During the pre-release event of “Jai Lava Kusa”, NTR said that he had taken the opinion of two persons before agreeing to do the film and added that he would reveal the two names after the film becomes a hit at box office.

Its been more than a month since the release of the film, but NTR hasn’t yet revealed who the two persons were. Most fans guessed that they could be Rajamouli and VV Vinayak, since these two are very close to NTR and have given huge blockbusters to him.

Now, Kona Venkat, the writer of JLK and a close companion of NTR, has revealed that fans only succeeded fifty percent by guessing the name of Rajamouli correctly but failing to predict the second person, Koratala Siva. While answering a question posed by a follower on social media, Kona made this big revelation.

Over the course of filming ‘Janatha Gagare’, NTR and Koratala became good friends, and that could be the reason why the star hero chose to take the latter’s opinion before take the decision of doing JLK. Rajamouli is the go-to man for NTR for obvious reasons.

Tamil star hero Chiyaan Vikram’s daughter Akshita got married to Manu Ranjith, the great-grandson of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. The wedding took place in the presence of Karunanidhi, at his residence in Gopalapuram, Chennai, today.

Reportedly, the marriage was a simple family affair, with only family members in attendance. It is heard that Vikram will soon host a reception for his friends and well-wishers.

Akshitha got engaged to Manu Ranjith in July, last year. The lovebirds took the decision of tying knot after reportedly having been in a relationship for long time. The wedding took place with the consent of both families.

For the kind of hotness she poured other day at the interview session while promoting her latest movie “Oxygen”, Mallu girl Anu Emmanuel rightly earned the tag sex bomb. And this spicy lady is here for more glamour, she says, and also looking forward to strengthening her place in Tollywood and Hyderabad as well.

Just two films old, Anu Emmanuel has impressed Telugu audiences with her looks and presence in Majnu and Kittu Unnadu Jagratha. And now, she’s part of Allu Arjun’s Na Peru Surya, Naga Chaitanya’s next and also Pawan Kalyan’s 25th film Agnathavasi. Prod her how she felt when Pawan’s flick was offered, she says, “It’s an unbelievable thing. When they first called me, I thought that they will offer me Pawan’s sister role. But to my surprise, I’m playing his love interest”.

Furthermore, Anu avers, “Pawan Kalyan is a simple person who doesn’t carry his stardom around. I felt amused and scary to meet him on sets and forgot my lines on the first day. But with his jokes and cool attitude, I came to normalcy”. Giving the message straight, she also added, “Both good roles and glamorous roles are my cups of tea. What matters is the director whom I’m working with”.

While the success of those films will strengthen her career in Tollywood, she fortified her presence in Hyderabad by buying a flat here. “Yes, I thought Hyderabad is the coolest place to live and I’ve purchased a flat here” she adds, signing off.

Legendary playback singer S. Janaki, crowned with the title of “The Nightingale of the South”, gave her last performance, and announced her retirement.

On Saturday, Janaki bid adieu to singing with an emotional public concert in Mysuru. The night was indeed an emotional affair for Janaki, who had given her first public performance in Mysuru only, in 1957. Her fans gathered in huge number to listen to her for one last time. The crowd was so high that some couldn’t get tickets to the concert.

The 79-year-old singer reportedly said that she was happy and content having sung so many songs. She announced that it was her last concert, adding that she wanted to quit while she was doing well, while her tearful fans were listening.

In fact, she announced her retirement last year itself, after recording a song for a Malayalam film, and abstained from public performances as well. However, she agreed to perform for one last time, when a fan approached her with the proposal of raising funds for charity.

The four-time National Film Award winner started her singing career in 1957. In her six decades of career, she sang nearly 48,000 songs in 17 languages. She is one of the most prolific singers of her era in the history of Indian music.

Why would a young hero who started his career with a bang simply end up the last of the race? When the likes of Sharwanand, Nani, Raj Tarun and Sai Dharam Tej are just racing ahead, their contemporary Sandeep Kishan is scoring less these days. Wonder why?

There is a buzz from a long time that Sandeep involves tad bit heavily into the direction and script of a film and that’s why his movies are flopping. Few of films have interesting first half and a poor second half, for which industry people say that latter is taken care by the hero, resulting in a poor outcome. What has the youngster to say about these films?

“I don’t involve in script or direction. I just ask questions and express my opinions. I will never involve in the shot division or make style. But when a scene told to me gets changed after the script comes to set, why should I stop myself asking about it?” avers Sandeep Kishan, giving a clarity.

