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Genex Hyderabad Brothers !

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The moment any one refers to Hyderabad Brothers they will surely be reminded of P.Janardhana Reddy and Marri Sashidhar Reddy. Both used to work hand and hand and fight for the benefit of the poor taking on the most powerful CM YS.Rajasekhara Reddy during his regime. Ever since the sad demise of P.Janardhana Reddy, Marri Sashidhar Reddy became isolated and he toyed the line of the powers that be unable to take on the strong men who curry favors with the Cong High Command. But it seems the vacuum created by P.Janardhana Reddy and Marri Sashidhar Reddy is being filled by Hyderabad’s most powerful ministers Danam Nagender and Mukesh Goud.
Many are branding them as genex Hyderabad Brothers as both are seen moving extremely closely walking hand in hand near CM’s chamber. When all ministers are scared to take on KCR and his party TRS virtually prostrating before him, only Hyderabad Brothers stood their ground along with MIM leader Owaisi. They are seen together in any small or big issue across the state capital creating ruckus and hulchul in political circles.
It has to be seen what real impact and everlasting impression they will create on Cong high Command to change Hyderabad’s political colors.

Controversies keep Jeevitha Rajasekhar going

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Never in their life time even when they were at the peak of their career as stars in Tollywood film industry, Jeevitha and Rajasekhar attracted so much media attention. Though Rajasekhar managed some attention with two or three of his films like ‘Magadu’, ‘Ankusam’ turning out to be superhits, Jeevitha is a virtual nnon entity.
However they thought of gaining mileage by entering politics and taking on their arch rival Megastar Chiranjeevi when he launched his PRP party. However it backfired with mega fans assaulting them. Their inconsistency and frequent change of parties in search of quick bucks and quick results did more harm than good for them.
More recently they made laughing stock of themselves by claiming that Powerstar’s Gabbar Singh became superhit due to Rajasekhar’s hit song rose rose roja puvva from Allari Priyudu in antakshari scene. Now they got entangled in Mahankali film production in which a case was registered against them in Banjara Hills police station.
Even Tara Chowdhary made startling revelations saying Rajasekhar used to harrass her promted by Jeevitha. All these incidents make many feel that controversies are keeping them Jeevitha and Rajasekhar go with full vigor. But they are not realizing that they are getting bad publicity with will not help them in the long run.

Bunny, Cherry’s swapping styles

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High profile heroes from Mega family Bunny and Cherry share good cordial relationship and though they are cousins they behave more than thick friends.This they have extended even to their films and in selection of heroines. As such they are not facing much difficulties in finalising heroines for their films unlike other heroes who are changing heroines in the middle of their shooting.
Both are swapping their heroines and this unique process is started by Mega Power Star Ram Charan from ‘Magadheera’. He presented his princess Mitravinda Kajal to Stylish Star Allu Arjun in ‘Arya 2’. This was reciprocated by Bunny who handed gorgeous Genelia with whom he romanced in ‘Happy’ to Cherry for ‘Orange’.
This bonding did not end here as Tamanna who did ‘Racha’ with Cherry earlier gave beauty treat to Bunny in ‘Badrinath’. Even Amala Paul who is romancing Cherry in ‘Nayak’ became Bunny’s heroine in ‘Iddaru Ammayilato’ under puri’s direction. It has to be seen how many more beauties they will swap between themselves.
Many feel that if these swapping policy is followed by other heroes from different powerful families film makers will not find any difficulty in finalizing heroines for their projects. This also saves them from lot of time.

