According to grapevine, Bollywood beauty Alia Bhatt reportedly turned down to be part of Akhil Akkineni’s Tollywood debut. Apparently, the makers have approached Alia but she couldn’t take the offer as she is quite busy with Hindi movies in pipeline. Also little birdie tells us that Alia is now seeing Sidharth Malhotra so making debut down the south might take some time for her.

Not just Akhil’s debut, Alia has been the most sought-after actress for several Telugu heroes and directors post the success of Student of the Year, Highway. 

She was flooded with offers but she couldn’t. With this, team Vinayak is now contemplating to rope in a new face opposite Akhil. If all goes well, the movie will be launched on the eve of Sankranthi grandly.

Akhil Akkineni is turning out to be the most desirable and most wanted even much before his debut movie release. Much like his handsome dad, Akhil too became the heart throb of girls and the pictures here at his latest appearance at St Ann’s college speak the same. 

Girls are going gaga over Akhil and they were seen super excited to get into a frame with him for a selfie. The young chap looked ultra cool and handsome, why not girls go crazy for him! So Akhil is already enjoying the huge fan base of young girls!

Jal directed by Girish Malik was nominated on 13 Dec 2014 in two categories for Oscars of 2014. Jal starring Purab Kohli, Kirti Kulhari and Tannishtha Chatterjee will be contesting in categories Best Picture and Best Original Score for Oscars. 

Film will be competing along with high profile entertainers like 300 Rise of Empire, Interstellar and Exodus. Film highlights water scarcity and about a man called Bakka who was gifted to find water in the desert. Sonu Nigam and Bickram Ghosh scored music and background score for the film which also found its way to the Oscar Library for their permanent core collection. 

Rahman’s films Kochadaiyan is also nominated for the best original score category. Final nominations will be announced on 15 Jan 2015.

From distributor to producer, Dil Raju always showed his mettle and today he’s the one among the big-wig producers we have to get that special ‘brand’ status. Though he has taken few beatings in the recent times with big-ticket flops, still his judgmental skills and the production values of his films are talked a lot in film circles. And what is his biggest dream anyway in terms of film industry to achieve? ‘Abbani Teeyani Debba is my all-time favorite song and K Raghavendra Rao is always my favorite director. 

It’s my dream to make at least one movie in my life with Darsakendrudu. It’s the biggest dream I’ve’, said Dil Raju, sharing his thoughts. Definitely it’s going to be bigger and better if it is Raghavendra Rao and Dil Raju’s combination, as that director is master craftsmen of box-office masala and the producer is a perfect planner who know where to spend more and when. Wish his dream come true soon.

According to reports, Super Star Rajnikanth’s Lingaa got trimmed by nine minutes to improvise the viewing experience of audiences. With theatrical rights of the movie sold for around 140 crores across the globe, surely this commercial flick has to pull more than it could chew. 

But will this chopping really helps? Around 6 minutes in first half and 3 minutes in second half of the flick got chopped, as Lingaa pocketed around 87 crores gross collections from worldwide box offices. On a whole this 9 minute chopping may not do any magic, but will surely let audiences feel that something miraculous has happened. 

On the dark side, Lingaa failed to evince interest due to its haphazard narrative and that might end buyers in 30-40% losses, say trade experts. Eros entertainment has brought Lingaa theatrical rights for 120 crores, and sold it to local distributors for decent profits. 

All in all, Andhra, Telangana and Tamilnadu local distributors doled around 100+ crores to release the movie. As of now the film is getting good response as Rajni’s fans want to catch the movie even once.

Prolific character artiste-seasoned actor “Ahuti” Prasad has been hospitalised. He has been admitted into KIMS, Secunderabad. He is suffering from health-related issues for a while. With no progress in health condition, he is admitted into hospital.

His condition is stable and doctors are conducting several tests to diagnose reasons for his illness. Families and close-friends have visited him in the hospital. Popular as “Ahuti” Prasad with the stupendous success of 1988 film “Aahuti”, his original name is Adusumilli Janardhan Vara Prasad. 

He is native of Koduru near Mudinepalli of Krishna district. Ahuti Prasad is an award-winning actor. He got two Nandi Awards- Nandi Award for Best Villain for the film Nenu Ninnu Premistunnanu and Nandi Award for Best Character Actor for the film Chandamama.

Pushing all the controversies to trash, India’s premier Tennis star Sania Mirza is climbing to top. She has overcome all those career threatening injuries and is now back to her winning spree. 

