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Vishwaroopam gets good response in North

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The Hindi version of Kamal Haasan’s ‘Vishwaroopam’ opened to good response in the Northern region on Friday, with multiplex owners claiming that the controversy surrounding the movie has generated more curiosity among the audience. Titled ‘Vishwaroop’, the film saw an average occupancy of about 50 to 60 per cent across theatres in north India on Friday without any untoward incident barring some protests in Lucknow.

The movie was released in about 600 theaters across the North. Multiplex owners are expecting the advance bookings to increase towards the weekend. And on the other side, the talks between Muslim groups and Vishwaroopam makers did not progress as expected on Friday. Talks did not take place as Muslim groups want Kamal who is in Mumbai promoting Vishwaroop to be present. Kamal is back in Chennai today and will participate in the talks.

Akkineni Multistarer titled ‘Manam’!

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Ishq fame Vikram Kumar is busy preparing a script which will have all the three generation heroes of Akkineni family – ANR, Nagarjuna and Naga Chaitanya in which they are playing Grand father, son and grand son roles. This is a prestigious project for the entire Akkineni family and they are leaving no stone unturned to make the movie big. Initially, there were news that the movie is titled ‘Trayam’ but it was ruled out.

And later ‘Ham’ was considered as the title and was also registered with the AP Film Chamber of Commerce. The movie will go on to sets early next year. But now the makers seem to have changed their mind. They are planning to title the movie as ‘Manam’. Akkineni heroes are not hurry to take the movie on to sets as it is a prestigious project for the family. The director Vikram Kumar is seriously working on every detail of the script. The movie will be produced by Annapurna studios and Reliance Entertainments jointly.

Mani Sharma’s new Failure !

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Mani Sharma’s career graph is dipping all time low now as music director. But thats not the only problem of Mani. The ace music director had worked for the re-recording of Ram starer Ongole Gitta. And it is obvious that Mani Sharma had watched the entire movie even before the release. And now the actual question is how did he purchase the West Godavari rights of the movie even after watching the movie.

The movie released on Friday in highest number of theaters in Ram’s career and opened to disastrous talk and reviews. Going by the initial trend of openings, certainly huge losses are on cards. So, Mani Sharma had to lose his hard earned money. Better luck Mani next time!

Manchu Lakshmi falters once again !

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Collection King Mohan Babu’s daughter Lakshmi Prasanna is known for doing less and talking more. For the past one year, she had been raving about her role in the ace film maker Mani Ratnam’s Kadal where ever she go. But things turned topsy turvy when audience got to see the movie. Lakshmi has a very little role in the movie which is of very little length. She plays the role of a prostitute and will  appear only for a brief moment on screen.

Kadal is directed and produced by Mani Ratnam. The film features debutant Gautham Karthik, son of actor Karthik and debutant Thulasi Nair, daughter of Radha in the lead roles and will also be dubbed and released simultaneously in Telugu as Kadali. AR Rahman is composing the music.

Nayantara lets it go, Priyamani grabs !

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Priyamani who is slowly disappearing in to the horizon with no offers in hands gets a life line, Few days ago, Nayantara had refused an item song offer beside Shah Rukh Khan in his upcoming movie, Chennai Express and now our sources in Bollywood tells us that Priyamani is offered that chance as the makers of Chennai Express wanted some one famous down the South to dance for the item number and finally had approached Priyamani. The movie is about SRK’s journey from Mumbai to Rameshwaram. Priyamani reportedly is elated with the offer but is yet to sign the dotted line.

Chennai Express is being directed by Rohit Shetty. Dimple beauty Deepika Padukone is pairing up with King Khan in this movie. The movie is being produced by Gauri Khan (Wife of Shah Rukh Khan) under her Red Chillies Entertainment banner.

L&T Woos Scribes with Dinner and Drinks!

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The Hyderabad metro rail project works are going in two different stretches and the authorities are quite happy with the progress of work. But they know the problems would start only when the work begin in the narrow stretches where the authorities will have to undertake a lot of demolitions which result in negative media coverage. So,the metro rail authorities have thought to bride the media persons .

The other day, the authorities of HMR and L&T threw a party to the journalists ,they avoided the representatives of national media. The party was organized at Taramati Baradari on the outskirts of the city. The authorities also arranged an orchestra programme..the authorities even danced to the music.

Baadhsha producer in Danger Zone !

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Young Tiger NTR’s upcoming film ‘Baadshah’ has been in news from quite some time with the various updates of the movie. Now as per the new gossips in Tinsel town, it is heard that Baadshah’s budget has crossed 55 crores. It is known public that Srinu vaitla is directing this big budget movie after his block buster ‘Dookudu’. Recently the climax scenes were shot with enormous sets and action sequences near Nagarjuna sagar which consumed the major part of the film budget.