Babu follows YSR, Chiru follows Babu

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It seems TDP leader Chandra Babu Naidu is having extended bad time. Whenever he plans to start some tor or other it will be facing obstacles from his opponents. It is a diffrerent matter that he is borrowing his ideas from YSCP leaders Jagan and Vijayamma and even starts claiming that all YSR policies were his ideas. In his strenuous efforts to wrest power from Congress, he decided to go on ‘pada yatra’ starting from Oct 2nd for 117 days across the state.
WHile he hoped to attract the attention of common public Cong MP megastar Chiranjeevi is trying to wrest the initiative from Babu in his own inimitable style. Buzz is even he is planning to hit the streets with his own yatra. Chiru is planning to take tour in 12 districts from september end to create awareness among people about health and hygeine starting from Adilabad district. He is planning to make it more attractive adding film glamor to it.
But many feel who ever emerges successful with their yatras credit will go to YSR CP whose leader Jagan made yatras popular with his unending ‘odarpu yatra’. People were given respite from his yatra as he was sent to jail. Many feel that while YSRCP is trying innovative means to catch attention of people, Naidu is following them who is inturn followed by Megastar.

Comedian Suttivelu passed away !

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Actor Suttivelu, breathed his last today in Chennai. The veteran comedian had been battling health issues since last one year and after being critically ill Suttivelu died in the early hours. He will be created today in Chennai.
Born on August 7, 1947, His real name is Kurumadhali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao and became ‘Suttivelu’ after his character ‘Sutti’ became super hit in Nalugu Sthambalata. Suttivelu’s comic films spanned for more than 2 decades over 200 films from 1980’s.Known for this comic timing, dialogues and expressions, Suttivelu was portrayed well in director Jandhyala’s comedy films. His collaboration with Sutti Veerabhadrarao is very popular and the duo was nicknamed Sutti Janta. Suttivelu received Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Vandematharam.
He suffered from severe financial problems in his final days. He acted in several TV serials towards the end of his days.

‘Love Letter’-Lokesh’s Idea?

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If one happens to hear TDP supremo Chandra Babu Naidu’s speeches he is trying to highlight his son Lokesh heaping lots and lots of praises on him. One start to wonder whether Lokesh really deserves all or not as he never appeared in full publicview nor addressed any political meeting unlike Jr NTR.
It is a well known fact that Chandra Babu is cleverly following two eyed policy ever since telangana thunderbolt struck the party hard. He thought that he can easily hoodwink people with his two eyes however, he failed to realize by following two eyed policies on many issues later, he caused undue harm to both the eyes which are now on the verge of becoming blind.
For over a week or so TDP is abuzz with reports that CBN has now decided to get a permanent cure to his eyes by writing a love letter on telangana. Lokesh whom CBN brands as ordinary worker already started announcing some policy decisions and now doubts are creeping in the minds of TDP cadre and ordinary people whether Love Letter on Telangana is the idea of Babu or Chandra Babu. While recently CBN credited Lokesh for Money Transfer scheme, one wonder whether he will give same credit to T-Love letter. People say if Love Letter succeeds credit goes to Lokesh or else CBN.

Rajamouli to take on Shankar

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Everyone knows that what ever is shown in films will not be possible in reality. That was the reason why masses look for sheer enjoyment and logic defying action. However Shankar is one director who made commercial films with strong social message and showed to entire world that even film industry can make an impact on society. His films right from his debut film Gentle Man, Indian, Oke Okakdu, Aparichitudu, Sivaji took on the corrupt political system which left movie lovers in awe. All started hailing him as silver screen robinhood.
It seems Rajamouli wants to take on Shankar on silver screen and in the process gaining experience on various issues. Recently he gave a call to public and youth in particular to enter politics and fight corruption. Rajamouli lent his support to ‘Surajyam’ movement initiated by Jai Prakash Narayan of Loksatta Party. Now yesterday he pledged to donate his organs while addressing doctors and students at Gandhi Medical College.
All this shows that he is laying a strong foundation and platform so that he can launch his next project on a high note. Some even feel that Rajamouli is planning to become real life robinhood in his bid to score over Shankar who just remained as reel life robinhood.

CBI singing Cong songs !

