Ace director Krishna Vamsi at the teaser launch of Govindu…mentions about his film with mega star Chiranjeevi few years ago, which didn’t materialise.

Industry sources claims it was a patriotic film ‘Vandemataram’ revolving around a fiery freedom fighter supposed to be played by Chiranjeevi and few years ago, the actor-director used to meet on the sets of ‘Anji’ to fine tune the script, but finally, Chiru kept the project in abeyance for various factors. ‘It would have been a international project but my non-compromising attitude and other reasons, it didn’t take off’ disclosed director with glint of disappointment, without taking the name of the film.

May be, Chiru was not willing to take a risk, since patriotic themes, haven’t been money-spinners. Later Venkatesh bit the dust with a patriotic film ‘subhash chandra bose’ and it looks like Chiru was right at that point of time? So Vamsi’s dream to work with Chiu remain unfilled but he could salvage it by directing his son Ram Charan in Govindudu.

Buxom beauty Anjali has taken everyone by surprise with the choice of her film. After playing girl-next-door role in Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, doctor role in Balupu and a subtle role in Masala, Anjali has picked up a female-centric film Geethanjali that too a horror comedy.

Contrary to regular commercial, formula films, Anjali’s guts to take up this film is really laudable. Apart from humour, horror, Geethanjali does has a message and it takes a dig at crimes against women in society. During the horror part, Anjali has excelled in showcasing her emotions and seems to have given tough competition to Anushka Shetty who has done a handful of heroine-centric films like Arundhati, Panchakshari. Is Anjali vying up to compete with Anushka Shetty? Is she trying to carve out a niche for himself? Let’s wait and see.

Super Star Mahesh Babu successfully completed 15 years of his professional career as a hero. Following is the list of his achievements.

• As of now 19 movies of Mahesh were released and 10 among them have got average to industry hit results. His hit percentage is 53% with one industry hit into his credit.
• Mahesh is the first hero in tollywood to have breached Rs.35 crores share mark with his ‘Pokiri’. This industry hit movie was released in 2006 and stood as all time number one hit then with Rs.36+ crores world wide.
• His ‘Dookudu’ stood as an all time second biggest hit of tollywood then. The movie collected Rs.54.45 crores share in its full run.
• Mahesh is the only star hero in tollywood to have acted maximum number of movies as a child artist. He was seen as a child artist in nine movies.
• Mahesh has won Nandi Best Actor Award for three times while he won Nandi special jury awards for thee times and Nandi best male debut award for ‘Rajakumarudu’.
• Mahesh won Filmfare best actor awards for four times so far. He also won best actor awards from ‘Cine MAA’, ‘Santhosham’, Vamsi Film Awards’ and others.
• Mahesh is the brand ambassador for highest number of corporate products among South Indian star heroes.
• Mahesh is celebrating his birthday Today. We wishes him many happy returns of this day to Super Star Mahesh Babu.

Retired sportsmen, glamorous sports women and happening models often end up in movies, though not everyone clicks. Tainted cricket, former fast-bowler of Team India, Sreesanth is no excuse after he was banned by BCCI for life to play cricket in India.

Touchwood folks are in a spot the other day, with Sreesanth busy hunting offers in Film Nagar. Despite his tryst, raise and fall in Cricket, he claimed that music is his soul and loves to compose for Tamil and Telugu flicks. Relating to his brought up in Tamilnadu and Bangalore, Sreesanth avers that he is having a tight snatch Tollywood. He has scheduled to meet biggies like Suresh Babu, Puri Jagan and Gunasekhar the other day, to seek work.

Sreesanth wants to score music and then act, if someone really wants to see him as a hero. Will Tollywood dance to Sreesanth’s tunes? In 2013, BCCI suspended and banned him from playing cricket, while police maintained that he has confessed to spot-fixing in IPL. However, the Malayali pacer remained tight lipped about his cricketing past.

By the time we are thinking about the punch-dialogue Superstar is going to articulate today, he comes with a punch on punch-dialogues itself. Most waited Birthday special teaser of Mahesh Babu’s ‘Aagadu’ is here and director Sreenu Vytla took his revenge on punch and rhyming dialogues.

‘I need not utter a counter for your dialogue, I’m a fighter not a writer’ (Ne dialogue ki counter veyyadaaniki nenu writer ni kaadu fighter ni. Ayyababoi naakooda cinema dialogues vachestunnai), says Mahesh in the brand new ‘Aaagadu’ teaser that is unveiled today. Once again, this is also packed with loads of punch dialogues, this time a punch on punch-dialogues. Of course the rugged look of the teaser reminds us of the first one only, but dialogues entertain. With striking background score of Thaman, and KV Guhan’s rich visuals, encounter specialist Mahesh sets the bar high.

