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Tollywood’s biggest gamble in Overseas

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Telugu movie business outside the country had increased multifolds in the last one year but never did Tollywood see a stake of as much as 10 crore in one week. With three major releases Nayak, Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu and Viswaroopam in one week, this 10 Crore target in now on for this Sankranthi.

SVSC was brought for Rs 5.5 crore plus and additional cost of Rs 50 lakh for prints and publicity by the overseas distributor. Ram Charan starrer Nayak had costed Rs 3.50 Crore plus another Rs 50 lakh for prints and advertisement. Kamal starer Vishwaroopam is not too far behind. The movie was also bought (both in Telugu and Tamil) for a good amount by an USA distributor. The Telugu distributor is releasing both Telugu and Tamil version in USA.

If we add all these it comes up to a staggering Rs 10 crore, and the million dollar question is how much of the money is going to be recovered.

Kalyan Ram’s OM gearing up for release

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Our readers are aware that Nandamuri Kalyan Ram is all set to take the honours of acting and producing Tollywood’s first ever 3D movie titled OM. The movie had completed its shooting formalities and is in post production works. Kalyan Ram is reportedly releasing the trailer of the movie along with the Sankranthi releases. Some Digital prints of Nayak, Viswaroopam and Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu will have the trailer and will played during the intervals. The movie is being planned for March first week release.

The movie is going to be the first 3D movie in Telugu and is currently in the last leg of post production. Popular cinematographer Sunil Reddy is yielding megaphone for the first time with this movie. Nikesha Patel and Kriti Kharbhanda are the female leads.

Another attachment in Jagan case

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The Enforcement Directorate has once again cracked its whip in the disproportionate assets case of Y S Jaganmohan Reddy.

According to media reports, the ED has attached properties worth 143 crores of Ramki Pharma Company. It may be recalled that the ED had already attached properties worth Rs. 51 crore belonging to the Jagati Publications and Janani Infra of Jagan.

Ileana listening to ‘T’ scripts

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Illeana after the success of Bollywood in her debut film Burfi she got disappearing in telugu films,news from the centre is that she got refused for the Promotional activities in Telugu films,and soon thereafter rumours started on Ileana that her tollywood career has came to an end,when a similar sort of question arrived from the media person.

She has put a break to the controversy by saying that i am listening to the telugu scripts and soon will be seen on silver screens on Andhra Pradesh .Recently Illeana was in Hyderabad city to inaugurate a jewellery show room.So folks don’t try Write off illena just yet.

SVSC puts Brahmi in his place!

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According to the news from the sources it has been heard that comedy king of tollywood role has been trimmed due to the long duration of the movie ‘Seetamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’ most telugu film directors generally opt to put Bhrammanandam in central attraction to make the movie audience more interesting,director Like Srinu vaitla and Puri Jagannadh makes a separate track for bhrammanandam and in many telugu films due to the presence of Bhrammanandam films became huge hits, but this time in ‘SVSC’ film director and producer has left with no option Just gone for scissoring the lengthy role of bhrammanandam.
 
There are Prakash Raj,Jayasudha, MS Narayana and other top artists playing in good roles. Though comedy is not run on a seperate track but to maintain emotional flavor in film, makers have gone for trimming on Brahamanandam’s role,let’s hope it wont create any sort of difference in the Movie as the movie script itself is a big hero and moreover superstar heroes are already There in terms of Victory Venkatesh and Maheshbabu.

Akbar’s arrest any minute!

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Police from Nirmal of Adilabad district who interrogated the MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, charged of making anti-Hindu and anti-national speeches, at his residence on Monday came to his residence again on Tuesday morning. They questioned him for about half-an-hour. The police served a notice on the MLA to appear at the Gandhi hospital at 10:30 am, for medical examination.

Responding to police directive, Akbaruddin reached Gandhi hospital and a team of specialists started conducting medical tests on him. It is learnt that the doctors would be conducting 15 to 20 tests on him and it might take some time for the doctors to give their assessment. Police said they would decide on the future course of action basing on medical advice.

It is learnt that they would take him into custody at the hospital, basing on the medical reports and take him to Nirmal for further investigation. Meanwhile, Akbar’s elder brother and MP Asaduddin Owaisi, his party MLAs, leaders and large number of party workers gathered at the Banjara Hills residence of Akbar in large numbers, creating a tense situation. Party workers reached Gandhi hospital also in large numbers. But they were dispersed by the police.

