Superstar Mahesh Babu is always game for experimenting with genres and characters. Director Vikram Kumar of Manam fame thought that Mahesh would readily accept to play triple role in his film. However Mahesh Babu felt that it may not suit for him as he will have to look old for one of those three characters.

Mahesh has reportedly asked Vikram Kumar to come up with a romantic entertainer and rejected the subject in which he had to play triple roles. Vikram Kumar narrated the same subject to Tamil actor Surya and he lapped up the opportunity immediately. Suriya always likes to don different getups and it is a dream for him to play triple role.

Vikram Kumar is also producing this bilingual film which will start rolling shortly. Other cast and crew members are being finalized now. We missed a rare chance of watching Mahesh Babu in three different characters. Hope Mahesh would do something similar in the future.

Top producers Bellamkonda dream to make his son Srinivas a star seems to have come true as ‘Allu Seenu’ expected to garner more than 20-odd crores and to give stardom to debutant actor.

Even though, industry bigwigs found fault with Bellamkonda for spending more than 30 crores for his son, but he proved all of them wrong and got his son, instant recognition and saleable too. With unprecedented publicity campaign, producer is expected to get around 10 crores from Nizam, 10 crores from Seemandhra and 3 crore plus from Ceded, on par with an establish T-town star.

What M S Raju, Suresh babu and Ravi Kishore, couldn’t do, with their sons Sumanth Ashwin, Rana and Ram, Bellamkonda’s gamble paid off and the reason behind leading directors like Boyapati and Surender Reddy showing interest is too obvious.

Telugu heroine Anjali’s latest director Raj Kiran, whose debut flick ‘Geethanjali’ is getting ready to hit screens this Friday, suffered a massive heart attack today, says media reports. He is rushed immediately to a nearby private hospital in Mehdipatnam for treatment. Raj Kiran’s health condition is still unknown and we have to wait for reports from doctors.

A native of Krishna district’s Kaikaluru, Raj Kiran worked with many directors as an associate and co-director. Finally he turned director with Kona Venkat’s horror comedy Geethanjali that is due for release on August 8th. It is quite unfortunate that an youngster like Raj Kiran has suffered heart attack, and probably it is due to the pressure of his first flick’s release and expectations about the result. Hope everything will be fine.

For some time it is Simran, then it is Nayantara. Both these ladies are considered as lucky charms by hero Nandamuri Nandamuri Balakrishna. But frankly speaking the presence of these ladies worked only in a couple of flicks, and there are utter flops too when they joined him.

However, still people say that these hot ladies are his pasty lucky charms and here is a latest one. After sizzling with Balayya in the movie ‘Legend’, actress Radhika Apte is all to set to pair with him once again. We hear that in the upcoming ‘Godse’, Radhika will be playing a second lead, of course a flash-back girl. Godse (tentative title) is being directed by newcomer Satyadev and features Balakrishna and Trisha in the leads.

This is almost an acid test for Trisha who lost her ground in Tollywood. And now that Radhika Apte got second chance with this flick, she too would be expecting positive for her career. We can say who is lucky charm only after the movies release.

Naga Chaitanya tried too hard to become a mass hero despite being successful with romantic films. Chaitanya’s attempt to woo the masses has gone wrong with Autonagar Surya and now the actor has a very clear mindset about what to do and what not to. Chaitanya is sticking to romantic films and light hearted entertainers now.

Naga Chaitanya has rejected few stories that are targeted at the mass audience. He is extremely successful with romantic films and a certain section of audience has accepted him. His films are doing well in A centers and appeal to the youngsters. So Chaitanya decided to put mass films aside and stick with romantic films.

His upcoming film Oka Laila Kosam is already making good buzz among the film circles and looks like another minimum guarantee film from the Yuva Samrat. Chaitanya’s next film is directed by Swamy Rara fame Sudheer Varma. It is a romantic thriller with ample entertainment. Chaitanya is on the right track at the moment and his fans are very happy to see him recognize his strengths.

Even though, momentum for separate bodies for Telangana are moving in fast pace but two leading new-generation directors Harish Shankar and Vamsi Paidipally are not actively participating in the meetings, held by Telangana directors guild even yesterday.

Probably, these two directors who are in the big league, doesn’t want to annoy top producers and superstars, who hail from Seemandhra, so skipping the Telangana-centric efforts. Or truly are their busy with their work, as they reportedly informed organisers. Barring seasoned directors, new-generation directors are keeping out of this Telangana movement, hoping that they would be sidelined by Seemandhra producers, who are known for their big money bags.

