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‘Radha Ekkada Vunna Bavundali’, Jagan’s Reaction On Radha’s Exit
YS Jagan Mohan Reddy had several tags in political, media and social media circuits. He had been tagged as “angry”, “arrogant”, “disrespectful”, “impolite”, “hot-headed”. He had also been known for making too personal comments on his political opponents Chandrababu Naidu, Pawan Kalyan. There were times when Jagan had stated that there is nothing wrong in shooting Chandrababu Naidu in public, he had also made such uncalled for statements and paid a huge price for it. Even in Nandyal by-poll, Jagan’s vicious diatribes on Chandrababu are said to had made it so easy for the TDP to come out with flying colours.
But this is all passe. Jagan seems to have learnt lessons. His reaction on Vangaveeti Radha’s exit and his strong comments have come as a huge surprise – even to YCP’s own leaders and political experts. Jagan had handled the whole issue so well with calm, composure. Jagan’s reaction – “Radha Ekkada Vunna Bavundali” – despite the fact that Radha breathed fire on him like never before is a laudable one. Such composure, maturity are needed in politics.
In fact, TDP and Janasena were expecting a strong counter from Jagan to Radha’s aggressive remarks. TDP expected that Jagan would react in same tone as Radha and thus wanted to politically cash in on Jagan’s weakness – anger. But for strange, Jagan didn’t give that chance to his political opponents. He had acted very smart and by saying so, Jagan had scored points in public. Also, a section of Kapus who were unhappy with Radha over his next political step (joining into TDP), are now said to be praising Jagan for his reaction. Has Jagan became more matured? Has Jagan started learning how to act in politics? Is Prashant Kishor behind this change in Jagan? Only time will tell.
What Telugu people can learn from #GoBackModi campaign of Tamils
Over the past two days, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Madurai, netizens from Tamil Nadu began a trend #GoBackModi which topped the global trends on Twitter for over 48 hours. This unity and togetherness of Tamils on social media has stunned people all over India. So, what is it about the Tamils that actually struck a chord with the rest of the Indians, especially those from the South?
Soon after this trend, people from Kerala on social media started the hashtag trend #PoMoneModi (Go Back Modi), as his next pit-stop was Kerala. Picking up the trend, Kerala too has shown that the PM is not welcome in their state. While the Tamils stated that they did not get the Centre’ help for Cyclone, farmers’ issues and destabilising their state government, Keralites mentioned their reasons as the recent Kerala floods, Sabarimala disturbance, etc. While each of these states have their own issues, one cannot help but observe how the Telugu states have lessons to learn from the unity among Tamils and Malayalis.
The two Telugu States, post a bitter bifurcation have, lost the affection and love for each other. Even politicians played to the gallery and raked up unnecessary sentiments for votes. The situation currently is so bad that people from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh act more like enemies though they do not have any personal differences. What is worse is that there is unity among the people of Telangana while people in Andhra Pradesh are a divided lot because of caste differences within the state.
Let us take Special Status for Andhra Pradesh: Every political party has a different stance on it. This fight among the political parties within AP has invariably divided its people too, leading to a lack of unity among themselves. Also, what they lack is the spirit to fight together for the cause. Similarly, in Telangana, there is a difference of opinion between political parties – one party wants to finish all the other. The battle between both Telugu states has gone to the extent where one state wants to belittle the other, its politicians want to fight the other. This complete lack of togetherness among Telugu people (who were united until 2014) has become an impediment for their own progress.
While the BJP is using its might to make its entry into every Southern state, its strategy to create inroads and bitterness have worked well with both Telugu states. While it could be the party’s political strategy, what the Telugu States can learn from the Tamil is the spirit of being together and not fighting among themselves. It is unfortunate that the people and the politicians in Telugu states are fighting amongst each other – showing that we are weak and can easily be provoked by any external force or vested interest that is trying to destabilize both the states.
May be, it is time for the Telugu people to wake up to their strength and not blame each other, but fight for their own future and development of their states.
Is Nagababu Un-Official Janasena Worker?
It looks like Mega brother Nagababu is slowly but surely chipping in to support his younger brother Pawan Kalyan ahead of the 2019 general elections in Andhra Pradesh. Of late, Nagababu has been targeting Pawan’s political opponents like Balakrishna, Nara Lokesh and YS Jagan and has been making several controversial allegations against them on social media.
Now, Nagababu seems to have stepped into active politics to stand as a pillar of strength to Pawan. He recently visited East Godavari on a 3-day tour and interacted with a large number of Mega fans and Janasena cadres and discussed the ways to strengthen the party from the grassroot level.
Nagababu is also said to have planned to go on a statewide tour soon to meet with more and more Janasena sympathisers and common people in the coming few months in the run-up to the upcoming general elections. Meanwhile, although Nagababu’s satirical videos on opposition leaders are raising a few eyebrows, political analysts opine that the Mega brother’s lowbrow allegations are only causing more damage than good to Pawan’s political aspirations.
URI shaking Indian Box-Office
The Vicky Kaushal starrer ‘URI’, a film that is based on surgical strikes conducted our armed forces in 2016, is shaking the Indian box-office with massive BO collections. The action film has already earned the blockbuster tag and has emerged out as the biggest grosser in the actor’s career.
The movie directed by Adithya Dhar has crossed the Rs 200 crore mark recently and now, it has achieved another record at the box-office. In the days when a Hindi film is getting washed out of theatres in 1-2 weeks, URI: The Surgical Strike is able to attract good number of audiences to the cinemas in its fourth week of release as well. It’s become all-time fourth highest ‘third weekend grosser’ at the box-office. The first three being Baahubali-2 (42.55Cr), Dangal (31.79 Cr) and PK (26.75 Cr).