But the film analysts and critics came up with the question that “Will such a big budgeted movie, make profitable business?” But to everyone’s surprise, in Guntur district alone the movie has sold for 4 crores. Even the overseas rights of the movie were sold for peppy amounts evidencing the stamina of NTR once again.

But a movie with budget exceeding 55 crores is always in a danger zone. Any negative talk on the movie after its release will leave the producer Bandla Ganesh in unrecoverable loses.

Tollywood heroes in the Millionaires list

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Every year, Forbes magazine will publish a list by identifying the top 100 richest men in India. This time five heroes of Tollywood got the place in this list of millionaires. Based on the image, craze and the remuneration of our heroes, they are positioned in the list. Superstar Mahesh stood first from Tollywood in this list. Forbes magazine has published the annual income of Super star Mahesh as 42 crores per annum who is at pinnacle of success with hat trick hit films. The magazine published Mahesh in rank of 31 in the list and a rank of 15 in the money list and rank of 79 in the fame list.

Powerstar Pawan Kalyan with a block buster and an average grosser last year has occupied the second position from Tollywood with annual income of 26 crores and stood at the position of 53. Money rank as 24 and fame rank as 85. King Nag stood at 56th rank with the revenue of 11 crores per annum and with money rank as 50 and fame rank as 55. Young tiger NTR with 19 crores and 66th rank. 31st and 91st as the money and fame ranks. RaviTeja is the fifth hero with 15 crores revenue at 50th position and with money rank as 38 and fame rank as 56.

Naresh as NTR hard core fan !

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Allari Naresh is one promising hero in Tollywood who could give minimum guarantee to any kind of subject he chooses. That is why people approach him with a variety of subjects. In this context, Naresh is going to entertain the audience as a diehard fan of Nandamoori Taraka Rama Rao. A script has been developed already on this line. As per the industry talk, Naresh character is going to be very hilarious with his mark comedy being the hard core fan of NTR in this film. Yet another interesting news is that even the heroine in the film is a hard core fan of Chiranjeevi.

Love story between the hero and heroine who adore their favorite heroes as deities and how they both walk on the same thread? Is going to be the line of the film and will generate lots of laughs. Complete details of the film are yet to out.

Prabhas Mirchi copy of an old movie !?

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Young rebel star Prabhas starrer ‘Mirchi’ is being directed by writer turned director Koratala Shiva as his debut is all set to release on 8th February. The audio released recently has got good reviews and is enjoyed by audience. Now there is new rumor flying around film nagar circles. Mirchi’s story is inspired from ‘Subhakankshalu’ movie with Jagapathy babu as hero. In that film, Jagapathy tries for the unification of two families for the girl he is in love with. 
Now taking the similar point, Mirchi is scripted but with few changes in characters and some secondary plot. So we are going to see the same story in a different angle but with the energy of young rebel star Prabhas.

Rana and Prabhas begins preparation for Baahubali

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Daggubati scion Rana and Young Rebel Star Prabhas had started their preparation for SS Rajamouli’s Magnum Opus Baahubali today. Prabhas, Rana and Anushka are eing trained in Sword fight under the supervision of SS Rajamouli for the movie. The ace director himself revealed this in twitter. He posted, “First day of sword fight training 4 Prabhas and Rana.with their height and jumps they looked like giants rather than humans.:) Even Anushka at 5’.10’’ looked their equal. Nice session. only problem is for the DOP to compose them in the frame..:)”

This movie 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.

Ram Charan – Chief Guest for Mr.Pellikoduku audio function

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Sunil starer Mr.Pellikoduku movie audio function is all set to take place tomorrow at Shilpa Kala Vedhika. The makers of the movie had roped in Ram Charan as the Chief guest for the event. The makers of Mr.Pellikoduku are very close to mega family for a long time and also produced Ram Charan’s Racha recently. So, Charan immediately obliged their request.

The movie which is the official remake of Bollywood super hit movie, Tanu weds Manu is currently under post production. The makers are planning to release the movie on February 14th on the occasion of Valentines day. Isha Chawla who paired up with Sunil in his earlier movie Poolarangadu, is also romancing him in this movie. Mega Supergood Movies banner is producing this movie and Devi Prasad is the director. Veteran music director SA Rajkumar has composed the tunes for this film.

Hero Ram tumbles Once Again !

