Whenever the sun is shining hot and sweaty, Tollywood folks are finding solace in some chilling places. Say it break from the soaring mercury levels or attending to the needs of the family through these vacations, our stars are making sure that they let their guard down and cool their heels in foreign countries.

Firstly we have Superstar Mahesh heading to Paris and then to Spain to spend this summer. Enjoying the super success of Bharat Anu Nenu, he’s actually basking in the glory of it with his family members including wife Namrata and kids.

Meanwhile, Ram Charan went to Bangkok and spent two weeks before returning here last Monday. Though his purpose is to wrap action sequences for Boyapati’s film he made the work spot a vacation by taking his wife Upasana along. Enjoying the success of Rangasthalam, director Sukumar went abroad with his wife and kids now. Megastar Chiru also spent more than half of his Summer in the USA, as he is on an official trip there upon invitation from

Though Allu Arjun is spending a good number of vacations these days, this Summer he made his trips short and limited to Goa and Dehradun. Cut to another mega family member, Niharika and her friends are currently touring Japan, chilling out in the land of rising sun.

Other heroines like Pragya Jaiswal are spending their time in the USA where they are touring whole length and breadth of the country. Nayantara and her BF Vignesh Sivan have recently returned from USA trip.

What about Akkineni family? Though Samantha is busy with work in Hyderabad, Chay went to the USA with his Savyasachi team, which sounds like a mini vacation too. But Nagarjuna and Amala are spending their time in Eastern Europe, exploring the beauty of Croatian cities like Dubrovnik.

Bollywood starlet Nidhhi Agerwal is making her debut in the city where she was born. Not many know that Nidhhi was born in Hyderabad and was brought up in Bangalore. Nidhhi is making her Tollywood debut with Naga Chaitanya’s Savyasachi.

Owing to her popularity across the country, the Munna Michael girl was paid a cool Rs. 25 lakhs as her remuneration for Savyasachi. In an exclusive update, we have learned that Nidhhi, who’s going to act alongside Akhil next, had quoted a whopping Rs. 50 lakhs, which is almost double the paycheck she got for Savyasachi.

However, Akhil3’s producer BVSN Prasad is said to have signed on Nidhhi for Rs. 40 lakhs finally. The fact that she has signed both the Akkineni brothers’ movies back to back will be a huge boost to Nidhhi’s career. She is known to be quite liberal with her glamour show and her acting skills will be known in June when Savyasachi releases.

Though director Surender Reddy is busy taking care of Visual Effects work of the film, the mighty Megastar Chiranjeevi and his other cast are taking rest. And the hot days are over now, as the crew fixed a quick reunion date. Here is an interesting snippet.

“Sye Raa” is the upcoming film of Chiru, featuring Jagapathi Babu, Vijay Sethupathi, Nayantara and Amitabh Bachan as other leads. The film deals with the story of early freedom fighter Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy from Rayalaseema region, who fought the Britishers in a big way only to get hanged later. After a couple of schedules of the shoot, the film unit took a break owing to Summer effect.

It is heard that Chiranjeevi doesn’t want to take risks in the hot sun and as the dates of all the stars are tough to get, he hasn’t pushed them during scorching sun. Almost all the stars involved in the film have wrapped their vacations now and from June 4th they are going to shoot fresh in Hyderabad again. We hear that from now, all schedules will be wrapped in a quick pace and majority part of shooting will be finished in next three months.

While the unit will shoot form some more scenes at the modified Rangasthalam village, some other new sets are erected at Ramoji Film City to facilitate the shooting. And rest of the additions will be done through visual effects. Get ready for the spectacle folks.

Like Surya and Karthi in Kollywood, we may see something similar to that in Tollywood shortly.

Sources close to Vijay Devarakonda from a big production house say that Anand Devarakonda, the younger brother of Vijay Devarakonda is being launched on screen shortly. Details are yet to be known but the young lad is toning his muscles and sprucing up well to match the standards of his elder brother as per the sources.

Will Anand be as rebellious as his bro? Will he be milder or wilder than him? These obvious comparisons are bound to happen. So, it is a bigger feat for Anand now to launch himself in tune with the expectations of Vijay’s fans. His latest stills and look are yet to come out.

Well, Vijay Devarakonda is bigger with his off screen attitude despite his bold act in Arjun Reddy. He has been the hot favorite for millions of ladies ever since his Arjun Reddy released. We have to see how Anand matches these parameters.

Last year, much before signing Saaho with Prabhas, heroine Shraddha Kapoor moved to Hyderabad and started spending her time here. This is because she wants to prepare and get trained with ace badminton starlet Saina Nehwal. Wonder why? Because the hot seductress will now play Saina on the silver screen.

From a long time, the biopic on Badminton starlet Saina Nehwal is on the cards and Shraddha Kapoor has come on board for the same. However, the film is kept in a pause mode until a month ago. Then director Amole Gupta has suddenly started pre-production on the movie, so is Shraddha Kapoor.

Moving to Hyderabad again, Shraddha is now practising along with Saina Nehwal. The actress is improving her moves on the court and grip on the racket by learning from the ways how Saina does on the floor. Though the film’s shooting will start in September, Shraddha is keen on fine-tuning her play as she wants this biopic no less than a Mary Kom, Baag Milkha Baag and Dangal.

Guess what, Saina biopic team is feeling happy for Saaho, because Shraddha has got trained intensely for that Prabhas starrer and that training will come in hand for this biopic. They feel that the beautiful actress will not get injured on the sets while playing badminton as Saaho made her a tough nut.

After scoring a non-Baahubali industry hit with Rangasthalam, Sukumar is busy working on the script for his next project which will star Mahesh Babu. Sukumar is determined to give a solid hit for Mahesh as he couldn’t do justice to Mahesh’s trust in him during their first collaboration ‘1 Nenokkadine’.

Naturally, curiosity levels on Mahesh-Sukumar movie are quite high and fans are very eager to know about the film’s genre and Mahesh’s role in it. We have exclusively learnt that Sukumar is penning a crime thriller for his film with Mahesh.

Furthermore, Mahesh will be seen as a Crime Investigation Department (CID) officer’s role in the movie. Needless to say, this interesting genre and Mahesh’s role will surely raise expectations among his fans.

On the other hand, fans will also be wary of Mahesh’s CID officer’s role as last year he had delivered a huge flop with Spyder, in which he was seen as an similar role. Will Sukumar change the game altogether for Mahesh?

A lot has been said about Rajamouli’s most eagerly awaited multistarrer with NTR and Ram Charan. The script for the movie is almost ready and the regular shoot will begin in October.

Until recently, there were rumours that Ram Charan and NTR will be playing brothers and sportsmen in the movie. Charan was rumoured to be essaying the role of a jockey as he will be showing his equestrian skills. However, Charan laughed off these rumours during Rangasthalam’s promotions.

Now, we have exclusively learnt that Ram Charan will be playing a cop in Rajamouli’s multistarrer. Precisely, he will be essaying the role of a CI. Charan had earlier donned a cop’s avatar in Dhruva and Toofan. But with Rajamouli, who’s known for etching powerful cop roles, at the helm, it will definitely be something special for Charan and his fans.