Nevertheless, with KCR determined to protect the interest of Telangana film fraternity, these reluctant directors may join the stream, if things fall in place, lets wait and see, how long these directors keep away.

No doubt, actress Tammanah is in no mood to cut down her endorsement money, even after debacle called ‘Humshakals’ and has reportdly quoted Rs. 80 lakhs to promote a city-mall South Indian Shopping Mall.

Usually, top actresses like Kaajal, Samantha and Trisha were content and endorsed retail brands for 40 lakhs, but Tamannah has doubled her pay packet, since she claims that her is popularity is pan-India since her next Hindi film with Akshay ‘Entertainment’ has created lot of buzz. ‘No doubt, she has huge following in Andhra and Tamilnadu but yet to establish herself in Bollywood’, so mall is in a dilemma to pay her or not’ says a source.

Earlier, Tammanah had managers to negotiate such deals, but now her family members handling that job and are unwilling to reduce their demands. Lets see, how things shape up.

Is there a massive upset lurking in near future for Rabhasa? The latest buzz in the industry suggests so. It is being said that the unit will find it extremely difficult to finish its post production activities on time for a release on August 15, a date which the makers are targeting at. If this turns out to be true we are looking at the film getting postponed by couple of weeks at least.

The only way, sources say, the makers can make it to the date, if they are so hell bent on its Independence Day release, is to release the film with half baked post production. Complete whatever post production work that needs to be completed in a hurry without taking care of quality then the film can arrive on time. In the past makers of Oosaravelli adopted a similar path to release the film at any cost for Dushera festival. We all know how the final result of the film turned out to be. Can Jr NTR and makers take such risk again considering the big prices paid by the distributors?

Director Goutham Menon terminated his assistant director for leaking the death news of Trisha on Facebook. You might be quite shocked to read the previous line. Coming to the actual point, Trisha is presently shooting for a Tamil movie opposite Ajith. She is playing his wife and Anushka is the main female lead for the film ‘Thala 55′. This is the fourth time Trisha is romancing Ajith.

Approximately a month ago, Goutham Menon’s assistant director of the movie leaked online that Trisha is playing Ajith’s wife and she will get killed in day light when she is driving a car on E.C.R road. This news shocked the audience. Who are the killers and why did they kill her? Ajith and Anushka investigate the murder and try to find the killer.

This is the outline of the story of ‘Thala 55′ starring Ajith, Anushka and Trisha. After leaking the news, obviously the asst. director got fired. At present, Trisha is shooting for the film and many doubts are surfacing if her character remains the same after the story had been leaked out. Did Goutham make any changes to the story line? Did he keep Trisha alive or dead in his story? Well, we have to wait till the movie hits screens.

Ever since Manam released to stupendous response both critically and commercially, the director of the film Vikram Kumar has been flooded with offers from every camp in Telugu cinema. Even the director had enthusiastically met and narrated stories to many of these actor’s which lead to various rumors about the director’s new film. From Ram Charan to Allu Arjun to Mahesh Babu everyone was associated with the director at one point of time to do a film in near future.

However it is only now we have got an official confirmation regarding the next project of the director. Today a press note has been released officially by the representative of Tamil hero Suriya that the actor’s next film would be with Vikram Kumar. This will be the immediate next project of the star after Masss, which he is currently shooting in Venkat Prabhu’s direction. The Vikram Kumar project would be a bilingual in Tamil and Telugu and is currently positioned to release for Diwali next year.

Ever since Aagadu’s first teaser was released, there are comparisons being made with another super hit blockbuster of the past. Generally such comparisons die in time, but here they are heaping upon day by day. Check this out.

There are lot of similarities being seen and heard about Power Star’s blockbuster movie Gabbar Singh and Superstar’s upcoming flick Aagadu. A look at the teaser of Mahesh Babu’s movie reveals that the ‘belt’ idea was an exact Xerox copy of Gabbar Singh. And then many stated that there are scenes resembling Antyakshari scene and Kabaddi fight scene in the flick. Traces of such Gabbar Singh scenes could be noticed in Aagadu teaser. And today milky beauty Tamanna made another interesting revelation about her character.

