Director Sreenu Vaitla has claimed that a film with Mahesh Babu is on cards. When asked about teaming up with Mahesh, Sreenu Vaitla said it’s there. Vaitla had earlier delivered blockbuster Dookudu with the star. However, their next collaboration Aagadu was a disaster and got a bad name both to the star and the director.

While Mahesh is quite busy and has a slew of commitments, Vaitla hopeful of teaming up with Mahesh is surprising many in film, media circuits. It’s buzzed that Mahesh may not team up with Sreenu anytime sooner unless Vaitla is back to success track.Meanwhile, Sreenu Vaitla seems to be in introspect mode. He opened up about the failure of Bruce Lee where he said that the film didn’t shape well as he had thought and said he couldn’t do much about it. Vaitla said that he learnt from his past.

He, however, said audiences love his comedy and expect humour from his films. So, he assured of delivering fine comedy in his films. He also said that he tried it in Mister as well and said Varun Tej did well in comic scenes although he did something like that for the first time.But the big question is will Vaitla team up with Mahesh again? Now, the ball is in Mahesh’s court.

The controversy on 64th National film awards is getting ugly. Filmmaker Priyadarshan, the head of the awards committee, is accused of handing the Best Actor award to his friend Akshay Kumar over actors such as Aamir Khan and Manoj Payee who delivered much better performances. Instead of lying low, Priyadarshan is intensifying this controversy with this bizarre statements.

When questioned why Aamir, who put up stellar performance in ‘Dangal’ was not chosen over Akshay for his average film ‘Rustom’, Priyadarshan reasoned that Aamir doesn’t attend awards so there was no need to give him one. ‘When his film ‘Taare Zameen Par’ was awarded in 2007, he didn’t even turn up for collecting the award,’ he said.

Talking about the snub that powerful performer Manoj Bajpayee received despite his heart wrenching performance in ‘Aligarh’, Priyadarshan brazenly said that Bollywood is making more films on homosexuality than on social issues. ‘Aligarh’ explores the relation between a gay professor and his student.The illogical reasons given by Priyadarshan are receiving flak from rational thinkers and movie lovers alike. Citing imbecile reasons for snubbing Aamir and Manoj only with the intention of giving award to his friend Akshay Kumar hasn’t gone well with Bollywood as well as South film fraternity.

Senior Tamil actor Raj Kiran has made some controversial comments against Megastar Chiranjeevi and Ram Charan that could damange the reputtion of the duo.It is known that Raj Kiran was the first choice to play the character of Charan’s grandfather in ‘Govindudu Andarivadele’. After canning certain parts, Raj Kiran was replaced with Prakash Raj. There were rumors spread at that time that Chiru was behind the replacement of the senior Tamil actor.

Now, more than two years later the film hit screens, Raj Kiran has divulged that he was disrespected by both Chiru and Charan by replacing him in the film without giving him any reason. He added that when director Krishna Vamsi narrated him the story, his character had more prominence than that of hero in the first half. ‘After Chiru watched the rushes, he felt that I dominated Charan hence they shortened the grandfather character and also replaced me,’ reportedly revealed Raj Kiran, who will next be seen in lead role in Dhanush’s directorial debut, ‘Pa Paandi’.

‘I wouldn’t have minded if I was personally explained about the situation. But, as I was waiting for the next schedule, they replaced me and didn’t even bothered to inform me. This is not the kind of treatment senior actors expect from Chiranjeevi. The producer still hasn’t settled my remuneration up to Rs 10 lakhs,’ he reportedly added.As the film’s producer, it was the responsibility of Bandla Ganesh to settle the monetary and other issues with Raj Kiran. As he allegedly didn’t do his job, Chiru will now have to bear the comments.

Sayyeshaa Saigal, who made an impressive debut in Tollywood with Akhil, failed to bag offers with the film turning out to be a dud. However, she moved onto Hindi and did Ajay Devgn’s Shivaay which again a failure. Yet it didn’t spoil her chances as she said to have a few projects in her kitty including a big Hindi film.The latest is that she has been roped in for a multistarrer in Tamil. She will be sharing screenspace with Karthi, Vishal. Titled as “Karuppu Raja Vella Raja”, this is going to be helmed by none other than Prabhudeva and it marks his return to Tamil cinema after seven-long years.

