After the failure of her debut film ‘Oka Manasu’, Mega family heroine Niharika Konidela took a huge sabbatical before signing her second film.

Happening production house UV Creations has now officially announced the second Telugu film of Niharika. Titled ‘Happy Wedding’, the film stars Niharika and struggling young hero Sumanth Ashwin in lead roles. “Happy Wedding” will be directed by Lakshman Karya and the film will have music by Rockstar Devi Sri Prasad. The regular shoot will commence from October 4.

Niharika is currently shooting for a Tamil film starring Vijay Sethupati in lead role.

On Friday, the Film Federation of India (FFI) announced Bollywood film ‘Newton’ as India’s official entry to the Oscar Awards 2018. The film was unanimously chosen from 26 entries this year, said member of FFI’s selection committee, headed by Telugu filmmaker C V Reddy.

‘Newton’ is a political satire revolving around an honest election officer’s attempt to conduct a free and fair poll in a conflict-hit area of Chhatisgarh state.

The film starring National Award winning actor Rajkummar Rao in the lead role was released in theatres today. It has earlier been showcased at various film festivals where it received overwhelming response.

When it comes to an item song, sometimes the song will click huge, but the song’s visuals might not evoke interest. Sometimes a hot heroine will pour all the glamour for the song to entice viewers even though the song’s tune is average. And sometimes, the whole song is likely to become a super hit.

Ace composer Devi Sri Prasad always composed some terrific item numbers like Aah Ante Amalapuram, Na Pere Kanchanamala, Kevvu Keka and Pakka Local as well. Most of these songs are a hit with the tune itself, while the visuals of the songs are also stunning. While Gabbar Singh’s Kevvu Keka was heated up with Malaika Arora’s glamour, Pakka Local became an eye-feast with Kajal’s never seen hottest side. Though Kajal flaunted her curves many such times, the manner this song was choreographed probably projected her differently altogether.

Coming to the present, we have Jai Lava Kusa’s Swing Zara song which featured milky siren Tamanna Bhatia in the lead. Neither the tune is impressive, nor Tamanna’s dances nor her looks. Especially Tamanna is putting a lot of fat these days, and it is quite visible in the so-called bad choreography of the song. Even Jr NTR’s dances inside this songs are also not appealing as he has shown such side many times.

In all likelihood, DSP should compose better item songs and Tamanna should lose weight immediately if she wants to flaunt her glamour in item songs yet again. On the whole, milky siren disappointed her fans other day.

Jr NTR’s latest movie released other day with critics liking the hero’s performance a lot while the story hasn’t convinced them much. However regular film audiences loved the comedy-laced first half and emotion-centric second half a lot and made the film a memorable one for Nandamuri brothers. Here is an interesting finding of the way this movie got above-average talk pretty quickly.

Long back when Baahubali 2 released, all the Premiere Shows that are screened in the midnight resulted in a negative-talk for the movie. That’s because fans and movie lovers watch these shows with immense expectations and any average-scene inside the film would kill their excitement. Finding this happening, the likes of Allu Arvind decided to cancel benefit show and premiere screenings of their films and that helped even ordinary content like DJ Duvvadajagannadham do well.

Now, if we have to talk about Jai Lava Kusa, the film would have settled with 2.5 to 2.75 stars in case if Premieres are screened. In that case, a flop talk would have come in no time, and that would have affected the film’s Day One collections severely. Thereby the prospects at the box office would have got tampered. To avoid all that from happening, JLK team simply canceled all the Premiere and Benefit shows, and now that sprang terrific luck for them.

It seems like Jr NTR has scored his hat-trick now with Jai Lava Kusa after films like Nannaku Prematho and Janata Garage did extremely well.

Ilayathalapathy Vijay is back testing his luck with his next film titled Mersal. This is the second time Atlee is teaming up with Vijay after a blockbuster like Therii. The movie’s teaser has been released yesterday and it took the internet by storm.

The teaser clocked 1 million in no time and is all set to cross 10 million views in less than a day which is huge for a South Indian film. Samantha, Kajal Agarwal and Nithya Menen are the female leads in the movie.

Mersal teaser managed to get 5 lakh likes in less than two hours which is huge. The most liked teaser on youtube has 6 lakh likes and Mersal crossed in no time and is still counting. Mersal teaser got 6.9 lakh likes till date and 9.3 million views.

AR Rahman’s background score along with Vijay’s mannerisms on screen have been widely appreciated. Produced by Thenandal Films, Mersal has been aimed for October 18th release during Diwali this year.

Living up to the massive expectations, young tiger NTR’s new release, ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ has set up Non-Baahubali record on Day 1. The emotional entertainer in which NTR essayed Triple role, collected a humongous Rs 42 Cr gross on its first day in theatres at Worldwide box office, thus created a new Non-Baahubali record beating Megastar Chiranjeevi’s ‘Khaidi No.150’.

Below is the area-wise break-up of distributor share on Day 1:

Nizam – 5,05,00,000
Ceded – 4,01,00,000
Nellore – 1,08,00,000
Guntur – 3,05,00,000
Krishna – 1,70,00,000
West – 1,80,00,000
East – 2,96,00,000
Uttharandhra – 1,89,00,000

Total 1st day AP & TS Share – 21.54 Cr (Gross 30 Cr approx.)

