anju Joseph
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S Rajamouli’s directorial venture “Baahubali” was released last year and crushed various pre-existing records at the box office, and turned out highest grosser of Tollywood. Earlier Singer Smita has given tribute to Baahubali team with her ‘Baha Kilikki’ song and received extraordinary responses with nearly 1 Million views on YouTube. Now
Anju Joseph has given tribute ‘Dheewara A Cappella Cover’ song to Baahubali team which is receiving good responses by the audiences. The 5 minute 24 second video has received 34,000 views on its first day of release on YouTube channel of the singer. Its original song was composed by MM Keeravani on Prabhas and Tamannah in Baahubali. The team of Singer Anju Joseph spent nine month heard work and released the video, earlier it as recorded for a programme but later it was not used and the entire team decided to the team of Baahubali. The music of Cappella song is arranged by Mejjo Joseph, Sunil Karthikeyan has captured the beautiful locales of Paruthumpara and Athirapally, which is directed by Anoop John.
Heebah & Her
many boy friends
‘K
umari 21F’ fame actress Heebah Patel has been roped for upcoming youthful drama “Nenu..Na Boy Friends”. It is an actress oriented movie and going to be directed by Bhaskar Bandi, who assisted VV Vinayak in the past. Who will get chance to romance with Heebah is not yet decided. The movie will go on the floor in the last week of April. As the title indicates, the makers are planning to cash the image of Heebah. Bekkam Venu Gopal, who has produced various movies like Tata.. Birla.. Madhyalo Laila, and Cinema Choopistha Mava is bankrolling the upcoming youthful, romantic
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and family entertainer movie. Currently Heebah is romancing with Raj Tarun for upcoming untitled multistarrer movie which is being directed by G Nageshwar Reddy.
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urrently the craze of Power Star Pawan Kalyan is at peak. The movie lovers and Pawan's fans are waiting for the arrival of Sardaar Gabbar Singh which is scheduled on 8th April in Telugu and Hindi version throughout the world. Now Dil Raju is planning to cash the craze of Pawan. It is heard that Pawan Kalyan is going to unveil the audio of upcoming romantic entertainer movie “Supreme” starring Sai Dharam Tej and Raashi Khanna which is being directed by Anil Ravipudi and produced by Dil Raju. The audio launch event is being planned for 10th April and actor Sai Dharam Tej requested Pawan to attend the event as chief guest. The makers are planning to release the movie “Supreme” by the end of April or early May. On the other side, Dil Raju is also willing to produce the movie for Pawan Kalyan.
Pawan to launch
Supreme audio?
Dil Raju
eyeing Vijay’s Theri
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oted producer and distributor Dil Raju who is known for his business acumen, shrewd nature, has tuned out as wounded tiger. Nothing seems to be working in his favour from past few months. His last production venture Suneel's Krishnashtami turned out commercially flop and he faced huge looses. He invested money in Ram Charan’s BruceLee, but here also he faced losses. Currently he is pinning hopes on his next upcoming production venture ‘Supreme’ which is near the completion, he wants to release it in summer but number of top stars movies like ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’, ‘Brahmotsavam’, ‘Sarranodu’, ‘24’ and others are arriving in summer so he did not able to finalize the release date of ‘Supreme’. Now it is heard, that he is eyeing on Kollywood star Vijay’s starrer upcoming movie “Theri”. Recently makers have released the trailer which has broken the record of Baahubali’s trailer in the term of views. Dil Raju attended the audio release event of Theri and now
according to the latest update, he is planning to acquire the distribution rights of the movie for whooping price. Actress Samantha and Amy Jackson are playing the lead role and it is directed by Atlee.
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ega actor Ram Charan starrer forthcoming movie “Dhruva”, the remake of Tamil hit flick “Thani Oruvan” is progressing at brisk pace and makers are planning to fly Bangkok for the shoot of next schedule very soon. They are going to shot few crucial scenes on Ram Charan and Arvind Swami. Actress Rakul Preet Singh is playing the female lead role and it is being directed by Surender Reddy. Already makers have locked the release date of Dhruva on 12th August. But now Ram Charan is on the sentiments of ‘Magadheera’ which was released
MAGADHEERA SENTIMENTS FOR CHARAN on 31st July and the movie won the Nandi awards whereas Ram Charan received Filmfare Awards South for the category of Best actor. Again Ram Charan tried to deliver his movie ‘ Yevadu’ on the same date but it was postponed for nearly 6 months due to various reasons. But now Ram Charan is on Magadheera sentiments and want to release Dhruva on 31st July instead of 12th August at any cost.
Trisha Bikini party
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ctress Trisha Krishnan is coming in the category of those actresses who never hesitate to enjoy her life in her own style. She never hesitates to go bold in her real life as well as reel life. She is known for her versatile character and typical modern actress who enjoys her life in parties. Recently Trisha threw a party for her childhood friends who have now crossed 30’s, the theme of party was ‘Bikini Party’ and the dress code was Bikini. Her friends participated in the party and wore
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bikini. Trisha posted the pictures of her bikini party on social networking sites in which Trisha is flaunting her curvaceous body in black colour bikini. On the work side, currently Trisha is busy in her upcoming horror comedy movie “Nayaki” which is directed by Goverdhan Reddy and produced by Giridhar Mamidipally.
VARUN TEJ
AS MISTER A
ctor Varun Tej is getting ready to join the set of his forthcoming fourth movie and
recently he joined hands with director Srinu Vaitla. Earlier the title ‘Feeling My Love” was making rounds but finally Viatla come up and finalized the title ‘Mister’ for Mega Prince. The official confirmation is yet to be made. Srinu Vaitla is popular for unique titles like King, Aagadu, Dookudu, Baadhah etc. Currently Varun Tej is busy in his makeover as he is going to make his screen presence in unique avatar. Recently makers called him for the photo shoot with his new look. Varun Tej is going to romance to two actresses in this upcoming romantic drama. Already ‘Kumari 21F’ fame Heebah Patel has been roped to play the lead role and currently makers are busy in the hunt of another actress. The movie will be jointly produced by Nallamalupu Srinivas and Tagore Madhu. It will be launched on 8th April on the occasion of Ugadi. Mickey J Meyer will compose songs whereas Manisharma is likely to provide background score.
