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MS Narayana turns Gadaffi

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MS Narayana will be seen in a new avatar in his upcoming film Routine Love Story. M.S.Narayana plays the role of a Gaddafi fan and he dresses up like Gaddafi in college at times. He uses this morphed image as a special attraction in his room. The film is directed by Praveen Sattaru (LBW fame). Routine Love Story has Sandeep Kishan and Regina playing the lead roles. Mickey J Meyer is composing the music while Chanakya Bhuneti is producer. The film is gearing for October release.
His new get up and generated great curiosity amongst the film buffs, and looks like MS Narayana is once again all set to tickle the funny bones in his new character.

All time hits vs Hall time hits

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Now a days people are used to hearing the word records, collections etc and many are left wondering whether they are really true or it is just a hype created by the film makers. Even if these records turn out to be true in any particular film, the film will be screened for not more than two to three weeks. It will continue its journey only if another film doesn’t come in its way carrying a good talk. Now a days people completely forgot the words ‘golden jubilee’, ‘silver jubilee’. Even 100 days is becoming a rarity. Some try to find comfort in the fact that while during olden days if a film celebrates 100 days, it comes to three shows per day for 100 days. It adds to 3×100=300 shows over all. Now a days if a film is released in 10 theaters and 4 shows per day, in a week 280 shows would be completed. But all this is number jumbling. For the entire first week only fans watch the film and the fate of the film would be decided in the second week during which people decide whether to watch the film or not going by reviews and mouth talk. Film makers are not concerned about all these but are releasing the film with more number of prints and rake money.
In 1977 NTR starrer ‘Adavi Ramudu’ celebrated 100 days in 32 centers. Dasara Bullodu completed 100 days in 22 centers , 200 days in 4 centers. Its first week collections came upto Rs 10, 68000. But all these were not considered as victories. Lavakusa which was released in 1963 in 26 centers celebrated 100 days and even on its second release it created a sensation. It is the first film to have collected one crore. But it happened in 14 weeks. But current 100crs is no match to Lavakusa’s one crore 80yrs back. This shows that Lavakusha record is unbreakable even now as it is the only film which is widely watched whenever it is screened.

Cherry on secret mission

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Mega Power Star Ram Charan Teja is on secret mission now a days and is working on single minded focus to emerge successful in his pursuits. After ‘Orange’ debacle, Cherry is planning his career in a careful and perfect manner and is not leaving any scope for mistakes. He is making his bollywood entry and is all set to become genex angry young man with ‘Zanjeer’ under Apurva Lakhia. Priyanka Chopra is starring opposite Cherry.
He has taken all measures so that he wont be facing any criticism that he is ignoring Tollywood in search of greener pastures in Bollywood. He is simultaneously shooting for VV.Vinayak’s ‘Nayak’ in which he is playing dual roles for the first time in his career and also ‘Yevadu’ under Vamsi Pydipalli direction. In the midst of all this Cherry’s secret mission is unearthed.
Sources say he along with Bollywood producer Amit Mehra and director Apurva Lakhia is keen on showing the power by raking record collections on the first day of Zanjeer release. They are eying no less than minimum 25 crs on the first day and are banking on Cherry’s following in AP. Salman’s Ek Tha Tiger created the record with Rs 35 crs collections on opening day. It has to be seen how much Cherry can collect with his fire power.

Dharmana dares CBI !

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Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao who is taking refuge citing high moral ground enacting resignation drama after he was named in the FIR by CBI in VANPIC case, yesterday dared CBI to prove the charges against him. Dharmana very well knows that his resignation won’t be accepted and the Govt will not give green signal to CBI to proceed with the investigation against him. So while addressing a huge meeting at his constituency in Srikakulam, yesterday he dared the investigating authority CBI to prove charges against him.
Dharmana even chose to take classes for CBI saying that CBI framed charges against him on account of some baseless allegations. He even said that what ever decisions he has taken or GOs he signed were all part of collective decision and so he alone can not be made responsible for any irregularities. It seems Dharmana decided to take all along with him in case of any serious eventuality. While Dharmana dared CBI early yesterday morning, CBI seems to have accepted the challenge and much to the shock of Dharmana, they asked him to appear before CBI court on 25th of this month. Nampally Court issued summons to Dharmana to this effect. Now it has to be seen whether Dharmana will be arrested the same day or not.