Jai Lava Kusa however fell short of ‘Baahubali 2’, Khaidi No.150, Baahubali and Katamarayudu in the Telugu states on Day 1 when taken distributor share as parameter. The NTR-starrer lost significant amount towards the newly hiked GST tax and hence probably fell short of the above films.

The worldwide gross (42 Cr) however places ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ only behind ‘Baahubali 2′ in all time Day 1 grossers’ list.

Coming to the US premieres, after compiling collections from all the unreported locations, Jai Lava Kusa collected a huge $590K from premieres, just edging past Janatha Garage ($584K) and falling just short of Sardaar Gabbar Singh ($615K).

As per early trade reports, JLK has taken decent start on Day 2 in both domestic and overseas markets.

All star kids out there in Tollywood are currently busy picking one particular hobby and that is nothing but owning some sports clubs. For this, they have to thank Megastar’s son and here is how it went.

Currently, we are witnessing even Akkineni Akhil getting his hands on a sporting event as he started promoting Hyderabad Football League. It’s heard that he’s both brand ambassador and also owns a team playing this league. Earlier we have Allu Arjun and Ram Charan together buying a stake in Kabaddi team Tamil Thalaivas and also Kerala FC that plays Indian Football League. And here is how they got inspired.

After not faring so well in films and failing to get enormous applause like his legendary father Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, it’s Jr Megastar Abhishek who started venturing into various businesses. One of them is Pro Kabaddi League where he owns Jaipur Pink Panthers team. Looking at the way he’s managing this team and also earning huge with it, many stars got inspired and started holding such sports clubs. And we have to say Telugu star-kids are at the forefront in following the path laid by AB Junior.

Meanwhile, a couple of Telugu big stars are getting ready to find if they could obtain a stake in any IPL team of Cricket. Earlier few stars tried to own one, but they failed to flex an investment of nearly 600+ crores for that.

He happens to one promising young star who has this habit of scoring good hits. His producers also believe him a lot as they feel that there is no question of losing investment if their hard-earned money is bet on him.

This actor, however, has this habit of clicking pictures of his co-stars. But that doesn’t include any male actors, although he takes photographs of his heroines only. Though he never shoots any raunchy stuff, he makes sure to experiment with light and shade for the clicks of gorgeous girls. He has almost all the pictures of heroines he worked with in his mobile.

Whenever his wife runs a surfing through the photos on her husband’s phone, she feels upset, a little birdie tells us. His iPhone 6S is filled with pictures of many heroines rather than his wife’s photos. Besides, he keeps on sharing those pictures with the heroine who is present in them. And he enjoys the praises for his photography skills then.

Maybe as they say about Obsessive Compulsion Disorder, is this hero having any such disorder to click photographs of gorgeous girls? Maybe or may not be, but he has to take care of his wife’s growing impatience and jealousy at this moment. Either he has to stop clicking heroines, or he should click his wife’s pictures as well.

Tamil actor Jai impressed Kollywood after he scored back to back hits. He could not impress the Telugu audience but he is in love with Telugu actress Anjali from sometime. There are speculations that the duo is all set to tie knot soon. Jai has been in news for wrong reasons as he was caught driving under the influence of alcohol in Chennai.

The actor was caught speeding up on September 21st morning when his car hit Adyar flyover in the city. The actor was later released by bail and the cops booked him under section 185 for driving after he was drunk and in section 279 for rash driving. The actor partied in a star hotel in the city and he was on his way to his Indira Nagar residence. Comedian Premgi Amaran and other actors were with Jai while he hit the divider. This is the second time the actor was caught driving after drunk and the cops recommended to cancel his license.

Gone are those days when there are ample number of distributors in Nizam area quoting reasonable prices from small to big films. Many of them have to move on to other businesses after facing huge loss in film distribution, leaving all the Nizam distribution in two producers’ hands.

One of famous producer, almost a ‘king’ in distribution business and the other is a distributor who got hold of almost 120 theatres in Nizam. Any movie that has be released in Nizam must go through these four hands. It is heard that these unofficial distributor duo is buying the rights as per their share of months and any rate they fix at one point is final.

Many producers who could not release a film on their own have no choice except to bend for these distributor duo’s fixed price. Earlier producers used to sell the rights on NRA system that gives maximum risk to distributor, but lately, the tables are turned and the distribution is going on with advance system, leaving producer at maximum risk, thanks to the two distributors.

Big ticket films and top producers are not any exception when it comes to Nizam distribution and the price fixed by these two distributors stays final anyway. Even if they want to release the film on their own, any other films distributed by these two will occupy all the theatres, which leaves the producers back at square one. The two distributors become super powers in Nizam distribution and we have to wait and see when this dictatorship ends!

Chiyaan Vikram is undoubtedly one of the best actors our country has. He impressed the audience widely with his performance however none of his recent films ended up as commercial hits. The actor pinned all his hopes on Shankar’s ‘I’ and his efforts have been wasted as the film has been declared as a disaster. His recent outing Inkokkadu too did not change his fate and he pinned all his hopes on Sketch.

Directed by Vijay Chander, Tamannaah is the female lead in the movie which has been planned for release during December. The movie is said to be an action comedy which has been shooting from the past eight months.

Vikram decided not to do films based on characters and he signed an interesting action comedy with Sketch. He is said to be very confident on the film and is happy with the way it shaped out. He is even shooting for Gautam Menon’s Dhruva Nachatiram which is said to be a spy thriller.

We have to wait and see if both the films can make Vikram comeback to success streak. Vikram will be seen sporting never seen stylish looks in both the films.