Actor Rana Daggubati on Saturday remembered his iconic grandfather D. Ramanaidu, a very popular film producer, on his second death anniversary. He thanked him for teaching everything.

Naidu died after losing a long fought battle to prostate cancer.

“Thank you for teaching me everything I know. Thank you for looking out for me from the heavens above. Miss you more with each passing day,” Rana tweeted.

In his illustrious career lasting over five decades, Naidu produced over 100 films across multiple Indian languages.

Some of his best films include “Jeevana Tarangalu”, “Soggadu”, “Prem Nagar” and “Anari” among others.

Meanwhile, Rana is currently enjoying the successful run of his bilingual war drama “Ghazi”.

Failing to reach the expectations and enormous hype before the release, Superstar Rajinikanth’s Kabali failed to impress fans and audience when it reached theaters. The film ended up as a mediocre in Kollywood while it’s a disaster in Tollywood.

Director PA Ranjith received huge criticism from fans for failing to showcase Superstar in away they all wanted. But, the actor has no complaints against him and he’s in fact getting ready for another project with the young director. Yes…actor Rajinikanth, who is now filming for second installment of Shankar’s Robot (2 point 0), is likely to work with Ranjith again.

As per a source, Rajini gave nod to a mafia-based story that was narrated by Ranjith, although he failed to deliver him a super hit with Kabali. Touted to be rolled out by actor’s son in law Dhanush, under Wunderbar Films, the film is expected to hit floors in May this year. The principal part of photography of the untitled film will happen in Mumbai. In the meanwhile, the Superstar will finish off the shooting part of Robot 2.0 and completely devote his time for this film.

Given that Dhanush and Rajinikanth never shared screen space together, except for a little time in Kuselan song, one wonders if they both are going to seen in a single frame. However, more details about the project are expected to be revealed soon.

Move over from ‘Cheppanu Brother’ controversy. It seems to be turning into Number Brother as Bunny’s DJ scooter and Pawan Kalyan’s Gabbar Singh bike have same number plate.

While the number of Bunny’s Duvvada Jagannadham scooter is AP16EA2425, Pawan’s bike in Gabbar Singh is AP27GS2425. Both have “2425” in common. Apparently, ‘2425’ is Harish Shankar’s vehicle number.

Interestingly, the teaser of Duvvada Jagannadham is going to be released for Mahashivaratri coinciding with the muhurat of Gabbar Singh teaser that was also released for Mahashivaratri.

Director Harish Shankar, who is self proclaimed fan of PK, is leaving no leaf unturned to equate DJ as another Gabbar Singh for him, Bunny. Let’s wait and watch.

Taapsee Pannu has been in news ever since her last Bollywood release Pink did extremely well at box-office and fetched numerous awards. With that success, the Delhi-born diva has managed to capitalize and grab few more Hindi projects.

On top of it, she now got an opportunity to feature on February month’s FHM magazine cover wherein the actress is looking no less than a stellar. In the cover pictures, Taapsee’s lively and sizzling look make the photoshoot absolutely stunning.

The shockingly ‘poor’ box office collections for his latest offering Om Namo Venkatesaya has not just stunned trade experts but it even made the film’s lead actor Nagarjuna speechless.

Apparently, Nagarjuna was pretty confident on the film. Nag usually never makes over-the-top statements before a film’s release. But he was so confident on Om Namo Venkatesaya that he went onto state that it’d be his career’s best film till date.

Ahead of the film’s release, Nag also stated that he wasn’t tensed or feared for the first time in his career. Om Namo Venkatesaya is Nag’s 96th film and the actor is playing a mentalist in his next Raju Gari Gadhi-2, a horror thriller.

Meanwhile, from now on wards Nag wants to think twice before choosing appropriate release time for his films besides choosing good roles.

Rana Daggubati’s Ghazi has opened to good start. Thanks to unanimous reviews and good word-of-mouth from premieres, the underwater war drama clocked in good Day 1 numbers.