Brahmotsavam ON BAAHUBALI
SENTIMENT
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uperstar Mahesh Babu starrer forthcoming family entertainer drama “Brahmotsavam” has only limited talkies part and near the completion of the shoot. The movie is being directed by Srikanth Addala. Three actresses Kajal, Samantha and Pranitha are playing the lead role. Makers are planning to launch the audio release function in a very grand way on 24th April at Sri Venkateswara University ground in Tirupathi. Makers of Brahmotsavam is following the sentiments of highest grosser of Tollywood, SS Rajamouli’s directorial venture ‘Baahubali’ because the audio of Baahubali was also launched on the same place. Now Brahmotsavam team is also eyeing this sentiment and to make the audio launch event grand, they are spending Rs 2 Crores. They have finalized the special date and auspicious time to unveil the audio in Tirupathi. The movie is jointly produced by Prasad V Potluri under the banner PVP cinema and MB whereas the music is scored by Mickey J Meyer.
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AKSHAY’S VILLAIN T
look in Rajini 2.0
here are number of stars who maintains good fan base but only few of them who has ability to enthrall the audiences of mass as well as class section. Bollywood star Akshay Kumar is one of them and currently he is sweating hard and fully dedicated to his upcoming sci-fi movie “2.0” (Robo 2.0), being directed by creative and talented film maker Shankar. Akshay Kumar is playing the role of antagonist and recently his villain look has revealed that is grabbing several eyeballs. Shanker is very impressed with the work of Akshy Kumar and according to him, Akshay is not behaving like star on set. It is heard that Akshay will be seen in the role of scientist who transform himself in crow then he takes an evil turn. The major highlights of the movie will be the fight between Akshay Kumar and Superstar Rajinikanth. Actress Amy Jackson is playing the female lead role. The movie is being made on the budget on Rs 250 Cr and Lyca Production is producing this upcoming venture.
PRABHAS TO MINIMIZE
BAAHUBALI EFFECT
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ebel Star Prabhas who has delivered highest grosser of Tollywood “Baahubali:The Beginning” and has become popular at International level, is busy in its second installment “Baahubali:The Conclusion” which is set to hit the theaters on 14th May 2017. Prabhas is planning to come out with the tag of historic actor and decided to minimize the effect of Baahubali. As the audiences are impressed with Baahubali Prabhas, movie makers are offering him historic role but Prabhas is not accepting such type of roles. After wrapping the shoot of Baahubali 2, he will join the set of Sujeeth’s directorial venture which is an action entertainer movie in which he will portray the role of cop. He will also join the set of romantic musical movie which is going to be directed by Radha Krishna Kumar. Both movies will be produced under the banner of UV Creations.
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SINGER MADHU PRIYA’S
FATHER ARRESTED
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s Telengana folk singer Madhu Priya reunited with her husband Srikanth after counselling, the latest development in the case is the arrest of Madhu Priya’s father Mallesh, who has been arrested by Uppal Police. Recently Madhu Priya filed complaint with Humayaun Nagar police station against her husband that he was torturing her physically and mentally for dowry. On the same day, her father and relative thrashed a businessman Mohammad Nayeem, mistaking him for Srikanth. Nayeem was admitted in Matrix hospital in Ramanthapur as he suffered head and nose injuries in the incident. Later Nayeem lodged a complaint at Uppal Police Station and after investigation police arrested Mallesh and three others. On the other side Madhu Priya said that she was influenced by her parents and as they misguided her, she filed complaint against her husband Srikanth. Her statement is giving shock to everyone.
SUNIL'S COMEDY WITH CHIRU’S T
he latest addition of the upcoming most awaited 150th movie of Megastar Chiranjeevi, the remake of ‘Kaththi’ is, actor Sunil. Currently the movie is in pre-production stage and it will go on the floor in April. Recently makers have roped actress Nayantara to play the love interest of Chiru and sensational music composer Devi Sri Prasad is said to have roped as music composer. The movie will be directed by VV Vinayak. According to the latest update, comedian turned actor Sunil will make his comeback as comedian with this upcoming remake. Recently when Chiranjeevi asked Sunil to act in
150TH
his comeback movie, he could not say no to him and happy agreed to act in his remake. It is heard that Chiru likes Sunil’s comedy and he has revealed it various times. Now once again comedy lovers will enjoy the comedy of Sunil.
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Balakrishna eyeing Oscar
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Babu Bangaram FIRST LOOK ON
andamuri Balakrishna who is getting ready
for his upcoming prestigious project 100th movie, is eyeing the Oscar Award. It seems, he is not satisfied with state or National level award and currently eyeing on Oscar with his next upcoming drama. Recently he was spotted in the party of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s grand son Nara Devansh’s one year birthday party in which entire family members and friends were invited. Balayya was heard telling guest that he is interested to win Oscar award with his 100th movie which is going to be directed by Krish Jagarlamudi and based on King Satakarni, the Satavahana ruler whose capital was Amaravathi, currently which is Andhra Pradesh Capital. He will play the character of Gautamiputra Satakarni and currently growing moustaches for his character and busy in learning horse riding.
UGADI
V
ictory Venkatesh starrer forthcoming romantic and comedy entertainer movie “Babu Bangaram” is progressing at brisk pace under the direction of Maruthi. The movie is near the completion of the shoot and they are planning to release the first look of the upcoming drama on 8th April on the eve of Ugadi. The movie has already started the prerelease business. Venkatesh who is in the glory of delivering back to back two hit movies Drushyam and Gopala Gopala, is planning to score hat trick with Babu Bangaram. Sonam Bajwa is shaking legs with Vankatesh on item number which is the major highlight of the movie. Venky is playing the role of comedy cop whereas actress Nayantara is playing the role of middle class Brahmin girl. The music is scored
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by Ghibran and produced by S. Naga Vamshi under the banner of Sitara Entertainments. It is scheduled to hit the theaters on 1st July in a very grand manner.
