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Rajamouli’s curse haunting him

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Any hero that works with Rajamouli can rest assured of bagging a blockbuster. However he has to prepare himself for the worst to follow that biggest hit. Almost every hero that worked with Rajamouli faced serious failures immediately after that project. Few of them suffered a series of failures and few lucky ones like Charan, Sunil and Raviteja got back on track after one or two flops.

Currently the one who is suffering from Rajamouli’s after syndrome is Nani. He played a cameo in Eega and that is enough for Nani to go through a lean patch. After Eega, Nani starred in Eto Vellipoyindi Manasu, Paisa and Aaha Kalyanam movies. All the three ended up as flops. Aaha Kalyanam failed to get decent openings as well.

This film fared so bad in US market that it will go down as one of the worst failures in the history of overseas market. Aaha Kalyanam collected just $1400 in its first weekend (roughly Rs. 84000). Aaha’s domestic business has been dismal too. Nani needs a big hit to get back the attention of audience. His next film Jenda Pai Kapiraju is due for release in few days. Can that end the miserable run of Nani?

Mahasivaratri Special: Chiru and Pawan- Live show Tomorrow

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Both Megastar and his brother Powerstar along with their doting brother Nagababu are going to come live on Television sets tomorrow. No doubt, this is going to be a first class entertainment for Mega fans on the eve of Mahasivaratri.

After looking at the political turmoil and quick change of guard in the state, one will wonder what Chiranjeevi and his brother Pawan Kalyan are doing at a press meet. That too going live on TV means, there is much to imagine. But their appearance on live telecast is not much politically, apart from the fact that it is for their brother’s son Varun Tej. Chiru and Pawan are attending the muhurat of Nagababu’s son Varun’s debut flick tomorrow on Feb 27th, on the eve of Sivaratri. All this event is going to be telecast live on MAA TV.

Varun Tej’s long pending debut will happen under Srikantha Addala’s direction and the director already got various pujas done for the script at prominent pilgrimage centres of Andhra Pradesh. More details about the project will be unveiled tomorrow.

T’wood divided on Vizag land allocation?

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Now that Telangana State is a reality, majority of Telugu film industry bigwigs, who hail from the successor state of Andhra Pradesh, are reportedly prodding the Union Government to fasten the process of lands allocation in Visakhapatnam for the “development of infrastructure”.

In fact, few years ago then government had issued a G.O allocating 316 acres of land between Nidigattu and Bheemunipatnam near Vizag. But no one from film industry showed interest to apply for it then apparently citing reasons like the land is not suitable for film production and the cost was too high (Rs 25 Lakh per acre) and industry was concentrated in Hyderabad. With Telangana State is declared now, filmmakers have reiterated their demand and this time, they’re pressing for lands in Visakhapatnam.

Industry buzz is that so far 20 persons have sought land to set up studios including few noted personalities. Few bigwigs, who own Studios in Hyderabad, are swiftly making their moves to bag chunk of the lands in Vizag. Naturally, this has invited flak, wrath from small-ticket filmmakers and producers. Producer Natti Kumar, who is native of Vizag, says, “We have approached higher authorities in government to allot land to those who were not allotted any land in Hyderabad. We also requested them to not to consider those who already benefited in Hyderabad.”

With this, a rift is said to be brewing between these two sections which may hamper the cordial relations. And few other industry people opine that they’re firm on producing films from Hyderabad. Many neutrals added that since Hyderabad is common capital for 10 more years, there may not be huge changes in film industry at least for next decade. On other side, there are many apprehensions over alleged threats from Telangana leaders, activists. Let’s wait and watch.

RGV Duet on Mohan Babu, Jayasudha

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Who can say a No to duet when there is someone like Ram Gopal Varma directing the project? All this is related to the movie of ‘Rowdy’ where in Manchu Mohan Babu, jayasudha and Manchu Vishnu, Shavi are playing lead pairs. When we say jayasudha and Mohan Babu, the pairing looks perfect because they have some sweet memories of old chemistry. This is the area where RGV exactly wanted to cash on and shot a duet song on them.