TG to take on KCR

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When ever KCR makes any noises on Telangana or takes on a trip to Delhi which many think for Telangana, it will invariably attract equal and opposite reaction from seemandhra region. Currently KCR is in Delhi running for pillar to post to gauge the mood of the national and other regional parties on Telangana. In the mean time already leaders from seemandhra are making their own moves to stall KCR at the initial stages itself. Rayalaseema’s fire brand leader TG.Venkatesh who some time back advocated for private army to tackle the goons of KCR in his own words, said that once KCR comes out of Delhi, their representatives will fly to Delhi and advocate their strong views on the bifurcation of the state.
This has become the problem for telangana leaders and its people because when ever they get some positive signals from center on the issue, seemandhra leaders cutting across parties use their clout and change the decision overnight. Many telangana representatives know that they are not as united as their counter parts from seemandhra but still they are not willing to bury their personal rivalries for the achievement of telangana. It has to be seen what will be the impact of KCR’s Delhi trip this time.

NTR’s kin insulting him

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Controversy over installation of TDP founder NTR statue is not dying down. While land has been allotted at parliamentary central hall, Delhi long time back the undue delay in the installation of statue is shocking everyone. Allegations are flying thick and fast and TDP say it is Union Minister and NTR’s own daughter Purandareeswari who is stalling the statue so that TDP chief Chandra Babu do not get any mileage over the whole issue. TDP leaders say they have written letter to central govt long time back requesting them for the permission for the statue. They say that all the family members of NTR signed except for Purandareeswari. They say they met her personally and requested her to sign on the letter, but she chose to be adamant and did not sign the letter.
However sources from Purandareeswari say that TDP is playing politics over the issue and their leaders never approached her at any time. They say their leaders sent the letter directly to Govt, fully aware that unless until they get the sign of Purandareeswari, things will not move ahead. Instead they chose to send it to Govt, only to score brownie points. However many feel that in this political battle for mileage over the whole issue, the great leader who bought name and fame to Andhra Pradesh state has been insulted for years.

Seetayya’s war cry

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TDP founder NTR’s son Harikrishna for long tried to take over the party, thus liberating it from the iron clutches of Chandrababu. However he failed in his mission and sometime back he even left the party to start his own Ana Telugudesam. But his move did not find support from people and he had to bite dust and patch up with Babu, who sent him to Rajya Saba as MP.Seetayya as he is lovingly known as started waiting for the opportunity to strike at Babu and the mistrust between them is there for everyone to see. Harikrishna along with his son NTR is trying to wrest control over the party, but Chandra Babu roped in his brother Balakrishna to counter him.

Naidu gradually stopped giving importance to him and more recently rumors flew in that Harikrishna is sick and suffering from serious illness. Much to the shock of Harikrishna, Balakrishna visited his constituency. A hurt Harikrishna said he is not sick but hale and healthy. When asked who were behind the rumors, he said some vested interests are trying to divide wedge between him, Balakrishna and Naidu.This shows that all is not well for Hari in the party and the mistrust between Babu and him reached a point of no return. It is an irony that Harikrishna who instigated all to revolt against his father in support of Naidu is out of favor with him.

Nikita goes controversial again!

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Actress Nikita who shifted her base from Telugu to Kannada was banned three months ago from the Kannada film industry for her alleged affair with the co-star, Darshan. And now she is making a comeback in Sandalwood. That too with a movie starring Darshan. The movie is reportedly a period film.
“I really had to live my character. From the tiniest details like the kind of kumkum and alta, to my mannerisms, it has been an exciting journey. Right from the beginning, the entire team of the film was thrilled about doing a historical. Also, the controversy that Darshanji and I got embroiled in in our personal lives made the team grow stronger as a family, ensuring we worked harder.” The actress added.
She also added that “My equation with Darshanji hasn’t changed. We remain friends, just as we used to be. He’s helped me a lot, especially for this film, since the dialogues were in old Kannada. We’ve worked on three films together and I do respect him a lot,” she states.