Rajini
SENDS WISHES FOR
Sardaar S
uperstar Rajinikanth praises and send wishes for Power star Pawan Kalyan and his upcoming movie Sardaar Gabbar Singh. The upcoming action and romantic entertainer drama 'Sardaar Gabbar Singh’ has dragged the attention of almost all the stars and everyone is praising Pawan Kalyan. Rajini said that South Indian movies are in news because of its big budget and for its blockbuster like Baahubali and Srimanthudu which were marketed worldwide. In this essence, Rajinikanth praised Pawan and
his upcoming movie as Sardaar Gabbar Singh is going to be released in Hindi version also. He said that earlier only Bollywood movies used to get released all over India because of Hindi which is National language but now Tollywood makers are coming forward and making efforts to get release the movie in other states with the dubbing version. He also stated that earlier movies were released in the same state and earned money after being screened for 100 days but now single movie is being released all over the country and even Worldwide, collecting high returns within 10 days. Rajinikanth wished good luck for Pawan and his upcoming movie “Sardaar Gabbar Singh” as it is going to be released in 800 theaters along in Hindi language and distributors from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are contacting Sardaar makers to grab the remake rights in local languages.
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Bhallaladeva
eyes on
R
A
R Murugadoss is taking special care for the upcoming much hyped untitled movie in which Superstar Mahesh Babu is going to play the lead role. Recently he roped Bollywood beauty Parineeti Chopra to play the love interest of Mahesh and paying Rs 3.50 Cr as remuneration. Now everyone is shocked after hearing the latest addition of cast who is none other than SJ Surya who has good craze in Tamil Nadu and he is going to lock horn with Prince of Tollywood, Mahesh Babu in this upcoming saga. The movie is going to be released in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi, that is the main reason to choose the actors in all the languages to create buzz among the audiences. It will go on the floor in May and the pre-production work is near the completion. SJ Surya who is getting ready to direct Pawan’s upcoming drama “Khushi 2”, will play the role of antagonist in Mahesh’s movie which is based on the loopholes of Indian judicial system. The official confirmation is awaited. Harris Jayaraj will score the music. Currently Mahesh is busy in “Brahmotsavam” under the direction of Srikanth Addala which is set to hit the theaters as summer treat.
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throne
ecently actress Shriya Saran and Lavanya Tripathi refuted the rumours that they are going to play the role of Bhallaladeva’s wife, which role is played by Rana Daggubati, in the upcoming historic and war drama “Baahubali 2”. Rana revealed that Bhallaladeva does not have time for women, but only romance the throne. If there will be any addition in the movie then it will be officially informed by the makers. He also said that he would be seen in very different avatar and would become meaner and villainous in Baahubali 2 in compare of its first part. Actress Shriya has been tagged as Rana’s wife in Baahubali 2 from last six months, although she refuted the rumours but media is still dragging her into this. Baahubali:The Conclusion is set to hit the theaters on 14th May 2017 in a very grand manner.
SJ Surya turns
villain for
Mahesh
Nagarjuna to reduce weight
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ing Nagarjuna who is on ninth cloud as his latest offering ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’ has turned out hit and now he is getting ready to add one more feather in his cap with upcoming movie ‘Oopiri’ which is scheduled to hit the theaters on 25th March. Currently Nag is busy in the promotion of the movie and after it he will work on his body physics. Very soon he will start the shoot of his upcoming devotional movie “Om Namo Venkatesa” which is based on the Lord Venkateshwara Swamy and his pupil Hathi Rambabaji and it will be directed by Raghavendra Rao. The music sitting has been already started in Tirupathi. The director asked Nagarjuna to lose his weight to play the role of Hathi Rambabaji in this upcoming devotional movie. According to makers, Nagarjuna have to lose the weight to sport leaner look. After the release of Oopiri, Nagarjuna will start to work on weight reduction program. A.Mahesh Reddy who produced Nagarjuna's Shirdi Sai is likely to produce this upcoming drama under the banner of AMR Sai Krupa Entertainments and it will go on the floor in May.
Mahesh’s daughter
Sitara
dance performance
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ittle Princess Sitara, the daughter of Superstar Mahesh Babu, participated in a dance performance on the school annual day function and won everyone’s hearts. Her dancing video went viral on the social media and receiving appreciations. She wore blue and white colour dress and danced for the song ‘Clap Clap’ with her class mates. Everyone was shocked after seeing her performance as she performed very cutely on the stage. She is simply as adorable as her father is. On the other side, Mahesh Babu is busy in the shoot of his upcoming family entertainer movie “Brahmotsavam” which is progressing at brisk pace under the direction of Srikanth Addala in which three actresses Kajal Aggarwal, Samatha and Pranitha are playing the lead role.
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Allu Arjun’s
PUBLICITY STUNTS
FOR
SARRAINODU
S
tylish star Allu Arjun starrer forthcoming mass masala entertainer movie “Sarrainoodu” is gearing up for grand release on 22nd April in a very grand manner. The audio will be directly come in the market on 1st April and makers are not going to organize any audio launch event for Sarrainodu. Currently they are busy in making plans to promote the movie aggressively. It is heard that makers and Allu Arjun’s Public relation team has already started the work on the market strategy to promote ‘Sarrainodu’ and Bunny’s PR team is generally termed as the best team in Tollywood industry. All Arjun who has more than 10 million likes in face book and has broken the records of top starts of Tollywood like Superstar Mahesh Babu, Mega actor Ram Charan, Young Tiger Jr.NTR and Rebel star Prabhas, then anyone can understood the efficiency of Stylish star. It is heard that his PR team is spreading the rumours that Sarrainodu is going to Bollywood in which either Salman Khan or Ajay Devgn will play the lead role. On the other side both stars are not aware of it. Recently makers also spread the news as a part of publicity stunt that the song of Sarrainodu has been leaked on internet and they are ready to take legal action. Netigens tried to search the leaked song but did not get anything. The movie is directed by action specialist Boyapati Srinu and produced by Allu Arvind under the banner of Geetha Arts. Actress Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa are playing the lead roles.