The film got 50 Lakh share in Nizam on the first day. Barring Baahubali, this is highest ever opening for Rana’s film in Nizam. The situation isn’t much different in Krishna, Guntur, Uttharandhra, West, East, Nellore and Ceded.

However, the figures from US and rest of US, Tamil Nadu, Hindi are due. It’s learnt that the film also clocked in good numbers in US. Meanwhile, as per the buzz, the second day said to have started strong note.

First Day Figures in Share

Nizam  – 50 lacs
Ceded  – 10 lacs
Nellore – 4.5 lacs
Guntur – 12.75 lacs
Krishna – 13.26 lacs
West     – 5.05 lacs
East       – 8 lacs
Uttharandhra – 18 lacs

Total 1st day AP & TG share 1.21cr

Recently, Shruthi Haasan was spotted with a mystery man in Mumbai airport and there were so many reports that Shruthi was dating this London based actor. But reacting strongly, Shruthi in an interview given to a daily said that the man in the discussions is just her good friend and all the so called reports going around are false.

Shruthi is one actress who does not have much link up rumours on her name as she is busy with so many films in hand. She is on top of her game with some plump projects in multiple languages like Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil.

Shruthi will next be seen in Pawan Kalyan’s Katamarayudu which will release this summer.

Today marks the second death anniversary of legendary filmmaker Dr. D Ramanaidu. On this occasion, his son and noted producer Suresh Babu interacted with the media and vowed to realize his father’s unfinished dream.

Suresh Babu said he will definitely produce his father’s dream project, a multi-starrer featuring his son Venkatesh and grandsons Naga Chaitanya and Rana Daggubati. Suresh Babu said he will announce the project at an appropriate time.

Krish is a talented director.. no one will have objections on this statement. When it comes to the commercial success, many opine that he could not make commercially successful films. But Krish proved that he can make commercial hits with Balakrishna’s 100th film Gautami Putra Shatakarni. He has also proved that the film makers can mint money at the box office with historical films.  Energized with the success of GPSK,  he went on to say that he will make two more historical films.

Krish talked about two subjects.. one is Sri Krishna Devaraya.. second is Gautama Buddha.  It is not that easy to make these films.  Let us keep Gautama Buddha movie aside for a while..Sri Krishna Devaraya project become a hot topic now. Because everybody started discussing about the actor who will play Sri Krishna Devaraya role.  Usually Balakrishna name comes into our mind if someone talks of such roles. Moreover, he has impressed the audience big time in Sri Krishna Devaraya role in Aditya 369 movie.  So it tough to see another hero in that role.

In such a situation, there are doubts that Krish must have planned his next film with Balayya. It is known that Krish – Venkatesh project has been cancelled.  Balayya not yet decided on his next project.  So.. Balayya – Krish combo is possible once again ? It is a tough question to answer. Balayya might not do experiments continuously. Similarly Krish would not want a stamp as Nandamuri family director.  So the million dollar question is .. Who is the Sri Krishna Devaraya in the mind of talented director ?

Hotshot music composer SS Thaman has worked with several leading heroes down South in his decade h long career. Thaman is now elated with the fact that he is finally going to team up with Tamil superstar Ilayathalapathy Vijay very soon.

In his recent interview, Thaman revealed that he had met Vijay recently and that the actor had told him that is a big fan of the songs he composed for Allu Arjun’s Race Gurram and Sarrainodu.

However, Thaman may have to wait for a while as Vijay’s ongoing movie in Atlee’s direction will have its music scored by AR Rahman.

Bollywood circles were abuzz with reports that Sai Ali Khan’s gorgeous looking daughter, Sara Ali will be making her Bollywood debut very soon. But nothing was confirmed from either side.

Now, Saif has confirmed his daughter’s entry through his latest interview. Speaking to a leading daily, Saif revealed that Sara will be making her debut in a Karan Johar production very soon.