In contrast, he stated that his lack of involvement these days is slowing down his career. “From Nakshatram to many other films, I know they are flops the day I saw the trailer or first copy in the editing room. From last three years, I stopped asking directors any questions. Since then, my films are flopping too. What should I do now?” he shots back.

For now, he has pinned hopes on the movie C/o Surya, which is carved by talented Suseenthran.

Both superstar Mahesh Babu and director Rajamouli have confirmed that they would team up for a film in near future. The million dollar question is, when is it going to be? Well, going by the commitments of these two, the project won’t materialize before 2020.

Mahesh is currently busy with the shooting of “Bharat Ane Nenu”. His next film, currently being referred as Mahesh25 will go on floors early next year, to be directed by Vamsi Paidipally. For Mahesh26, the superstar will team up with ‘wizard of words’, Trivikam, and this film is expected to go on floors towards the end of next year. Later, Mahesh has reportedly given his nod to mass director Boyapati Sreenu for Mahesh 27. This film is likely to go on floors in the second half of 2018 and release in 2019. So, Mahesh’s film with Rajamouli may materialize only towards the end of 2019.

Rajamouli in the meanwhile will complete his next film, a social drama, and then he will move on to Mahesh’s project. If we consider the time this auteur takes to finalize subject, complete pre-production, shoot, promote and release his films, he would take around two years for the release of just one film.

And, by the time he completes the pre-production of Mahesh’s project, we will be in 2020 first half, in all probability, and Mahesh can wrap up another film, Mahesh28 too, by the time Rajamouli gets ready to take their film onto floors.

We have expect Mahesh to have at least 4 and probably 5 releases before he commences shooting for Rajamouli’s film, likely in 2020.

Anu Emmanuel did a coup of sorts when she bagged some big-ticket films.

Ever since she was roped in for Pawan Kalyan’s film, the lass appears to be focusing a lot on her looks, physique and costumes.

Her photo shoots have become hotter and naughtier. Her latest pics going viral on the social media show that she feels it’s right time to up her gram quotient and get good roles.

The first official poster for Akshay Kumar’s forthcoming Bollywood outing ‘Pad Man’ is here! Starting Akshay, Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte in lead roles, this comedy drama has been announced to release on 26th January, 2018. The first look which shows smiling Akshay Kumar on a bicycle with both his hands up in the air.

Directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker R Balki, Pad Man’s story inspired from the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu based social entrepreneur who invented low-cost sanitary pads making machine.

‘This Republic Day’ says the poster while the actor tweeted – ‘Not all superheroes come with capes! Bringing you the true story of a real superhero, #Padman this Republic Day- 26th January, 2018!’

With the recent audio event in Dubai, the makers of Superstar Rajinikanth’s ‘2 Point 0’ have sent alert signals to all other movie makers in India so that no film is scheduled prior or after its release. But, the latest we hear from Kollywood sources is that the science fiction film has been moved to summer from the previously announced date (25th January). And that is why Akshay Kumar, antagonist in 2Point0, had released the posted of his next Bollywood outing ‘Pad Man’ and announced release date of the film as ’26th January’.

Given the reports that 2Point0 could see its light on 13 April-2018 (Tamil new year), it’s now a big sigh of relief for all Pongal releases but a big worry for summer-scheduled-films. Ram Charan’s Rangasthalam1985, Mahesh’s ‘Bharath Ane Nenu’ and Allu Arjun’s ‘Naa Peru Surya’ are expected to hit cinemas around the same time in summer next year. Apart from 2 Point 0, Rajinikanth’s other film Kaala was also announced for April release but it may now see a change in its release date.

Neither Shankar nor Lyca Productions have officialized this news, but it’s matter of big concern for Telugu filmmakers as well. In 2010, Mahesh Babu’s ‘Khaleja’ couldn’t stand opposite Rajinikanth’s Enthiran and the film ran with houseful boards in almost all the theatres of AP for 4-5 weeks. We all know what Rajamouli’s Baahubali has achieved on Indian screen and Rajini’s 2 Point 0 is being compared to it in all the aspects – particularly magnitude and making.

With music by AR Rahman and cinematography by Nirav Shah, the film has Amy Jackson playing the female lead role. The principal photography of the film has already been finished but this delay is majorly due to enormous visual effects work.