Lawrence has earned good fan base in the Telugu states thanks to his successful ‘Muni’ series. As he came up with another horror mystery, Sivalinga, which released this Friday, audiences turned up at theatres with good expectations.

Sivalinga has reportedly taken a good start by minting Rs 1.65 Cr share on the first day. The decent reviews have helped the film to amass good revenues on the second day too. Ritika Singh, who was recently seen in ‘Guru’, also probed to be a crowd-puller for this horror film.

Below is the area wise breakup of Share:

Nizam – 48,00,000

Ceded – 32,00,000

Nellore – 5,67,995

Guntur – 16,14,584

Krishna – 13,20,205

West – 9,63,000

East – 15,00,000

Uttharandhra – 25,36,115

Total 1st day AP & TG share – 1.65cr

With Mister not showing any impact at box office, Sivalinga is expected to dominate until Baahubali arrives.

From Ram Gopal Varma to Gunasekhar to Krishna Vamsi to Puri Jagannadh to Sreenu Vaitla to VV Vinayak, many top directors who had once ruled the industry are now struggling to make a mark once again. Let alone making a mark, most of them are failing to even convince the audiences and make them hook to their seats in theatres.

The old-fashioned and old-schooled filmmakers often become monotonous and repetitive although mostly they’re unconscious of it. Especially when it comes to the scenes, they’re recurrent. In addition to it, people around them push into a pseudo state and create an illusion that audiences are wanting same – like comedy or family elements or love or action – from them. By the time everyone around him and he realise, the situation would be out of control. .

RGV

Trailblazer Ram Gopal Varma is also the starter of this ‘deteriorating’ trend. Varma, who had once delivered classics like Shiva, Satya, Rangeela, Sarkar, has lost his sheen. Perhaps, he is the only filmmaker who had made ‘n’ number of films inspired from The God Father. And his upcoming film Sarkar 3 is going to be another version of The God Father.

Gunasekhar

Although Guna got a commercial success with Rudhramadevi after a spree of flops, even Rudhramadevi has failed to impress critics. The film just sustained at the ticket windows due to its hype and thanks to Baahubali: The Beginning which paved a way for Rudhramadevi.

Krishna Vamsi

Vamsi’s last film that got both critical acclaim as well as commercial success was Chandamama way back in 2007. And it’s followed by Mahatma which is an okay film. Whereas Sasirekha Parinayam, Mogudu, Paisa, Govindudu Andarivadele have all poured cold water on the hopes.

Puri Jagannadh

Puri’s downfall started after Businessman. His list of flops include Devudu Chesina Manushulu, Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu, Iddarammayilatho, Jyothi Lakshmi, Loafer, Ism and the recent Rogue. While Heart Attack is average, Temper had a close shave. Thanks to Vakkantham Vamsi’s story and Jr NTR’s performance, Temper bailed out Puri. But his last offering Rogue has got severe backlash like never before. The film turned out to be one of the biggest disasters in his career. And it’s a total washout in the overseas market.

Sreenu Vaitla

Vaitla’s flop streak began with Aagadu. This is continued with Bruce Lee and his latest film Mister received severe bad talk on social media. The latest talk in industry circles is that no one would dare to work with Vaitla after back-to-back duds. As he failed to use the opportunities come his way, looks like, going gets though for him in the future.

VV Vinayak

Vinayak too falls into this category as the director hasn’t made anything interesting. Of course, Chiranjeevi’s comeback and landmark Khaidi No.150 is an exception. While a major part of the credit goes to Chiru, the remaining part goes to the original film Kaththi. His Badrinath, Alludu Seenu, Akhil have failed to impress. It’s time for Vinayak to look out for good scripts.

PS: However, not everything is wrong in them. All they need is to realise their mistakes and correct themselves immediately to bounce back. At the same time, they need to update themselves. It’s better late than never. Directors like Rajamouli, Trivikram and Boyapati still hold the grip – of course, they have their own limitations, mistakes!

Legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja has been scoring music for films for four decades. His son, Yuvan Shankar Raja has been active for two decades. Now, for the very first time, the duo will be working together on a film.

As per reports, the father-son duo have joined hands to compose songs and background score for a new Tamil film to be directed by Seenu Ramasamy. The film will be produced by Yuvan himself on YSR Studios banner. Vijay Sethupathi is likely to play the lead role.

Ilaiyaraaja and Yuvan working together is truly a great news for their fans and music lovers.

After receiving a set back in form of Sreenu Vaitla, Varun Tej seems to have learnt a tough lesson. Varun so far worked with only top and established directors right from the beginning of his career in 2014. He worked with Srikanth Addala, Krish Jagarlamudi, Puri Jagannadh and now Sreenu Vaitla for Mister. Even for his next, he started working with Sekhar Kammula.

It’s buzzed that Varun has given his nod for a newcomer director. This will be his up next film after Sekhar Kammula’s Fidaa. Tipped to be a youthful romantic entertainer, the film is going to be produced by BVSN Prasad.

Varun is quite confident on this new film. The young filmmaker has been traveling with Varun for a while and it will soon be materialised. Varun is now wanting to do more and more love stories and planning to position himself as a lover boy. While Fidaa is also going to be a love story set in the United States with Sekhar Kammula’s trademark style, the actor is gearing up for yet another love story with a debutant director.

Let’s see how Varun would overcome the shock given by two big directors Sreenu Vaitla and Puri Jagannadh (Loafer) consecutively.

Former heroine, who has worked with many biggies and even did special songs, is in a tight spot. It’s rumoured that the actress is going through a difficult phase as she’s said to be down financially. It’s buzzed that she has sold of her own house and recently moved into a smaller house recently. Earlier, she has run a pre-school and now there’s no buzz about it. Looks like she has given up that as well.

As she is all set for her comeback with home production, the actress is said to have sold of her properties and funded the film. The film has been completed and gearing up for release. While she’s returning with a horror film which will see her in a never-seen-before role, the actress has also signed a couple of other films and hoping to make a grand comeback.

Hope she’ll soon overcome this phase and enthrall everyone like before.

It’s not once or twice but thrice a debut film of this aspiring director is shelved. One wonders it is keeping on happening, thought such shelving debut films is not new to Tollywood.

The guy we are talking about is MVN Reddy, who has got his film with Allu Sirish launched last year but now the film is completely shelved as far as the news comes. Actually, MVN Reddy is known in the film industry as Venu Mallidi and first, he kick-started a movie with Nitin which was supposed to be his debut film. Later Nitin dropped that project and then he started a movie with Ram as well only to scrape it off later. And now, Allu Sirish has also dropped the film of Venu, making it a hat-trick of call-offs for the director. Oh my god!!

Geetha Arts camp sources revealed that Venu’s project needs some extensive visual effects and due to budget issues they have called off the project. Budget issues for Geetha Arts, really?

Anyway, we have guys like Puri Jagan whose debut film with Superstar Krishna got shelved just after four days into the shoot, and the Puri went on becoming a star-director later.

Stylish star Allu Arjun, who played the character of a military guy in his last film “Sarrainodu”, is reportedly once again essaying a military man in his new film.

Noted writer Vakkantham Vamsi, who is making his directorial debut with Bunny’s next film, ‘Na Peru Surya Naa Illu India’, has reportedly etched a character having some sort of association with military. The film will revolve around a big war episode. Unlike Sarrainodu, this film will contain some scenes in the military backdrop, as per media reports.

Vamsi is currently busy with the casting process. Major technicians have already been roped in but heroine is yet to be finalized. Shoot of the film is expected to commence from June, after Bunny wraps up DJ. Naga Babu and Lagadapati Sridhar are jointly producing this big budget action entertainer.