Akbar, who returned from London early Monday, sought four days’ time to appear before police, citing ill-health.

He was directed by the police to appear in Nirmal town police station, about 200 km from here, for questioning with regard to his alleged hate speech delivered last month.However, as he did not go there, police from Nirmal visited Akbar at his residence in Hyderabad and questioned him. They also tried to assess his health condition.

Inspector General of Police A.B. Venkateshwar Rao told reporters later that the investigating officer found Akbar in a fit condition but the legislator complained of some “internal pains”.

Police in Nizamabad had also directed Akbar to appear before them Tuesday in connection with a similar case in that town.

It may be recalled that Akbar through his lawyer sought more time to make personal appearance.

Akbar also moved the state high court, seeking orders to restrain police from arresting him.

He also pleaded that the police be directed not to book further cases. The petition is likely to come up for hearing Wednesday.

Bumper offer for Bellamkonda son

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Bellamkonda son who is all set to make his debut got the bumper offer in his first film thanks to his dad’s power and influence in the industry.According to the news from filmnagar gorgeous Samantha is pairing opposite bellamkonda suresh’s son in VV Vinayak’s direction,the producer Bellamkonda waited for a long time for the dates of Samantha when she has Taken a long gap from the prolonged illness.

As Samantha is known for good Deeds,she always helps others whom she got help from them and she has stick With the words as bellamkonda roped samanta in many of her’s prestigious projects,now it’s samantha’s turn she agreed without second thought when Bellamkonda approached her.Let’s all wish a great success for Bellamkonda’s Son in his debut film.

Cong to cross final ‘T’

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News from the media sources is that regarding the burning issue of Telangana the Congress high command is going to take it’s full and final decision before thedeadline one of the spokesperson to the media here on Monday ,“We will stick to the one-month deadline fixed by union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

Reports from Delhi says that the draft proposal of Telangana has already been submitted to Congress Supremo Sonia Gandhi and she would be taking a decision in a day or two. “She would discuss the issue with Rahul Gandhi, who already had a couple rounds of talks with Telangana and Andhra leaders,” he said.

Case against Kavuri

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A case was filed against Congress MP Kavuri Sambasiva Rao, for violating the wild life Act. Forest officials filed the case against the MP in connection with the Komati Lanka Road controversy, at Kolleru. Kavuri tried to lay a road on the bank of Kolleru. Forest and revenue officials obstructed him.

Expressing anger against the authorities, Kavuri said he had not violated any rule. However, authorities say that any construction or even laying gravel on the bank was banned. They refused permission to the MP to lay gravel road on the bund.

Defying the authorities, Kavuri took a crowbar and shovel and tried to lay a road from Aatapaka under Kaikaluru mandal of Krishna district to Komati Lanka on the bund.

Speaking on the occasion, he said he would not tolerate attempts to stop road construction in the wild life forest. On Sunday night an effort was made to lay a road from the Aatapaka bird sanctuary. Kavuri’s argument is that the GO 20 issued in 1999 provided for repairing existing roads in the sanctuary. Stating that the forest officials have been obstructing laying of road for the past eight years, Kavuri questioned how long could people wait for the road. When he tried to lay gravel, forest officials obstructed him. There was a heated argument between him and the forest officials. He talked to the Chief Conservator of Forests and asked him to permit laying of road to mitigate the problems of the people. Though the official also objected, Kavuri went ahead and tried to lay the road.

Asaduddin blasts CM, BJP, TDP and media

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MIM Chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has lambasted the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and said that it was not a big issue to dethrone the latter as MIM has the history of pulling down the TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu from power in the past.

Speaking to the media after an emergency meeting with the party leaders at the Party office here on Monday, Asaduddin has lashed out at the Congress party along with the TDP and BJP. He also expressed his anguish over the media.

It may be recalled that a  major controversy arose on the remarks allegedly made by his brother and MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi recently, against the Hindus and the Hindu Gods; and a number of cases were filed against him.  

Asaduddin has alleged that Kiran Kumar Reddy was the pucca heir of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao. He said that the MIM will explain to the people the attacks on Muslims and the policies of the State Government. He said that Kiran Kumar Reddy has to remember that his party has lost in 50 Assembly seats and two MP seats in the recent by-elections. He said that the media, which was not bothered about the VHP and BJP activities, was giving bad publicity against MIM Floor leader and Chandrayanagutta MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi.