Huge success is not coming in Naga Chaitanya’s way whenever he is aiming at box office with masala movies. Most of his mass-entertainers ended up biting dust, so are his punch dialogues in those movies. Realizing this fact, he has now dropped them.

‘Manam’ left Chaitu in fantastic spirits as the film got rousing reception from Telugu audiences. But the same hit streak failed to continue for Auto Nagar Surya, as our Akkineni hero’s rugged look and powerful punch dialogues failed to create impact. Acting quickly on these findings, Chaitu has made sure that there are no punch dialogues in his upcoming movie ‘Oka Laila Kosam’. This flick is a romantic comedy directed by Vijay Kumar Konda who did similar magic with Nitin earlier.

‘Chaitu told me not to have any punch dialogues for him and we dropped such lines immediately. End result is awesome today, as some poetic one-liners mouthed by him simply make romance more beautiful’, said Vijay. Currently ‘Oka Laila Kosam’ is in its post-production phase, and will soon get a release date.

Call it an acting debut or a cameo, ace producer Dil Raju has finally experienced the ‘action and cut’ in front of the camera. He mesmerizes with his handsome presence on silver screen. Though limited to two dialogues and two minutes of footage, Raju’s debut is going to splash in colors.

In today’s release Geethanjali, Dil Raju played the role of himself; nevertheless it is just a single scene. Raju is there throughout the flick, as the whole comedy of the movie revolves around him. He is omnipresent in almost all the scenes as his very reference is bringing huge laughs for audiences. Inside the movie, hero happens to be an aspiring director who wanders around Dil Raju’s office to narrate a story to him. And it’s an easy guess how that fun would be.

Earlier rumors have erupted that Dil Raju is making his acting debut with his own upcoming movie, Sai Kiran Adivi’s Kerintha. But the purist producer rubbished them off. Anyway, Geethanjali marks his acting debut.

Doe-eyed beauty Tamannah Bhatia has got third big blow in B-town. Her latest film Entertainment, on which she had pinned high hopes, opened to extremely poor reviews just like her two previous debacles Himmatwala, Humshakals.

The Akshay Kumar-starrer has been dubbed as a film with slapstick comedy, low-brow humour by critics and it is compared to Sajid Khan’s Humshakals. With three back-to-back bad films under her belt, looks like, Tamannah is jinxed in B-town and her career in Hindi is not so charming.

The big question is will Tamanna able to bag plum offers in B-town? Will she able to bounce back with a bang? This needs to be seen.

Has Jr NTR patched up with his uncle-MLA Balakrishna? If not, is he wooing Balayya? This is the latest buzz doing rounds in film and political circles. NTR who rarely tweets, took to twitter soon after knowing that Balakrishna was injured on the sets of Godse. NTR posted, ‘Wishing Babayi a speedy recovery. my request to all the fans..dnt worry guys the LION is fine. he will be back ROARING’ (sic).

During the 2014 elections, speculations were rife that all was not well between Balakrishna and Jr NTR. Balayya even made a comment that ‘no one will be invited for political campaigning.’ This was directly hinted at Jr NTR and this has upset NTR’s fans to the hilt. NTR was also upset as Pawan had replaced him in the campaigning. NTR has been staying away from political activities for a while. Soon after Chandra Babu-led TDP won in 2014 elections, NTR congratulated him personally. This also set tongues wagging in TDP circles.

Meanwhile, Jr NTR is a happy man these days. After turning into father to a baby boy, NTR is said to be rejoicing the moments. It needs to be seen whether NTR is trying to become family man by shedding all the rifts within Nandamuri clan. Let’s see how Balayya reacts.

Down south, hero Saif Ali Khan is not as popular as his enchanting wife Kareena Kapoor. If not for ‘Love Aaj Kal’, Saif wouldn’t have got even that limited recognition. However the recent Court orders have bumped him into the spot light, and after seeing Kareena in Hyderabad for Singham Returns promotions we couldn’t get thoughts off Saif.

Recently a Mumbai court ordered to frame charges on Saif Ali Khan under section 325 IPC, in connection with a brawl at a five star hotel in 2012. A South African businessman of Indian origin accused that Saif thrashed him allegedly when the former asked him to not make heavy noise in the dining hall. This led to a speculation that Saif will be stripped of his Padma Sri award that is conferred in 2010. Anyway, Home Ministry sources have confirmed today that are no such plans.

‘Government has due discretion whether a Padma Award should be stripped of a person even if he is convicted. How a minor scuffle would be fair enough to strip an award that recognizes the outstanding achievements of him in the field of entertainment’, a Home Ministry source commented. Seems like Kareena Kapoor’s husband is safe with his award.

