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Films only for fans?

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When ever people and movie lovers happen to watch the movie launch, audio launch or success meets of the films, film makers give grandiose statements that they have made the films according to the aspirations of the fans of the heroes, Those who watched the audio releases of Racha, Gabbar Singh, Dammu etc, will remember the statements from the producers and directors of respective films.
This make many wonder whether TFI and those associated with it decided to alienate all sections of people and confine themselves to fans. Fans are actually formed from people who are inspired by the acts of particular hero, and even though they did not benefit in anyway from the hero, go to the extent of even giving their lives. So they reach a point where they can not digest their hero’s defeats and flops or appreciate other heroes good performances. So even heroes don’t want to disappoint their fans.
But one wonder whether any film’s success depend just on fans watching the film?. For any film to become a super hit or block buster and rewrite existing records, it needs more than fans support. Needs repeated audience. Even if fans watch the film each ten times, the film won’t be a success. Fans will only help in huge opening collections, free publicity and first day talk. If buyers and distributors should reach break even then they need encouragement from general public and ordinary movie lover.
So if fans only watch the film there is no guarantee for film’s success. If fans repeatedly watch the film then it will reach minimum guarantee. If general public watch then it will be a hit and if women folk throng theaters then the film will be superhit. When even children join them the film will be a blockbuster and goes on to become a trend setter.

Charulatha makers sets example to entire Indian film industry

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When many Indian filmmakers are free making foreign films without any acknowledgement for script and screenplay, here’s a surprise for you. The makers of Charulatha, starring Priyamani, have officially bought the rights of a Thai-Korean film, “Alone” (2007), and are remaking it in three languages – Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.
Alone is about a deceased Siamese twin returning to haunt surviving sister. Ponkumaran, a protege of K. Bhagyaraj and K. S. Ravikumar is directing the movie. National Award winning actress Priyamani is playing the role of conjoined twins. Mollywood actor Skanda is playing the male lead while Seetha, Saranya Ponvannan and Arthi play important. Sundar C Babu is scoring the music for this film, which would be released by Geetha Film Distribution in Telugu. The horror trilingual is produced by Ramesh Krishnamoorthy.

Kareena to act till 90 ?

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Bollywood hottie Kareena Kapoor is on cloud nine with the response of the first teaser of her latest movie, Heroine. Speaking in an interview, she speaks about her future plans. She says she does not intend to give up her position to anyone in the industry and insists that she will continue to work till she turns 90.
When asked if she fears that she will have to make place of other actress, Kareena said, “I haven’t thought of it as yet. And obviously I wish and hope that. I think I will be like Zohra Sehgal who would be working till 90…so tough luck. I am not going to give my place to anyone.”
In Madhur Bhandarkar’s much awaited film, ‘Heroine’ Kareena will be seen as a superstar. The film chronicles the various phases, she goes through as an actress — from a glamorous high life to a tragic downfall.

Small movie gets huge recognition

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Future looks promising for small movies in Tollywood. With the success of Ee Rojullo recently, one more small movie with all new comers is getting good recognition. The movie is ‘Andhala Rakshasi’, the triangular love story set in the 90′s. The movie is all set for a release on August 10th. The news has been confirmed by Dil Raju, who is releasing the movie in Andhra Pradesh. Sai Korrapati is the producer of the movie. S.S.Rajamouli is so impressed with the movie and bought a share in the movie.
Hanu Raghavapudi is making his debut as a director with this movie. Lavanya, Naveen Chandra and Rahul Ravindran will be seen as the lead actors. Radhan has composed the music for this film.

Allari Naresh going Megastar way

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The title of Chiranjeevi and Vijaya Shanthi’s super hit movie ‘Yamudiki Mogudu’ is under consideration for Allari Naresh’s upcoming movie. The shooting of the movie directed by E Satti Babu is currently underway. 11 special sets are being used for the movie to make sure that the visuals look grand. Sayaji Shinde is playing the Yama’s role and Ramya Krishna will be seen as his wife. .
Senior actors Naresh, Giri Babu and comedians Raghu Babu, Krishna Bhagwan will be seen in important roles. Ravindra Babu is handling the cinematography and Koti is the music director.