Of course, it might sound odd with this old pair shaking hips before the camera. You will go almost into coma, if reports are true that the duet song is a re-mix of ‘Rangeela’ title song. ‘I cannot believe, whether it was me who danced for the song which has come out wonderful,’ jayasudha exclaimed without revealing the exact song. Anyways, we need to wait till the release of movie in next month to say ‘Yaayire Yaayire…’

Taapsee gets a chumma in public

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Bollywood is a place where heroine go bold even in public and same thing happened in Taapsee life, Tapsee is well known actress in south and as everyone knew that gaining popularity in south is directly proportional to taking off to Bollywood. Same formula is followed by Taapsee and was applied perfectly.

Taapsee is having couple of Bolywood films in her hands and she is also gathering some top director’s contacts to start off new projects in future. As a part of her next film launch Taapsee attends function and movie is starred by Amit. Movie launch went on well and all were happy that movie gets a good publicity on day 1  itself.
Amit who tried to make it a big fat publicity day for him dragged Taapsee closer and kissed her while she is posing for photographers. Taapsee who is shocked to see Amit behavior left from function. But Taapsse kiss gave a strong boost to Amit and photographers, well off screen are so romantic for both this pair and what about on screen?

Chiru speech shocked Parliament

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Union minister and Mega star Chiranjeevi is all but ending as a Big Zero if the recent developments in the residue state of Andhra Pradesh. it is clear that the bifurcation will remain as an unforgettable wound for the manner it was orchestrated,  flouting all norms of federal system, and making mockery of democracy.

Chiru’s speech in Rajya Sabha is definitely a bolt out of the blue to many of his ‘reel’ fans and ‘real’ fans in both Seemandhra and Telangana. Delhi media dubbed his speech in English as ‘ Bhimavaram English ‘. One couldn’t understand what Chiru was saying in the first place. He blamed all other parties for bifurcation and backed Congress was decent  as it was the last one to take a call.
Chiru English shocked every one and the deputy chairman is repeatedly told Chiru to speak in Telugu. Word went around congress party that they had chosen Chiru to further insult the Telugu and asked him to speak  deliberately As expected he became mute spectator visibly for his political gains.
Chiru’s film popularity has already and he is seen as ‘Big Zero’ by people. And the important thing is Chiru is not an innocent or novice. He knows all these happenings. He is aware that he will lose his ground if he continues in Congress .While one Telugu star actor-turned politician late N.T Rama Rao made Telugus pride,
Mega Star Chiru had brought it down to sub zero levels .History will never forgive Chiranjeevi. Analysts say that Chiru’s episode should become an eye-opener to people who are blindly worshiping matinee idols.So it is now time to beware of Balakrishna or Mohan babu or even Pawan Kalyan entering politics and take them for a big ride.

Sonia’s gift to Kiran?

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There were speculations right from the beginning that Sonia Gandhi may have been behind Kiran Kumar Reddy’s move to stage a so called revolt against Congress leadership. The idea was to ensure Congress doesn’t get totally wiped out in the Seemandhra region after granting Telangana.

This was confirmed with the manner in which the Congress leadership hesitated to take any decision against him even though he opposed Telangana formation tooth and nail. And now the situation is such that Kiran is all set to announce his new political party. Even AP Congress in-charge Digvijay Singh had stated that Kiran was in no way speaking against Sonia Gandhi and he is a congress man and now with reports that Assembly polls may be postponed by six months pending bifurcation of AP is fueling speculations.
Sources say that since Kiran is now all set to launch his own political party at the fag end, Congress leadership wants to make sure that whatever votes Congress may lose it should come to Kiran than anyone else and hence it may be giving him the time to prepare for Assembly polls.

Tamanna caught kissing in lift ?

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Tamanna the clean beauty until today is now carrying a black mark for her career and that to with a director. As per latest buzz from Bollywood Tamanna is said to be Sajid khan director of Tamanna’s film Humshakals is dating her and both are in deep love from a long time while they started the shoot.

If rumors are to be belived from Bollywood Tamanna is caught kissing Sajid khan in a hotel lift where Humshakal’s team are staying and Tamanna was caught by own team members of Humshakals. Tamanna had some affair with Sajid is well known fact for entire team and they just want to confirm this and followed them to lift.
Tamanna is also seen in many working stills talking privately to Sajid khan and Sajid is also accepting that he is very much impressed with Tamnna and he like to see her in his future films too. Tamanna is brought into Bollywood by Sajid khan itself. Well Tamanna has not yet answered to any of these rumors.

