It is known to our readers that Rajamouli had called for a casting competition for his upcoming movie, Baahubali. The response for the talent hunt was outstanding and they received close to 20,000 entries from people who wanted to bag a role in the film. After nearly three months of screening and short listing the entries, Rajamouli was quite surprised to see how things had shaped up. Talking about the auditions and the current status, Rajamouli revealed that most of the short listed candidates never appeared for an audition and even those who were finalized in the end didn’t turn up for training. “Over The last month Short listed about 2000 applicants.asked then to attend auditions. Surprisingly Half of them didn’t turn up..After auditions, selected about 50 guys and started training. After 2 days half of them disappeared…Short listing 2000 ppl from 13000 was a daunting task.. We just couldn’t handle more, so had to block.. Apologies there,” S S Rajamouli posted on Twitter.

The movie which is reportedly the biggest budget movie ever made in Telugu, will go on to sets in April. Anushka will be pairing with Prabhas in this movie for the third time after Billa and Mirchi. Rana is playing Prabhas’ brother in the movie. This project will be jointly produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni under Arka Media banner and will be presented by K Raghavendra Rao. Keeravani will be scoring the music.

Naga Chaitanya and Sunil starer movie shooting is now complete. The movie is the Telugu remake of Tamil super hit movie, Vettai. Earlier, the makers have planned to name it Thadaka but looks like they are considering a change. ‘Peddhodu-Chinnodu is reportedly the title in consideration for it. Akkineni fans are not happy with the title as it suggests equal importance to Naga Chaitanya and Sunil.

Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam fame Dolly is directing this film. Andrea Jeremiah and Tamannah will romance Sunil and Naga Chaitanya in the movie. Bellamkonda Suresh is producing it under Sri Sai Ganesh Productions banner.

One of the distinguished music composers of Tollywood Kalyani Malik [the brother of ace composer MM Keeravani] who is known by his hit albums Andhrudu, Ashta Chemma and Adhinayakudu recently is making his acting debut through ‘Anthakumundu…Aa taruvata’, an upcoming film starring Sumanth Ashwin He is reportedly playing a small but crucial role in the movie. It is also known that Roja fame Madhubala is also starting her second innings with the movie. She is playing hero’s mother in the movie.

‘Anthakumundhu.. Aatharuvatha’ is being directed by Ashta Chemma fame Indraganti Mohan Krishna. Damodar Reddy who produced super hit movie like Ala Modhalaindhi is dolling the money bags under his Sri Ranjith movies banner. Kalyani Mallik is also scoring music.

According to our close sources revealed that Prakash Raj has received some threatening calls from unknown persons regarding his Production venture of “Gauravam”. Allu Sirish is set to test luck as it’s been his debut movie. The concept of the movie is based on Killings in a place called Dharmapuri of Tamil Nadu. On this, some people belonging to Gounder community started protesting against Gauravam and even sent a letter to CM Jayalalitha requesting her to delete such scenes involving their community. Prakash Raj replied strongly on these calls and said they wouldn’t set back with these threatening calls.

The movie is being directed by Radha Mohan and produced by Prakash Raj. Yami Gautam is staring opposite Sirish. This film is simultaneously being made in Telugu and Tamil. Sirish’s father Allu Aravind will be releasing the movie in Andhra Pradesh. Story was written by B.V.S.Raju. Soundtrack was composed by Thaman

After Kamal Haasan, it is Tamil actor Arvind Swami’s turn to make an appearance on reality show “Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi” (NVOK), Tamil version of “Kaun Banega Crorepati”, being hosted by actor Prakash Raj.

“Nice experience being on NVOK. Maybe I spoke a little too much. Played for the charities I support. Thanks star Vijay, Prakash and team,” posted Arvind Swami on his Twitter page. He is known for hits such as “Roja”, “Thalapathi”, “Bombay” and “Kadal”.

Like Kamal Haasan, Arvind too decided to donate his prize money to charity.

Kamal Haasan was seen in the March 23 episode. He won Rs.50 lakh and donated the prize money to Petral Thaan Pillaya, an organisation that supports HIV-affected kids.

This is the second season of NVOK. The first season was hosted by Tamil actor Suriya.

Hero Nithin’s upcoming movie “Gunde Jari Galanthayindhe” is going to hit the screen soon and recent release of its audio has acquired a good response. It is known to everyone that Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s “Emainado Emo Ee Vela” song from 1998 super hit movie “Tholi Prema” is remix in Nithin’s GJG. Latest news is that movie Nikitha had to spend more than a crore to buy the rights from music director.

A new comer Isha Talwar is going to make her filmy debut in this movie. This film has Nitin (hero), Nitya Menen (Heroine), Sudhakar Reddy (producer) and Anup Rubens (music director) from Ishq movie. Andrew handles cinematography. Vijay Kumar Konda is making his debut as director with this movie.