Unlike rumours that she will be seen in a lady cop avatar, Tamanna stated that she is playing a village belle who runs a small sweet shop. Well, this is what we call a coincidence. Even Shruti Haasan plays a village belle who runs a gift shop in Gabbar Singh.  Guess what Srinu Vytla is coming up now?

Theatrical trailer of Jr NTR’s latest movie ‘Rabhasa’ has created a never before excitement for Nandamuri fans, but it seems like film industry folks are not as excited as fans. All their expectations are not met either by the trailer or the audio album. Check this story.

Fans got connected with NTR’s punch dialogues and high octane fights, but film critics are feeling that ‘Rabhasa’ trailer is full of violence but no substance. Also the story, emotional scenes and characterizations are looking pretty much familiar with previous mass-entertainers delivered by the Nandamuri hero. Industry folks felt that NTR has chosen a safe-path of five songs, four fights and four comedy sequences format to score a hit. Also Thaman’s songs are not instant hit with music lovers except for the one sung by Jr NTR. Of course Thaman’s song click well once they are watched on silver screen and heard along with visual. But for now, industry folks are not quite excited with Rabhasa.

Directed by Santosh Srinivas of Kandireega fame, Rabhasa is a fully loaded mass entertainer with every ingredient stuffed in for all sections of audiences. Undoubtedly the film is going to be a money spinner if we have to go by the hype, irrespective of what film critics think. Let us see.

New kid on the block, Alludu Seenu has already stunned with his powerful presence at box office just with his first flick. Rumours are doing rounds now that Bellamkonda Srinivas is all set to star in Boyapati Seenu’s latest flick, which will be either produced by Dil Raju or Bellamkonda Suresh himself.

Though ‘Legend’ is touted to be one of the blockbusters of the year, director Boyapati got no big offers from any big star heroes. He tried his luck with a script that is tentatively titled ‘Ruler’ and Ram Charan rejected it straight away. Later our director has approached Jr NTR too with a tweaked version of the same Ruler but that too fizzled out. With no options left, Boyapati Seenu has also considered making a movie with new comers in the lead. Somehow that idea didn’t worked and finally he got the attention of Bellamkonda Srinivas it seems.

If at all Boyapati makes a mass action movie with Srinivas, surely it is going to be the Ruler script narrated to Charan and NTR. Else if he had a new story, he would have first gone to Charan and NTR again. So if Ruler is made with Bellamkonda’s son and scores a blockbuster, then it will be proved that Charan’s judgment is wrong. Else both the Seenus should work hard to grab another project.

Already September 19th is declared as release date of ‘Aagadu’ and the whole unit under captain Sreenu Vytla’s direction is racing against time to complete the flick much ahead of the date. What exactly are Mahesh and his director doing at the moment?

Recently the much hyped item number featuring seductress Shruti Haasan and Mahesh was shot in Hyderabad. Now the shooting has entered its last leg with our hero wrapping the climax portions at a brisk pace. We hear that the climax action episodes and a couple of emotional punches are coming out fantastically. Sreenu Vytla has projected Police Office Mahesh in a larger-than-life role yet again. This time, encounter specialist Shankar is going to shatter all the records for sure, if we have to believe the people who have seen rushes of Aagadu.

Once if the climax shoot is done, Mahesh and Tamanna will be heading to Norway to shoot for a couple of peppy songs composed by Thaman. With that, principal shooting of Aagadu will be coming to an end and the ball lands in the court of post-production. Stay connected for updates.

Nagababu’s son, the new entrant from the Mega family, Varun Tej’s debut film shoot is going on at a brisk pace. Director Srikanth Addala considered Gollabhama as title for this film. This title has been widely publicized and got mixed reactions from the public. Mega fans are particularly not happy with the title as it is not hero centric.

Gollabhama means grass hopper and not many of the modern day audience know the actual meaning of it. After discussing on title change for many days, the unit has finally decided to go for a new title. Mukunda and Mukunda Murari are the new titles in consideration for this film.

Official announcement about the new title will arrive soon. This is a good move from the makers as having a universally accepted title for a new hero is very important for the prospects of the film. Varun Tej will showcase all his skills in this film that has good drama and romance. There is also some action in it, said sources.

Gopichand has not been at his best in recent times. He is looking to put an end to his flop streak with his upcoming films. He is simultaneously doing two films at the moment. Loukyam directed by Lakshyam director Srivaas is all set to release in September. Gopi’s other film directed by debutante Radha Krishna Kumar is making good buzz among the business circles.