Genelia’s husband in Sudigaadu Hindi remake

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While the hulchul of Sudigadu is still on at Andhra Pradesh box office, Sudigaadu is on his way to Bollywood. Senior producer Daggubati Suresh Babu had bagged the remake rights of the movie for a fancy price after the movie got super hit talk. He is planning to produce the Hindi remake of the movie very soon. Director for this film is not yet confirmed but Suresh Babu had hired a team of writers to change the script to suit Hindi nativity. Genelia’s husband Riteish Deshmukh will be the hero in this project. The movie has been titled ‘Filmy Picture’. More details are awaited.

Allu Sirish’s Mouth takes Center stage!

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The First look pictures of Allu Sirish’s debut movie, Gauravam were released to media on Wednesday. Sirish was seen in a skin tight tee exposing his strong biceps and in khaki pant. The makers are taking care that the looks of the actor gets accepted before the movie release. But despite the good still, people’s focus gets shifted to the Vankara Moothi of Sirish in the pictures. Sirish is having the problem of Teeth disarray which had caused the deformation in his jaw. He had been using braces for quite some time to solve the problem.
The movie shooting is 50% complete. The next schedule of the movie will begin in Kanya Kumari very soon. Critically acclaimed director Radha Mohan is directing thsi film and versatile character artiste Prakash Raj is the producer. The movie is a bilingual and B.V.S. Ravi is working on the script for the Telugu version. Music is being scored by Thaman.

Pawan Kalyan shakes legs with Tamannah

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Powerstar Pawan Kalyan’s Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu is currently in the last leg of its production. The third song shoot had began in a special set erected in Padmalaya studios. Mani Sharma had composed a peppy tune for the song for which Bhaskarbhatla had penned the lyrics. After the completion of this song, two more songs are to be shot to complete the movie.
The audio release of the movie will take place on 24th of this month while the movie will hit the screens on October 11th.Tamannah is playing the female lead. Puri Jagannath is directing Pawan Kalyan after 10 years of their Badri. Mani Sharma is composing the music. DVV Danayya is producing the movie on his Universal media banner.

Amala Paul to pair up with Bunny

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Despite the failures of Bejawada and Love Failure, Amala Paul is not short of opportunities in Telugu. Earlier, she was paired opposite Ram Charan in Naayak and is now signed beside Allu Arjun in his upcoming movie, Iddarammayilatho directed by Puri Jagannath. “Awesome new project of Dancing star Bunny and Dynamic director @purijagan garu has added me as Heroine to the combination! ! Yay! !,” Amala Paul posted on Twitter. Tapsee is rumoured to be the other lady.
Iddarammayilatho movie would formally go on the floors from September 20. Bandla Ganesh Babu would be producing the film under Parameswara Arts and Devi Sri Prasad would be composing the music.

Censor war on ‘Peoples War’

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Revolutinary director R.Narayanamurthy planned to open the eyes of the Govt and rulers with his film ‘Peoples War’ highlighting the fight of farmers against Sompet power plant. The film is up for release tomorrow. It is a well known fact that the film is inspired by real life incidents which highlights the peoples struggle and tribulations due to blind and adamant Govt. He in many of his interviews said that the film is peoples fight against the policies of Govt and will open the eyes of the Govt.
It seems Govt got the message as censor board started waging a war on ‘Peoples War’. They asked Murthy not to mention ‘sompet’ in his film. He was ultimately forced to change the name to ‘Someswarapeta’. Similarly he was forced to insert disclaimer at the start and end of the film stating that “This film is a work of fiction and does not refer to real life characters or incidents. Any resemblance is a co-incidence.”. To the top of it Censor Board awarded U/A certificate for the film. The censor board has also told Narayana Murty that there should not be any references to GO Nos. 1107 and 1108, concerning the Sompeta project.Powerless Narayanamurthy had to agree to all the suggestions Censor Board to get his film released.

