The next big releases will be at Sankranthi and already speculations began on movies hitting screens for that festive time. Pawan Kalyan Trivikram’s film announced January 10 as release date and Balakrishna’s new film also may join the race.

Though many other films are expected to share the release date, one after another are moving their release dates to summer. Mahesh babu – Koratala film Bharath Ane Nenu will not be coming out for Sankranthi, giving a way to another big film in Sankranthi race. As per the latest update, Ram Charan’s Rangasthalam too moved its outing date to somewhere in summer, leaving only Pawan and Balakrishna’s films in race.

UV creations, producers of Bhagmathi decided to utilize the vacant space given by star films in January. They released Express Raja and Mahanubhavudu against big films and now Bhagmathi too will lock horns with Pawan Kalyan and Balayya’s films at Sankranthi.

Pilla Zamindar fame Ashok is directing this film and as rumored, it is not a historical film, but a thriller. Anushka enjoyed a huge success with Arundhati earlier in Sankranthi releases. Producers are expecting to repeat the same sentiment, but we have to see if Bhaagmathi can really trouble Pawan and Balayya. For now, it’s fixed that Anushka is coming out with Pawan & Balayya at Sankranthi.

Young Tiger NTR has been occupied with hectic work from the past few months. He managed to essay three different roles in Jai Lava Kusa and wrapped it on time. The actor surprised everyone by signing the reality show Bigg Boss which kept him working round the clock and even on weekends.

Tarak impressed the small screen audience big time and the first season of Bigg Boss came to an end last week. The actor finally is relieved from all his commitments and will start his next film only next year.

Tarak badly needs a break and he signed his next film in the direction of Trivikram who is occupied with Pawan Kalyan’s film. Tarak is in no mood to work during this gap and he will be spending time with his entire family. A long Europe trip also has been planned and NTR along with his family will fly abroad.

He will be busy losing enough weight for his next film during this break. On the whole, NTR will take a three months break during which he will be finalizing new projects along with spending time for family.

For reasons unknown, anchor Anasuya is always the centre of attraction for many controversies and trolls. Sometimes she unknowingly creates controversies, while other times she gets pulled into them. After taking a dig at Arjun Reddy recently, she now faced some issues during a Facebook LIVE chat as well.

Other day when Anasuya started a facebook session, a netizen went out of bounds to question the anchor about her makeup-less look. “You’re looking ugly without makeup. Tough to watch” someone commented. Reacting quite harshly on the unexpected comment, Anasuya said, “How come he will comment on her makeup when she’s getting close to fans through these video chats. In olden days fans used to throng at gates of houses to catch just one glimpse of their favourite star. But now due to technology, the gap between celeb and fan is blurred. Rather using words like ugly, Anasuya asked them to not look at celebs that way”.

At the same time, someone asked her how she’s feeling to play ‘menattha’ of Mega hero Ram Charan in the upcoming film Rangasthalam 1985, Anasuya gave another harsh reply. “I’m not playing the role of aunt to Charan. But, it’s a crucial role in the movie and I’m not going to reveal how the character is going to be as producer and director will not like her to talk about it much in advance”.

A talk about a star hero is right now doing rounds in Telugu circles regarding the way he starts shooting of films. Actually, he’s a good lover of taking vacations in exotic foreign locales but now he has not indulged in that. Here is why they say he preferred not to take any break.

Actually couple of months ago, after looking at how some scenes have turned out, this hero actually started to sense some sort of doubt about film’s prospects at the box office. Then he asked the director for a full preview of the movie at a time even when the background score work is not completed. That did the unthinkable to hero’s plans.

Understanding that the film might not work well at box office, the hero came up with a plan to avoid the pain. Generally, he won’t come out of the house for 2-3 months if his film flops. But now he has started shooting for another film without any break, such that he would forget about this debacle, says film industry sources.

Of course she is hard working, talented and gorgeous, but on top of all this, slender babe Pooja Hegde seems to be the luckiest actress in film industry. She hasn’t yet scored a proper hit but she continues to grab biggies.

The first goldmine she hit was ‘Mohenjo Daro’. A 3-film old South actress getting the opportunity to star opposite Hrithik Roshan in one of the highest budgeted films became a reality in the case of Pooja. The film however turned out to be one of the biggest disasters.

She then grabbed the opportunity to romance Allu Arjun in another biggie, DJ. The film reestablished her career in South.

Now, Pooja is all set to go back to Bollywood as she has been offered Salman Khan’s ‘Race 3’. Not many actresses dare to turn down a Salman-starrer how insignificant the role offered may be. Pooja, who has a disaster in her repertoire, seek a big hit to announce her comeback in Bollywood, and who better than box office behemoth Salman Khan can guarantee a hit to her.

As per reports, Pooja is keen to sign ‘Race 3’ even though she has been asked to play second fiddle to Sri Lankan bombshell Jacqueline Fernandez in the film.

Pooja is currently acting in Bellamkonda Srinivas’s untitled film.

Young director Maruthi took a U turn from adult comedies and it was with Bhale Bhale Magadivoy, his films witness clean content and healthy entertainment. Young and upcoming actors too have been quite interested in working with Maruthi.

His next outing Mahanubhavudu completed shoot and it released all over today. Sharwanand and Mehreen played the lead roles in the film and Sharwa played a person suffering with a disorder called OCD.

Maruthi revealed that he got the idea four years ago and started working on the script. He narrated it to Akhil and he loved the script. However the film did not materialize. Maruthi wanted to do the film with Akhil but later Sharwa came on to the board.

Maruthi revealed that he made enough changes after Sharwa gave his nod. Mahanubhavudu has been receiving decent response all over and Maruthi is all set to direct Naga Chaitanya in his next which is said to be a clean love story laced with entertainment.