Natural Star Nani is racing ahead with back to back hits. Scoring seven back to back hits is something unusual for an actor and Nani scored seven in a row. The actor has been occupied with enough work and he decided to release three films every year.

Two of his films Nenu Local and Ninnu Kori released this year and ended up as massive box-office hits. He is busy with the shoot of Venu Sriram’s MCA and Merlakpaka Gandhi’s Krishnarjuna Yuddham which will hit the screens soon.

The latest news we hear is that Nani gave his nod for Vikram Kumar, one of the talented young directors. Vikram met Nani recently and he narrated a plot for which Nani asked him to pen the final draft.

The final call will be taken once he goes through the draft. Vikram Kumar who is currently busy with Akhil’s Hello will soon work with Nani. More updates soon.

NTR’s “Jai Lava Kusa” had an impressive first week run across the world. The emotional entertainer managed to rake in Rs 105 Cr worldwide gross and a distributor share of Rs 61 Cr approx. The film is the 2nd 100 Cr grosser for Tarak after Janatha Garage which collected 135 Cr in full run.

In the two Telugu states, JLK performed well and collected Rs 75 Cr gross, which converts to Rs 46 Cr share in the aftermath of GST implementation.

Area-wise break-up of share:

Nizam – 13,40,00,000
Ceded – 9,30,00,000
Nellore – 1,99,40,000
Guntur – 4,98,00,000
Krishna – 3,68,20,000
West – 2,95,00,000
East – 4,62,00,000
Uttharandhra – 4,98,00,000

Total 1st week AP & TS Share – 45.9 Cr (Gross – 75 Cr)

Karnataka – 7,25,00,000

Tamil Nadu – 1,00,00,000

Rest of India – 80,00,000

USA – 4,80,00,000 (the film has collected nearly $1.5 million gross so far)

Rest of world – 1,50,00,000

Total 1st week Worldwide Share – 61.26 cr (Gross- 105 Cr)

The film’s theatrical rights were valued at Rs 86 Cr so another 25 Cr share needs to get break even.

Sharwanand’s ‘Mahanubhavudu’, the third Telugu film that aims to take advantage of Dasara holidays is all set to hit screens this Friday. Now, fans of Mahesh Babbu and NTR are curious as well as tensed to know which of the two films of their favorite films will be replaced by the promising Sharwa-starrer.

Released on Sep 20, NTR’s ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ minted money like anything in the first 4-day weekend. The film however witnessed significant drop in collections from Monday, according trade reports. And, substantial number of theatres replaced the film with Mahesh’s SPYder, which released yesterday amidst sky-high expectations. This high-budget action thriller however appalled everyone with the opening day numbers. Mahesh’s past duds proved that his films crumble on the second day itself if they receive poor word of mouth.

Coming to ‘Mahanubhavudu’, the promos promised delightful comedy, something both JLK and SPYder lack. JLK has decent emotional and action quotient but the fun factor that audience seek from festival releases was missing.

Despite these two biggies, the small film was earlier planned to be released in good number of theatres. And, now as neither of the films seem to be going strong at box office, exhibitors are reportedly planning to replace their films with Mahanubhavudu. As JLK has gone past one week of run, and also taking the drops into consideration, it may have to sacrifice some theatres. SPYder, despite being just 2-day-old, may have to lose good number of theatres owing to the shocking reception from audience. If Mahanubhavudu manages to get better talk than these two films and also draws crowds, then both the biggies will have to make way for the Sharwa-starrer at box office.

Writer-director Puri Jagannadh’s offbeat films are always significant for few reasons and he has made a name for himself with some influential and super-hit films.

Telugu Film Industry remembers him for the love stories he delivered and this time, the maverick director is coming up with a love story that is set on the backdrop of 1971 India-Pakistan war. Announcing the title of the film as ‘Mehbooba’ on Twitter, Puri said – “I realized that I am doing a highly intense and a passionate love story for the first time ever which is completely out of my repertoire of ideas.’

The Paisa Vasool director also declared that his son Akash Puri will play the lead role while a Mangalore girl Neha Shetty will be the leading lady. ‘Ninne Pelladtha’ fame Sandeep Chowta has come on board to score music for the film.

In the past, we have seen films like Kanche from Krish which was set on the backdrop of world war-II. Although Puri’s last release ‘Paisa Vasool’ bombed at box-office, he’s on high hopes pinned on ‘Mehbooba’.