Tollywood inspires B-Town

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Many films in Tollywood may not win awards or attract the attention of other regions. But there are many tollywood films which proved inspiration to B-Town and their top stars reviving the career of many. Bollywood which previously look down south films as ‘sambar-avakaya’ films started appreciating the creativity and are competing with each other to bag the remake rights of successful films. TOp to stay in the list is Salman Khan who after his Dabang success is starring in ‘Kick’. This is the remake of Mass Maharaja Raviteja’s ‘Kick’. Sallu Miya regained his form with Prince Mahesh Babu’s ‘Pokiri’ which he remade it as ‘Wanted’.
Though Amir did not remake a telugu film, his ‘Ghajani’ is a remake of Surya starrer. Even action hero Akshay Kumar who till now used to star in malayalee remakes like ‘Hera Feri’, ‘Bhool Bhulaya’, ‘Bhagam Bhag’, ‘Hey Baby’ and “Katta Meeta’, scored a stunning hit with ‘Rowdy Rathore’ a remake of tollywood superhit ‘Vikramarkudu’ starring Ravi Teja. Buzz is now he is planning to remake Chiranjeevi’s ‘Tagore’. Ajay Devgan also scored a hit with ‘Singham’ a remake of Surya starrer. Now he is starring in ‘Son of Sardar’, a remake of Sunil’s ‘Maryada Ramanna’. His upcoming venture ‘Himmatwala’ is remake of Super Star Krishna’s ‘OOriki Monagadu’. Even Sanjay Dutt is starring in remakes of ‘Dhee’ and then in Balakrishna’s ‘Lakshmi Narasimha’ remake. Even Ritesh Deshmukh, Shreyas Talpade and Shahid Kapoor are getting ready to follow their seniors who set the trend of remaking tollywood films.

Srikanth becomes Mega Brother

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Everyone knows family hero Srikanth is the die hard fan of Mega Star Chiranjeevi. He fulfilled his dream of acting with Chiru, by making his presence felt when he shared the screen presence with Megastar in ‘Shankar Dada Zindabad’ and also in its sequel. Now much to the delight of Srikanth none other than Power Star Pawan Kalyan announced in full public gaze that Srikanth is one of the mega brothers.
The incident happened during the spectacular launch of Srikanth starrer ‘Devaraya’ audio launch. Recollecting his association with Srikanth, Power Star said Srikanth shares extremely good relationship with Megastar Chiranjeevi and Chiru always refers to Srikanth as his brother during his conversations with him. Pawan said Srikanth is like mega family member. This will be surely honey to Srikanth’s ears, as any person would be delighted to be associated in some form or the other with Mega Family.
Srikanth said Pawan used to be secluded and calm even in mega functions while he used to land at the venue and celebrate the occasion with full fervor and frenzy. He said he never expected and had his own doubts on Pawan gracing his film ‘Devaraya’ audio launch as Pawan did not even celebrate ‘Gabbar Singh’ success. However he delighted all making the function a grand one with his presence.

‘Damarukam’ on mission ‘Eega’

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Tollywood Jakkana creation ‘Eega’ might have signed off on a high note from silver screen across the world but everyone knew the lasting impression it created on movie lovers. Still people and kids rave about ‘Eega’ and many have already made up their mind to watch the film’s 3D version as and when it hits the screens.
In the mean time King Nag is coming with powerful ‘Damarukam’ in hand along with Anushka and he says his mission is to erase ‘Eega’ memories from the minds of people. Speaking at the audio launch he said that ‘Damarukam’ will erase ‘Eega’ from the memories of movie lovers. He said ‘Damarukam’ special effects will be thousand times more better and extravagant than ‘Eega’ which set the trend for others to follow.
One wonder why Nag with his ‘Damarukam’ is targeting ‘Eega’. Many feel since he spoke about Damarukam on a high note it wont be the fault of movie lovers if they start dissecting each and every scene of Damarukam with that of Eega before passing their judgement. Expectations will increase enormously with may or may not work in its favor. It has to be seen whether ‘Damarukam’ will be successful on its mission ‘Eega’.