I cried everyday after shooting : Shraddha das

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Heroines life on screen is completely different to their off screen, same as they behave completely different off screen. Few heroines will be satisfied to roles they get an few will get used to satisfy with what they really got. Shraddha das will be standing in second category of this list saying that she is not at all happy with her roles and but got used to them. Shraddha das apperead in few Tollywood and Bollywood films and recently she also made her debut in Bengali, Talking about this to TOI she says that she is not happy with her roles in industry.

Here is what she said “Earlier, I used to cry a lot every day after the shooting because I wasn’t happy with what I was doing. Initially, I was advised to take up whatever came my way and I did quite a lot of films where I didn’t have much to do.” “ Once you are typecast in Telugu, it’s tough to get different roles. It’s only the mass entertainers which make money in Tollywood.
No matter what the critics say, the chances for other kinds of cinema to match the scale of mass entertainers at the box office are very slim. I wish it was different,” reveals the actress who seems to have learnt to say ‘no.’ “I’ve learnt to say ‘no’ to offers I don’t like. When I am getting good offers in other languages, why should I continue doing films which I’m not happy about? I didn’t sign a Telugu film since taking up Rey two years ago. People think I’ve no films in hand. But, I shot for two Hindi films and a Bengali one in those two years,”

NTR first, Mahesh next!

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It’s common knowledge by now that Mahesh Babu, had thought of teaming up with director Puri Jaganndah, soon after his present commitment Aagadu with Srinu Vytla. But destiny has other plans for Mahesh. Owing to his contract with UTV films, Mahesh Babu has to begin working on their project with director Koratala Siva which was announced much earlier. With this, Puri Jagan has to wait for a while to direct Mahesh.

Puri, who is known for wrapping up projects at a breakneck speed, has decided to do a film before his project with Mahesh takes off. He is going to direct none other than Jr NTR. Puri and NTR, who haven’t joined their forces after debacle of Andhrawala (ten years ago in 2004), have now decided to break that jinx. Puri has apparently narrated a story line to NTR who quite impressed with it.NTR has given a go-ahead to Puri, if rumour mills are anything to go by.

NTR, who is currently sweating out for Santosh Srinivas’ Joru (tentative title), may finish it by the end of April. It’s a cake walk for Puri to get ready by April as he finishes a script within 20 days. If all goes well, this project will go onto floors from May. It’s not clear who is going to produce the film and other cast. So, NTR is first for Puri and Mahesh is second as per the commitments. Meanwhile, directors Sukumar, Koratala Siva and Vamsi Paidipally too busy weaving stories for NTR. Despite going through rough phase, NTR is hot cake for the top directors in tinsel ville.

Jagan’s 16 year old lady eyes Shakira!

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Do you remember the curvaceous siren who danced to a sexy item number from Puri Jagan’s Pokiri? That girl who sings that she is still in her sixteen only, is the highly enticing Mumaith Khan who lost ground in Tollywood from a while.

Over the top skin shows like an adult actress have hampered the chances of Mumaith in Tollywood for sure. Though Jagan tried to give her break again, nothing went in their favour. Coming to our point, the other day when Mumaith has shaken her legs at a private fashion event, onlookers were shocked as she went on holding a mike to sing a song. A voice that was coated with little sharpness and soothed with melody has come out from Mumaith, for an electric dance number she both danced and sang.

‘I’ve done as an item-bomb in more than 120 movies. Now I want to do something new with my singing, and want to be someone like a Shakira’, says the 27 year old curvaceous sensation, who is still 16 year old lady for Pokiri lovers.

Kajal dating Mumbai-based CEO?

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According to grapevine, Kajal Aggarwal is seeing a Mumbai-based businessman. Going by reports, the Singham star is dating a CEO of Interior and designs firm for a while. The duo reportedly had a nice time in Dubai on the eve of Valentines Day.

