We all saw Samanatha Ruth Prabhu attend the IIFA Utsavam Awards with her going to be in-laws Nagarjuna, recently. Sam looked stunning in a glittery, Handloom sari. And she also was awarded the best actress for ‘AAa’.

The lovely Akkineni ‘Kodalu’, who’s a very warm and affectionate lass in Tollywood, was full of laughs in this candid picture where it appears like Shriya sat on her and Sam holding over with hands in the most endearing way. Sitting right to them and laughing is plump beauty Raashi Khanna, who made a guest appearance in Manam, while Sam & Shriya took the lead roles.

Looks like the three gorgeous ladies of classical hit Manam – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Shriya Saran and Raashi Khanna have got along well at IIFA Utsavam in Hyderabad.

Ever since Rana collaborated with director Teja, the film has been gaining attention. In addition to this, Teja’s casting coup of roping in Kajal, Catherine has added to the buzz. After making the film’s title – Nene Raju Nene Mantri – official, the makers have unveiled the film’s teaser today coinciding with the birth anniversary of veteran producer Ramanaidu.

Barely half-minute teaser stuck to Rana’s solo show. Director Teja seems to be keeping cards close to his chest. With voice of Posani playing in the background and Rana walking in style with panche-kattu in jail with a cigarette in hand, the teaser is stylish but lacks much substance. Probably, Teja wants to keep everything under the wraps.

The film marks the maiden production of Suresh Babu for his son Rana’s film in association with another producer CH Bharath. It has to be seen how the film’s trailer would look.

When ‘Baahubali’ became a worldwide success, Telugu film fraternity was over the moon with pride and happiness. Along also came a sense of pressure to live up to the high standards set by the epic VFX extravaganza. Well, going by the happenings in last month, Baahubali’s effect on industry is more on positive side.

Post Baahubali’s phenomenon, a surge in the openings of even small films was observed. All the post-Baahubali notable releases such as Radha, Keshava, Ra Randoi, Andhhagadu etc. opened to the best numbers in the respective actor’s careers. This is a clear indication that audiences are not expecting Baahubali kind of experience form every film but they are coming to theatres considering only that film’s merits. So, no Baahubali pressure on new releases.

Coming to the biggies, the market has increased by at least 20 crores. Before Baahubali, 80 crore used to look like a benchmark to score industry hit in Tollywood but even 100 crore looks easy for biggies now, this fact was was proved by Megastar’s Khaidi No.150. Even a poor film like Katramarayudu collected a share in excess of 60 crore, imagine the result if it had received positive response.

Going by the pre-release business of upcoming biggies like #PSPK25, SPYder, DJ etc. a 20+ crore jump is seen compared to the actors’ respective previous films. Moreover, after the success of Baahubali, Bollywood filmmakers and North audiences are keenly looking towards Tollywood biggies, which will help Telugu filmmakers to strike good dubbing and remake deals. Filmmakers like Karan Kohar Johar are reportedly eyeing upcoming biggies such as SPYder to release them in North.

Our heroes have also started setting up multi-lingual projects, Mahesh’s SPYder, Saaho, Ram Charan-Mani Ratnam and Bunny-Lingusamy projects fall into this category. If these films click, we can expect more and more multilinguals to come out from Tollywood. And, in the coming two years, the market of Telugu cinema may go up by another 20-30 crore.

Owing to take his fans for a ride this time after a bitter disappointment from Brahmotsavam, Mahesh Babu has been continuously working without big breaks to make sure his next releases will be terrific. One of them is AR Murugadoss’ Spyder and another one is Koratala Siva’s Bharath Anu Nenu.

Coming to this new film under Koratala Siva’s direction, which unites the Srimanthudu duo yet again, shooting has already started. As discussed already in these columns numerous times, Mahesh will be seen as Chief Minister of a Telugu state in this movie.

If we have to talk about Mahesh’s look in the recent times, most of the films like 1-Nenokkadine, Brahmotsavam and Srimanthudu almost shown him in a similar look. But Koratala wants his CM to be little different.

Taking a cue from Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu’s handloom styled look, even Mahesh will sport a similar one, revealed a source. Currently, various other looks are also being tested on the superstar as Koratala wants his CM to kill it with looks itself. Whatever maybe his attire, styling and body language for this Chief Minister’s role, his looks will be safeguarded very carefully such that no leakages will be there before the first look comes out.

Meanwhile, Kiara Advani is rumoured to be the heroine of Mahesh Babu in this political drama, but Koratala Siva neither confirmed this nor denied.

The other day, dashing beauty Samantha has shared a pic from swimming pool and created a small size flutter on social media. It seems that top anchor Anasuya has copied Sam’s swimming pool idea to push her fans on social media into frenzy.

Anasuya, who is currently holidaying in Udaipur, Rajasthan has shared this lovely pic. She is seen soaking herself in a swimming pool. Just like Samantha, Anasuya has also posted a pic showing her back to the camera, needless to say the pic has gone viral on social media.

A silver screen heroine like Samantha sharing such hot pictures is not to surprising but when the dusky yet charming Anasuya repeated the same tempting act, her followers went berserk.