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There has been an impression in general public that CBI works only for the powers that are ruling the country and not for the benefit of the people. As Cong ruled the country for most of the time, opposition leaders and people branded CBI as Congress Bureau of Investigation. The organization functioning is also not above suspicion if one sees its behavior in various cases regarding Jayalalitha, Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh, Mayawathi etc. Whenever they are supporting Cong, there wont be any cases against them and the moment they turn against Cong, CBI will get full powers.
It seems Cong is following the same policy in case of YSCP leader Jagan Mohan Reddy. CBI under its leadership was in hot pursuit till now after sending him packing to Chanchalguda jail. But ever since MIM leader Owaisi meeting Jagan during presidential polls and with Jagan sending clear signals that he is not averse to supporting Cong after next elections, CBI changed track. Center changed CBI’s lawyers and since yesterday while Jagan’s lawyers Gopalaswamy and others went hammer and tongs at CBI lawyers with numerous questions, CBI’s new lawyer Mohan Jain was tight lipped during entire arguments. All this clearly shows that CBI is singing Cong songs.

Will vegetarians like ‘Rebel’ NV?

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Young hero Prabhas though made his debut with classical touch films, acquired mass image with Rajamouli’s ‘Chatrapathi’. However over the last few years he once again endeared himself to class movie lovers with family oriented films like ‘Darling’ and ‘Mr.Perfect’. Both the films turned out to be sensational hits and when everyone thought he will continue with the same hit formula with his upcoming film ‘Rebel’, Prabhas sprang a surprise saying that the film is a NV dish. He went on to say that he was dying to have NV since his last two films turned out to be pure vegetarians.
This already made movie lovers worry about the final outcome of the film. Prabhas went on to say he changed track as he desired for long to have a non veg treat and also dreamt of offering the same to his fans. Now the question is whether Prabhas’ non veg treat give the same kick he got while doing the film or will it aliniate movie lovers. One wonder what Prabhas really meant with his comments and what message he was thinking of giving to movie lovers. One has to wait and see what will be in the film as it contains two beautiful heroines Deeksha Seth and Tamanna.

Naga Chaitanya to join Twitter soon!

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While his contemporaries Ram Charan, Allu Arjun and Rana Daggubati are in the news for some reason or the other, Naga Chaitanya always keep a low profile. He is even not on any social networking sites but the actor seem to consider it very soon.
When asked about it in an Interview, he replied positively, “That’s something I need to work on. But that doesn’t mean that I’m away from fans. They meet me during shootings, call me and even come to the studios for updates on my films. Perhaps, like you said, joining Twitter might reduce the gap between me and my fans and I would do it soon. Dad, Akhil, Sumanth, Sushanth and most of my family members are on social networking sites and maybe I need to embark on it.”

Rebel gets a super price in Tamil Nadu too!

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Rebel is doing super business so far. The prices offered for the movie in all the areas are actually the career best prices for Prabhas. Prabhas’ Rebel was bought for 1 whopping 33 Lakh while his last movie Mr.Perfect was sold for some 10-12 Lakhs in the same area. Few months back, 20-30 Lakhs is all what is paid for a big star movie in this region but this prices have gone up remarkably.
Tamannah and Deekshaseth are playing the female leads in the movie. Lawerence himself is composing the music after Thaman walked out of the project. Bhagwan and Pulla Rao are producing the movie under Balaji cine media banner.The movie is all set to release on September 28th.

Dil Raju confirms SVSC Release date

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The theatrical release date of Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu starrer Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu has been confirmed. Producer Dil Raju has announced that the film will hit the screens on December 21 this year. The movie was so far shot for 76 days and 30 days work is left.
The movie had recently completed its Chennai Schedule. The next schedule of the movie will begin from October 1st. Samantha is playing Mahesh Babu’s heroine in this film. Anjali is the another heroine.Mickey J Meyer has composed the music and the audio might be launched in the third week of November. Srikanth Addala is directing this movie on Sri Venkateswara Creations banner. K V Guhan is the cinematographer.