Lawerence refuses to give relief to producers !

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Lawerence’s tantrums had costed the producers of Rebel very much. The movie now is the costliest budget in Prabhas’ career. It is also the most delayed project but the director Lawerence is still not giving it up. He is demanding a costly set for the last song of the movie. Production designer AS Prakash is erecting a huge set in Annapurna 7 acres studios for a song shoot of Prabhas’ Rebel movie. The song shoot will begin from August 4th and will conclude on 9th. With this the movie shoot will be complete and the extensive post production work will begin.
Tamanna and Deeksha Seth are the heroines pairing first time alongside Prabhas in the film.J.Bhagavan and J.Pulla Rao are jointly producing the movie while Lawrence is directing it, also handling the music department. The audio is planned to be launched in early in August. The movie will hit the screens towards the end of August or early September.

Chakri back to Puri’s camp !

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Chakri is the asthana music director of Puri Jagannath in his prime. Both of them had delivered several hit albums in their early careers. but both of them parted ways for some time and during that period both of them did not have a good outing. Golimaar was the last movie in their combination.

And now the latest information is Chakri is back in to Puri’s camp. He will be scoring music for Puri Jagannath;s next movie starring Allu Arjun. Bandla Ganesh will be producing the movie under his Parameswara Arts banner.The movie will have its muhurath on September 20th. More details of this project are awaited.

Uu Kodathara Ulikki Padathara Release Today !

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Manchu Manoj’s Uu Kodathara Ulikki Padathara is all set to release today. The movie has been screened to the regional censor board members on Monday.After the premier show, all the distributors reportedly seem to be very happy with the movie output.
Nandamuri Balakrishna is playing the role of Zamindar Narasimha Rayudu in this movie. Deeksha Seth is playing the love interest of Manoj in the movie. Dr Brahmanandam, Sunil, Sai Kumar, Prabu are other casting. Sekhar Raja is debuting as director with this film. Bobo Sasi is providing tunes for the film while Bollywood musical duos Salim-Sulaiman are scoring background music. Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna will also seen in a special role in this movie.
The producers of Uu Koduthara Ulikki Padutara had recently arranged a movie premiere for the distributors at a theatre in Chennai. The distributors were carried away by the wonderful performances of Balakrishna and Manchu Manoj in it. They also liked various twists and turns in the second half of the film.
Uu Koduthara Ulikki Padutara is releasing in more than 60 theatres in Hyderabad alone. The film unit is all excited about the response of the audience. Scriptwriter Gopi Mohan tweeted, “Most of the distributors saw #UKUP today:) awesome report and they are more kicked they wanna increase more theatres:) GOD Bless:))”
Uu Koduthara Ulikki Padutara is a socio-fantasy film, which has been made with highest budget. It has high technical and production values. The producers have erected 6.5 crore Gandharva Mahal for the film, which is the most expensive set built in Tollywood so far. The movie has Sekhar Raja’s script and direction, and B Rajasekar’s camera work.
Besides Balakrishna and Manoj, Uu Koduthara Ulikki Padutara also features Deekasha Seth, Brahmanandam, Lakshmi, Sunil, Sai Kumar, Prabu in other important roles. Bobo Sasi has composed music for its songs, while Bollywood musical duo Salim-Sulaiman worked on its background score.
Stay Tuned for More updates and Review…

Indra to be remade in Hindi with RC or Sallu ?

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Speaking about the top shot producers of the Tollywood circuit the name of Aswini Dutt stands tall. He has always been known for crazy combinations of star heroes and star directors. However, with his last few ventures (read ‘Shakti’) bombing like crazy Dutt has been lying low without making much noise.