And their pics are doing the rounds online. Kajal, who is a family person, has got nod from her parents and even groom’s parents too fine with their wedding. Buzz is that Kajal wants some time as she need to complete few commitments. She recently cleared the air regarding her marriage and said that she would tie the knot in next 3 years.

Looks like, Kajal too following her sister Nisha Aggarwal who dated and later married a Mumbai entrepreneur. This is certainly, heart-breaking news to all Kajal’s fans.

Director finalized for Akhil’s debut?

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Ever since Akhil’s silver screen debut is confirmed, speculations over who is going to direct Akhil’s launch pad has been doing the rounds. Earlier the names of Trivikram Srinivas and Deva Katta popped up but later they were denied by Nagarjuna and Akhil.

Now the latest buzz is that director Srinu Vytla would launch Akhil. Apparently, Srinu and Nagarjuna recently hold deliberations which turned out fruitful, say sources.
Buzz is that Srinu has written an entertainment subject with youthful tinge sometime back. He narrated the script to Nag and Nag was quite impressed with the subject. If all goes well, Srinu Vytla would direct Akhil soon after Mahesh Babu’s Aagadu.

Considering that Nagarjuna share good rapport with Srinu Vytla who earlier directed King, Akkineni fans too happy over the selection. Now, the question is which beauty gets lucky to pair up with handsome Akhil.

No One With Kiran ?

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Jackpot CM and Cricketer has CM Kiran Kumar Reddy’s  has lost support of his  MLAs and Ministers who were with him till he resigned  from Cong, MLA and CM post last week .  ‘Almost every MLA , MLC and MP cum ministers are no where visible in CM’s house since two days ‘ said a shocked aide of Kiran.

While only six MPs who were expelled from the Congress and three ministers – K Parthasarathy, Pithani Satyanarayana and S Sailajanath attended the meeting convened by Kiran at a private guest house ( five storey building owned by Kirans brother Santosh Reddy in Madhapur ).

Only seven MLAs and four MLCs attended his preparatory meeting for the party on Monday. Among those who went to Kiran’s meeting were: Routhu Suryaprakash Rao, Vanga Geetha, Gade Venkat Reddy, J C Diwakar Reddy, Korla Bharati, Anji Babu and Pantham Gandhi, besides MLCs Reddappa Reddy, Lakshmi Siva Kumari, Paladugu Venkat Rao and Indira.

 Indications are that all of them might not stay back with Kiran till the last moment, when he actually launches the party. They are also unhappy and likely to ditch him in the last minute. Kiran  who expected that at least 40 MLAs would back him  is now spell bound .

 He phoned up some MLAs but was told that they will come only after Shivaratri to Hyderabad  and were busy celebrating the festival with family and friends .It appears that  Kiran could become alone at his home after the bifurcation process was completed .

Film chamber planning a name change!

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Few days ago we have published an item that there is a rift brewing between AP Film Chamber and Telangana Film Chamber following the state bifurcation. Telangana Film Chamber is planning to lay stakes on the assets of AP film chamber for which APFCC biggies are not ready. We are told that AP Film Chamber biggies have met recently and pondered on the future course of action.

They came to an opinion that film industry can not leave Hyderabad as their assets and facilities are fully located here. They have decided that the existing Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce should be first renamed to Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce to avoid emotional issues. They are even planning to fight a legal battle just in case some one tries to push authority on them.
It may noted that AP Cine Writers Association recently changed its name to Telugu Cine Writers Association to avoid conflicts. It is known that Producers association is already called ‘Telugu Film Producers Council’ and the directors association is called ‘Telugu Film Directors Association’.

Heroine caught in prostitution

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Recent past of Tollywood is turning worse to worst and heroines are rushing to take some really hard risks and make a cash party for their future. We have seen many rides on heroine’s favourite spot and now it is heard that there are lots more involved in these issues. After Swetha basu prasad’s issue industry is burning with more such worries.

Recently Ee Rojullo actress Ramya is caught live on Tank bundh and later she refused that she is not the real culprit. Now a recent ride in Tollywood creates a sensation. Hyderabad Banjara hills turned a hub for this prostitution and a ride that happened today brings out a heroine and 2 jr artists out surprisingly.
As per latest sources a top heroine and two Jr. Artists were caught, both these jr artists are raising high in industry recently and spoiling their career they started this side business. Jr. Artist Pallavi is caught and main lead heroines name is not yet revealed out. Police officials are receiving heavy pressure from industry heads.