Krishnum Vande Jagadgurum shooting nears completion

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The shooting of Daggubati scion Rana’s upcoming movie ‘Krishnum Vande Jagadgurum’ is complete except for one song. A song titled ‘Ranga Marthanda B Tech Babu’ was shot on Rana and Raghu Babu recently. The remaining song will be canned very soon and then the movie will enter extensive post production work. The makers are planning to release the movie in October.
Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum is an action thriller with all commercial elements. The bilingual movie focuses on the illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh. Rana Daggubati is playing a B Tech Babu and can be seen sporting six pack abs. Actress Nayantara appears as a documentary writer and she is Rana’s love interest in this most-awaited movie.

Vennela 11/2 Censor Report

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Krishna Chaitanya, Monal Gajjar’s ‘Vennela 1-1/2’ under comedian Kishore’s direction which went to censor today completed its censor formalities couple of hours back. Censor Board members viewed the film with keen interest and awarded the film ‘A’ certificate.The film’s duration is little over two hours and according to inside information the entire first half of the film is loaded with double meaning ‘A’ dialogues which prompted the board to give ‘A’ certificate. The movie is now all set to release on 21st of this month.
Recently, Anil Sunkara, one of the producers of Dookudu had bought the entire movie rights and 14 Reels is distributing the movie on their own in majority of regions. Chaitanya Krishna and Monal Gajjar are playing the lead roles in the movie.

Jai Andhra dividing Samaikyandhra

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Recently when Samikyandhra Cong MPs met Cong High Command leaders Vayalar Ravi and Gulam Nabi Azad to stress the importance of keeping Andhra Pradesh united, they were stumped when they got the question as to why there was no Samaikyandhra moment unlike in Telangana where separate state moment is on fire. They were left searching for answers and the message for them is loud and clear that unless the moment and feeling is strong, formation of telangana is inevitable. But many feel Jai Andhra moment is dividing samaikyandrha.
Many are of the opinion that unlike the people of telangana, who are settling for nothing less than telangana, coastal Andhra and rayalaseema regions are asking separate states for themselves conveniently giving centre numerous options rather than presenting united front. Even recently Andhra JAC in the leadership of Vasantha Nageswara Rao and Sunkara Krishnamurthy organized a rally from Itavaram to Nandigama at Krishna district seeking formation of Jai Andhra. During this time Lagadapati Rajagopal’s supporters stopped the organizers and started campaigning for Samaikyandhra.
Watching all these developments many feel that unless until the politicians and people of coastal and rayalaseema regions highlight their feelings for samaikyandhra, center will carve telagana according to its wishes.

Poets disappearing from tollywood

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Tollywood is fast witnessing disappearance of creative people who can present beautiful poetry with touching feelings. Kulasekhar who pens touching songs with small words, Sirivennela who embeds nature’s rulings in his songs, Bhuvana Chandra who toys with English and telugu words, Divakar Babu who brings back memories of great Atreaya are all disappearing from film industry due to various reasons.

Now demand is only for writers who pen dialogues or songs that include ‘nee jimmada’. Though they are fully aware that the word come with a meaning of death wish to others, it invariably finds way in films. Heroine always uses such words on hero. Even in songs all the lyrics are monotonous so much so that every one knows that after sambaram , ambaram comes. Still writers use the same old word again and again. There are very few poets and writers who can write without using words repetitively. One wonder how many are there who can pen songs without repeating the same words again and again.
Opportunities are only for those who move closely with directors, producers, music directors and heroes. After Vishwanath introduced Veturi and later Sirivennela no song writer and poet came in tollywood. Anant Sriram, Ramajogayya Sastri are still toddlers compared to the greats and film makers are not having time to scout for new talent that emerge in magazines or dailies. Recently at the ‘Yeto Vellipoindi’ audio launch, film makers did not even find it fit to include the names of lyricists on the album. One wonder whether Ilayaraja tuned songs with out being penned?.
Similar is the trend in dlalogue writing. Talented few like Tanikella Bharani and Trivikram Srinivas confined themselves as actor and director. LB.Sriram and Janardhan Maharshi are sometimes using their pen and creativity. Though there are many writers for commercial films, none of them could deliver dialogues with depth and feel. Jandhyala penned scripts and dialogues for others even after he became director. Vamsi couldn’t get any hits after Tanikella stopped writing. After the demise of KV.Mahadevan, K.Murari stopped film making. This shows the lack of writers. Trivikram Srinivas a talented writer stopped writing. It seems none of the film makers want his scripts. It is a known fact that ‘Shirdi Sai’ suffered from uninspiring songs and dialogues. One wonder why film makers did not use the services of Srivennela. May be they felt he is not that qualified. Currently one are there who can write songs like veturi.