He said that MIM will teach a fitting lesson to the Congress party. He has alleged that the Congress Government, which has already burdened the people with the surcharges, was trying to burden further the common people. He has alleged that not only the Government but also the opposition parties were neglecting the public problems. He alleged that the State MPs had behaved in an inefficient manner in regard to KG Basin issue.

He said that the MIM knew very well as to how to  protect Akbaruddin Owaisi from the cases.

Akbar files quash petition in HC

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MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi filed a quash petition in the high court, requesting for dismissal of all the cases filed against him in different police stations.

He also requested the court to direct the police not to arrest him.

Meanwhile, Akbaruddin summoned by the Nirmal police for investigation into his inflammatory speech against Hinduism and Hindu gods reportedly sought 4 days time. Stating that he was unwell, he has pointed out that he went to London only for treatment. 

He sent two lawyers to represent him to Nirmal. They asked the police to give time for four days to the MLA on health grounds.

Akbar’s lawyers who appeared before the Nirmal police avoided the media. They managed to escape the attention of the large group of media persons gathered at the police station.

Chinni Krishna shows his over ‘Genius’

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Chinni krishna is the one who has more extras and exaggerations in his explanations about his stories rather than in stories themselves. He has been blabbering about his recent story Genius a lot even before its release. He once told in Director’s Association Interaction classes, that he may need body guards after the release of Genius movie.
 
Such a sensational film it is going to be he added. But the release of the film clarified all speculations that it’s all gibberish and nonsense as the movie turned a big dud. Now he is saying that direction is his destination. He might have dreamed that he will really need body guards to save him from producer, who lost 12 crores on the story like Genius that this writer provided.

Sharwanand in Satya 2

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J.D.Chakravarthy, who was once called as Andhra kamal Hassan. His classic performance in movies like Satya brought him that name. Now it is heard from film nagar cirlces that Ram gopal varma is planning the sequel to sensational blockbuster ‘Satya’ as ‘Satya 2’ and varma is planning to pull Sarvanandh in to the role as Satya that J.D.Chankravathy did in the film ‘Satya’. It was heard that RGV met Sharwanand regarding this project.

 Satya was the movie that gave a break to J.D in both Tollywood and Bollywood. It seems like the same is going to happen in Sharwanand’s career. Sharwanand is also a veteran actor like J.D, who can pull the rock as ‘Satya’. Satya-2 is probably going to release in both Telugu and Hindi. A great start to Sharwanand’s career in Bollywood even.

SVSC to go to censor today

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The first copy of this millennium’s biggest multistarer, Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu is delivered on Sunday night. The DTS mixing of the second half of the movie is completed by Sunday afternoon. After finalizing the final mix, the first copy is ready by the night yesterday. The movie unit had thorough check up for the one final time before it goes to censor today. The Regional Censor Board will start the reviewing process from 3PM and we may expect the censor report towards the night. The makers are expecting nothing less than a clean U certificate for the movie which is releasing worldwide on January 11th.

Srikanth Addala is the director of SVSC, the family entertainer casting Samantha and Anjali as the leading ladies and Prakash Raj, Jayasudha, Brahmanandam et al in prominent roles. Mickey J. Meyer composed the musical scores while KV Guhan is cranking the camera.

Rajamouli – Prabhas movie to begin in March

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Rajamouli is one director who never lets anything go untouched in making a successful film.Hence he takes much time for the pre-production works of his movie before it actually goes on to sets. And he is doing the same for his next movie with Prabhas too. The movie which was earlier told to be begining the shoot from January will now begin in March. The movie is reportedly a period drama and rumours are rife that it has some football backdrop.

Prabhas is growing a thick beard now and is reportedly for this film. Anushka will be pairing with Prabhas in this movie for the third time after Billa and Mirchi.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 begins next schedule of Yevadu

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It is always tough to concentrate on other works when some thing really special is happening to us.But Ram Charan seems to be least affected. His ready for release movie Nayak will be getting a record release in almost all the territories and by all means, he will be atleast shattering the first day opening records. But the actor has decided to work rather than feeling the heat. 2 days before the release of his Nayak, he silently starts the latest schedule of his upcoming movie, Yevadu. Few important scenes of the movie will be canned in this schedule. On the other side, Nayak is reportedly releasing in record number of theaters in almost all the territories.