This film is being produced by UV Creations that has delivered back to back hits with Mirchi and Run Raja Run. This film is tentatively titled Dhamkee. Gopichand will be at his stylish best in this film. Rashi Khanna is playing the female lead in it. Veteran music composer Mani Sharma’s son Sagar Mahathi is making debut with this film.

Gopichand will be giving Dhamkee by the end of this year. He is hoping to get back on track with Loukyam and Dhamkee as it is high time to prove his critics wrong. He chose to turn hero at a point where he attained the stardom as a villain. After basking in glory as hero for some time, Gopichand took fatal blows by a row of failures.

Known as Mr Perfectionist, Bollywood hero Aamir Khan is lauded as most creative and imaginative hero post the success of his movie ‘Lagaan’. Since then Aamir has no looking back with each of his movies becoming stunning hits at box office for their unique and innovative content.

Coming to his latest movie PK being directed by Rajkumar Hirani who made ‘3 Idiots’ with Aamir earlier, the first look poster of the flick is creating ripples from a couple of days. With Aamir posing nude and holding a tape-recorder to hide his modesty, the poster went viral and became talk of the town. Also a Kanpur based lawyer filed a case on the poster for obscenity. However, this much talked about poster is not looking like an original idea with people finding out that it is very much inspired from a vintage music album cover.

A Portuguese musician named Quim Barreiros has posed that way for his music album way back in 1973. In that poster, the musician has hidden his modesty with a musical instrument, whereas Aamir replaced it with a radio. Why did you become copy cat, Mr Aamir?

A Telugu film getting remade in Kannada is very common. In fact most of the hit Telugu films are remade sooner or later as dubbing isn’t allowed in Kannada film industry. But very rarely do we see a flop film get remade in other language. Maaya, the ESP thriller which released this Friday to mixed response and poor houses is an example of such an exception.

Producer of the film Madhura Sreedhar Reddy has confirmed that the film is going to be remade in Kannada soon. The remake rights have been bought by Sridhar Reddy and Murugappan of Dhalakshmi Printers. They have in the past taken the remake rights of Prema Katha Chithram as well. Maaya was directed by Neelakanth and it contained an interesting thriller element as its main content. It’s been made at low budget so these remake rights would surely provide some respite for the makers for sure.

In the past something similar was seen with Andhrawala remake in Kannada. As we all know how big a disaster was that film in Telugu but in Kannada the film turned out to be a successful venture for the makers. It was directed by none other than our Meher Ramesh. Will we see something similar happen with Maaya remake?

Opponents in any field don’t lose a chance to hit their enemies either directly or by throwing satires. And it is crystal clear to both cine folks and audiences about the enmity between Chiru and Rajasekhar. This time Rajasekhar chose a telly chat show to attack his opponents. Both Rajasekhar and Jeevita alongwith Prabhudeva took part in veteran director K . Raghavendra Rao’s show ‘Soundarya Lahari’. Jeevita asked Rajasekhar if he is interested to do a multi-starrer, with whom would he pair up with. Without hesitation, Rajasekhar took Chiranjeevi’s name. He further explained that if he has got a substantial and equal role, he would even play a villian in Chiru’s movie.

Rajasekhar didn’t stop with this. When asked who his favourite actress is, he took the name of Nayanatara. Prabhudeva’s face turned pale hearing that answer. However this reply is like a tit for tat. Before that, when Jeevita enquired Prabhu who he considers the best dancer in the three film industries he is associated with, Prabhu simply said, “Chiru Sir. I love him. I just love him”. Jeevita turned pale. One can easily guess why Rajasekhar took Nayanatara’s name. Something like a hide and seek game.

NTR’s Rabhasa shoot was complete and is currently under post production. This film is expected to release on the 15th of this month. Recently released audio is getting good response from the fans. NTR fans are eagerly waiting for the release date as they are expecting this movie to enter the fifty crores club.

Rabhasa makers are in tremendous pressure to release the movie on time. As of now post production work is not complete and there is a plenty to wrap up before 11th August (expected Censor date). Can Rabhasa make it by then? August 15th is the best date for a big release as the National Holiday is followed by the weekend.

If Rabhasa misses the 15th, it will have to settle for August 28th release targeting Vinayaka Chathurthi holiday. But 15th is a better date and the makers are aware of it. So they are working round the clock to finish off the balance work.