TRS to disappear soon ?

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TRS chief KCR who is facing flack from telangana supporters for maitaining stunning silence inspite of no love signals from hghly revered Cong High Command is currently in Delhi. He is participating in high profile meets and though TRS is saying that he is fighting for the cause of Telangana, many say he and his party is fighting for its survival. Everyone knows that TRS and KCR is making lot of money and also enjoying many more benefits for maintaining silence but they can not take people for a ride for long.
KCR started meeting High Command leader Valyar Ravi, Oscar Fernandez, Ahmed Patel and is trying to fasten the pace of merger process. All these meets are termed as merger meets. Later Ravi and Azad met Sonia Gandhi and discussed for 45 minutes about KCR’s conditions for merger. Then Sonia met Digvijay Singh and Renuka Chowdhary. Now the only question arises is whether merger announcement should come first or Telangana decision.
Once this is finalised KCR will meet Sonia and finalise the formalities. KCR and KTR planned to meet even Rahul Gandhi but buzz is KCR put some strong conditions for merger. He made it clear that A cabit resolution should be passed on Telangana and then introduce T bill in parliament. Once that is completed TRS merger with Cong will be finished. However Valyar Ravi is insisting on merger statement from KCR first. He says that once merger is out they can convince seemandhra leaders for which KCR did not agree.
When Ravi came with Royal Telangana proposal to pacity MIM and counter YSRCP, KCR did not agree. KCR didnot agree to common capital proposal but gave concession for common capital for 5 yrs. TRS leaders say Sonia is not positive about the discussions but leaders promised to convince her. KCR said there wont be any alternative except for Telangana.

Star shine in functions

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Till some years back film stars used to be out of the world and many people felt that they are highly inaccessible as they used to stay aloof from public appearances and functions. That’s why many fans and die hard movie lovers used to throng their houses on holidays or weekends at the hope of catching a glimpse of their matinee idols. However things changed and stars started descending down to people much to their delight. They started performing live at various functions and even started mingling with fans and people as competition grew up and PR skills and public interactions becoming order of the day to increase their popularity.
Sometime back during the 100 day function at Vijayawada, Megastar danced to the popular number ‘Dai dai dama’ and the veena step driving the fans crazy. Even King Nagarjuna did it in ‘King’ audio function while Young Tiger NTR danced to ‘Taaliya Taaliya’ at Sakthi audio launch. Even beautiful Ileana danced to ‘Premadesam yuvarani’ knocking the hearts of many in the process.
This soon became a must at various functions. Young Tiger and DSP danced in ‘Oosaravelli’ launch, while Stylish Star Allu Arjun did it in style in ‘Arya-2’. Natasimha Balakrishna who always delights with powerful dialogues during his film functions danced to ‘chalaki chupulatote mantram vesi’ along with Chakri in ‘Srimannarayana’. Even beauties Tamanna did it in 100% Love, Charmi more recently for ‘Sakku Bai’ in ‘Damarukam’. Manchu Manoj enacted stunts in ‘Vastadu Na Raju’ at Vijayawada and danced in ‘Salim’. During ‘Ukodatara Uliki Padatara’ he was joined by Deeksha Seth and Tapsi.
However not all stars perform to the delight of fans. Heroes like Power Star Pawan Kalyan, Prince Mahesh Babu maintain stoic silence while mass heroes who leave all in awe with powerful action like Prabhas, Raviteja and Gopichand will not open their mouths at functions. However Shirya is the toast of all eyes with her performances in various functions.