By surpassing the third weekend numbers of Ranbir Kapoor’s Sanju (21.46 Cr), Ranveer Singh starrer Bhajirao Mastani (20.50 Cr) and Bhajrangi Bhaijaan (19.98 Cr), URI has managed to collect a whopping 23.35 Cr. Besides competition from the last week’s release-Manikarnika, URI starring Yami Gautam, Paresh Rawal, Mohit Raina and Kriti Kulhari in important roles, is continuing to do some extraordinary business at box-office.
Dear NTR Teams, Don’t Miss The Feb Gamble
Coming February, it is going to be the war of biopics at Telugu box office as Nandamuri Balakrishna’s NTR Mahanayakudu, Ram Gopal Varma’s Lakshmi’s NTR and YSR biopic ‘Yaatra’ are going to lock horns at Telugu box office.
While Yaatra has locked its mega date on Feb 8th, Mahanayakudu that was supposed to hit cinemas on 9th has now moved to 14th of February. And then, Ram Gopal Varma is wooing everyone with teasers and pictures, but haven’t got the date locked as he is contemplating to hit the marquee in March 2019.
Guess what, all these releases must be carefully planned in a way that they will not miss the February dates at any cost. Political insiders are of the opinion that from February last week there will be election code of conduct getting implemented as the Election Commission is most likely to give the much awaited announcement about Andhra Pradesh general elections. Once that notification comes, these political biopics will not be seeing the light of the day.
For now, Yaatra has finished all the formalities to arrive on time, but NTR’s Mahanayakudu is toiling hard to get everything wrapped. Director Krish is said to be double checking everything, thereby taking huge time, to ensure that the second part will not disappoint audiences like the first. At the same time, Varma is also carving his NTR version relentlessly, but missing the date would cost him dear.
All we can say is, Dear NTR teams, don’t miss out the February release dates. Else you have to release the film in May 2019. Pch!!
Kangana’s sister Rangoli lashes out at director Krish
‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’ was back to rocking the headlines because of its great performance at the box office and appreciation it has been getting from fans and critics alike.
However, it has also been in the news for co-director Krish’s controversial claims ranging from Kangana Ranaut’s take over as director, to her directing just about over 35% of the film contrary to her claims of shooting 70% and even alleging that she cut out several other scenes of important characters.
Amidst all the bad blood being spilt on tabloid pages, Kangana’s sister, Rangoli Chandel has come to her defence and requested Krish to let the actress enjoy her moment of success.
Rangoli posted, “DirKrish chalo man liya you directed the whole film now please calm down, still, Kangana is the leading face of the film let her enjoy this moment of her success and great appreciation, please leave her alone, we all believe you now please take a seat.”
‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’ made a splash at the domestic and international box offices by reportedly crossing the Rs 50 crore mark worldwide, despite stiff competition at the ticket window.
‘iSmart’ Ram gets to romance Nidhhi
The makers of ‘iSmart Shankar’ have confirmed the female lead and it is actress Nidhhi Agerwal. This is the Hyderabad girl’s third film in Telugu.‘iSmart Shankar’ is the first combination of energetic star Ram Pothineni and director Puri Jagannadh. The film was launched last week and the shooting is progressing in Hyderabad.
Action episodes involving hero Ram are being canned. This is an action entertainer and the title comes up with the tagline ‘Double Dimaak Hyderabadi’ which has something to do with hero characterisation.
The response to Ram’s new look and first look was good and so there is a buzz about the movie.Mani Sharma is composing music and Shamdat is handling the cinematography.Slated for May release, Puri Jagannadh and Charmme Kaur are jointly producing ‘iSmart Shankar.’
Sai Korrapati’s Profit Rs. 5 Cr and Loss Rs. 8 Cr on NTR!
Sai Korrapati’s profit and loss story of NTR biopic is an interesting one.It is a fine example of how producers smile all the way to the bank and how distributors were left in dire straits. Sai Korrapati who is one of the producers for NTR biopic made a handsome profit on it.
Sai reportedly got Rs. 5 crore as his share as the producer of NTR Kathanayakudu. However, he bought the distribution rights of the film for a couple of areas.
He lost around Rs. 8 crore as distributor due to the disastrous result of NTR at the box office.Although the film turned out to be a profitable venture for him as a producer, he eventually ended up with Rs. 3 crore loss as he tasted bitter results as a distributor.
NTR Kathanayakudu ended up as one of the historical flops with a loss of over Rs. 50 crore.Now the makers are finding it tough to build hype for the second part of the biopic.
Why Krish Opened Up After Manikarnika Release!
Director Krish has finally opened about ‘Manikarnika’ and also found fault with actress Kangana Ranaut.
Speaking exclusively he said, “I have worked about 400 days for this film out of which 109 days went for the shoot. The team that has worked for ‘Kanche’ and ‘Gautamiputra Satakarni’ worked for ‘Manikarnika’ as well. We wrapped up the shooting, post-production works and divided the film into reels. After everything is done, I signed ‘NTR’ biopic.”
Even though completing key formalities, Krish added that he continued to shuffle between Mumbai and Hyderabad monitoring works of both the projects.
“But things started changing and the team of ‘Manikarnika’ claimed that I worked for the film only to some extent. This is untrue and this is where my morality and integrity of filmmaking got hurt,” stated Krish.
About the controversy of actor Sonu Sood walking out of the film, Krish found fault in Kangana. “Sonu Sood had no inhibitions working under a lady director. Whatever I heard from his exit from the project is, his entire role is changed. It’s the same case with Atul Kulkarni’s role,” added Krish.
When asked why he opened up after the release of ‘Manikarnika,” Krish justified that every director would like to show their film in positive light and moreover he had no intentions of creating a controversy before the release. “My silence has been taken for granted and this is where art of deception happened,” said Krish.
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