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CHOPRA
PARINEETI
actress asked
3. 5 Cr
to romance Mahesh?
H
ot beauty Parineeti Chopra has been approached for the upcoming much hyped
untitled directorial venture of AR Murigadoss in which Superstar Mahesh Babu is going to play the lead role. The movie will carry the social message and is based on the legal system of India. The budget of the movie is nearly 80-90 Crores. It is heard that Makers are paying bomb to cast this Bollywood beauty to romance with Mahesh on Screen. She demanded Rs 3.5
Crores as remuneration for the bilingual movie which will be made in Tamil and Telugu. Makers are also planning to release the movie in Hindi simultaneously that is the reason they are willing to rope Bollywood actress and ready to pay huge amount to Parineeti. Earlier, no any actress except Aishwarya charged such huge amount for South Movie. On the other side, Mahesh Babu is busy in his upcoming family entertainer movie “Brahmotsavam� which is schedule to hit the theaters in summer.
NTR & Suriya in Rajamouli’s
multistarrer
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ollywood film makers and actors are trying to expand their market and making bilingual movie. Recently SS Rajamouli also made bilingual Baahubali and its Malayalam and Hindi dubbed version were also released along Telugu and Tamil. Earlier Rajamouli cast two main actors, Rebel Star Prabhas and Rana Daggubati. During the shoot of Baahubali, Prabhas was popular in Tollywood but actor Rana had good market in Tollywood as well as in Kollywood. Now Rajamouli is targeting one star from Tollywood Young Tiger Jr.NTR and one from Kollywood, actor Suriya for his
next upcoming multistarrer directorial venture. Currently he is busy in historic and war drama “Baahubali:The conclusion”, after wrapping it he will start his next upcoming project. Recently he revealed that he is planning to make “Baahubali 3” but this time he will not cast Prabhas and Rana. So, chances are there for Tarak and Suriya to star in the upcoming project. Earlier Suriya revealed at public event that he is ready to play even the role of cameo in ‘Bahhubali 2’. On the other side NTR has worked with Rajamouli for various movies like ‘Student No 1’, ‘Simhadri’ and ‘Yamadonga’
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Regina R
ecently sizzling actress Regina Cassandra has been roped for upcoming movie ‘Jyo Achutananda’ under the direction of Srinivas Avasarala in which Naga Shourya and Nara Rohith are playing the lead roles. Regina revealed that she will essay the role of dentist in this upcoming entertainer movie. The movie will go on the floor in the first week of April. A month schedule will take place to erect the set in Hyderabad for the shoot. The movie is all about the beautiful relationship of a girl and boy, set in the backdrop of two brothers belonging to a loving family. Regina will portray Jyothi and love interest of Shourya and Rohith who are siblings. The movie is not only out and out love story but will have more bromance. Sai Korrapati is bankrolling the project under the banner of Vaarahi Chalana Chitram and the music will be scored by Kalyani Koduri.
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izamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha interacted with media on the occasion of her birthday and the 38 years old Politician revealed that she is a diehard fan of Megastar Chiranjeevi. Though both belong different parties but
TRS KAVITHA IS FAN OF
CHIRU BUT
NOT LIKE PAWAN KAMAL TO TURN WITCH DOCTOR V
ersatile actor Kamal Hassan has been approached for upcoming Tamil Fantasy comedy movie “Meenkuzhambum Mann Paanayum”, in which he will be seen to perform the rare procedure of transferring the souls of the individuals. He will play the role of cameo. Kalidas Jayaram, Ashna Zaveri, Prabhu and Pooja Kumar are playing the lead roles. According to the sources, he will be seen as
she praised Chiranjeevi. She said that she watched his all the movies, and liked his dancing style and body languages. Her favourite movies are Gang Leader, Tagore and Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari. She is eagerly waiting for Chiranjeevi’s 150 movie. When someone asked her opinion on Power Star Pawan Kalyan, she said very frankly that neither she liked his movies nor his political ideology. Everyone was shocked after hearing her view. Currently Pawan Kalyan is busy in action and entertainer drama “Sardaar Gabbar Singh” and very soon Chiranjeevi will join the set of his coming back movie remake of “Kaththi” which will be directed by VV Vinayak.
witch doctor. The movie is directed by Amudhesvar and jointly produced by Dushyanth Ramkumar, Sivaji Ganesan’s grandson, and his wife Abirami under Eshan Productions. The music is composed by Imman. The movie has rural setting and the story is quite urban. The upcoming fantasy drama will highlight the father and son relationship, and fully loaded with Sentiments and romance.
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Nandi Awards
to be renamed?
T
he committee of Telugu Film Industry is going to change the name of Nandi Awards in April and it is heard that it will get a new name Kakateeya. Yesterday, Cabinate Sub-Commitee which was headed by Cinematography Minister T. Srinivas Yadav, invited the big personalities of Telugu Film Industry and discussed about the development of the industry. They discussed on various topics and finally decided to replace the name of Nandi awards either with Kakateeya or Yedadro Awards but most probably it will get the name Kakateeya Award. The government asked I&PR commissioner Naveen Mittal and government adviser Ramanachari to form a committee regarding the award. The announcement regarding the awards will be made by the committee in April.
DSP TO SCORE
music for Chiru? M
egastar Chiranjeevi has revealed the name of music composer who is going to score the music for his upcoming most prestigious 150th movie, he is none other than sensational music composer Devi Sri Prasad. Chiru is very impressed with the work of DSP for the upcoming movie of Power Star Pawan Kalyan starrer ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’. During the audio launch event of Sardaar Gabbar Singh, Chiru admired Devi Sri Prasad for the composition of movie. He said that Sathya Murthy Garu brought a small boy who came with Keyboard and today he is No. 1 in the film
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industry. He added that DSP is very busy and he also did not give time to Chiru to meet him for his upcoming 150th movie. Chiru added that he has agreed to score the music is front of you all and DSP also agreed with laughing. Chiru’s 150th movie is remake of Tamil hit movie “Kaththi” which will go on the floor in April and will be directed by VV Vinayak.
