Charan appeared in his beardy look at many recent filmy events and though many expected it to be the look for Sukumar’s directional, here comes out the real look. There is a leaked picture from the shooting spot of the film from Rajahmundry, where in Charan is seen as pure village chap.
The attire and beard suited Charan very well and only Sukumar knows why he wanted Charan in that look.
Veteran director Mani Ratnam’s latest offering ‘Cheliyaa’ opened to below par reviews and disappointing box office numbers in the Telugu states.
The romantic drama starring Karthi and charming Aditi Rao Hydari could rake in only a meager share of Rs 60 lakhs in the Telugu states.
Below is the area wise break-up of share.
Nizam – 22,00,000
Ceded – 10,00,000
Nellore – 2,75,000
Guntur – 4,50,000
Krishna – 4,81,000
East – 5,50,000
West – 3,70,000
Uttharandhra – 6,50,000
Total 1st day AP & TG Share – 60 lakhs
Although the film was praised for its astounding visuals and technical finesse, the dull screenplay made the film a tiring watch. The IPL fever and the strong run of Guru might also prove deterrents for Cheliyaa at box office.
While Bollywood star actor Akshay Kumar is riding high after winning national award in best actor category for his performance, in Ruston, there have been speculations doing rounds about the actor that he offered some kickbacks to the jury in order to receive the national award.
>Excited about award, Akshay expressed his contentment saying, ‘National award is highly prestigious for any film actor in India. Like everyone else, I too worked very hard to achieve it but I didn’t believe it immediately.’ The actor said he thought he was being April fooled about award-win.
While responding to rumors about bribing jury members, the actor took to media and clarified that he did not make any kind of contributions to win the award. ‘I neither phoned nor bribed anyone to get this award. Even in the past, I was offered an award prize as compensation to my stage performance- but I denied it outrightly.’
On other hand, chairperson of feature film section for national awards – Priyadarshan expressed his displeasure saying ‘I don’t understand why is everyone questioning Akshay’s award win?’
On the acting front, the Khilladi star is currently shooting for Neeraj Pandey’s Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and wrapping up Shankar’s ‘Robot 2.0’ where he’s playing antagonist role opposite Rajinikanth.
It is quite often that people in country make Bollywood responsible for growing attacks on women and eve-teasing but this time, it’s union minister for woman and child development – Menaka Gandhi, who made those sensational comments against Hindi film industry.
Menaka Gandhi, who attended as speaker on day-2 of Goa-Fest 2017, delivered a key message that ‘push woman through advertising’, besides taking a swipe at Bollywood Industry for generating content which is leveraging youngsters in nation to harass women in the name of love and Eve teasing.
‘Almost every Hindi film features an Eve teasing scene, objectionable content and boys pestering girl scenes. Even regional film makes no exemption to it,’ she said by adding ‘we would want Bollywood films to showcase our women in a respectable manner.’ Apparently, her comments drew mixed reactions from Bollywood industry.
Film director and social activist Ashok Pandit strikes back saying, ‘it has become fashion for everyone to attack Bollywood’ and appealed union minister not to under-estimate the power of film industry. He further added, ‘we had many directors right from Shyam Benegal to Madhur Bhandarkar who’ve always presented women respectable roles and made female-oriented films too.
Although National Awards in India cover wide range of categories, from best actor to best make-up artist and from best film to best costume designer, but they always missed to include an important category in list of awards – Best stunt choreography.
Only after continuous demand from fight masters over last few years, the jury team considered to perceive their request this year and recognized their efforts by introducing a new category in the 64th national film awards – Best Stunt Choreography.
Having declared the choreography award to India’s No.1 Peter Hein for Pulimurugan (Malayalam), the jury recognized his talent. Peter worked for many monstrous movies in the past, like Baahubali and Robot, but he finally received a national award for Puli Murugan starring Mohanlal.
The high ratings and critical reception for the film Puli Murugan also credit the top-notch action episodes designed by Peter Hein. And it is no surprise to have awarded him the very first national award (in stunt choreography category).