August month’s movie marathon will mesmerize Telugu audiences like never before. After the super successful start of the month with Run Raja Run, films like Maya, Gaalipatam and Nuvvila Nenala followed. Some made sense, some failed to leave impact. Here is another entertainment installment that will be available in theaters from today.

Kona Venkat’s Geethanjali that features Anjali and Srinivas Reddy in the leads is slated for today’s release. Buzz from last night’s premiere show is quite positive as the film got ample dose of comedy in trademark Kona style. Anjali’s performance as an entertaining ghost and Srinivas Reddy, Madhu, Rajesh and Jabardasth Shankar’s funny acts will enthrall movie lovers.

Also some interesting screenplay locks give some speechless moments, they say. Also there is heavy talk about actor Rao Ramesh’s performance. Watch these columns for our review!

Declaring that Govindudu Andarivadele is all about rekindling those forgotten family values and traditions, director Krishna Vamsi sounded bold and confident the other day. What we call like a short-thunders before the actual storm, his revelations energized mega fans. Regardless of what he said, split opinions are being heard about the possibilities of Govindudu becoming a landmark movie as claimed by the film’s crew.

‘Govindudu is not about shattering records and chasing box office figures. The film stands epitome for the next 50 years in the journey of Telugu cinema. It is a classic in the making’, said Krishna Vamsi. Film critics however feel that making classics is impossible these days as audiences are forgetting even super hit films in no time. Magadheera, Attarintiki Daredi and recently Race Gurram have entertained and left, but none left significant mark on audiences, say critics. With KV not in form from a while and Charan charging up the brigade of family-drama for the first time, they say, the probability of hitting bull’s eye is exactly equal to its opposite.

By hook or crook, Krishna Vamsi is expected to deliver a hit this time despite of what the content is. With Charan in the lead, it is likely to turn a big hit because of this staggering stardom that could make even an average fare run like a watch-worthy treat. All these days KV missed the target due to wrong casting also and for Govindudu there is no such issue. Mega fans opined that there is blockbuster written all over for this colorful family .

With reigning star Nitin, jacking up his remuneration from 3.5 crore to 4.5 crore, after average grosser “Heart Attack”, two leading production houses PVP cinema and Bhagwan-Pulla Rao’s production have reportedly dropped their plans to make film with Ishq star. They believed that the 1 crore hike was unnessary since the market has expanded much after “heart attack” since the hike looked unreasonable. PVP were repotedly willing shell out upto 4 crores, but the actor wasn’t willing to reduce, so they are looking for an alternative hero.

Even Bhagwan and Pulla Rao team readied a script and hoping that Nitin would charge them old price of 3, but he shocked them with his revised pay cheque and the producers of Rebel are also moved out of his camp. Usually, stars hike their pay cheques after a blockbuster, but Nitin had other plans and lost two leading production houses. Only time will tell, whether the decision he made was right or wrong?

Compelled to retreat from the August 15 war, Young Tiger NTR’s Rabhasa will be taking on Raviteja’s Power on Vinayaka Chavithi. Both these mass-action flicks are heading to theatres for August 29 release. If we have to discuss about the advantages and disadvantages these movies are having, we have to say that odds are even.

Dammu and Ramayya Vastavayya tanked big time for NTR, though Baadshah cloaked him with satisfaction of delivering hit in the middle. We have to attribute the dismal performance of those two super flops to poor stories and uninteresting dialogues. To our surprise, even Rabhasa is looking like a similar cookie if we have to say anything by the trailer. That doesn’t mean NTR is ruled out as the youngster has earlier shown his potential with such regular movies.

Coming to Raviteja’s Power, we are habituated to watch Ravi Teja in such action roles very often. As it is coming from a debutant director now, chances are unlikely for experimentation and some routine stuff is expected. What matters is how powerfully, logically and innovatively his character and story are created, as routine plots are getting rejected by audiences these days.

Setting his sight on romance and passionate love making, Mega director Sampath Nandi has once again come up with a contemporary theme. Forget Racha and Gabbar Singh 2, both being star studded movies, and look at what is our director’s real love. Indeed, he has an intriguing towards these bold scenes.

Sampath’s debut movie Yemaindi Ee Vela was termed slightly erotic because of the bold romance between Varun Sandesh and Nisha Agarwal. A girl taking slight advantage on the sheets and the couple heading for a passionate sex was shot aesthetically for that flick. Even now, Gaalipatam looks pretty same when it comes to love-making scenes and lip kisses, making us feel the tinge of Sampath Nandi. Since he provided story and dialogues for the movie, should we say that he is smitten by sex scenes?

