That’s the piece of advice coming from Renu Desai for her son Akira Nandan who celebrates his birthday today. From her marriage to Telugu hero Pawan Kalyan earlier, Renu has a son named Akira and daughter Adya. Today (April 8th) as Akira turns 13, Renu’s social media post has stunned everyone.

While expressing her surprise for Akira turning 13 and also becoming 6-foot tall teenager, she stated it’s an overwhelming emotion for her. “I pray today that he carves a special and separate place for himself in this world and shines on his own rather than getting lost in the shadows of his parents”, she says.

But what shocked everyone is her next statement. She said, “I am confident that he will have his own identity and make his name as Akira Nandan and not Jr.Power star”. When many fans are expecting Akira to become Jr Powerstar one day like how Mahesh Babu became Jr Superstar and Ram Charan turned Jr Megastar, Renu’s statement is certainly confusing them.

Of course, her intention is true for sure, anyone should have an own identity rather dwelling in the shadows of their predecessors. But to become Jr Powerstar also, one should have own merit and talent.

Call it a birthday gift to the fans of Stylish Star Allu Arjun. Allu Arjun’s up next film to be directed by writer Vakkantham Vamsi has been announced officially. The film marks the directorial debut of Vamsi who has penned several powerful stories, scripts till date.

This is likely to be Allu Arjun’s 18th film. After his ongoing film Duvvada Jagannadham, Bunny is expected to team up with Linguswamy for a film.

It’s learnt that Vamsi has already locked the entire story and Bunny is quite impressed with it. The yet-to-be-titled film is going to be produced by Lagadapati Sreedhar and Bunny Vas. Interestingly, mega brother Nagendra Babu Konidela is presenting the film.

Meanwhile, the makers of Duvvada Jagannadham too prepping up to treat the fans of Allu Ajrun and stated that something special is awaiting on the eve of the star’s birthday on Saturday.

Chiranjeevi was the centre of attraction at the pre-release function of Mister. Besides showering praises and compliments, Mega Star has also cautioned his ‘son’ Varun Tej and asked him to strive hard without getting carried away with the support of the family and humongous fan base. “We’re all behind you. And fans are behind us. But always work hard and do justice to the opportunities that come your way,” Chiru advised Varun saying that only hard work matters.

Chiru further added that he was impressed with Varun’s performance in class film like Kanche and a mass one like Loafer. Chiru added that he’s confident that Varun would match up to Sreenu Vaitla’s comedy which has many fans.
Chiru also stated that the film is already half-successful with having experienced producers like Tagore Madhu and Nallamalapu Bujji with whom he share a special bond. Music composer Mickey J Meyer and beauties Lavanya Tripati, Hebah Patel too got place in Chiru’s praises. Chiru specially mentioned the names of writers Gopi Mohan and Sreedhar Seepana and thanked them for their contribution to the film. With this act, Chiru yet again proved that he values writers a lot and didn’t miss a single name or person on dais and gave credit to everyone.

Artist Surekha Vani, who is known to Telugu audiences as one of the potential and most recognized female character artists in Tollywood, has shared this lovely selfie on social media.

She captioned the pic, ‘Love to roll on bed’.

Today’s release “Cheliya” has evoked mixed response from both critics and audiences. While some liked the emotional love story in the film, many are disappointed with the lag in second half. However, there are two important scenes in the second half that are spoiled due to bad making.

The scene where heroine wears Cap of an officer, which is shown in the trailer also, is expected to have some patriotic touch. But it ended up as a bad scene as it is portrayed as a mere egoistic episode. Lovers of films like Roja and Bombay expected a patriotic and sentimental touch here, but that’s largely missing.

At the same time, there are scenes related to Pakistan flag and Afghanistan embassy and they went like a zap. Had Maniratnam dealt these scenes with much more detailing and layering, definitely, they would have created goosebumps. But with director Sir handling them in a simple tone, the film lost its direction midway.

Otherwise, Cheliya has some good moments where Maniratnam would have talked more about Kargil War’s popular officers like Nachiketa, a fighter pilot, who was caught by Pakistan as Prisoner Of War and later returned to Indian forces again.

Megastar Chiranjeevi has made his re-entry into films after a long gap and scored a brownie. His comeback movie Khaidi No. 150 became a 100+ crore hit at box office. At the same time, Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Gautamiputra Satakarni released amidst huge hype and the film thrilled history lovers. Guess what, there is a connectivity issue for both these heroes now.

Expected to take small screen by a storm, Chiranjeevi turned host for the latest season of Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu, but the stint has flopped big time. While programs like Jackpot are getting better ratings, MEK is failing to get 2+ TRP ratings, proving that Chiru’s charisma is ending for a disaster on small screen.

Other day when Gautamiputra Satakarni was screened on TV, the film got just 2.52 TRP ratings while it’s rival on other channel Satamanam Bhavati fetched 15.5+ TRP ratings. That proves all the hype and hoopla round Balayya’s movie during the time of release have failed to created sparks on TV. Well, where did our top heroes went wrong when it comes to TV? Why did they fail to connect with home audiences?

Some experts say, Chiranjeevi is in a hitch whether to be natural on TV or just act like he’s doing a silver screen. That’s not bringing the best out of his comedy timing, emotions and natural reactions. Coming to Satakarni, they say that already the film was watched by the maximum in theatres and all that hype didn’t long last that it will click on television.

Over the last couple of years, actor Vikram was quite impressive with first looks, teasers and trailers, but when it comes to film- he failed terribly. I, 10 Endrathukulla and Iru Mugan are the three films, released in 2015 and 2016, that failed to bring him success although his performances drew huge appraise.

In the recent past, the teaser of Vikram’s new film Dhruva Natchathiram, directed by Gautam Menon, invited stunning response from all over. And yet again, the actor is back with the first look of his new film Sketch (Chiyaan 53).

Already, few leaked pictures of Vikram are widespread on social media. The first official glimpse of the film has Vikram posing his four fingers in a spirited manner- which reminds us of his ‘Gemini’ (2002) look.

Directed by Vijay Chander, Sketch is being produced by Kabali fame S Thanu and it has Tamannah Bhatia playing the female lead. Thaman SS is scoring audio tunes.