Young actor Sharwanand is known for taking risks in his career and the actor scored massive hits in such situations. Express Raja and Shatamanam Bhavathi released between huge competition and they have been declared as blockbusters. And now he wants to release Mahanubhavudu alongside Dasara biggies.

Today, director Maruthi took twitter to reveal the first look of Mahanubhavudu will be out on August 24th. Not stopping here, he revealed that the film will hit the screens during Dasara season. Mahesh’s Spyder and NTR’s Jai Lava Kusa have been announced for release during the holiday season and now Maruthi, Sharwanand surprised everyone after Mahanubhavudu has been announced during the same holiday season.

The team of Mahanubhavudu seems to have been pretty confident on the film’s concept and they are quite happy with the output after which they decided to take it on Spyder. Mahanubhavudu may hit the screens on September 29th, two days after the release of Spyder.

BCCC (Broadcasting Content Complaint Council), the regulatory body for Television content, has directed Sony channel to shift its controversial daily serial ‘Pehredaar Piya Ki’ to the 10 pm slot so that children do not watch it. The channel management was also advised to run a scroll saying the daily soap does not promote child marriage.

The decision has been taken on Thursday amidst demands that the daily serial be banned. The serial, which began airing last month in Sony channel, focuses on a nine-year-old boy’s marriage to an 18 -year-old girl. The soap is accused of having some alleged ‘intimate scenes’ between the kid and the woman.

Strong objections to the show were raised by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and National Commission For Women, besides number of complaints from certain parents. “Pehredaar Piya Ki” has been slammed by viewers for allegedly promoting ‘child marriage’.

More than one lakh people had signed an online petition urging Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani to ban the show, following which she redirected the issue to the BCCC.

In its meeting held today, the Council directed the channel to move the show from its current slot of 8.30 pm to 10 pm slot, which is the restrictive hour on TV. Besides, a scroll has to run saying that the serial does not promote child marriage and it is entirely a work of fiction.

Telugu film industry people are known for investing the money earned from films in various ventures, and the most common among such is the Restaurants.

Already a horde of Telugu film celebs such as Sundeep Kishan, Lakshmi Manchu, Anil Sunkara, Navdeep, Kona Venkat, Shashank etc. have opened restaurants in Hyderabad, and joining them now is the hotshot director Surender Reddy.

The ‘Dhruva’ director has now opened his new restaurant named ‘Ulavacharu’ at Gachibowli, Hyderabad. The opening ceremony was held this morning. Ram Charan, MP Kavitha were present among the guests

After ‘Baahubali’, Prabhas has become a national star. Hence, his fans and movie lovers will obviously be wondering if he has also become the highest paid actor, at least in South?

Prabhas’ immediate next film after Baahubali is Saaho. According to reports published in national media, the star hero is charging a whopping Rs 30 crore remuneration for this action adventure film. Besides, he may have a share in profits too.

With this, Prabhas has become the second highest paid South Indian star after Superstar Rajinikanth. Considering that Saaho is likely to do huge pre-release business, Prabhas will collect good moolah as part of his share and may even surpass Rajini in terms of total remuneration.

For comparison, Mahesh Babu was reportedly paid Rs 25-30 crore SPYder. Pawan Kalyan also charged similar amount for PK25. As per widely circulated reports, Pawan will get Rs 30-40 crore remuneration for his next film to be bankrolled by Mythri Movie Makers.

Coming back to Saaho, bollywood actress Shraddha kapoor, who has been roped in to play the leading lady, has reportedly pocketed Rs 4 crore remuneration. Saaho is being produced by UV Creations with a budget of Rs 150 crore.

Last Friday, we saw three notable films clashing at box office. This week, there is only one notable film, ‘Anando Brahma’ hitting screens. How prosperous are the film’s chances at box office?

Anando Brahma is a horror comedy with a reverse subject, humans will be scaring the ghosts here. The most advantageous aspect of horror comedies is that they neither need stars nor a groundbreaking story. If the screenplay is engaging enough with ample comedy and sufficient scary moments, its enough for small budget films of this genre to turn money spinners at box office.

On promotions wise, makers have done a remarkable job. From unveiling interesting promos to roping in Prabhas for the pre-release event, they have done a great job of generating decent buzz.

Coming to competition at box office, Anando Brahma is the only notable release this Friday. Among last week’s releases, ‘Nene Raju Nene Manthri’ is the only film that is performing well so there will be sufficient theatres and not much competition. Having no successful horror comedy in a log time is another advantage.

An impressive job was done in terms of casting as well. Star comedians Vennela Kishore, Sreenivasa Reddy, Shakalaka Shankar, Thagubothu Ramesh and others are there to take care of fun department. Taapsee is at the centre to lead the proceedings.

On the downside, horror comedies tend to look monotonous and audiences are continually bombarded with films belonging to this genre, which rarely impress. Fortunately, Anando Brahma is dealing with the reverse subject of conventional horror comedies.

Lets see if Anando Brahma can leverage the buzz and live up to expectations.

Actress Priyamani is all set to walk down the aisle with her longtime boyfriend Mustufa Raj this month. The wedding date has been finalised and it will be on August 23rd. The Yama Donga actress confirmed the same. However, there is no entry for media and it is going to be strictly a private affair.

Priyamani has requested media to respect her wish and promised them of releasing her wedding pictures later.
It is learnt that the wedding will be a three-day affair, including a themed Mehendi and Sangeet, Cocktail party and reception.

National-Award winner (for Paruthiveeran film) Priyamani has done many films across South including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. She acted in Mani Ratnam’s Raavan and Ram Gopal Varma’s Rakta Charitra II that were also released in Hindi. She became quite popular to Hindi audiences with her special item song in Shah Rukh Khan’s Chennai Express where she shook her legs with SRK.

She got engaged to Mustufa on May 27, 2016 which was also a private affair. A year after the engagement, she is entering into wedlock on August 23.

Ohmkar’s ‘Raju Gaari Gadhi’ was a decent hit so naturally there are high expectations on this film. The film received immense attention after Nag signed this film, and the curiosity of audiences went couple of notches higher after Samantha signed this horror comedy. Now, it is heard that Sam is giving a tough time to makers.

As per the latest reports, the film’s shooting is all but done. Makers need Samantha to allot just one day of time to wrap up her part and eventually the film. The busy bee however has reportedly put the entire unit including Nagarjuna in waiting mode by being unable to adjust even one day to shoot for this horror comedy.

Sam currently has half a dozen films on sets and she is busy jugging between Hyderabad and Chennai to complete her part in respective films. A couple of days ago, reports emerged that Sam had been troubling makers of her Tamil film starring Sivakarthikeyan by laying some unreasonable conditions.

Meanwhile, makers of ‘Raju Gaari Gadhi 2’ have already announced the film’s release date as October 13 so they are optimistic of completing the shoot by this month end and get busy with the post-production work to meet the scheduled release date. The film also stars Seerat Kapoor in a key role.