Dharmana puts CM in a bind

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Minister Dharmana Prasada Rao who tendered his resignation to CM Kiran following inclusion of his name in CBI charge sheet in VANPIC case is putting Kiran in a mind. Kiran did not accept the resignation for the fear that if he accepts Dharmana’s resignation then he should follow the same rule in case of other ministers who are facing some allegations and court proceedings. However Dharmana, seeking solace on moral high grounds stopped attending cabinet meetings. Ghulam Nabi Azad, the state incharge tried to solve the issue asking him to attend cabinet meets as CM Kiran did not accept his resignation.
Here Dharmana showed his keen political acumen and demanded Ghulam Nabi Azad, as statement from CM Kiran refusing his resignation on the whole issue so that he can start discharging his duties. But CM Kiran feels that since he did not accept his resignation, it shows that he believes that Dharmana did not commit any mistake. Kiran is of the opinion that if he issues a statement that Dharmana did not make any mistake, and in future if CBI moves ahead to arrest him, then it will be a severe jolt to the Govt which he can not afford to at present.
In the midst of all this CM Kiran decided to send notice to Dharmana seeking his explanation on the CBI letter which sought CM’s approval to proceed against him. If he sends the note, this will be first in the history of entire India, that a minister has been asked to explain. Normally explanations are sought from Govt officials by sending notices to them.

Janareddy jumbling T-Box !

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Congress leaders will try some thing or the other to gain recognition with Cong High Command and be in media limelight. This time Panchayathi Raj Minister Jana Reddy is jumbling the T-Box in the hope of solving the T-Puzzle much to the delight of Madame Sonia. Noticing that TDP is getting ready to come with a fresh letter on Telangana and TRS and its chief getting ready to reignite T-fire, Jana Reddy decided to come up with his own love letter on Telangana.
Cong T representatives are of the opinion that seemandhra representatives pressurising High Command is weakening their status in telangana region and feel that their unity should be an example for T representatives. So Jana decided to take the initiative and is planning to fly to Delhi after Assembly session.
They are planning to send a letter to Sonia explaining ground realities and this time Jana himself took the initiative to get the signatures of various Ministers. He even asked T Forum convener Baswaraj Sarayya to get signatures of some more ministers. While he is successful in getting Dy CM Damodar Rajanarasimha’s signature,Hyderabad ministers Mukesh Gowd and Danam Nagender are not keen on signing the letter. It seems now Jana is back to square one and one has to wait and see what results Jana’s T jumble will get.

Chiru forgets Pule ?

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Mega Star Chiranjeevi who during the grand launch of his Praja Rajyam included stalwarts like Jyothi Rao Pule and promised social justice to all sections of people, later conveniently forgot him as it did not catapult him to CM chair. Now he is enjoying the comforts of Rajya Sabha MP seat. He is busy attending dissent meets.
Govt already planned to install Jyothi Rao Pule’s statue but till now even after Pule’s anniversary in April, it did not materialise. Cong which promised to give seats to BCs , couldn’t get Pule’s statue installed. BCs are up in arms and are furious with the acts of the Govt. Till now only V.Hanumanth Rao’s felicitation of Pule, collecting funds from various sections of people, is the only saving grace.
Many feel that Chiru instead of delivering speeches or speak like novice at each and every meet, can get his act together and help in installation of statue of Pule, which will be tribute to the great leader who strove for the benefit of the poor in his entire lifetime. It has to be seen whether Chiru has enough time to pay attention to all these trivial issues. Chiru is busy trying to get one or the other post of prominence for him.

Telangana ‘Vidroham’ or ‘Vimochanam’

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Come September 17th, entire region of telangana will be burning with the debate whether the day should be celebrated as ‘Vimochanam’ or protested as ‘Vidroham’. This is the same day on 1948, when Indian Army on the orders of Iron Man of India, Sardar Patel marched to liberate the Nizam state from the clutches of Nizam who vowed his allegiance to Pakistan and whose army created a web of terror in the minds of people.
However some telangana people including TRS chief KCR, says that Nizam developed the state and razakars were only few which he could have tackled had he been given some time. They say Indian army annexed the Nizam state and so on this day protests should be held across the state branding the day as ‘Vidroha Dinam’ as from that day onwards telangana people lost their freedom.
But many feel that the atrocities committed by Nizam and his army ably supported by private armies called razakars, can not be pardoned or washed off by people like KCR. Many say that the day should be celebrated as ‘Vimochana dinam’ as Indian army liberated the region from the clutches of Nizam’s heinous rule thus presenting them freedom. They ask for the Govt to celebrate it officially just like Maharashtra and Karnataka Govts are doing. It has to be seen what will be the stand of Govt on the whole issue.

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