REBEL VS MANCHU FAMILY
FOR KANNAPPA?
R E
arlier Rebel Star Krishnam Raj expressed his desire to remake the devotional flick ‘Bhakta Kannappa’ and planned to rope Baahubali star Prabhas to play the lead role. Prabhas who also wanted to fulfill the desire of his uncle, has given green signal to Krishnam Raju but requested to start the project when he will become free from his prior commitments as he is busy in historic and war drama “Baahubali:The Conclusion” and after Baahubali 2 he will join the set of Sujeeth’s upcoming directorial venture. On the other side other big family has also announced the same title ‘Bhakta Kannappa’ in which Manchu Vishnu will play the titled role Kannappa and the upcoming devotional drama will be based on the life of Lord Shiva’s devotee Bhakta Kannappa and the movie will be directed by Tanikella Bharani whereas Manchu Lakshmi will produce the movie with the association of Hollywood production house. It is also heard that Mohan Babu will play an important role. We have to wait and watch whether Manchu or Rebel will become successful to impress the audiences.
ecently Ram Charan attended the annual fest of Malla Reddy Engineering College and earlier Malla Reddy, the chairman of the college made comment that Charan who belongs to film industry, instead of get marry to an actress, he married Upasna because his intention was to get marry Apollo chairman Pratap C Reddy’s daughter Upasna who belongs to rich family. Finally Charan spoke about his love and said that there were no calculations in their relationship, it did not matter whether she was from a rich family or not. It was just love so he decided to get married. From long time, media is targeting the couple. Recently the couple refuted the divorce rumours also. On the work side, Currently Ram Charan is getting ready to join the set of his upcoming movie “Dhruva” next month under the direction of Surender Reddy. He is also in the talk of Sukumar’s upcoming directorial venture.
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Who says, C
Pawan a joker or Cartoon?
ontroversial actor turned producer Kamaal R Khan has created sensation by his tweet against Power Star Pawan Kalyan in which he used abusive language against Pawan. Kamal R Khan tweeted,” If this Lukkha Pawan Kalyan singh is also a hero then anybody in the world can be a super star” and again tweeted,” I will prefer to watch Rajpal Yadav film instead of the joker, the cartoon, the Maha Sada Huwa hero, Pawan Kalyan”. It seems, he is not aware of the craze of Pawan in South or he is doing only for the sake of publicity. Earlier he has made abusive comments on number of stars. In South, no one is taking his remark seriously but we have to wait and watch that how Pawan’s fans will tolerate this abusive languages against their favourite star. Recently Kamal made controversial comment of two piece bikini of Alia Bhatt and Siddharth Malhotra’s acting skills and even he also commented Rebel star Prabhas’s movie Baahubali.
Mohan Babu fires on
Manchu Lakshmi T
ollywood senior actor Mohan Babu is well disciplined and straight forward in nature and he wants their kids Manchu Vishnu, Manchu Manoj and Lakshmi Manchu to be disciplined. His children are also not exception for him if they do anything wrong then definitely he warns them on the spot. Now Mohan Babu is fired on his loving daughter Manchu Lakshmi regarding her role in recently released movie “Guntur Talkies”, directed by Praveen Sattaru. Manchu Lakshmi played a small role in which she essayed the role of bus passenger and tries to seduce the passengers with her naughty acts and then steals the money from them. The movie is dark black comedy movie and erotic.
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Mohan Babu is fired on Lakshmi for picking up this type of seductive role.
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he major attraction of the audio launch event of upcoming drama ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’ was the selfie of Mega brother Megastar Chiranjeevi and Power Star Pawan Kalyan with thousands of fans in the background of function hall at Hotel Novatel Hyderabad Convention center. The selfie moment was supervised by none other than ace film maker Trivikram Srinivas. Mega fans were overjoyed when Mega brothers hug each other. Chiranjeevi was invited as chief guest of the audio release event and it was attended by thousands of fans and the entire cast and crew of the flick. Fans were very excited and were using the words like ‘Kalyan’, ‘Gabbar Singh’ and ‘my brother Kalyan’ during the speech of mega brothers. Actress Kajal Aggarwal is playing the female lead role and actor Sharad Kelkar will be seen in the role of antagonist. The movie is set to hit the theaters on 8th April in Hindi and Telugu version. It is heard that Hindi version of Sardaar Gabbar Singh will hit nearly 800 screen in North India.
Mega Selfie
during Sardaar
AUDIO LAUNCH
NTR’s makers
with Nani Y
oung Tiger NTR is currently busy in his
upcoming much hyped entertainer movie “Janatha Garage” which is being directed by ‘Mirchi’ and ‘Srimanthudu’ fame director Koratala Siva and produced by Mythri Movie makers. Actor Nani who is in the glory of delivering back to back hit movies like ‘Bhale Bhale Magadivoy’ and ‘Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha’, has become the first choice of medium budget movie makers. Although Nani is keen to work with the producers who can spent big amount on his movie. It is heard that NTR’s producers are willing to produce the movie for Nani. Earlier the same production house was supposed to work with Pawan Kalyan but things did not materialize because of Pawan’s prior commitments. Now the combo of Koratala Siva and Mythri Movie Makers are planning to make movie with Natural actor Nani.
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Allari Naresh
in Nageshwar’s
next
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ctor Allari Naresh who did not deliver any hit movie from past few years, is going through a lean patch and he needs a hit movie to rise his career. He is contacting with few directors with whom he has good relations, to arrange good script for him. It is heard that director G Nageshwar Reddy who is popular for delivering comedy movies, has come up with a script which is suitable for the character of Allari Naresh. He is also impressed with the story line and given his green signal. Now Nagesgwar Reddy is trying to convince the producer so the upcoming project will be set up quickly. Currently Allari Naresh is getting ready to start his upcoming project “Selfie Raja” which will go on the floor next month.
