If the song ‘Gundello Emundo Kallallo Telustundi’ plays even now in any channel or at other place, people glue to it for three reasons. Nagarjuna’s handsome presence, a fantastic tune of Devi Sri Prasad and for beautiful looking heroine Anshu.

Surprisingly Anshu has done only one film after Manmadhudu, that is Raghavendra with Prabbhas and then seen nowhere. When many thought this NRI beauty Anshu Ambani from London will make it big on Telugu screen, she just disappeared. For reasons unknown, we hear that she has decided to quit films and pursue education back then.

Currently, Anshu lives in London with her husband Sachin Saggar and their two young daughters. The couple runs a fashion designer wear store “Inspiration Couture” which produces outfits that are close to what Bollywood heroines wear in blockbuster films. As part of expanding her business and for collecting raw material for her company, Anshu often flies to India as well.

Many heroines quit their illustrious and sparkling cinema career after reaching a peak and disappears. But Anshu has done it just in the budding stage itself. As long as the film Manmadhudu is remembered by Telugu audiences, Anshu will be remembered.

UAE-based Indian billionaire BR Shetty, who announced in April this year to invest USD150 million (Rs 1,000 crore) on the making of epic Mahabharata, said that he expects to make USD1 billion (approx. 6,700 crore) in revenue from his mega project.

Shetty’s ‘Mahabharata’ is set to be India’s most expensive film with Rs 1,000 crore budget. And, he is planning to rope in world-class technicians to make this film on a mammoth scale. Despite this staggering budget and possible technical finesse, an Indian film raking in USD1 billion looks a distant dream, we can’t rue out the possibility though.

As of now, Dangal is the highest Indian grosser with a worldwide gross of 1800 crore. If Baahubali 2 performs well in China, where it is due for release in July, the Rajamouli directorial can go well past 2000 crore mark. The target of Shetty, which is about 7000 crore, is far higher than even the cumulative of Dangal and Baahubali 2.

Malayalam filmmaker VA Shrikumar Menon will direct ‘Mahabharata’ with Mohanlal essaying the pivotal character of Bheema. To be made as a two-part saga, Mahabharata will have six hours duration, as per the director. Regular filming will commence in May 2018, the first part will release in 2020 and the second will hit screens 100 days later.

To be shot across Au Dhabi, India and Sri Lanka, the film will be primarily made in three languages – Malayalam, English and Hindi, and later dubbed in all regional languages of India.

If the two-part Mahabharata can really collect USD1 billion as per the prediction of Shetty, it will truly be a defining moment for Indian cinema at global level. The film will have to appeal to Western audiences in order to achieve that.

Hero Nani is not just a natural actor, but also a little outspoken guy. And sometimes he throws sharp comments that anyone will not expect.

Coming to rolling ‘A’ jokes, Nani earlier commented at “Supreme” audio launch that he wanted to whistle when he saw ‘hip’ of  Rashi Khanna in a song. Other day too he rolled out another such joke, and here it goes.

During the trailer launch of Marakathamani other day, Nani attended as a chief-guest for his friendship with Aadi Pinisetty. There while giving his guest lecture, Nani asked, why don’t Aadi marries heroine Nikki Galrani.

“Everyone is asking about your (Aadi) marriage, why don’t you marry her (Nikki Galrani), she looks gorgeous know?” (Tanani cheskovachuga babai, bagundi ga), said Nani.

Well, both Aadi and Nikki immediately didn’t understand the joke for sure. Giving such advises during private conversations is fine, but doing that for a joke in front of media is what left everyone clueless. That’s Nani however.