Who Will Step Back: Venky or Nag?
Announcement of release dates for Nagarjuna’s ‘Greekuveerudu’ and Venkatesh’s ‘shadow’ as April 26 is a cause of worry for distributors and exhibitors. While summer season has the capacity to accomodate as many number of new releases as posible but it has become a virtual rule of thumb in Tollywood not to allow two big stars to release their movies on the same date. Whenever such situations came upon, big heads resolved the crisis allowing a monimum of one week gap.
On the same basis, insiders opine that ‘Greekuveerudu’ and ‘shadow’ should not hit screens on same day despite Nag’s producers releasing their first list of theatres today. More disappointing is ‘shadow’ which is continuously postponed from long time has a reason to worry again. Let us wait and see, who will sacrifice for whom?
Azad chat Sabita issue with Sonia
AICC general secretary and AP party affairs incharge Ghulam Nabi Azad has on Monday met the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and reportedly discussed the issue of home minister Sabita Indra Reddy, named an accused in the CBI chargesheet against Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.
It is learnt that the case against Sabita was the main issue discussed during the half-an-hour meeting. Now that the issue went into the hands of Sonia, it is learnt that a decision on whether or not to continue her in the cabinet would be taken soon. It is being said that a decision would be taken after April 18, when Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi would be meeting the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy and the PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana.
MP Gutta not to join TRS: Will join YSRC?
Congress MP Gutta Sukhinder Reddy dismissed reports that he would be joining the TRS.
Talking to the media he said it was true that the TRS chief KCR invited all of them to join the party and added that he felt there was no need to take a hasty decision. Stating that he has respect for KCR as the leader of the movement, he said he was confident that the UPA government would announce Telangana. If the government did not announce decision, then all the MPs would sit together and decide their future course of action. He said there was scope for a decision on Telangana be taken after May.
It may be mentioned that earlier reports said that Gutta Sukhinder Choudary was sliding towards the YSR Congress, along with Congress MLA Komatireddy Venkata Reddy and his brother and MP Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy. Komatireddy brothers were very close to the late Chief Minister Dr. Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.
Sonia turns attention on AP affairs
AICC President Sonia Gandhi, soon after returning from abroad after a medical check-up, has begun to focus her attention on the goings on in Andhra Pradesh where the ruling Congress party is caught in a political turbulence with a rejuvenated and determined Opposition pushing the Kiran Kumar Reddy government to the wall on various issues.
The uncertainty continuing over the Telangana issue, increase in power tariff, besides acute power shortage, drinking water problem, shut down of industries due to prolonged power cuts etc have provided the Opposition parties with the much needed fodder to grind the government. Added to this internal squabbling in the Kiran Cabinet and the lack coordination between the government and the party organization has put the Congress party on the mat.
Even as the Chief Minister was trying to wriggle out of the tricky situation, like a bolt from the blue came the CBI including the name of Home Minister Sabita Indra Reddy as an accused in yet another charge-sheet filed in connection with the illegal assets case of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy. Already two other ministers — Mopidevi Venkataramana and Dharmana Prasada Rao — were named in earlier charge-sheets as accused in the case. While Mopidevi Venkatarama had to quit as minister and was arrested and now cooling his heels in the jail, Dharmana’sa resignation was not accepted by the state cabinet though the democles’ sword is still hanging on his head.
In all six ministers of the present Kiran Cabinet who were also members in the late YSR ministry along with eight IAS officers were put in the dock with the Supreme Court issuing notices to them in the issuance of 26 controversial GOs which deemed to have helped Jagan to amass wealth. Thus with two ministers already facing charges in the CBI case, the latest one to be put in the dock is the Home Minister. This has put the Chief Minister in piquant situation.
Though some ministers in the Kiran Cabinet have suddenly began a vitriolic attack on late YSR and his family including Jagan, some senior party leaders disagreed with YSR bashing posture being adopted by ministers as this would not save the skin of the tainted ministers and also might boomerang on the party’s chances.. Even some ministers openly ridiculed such an attitude. Some senior Congress leaders like V. Hanumantha Rao wanted that all the tainted ministers should be sacked forthwith by following the footsteps of Manmohan Singh who did not hesitate to sack tainted ministers like D. Raja.
Thus the political atmosphere is likely to get warmed up further in the coming days , especially after the meeting of the PCC President and Chief Minister with Rahul Gandhi.
Varun Tej on Twitter
Mega Brother Nagababu’s son varun tej’s tollywood debut as a hero will happen this year. For the past few days, we have been hearing that his debut movie would be directed by Srikanth Addala, who directed the blockbuster movie ‘Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’. varun tej’s movie’s title has tentatively been confirmed as ‘Gollabhama’ and the makers are reportedly planning to rope in bollywood beauty Parineeti Chopra as the heroine of this movie. Aswini Dutt is likely to produce this movie through his Vyjayanthi Movies.
It is learnt that varun tej has joined the twitter(iamvaruntej) bandwagon just a few minutes ago. It is a known thing that Mega Power Star Ram Charan was active on twitter for certain period. Another mega hero who is active on twitter is Sirish. Hope, varun tej will post his tweets regularly.
Nag Song Turns More Hotter for Naresh
” Swathee mutyapu jallulalo.. Sravana meghapu jaavalilo’ song from ‘Prema Yuddham’ was shot between King Nagarjuna and Amala. Though the movie couldn’t do well at the box office, the picturization of the song and its melody made the song to be remembered even today. Amala appeared so hot in the song. This super hit song has been remixed for Allari Naresh’s forthcoming film ‘Action 3D’. The makers have released the above still and Neelam, the actress to be seen in this song appears so hotter showing her deep navel along with soft belly area. Maybe, this song was shot even better than the original one.
Apart from Allari Naresh, Vybhav, Raju Sundaram, Kick Shyam, Ritu Barmecha, Kamna Jethmalani will be seen as the other lead star cast of the film. Bappi and Bappa Lahari provided the music of this film. The movie was directed by Anil Sunkara on AK Entertainments.