However, it is now heard that he is all set to take the biggest gamble of his life. It is heard that if ‘Zanjeer’, the debut of Ram Charan in Bollywood, becomes a hit then the plan is that Dutt will remake ‘Indra’ in Hindi with Charan. However, buzz is that he would be changing the tone of the film slightly since Cherry is quite young.
Otherwise, sources say he wants to do the same movie with Salman Khan. And here is the gamble point. Currently, Aswini Dutt is going through a low phase. If he enters Bollywood with this big budget treat only two things will happen, either he will reach the top or his top will be gone. Let us see what happens.

Sudden Star’s sudden Realisation !

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Allari Naresh announced his transformation as Sudden Star of tollywood with his upcoming film ‘Sudigaadu’. Many wonder the reason behind his smiling secret. While many title their films with normal titles, Allari Naresh take special care in naming his films. All his films are named in a unique manner which attract laughter the moment one hear those names and that will be doubled when those titles are associated with Allari Naresh.
In that manner half the job of attracting movie lovers and general public’s response and their attention is achieved. If one notices his earlier films like Blade Babji, Betting Bangarraju, Seema Tapakai, Aha Na Pellanta, Katti Kanta Rao, Madata Kaja, Bendu Apparao, Seema Sastri evoke laughter. Same can be said about his latest and upcoming films starting with Sudigadu, Nelatakkuvodu, ‘Kevvu Keka’. This year Allari Naresh started off slowly and did only one project titled ‘Nuvva Nena’. However sudden realisation seems to have dawned on this ‘Sudden Star’ that he should do more films just like he had done earlier and started signing projects and is on prowl for new projects. Many may question as to what is there in name, but everything is there in name and an attractive name or title is the stepping stone to success.

Andhra ‘Tiger’ aping all !

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Jr NTR is renowned for his superlative dialogue delivery and dashing dances. He spellbound all with his powerful performances in stunning and sensational hits ‘Student No 1’, ‘Aadi’ and ‘Simhadri’. His acts made tollywood sit up and take notice as all this happened when Mega Star Chiranjeevi used to be the undisputed Emperor of tollywood. Movie analysts and critics hailed him as the new no 1 of tollywood.
However his meteoric rise suddenly gave way to catostrophic crash with Andhra Wala turning out to be a disaster. It took some time to come out of this and Rakhi and Yama Donga changed all once again. But during that time tollywood has seen Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s Magadheera and just like all smitten by its enternal beauty, Tiger thought of rewriting the records beating Magadheera in its own turf, making similar sensational and more powerful film.
However his Shakti proved to be a disaster and at the same time Prince Mahesh suddenly picked up his snail pace and went on to show his ‘Dookudu’. He tried again to beat it at its own game turning ‘Oosaravelli’. However luck didnot favor him and when he tried to show his true power with powerful mass entertainer ‘Dammu’, people including his fans started doubting his ‘Dammu’. Now he is at crossroads trying to become ‘Baadshah’ of tollywood. Unless until he stamps his own style, people think all powerful Andhra Tiger is aping all in his quest for success.

Secret of Jagan’s Strength !

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Many political parties tried to demolish and decimate son of former CM YS.Rajasekhara Reddy but Jagan to the surprise of all rose like a phoenix every time any party tried to crush him under its feet. Many are left to wonder as to what is the real secret behind Jagan’s enormous strength. Be it Congress High Command, CBI, ED, IT or State Govt, and other government departments individually or collectively failed to crush Jagan. Covert and Overt collusion with rival and opposition parties also did not pay any dividends.
But one close analysis, many feel that the more the opponents went after Jagan, the more stronger he emerged. First Congress tried to stop his ‘Odarpu Yatra’ but he emerged stronger on that front using emotions effectively. Similarly the party tried to pressurise him aleniating him dividing his friends, family, relatives and supporters. Again he emerged victorious. Slapped various cases, strangled him, put him in jail, made wild allegations while he was in jail so that he couldn’t reply, and in the entire bylections got him barred from campaigning. However all this steps backfired on the parties whch implemented them.
So the real strengh of Jagan is his weak points highlighted by his opponents like corruption charges, highly arrogant attitude and what not. However his rivals made his weak points as his strong points without realising their follies and inadvertently helped him win all battles, making hero out of ordinary MP. Now people across the country view him as the only politician with less than 5 yrs of experience who dared to take on the highly experienced and arrogant Congress high command and Sonia Gandhi.