Bahaubali
disappoints T
Tamannah
he entire Indian film industry was surprised after watching the directorial venture of creative and talented film maker SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali:The Beginning. The movie highlighted Rebel Star Prabhas, Rana Daggubatio, Anushka, Tamannah and Ramya Krishna. Actress Anushka was seen in only couple of scenes and in non-glam avatar whereas Milky beauty Tamannah Bhatia was seen more perfectly. She got lengthy role in its first part and also made her presence in glamorous song. But in second part, her screen presence will be as extended cameo that disappoints her. According to the sources, in its second part“Baahubali:The Conclusion”, Anushka will be seen in glamorous avatar and enthrall the audiences by her sword fighting. Currently movie is progressing at brisk pace and makers are planning to wrap the shoot by the end of October because VFX work will take much time. The movie is set to hit the theaters on 14th May 2017.
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Bandla Ganesh to settle with
Gutkha King
R
ecently noted film maker Bandla Ganesh was abused by actor, producer and businessman Sachin Joshi on social networking sites. Sachin Joshi is the actor whose movies never tested success at the box office but he is very rich businessman and in Mumbai, he is known as Gutkha King. It was heard that Sachin gave Rs 45 Crores to make movie for him, but Bandla produced only one movie “Nee Jathaga Nenundali which was turned out dud and later he did not show any interest. That is the reason Sachin is troubling Bandla Ganesh at regular interval on social media. Finally Bandla Ganesh has decided to produce a series of movie to settle all the issues with Sachin Joshi to avoid this type of harassment.
Mahesh afraid
of Rajinikanth
S
uperstar of South Indian Film industry Rajinikanth is giving shivering to Superstar of Tollywood Mahesh Babu. His upcoming much hyped movie “Kabali” is gearing up for grand release on 27th May and it is a bilingual movie which will be released in Tamil and Telugu languages. Its pre-release business has already given shock to all and makers are confident it will bring storm at box office and will do fantastic business. On the other side Mahesh Babu starrer forthcoming bilingual family entertainer movie “Brahmotsavam” is ready to arrive in the same month May. Rajinikanth maintains huge fan base in Tamil Nadu as well as in both Telugu States. When Rajini’s Kabali will arrive that will create release problems for Mahesh and will try to eat the revenue at box office. Now it is heard that Mahesh Babu does not want to compete with Kabali neither in Tamil Nadu nor in Telugu States so he is looking for other date.
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NITHYA MENON
REJECTED MAHESH W
hen numbers of actresses have desire to romance with Superstar Mahesh Babu, the Prince of Tollywood on screen, there is one actress who has rejected the offer to share the screen space with Mahesh, she is none other than gorgeous actress Nithya Menon. Recently Bollywood top actress Deepika Padukone expressed her desire to act with Mahesh but Nithya is the actress who has dare to reject the offer of Mahesh. According to the latest update, AR Murugadoss approached Nithya Menon for his upcoming untitled project in which Mahesh Babu is going to play the lead role but she rejected it and gave shock to all. According to her, actresses are restricted only for glamour parts and songs, they are not getting much
screen space to prove their talent. She will accept the project when her character will have strength in the movie. The upcoming drama which will carry the social message is going to be made on the big budget of Rs 100 Crores and will be launched in the second half of the year.
CHARAN SAYS,
PAWAN IS MY R
INSPIRATION
ecently Mega actor Ram Charan graced the annual fest of Mallareddy Engineering College as a chief guest and interacted he students. He received warm welcome by the students of the college. He said that his Babai Power Star Pawan Kalyan is his main inspiration. Earlier he used to waste his time without any goal, then Babai conducted an hour counselling to him that made a difference and after counselling, he started to focus on his career. Cherry also revealed that Pawan told him about his father Megastar Chiranjeevi that how he had paved a red carpet for everyone in the family and how he used it. He told that after very hard work Chiranjeevi achieved stardom. Pawan made Cherry to understand the importance of Chiranjeevi’s hard work, values and stature. Ram Charan suggested the students to believe in destiny.
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NAYAN
QUEEN
NOT READY TO BECOME
K
ollywood actor and director Thyagarajan has bought the remake rights of Bollywood hit movie “Queen” starring Kangana Ranuat. He acquired the remake rights in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages. Recently he approached gorgeous actress Nayantara to reprise the character of Kangana but she rejected the offer because of her busy schedule. Currently, Nayantara has number of movies in her bags including Babu Bangaram with Venkatesh, Kashmora with Karthi, irumugan with Vikram
and few others. According to Nayan, if she will sign the remake of Queen at this time that will create the problems for her other projects. So she politely turned down the offer. Although it is an actress oriented flick and revolves around a woman who goes to a trip after being ditched by her fiancé. Finally Nayan is not ready to become Queen because she is not able to allot bulk dates to makers. The movie will be directed by Revathy and produced by Thygarajan, Suhasini Mani Ratnam is also the part of the movie as dialogue writer.
NAG DENIES WORKING
WITH ALLU ARJUN K ing Nagarjuna refuted the rumours that he is going to act multistarrer movie with Stylish Star Allu Arjun under the direction of Trivikram Srinivas. He said that he had not signed any movie with Bunny, there is no truth in the new. He added that he is not against of multistarrer and if he will like the character, then
he will definitely act with any actor. Presently he is committed to act in two movies ‘Om Namo Venkatesa’ and ‘Banagarraju’. On the other side Allu Arjun is waiting for the release of his mass masala entertainer drama “Sarrainodu”, directed by Boyapati Srinu starring Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa, which is scheduled to hit the theaters on 22nd April Worldwide.
