Teja is one uncompromising director who strive to extract quality output from actors and he will go to great lengths to achieve it. The maverick filmmaker even slapped his actors to yield the result he wanted.

Young actors like Uday Kiran, Nithin and others who worked with director Teja at start of their career, took a slap on their face. Beating has later become a routine in all of his films.

As soon as Teja announced his new film with Rana Daggubati, everyone wondered how he’d handle the star actor by putting aside his conventional way of directing. But, now that he has finished the filming part, what he had to say about Bhallala Deva? – Read on…

‘Rana is an intellectual artist who can get into the skin of any character effortlessly. He proved it in Baahubali as well. For Nene Raju Nene Manthri, he lived the role of Jogendra on shooting sets as well. When I narrate a scene to Rana, he goes back home and comes up with the right attitude and behavior the role needed in scene,’ said Teja by leaving to us that Rana didn’t give him a chance to follow his usual norm of slapping. Also, given the fact that film was bankrolled by Rana’s father Suresh Babu, Teja wouldn’t dare to slap the actor.

Also featuring Kajal Aggarwal, NNRM is slated for release on 11th of August. Both director Teja and producer Suresh Babu are pretty confident about the success of this political thriller despite two other releases on the same day.

Young actor Nithiin is a huge fan of Powerstar Pawan Kalyan and he revealed about this several times during several events. The actor is all set for his next movie Lie and Nithiin like every film, he has been spotted his love towards his favorite actor. Spotted in a railway coolie look, Nithiin tried to remind about Pawan Kalyan’s super hit song from the film Thammudu.

Nithiin shared about his bond with Pawan Kalyan. He said “Whenever I meet Pawan Kalyan, I just sit listening to him. I don’t talk much. He sometimes talks about my looks in my movies. I prefer to remind about him through my films. Lie has one song in which I play a railway coolie which reprises Thammudu. I am quite delighted that I am working for my next under the production of Pawan Kalyan. The film is a love story and is directed by Krishna Chaitanya“.

Hanu Raghavapudi directed Lie and Megha Akash played the female leads. Produced by 14 Reels Entertainments, Lie has been announced for August 11th release. Manisharma composed the tunes for Lie.

Boyapati Sreenu’s coming release Jaya Janaki Nayaka has been carrying good buzz. The trade circles are especially betting big on the film and hence eagerly looking forward to the film’s release. Considering that this is Boyapati’s immediate film after his blockbuster Sarrainodu, the film has been sold for higher prices and naturally, huge monies are at stake.

Apart from Boyapati and film’s protagonist Bellamkonda Srinivas, the film stars stellar cast including Rakul Preet, Pragya Jaiswal, Catherine Tresa (special appearance), Jagapathi Babu, Sarath Kumar, Vani Viswanath and et al.

Devi Sri Prasad’s music and background score are said to be another major advantage for the film. Already, the audio album has garnered good response raising the expectations bar of the film. Since there are two other releases along with JJN, this has intensified the curiosity surrounding JJN.

So far the teasers and trailer have been received well and it needs to be seen how the film opens in cinemas on August 11.

Director Teja’s previous films might have been commercially failure at the Box Office. Yet as a filmmaker he earned some cult following as well as respect in the industry. Apparently a few producers have approached Teja recently with ‘suitcases’ i.e advance amounts after the release of Nene Raju Nene Mantri trailer.

Since the trailer is good and film is Rana’s immediate film after Baahubali 2 and happens to be first production of Suresh Babu with his son, it is expected to be decent.

So, producers said to have queued with ‘advance amounts’ to book Teja for their next. As usual, Teja said to have denied to take the advances and decided to not to commit any film until the release of his present film Nene Raju Nene Mantri.

Teja is said to be super confident on the result of Nene Raju Nene Mantri. And industry insiders are gossiping that the director turned down the offers only expecting more once the film is successful. As the film is all set to release this week, let us wait and see whether Teja got it right or wrong.

Ever since Bellamkonda Sai Srinivas aka Bellamkonda Srinivas made his debut with Alludu Seenu, the one most-heard complaint against him is – his romance with top heroines in films, and super extravaganza. In an exclusive chat, Gulte quizzed Srinivas ahead of the release of his film Jaya Janaki Nayaka on August 11.

