No matter what, the hype is what needed for any film fetch terrific openings at the box office. In order to create such hype, filmmakers come up with interesting posters, teasers, trailers, some controversies at audio functions and all other stuff.

In the case of a movie like “Nakshatram” with trailers and teasers already released, and the film delayed for months, the hype just got lost. Now that a huge buzz needs to be revoked, director Krishna Vamsi is using his ‘best’ talent to grab attention. Latest poster of “Nakshatram” movie shows dusky beauty Regina Cassandra as a ravishing Greek goddess while Pragya Jaiswal is also oozing huge charm with her holiday look.

As KV happens to be a specialist in carving out such erotic and mercury-raising songs in his movies, he seems to like using the best of his film’s stuff to bring back the lost attention for the movie Nakshatram. But such hotness brings only a limited attention for any film while the real-content on the reel really matters.

Featuring Sandeep Kishan, Sai Dharam Tej, Regina and Pragya Jaiswal in the leads, Nakshatram’s audio will be released tomorrow, while Krishna Vamsi might announce the release date then.

On Tuesday, filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma announced that he would be directing the highly anticipated biopic of legendary Telugu film actor and politician Sr NTR. The actor’s son Balakrishna Nandamuri is gearing up to step into his father’s shoes. Can Balayya do justice to NTR’s role? The late actor’s wife Lakshmi Parvathi doesn’t believes so.

Soon after the announcement on NTR’s biopic was made, Lakshmi Parvathi spoke to media and said that she has doubts on Varma’s ability in portraying the incidents happened in her husband’s last few years of life. She allegedly opined that Balayya is unsuitable to play NTR’s character.

Highlighting why Varma was the wrong choice, Parvathi said that he had allegedly shown NTR in bad light in ‘Raktha Charithra’. She questioned if Varma has similar courage of portraying Chandrababu Naidu as the villain in NTR’s biopic. She demanded for the authentic presentation of how Babu allegedly backstabbed his father-in-law and dethroned him from CM chair.

In a recent interview, controversial film maker Ram Gopal Varma has described some of the biggest names in film industry and politics in one word. While his answer may please fans of some, others may get annoyed, and most others may get confused with his enigmatic answers.

Below is how he had described the actors and politicians.

Prabhas: ‘Sexiest Power’

Rajamouli: ‘Messiah of films’

Jr NTR: ‘Befitting Sr NTR’

Nagarjuna: Love

Chiranjeevi: Star Mega

Ram Charan: Dheerudaina Magaadu

He seems to have just reversed ‘Mega Star’ and ‘Maga Dheera’ titles.

Naga Babu: Lovely Brother (quite unexpected answer)

Allu Arjun : Dangerous Rabbit

The most enigmatic and RGV-mark answer was witnessed in the case of Allu Arjun. Amidst the turmoil over ‘Bunny vs Pawan Fans’, the hullabaloo regarding Bunny trying to take over ‘Megastar’ title etc. RGV’s remark against Bunny may have a deeper meaning.

Time for some politicians…RGV has mysterious and sarcastic answers…

Chandrababu Naidu: Navvuleni Nayakudu (The Leader who doesn’t Smile)

Jagan: Sannani Inumu (Thin Iron)

Pawan Kalyan as Politician: Wait and Watch

Busy with non-stop shooting schedules, Pawan Kalyan and his director Trivikram are readying their latest film like another ‘Attarintiki Daredi’ if reports are to be believed. With Aadhi playing villain and Anirudh composing music, this project got a new high. Here is an interesting discussion going on about this project.

Actually, Pawan Kalyan has this habit of involving creatively in many aspects of his film’s making, especially songs. Most of the time he won’t takes his directors to the shooting spots where songs are filmed, but he himself takes care of them. Even during Kushi, SJ Surya never went abroad for the filming of songs. Pawan Kalyan left KS Ravindra to take care of editing and re-recording work while he left to Switzerland with Kajal to get Sardar songs filmed. Same is the case during Katamarayudu too, as Pawan danced in Italy with Shruti Haasan while Dolly takes care of film’s post-production work back home.

But it’s a different case with Trivikram now. It’s not that Trivikram is a good friend of Pawan, but even as a professional filmmaker, the wizard-of-words never leave it to star heroes when it comes to songs. He is known for carving out peculiar montages in some songs and films as per the lyrics he gets written. For that reason, there is no way Pawan could ignore Trivikram for their trip to Bulgaria, where their latest movie’s songs will be filmed at Sofia, the Balkan country’s capital.

Of late, Bulgaria is becoming a sought after destination for Tollywood stars as recently Megastar Chiranjeevi also got his Khaidi No 150 songs filmed there.

Poonam Pandey is addressed by her fans as the ‘Queen of Seduction’. For those who don’t agree, Poonam has given another reason to become a fan of her hotness by sharing this latest pic.

The barely there two-piece attire wore by Poonam has ‘Sexy Goddess’ written all over it, literally. It is not clear if she is promoting a lingerie of that brand or claiming herself as the ‘Sexy Goddess’. Her fans may care very less as they have got their share of eye treat with the amazingly toned figure of Pandey on display in the picture.

It comes as a little surprise that her fan following on social media is ever-growing. By sharing this kind of raunchy and revealing pictures, she seems to be aspiring to become the ‘Kim Kardashian’ of India.