What will Nagarjuna choose now??

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Known for his business acumen and stunning decision making skills, senior hero Nagarjuna is in a tricky situation now. This time he needs to choose between two things, which apparently matters to him a lot. But choosing one among them will leave the other thing in bitter spot.

As usual, Naga Chaitanya’s Auto Nagar Surya is creating records after records by missing the release date consecutively. On four or more occasions, this flick failed to hit screens leaving both Nag and Chaitu in dismay. But the thing is, will ANS get a chance to release in March at least? May not be, says observers. The prestigious Akkineni family project ‘Manam’ is schedule for Ugadi release probably on March 28th or 31st. In that case, it is not advisable for Chaitu to test waters before a classic sizzles on screen from their family. Any altercation in ANS result will affect Manam too.

Will Nagarjuna flash green signal for Auto Nagar Surya release before Manam or he wants ANS completely to be out of screen until Manam releases and finishes its long run at theatres, is the question. Wait and see, to find out what Nag really chooses.

He dropped Pawan Kalyan for Bunny!

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When Pawan Kalyan had the idea of doing a sequel to Gabbar Singh, he called upon Harish Shankar to do the honors. However, Harish was busy with Ramayya Vastavayya at that time and also committed to do his next with Allu Arjun. Although Harish wanted to grab the opportunity he couldn’t due to prior commitments.

With Harish Shankar being unavailable, Pawan thought of various options and finally gave away the chance to Sampath Nandi. But Harish’s RV failed and Allu Arjun didn’t keep his promise. He rejected Harish Shankar’s storyline and moved on to work with Trivikram again. Now Harish is desperately looking for a suitable hero for his subject.

As per the grapevine, Sai Dharam Tej may star in Harish Shankar’s next. He would have been working on Gabbar Singh sequel now had he taken the opportunity given by Pawan Kalyan during that time. Gabbar Singh sequel will surely miss the special touch of Harish Shankar and the director himself missed out on a wonderful project.

Lakshmi Manchu puffs a cigarette

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All this is happening for reel, and the best part is that only few actresses are ready to do some realistic acts on silver screen. A look at the upcoming ‘Chandamama Kathalu’ trailer gives a sense of different taste on Telugu screen, and especially this cigarette stuff.

The very interesting part of this trailer is the way actor-producer Lakshmi Manchu decided to go realistic for the role, by smoking out a cigarette. That act really epitomises many super models and star heroines who bank a lot on puffing white clouds to beat their stress, though it is health hazard. Not many Telugu heroines have dared to smoke a cigarette on silver screen for a scene, except for some song montage scenes. Hotties like Sonali Bendre in Khadgam and Kajal Agarwal in Arya 2, have smoked for a shot or two.

On the other hand, ‘Chandamama Kathalu’ directed by Praveen Sattaru looks promising for its interesting trailer. Music scored by Mickey J Meyer and some realistic visuals are piling up the hype surrounding this flick.

1 crore joke on Pranitha Subhash

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Somebody might be trying hard to dent Pranitha’s career, since reports (sorry a big joke) claims that she has been paid Rs. 1 crore after “Pandavlu…” but anybody who watched the movie, would agree that she didn’t do such a ‘significant role’ as her screen presence was relatively less despite her sizzling performance.

“Since PPT is Manchus show all the way, Manchu clan bagged the most of the credit for the film. On flip side, how can a hit film in Kannada (Brahma), could help her T-town ratings?,” opined an industry source. So her pay cheque shooting off from mere 20 lakhs to 1 crore despite doing Jr NTR-Santosh Srinivas film alongside Samantha. This rumour might be hard to digest even for Pranitha who is gradually gaining foothold in T-town. In fact, Pranitha would have surprised or even shocked to read such libelous reports.

May be her detractors are spreading such false rumours since it took even the likes of Kaajal, Samantha and Tammanah to touch the magic 1 crore mark after numerous super hits to their individual credit. Definitely, Pranitha has entered into big league yet it takes some more time for to shoot up her fee. What say folks?

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