Saif also added that Karan is the correct person for launching her daughter as he is a very intelligent filmmaker who understands films more than anyone else. Incidentally, Sridevi’s daughter, Jhanvi Kapoor is also being launched by Karan Johar himself.

CineGalaxy Inc; has got some very exciting news. The leading distributor of Indian cinema overseas is set to bring to you Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s most awaited film KATAMARAYUDU, to your closest theatres as a treat for the coming Ugadi, March 24th release tentaively.

The film marks the coming back of the blockbuster Gabbar Singh duo Pawan Kalyan and Shruti Haasan who are all set to recreate the magic of their pairing.

The film has been riding high on expectations with the actor’s first look and teaser trending online soon after release. In fact, the film’s teaser is one of the highest viewed and liked teasers for a south Indian film. Not just that, it also attracted highest number of viewers for a teaser on the date of release for a Telugu film.

Directed by Kishore Kumar Pardasany who earlier helmed PK’s Gopala Gopala, the film is touted to be a emotional tale complete with all sorts of commercial elements expected from a star of Pawan Kalyan’s calibre �€“ romance, drama, action and a lot more.

Pawan Kalyan has been one of the favorites for audience in the overseas market and with our desire to associate with the best of films, we will bring KATAMARAYUDU, to you soon.

Allu Arjun DJ First Look Poster

Aiming at March 24th release date, Pawan Kalyan has wrapped the whole of “Katamarayudu” shooting in no time and kept only two songs pending. But here comes a shocker.

Actually after watching the first copy of Katamarayudu immediately after returning from his USA trip, Pawan felt that few scenes haven’t turn out as good as expected. So he wants to reshoot those scenes now and organised 2 days of shoot. To get dates of all the stars including Shruti for this shoot became a tough task now. Still, Pawan wants reshoot.

Featuring Pawan and Shruti in the leads, Katamarayuud happens to be remake of Veeram movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gNi-jfXWLA

Many celebrities in Telugu cinema industry seems to have got excited watching Ghazi on big screens or at least heard a positive word about this path breaking film. Below are the few reactions from Indian cinema’s important people. Meanwhile Ghazi opened to good reviews with unique audience report.

Below are the few expressions found on Twitter:

Director Krish: Take a bow team #Ghazi n @ranadaggubati for making a thrilling n breathtaking entertainer, n pushing the envelope of Indian cinema further.

Nani: Congratulations Babai Rana Daggubati. Can’t wait to watch… #TheGhaziAttack

Raviteja: Wishing you huge success @RanaDaggubati for #Ghazi, hope it does well in all 3 languages. Super talk already, will watch it soon.

Ram: Watched #TheGhaziAttack last night! Fantastic!A film any actor would be proud of..Congratulations @RanaDaggubati @taapsee & the entire team.

Nikhil Siddhartha: A Bold move frm @RanaDaggubati to do #GhaziAttack and guess what… The Movie works and Beautifully… superb film with stellar performances

Samanta: Haven’t read such wonderful praise about a film in a while . Congratulations @RanaDaggubati and the entire team of #Ghazi

Naga Chaitanya: Team #Ghazi u make us proud… pushing Telugu cinema to a new space ! congratulations.. more like these have to be made @RanaDaggubati

Rakul Preet Singh: Salute frm a defence kid Capt Arjun @RanaDaggubati !#GhaziAttack shows ur passion 4 great cinema!A film dt every Indian shud b proud of!

Sumanth: Saw an engaging/purposeful first of its kind thriller #Ghazi last night. Well done! @RanaDaggubati @atul_kulkarni @PVPCinema & crew

Nitiin: Congratulations WAR STAR  @RanaDaggubati for the success of #ghazi hearing great things about the film… cant wait to watch it

Vishnu Manchu: Hearing fantastic reviews about #GhaziAttack. Congratulations @RanaDaggubati @taapsee. Must watch movie now.

