What’s in a name said Shakespeare. What’s in a number say many industry people. But producer with Midas touch Dil Raju seems to be decided on hitting the target he has on mind.He says he wants to ensure that he releases 6 films this year. Since his next film MCA, Middle Class Abbayi, will clash with Hello, Dil Raju had contemplated to shift the release date to Sankranti season.

However, since he is decided on releasing six films this year, he finally decided to pit MCA against Hello.He is also insisting that MCA will be a double hat-trick film under his banner.While DJ did not do well at the box-office, Dil Raju has conveniently chosen to hoodwink the same and has added the film into his blockbusters list. So is the case with Raja The Great.

While some buyers did have some losses, overall, the film broke even. So he added the film as another blockbuster.Apart from developing a craze to claiming that all his films are a hit, Dil Raju has also developed a craze to set new records.Talk is that he has a target of producing 7-8 films next year and that he is taking all steps to make sure that heroes and directors don’t leave his camp.

Speculations over the alleged wedding plans of Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma have been doing rounds on the internet.The latest talks being associated with the subject are that Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh are the only two cricketers who have been invited to the couple’s marriage ceremony in Milan.

As per a report in MensXP, Kohli has only been able to invite two of his closest allies – Tendulkar and Yuvraj – and considering the ongoing India vs Sri Lanka ODI series, it absolutely makes sense since the Indian captain wouldn’t have been able to invite other cricketers to the wedding because of their on-field commitments.

The report further revealed that the complete wedding planning was done 3-4 months ago and both families have been wanting to keep it a low-key affair.“Everything was decided almost 3-4 months ago. The priest picked up the December wedding and they wanted to keep it low key. Both the families sat together and laid down the plan of how they want to do it,” the source revealed.

There have also been reports that Anushka has sent VVIP invitations to some of her closest friends in the industry like her first hero Shah Rukh Khan, YRF head Aditya Chopra who had launched her, Band Baaja Baaraat director Maneesh Sharma as well as her PK co-star Aamir Khan.

Talks have also emerged of the couple throwing a grand reception in Mumbai, on either December 21 or 22, where the entire cricketing fraternity as well as Anushka’s colleagues from Bollywood will be in attendance but it remains to be seen if there would be late changes in the schedule considering the Indian cricket team plays their last T20 against Sri Lanka on December 24 in Mumbai.

The latest buzz from Tamil industry is that ‘Apple Beauty’ Hansika has fallen in love all over again.It is being said that she has taken a liking to Tamil hero Atharvaa. Both are said to be spending much time texting and chatting during breaks.Though Hansika and Atharvaa haven’t done a film together, they met through common friends say Tamil industry insiders. Since then, they have been in touch.

And to add fuel to the rumours, a film has also been announced recently which will go on to the sets soon.Earlier, Hansika’s love story with Simbu was rather well-publicized and Hansika did confess that she was in love with Simbu. Later, Simbu also confirmed they were dating each other.

However, their relationship was short-lived and Hansika has been single since then.Only now, she is said to be developing a soft corner for Atharvaa. However, both of them haven’t commented on their status yet.

For a long time now, there has been talk in the industry that mega son-in-law Kalyan will be making his debut in films.In fact, when his picture was out, there was general anticipation that he would be another addition to the mega team.And once Kalyan started getting trained in various skills for his onscreen debut, the doubts were more or less confirmed. But the mega compound has maintained great silence on the debut project till now.

Rajamouli has been meeting megastar Chiranjeevi frequently and he also happened to narrate a story that was narrated to his friend Sai Korrapati.In fact, one fine morning, they even sent the director to Chiranjeevi who is said to have given his go-ahead.Then the mega team started its hunt for a heroine. They opted for the same girl who the mega family had once rejected for looking too young opposite Ram Charan.

The girl happens to be Anupama Parameshwaran. That’s when the process of approaching her began. They started enquiries about her availability, about story sittings, etc. This was when the news leaked out.Apparently, the megastar was not comfortable with the story getting out as he had plans of announcing the entry of his son-in-law with a grand launch.

Grand function
Now, the mega team is planning to hold a grand function for the opening of the film. Sai Korrapati has plans to invite all industry biggies right from Raghavendra Rao to Rajamouli.Megastar is yet to give the green signal for this event. Meanwhile, the team is also on the lookout for an alternative, just in case Anupama says no. In all, the launch has been delayed for a while now.

Samantha will soon be shifting her focus on to heroine-oriented movies.The newly-married actress is currently busy with commercial movie assignments that include ‘Rangasthalam’, Vishal’s ‘Abhimanyudu’ and ‘Mahanati’.She has also recently signed “U Turn”, a Kannada movie. She will be acting in this Telugu remake that will put her in the central role. The film is more on the lines of a heroine-oriented thriller.

Although Samantha says she will not shy away from playing glamorous roles, the married actress is consciously picking up movies and roles that give her chance to act than being a glam babe.Talk is that Sam will also be slashing her remuneration for such films.

Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli says very few people knew the mystery of why Katappa killed Baahubali in the blockbuster “Baahubali: The Beginning” in 2015. He also says that it wasn’t very difficult to solve the mystery had viewers seen the film twice with their mind completely engaged.