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Bommarillu Bhaskar and Energetic hero Ram have teamed up for a mass entertainer with Ongole Gitta. The movie released today and opened to a disappointing talk. Bhaskar who is not having any hits after dream debut Bommarillu as his films Orange  turned out to be disaster where as Parugu was an average film, Ram’s career is also not on high. This young and talented star after his debut with Devdas, scored hits like Ready and Kandireega however couldn’t scale the next level as his Endukante Premanta stopped short of success.

The movie was filled with outdated and predictable stuff and adding to it there is a lot of Tamil flavour on to it. Going by the early reports, this movie can be marked as Ram’s second straight flop.

Vikram’s Telugu market dipping to Zero!

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With Shankar’s Aparachithudu, Vikram had created a market for himself in Telugu and from then all his movies are being dubbed in to Telugu and grabbed their share milking his popularity here. But Vikram had been slowly losing his ground in Telugu. His last few movies do not have proper release and publicity here. And his latest movie David seem to be following the same path.

The Tamil and Hindi version of the movie made it to theaters today but the release of Telugu version of the film has been postponed. Reason cited for the delay are  technical glitches. Trade analysts say that Vikram will slowly miss out Telugu market if he does not have simultaneous release.

Brahmi’s New Avatar !

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Apart from acting in numerous movies as comedian, Brahmi is currently acting in a film titled ‘Jaffa’ in which he is the lead role. Still not contended, the actor now has a new idea.  He expressed his desire to direct a film. He said that he had a script in mind which involves the life of mentally retarded people. However, the actor does not find time to wield the megaphone. The actor had to give break to acting which gets hims 5 Lakhs per every working day. But assures us to definitely direct the movie.

Brahmanandham is celebrating his 57th Birthday today. Started as a small artist, Brahmi had escalated to the high no other comedian had ever dreamt of. There are movies which purely run on Brahmi and his role in the movie. And now the actor seem to have a different idea.

Telangana Congressmen vs KCR

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K Chandrasekhar Rao, the TRS president, has been voicing his feelings against the Telangana Congressmen. In fact he has been abusing and slamming them without any consideration of the Prime Minister.

The specific reason for such an antagonism is unknown. But it can be easily guessed that this reaction of K Chandrasekhar Rao is based on the Centre’s decision against the demand of Telangana, in which the Congress leaders played a key role.

However, it is interesting to find that in the recent past Telangana Congressmen and K Chandrasekhar Rao were friends. Now the Telangana Congressmen find themselves at the position of an enemy of K Chandrasekhar Rao. In the political circles, the caution was always in the wind that the Telangana Congressmen should stay away from K Chandrasekhar Rao. Therefore, the general reaction of the political circle is that the Telangana Congressmen are paying the price for being friendly with the leader, whose slamming has no match.

Politics is indeed strange and unpredictable. Today’s friends may turn out to be tomorrow’s foes. In fact, there are no permanent friends and foes in politics. This incident is a live example.

Shankar Rao sent to Barracks

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Former Congress Minister Shankar rao arrested here in Hyderabad in land grabing case . News from the center is that the police officials belonging to Neredmet and Alwal police stations went to his residence in the evening and took him into custody.High tension prevailed at his residence, as Shankar Rao strongly resisted the attempts of the police to arrest him .

His wife told media that the police had not allowed him even to take his lunch and taken him away in the name of interrogation . We are very much aware of his sensational comments on the leaders of all parties in the past he even busted out on his own cabinet colleagues . He was charged with grabbing 875 plots in Greenfield Colony in Alwal using forged documents. The Greenfield Housing Society filed a case against him and his brother in the Malkajgiri Sessions Court alleging that the former minister had threatened the society leaders and prevented the officials from discharging their duties . He was booked under various sections including 120 (b), Section 420 cheating.

Sharad Pawar for Seperate Telangana !

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Sharad Pawar the NDA party leader and former president of BCCI has requested to the central government to solve the issue of Telangana state as soon as possible otherwise AP state is going to affect bably in terms of profits he said to the centre here in delhi ,news from the sources is that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh responded accordingly to his request, consultations are going on we were looking in to it very seriously he said the said here in Delhi, on the otherside Telangana issue is on boil in Hyderabad KCR and Kodandaram said that they will move forward after discussing with T-JAC we have no hopes on Central government they said .

Telangana Congress leaders said they have hopes on the central government and they are expecting that the issue of Telangana state is going to resolve very soon they said here . Chandra Babu remained silent on telangana issue and this silence was unable to digest by the TRS party leaders and T-JAC leaders , on the other side Chandrababu is saying that first AP Congress party has to tell their stand on Telangana later i will give my view on Telangana.

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