Mystery of Darsaka Dheera Rajamouli !

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Director Rajamouli created a sensation when he with Mega Power Star Ram Charan as hero rewrote all tollywood records with ‘Magadheera’. He has the sole distinction of having 100% track record of presenting a hit to all tollywood top heroes and when those films are remade in other languages, those turned out to be stunning hits. Bollywood film makers got in touch with him and were waiting eagerly to accord red carpet welcome to him, but he in a press statement yesterday, ruled out his bollywood entry for another four years. Many thought it was the arrogance that got into his heart and mind after the enormous success of his ‘Eega’. They even cite his statements not to do films with star heroes. Then with whom does he do films?. None can expect success from upcoming heroes everytime.
The same people who are now speaking about Rajamouli’s arrogance complimented for his Eega success, breaking the stranglehold of top heroes on the industry with films centered around their heroics and family name. They cite Rajamouli was not given due accord and credit he deserved when Magadheera turned out to be a hit, with mega family trying to take entire credit for themselves. But if we try to unravel the mystery of Rajamouli then his reasoning seems to be right.
As such he can not plunge into bollywood, as he is busy with 3D conversion of his blockbuster Eega. Then he has film ‘Viswamithra’ with young Rebel Star Prabhas. There are even indications that he will be teaming up with Power Star Pawan Kalyan and also Prince Mahesh Babu. When news about Balakrishna’s 100th film cropped up, he nipped those rumors in bud itself. so even if we take two projects starting at the end of this year, then the next year will be finished and one doesn’t know what will be in store for future.

Political colors dividing tollywood!

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Every individual will support one party or other during elections and forget it later. Except for the die hard supporters of a particular party, many get along with their work. even tollywood film industry used to be like that couple of decades back but everything seems to have changed.

Tollywood now has political colors with the top four to five influential families are associated with one or the other party. It all started with Legendary NTR entering politics starting his own party TDP. From then on Nandamuri family members are associated with the party except for Daggupati Purandreeswari who joined Congress and became minister of state for HRD at Center.
Mega Star Chiranjeevi planned to have his own party PRP but with his dreams dashed, he is also enjoying his honeymoon with Congress becoming Rajya Sabha MP. So all the mega heroes can be branded as congress supporters. Till recently Darsakaratna Dasari Narayana Rao used to be the Central Minister with Congress Party.
Collection King Mohan Babu used to be with TDP during the regime of NTR. However with his son married to YS.Jagan’s relative, he is now with YSRCP and recently he along with his son visited Jagan in jail. Though he denies any political leanings it is hard to believe that. Super Star Krishna couple of years back was with Congress during YSR’s regime and he benefited a lot.
Now that YSRCP is there he may be leaning towards the party. Same is the case with Rebel Star Krishnam Raju, Murali Mohan and others. Having political leanings is one thing and getting divided due to these leanings is another thing. WIth so many ego clashes and power houses, it is not surprising that tollywood’s demands are never met by political parties or the party that is ruling the state.

Will TDP left with only Naidu?

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Records created by TDP can be unmatched. Right from the day it originated with in six months of its inception, its founder NTR riding on people’s apathy of Congress CMs prostrating before Congress High Command at Delhi bagged power signaling the surge in people to show their Andhra Pride. His records are unmatched be it populistic schemes like 2Rs kilo rice or property rights for women.

Later Chandra Babu Naidu dislodged his father in law taking advantage of discomfort in NTRs kin over the importance given to Lakshmi Parvathi, NTR’s second wife. He ruled the state like CEO and got world wide recognition to the capital Hyderabad, turning it into hi tech city. With entire development concentrated only on one part of the city with rest of the state ignored along with other sectors, he lost power after ruling for 9 yrs.