Rajamouli spoke on the much-hyped question which raised curiosity of the audience after “Baahubali: The Beginning” released on online streaming service Saavn’s show “Take 2 with Anupama and Rajeev”.Rajamouli was asked: “How many people knew the answer to that question ‘Katappa ne Baahubali ko kyu maara?’ And was it hard to keep that secret?”

He said: “When we talk about why Katappa killed Baahubali, it is not such a difficult question to answer. If you just look at the film twice and put a little bit mind to it, the answer is evident. Even when people were tweeting to me, there were many people who got it right.”But the actual question is not why Katappa killed Baahubali, what they mean by that is how Katappa killed Baahubali, you know that is what people are actually asking. How could he do it? And that answer is not easy to guess,” he added.

The 44-year-old filmmaker threw light on how it remained a seceret even on the sets.

“Very few people, maybe around 10-15 people would have known the entire story. But what happens with your unit is that you’re shooting for such a long time, you’re shooting for about two years and we were not shooting in a chronological order — it was one scene here one shot there.

“And again when we are shooting, we are shooting so many layers for each shot and the unit members don’t really know what we are actually filming. It is impossible for them to connect all the dots. It’s easy to keep them confused and it’s not willfully done, that’s the pattern how it’s done. That’s the reason why none of the rest of the unit members actually knew the answer,” Rajamouli said.

The question was however answered with the sequel of “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” this year.

The much awaited first look of Ram Charan-Sukumar’s upcoming rural period drama Rangasthalam is here. It is a dance still of Ram Charan dressed like a typical village youth from the eighties.Ram Charan’s styling and looks as Chitti Babu are very authentic and the poster itself will give a feel that he is in for a stunning image makeover.

The makers also have got rid of the 1985 number from the title and stick with Rangasthalam title.Title font also has been done in eighties style. Mythri Movie Makers made it official that the film will hit the screens on March 30, 2018. It will be the first biggie this summer from Tollywood.

Samantha, Aadhi Pinishetty and Jagapathi Babu are playing the other main characters in this period romance set in the eighties.

Sensational director Ram Gopal Varma never misses a chance to flirt with controversy. But, all of a sudden Varma took a silent path and has stayed away from social media for quite sometime.Netizens are taking complete advantage over the situation and are questioning why did Agnathavasi’s biggest fan go to Aganathavasam. Varma is known for expressing his feelings on current affairs be it politics, movies or anything that comes his way without any sugar coating.

Varma’s fans are worried over their favorite director’s whereabouts after he didn’t come out with his response for Pawan Kalyan’s meeting. People have started social media posts reading ‘Varma is missing’.

RGV’s last post was about hero Akhil’s ‘Hello’ movie trailer. Even though Pawan Kalyan’s meeting updates are trending all over the two states, Varma is yet to respond to the situation. Few days ago, RGV almost declared war against NTR’s biopic with his Lakshmi’s NTR and rumor had it that it is Nagarjuna who wanted him to stay way from unwanted mess until RGV finishes his movie.

Looks like RGV is keeping his word for Nagarjuna and we have to see how long.

Pawan’s staunch detractor Kathi Mahesh is back. He has targeted Pawan yet again over the actor-politician’s latest speeches.

Describing Pawan Kalyan as ‘Agnaanavaasi’ (Knowledge-less) instead of ‘Agnyaathavaasi’ (Prince in Exile), Kathi Mahesh alleged that Pawan has no knowledge, awareness on various issues.

He questioned Pawan’s double-standards over his opinion on caste, “If he opposes caste system, on what basis he welcomed the Kapu reservations? Even if he agree or not, Kapus have been identifying Janasena as their party, even Pawan’s political party can’t deny the Kapu tag it has.”

Kathi Mahesh went onto allege that Pawan is a part-time politician who speaks out when he is free from his film shootings and when CM Chandrababu Naidu wants him to speak to save him from any issues. Kathi went onto allege that Janasena activists and Pawan fans know to threaten people and abuse people.

“Is he going to run the party with goons?” Kathi asked. He further asked why Pawan is not questioning Chiru for cheating people and his party men. Kathi Mahesh’s fresh comments are expected to ignite more heat among the mega fans.

Nandamuri Balakrishna is quite upbeat about playing the role of his father, legendary actor and hailed politician, N T Rama Rao on the silver screen. Though he’s going ahead with numerous other projects, it looks like the shooting of the film starts from tomorrow. Here goes the detail coming from media circles.

Actually, director Teja wants to do a test-shoot on Balayya to check how he should be modified if any to suite the look of NT Rama Rao. For that reason, they decided to do more than look-test and decided to shoot a couple of scenes. Guess what, shooting of these scenes will start tomorrow and they are going to cut a teaser from these scenes.

On January 18th, on the occasion of NTR’s vardanthi (death day), Balayya and Teja are going to release this teaser as a fitting tribute to the finest legend Telugu people have ever screen. Both for the film and this teaser, Keeravani MM is going to compose the music, while Sai Madhav Burra’s dialogues are going to be a highlight.

But after this small shoot, Balayya’s NTR Biopic regular shooting will start from May 28th on the occasion of NTR’s birthday.