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NTR & Chaitu multistarrer on card T he classic movie ‘Gundamma Kadha’ is one of the best movie that made in Tollywood and brought two top stars Sr. NTR and ANR on one screen. Earlier noted producer and distributor Dil Raju expressed his desire to make again ‘Gundamma Kadha ‘ with current day actors and considered the name of Young Tiger Jr. NTR and Akkineni Naga Chaitanya from Nandamuri and Akkineni families for the movie but the project couldn’t move further. During the promotional activities of upcoming multistarrer movie “Oopiri”, King Nagarjuna heaped praises on NTR and even said that he has achieved super stardom before 30 years old. He also revealed that he is planning to see Jr NTR with his elder son Naga Chaitanya in the
remake of Gundamma Kadha. If everything will go accordingly, then Nagarjuna himself might produce this remake. Currently NTR is busy in the shoot of ‘Janatha Garage’ whereas Naga Chaitanya is busy in the remake of ‘Premam’.
CHARAN READY TO
RIDE ON TWO BOATS
M
ega actor Ram Charan is getting ready to join the set of his upcoming much awaited mass entertainer drama, “Dhruva”, the remake of Tamil movie ‘Thani Oruvan’. Currently movie is progressing at brisk pace under the direction of ‘Kick’ fame Surender Reddy. According to the latest update, recently creative and talented film maker Sukumar met with Charan personally and both spend quality time with Chiranjeevi, Sukumar narrated the script and asked Charan to work parallel along with ‘Dhruva’. Sukumar has delivered back to back hit movies as his production venture “Kumari 21 F” was turned out hit and his recently released directorial venture “Nannaku Prematho” starring young Tiger Jr. NTR also turned out hit and received lot of applause. It is heard that Chiranjeevi asked Charan to don’t take risk but Charan is interested to ride on two boats at the same time.
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LAWRENCE to romance R
Nithin
to play NRI I
in A..Aa
n Tollywood, ‘Foreign returned Character’ has become very common, after Power Star Pawan Kalyan, Ram, Ram Charan, Mahesh Babu and Sunil, now it is the turn of actor Nithin, who will be seen in the role of NRI in his upcoming romantic drama “A..Aa”, directed by ace director Trivikram Srinivas. According to Trivikram, NRI angle in the movie will form an instrumental plot in this upcoming romantic drama. According to the sources, lot of work has been done for the different and stylish look for Nithin, he will be seen sporting different hairdo. Actress Samantha and Ananya are playing the lead role. S Radha Krishna is bankrolling the project. The movie is near the completion of the shoot and is set to hit the theaters on 6th May in a very grand manner.
ANUSHKA?
ecently Superstar Rajinikanth expressed his desire to act in remake of Horror Kannada movie ‘Shivalinga’ but it seems, now he is not showing any interest because of his busy schedule and director P Vasu has offered the role to Raghava Lawrence and Baahubali actress Anushka Shetty to play the lead role. The official confirmation is awaited. Earlier both Lawrence and Anushka have worked in horror movies as Raghava Lawrence delivered ‘Kanchana’ series and Anushka acted in biggest hit in the form of ‘Arundhathi’. The movie Shivalinga is all about a CID officer Shiva played by Shivarajkumar, unravelling a murder mystery. It was released in February and turned out biggest hit at the Sandalwood box office.
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SURIYA’S 24 STORY LEAKED! T he upcoming much awaited Suriya starrer
SARDAAR CROONS FOLK SONG POTHURAJU
T
he way of walking style, uttering dialogues and body languages of Power Star Pawan Kalyan which is different from other actors, make the fans and movie lovers mad. Now he decided to delight the audiences and crooned a folk song for his upcoming action and romantic entertainer drama “Sardaar Gabbar Singh” which is being directed by KS Ravindra alias Bobby. It is not the first time when he is crooning any song, earlier he has lent his vocal for Katama Rayuda in Atharintiki Daredi and now once again he is ready to recreate the magic. He crooned the folk song 'Pothuraju' which is going to be highlighted. Sensational music composer Devi Sri Prasad has composed the music. Actress Kajal Aggarwal is playing the love interest of Pawan. The makers are not leaving any stone to make the movie blockbuster. Already makers have declared that Sardaar is dedicated to all Pawan’s fans.
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‘24’ movie story has been leaked and rounding on social media. Till now there is no official reaction regarding the rumour from the film unit. It is a Scientific Fiction movie which is directed by Manam fame director Vikram Kumar. Actress Samantha and Nithya Menon are playing the lead roles. According to the leaked story, Suriya runs a repair shop and a thief steals a special watch from a scientist and bring it to Suriya’s shop for repair. While repairing, Suriya came to know that the watch is nothing but a time machine. Then Suriya starts the journey of past, present and future. The rest of the movie deals with evil gangster, played by Suriya who tries to grab the watch and how the young Suriya protect it. The movie is set to hit the theaters on 14th April in a very grand manner.
2 CR FOR
Brahmotsavam
Hamsa Nandini
bungy jump in
New Zealand
A
AUDIO
fter delivering ‘Srimanthudu’ the expectation of audiences have been increased and they are eagerly waiting for the arrival of Mahesh Babu starrer family entertainer movie “Brahmotsavam”. Makers are not leaving any stone to make the movie blockbuster and taking special care. Currently movie is progressing at brisk pace in Ramoji Film City. Earlier makers planned to organize the audio launch event on 23rd April 2016 in temple town, Tirupathi but now they have decided to erect Lord Balaji temple set in the local college playground. According to the latest buzz, makers have allocated Rs 2 Crores for the audio launch. Stunning beauties Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha and Pranitha are playing female lead roles. Mickey J Meyer is scoring the music. The movie is directed by Srikanth Addala and Potluri Vara Prasad is producing the movie under PVP Cinema banner.