Despite Tollywood being a celebrated tinsel town after Hindi cinema, we have low levels of reception for steamy romance scenes in main-stream flicks. Slightest ever eroticism is considered an unorthodox thing here. We have to see how people like Sampath Nandi who wants to be bold with their content get a long run.

Many onscreen pairs are branded hit pair in the industry and whenever there is a film with a hit pair, it becomes the major USP of the film. Kajal-Ram Charan Tej, Samanta-Mahesh Babu, Prabhas-Kajal, Prabhas-Anushka, Nagarjuna-Shreya, Naga Chaitanya-Samanta…are only a few hit pairs. And all these pairs are young actors who are ruling the film industry at present. Coming to senior hit pair who are still in great demand are Prakash Raj and Jayasudha.

From ‘Bommarillu’, ‘Kotha Bangaru Lokam’, ‘Seetamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’ to ‘Govindudu Andarivaadele’, the duo seem to be made for each other as husband and wife onscreen. The perfect chemistry that strikes between them adds to the overall feel of the movie. That is why Praksh Raj was brought back to Cherry’s movie replacing another Tamil actor who was first chosen to do the role in GAV.

The latest teaser of GAV has a refreshing feel and gave the audience glimpses of these senior pair adding an aura of sacredness. The sight of Prakash Raj-Jayasudha pair itself adds positivity for any movie. Prakash Raj and Jayasudha always strike right chords because unlike many others they are natural actors who live their characters. Undoubtedly, the duo as an onscreen pair have no replacement.

Paapanaashanam’ is one of the places of visit on the holy hills of Tirumala Tirupati. It is a holy waterfall and people who go for pilgrimage to Tirupati don’t miss out to bathe under the holy waterfalls ‘Paapanaashanam’. Devotees consider, these holy waters of the waterfall wash away their sins and make them pious. ‘Drushyam’ is all about fighting against sin and finally getting oneself purified by washing away the sin by accepting guilt.

This might seem to be like some ‘Satsanga’ classes but Tamil remake of ‘Drushyam’ is reportedly going for a title change. As per the latest news, Kamal Haasan’s movie is going to be titled ‘Paapanaasham’. After the competion of ‘Uttama Villian’, this movie will go on sets. Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada versions of the movie have almost the same titles and the makers might have felt that the title has become too familiar and lost its sheen and shocking factor which is essential for a thriller.

Amongst the dusky heroines in South, milky beauties Hansika, Tamanna and Shruti Haasan look like fairies who came to earth from heaven. Their milky while complexion and flawless skin tone is their USP down South. But in Bollywood, as most of the heroines are fair skinned and only a few like Bipasha Basu are dusky beauties, Tamanna and Shruti’s milky white skin isn’t anything special for them. South audiences go gaga over their skin color besides their natural beauty.

Three films old in Bollywood, Tamanna is still struggling. Her third film with Akshay Kumar is released on 8th August and is receiving mixed response from critics. Since Tamanna’s character hasn’t much in the performance front, some of the critics have attacked her milky white complexion. They compared it to bloodless whiteness. And some even advised her to retire from Bollywood movies and go to South movies where she can justify her name Tamanna. Three films in a row with big heroes, but all faced the same fate leaving Tamanna where she has started. Poor thing!

Only recently senior actor Mohan Babu and star comedian Brahmanandam were dragged into a legal tussle because of the alleged misuse of their Padma titles. Court even went to the extent of cancelling their titles and restricted them using the Padma title for commercial gain hereafter. One more top Bollywood hero is currently facing the same regarding his Padma title. A complaint was lodged by an RTI activist Subhash Agarwal, asking the Home Ministry to take back the actor Saif Ali Khan Padma Shri conferred on him in 2010.

Agarwal’s complaint says, “I had filed a complaint in the Ministry of Home Affairs when a Mumbai court had framed charges against him. I had demanded that the Padma award must be taken back from him. This is not the first time that I’ve filed this complaint.” But according to the government stand, those charges made by Mumbai Court on Saif Ali Khan over a restaurant brawl with an NRI, were made after he was conferred the Padma award. Hence it is unlikely that the government is going to strip off the title from the actor.

Nandamuri Balakrishna is presently shooting for his upcoming movie in Hyderabad. Some action sequences for the movie directed by Satya Deva are being shot on the outer ring road. The director is filming the bike racing sequences for the movie when suddenly Balayya Babu’s leg got injured during the shoot by accident. Immediately he was rushed to Kamineni Hospital in Hyderabad.

According to the latest reports, Balakrishna’s health condition is stable and there is no need to worry. Balayya Babu is presently busy shooting for his film ‘Godse’, Trisha playing the main female lead. Recently after the Rajamundri schedule, the film’s unit returned to Hyderabad and resumed shooting here in Hyd. His injury news came as a shock to his fans and they are praying for a quick recovery.