Sayyeshaa has already signed her Tamil debut where she is paired opposite Jayam Ravi in “Vanamagan”Prabhudeva has choreographed a song in “Vanamagan” and during the course he said to had impressed with Sayyeshaa’s dance, her work and have offered her female lead in his next.

It’s not clear whether she will pair up with Karthi or Vishal. The film is going to be launched on April 10. Since all the film’s cast Vishal, Karthi and Sayyeshaa are known to Telugu audiences and Prabhudeva himself made his directorial debut in Telugu, chances of dubbing the film into Telugu are high.

Director S.S. Rajamouli’s social media account on Twitter garnered three million followers on Sunday. The “Baahubali” series helmer has thanked fans for treating him as their family member.”Three million hearts… You loved me, praised me, supported me, criticised me, helped me, enlightened me, treated me as your family. Thank you,” the 43-year-old tweeted on Sunday.

In another tweet, he posted: “For those who like, for those who dislike. Please be who you are…I will be who I am.”He is also “very excited” for the Tamil audio release of his forthcoming film “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”.

The first part – “Baahubali: The Beginning” was also re-released in Hindi on April 7 by filmmaker Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.The second part in the franchise will hit the screens on April 28.

A post of Thaman on Twitter has the grapevine abuzz with speculation that he has been roped in as the music director for Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, Chiranjeevi’s 151st film.Thaman posted a photograph of his with director Surender Reddy and the cation “With my Kick and Race Gurram. What next?”

In all fairness, it was just a casual post by Thaman. But since Surender Reddy is currently ironing out the story for Uyyalawada and the confusion and uncertainty regarding the project, whther it wold actually be Chiru’s next project, the photograph of Thaman has only added to the confusion.

Chiru had actually wanted Thaman for his 150th but for some reason had to finally go along with a different music director.

Like it is being said already, mega brother Nagababu will be acting as a co-producer for Allu Arjun’s next film, Na Peru Surya- Na Illu India, which has Lagadapati Sridhar producing it and Vakkantam Vamsi debuting as director.

While it’s being said that Nagababu is partially bankrolling this project to revive his banner Anjana Productions, the inside story was said to be something else. Actually, this mega brother got completely bankrupt post Orange disaster and is in no position to invest crores of rupees. For that reason, Allu Arvind has come up with a mega strategy.

Actually, dates of Allu Arjun are given to Nagababu for free of cost and he’s now selling them to Lagadapati Sridhar for this film, revealed a source. In a way, Allu Arvind wanted to create some income for Nagababu and hence played this card. Earlier Mahesh Babu used to play the same card as most of his dates are always with brother Ramesh Babu and producers used to buy back from him. If the insider information is true, definitely it is going to be a ‘mega’ help for Nagababu from Allu family and he couldn’t ask for more.

According to new reports, Parineeti Chopra has a new boyfriend, and this time it’s an assistant director.If the grapevine is to be believed, Parineeti Chopra was in a relationship with her Ladies vs Ricky Bahl and Shuddh Desi Romance director Maneesh Sharma. But for unknown reasons, they called it quits and Pari was reportedly down in the dumps.

However, she rose from the ashes and channelled her sadness into getting fit and fine. Now, Filmfare reports that the actor has found love again, this time in an assistant director.Reportedly, Parineeti and her mystery man are smitten with each other and even went on a hush-hush romantic getaway together.

Incidentally, the Ishaqzaade actor was asked about her rumoured relationship with Maneesh on Koffee With Karan and she said, “The rumours of us dating have always been there. But I think they have died down now. Now the rumours say, she has broken up and is depressed and what not.”On the work front, Parineeti will be seen with Ayushmaan Khurrana in Meri Pyaari Bindu, which will hit theatres on May 12, 2017.The actor also made her singing debut in the film with Maana Ke Hum Yaar Nahin, which has received a thumbs up from all quarters.