Romancing Top Heroines

I’m a young hero with no fan base. Certainly, I need top heroines to reach to as many as people. Yes, I need top heroines. What is wrong in it?

Also by acting alongside with them ( who have done many films and have good experience), I could improve my acting. I could improve my performance and learn a lot of things. This is really good thing. It is always best to be surrounded by talented artists. They always challenge you and we need to give our best on par with them. Acting with Rakul in Jaya Janaki Nayaka is also one such experience. She has made me better my skill. Not just heroines, acting with Jagapathi Babu garu, Sarath sir, Vani madam is best experience. And above all, audience enjoy when they see great cast on screen.

On Boyapati Sreenu

Boyapati garu is the best thing happened to me. On sets, I was never treated as a young hero. I’ve been treated very well. Even co-actors treated me as ‘Star’ because am ‘Boyapati’s Hero’ – a ‘larger than life’ role. That gave me an extra confidence which is really needed on sets to do powerful role.

After pack-up, am usual again. I’m normal. But I have to be so confident to carry off the role. My confidence has increased after doing this film. Now, I could say, I am ready to act with any director.

Burden of High-Budget?

Not exactly. We are very confident on film’s content. Also, my debut film was made with bigger budget and extravaganza. So, I got used to it. Audience welcome a film that treats them with good story, visuals, grandeur. So, there is no sense of burden on me that the film’s budget is high.

Also, I should thank producer Miryala Ravinder Reddy garu who believed in me totally and invested so much. And it is all visible on screen. For viewers, JJN is going to be a visual feast.

Father’s Support

My father (Bellamkonda Suresh) has taken my dream as his own dream. Very rare. He is very very encouraging, supportive. Since childhood, he used to give a lot of importance to my decisions. I’ve been his editing friend. He took my suggestions for many of his productions. Our bond is very great. We are more like friends. In fact, my friends are always envy of my father’s affection to me. My whole family has been very supportive. My mother, younger brother and of course my dad all are excited about the film.

I want to make him happy by proving myself. I want to tell him that I’ll be happy if he is happy. I hope Jaya Janaki Nayaka success is going to make him so happy.

The teaser of Mahesh Babu’s long-delayed Spyder has been unveiled on the eve of his birthday. Mahesh looked stylish and suave as a Spy.

However, the teaser has AR Murugudoss-trademark shots and scenes indicating that Mahesh will be seen in a larger-than-life. ARM seems to have banked more on human emotions which is his strength.

Mahesh’s one-liners are as usually well-delivered. “Bhayapettadam Maku Telusu”…this is expected to be the catchy-liner for fans.

SJ Surya’s face has been hidden but it is evident that Surya is the main villain in this action thriller. The teaser is slick and promising. Harris Jayaraj’s background score is appealing. And there is nice chemistry between the lead pair Mahesh and Rakul hinting that it will be a nice package.

Nani turned unstoppable with series of hits and he is now a favourite of overseas audience too. After Ninnu Kori super success, Nani’s next garnered even more expectations and Nani is not willing to let us down this time also. His next, Krishnarjuna Yuddam will be so enthralling with natural star in double role.

Today, Nani posted an interesting picture on his insta account unofficially announcing the shooting start. It is with a Krishna’s flute sitting on a bike handle and we have to wait for a while to see how Krishna and Arjuna look. Merlapaka Gandhi is directing the film after his Express Raja.

While speculations on Prabhas’s heroine in Saaho gained more focus, here is better update about the film. It is heard that Saaho is either a story of reincarnation or that features a time travel concept. Well, the shoot happening at Ramoji film city hints the same.

Few important scenes of Saaho are being shot on sets erected with British flags, more than 100 horses and a war background hinting the story or a part with colonial India time. Even few shots had the game of polo suggesting the same. The costumes of the actors too are heard to be from pre independence era and only the crew knows what exactly is happening there.

On the otherside, when the teaser of Saaho with ahead of its time and super stylish, is totally contrast to the above update, the movie can be of a reincarnation theme or a time travel concept touched by very few in Indian film industry. We can’t really rule out a chance where Prabhas can be seen in a double role too. Let us wait for the official update to know better, but till then Saaho keeps on raising expectations for sure.