Until the time filmmakers feel that aged heroine Sridevi is a timeless beauty, her tantrums keep growing, if we have to go by the reports being heard in Film Nagar. And from the statements given by SS Rajamouli, we have to say that they are indeed true.

Other day while sharing his thoughts on Open Heart program, Rajamouli revealed why they opted out to pick Sridevi. Of course, long back there was buzz that she demanded a whopping 5 crores to play Sivagami and that’s why they opted for Ramya Krishna. The fact is that Sridevi’s demands are not just over-the-board but also quite unethical.

“Sridevi asked for 8 crores. Apart from that, she wants five business class tickets whenever she has to fly to Hyderabad and fly back. And five business suites should be booked at the biggest hotel in Hyderabad for her entourage during their stay. We thought we would bargain on this, but there is another shocker. She wants a share in Hindi version of the film. We thought it’s pointless to demand and hence opted out. But in the end, our decision got right”, said Rajamouli, about casting Ramya Krishna and pushing Sridevi out.

A similar thing happened with Vijay’s “Puli” makers as well and they agreed to all of her demands. Later Sridevi lodged a legal case on the makers for not giving a share in Hindi version. Anyway, this demand sounds way too much.

Much like superstar Mahesh Babu, Stylish star Allu Arjun is also an ideal father who makes sure to spend enough time with his family notwithstanding how tight his shooting schedules are.

Bunny’s wife Sneha couldn’t have resisted herself from sharing this lovely pic featuring her husband and son, captioning it, ‘My boys’. In the pic, Bunny is seen kissing on the cheek of an adorably looking Ayaan. The cute kid looks to have already learnt a few tips on style from his stylish father.

On work front, Bunny is busy wrapping up the shoot of DJ, which is slated to hit screens on 23rd June. He will next start working on Vakkantham Vamsi’s film.

Apparently, a panel discussion happening on a popular Telugu news channel sparked a new debate as the show host revealed that few producers and directors are indulging in special Homams where a couple of heroines took part without wearing a single piece of cloth.

“We heard that some heroines are being used to perform nude poojas to bring good omen and blockbusters by some producers and directors” the host said. Adding more spice and masala to the said line, a noted astrologer who is busy unveiling the ‘jathakams’ of many celebrities these days for free averred, “Yes, I’m also hearing these days that such poojas happened. It came to my notice through a highly placed source about a big director and a heroine”.

In all likelihood, these revelations add more craze to the lines that are said, and bring up huge TRPs but is there truth in this? Which director is going to believe these days that these ‘nude’ homams will give them hits rather good scripts, better casting and fantastic release timing?

In fact, this news is going viral in social media in no time and few intelligent fellows are busy adding some names to the whole rumour. By adding the name of a director who got many flops these days despite being a big name, and mixing a heroine’s name to it, social media is booming with that news now.

High time we think about the saying- “Mantralaku chintakayalu raalavu”. Maybe, we’ve to say “Kshudra poojalaku blockbusters padavu”.

Young tiger NTR Jr, who has reinvented himself with a series of content-rich films starting from Temper, is all set to explore a new dimension as a Television host.

As per our reliable sources, NTR has signed a deal with Star MAA channel to host Bigg Boss reality show in Telugu. As the makers were hellbent on roping in a star to host the show in Telugu, NTR was reportedly offered the highest sum that any Telugu actor has ever received for a TV stint. More details about the show’s launch, shooting etc. will be revealed soon.

After Bigg Boss show became immensely popular in Hindi (hosted by Salman Khan), the makers have devised plans to expand it to Southern languages. Kamal Hasan was recently signed to host the Tamil version of this popular show.

Ever since Nagarjuna Akkineni tasted huge success with his stint as the host of ‘Meelo Evaru Korteeswarudu’, more stars are leaning towards trying their hand in TV shows.

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who is adored by his fans all over the world as ‘God of Cricket’, is creating phenomenal records at box office just like what he used to do on cricket field.

‘Sachin: A Billion Dreams’, a docudrama made on the former cricketer, has put up an unprecedented performance and collected around 27.60 crore in the opening weekend (10 crore on Sunday). The numbers are on par with those of medium range Bollywood heroes’ commercial films.

Considering that ‘A Billion Dreams’ was only a documentary, with no songs, comedy, dramatic presentation in the name of cinematic liberties or any commercial element for that matter, the film’s performance is exceptional. Documentaries generally have very limited audiences so the film’s huge success can be attributed to only one factor, Sachin’s name.

It is the first documentary to have got a mainstream release in India (in about 2400 screens). How well the film sustains in the week days will depend on how long Sachin can pull audiences to theatres.

After having been in pre-production stage for a long time, ‘Mahanati’, a biopic on legendary actress Savitri finally went on floors on Monday at Ramakrishna studios in Hyderabad.