Yevadu has Shruti Hassan and Amy Jackson playing the female lead roles. Allu Arjun and Kajal Agarwal makes guest appearance in the film. Vamsi Paidipalli is the director. Dil Raju is producing the movie under his Sri Venkateswara films banner. Devi Sri Prasad is composing the music.

Posani’s highlight role in Nayak

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Posani’s dialogue ‘Vadebba Laksha Kotlu enti madam?” as Tippu Sultan in Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum had hogged the limelight last year. And this year will be begining with one more such special role. The movie looks to be revolving around AP politics and Posani Krishna Murali’s character is reportedly a highlight.  Several people who have watched the movie are drawing it parallel to Chiranjeevi’s Tagore directed by the same VV Vinayak. The references to ND Tiwari, Abdul Kalam and Sarvepalli Radha Krishna in the Censor cut details further strengthen the cause. Tagore helped Chiranjeevi a lot towards the end of his career.

As we are nearing to the release of one of the most awaited movie of the season, Nayak, the curiosity and excitement is slowly building up. Lets see what it does to Charan’s promising career!

Badshah will be in the Top 3 biggest hits

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Bandla Ganesh always seem to be an animated producer. He never stops ravishing about the output of his film. He is apparently thrilled with the output of the film after watching few scenes of the movie and thanked his entire crew for their efforts. He says that the NTR-starrer will be in the top 3 list of Telugu films.

“Baadshah will b a blockbuster. My sincere thanks 2 my bro Srinu Vaitla &our Lovely team…. Undoubtedly Baadshah will be in top 3 films of Telugu film industry.thank u young tiger &my bro Srinu Vaitla &kona Gopimohan,k v guhan” (sic).

NTR is currently shooting for Harish Shankar film. He will very soon shift to the next schedule of Badshah. 80% of the movie talkie part and 2 songs are complete. The makers are aiming for March 27th release.

Sonia serious on ‘T’: Decision soon!

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi is seriously working on the Telangana issue and there are clear indications that a definite solution to the problem would be found earlier than the one month time sought by the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for taking a decision.Core committee of the Congress met for two consecutive days and Telangana was one of the priority issues discussed.

State minister K Jana Reddy who was sent by Congress ‘T’ leaders as their emissary to Delhi held discussions with the AICC general secretary and state affairs in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad. Though he was softly asked to go back and wait for a call, Azad reportedly told him that the party leadership had understood the urgency of the matter and was working out a solution that would satisfy all.

Jana Reddy chose not to talk to the media about what transpired between him and the central leaders as he was possibly asked to maintain secrecy. Congress leadership is considering every option available, to resolve the issue. The options it considered were state division, status of Hyderabad, special package and regional board on the lines of the Darjeeling Development Authority.

Union minister Pawan Kumar Bhansal was for the first time invited to the core committee meeting. As he is from Chandigarh, which is the capital for both Punjab and Haryana states, reports said the Congress high command discussed with him his own experiences of the common capital. It is in this context, that some observers are stating that the high command might consider making Hyderabad a centrally administered city and the common capital for both Andhra and Telangana states.

In considering all the options, the first priority of the high command appears to be the interests of the party and how to save it in both the regions. One MP was quoted to have said that Congress was only thinking of its own interests and not that of Telangana or Seemandhra.

PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana has gone to Delhi on summons from the high command. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy is also going to the capital. With so much momentum gathering in the capital, there are hopes that the Telangana issue would be resolved very soon.

Meanwhile, speculations on change of guard in the state have also picked up. MIM MP Asaduddsin Owaisi who turned a bitter enemy of the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has declared that he would be replaced within a month. There are reports that the PCC chief also would be replaced.

Jagan Behind Akbaruddin Comments – KTR

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TRS MLA K T Ramarao has accused YSRCP Chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy of hatching a conspiracy to obstruct creation of separate Telangana State.

Speaking to the media here on Sunday, KTR alleged that Jagan was planning to stall creation of Telangana State by creating communal riots with complicity of MIM leaders. Reminding that late chief minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy had engineered communal riots in the Old City to topple Congress government headed by Dr M. Channa Reddy government, KTR said that Jaganmohan Reddy was trying to follow his father’s footsteps to sabotage Telangana State.

The TRS leader also charged Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy with increasing power charges as he wished because of his inexperience in the administration. He also warned the government that the TRS would fight it out till the government withdrew its proposal of punitive power tariff hike proposal.

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