The demand for Bharata Ratna award to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao picked up momentum at a time when the AP leaders take up with the centre the issue of honoring Telugu film matinee idol and TDP founder President NT Rama Rao with the highest civilian award in the country.
KCR Bharata Ratna Banao Abhiyan Organisation said KCR deserved such great honour as he was the only leader realized the dreams and aspirations of 4 crore people in Telangana.
The organization has taken up one crore signature campaign and submit the same President Pranab Mukherjee requesting him to consider the demand to award Bharata Ratna to KCR.
Venkatesh’s ‘Guru’ held pretty strong over the week days and posted a decent first week total in the Telugu states.
As its competitors Katamarayudu and Puri’s ‘Rogue’ failed to make any impact, Guru enjoyed maximum foot falls. The first gross is reportedly Rs 19cr approx. and Share is about 12.4 Cr.
Below is the area wise break-up:
Nizam – 4,25,00,000
Ceded – 1,52,00,000
Nellore – 31,00,000
Guntur – 82,17,158
Krishna – 96,41,659
West – 54,00,000
East – 95,00,000
Uttharandhra – 1,54,86,457
Total 1st week AP & TG Share – 10.91cr
Karnataka – 90,00,000
Remaining – 60,00,000 (estimated)
Total 1st week Worldwide Share – 12.41cr
As this week’s release ‘Cheliyaa’ failed to meet the expectations, Guru is expected to have one more week of unopposed run at box office before Varun Tej’s ‘Mister’ arrives on April 14.
Popular Hindi filmmaker Karan Johar, who is known for his business acumen, looks to have come up with a plan to leverage the Baahubali craze.
It is known that the Hind version of ‘Baahubali’ first part was re-released by Karan Johar on 7th April in around 1000 screens. Given how eagerly people are waiting for the second part, getting tickets on the first few days will surely be difficult. In such case, movie lovers won’t mind coughing up more than deserved bucks to grab the tickets.
To take full advantage of this craze for Baahubali 2, Karan Johar has announced that whoever watches the re-released Baahubali in theatres, will surely be given tickets of ‘Baahubali 2’. The madness for ‘Baahubali 2’ might propel people to watch the first part once again in the hope of grabbing tickets of second part.
Apparently, Johar has not specified whether the tickets will be given on the first day? after first weekend? or after more than a week? Without making this clear, he has announced to give away Baahubali 2 tickets on the only condition of watching first part. Isn’t this an act of preying upon people’s emotions? Isn’t this plain looting?
In its bid to curb the uncountable channels that are being created in the hope of earning easy money, popular video sharing medium YouTube has come up with strict rules.
From now on, Newly created channels will have to get a minimum of 10,000 lifetime views before they can start earning money through adverts on their channels. Once a channel hits the 10,000 views mark, YouTube will evaluate whether the particular channel is adhering to its guidelines before considering it for its Partner Program. YouTube said that the new rules will help it restrict content theft and fake channels.
“Publishers are increasingly going to spend their money on digital so they are going to be asking for more in terms of their ads appearing alongside the right content. These new guidelines will help ensure revenue only flows to creators who are playing by the rules,” said YouTube in a blog post.
Successful producer Dil Raju, whose spirits have been down ever since his wife passed away last month, said that the National Award for his film has reinforced his energy.
Speaking to media after his production venture ‘Sathamanam Bhavathi’ was bestowed upon with the ‘Best Feature Film providing Wholesome Entertainment’ award at the 64th National Film Awards, Dil Raju said that it was not just any award but an energy booster and a responsibility for him.
‘I had been trying to come out of the grief for the past one month and this award came as a blessing to revive myself. This is the first national award in my 14 years of film making journey. I will take it as a responsibility and will try to make better and better films in future,’ added Dil Raju.
Earlier, classics like Shankarabharanam and Geetanjali were recipients of the same award.