To be directed by Nag Ashwin of ‘Yevade Subramanyam’ fame, Mahanati has Keerthy Suresh essaying the role of Savitri. Samantha will be seen as a journalist. Vijay Devarakonda has been roped in to play the love interest of Sam whereas Malayalam actor Dulquer Salman will reportedly play the character of Gemini Ganesan.

The story of Savitri is inextricably linked to Telugu legends – NTR and ANR. It has to be seen who the makers rope in for these roles.

Gorgeous actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu last night shared this picture featuring a two-piece bikini on her instagram page and created quite a storm.

Well, the pic doesn’t show the hot actress wearing the bikini but her action of sharing a bikini and letting her fans know that she will soon be leaving for a mini vacation, indicates that she will be heating up some Foreign beach in bikinis, possibly like Priyanka Chopra’s recent stunt of bikini parade across the beaches in the US.

Samantha’s bikini vacation will however be more private. As she couldn’t or isn’t allowed to share the pics wearing bikini, she conveyed the same message in implicitly. Sam’s vacation could be to celebrate the success of Naga Chaitanya’s latest release “Ra Randoyi”.

On the other hand, when a twitter user tried to give some gyan to Sam after watching her bikini pic, in return she taught him a lesson with a ‘slap in the face’ like tweet.

SS Rajamouli has made some shocking revelations during his magnum opus Baahubali films – Baahubali : The Beginning and Baahubali : The Conclusion – which were made over the period of 5 years (including its pre-production stages). While Anushka’s weight variation in Beginning and Conclusion has been subject of discussion, Rajamouli has finally opened up on the issue and set the record straight.

Letting the cat out of the bag, SS Rajamouli said that Anushka has drastically cut down through exercises after Size Zero and before the shoot of Conclusion. “In fact, Anushka had worked harder in the gym than her costars Prabhas, Rana. Usually, I get scared seeing the way Prabhas, Rana work out in the gym. But Anushka amazed me with her hard work. She did lose her extra kilos. One could see the scenes of Anushka and Prabhas’ arrow how slim she looks. But when she went to Romania for the shoot of a Tamil film. During then, she had a thigh injury in the extreme snow which she didn’t notice initially. But she later realised and doctor had advised her complete bed rest. During when, she gained her weight again as she couldn’t do exercises,” explains Rajamouli.

“That’s when Anushka put on kilos again. So, she looked different in a few other scenes. But when we are making such a huge film with large span, it’s difficult to maintain that uniformity,” adds Rajamouli.

Rumours and gossips are previously limited to only gossip columns on media websites and papers, but now every social media account of every citizen is becoming a hotbed for one such rumour. For example, take the case of Megastar Chiranjeevi secretly meeting Baahubalian director SS Rajamouli.

Of course, after the stupendous success seen by SS Rajamouli through Baahubali 2 success which grossed more than 1500 crores already, many star heroes and big wigs want to collaborate with him. And that led to bombarding of various new stuff like Jr NTR is desperate to work with Rajamouli, Hrithik Roshan wants Rajamouli for his next, Rajnikanth gave the nod to Rajamouli and then Chiranjeevi met him secretly.

Though Rajamouli is floating on cloud nine with the stupendous success of the movie and the way it recovered the whole investment of producers, he is not interested in meeting someone and discussing films. For now, Rajamouli is simply basking in the glory of the film’s Baahubalian success and just trying to get over the feeling of delivering India’s Industry Hit.

At the same time, Chiranjeevi is also busy with prepping himself for Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy role while in the evenings he’s looking at the progress of the film’s storyboard and other pre-production work. Sources close to the actor revealed that Chiranjeevi wished Baahubali 2 and Rajamouli through Konidela Production House’s PR network, but he hasn’t met Rajamouli or any Baahubali technician in person.

While Rajamouli is getting ready to fly off for an Australian vacation, Chiranjeevi is looking forward to becoming more fit and fab to play the role of the Rebel who stunned Britishers in their early ruling days in India.

Noted politician and film patron T Subbarami Reddy had some time ago created a flutter in Tollywood by announcing to make a film in the Mega combination of Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan. With no seeming progress on the project and the two Mega actors busy with their respective commitments, it was assumed that the proposed multistarrer might have been shelved. Well, it is not.

Subbarami Reddy, who has recently met Pawan and Trivikram on the sets of #PSPK25, has divulged that both Pawan and Chiranjeevi are very excited to act in his proposed multistarrer. ‘Presently, they are busy with their respective films but the story of their multistarrer is being readied. Trivikram will direct the duo once the they are available. I will make the film on a grand scale,’ Reddy said.

Even after the fresh confirmation, the materialization of this project still looks doubtful. Given that Megastar’s next is Uyyalawada, a historical film being planned on large canvas, he may be free only in the second half of 2018. Pawan will most probably get busy with politics by that time.

Mega fans however are keeping their fingers crossed for the happening of this biggest Mega family multistarrer.