Dusky siren Trisha Krishnan has trying to prove her mettle yet again after losing her star-status to young heroines for reasons unknown. She’s now coming up with the movie “Mohini” which features her horror side. As the poster of the film raked up huge curiosity couple of months, many are waiting for the trailer of the movie.

Directed by R Madhesh, “Mohini” actually deals with the soul of one Mohini that is doing rounds on earth. It goes to Malaysia, Thailand, London, Amsterdam and other places to kill few people. Some of the visual effects show in this trailer and the rich production values are top notch, but however, the story line and the content looks quite tried and tested.

On the other hand, Trisha tried to showcase her fierce side in the movie which she has achieved only partially for the now. And her glamorous side is as usual okay. But surely she has kept some good efforts other than those four-song and three-scene kind of films. We have to see how the film will impress.

While regular horror-goers may not find the film much interesting going by this trailer, those fans of Trisha who are expecting some change from her might like it well.

Last night it was a cheerful environment at ‘Hello’ pre-release event as we have seen Megastar Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan gracing as Chief guests for Akhil’s “Hello”, produced by Dad Nagarjuna. And the Mega-Akkineni bonding, ala megakkineni’s, have simply stunned everyone at the event and also the watchers on TV.

When Akhil said, “My Pedananna Chiranjeevi garu, my Peddanna Charan”, it’s just so astounding to hear. And then, Nagarjuna stated that he liked it when Akhil called Charan as a big brother. “Chiranjeevi garu and I have a big age gap, but still we are very good friends. Our hearts are in resonance. And now Charan and Akhil, it’s too good”, Nag said, adding more cement to strengthen the bond.

And then Chiranjeevi’s turn came in. “Whenever Akhil comes to our home, my wife says even we should have planned for a younger son. But I feel Akhil is our younger son”, he said, breaking the crowds into that amazing cheers. And Ram Charan stated that there is nothing he couldn’t talk about when the likes of Chiranjeevi and Nagarjuna are present at a venue.

Later Naga Chaitanya also added that Chiranjeevi is the inspiration for heroes of not just one generation but all generations. And Samantha joined the chorus by thanking Megastar’s fans who have come there. Earlier also we have seen Chiru turning up on Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu as a guest when Nag is the host and later Akkinenis joining as guests when Megastar moved to the hot seat.

This camaraderie between Akkinenis and Mega family is anticipated but people haven’t expected that this would be of such divine proportion. Generally, we see a lot of rival camps and it seems like Tollywood’s big families are blurring such thoughts which fans usually have. Hope this bonding extends to films also and some mega-akkineni multi starers come up in the future.

Devi Sri Prasad is undoubtedly the rock star and the king of Tollywood music industry. But isn’t he losing his grip slowly? His recent music albums indicate that DSP seems to be losing his magic. The latest work of DSP is Middle Class Abbayi.

The music of DSP in MCA has got a thumbs down from all quarters where critics went onto dub it as ‘average’. In addition to the brickbats that DSP got for MCA, the decrease in number of films for Devi is opening doors for several others.

The exodus of musicians from neighbour states such as Anirudh, Radhan, Harris, Yuvan, Vishal Chandrasekhar and the rise of many young and talented musicians in our home turf pose serious challenge to Devi. It looks like DSP is going to have a very tough competition in 2018. At the same time, the rise of SS Thaman should also be underlined for the decrease in number of films of DSP.

This apart, DSP’s huge fee and his tight schedule are also forcing several filmmakers to look for other options.

While DSP has a very lengthy filmography in 2017 (starting from Khaidi No.150 to Rarandoyi to DJ to Jaya Janaki Nayaka to Jai Lava Kusa to Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi to latest MCA), in the next year he has only three and out of them, only two are biggies. Mahesh Babu’s Bharat Ane Nenu and Ram Charan’s Rangasthalam are the two of his films. Also, the fact that he didn’t end 2017 (MCA) on bright note, one has to wait and see what is up in the store for DSP.

Yet, having said this, DSP has done very well in 2017. One of the biggest chart busters such as ‘Ammadu…Let’d Do Kummudu’, to ‘What Amma…What is This Amma’, most of the hit numbers are from DSP. But it is high time, he should introspect.

It was assumed earlier that young actress Anu Emmanuel was playing second female lead in Trivikram’s ‘Agnyaathavaasi’. However, the promos released thus far have contradicted this assumption, and it seems her role is as important as Keerthy Suresh’s. Both of them have dubbed in their own voice for their characters too.

Trivikram has this particular way of creating two heroine characters in his films and giving a relatively smaller role to second heroine, the roles of Parvathy Melton in Jalsa, Pranitha in AD, Anupama Parameswaran in ‘A..Aa’ and Nithya Menen in S/o Satyamurthy are the examples.