Superstar Mahesh Babu’s highly anticipated film, SPYder has taken a decent start at box office on Day 1. As per trade reports, the AR Murugadoss directorial collected 40 Cr worldwide gross on its opening day.

Spyder collected a meager Rs 15.3 Cr share (22 Cr gross) in the Telugu states on Day 1, the 2nd highest opener for Mahesh in AP & TS after Srimanthudu. This opening is nowhere comparable to the openings of biggies that released this year – Khaidi No.150, Katamarayudu, Jai Lava Kusa and even DJ.

Area-wise break-up of distributor share:

Nizam – 3,60,00,000
Ceded – 1,80,00,000
Nellore – 1,02,73,000
Guntur – 2,02,00,000
Krishna – 89,40,984
West – 1,90,00,000
East – 2,31,00,000
Uttharandhra – 1,75,00,000

Total 1st day AP & TS Share – 15.3 Cr

In US, Spyder raked in $1 million with premieres alone. The movie also had decent start in Tamil Nadu and Kerala thanks to the brand of A R Murugadoss.

Total 1st Day Worldwide Share of Telugu & Tamil versions – 25-26 Cr (Gross 40-42 Cr)

Buyers were shocked with the film’s performance on opening day. One can blame the reviews and/or word of mouth if collections drop on second day but the lame opening on Day 1 for a superstar’s film which had non-Baahubali record release during Dasara holiday season, has left everyone shell-shocked.

Going by the talk, the film desperately needs to cash in on the Dasara holidays to alleviate the anticipated losses of buyers, who had splurged money believing in the crazy combo of Mahesh-ARM.

Nothing stays hidden from paparazzi these days despite the umpteen precautions taken by filmmakers, especially of high budget films.

The warrior look of Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan from one of the highly anticipated films of 2018, ‘Thugs of Hindostan’ had leaked and went viral on social media. It seems that the picture was secretly clicked when the legendary actor stepped out of a studio and was walking to his vanity van. The megastar’s heavy bearded warrior look is majestic and fearsome.

Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif and Fatima Sana Sheikh, “Thugs of Hindostan” is being directed by Vijay Acharya, the director of ‘Dhoom 3’ and produced by YRF on a mammoth budget. The film will boast of some extraordinary special effects and combat scenes, and is slated to release worldwide for Diwali 2018.

Queen-bee Samantha is getting ready for the mega date, October 6th. With her wedding falling in less than ten days times, our hottie is surely going head over heels with those sweet bachelor moments that are getting over soon.

From the last couple of weeks, actually, Samantha is sharing pictures of her, shot for a Mumbai based fashion designer. Though many thought the cleavage-revealing hot dress is Samantha’s bridal wear for the impending marriage and later a clarity has come that she’s just posing for a look-book. However, everyday Samantha is busy sharing a picture from that shoot, all the time in the same dress.

Either Samantha should stop sharing those pictures, or she should change the dress she’s wearing. We mean a photo in a new dress would be appeasing her fans rather releasing photos of the same look again and again. As our hottie is confirming that she’s not going to stop it, many films lovers are advising her to change the dress at least.

Meanwhile, it is heard that she’s currently preparing the final checklist for her marriage. From taking care of preparations to the guest list, food to costumes and sentiments to parties, Samantha is quite busy-bee.

Evidently, fans and film lovers of Telugu movies have a particular taste and any film played to that idea will click at the box office. And if someone tries to break it, then there should be a strong reason to support it, else the story will break, and the film will go for a toss.

Other day’s release Spyder is liked by fans but slammed by critics for obvious reasons. As Mahesh Babu already stated that people write good reviews for good films, there is nothing more we could say about that. However, some hardcore fans of the actor feel that an Oosaravelli like mistake committed by Spyder has cost the hero huge.

A couple of years back when Jr NTR came up with Oosaravelli, many got doubt after looking at Tamanna’s flashback episode that hero was nowhere connected to the main plot. As nearly a 20 minutes flashback episode runs on the heroine, even fans have got hurt. Same thing happened with Spyder as well as the flashback episode related to the villain (played by SJ Surya) has no connection with Mahesh Babu. That made many get disconnected with the film for a while as the primary target of many movie lovers is to watch Mahesh on the first day of the movie for all the screen time.

This is just a belief, however, but the weak link between SJ Surya’s terrific flashback and Mahesh’s current reaction on him is what the bigger culprit. But sentiment lovers are busy believing that Oosaravelli like mistake resulted in a similar result.