Gopichand, Raashi Khanna and Anu Emmanuel starrer Oxygen has been delayed for long. Admitting the same, director Jyothi Krishna explains why it is delayed. Apparently 70 minutes of extensive graphics and seven high-octane action episodes are said to be the reasons behind the film’s delay.

“In fact, I had told my dad to wrap up the film in just 80 days. But after watching the progress and span of the film, my dad only came to me and told me to extend for another 20 days to do better,” says Jyothi Krishna, son of AM Rathnam.

Jyothi Krishna says that the film has been shot in great locales such as in Sikkim where the locations were over 13,000 feet higher than the sea level.

Jyothi Krishna adds that the film has shaped up very well and is so confident on the success. The film has been screened to several distributors including Suresh Babu who said to have expressed content over the film. The film is all set for release on November 30 clashing with Vijay Antony’s Indrasena.

One hit is enough to change your thoughts and one flop is enough to make you fearsome. That’s what happened after “Akhil” ended up as disaster though dad Nagarjuna wore that happy smile on his face during post-release press conferences.

After a lot of considerations, Nagarjuna has rejected proposals from many top directors who delivered commercial hits to make a movie with Akhil. The likes of Vamsi Paidipally are to direct this youngster and many tweets have flown, but nothing actually worked. And then, Vikram K Kumar got into the pictures, saying ‘Hello’.

But now, it looks like Nagarjuna wants to bring in big directors for his son’s next film. With Ram Charan and Jr NTR finding their own ways after their current projects, director Koratala Siva is left with no option after Bharat Anu Nenu. While he’s looking at Bunny in awe, we hear that the Akkineni boss has sent a word to him to think about Akhil.

According to the grapevine, Koratala narrated a script to Nagarjuna and the two have agreed to come up with some necessary changes. If all goes well, Koratala might direct Akhil after Mahesh’s film. Stay connected for updates.

Anushka Shetty’s Bhaagamathie is silently attracting distributors, buyers. Given that it is Anushka’s immediate film after magnum opus Baahubali : The Conclusion, the theatrical rights of Bhaagamthie have garnered good demand. The latest is that the film’s Tamil rights have been sold for a whopping Rs 15 Crore. This is a record deal for a heroine-oriented film.

Gnanavel Raja, of Studio Green, has bought the film’s rights. The deal includes both theatrical and satellite rights.

Made on a budget of over Rs 35 Crore, the film has a horror backdrop. While Ashok is directing it, UV Creations, which is bankrolling Prabhas’ Saaho, is producing the film. It will be released in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. In Telugu, Bhaagamathie is slated for Jan 26, 2018 release.

There are some heroes in Telugu Film Industry who show extreme affection and love for their families, no matter what the situation is and consequences are. One such hero is Sai Dharam Tej, fondly called Mega Menalludu. Whenever occasion comes, he always heaps praises on his mega uncles, Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan.

Other day while promoting the movie Jawaan, he revealed an interesting titbit about not doing the film Satamanam Bhavathi. This National Award Winning film was first Saidharam’s project, but it went to Sharwa after he rejected it. Actually, mega menalludu has given up this film for the sake of his uncle Megastar Chiru. Yes, it’s true.

“I’ve no regrets for missing Satamanam Bhavati, as I’ve intentionally skipped it. There was no issue of dates for doing that film, but the time of release has bothered me. Dil Raju garu was keen that it should hit cinemas on Sankranthi eve when peda mavayya’s Khaidi No 150 is hitting cinemas. I don’t want to become a competition with my own uncle’s movie. That’s why I’ve left the film” said Sai Dharam, of course, throwing a shocker.

Who would reject and opt out of a film just for the sake of its release date? Sai Dharam Tej will do for his mega love. Dot.

Veteran actor Mohan Babu Manchu is making his comeback to cinema nearly after two years with a new film titled ‘Gayathri’, the shooting of which is currently taking place in Ramoji Film City. His son Vishnu, who is essaying a special role in the film, joined the sets yesterday. However, the star attraction on the sets turned out to be not Vishnu but Nandamuri Balakrishna.

Balayya is known to maintain very good camaraderie with Manchu family. As he is also shooting in RFC for his upcoming film, ‘Jai Simha’, Balayya landed on the sets of ‘Gayathri’ and surprised everyone. He interacted with Mohan Babu, Vishnu and the director, and wished them a big success.

Later, Vishnu took to Twitter to share his excitement with his followers. He said that the entire team was on high with Balayya’s visit, and that the senior hero spent good amount of time on their film’s sets.

Also starring Shriya Saran and directed by ‘Pellaina Kothalo’ fame Madan, ‘Gayathri’ has Mohan Babu playing lead role.

The way some heroes and music director maintain harmony is as good as the way few directors and composers do it. Especially mega family heroes encourage Devi Sri Prasad a lot, though they worked with other leading composers like Thaman and senior star Mani Sharma too.

Though the music of Thaman is not impressing audiences these days, his re-recording for any given film is worth mentioning. Because it will have that thumping sound and energy many other composers fail to create. Even the score he has given for “Sye Raa” logo launch teaser is amazing.

When Ram Charan asked Thaman to compose for Sye Raa teaser in a day’s time, with AR Rahman not being able to finish the job, the youngster has come up with such brilliant work. Impressed by that work, Charan promised to give him his next film after Rangasthalam. Luckily, Thaman is also the hot favorite of Boyapati Seenu for whose Sarrainodu the album and background score given by him are top notch.

That’s the reason many are saying, a help for “Sye Raa” resulted in Thaman getting rewarded with this movie.

But who is scoring for Sye Raa folks? Will it be Devi Sri Prasad or Keeravani? Or surprisingly will they pick someone like Preetam or Chirantan Bhatt? Keep guessing!!

While the producers of Srimanthudu & Janatha Garage are currently making a film (Rangasthalam) with Ram Charan & Sukumar, they said to have opened a new office for their next production with Pawan Kalyan.

While their existing office is to accommodate the people, work related to Ram Charan, the new office has been set up for director Santosh Srinivas who is presently fine tuning a script for his next with Pawan Kalyan that Pawan principally given his nod.

This combo has been raising many eyeballs in the industry as many have expressed shock, surprise on Pawan choosing Santosh for his next after his landmark 25th film Agnathavaasi with Trivikram Srinivas.

Apparently, the new office has been set up a longtime back and Santosh has been working on the film from long. This is also to keep Santosh away from media glare until the film is commenced with PK.