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ctress, model and item girl Hamsa Nandini did a bungy jump in New Zealand and uploaded the video on YouTube which is going viral. Earlier she was not confident that she can do it but she was boosted by others and finally went ahead with the plunge and given surprise to everyone by her daredevil jump. She has proved that she is not only able to scorch the screen by her sex appeal but can also perform stunts. Recently she went to New Zealand along her friends for holidaying. Her bungy jump there ended up with adventurous thing. In Tollywood she has worked in number of hit movies like Loukyam, Mirchi, Attarintiki Daaredi and Legend.
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100 CR FOR
TRIVIKRAM & SURIYA
A
MOVIE
ctor Suriya is waiting for the release of his forthcoming most awaited movie ‘24’ which is expected to release next month. Currently he is busy in his next upcoming action and romantic entertainer drama “S3”, Singam Series under the direction of Hari. After wrapping the shoot, Suriya will join the set of Trivikram’s untitled directorial venture and it will be bilingual movie which will be made in Tamil and Telugu. It is heard that the budget of the movie is estimated as Rs 100 Crores and S Radhakrishna will be producing the upcoming drama in both languages under his banner Haarika Haasini Creations. It is his fourth production with ace director Trivikram. Currently Trivikram is busy in his upcoming movie “A..Aa” starring Samantha and Nithin, is set to hit the theaters as summer treat.
NAYAN STUNNED
CHIRANJEEVI
M
ovie lovers and Mega fans are eagerly waiting for the updates of upcoming most prestigious project of Megastar Chiranjeevi’s 150th movie, the remake of “Kaththi” and it has become the topic of discussion. According to the latest update, Chiru finalized Nayantara to play the female lead role. Chiru was shocked after hearing it that earlier Nayantara did not show any interest to become the part of the movie and not expressed any excitement for his comeback movie. He thought that Nayan would feel lucky herself to get the chance in his most prestigious project but it was entirely different. She was keen only on her remuneration and was not ready to act less than Rs 2.5 Crores. Finally Makers agreed and Nayantara gave green Signal. VV Vinayak is going to wield this megaphone and it will be jointly produced by Ram Charan and Lyca Production.
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SUNIL CONFIRMS
RAJAMOULI’S C
title
omedian turned actor Sunil is spending time to improve his box office image, his latest offering ‘Krishnastami’ did not bring much success for him and it received mixed responses on its opening day that disappointed Sunil. Now he has been roped for upcoming romantic entertainer drama which is going to be directed by ‘Raksha’ fame Vamsi Akella. It is heard the movie is titled as Rajamouli’s popular nick name in the film industry ‘Jakkanna’. Earlier Sunil achieve stardom as an actor Rajamouli’s Maryada Ramanna and currently he is busy in his upcoming movie ‘Eedu Gold Ehe’ under the direction of Ragada fame Veeru Potla.
JAGAPATHI BABU
TO TURN
GHOST
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ow days horror flick are in demands, number of top actresses like Tapsee, Nayantara, Trisha and others are coming forward and donning in the role of ghost but this time a male ghost is coming to scare the audiences. According to the latest update, actor Jagapathi Babu is all set to be seen in upcoming movie as ghost. After playing the role of villain on silver screen, he has become best and costliest antagonist in T-town. He is accepting different types of roles and ready to thrill the audiences. He has been roped for upcoming untitled low budget Telugu horror comedy under the direction of debutant Sudhkar in which actor Chaitanya Krishna is playing the lead role. The movie has already completed 50 percent of the shoot. Jagapathi Babu is playing the role of Eesha’s father and ghost in this upcoming horror flick. Jagapathi Babu is very impressed with the story line of the movie.
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HRITHIK AND
KANGANA’S
DIRTY SECRETS LEAKED
sent 1439 mail to him even though it amounted to mental harassment and stress. The actor demanded to Kangana apologises within seven days of receipt of the legal notice or else face criminal action for defamation. Kangana's claimed that she was neither suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome and nor from any mental disorder.
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T
he new emerged that Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan had sent legal notice to each other, containing allegations of intimidation, threat and defamation. In 2009, during the shoot of ‘Kite’ both Hrithik and Kangana became good friends. Later Hrithik pursued Kangana for six months to be part of his movie “Krissh 3” in 2013, they got into relationship. The relation remained secret because of marital status on Hrithik but soon Kangana realized that the relationship will not be remain secretive and slowly she started to maintain distance with Hrithik. In December 2013, Hrithik got divorce and Kananga received a call from Hrithik, he informed that his marriage has been over. In January 2014, Hrithik proposed Kangana in Paris. In January 2016, Hrithik signed “Aashiqui 3” but Kangana dropped the project. She alleged that Hrithik was behind her ousting from Aashiqui 3. In an interview, Kangana made an oblique reference to “silly exes”. Hrithik lashed out these allegations through twitter. He sent legal notice through his lawyer Deepesh Mehta, to Kangana demanding an open apology. Kangana also send 21 page notices turning down apology and said that she has not taken any name. Hrithik alleged that during the shoot of ‘Krissh 3’, Kangana was in drunken mood and created scenes in from of him later her sister Rangoli apologised and said that she was suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome. According to Hrithik, he met Kangana at Karan Johar birthday’s party in 2014 and Kangana thanked Hrithik for sending her an email appreciating her work in ‘Queen’. But according to Hrithik it was not his Email Id. After knowing Hrithik’s Email id Kangana
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Heebah replaces
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fter delivering ‘Kumari 21 F’ actress Heebah Patel has become the first choice of medium budget movie makers. Numbers of movie makers are considering her name to cast in their upcoming projects. Recently she signed a movie opposite Varun Tej which is going to be directed by Srinu Vaitla and will be jointly produced by Tagore Madhu and Bujji. Makers are going to launch this upcoming romantic drama on 8th April. Earlier makers confirmed sizzling actress Rakul Preet Singh to play the female lead role but they were impressed with the performance of Heebah Patel and finally decided to rope her. Currently Heebah has number of projects in her bag. She is busy in ‘Edo Rakam Ado Rakam’ starring Raj Tarun and recently signed another movie under the direction of Bandi Bhaskar. She has been also roped opposite Nikhil for upcoming untitled movie.