Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s last film ‘Govindudu Andarivadele’ ended up as an average grosser at the box-office and the actor is getting ready to start his new film ‘My Name is Raju’.

Srinu Vaitla will be directing this comedy and action entertainer. Samantha is likely to be the leading lady opposite to Charan and the shooting might begin in the month of March 2015.

Charan has okayed Surender Reddy’s script as well and he will be starting to work for this film from July 2015.

Though Charan took a long gap after ‘Govindudu Andarivadele’, he has requested his directors to complete his upcoming films at the earliest as he wants two releases in 2015.

We need to wait and see if Srinu Vaitla and Surender Reddy can wrap up the shooting with the given time or not.

Actor Rajasekhar, who is currently awaiting the release of Telugu comedy “Gaddam Gang”, says he will continue taking up hero-centric characters in films, but he is willing to experiment with “interesting” character roles as well.

“The last few years have been bad with many failures. That’s when I decided I should try and experiment with some interesting character roles that are equally interesting. I was looking to do something very offbeat and that’s when I decided to make aGaddam Gang’,” the 52-year old told IANS.

“This decision won’t stop me from taking up lead roles. I’ll continue doing them as long as audiences accept me,” he said.

“Gaddam Gang”, which is directed by Santosh Jayakumar, is the remake of Tamil sleeper hit “Soodhu Kavvum”, whose remake rights Rajasekhar bought for a whopping price.

“When I saw the film, I decided this was something I’ve been looking to do. I spent a lot of money on acquiring the remake rights as I believed it’s a subject that should work irrespective of the language,” he added.

A story about a group of failed kidnappers, “Gaddam Gang” is produced by Jeevitha Rajasekhar and also features Sheena, Achu Rajamani, Naresh, Raghu Babu and Seetha in important roles.

Asin is one of the talented actresses in South India. She was considered as one of the best performers among her contemporaries and Asin appeared in super hit films like ‘Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammayi’, ‘Lakshmi Narasimha’, ‘Ghajini’ and ‘Dasavatharam’ etc.

She entered into Bollywood with Aamir Khan’s ‘Ghajini’ and this film brought her appreciation from the critics and audience. However, Asin was not able to make her mark in Bollywood after that.

Unlike in South, she appeared in terrible roles in Bollywood and she started to expose a lot. Still, Asin was short of offers and currently, she has signed only one film opposite to Abhishek Bachchan.

Buzz says, Asin has compromised a lot to get noticed in Bollywood, but still she is not able to make it big over there.

After you peaked, life gets a little static and this applies to all irrespective of the industry. Senior actor Rajendra Prasad who is seen in character roles often says that he is being choosy as he does not believe in doing every role that comes to him.

Though there are many offers, he says he is only doing roles that interest him and roles that might interest the audiences once the film releases.

“When I feel my past name will get tarnished, I refuse some roles. It is well-known that I scored well during my stint as a top comedy hero. In fact, our ex prime minister PV Narasimha Rao once told me that he would watch my films to de-stress and have a good laugh. That has been the best compliment I have got till date,” says he.

He has just finished shooting for Nootilo Kappalu, Tommy, Daagudu Mootalu Dandaako and says he has four other films in the making.

Rajendra Prasad says it is indeed good that sense of humour among Telugu audiences has evolved over the years.

 

Actress Anjali has finally rushed to clarify on the rumors that said her creating a much ruckus in a night pub after getting fully drunk. A day ago it buzzed in the media that Anjali came to the Tabla pub in Hyderabad fully drunk and held a constant fighting with the management. It also said she used abusive language against the management until they had finally complained the police.

Now Anjali has finally given her version on this quashing the rumors entirely. She said she never had any kind of disputes with anyone and was not even drunk on that night. “I entered the pub at around 9 PM where I found some media journalists who requested me to pose for the cameras; however I declined their request saying I had come there for a private function. I left the scene after almost half-an-hour. But however I was completely shocked witnessing the entirely false news the next morning in the media which published me as drunken. I neither was drunk nor came with any Boyfriend. I don’t know why unfounded rumors spread about me. You can even check the CCTV footage,” she said.

Patas’ is gonna end up as the best film in Kalyan Ram’s career for sure. Revenues generated during the first weekend were impressive and that’s what a good word-of-mouth could do to a film.

Trade Circles say, ‘Patas’ theatrical rights were sold out for Rs 9 crore. So, All the distributors are likely to get break-even within the First Week itself.

Patas 1st Weekend Collections:

Nizam: Rs 1.80 crore

Ceeded: Rs 83 lakhs

Vizag: Rs 54 lakhs

Guntur: Rs 46 lakhs

Krishna: Rs 38 lakhs

East: Rs 26 lakhs

West: Rs 23 lakhs

Nellore: Rs 16 lakhs

Patas AP & Nizam First Weekend Collections (share): Rs 4.66 crore

Patas AP & Nizam First Weekend Collections (gross): Rs 6.56 crore

Patas Worldwide First Weekend Collections (share): Rs 5.26 crore (includes Karnataka & Rest of India: Rs 25 lakhs; Overseas: Rs 35 lakhs)

Patas Worldwide First Weekend Collections (gross): Rs 7.81 crore

Jr NTR and Puri Jagannadh’s power packed upcoming film ‘Temper’ is all set to hit the screens on February 13th and this time Jr NTR will be delivering the second Nandamuri film in this very New Year after Kalyan Ram. Now according to plausible sources, one more hot beauty besides Kajal Agarwal will have a special role in the movie.

As per the very fresh buzz, Sonia Agarwal, the former wife of south Indian director Selvaraghavan, has been roped in to play a special appearance which lasts up to twenty minutes in the film. Sonia shot to fame Selvaraghavan’s blockbuster movie ‘7/G Brundhavan Colony’. They two split up in 2010 after almost four years of their marriage life. Currently the actress has no projects in hand but this news has finally brought her in light after almost three years.

More details of her characterization and its length is yet to be officially announced but the news says she will be playing very prominent roll which even could give her a turning point in the coming days.