Lakshmi Manchu: Yessssss!!! Celebration time! @taapsee @RanaDaggubati RT go this is amazing piece of work in theatres

Gopi Mohan: Congratulations @RanaDaggubati .Nice Performance. Perfect film. Kudos to Dir Sankalp.Excellent job.@Madhie work is Fantastic.Superb artwork. Good cinema lovers,Once again it’s time to prove that we encourage good films with great collections. More Ghazi’s will be made if we do so.

Lavanya Tripathi: Congratulations @RanaDaggubati and @taapsee for #Ghazi !! Hearing superb things abt the movie.. waiting to watch it

Sudheer Babu: #GhaziAttack is not a attack on Pakistan alone it’s a attack on regular format films congrats @RanaDaggubati  @taapsee & team

Does anybody believe this? Few students are worshipping anyone of a heroine every year on Valentines Day such that they could find a partner in 6 months and lose virginity in 1 year. Yes, it is happening.

Single students from Hindu College in Delhi are said to have undertaken a strange ceremony to lose their virginity. After conducting a poll, the hostel residents of this college have picked Loafer fame beauty Disha Patani over Nargis Fakhri, and adored a tree named ‘virgin tree’ with her sexy pictures. Later they worshipped her for an hour holding special pujas, Archana and haarathi as well.

Some people who know this happening revealed that every year first-year students of college perform this ritual on Valentines Day with a belief that they will find a partner soon and also lose their virginity. Only virgin boys are allowed to take part in this ritual, the source added.

“Every year we pick a heroine and make her or Damdami Mai and worship her. This year our seniors picked Disha Patani for us and we took part in the ritual” a student commented when a National TV channel interviewed them.

In the age where science is advancing like never before, one wonders what is this stupid belief in the name of losing virginity.

Recently news is everywhere that director Director Krish’s next film with Venkatesh got called off. It was said that there is some copyrights issue with the film and hence the Daggubati scion didn’t want to pursue it. Well, what is it anyway?

What is not known to many is that Krish got inspired from the novel “Athadu Adivini Jayinchadu” written by popular novelist Kesava Reddy in 1984. The novel deals with the story of a man who goes in search of his pregnant pig in a forest. As the whole timeline of the story is just between sunset to sunrise, the protagonist emerges with a new identity. Removing the pig element, Krish took the rest of story and crafted into his own idea with a view of buying rights for the novel anyway.

However, an award-winning documentary filmmaker named Dulam Satyanarayana has acquired the rights to the book much before. He’s planning to go to Cannes Film Festival in coming May and raise funds for the film’s production. Already he has scouted locations in Ontillu forest in Chittoor district and Dandakaranya in Adilabad for the film’s principal shooting.

Earlier when director Trivikram made “A..Aa” basing on Yeddanapudi Sulochana Rani’s “Meena” novel, he got trolled by everyone for not giving credits to the senior writer. Claiming that a technical glitch has missed out Sulochana Rani’s name, Trivikram added her name to title sequence from 3rd day of release. Keeping all these things in mind, hero Venkatesh don’t want to get into unnecessary copyright issues and plagiarism stuff, and hence asked Krish to drop off the project, says a source.

If that’s true, then Krish should have acquired copyrights well in advance.

Aamir Khan’s Dangal has not just smashed the Box Office records and bagged critical acclaim, the film’s powerful performances were equally talked about. After Aamir, the two people who were noticed were the girls who played the roles of Geeta and Babita.

Sanya Malhotra and Fatima Sana Shaikh are the girls who played Geeta and Babita respectively. Both Sanya and Fatima’s chemistry on screen got good applause and now their off-screen appearances too getting equal appreciation.

The latest photoshoot of Sanya and Fatima for Elle magazine has been getting wow response. Keeping their natural ‘androgynous’ style, yet the duo looked quite stylish.