Naidu’s dreams of a comeback were dashed due to changing power and political equations with the entry of Mega Star Chiranjeevi, who with his party PRP weaned away Naidu’s votes and later the death of YSR, after which sudden surge of Telangana Moment thanks to KCR, punched holes on strategies of King Maker Naidu. Now with Jagan making strong political forays, he is finding it difficult to stem the outflow of his party cadre and leaders to YSR CP. Though Naidu is trying all strategies to win over people’s confidence, he is finding it difficult to convince them, which is proving to be his eral headache. In the midst of all he is confronted with NTR family members waiting to take over the Party reigns.

Many feel if proper steps are not taken and confidence of people not won TDP will be left with only Naidu in the party.

Siddharth becomes Pattu vadhalani Vikramarka

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Don’t get misled thinking Siddharth is going to act in a mythological movie. We are talking about his never say die attitude of him. HE recently produced his first movie and his maiden production venture Love Failure got him mediocre results with him finding it difficult to release the movie but the actor is not ready to subdue. He had announced that he is going to produce two more movies.
“Starting work on 2 films to shoot at the end of the year.Producing and acting in both. Details soon…exciting work ahead! fingers crossed:),” Siddharth posted on Twitter. He’s currently acting in Nandini Reddy’s upcoming film and another Tamil film which is being produced by Vetrimaaran.and there were rumours that he was in talks to buy the remake rights of Vicky Donor.

Special song on Pawanism

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Pawan Kalyan’s demigod status is world famous He enjoys a cult following among his fans who like call it “Pawanism”, and the phenomenon is going to get bigger it seems. Apparently Apparently popular playback singer Baba Sehgal is going to compose and render a special song about Pawanism.
The enigmatic Tollywood matinee idol will be the first star to have a special track dedicated to him. The news has certainly got hordes of his fans jumping up with joy. It is being rumored that an ace director will be directing the song. The details of the song are expected soon.

Rajamouli all set to disappoint Nani ?

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Nani who was a small stream actor till yesterday and had grown by multiple folds with Rajamouli’s Eega. He now has 35 Crore plus share movie which even several big stars do not have. And adding icing to the cake, Eega is going to Bollywood very soon. While earlier it was heard that Rajamouli is planning to dub the movie in Hindi, the latest we hear is that Abhishek Bachchan is reportedly interested to reprise the role of Nani in the original. If this materializes, it will be a major disappointment to Nani.
Does Nani miss being part of the B’wood project? “As far as I know, it will be dubbed in Hindi and not remade, and the Hindi version would be in 3D. I don’t know about any change in plans, if any.” the actor said to a Newspaper.

Trisha’s bank balance less by 25 Lakhs

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The otherwise judicious actress, Trisha had reportedly gone spendthrift in recent times according to a strong buzz heard in Filmnagar circles. Sources tells that the actress spent an amount of about 25 Lakhs on her staircase! She recently moved into a new home which she built to her taste and she reportedly splurged the money on building a beautiful staircase that leads to the first floor of her home. A very special and rare marble was reportedly used for the staircase, making it so expensive.
While we expect Trisha sure does know how to spend money in style. Well, This lady should be very careful in spending money as her offers are dipping low currently.

Nani finds his love on Facebook ?

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Off late, we have heard several love stories springing from social networking sites. And now according to the sources, we are going to have a celebrity facebook love story very soon. Going in to detail, “The Fly” has reportedly been chatting with “Anjana of Vizag” and sources say that not only do the two understand each other, over the past three years, they have also found that they have a lot of common interests.
Sources told us that the relationship has moved from “strength to strength” and now that Anjana has finished her engineering studies, the friends-turned-lovers are planning to make it official with the approval of parents, obviously. But Nani is furiously rejecting the Facebook rumours. The rumours, however, are pretty specific and claim the two are getting ENGAGED on August 8. “That’s just not true and I haven’t discovered any lover on Facebook. It’s true that I spend a lot of time chatting since it’s the best tool to stay connected with friends.”

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