On the occasion of 23rd anniversary of “Hello Brother” movie (April 20th, 1994), Nagarjuna’s humongous fanbases are seen celebrating the event. However, the thing that is to be noticed here is the posters of this superhit movie which might worry star heroine Samantha now.

At the time when 1-Nenokkadine posters have come out, where Kriti Sanon is seen crawling on the beach at Mahesh Babu’s feet, Samantha termed it as a ‘regressive’ thing. And now when Nagarjuna’s fans are busy sharing the poster of Hello Brother once again on their fan pages, the poster where Soundarya seen holding a leg of Nagarjuna reminded everyone of Sam’s comments.

Will Samantha now makes some comment on her soon-to-be Mavayya’s super hit film poster? On wonders, if she terms even these posters as regressive or will she just pass them for once as they belong to her family member.

Anyway, the portrayal of women in films is always debatable especially that of heroines in commercial movies. Some say they are being objectified, while others feel that it’s romance. But posters like this where a girl holds boy tightly and both holding one another like a prized procession are common sightings.

Okay, we have worked on Baahubali, please find our name in the end credits roll— except this what could the technicians and crew working on Baahubali project could say to others in the future?

Film industry often celebrates success meets but only heads of departments, key actors and technicians will get the shields inscribed with their names. Taking all these things into consideration, Baahubali team has now come up with a unique idea to make everyone involved in this fabulous journey happy.

Other day Baahubali producer Shobu, Prasad and director Rajamouli have given “Certificates of Appreciation” to all the people who have worked on Baahubali for its two parts. From visual effects teams to digital marketing groups, from technical assistants to other major contributors, everyone involved with the film’s production got these certificates.

Also, like the way school children will take a group photograph will all classmates, class teacher and principal, Rajamouli and his producers have posed similarly with various teams.Definitely, these certificates will stand as a huge memorable in time and will leave a long-lasting impact even in the hearts of those receivers. Good job!!

Earlier there used to be one feeling in filmmakers that Megastar Chiru is the perfect decision maker when it comes to selecting right stories. Those stories rejected by all and picked by Chiru have proved their mettle at the box office. Also, there are those that didn’t impress Chiru but he picked them for directors and those films failed commercially.

That’s the reason even many of Ram Charan’s films are taken care of by Chiranjeevi at the editing table as well. Those that got his sign of approval always clicked at the box office. But coming to the young mega clan, including Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan, Varun Tej, Sai Dharam Tej and also Sirish, these young heroes are not having such meticulous story picking abilities. Many of their own selection choices ended up as duds at box office.

But Allu Arjun is proving to be different from all the mega heroes. Though many heroes said no to Sarrainodu story, he picked it up and made 70+ crores hit. Rejected by top heroes, he dared to do a cameo as Gona Gannareddy and literally saved the whole of Rudramadevi movie. For Vedam, he knows it is an experiment and it failed as he expected.

Looking at these happenings, should we not say that Allu Arjun has emerged as next Best Decision Maker among all mega heroes? If DJ Duvvada Jagannadam to succeeds at the box office, a story that Harish Shankar narrated to many before Bunny, then this mega hero’s true abilities will be understood.

After having stupendous success in its first five editions, the South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) is entering into its sixth year. To commemorate this significant achievement, SIIMA has a latest addition its sixth edition – SIIMA 2017 is going to have SIIMA Short Film Awards, a special initiative to recognise and acknowledge the talent in short films segment.

SIIMA Short Film Awards will be given in 8 categories for all South Indian languages. And it’s going to honour the short filmmakers and acknowledge their efforts to churn out interesting content in short film segment.

This is not all. SIIMA hasn’t just limited it to award the winners. But the winners will also be given a chance to meet and pitch their ideas to film stars at the SIIMA 2017 main event. And needless to add that this is a golden opportunity for the aspiring filmmakers.

“Over the last two years more and more aspiring filmmakers are taking to internet to show their talent and we’ve observed a trend of short filmmakers becoming highly successful filmmakers. We at SIIMA would like to take this opportunity of tapping the right talent at the right time and provide them a platform where the world will recognise them,” the organisers of SIIMA said in a statement.

Talking about SIIMA Short Film Awards, Adusumilli Brinda Prasad Chairperson of SIIMA said that it’s an attempt to discover young filmmakers who are set to change the dynamics of filmmaking with their fresh thoughts and techniques.

Well, after several months, here is the new development we learned for the most-anticipated sequel to Universal Hero Kamal Hassan’s Viswaroopam.

As the financial problems for ace producer Aascar Ravichandran impacted the highly anticipated Viswaroopam-II, fans of Kamal Haasan were left with very little amount of information regarding the project. The film, which was almost shelved and delayed multiple times in last two+ years, is finally being revived and getting ready for release in all languages.

The latest reports suggest that the dubbing activity, including Telugu and other versions, is currently underway and the final copy is expected by October this year.

Touted as a spy thriller, Viswaroopam-II is speculated to have strong mother sentiment and top-notch action episodes. It’s been 4 years since first installment of Viswaroopam strode into cinemas and most of the cast reunited for second part as well. In the meanwhile, Kamal walked over to Sabash Naidu and discontinued after he fractured his leg in July last year.

It can be recalled about the fantabulous success of its first part after a series of controversies including an outrage from a religious group.

Apparently, Jr NTR’s latest movie “Jai Lava Kusa” team is braving hot sun as well to wrap the shooting schedules on time. With NTR playing three different roles in the movie, an extensive work is required to carve out the film much to tastes of audiences.

At the same time, director KS Ravindra has roped in happening beauties like Rashi Khanna and Nivedha Thomas as leading ladies of the movie. We hear that a Telugu girl is now roped in to do a cameo and her role was already shot.

Post the success of Prema Katha Chitram, Telugu girl Nanditha was expected to roar in Tollywood but flop show of films like Savitri has slowed her down heavily. We hear that she will play a 5-minute role in Jai Lava Kusa and it’s very crucial to the film. Already she has shot for her portions and everyone including NTR and producer Kalyan Ram are super impressed with her work.

In his previous film Janata Garage, Kajal did a cameo through item song and that worked well both for film and also her career. Hope Nanditha will also meet similar fate now.

After making her debut with Krishna Gaadi Veera Premagadha movie, heroine Mehrene Kaur Pirzada has shot to fame immediately, thanks to her good PR team. In no time, she signed a horde of movies or at least in talks for half-a-dozen films. But here comes the shocker.

As per reports coming up from Film Nagar, this young beauty is now losing offers quickly as there is no clarity about adjusting dates from her. Firstly she was supposed to pair up with Allu Sirish in a movie but that film got other heroines now. Then she was in talks with Nitin for Krishna Chaitanya’s upcoming directorial, which has Trivikram as the producer, but they too opted for another one.

More than these unconfirmed projects, actually it was confirmed long back that newcomer Venky Atluri’s debut film with Varun Tej will have Mehrene playing the lead role. But latest reports indicated that she’s out of this project too. The makers are searching for another face, a slim girl most probably, both Rashi Khanna and Anu Emmanuel are said to be in the race.

Cut to the point, losing three happening projects back to back is surely a big jolt to Mehrene. Currently, she’s shooting for Raviteja’s Raja The Great in Darjeeling under Anil Ravipudi’s direction.