Life is Beautiful Telugu Movie Review – 3/5

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Rating: 3/5
Banner: Amigos Creations Pvt Ltd
Cast: Amala Akkineni, Shriya Saran, Anjala Jhaveri and several other new comers
Cinematography: Vijay C Kumar
Art: Anand Sai
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Music: Mickey J meyer
Producer: Sekhar Kammula
Story-Screenplay- Dialogues-Direction: Sekhar Kammula
CBFC rating: U/A
Release date: 15-09-2012
Synopsis:

Life is Beautiful is the story of widow (Amala) and her three children. A tragic incident in her life forces her to send her children  Srinu (Abhijith) and his sisters Sathya(Rashmi) and Chinni to relative’s house. They soon become thick friends with Abhi (Kaushik) and Nagraj (Sudhakar) and go about their daily life, experiencing small joys.

Youngsters of the B phase block have a long standing rivalry with the arrogant rich kids of the Gold Phase of the Sunshine Colony.. And the rest of the story is the changes that took place in their lives (Including hero) after they come to the colony.  There is also three love stories which bloom there and what happens rest forms the actual story.

Performances:

Amala Akkineni is simply superb in the role of a widow who fights destiny. She looked gorgeous in the opening of the film, and delivered classy performance during the dying moments.Shriya gets a good role but acting with all the young ones made her look older. Anjala Jhaveri gets a next door aunty character on whom people go mad. A very little role.

All the new comers Abhijith, Sudhakar, Kaushik, Shagun and Zara delivered a decent performance and added to the fresh feel needed for the movie.The comedy rendered by Nagaraju (Sudhakar) in Telangana slang was one of the major highlights.

Analysis:

The first half of the movie is a jolly ride. And the problem is with the never ending second half with less lighter moments but yes there are some excellent sentimental scenes more particularly towards the climax. It is unpardonably long and quite a lot could have been chopped off on the editing table. Narration tends to drop off to dangerously boring levels at a number of junctures in the film. Sekhar Kammula’s brilliance is seen in many scenes but they are badly knitted such that the feel of the movie is not carried.

Plus Points: casting, music, direction, cinematography

Minus Points: Screenplay, length of the movie

Final Say:

The length of the scenes and erroneous screen play will hamper the flow of the film.  A center crowds may take to the theaters because of Sekhar Kammula’s brand name, but B and C center crowds will find it tough to appreciate the movie.  However, for me, the movie was made with a honest intent to touch the hearts of people who are struck with monotonous busy lives. One time watch! 

Culprits behind ‘Shirdi Sai’ comedy

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King Nagarjuna’s ‘Shirdi Sai’ which was released a week back got mixed response from movie lovers and devotees. Many felt they had high expectations on the film which came in the combination of Nagarjuna and Raghavendra Rao as they earlier presented them films like ‘Annamayya’ and ‘Sri Ramadasu’. However all those are belied mostly because of unwanted and unexpected comedy of the film which made ‘Shirdi Sai’ a laughing stock.
While some devotees took it in their stride, the twisting of Sai making heavenly abode, no one could digest the obscene comedy which hurt the feelings of many. Some say it was Parachuri brothers who influenced Raghavendra Rao and Nagarjuna to include comedy track. As Raghavendra Rao believed them and Nag inturn KRR, these tracks are included which proved detrimental in the film’s success.
Shirdi Sai script writer planned a press meet prior to the release of the film, to express his sadness at the interference of Parachuri brothers in the script but he couldn’t reveal as the press meet was attended by Parachuri Gopalakrishna. Many new comers in film nagar say that Parachuri brothers unduly interfere in their scripts and spoil to the core but film makers and directors can not do anything as they have immense reputation in the film industry.

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