“Geetha Govindam” continues to win the love of audiences. It set box-office on fire when it hit the screens in August. Now the film has achieved massive rating on small screen as well.”Geetha Govindam” that premiered on Zee Telugu recently has clocked 20.7 Television Viewership Ratings (TVR). This is huge rating.

The film starring Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika scored ratings higher than Ram Charan’s “Rangasthlam”.
“Rangasthalam also premiered on Star Maa TV recently but the film got 19.5 TVR. Compared to “Rangasthalam”, “Geetha Govindam” has achieved more viewership.

Vijay Deverakonda’s popularity, the film’s entertaining content and catchy songs have made the film an essential family watching movie.

Superstar Mahesh is busy wrapping the schedules of Maharshi at jet speed. Without taking many breaks, he is allotting all the time in his world to this Vamsi Paidipally directorial. And here comes an interesting snippet about his next.

While the leading numeruno star is willing to kick start Sukumar’s film very soon, the talented creative director is said to have requested for more grant of time to wrap the script. In that case, Mahesh will get a short gap. So what to do in this time space? Here is an idea.

Recently when Mahesh’s wife Namrata is listening to few scripts, which she wanted to produce on G Mahesh Babu Entertainment banner, she heard a stunner. That story is more like Krishna Vamsi’s Anthahpuram movie with lots of twists and turns. And it has one particular role, that will be seen for 30+ minutes but whose impact will be long lasting.

We hear that Mahesh might do that role, while two fresh faces will be picked up as the lead pair for the film. Even the Superstar is said to have given approval for the same. Let’s see if the news turns true or ends up as mere rumour.

For paparazzi photographers of Bombay, it will be a boring job to click pictures of all the girls out there. Only the top sexiest and the star heroine lot will get the honors.Yes in Bollywood, PR teams actually give information about a heroine going to a particular gym or a coffee shop, and when she is ready to leave, these lens men will wait outside to click her. Actresses too wave a ‘hi’ to the photographers outside.

Guess what, finally Rakul Preet has mastered this PR exercise quite well. From a long time, though her film Aiyaary flopped big time, she is staying in Mumbai hunting offers. And then, her PR team is said to have worked extensively to make sure that she is covered during gym exits and coffee shop meets. Other day, when lensmen caught her outside a gym, she is in her best look, flaunting all of those curves in an unzipped shirt. Guess what, this is then timed with the announcement of her next Hindi film, Marzaawan.

Seems like Rakul is playing right cards, but she needs to prove herself as an actress too, to impress Bollywood biggies.

Director Boyapati Sreenu was supposed to direct Megastar Chiranjeevi even before Khaidi No 150 got kickstarted. That film, however, got delayed and now it is not in hindsight anymore. So why does this dashing director need 3 hours now?

Except for a couple of songs, shooting of #RC12 got wrapped and recently the film’s first look poster with the title ‘Vinaya Vidheya Rama’ got out. Right now, we have Boyapati under tremendous pressure as he has made final cut already. The length of his favorite cut is said to have stood at 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Recently for Rangasthalam, after watching the film, Chiru gave go ahead to Sukumar for 3 hours runtime. Will that happens in Boyapati’s case too? With this movie being a full commercial masala movie, sources inside the film team are expecting Chiru to cut down 30 minutes mercilessly from the film. They say that Boyapati has to make his heart strong.

So when is the final version being screened to Chiru?

Baahubali, in a way, inspired many Indian filmmakers towards making high-quality films with vast budgets, but the makers of Thugs of Hindosthan seem to have absorbed only ingredients like high budget and top league star cast, but totally ignored the content.

Thugs of Hindosthan once again uttered the harsh truth that huge money spent and crazy casting alone cannot make a film earn gold at box office. This film is undoubtedly a lesson for the aspirants who are dreaming to make big films with extensive graphics work and other glittery attractions, that they also need an interesting story with a gripping narration.

If we list down the current big films in Tollywood, Sye Raa and Saaho seem to be on top, as per the money being spent. Both, Chiranjeevi’s Sye Raa produced by Charan and Prabhas’s action thriller Saaho are being made with more than 200 Crore each, of which half sum is a risky investment based on the Telugu market.

The makers of these films are spending a lot, expecting these to fare well in other languages. But if they attract the disappointing feedback like Thugs of Hindosthan, the huge-bucks spent is pure squandering.

After looking at the fate of TOH, the makers of Sye Raa and Saaho are heard to have decided to take enough time to make an extraordinary product and see that the money was spent well. Aamir Khan was considered the perfectionist until Thugs of Hindosthan and now his wrong step has given big alerts to Prabhas and Chiru. Not just from the success, but lessons can be learned from failures too!

Often, we see actresses and also some actors expressing their dissent over the pay disparity in Bollywood and in the southern film industry. The major complaint is that male stars walk away with bigger paychecks than female stars.

But Bollywood hero Abhishek Bachchan has made a stunning revelation. The Junior Bachchan has said that his wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was paid higher remuneration than him in 8 out of the 9 movies they have acted together.

Abhishek also revealed that Deepika Padukone was paid the highest remuneration than his father Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan in Piku. Abhishek further said that filmmaking is business and that only saleable actors get paid according to their market. “Newcomers can’t just enter Bollywood and demand that their remuneration should be equal to that of Shah Rukh Khan’s,” Abhishek said.

Actress Nikesha Patel though could not make a big name in the industry, managed to grab the eye balls with her social media posts.

This British born has yet again treated her followers by sharing bikini picture but wait she is gazing upon his daddy in the ocean. Hmm… the western culture is so. Nikesh is seen in blue stripped bikini but she was not facing the camera and is swimming in the ocean with her dad.

Wonder this ‘Puli’ isn’t feeling the fall chill.

If we go back to the first week of October, young hero Nikhil Siddhartha had started an indirect cold war with his counter-part Vijay Deverakonda. Post ‘NOTA’ release and the film failing to impress the audience, Vijay took it on his official Twitter and added that ‘attitude’ all matters and he will certainly be back with a good film.

To this, Nikhil replied in an indirect way, saying that he is just like any other hero in Tollywood. But Vijay Deverakonda did not counter Nikhil’s Tweets. However, as the tweets went viral, Nikhil tried to clarify things by adding those are not meant for Vijay Deverakonda at all. Eventually he had to delete the tweets.

On Wednesday, Nikhil surprised everyone by tweeting in supporting of Vijay’s latest film ‘Taxiwaala’ which is hit by piracy. He added that he read Sujith Sarang’s emotional post and requested everyone not to encourage piracy. Vijay Deverakonda thanked Nikhil for doing his bit and seems like the cold war has ended on a peaceful note.