Here is Sania Mirza sizzling on famous Forbes India magazine cover for ranking into India’s best 100 celebrities. Sania posed in short yellow skirt and is as elegant as she always would be. Sania Mirza, Queen of her court!

Stylish Star Allu Arjun’s debut film Gangotri has been surprising to many as Arjun’s looks were heavily criticized. The inside news is that at one-time, producer Allu Aravind too didn’t want the movie to hit the screens as he’s afraid that the movie would ‘ruin’ Bunny’s chances in Tollywood ‘forever’. According to none other than director K. Raghavendra Rao, a preview show of Gangotri had been screened for producer Aravind’s close friends and relatives ahead of its release. 

Most of his friends and relatives didn’t like the film and told him in privy that the movie would be big ‘minus’ for Arjun if it’s released and would be ‘dampener’ for his prospects in industry. In fact, Allu Aravind too convinced with it, and had wanted to halt the movie release at one point. Coming to know Aravind’s plans through common friend, Raghavendra Rao was deeply upset with it. And asked Aravind what didn’t he like it in film? Aravind shared that the movie was not so engaging enough although he didn’t point out any mistakes. 

Hurt with this, KRR had asked Aravind that how come he liked the film’s story when he had narrated before filming? Aravind reiterated that he had liked the story but somehow not convinced with the film. Much to everyone’s shock KRR had again narrated the story to producer Allu Aravind after complete shooting of the film. Later on producers Aravind and Aswini Dutt released the film and the movie turned out to be hit. 

Even Raghavendra Rao credited the movie’s success to music composer MM Keeravani as he still feels that the movie was a runaway hit only because of its music. All in all, Raghavendra Rao said that direction wasn’t never easy even after directing as many films as 99 and each film is a learning experience. Raghavendra Rao himself revealed this interesting yet inside story on Gangotri and Allu Arjun.

Bollywood for quite sometime showed its fascination to Pakistani beauties. According to the latest another Pakistani bomb is all set to explode in Bollywood and that too on Badshah Sharukh Khan. National Award winner Rahul Dholakia is directing Sharukh Khan’s Raees produced on Excel Entertainment banner. 

Till recently speculation is on that the lead role will be going to either Sonam Kapoor and Kriti Sannon. However it is coming out that Pakistani beauty mesmerising Mahira Khan will be starring opposite Sharukh. Sharukh will be seen as Gujarati Don while Nawazuddin Siddiqui will be trying to nab him as a cop. 

Sources say filmmakers finalised Mahira as they felt her looks and personality matches with the character penned by the director. Mahira came into spotlight with her performance in Bol in 2011 and later Humsafar TV series. 

Inside talk is she secretly visited Mumbai and auditioned for the role. Sharukh is busy with Maneesh Sharma’s Fan in Mumbai. He will later star in Rohit Shetty’s next and Rahul Dholakia’s ‘Raees’ in 2015.

Rivalry between star hero’s fans has started from the time of NTR & Krishna. Later on, it was carry forwarded by the fans of Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna. After that, things started to become worse. Majority of the younger generation fans have started to hate each and every other hero apart from their favourite actor. 

Today, Powerstar Pawan Kalyan fans crossed the line and hacked a website that belongs to the fans of Superstar Mahesh Babu. Moreover, they have posted posters & videos of Pawan Kalyan with a message that the website was hacked by a specific person. 

Irked with this, Superstar Mahesh Babu fans have started to abuse Pawan Kalyan and his fans on social networking sites. Both Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu enjoys huge following on Facebook & Twitter.

Much to our expectations, Varun Sandesh’s last Friday release ‘Ee Varsham Saashiga’ too has bitten dust, falling in the long marquee of flops he is delivering these days. Including our Happy Days’ hero’s dismal performance, Hari Priya’s glamour and silly double entendre comedy inside the movie have failed to save the ship from sinking. But what is our hero’s take on it? “Script wise, there are no flaws in Ee Varsham Saaskhiga but there problem lies with execution. 

It is one of those flicks where execution has gone wrong despite having all resources on board”, says Varun Sandesh, who felt no regrets for yet another flop in his kitty. “Keeping critics and criticsm aside, I saw people in theatres enjoying every moment of the film”, Varun added, as the film saw some good openings that his previous duds. 

So, who is he blaming now for the poor show? Maybe critics and directors!! When big stars like Mahesh Babu are saying that a cinema’s hit and failure is always a team work, probably Varun Sandesh is yet stuck with the idea that a hero is the one who just comes on set and acts and leaves. Time to introspect the choice of scripts you’re picking up Varun and how team-work yields fantastic outputs.