Considering this modus operandi of Trivikram and also taking into account the fact that Anu Emmanuel hasn’t yet acted opposite any star hero unlike Keerthy, it was assumed that Anu might be playing second fiddle in Agnyaathavaasi like Pranitha did in AD. But, it is now heard that Trivikram had given more or less equal weightage to both Keerthy and Anu in the film, the same was evident from the teaser and songs as well. In that case, Anu must be extremely lucky to land lead heroine role in a film as big as Agnyaathavaasi.

Meanwhile, Anu has learnt Telugu and is speaking the language very well. She divulged that she would love to work with Trivikram in more films. Will this star director, who has the habit of repeating heroines consider Anu for his next films? Well, according to the buzz, she is a strong contender to play the female lead in Trivikram’s next film starring NTR.

Nani, the undisputed king of US box office among mid-range heroes, has once again shown his dominance here. The actor’s latest film, ‘MCA’ has collected around a mammoth $260K from US premieres. The astonishing part of this feat is that the film had a Wednesday release.

MCA is Nani’s career highest opener in US, which stamped a record 60 percent growth from his previous highest, “Nenu Local”, which had collected $160K from premieres. Incidentally, both MCA and Nenu Local have been bankrolled by Dil Raju.

The premieres’ collection of MCA places it in the All Time Top 20 highest premiere grossers in the US. Furthermore, MCA has taken better opening than Ram Charan’s highest grosser in US, ‘Dhruva’, an indication of what a box office behemoth Nani is turning out to be, especially in US.

After Bajrangi Bhaijaan, a film penned by senior Telugu writer Vijayendra Prasad, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is gearing up to act in a film penned by another noted Telugu writer, Kona Venkat.

During the promotions of his upcoming film, “Tiger Zinda Hai”, Salman Khan opened up on his line up of films. Among the five films that he declared, there is “Sher Khan”, a subject penned by Kona Venkat. Impressed by the script, Salman has bought it a long time ago, and he seems to have finally decided to make it into a film. His younger brother, Sohail Khan will direct “Sher Khan”.

For the starters, Kona had earlier penned Salman’s “Ready” (an official remake of Telugu super hit film, ‘Ready’) and “No Entry” sequel.

The other films declared by Salman are – Race 3 (already in production stage), Bharat (to be directed by his ‘Sultan’ director Ali Abbas Zafar), Dabangg 3 (to be helmed by Prabhu Deva), ‘Kick’ sequel and choreographer-director Remo’s dance-based film.

Salman is currently busy promoting his highly anticipated actioner, “Tiger Zinda Hai”, which is all set for a grand release on December 22.

Sai Pallavi, the talented and reigning starlet of South Indian film industry, has got the dream chance of romancing her favorite hero in very early stage of her career.

It can be recalled that during the promotional interviews of “Fidaa”, Sai Pallavi said that her most favorite hero is Suriya. She also said that she dreams to act alongside him someday.

And, the day is not far away as the makers of Suriya’s next film have officially announced that they had roped in Sai Pallavi. ‘7/G Brundavan Colony’ and ‘Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule’ fame Selvaraghavan will direct this film.

No actress might have been as lucky as Sai Pallavi to have got the chance of romancing their favorite hero so early in their career. Incidentally, Suriya’s film is Sai Pallavi’s only 3rd Tamil film after ‘Karu’ (Kanam in Telugu) and Dhanush’s “Maari 2”. She must be quite kicked about this project, not just because of acting alongside Suriya but also to act under the direction of Selvaraghavan, who is considered one of the most aesthetic filmmakers.

Meanwhile, Sai Pallavi is excited about her new Telugu release, “MCA”.

If you could remember, sometime back Ram Charan has made an interesting statement about his father. He said that maybe Chiranjeevi is secretly using Facebook also. In the wake of Megastar being very updated about everything almost, Charan said that he might be on Facebook with an alias name.

Going by Chiranjeevi’s speech at Hello audio, one has to say that the matinee idol has a very strong presence in social media. Apparently, he revealed that “Hello” is being used because of the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, first used that word Hello, as that is his girlfriend Margaret Hello’s name. That’s one big hoax news doing rounds on Facebook, which Nagarjuna also believes to be true.

If Chiranjeevi is explaining that hoax story, though he also stated that he doesn’t know the authenticity of it, somehow it gets us a feeling that he’s also following some trivia pages on Facebook that make these hoaxes true.

Like the way Puri Jagan believed that a mother’s child-delivery labour pain could be measured in some units, Chiranjeevi’s Hello is another hoax.