Natural Star Nani, who is on a dream run, may once again team up with a director who had earlier directed him in a huge flop.

Reports are emerging that noted Tamil director Samuthirakani, who had directed Nani in ‘Jenda Pai Kapiraju’, is planning to direct the youngster once again in his new film. While his frequent collaborator Sasikumar is on board to play the lead role in Tamil, Samuthirakani is hell bent on roping in Nani for the Telugu version.

‘Jenda Pai Kapiraju’, released in 2014 after having been lying in cans for a long time, failed to connect with audience. Samuthirakani has made some noteworthy Tamil films but his Telugu directorials were somehow rejected by audience. Will Nani forget the result of JPK and give him another chance at a time when he is on a hit spree?

Well, Nani is one actor who signs films based on the merits of script rather than relying on the director’s track record. For instance, his current film ‘MCA’ is being directed by Venu Sriram, whose only directorial till date, ‘Oh My Friend’ was a failure.

If Nani decides to give the Tamil director another chance, we have to see when this film would go on floors as successful directors like Merlapaka Gandhi and Hanu Raghavapudi are already waiting for him with scripts.

Meanwhile, Nani is awaiting the release of ‘Ninnu Kori’, which is slated to hit screens on July 7.

On the 16th of July, Telugu television market will be scaling new heights with the launch of the biggest ever reality show, “Bigg Boss” on Star Maa, with Young Tiger NTR appearing as the host for the first time on the small screen.

This show will have 12 celebrity contestants brought together for 70 days, surrounded by 60 cameras and cut off from the outside world in 1 BIGG house.

Star Maa team has already been on an intensive exercise to select the right contestants and has met over 100 celebrities and seen a huge positive response and willingness to participate. The channel will identify the right dozen to enter the house and keep up its promise of providing the best entertainment to its viewers.

Since the launch of the first reveal promo, Bigg Boss Telugu has already created a huge buzz in the Telugu states. The reveal promo has reached more than 55million viewers i.e. nearly 3/4th of the viewership universe, in just 7 days of its run on the Star Maa network. On Digital, Bigg Boss Telugu promos were trending Nationwide on social media platforms, with a huge number of shares, reaching millions.

The show is bringing many firsts to the Telugu entertainment space. It is the most expensive show to ever be created in Telugu television. It has one of the largest sets, with more than 10000 square feet area and nearly 750 people working on the project at any given point of time.

The show is unique because there is no script and the traditional word “cut” is never uttered by the director. The cameras – 60 of them, never stop rolling for the entire season!

All set to launch on 16th July with a mega episode, the show promises to be a game changer for Telugu Television, like NTR has said.

Star Maa is a part of Star TV network, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of global media company 21st Century Fox. Star Maa is a leading Telugu TV channel network known for its vibrant, innovative, pleasant and interactive programming in the Telugu language market and enjoys a strong growth trajectory, driven by general entertainment and movies. Star Maa Network has a bouquet of six channels-Star Maa, Star Maa HD, Star Maa Music, Star Maa Movies, Star Maa Movies HD and Star Maa Gold.

Media baron and Eenadu group chairman, Ramoji Rao is one of the high-profiled persons in state and the country. His brand name ‘Ramoji’ is most-trusted and quite familiar among Telugu people. But, the media mogul has kept reserved and gave up on his public life, after the death of his younger son Suman few years ago.

And wedding bells of his grand daughter is now going to bring back the festive mood in their family. News is it that Ramoji Rao’s grand-daughter Sahari is entering wedlock with son of a leading Pharmaceutical businessman, based out of Hyderabad.

Sahari is elder daughter of Eenadu MD Ch. Kiran and Margadarshi group MD Shailaja Kiran. Earlier in April this year, the couple got engaged in Hyderabad.

The arrangements for nuptials are going on grandly at Ramoji Rao’s residence in Film City and Kiran’s home in Hyderabad. High-profile invitees to the marriage include both chief ministers of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh and union cabinet ministers as well.

Eccentric filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is back in news. RGV is going to direct Nandamuri Balakrishna and this crazy combo has much more to it. The twain is going to collaborate for most awaited and anticipated biopic of legendary NTR.

Both Balayya and RGV share good rapport. Balakrishna had visited the sets of RGV and Amitabh’s Sarkar 3. Since then the duo is contemplating to team up. And finally it is going to happen with the biopic of NTR. Sources close to the actor too corroborated that Balayya would be teaming up with RGV.

When contacted RGV about the news, he has confirmed with an audio message indicating that he would be helming the project to be produced by Vishnu Induri who carved a niche with high-profile IPs such as CCL and SIIMA.

In the audio message, RGV has explained his tryst with the legendary icon and how he had walked miles to see NTR’s classic film Adavi Ramudu. RGV also stated that he was one among the crowd who went to see NTR during his announcement of political entry. He ended the message saying : “Jai NTR”.

This is not all. RGV’s last film Vangaveeti saw NTR in a very powerful way. Although Ramu didn’t show the face of NTR in the film, the way he had potrayed NTR in the film was remarkable and garnered rave reviews. Given this, the expectations surrounding the film have shot up. Let’s wait for an official announcement.

Currently, Balakrishna is working with director Puri Jagannadh for Paisa Vasool.