The High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states have sent notices to the producers of Gautamiputra Satakarni and Rudhramadevi. Acting on a PIL (Public Interest Litigation), the High Court asked the producers to file a counter within two weeks.

The petitioner argued that the Entertainment Tax exemption given to the films by the state governments should belong to the public exchequer and asked the court to look into the matter. The petitioner has cited the Tamil Nadu High Court’s verdict regarding the tax exemption to a film as the example.

Satakarni producers Rajeev Reddy, Saibabu and Rudhramadevi producers Gunasekhar and Raagini Guna have been named by the petitioner as the respondents. While Satakarni had received exemption from both the Telugu states, Rudhramadevi had been waived off the E.T only by the Telangana state government.

Both the films were historical films that have significance with rich culture, heritage of Telugus. And interestingly both the films were commercial success at the Box Office. It has to be seen how the respondents would justify the tax waive off and at the same time, how the state governments would justify the act.

After the success of ‘Sarrainodu’, Tamil hero Aadi Pinisetty has found new craze in Tollywood. Although he was earlier seen in a handful of direct and dubbed films playing lead roles, it was the villain role in Sarrainodu that cast a magical spell on his career.

As per latest reports, Aadi has been signed by Trivikram to play the main baddie opposite Pawan Kalyan in his new film. Reportedly, when Aadi was offered the film, he couldn’t say no to a project as big as this. Moreover, Trivikram has designed a sophisticated yet ruthless character for him which has great scope for performance.

Aadi will be next seen playing a crucial role in Nani’s new film ‘Ninnu Kori’. He was also roped in to play the antagonist in Ram Charan’s new film to be directed by Sukumar. The young lad looks to have an impressive line up of films in Tollywood.

Interim, the regular shoot of Pawan’s film in Trivikram’s direction is scheduled to commence from next week. Keerthy Suresh and Anu Emmanuel will play the leading ladies of Pawan.

Superstar Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar’s upcoming science fiction visual spectacle ‘2.0’ may reportedly have more surprises than what one could expect from this Shankar directorial.

As per latest reports. Rajini will be seen in 5 different characters in the film. He will play scientist Vaseekaran, a Robot, a Villain and two more intriguing characters. Watching Rajini in one character itself gives goosebumps to his fans. Imagine the euphoria this film can create.

On the other hand, Bollywood hero Akshay Kumar, who is playing the villain role, will reportedly be seen in 12 distinct looks including that of a villainous crow, which was already unveiled by the makers. It is heard that Akshay will be having more importance than Rajini in this Rs 400 Cr visual epic.

Amy Jackson also is playing a robot in ‘2.0’, which is slated for worldwide release fro Diwali, 2017.

Producer Raj Kanduri, who scored the biggest small budget blockbuster in the recent times with ‘Pelli Choopulu’, has taken up another interesting project as his next film.

Titled “Mental Madhilo”, the romantic comedy will feature Sree Vishnu in lead role and it is being directed by Vivek Athreya. ‘Manavi Aalakincharadate’ is the tag line. Shooting is currently under progress. The film’s first look is released now.

Devi Sri Prasad’s walkout from Gautamiputra Satakarni had been talked about. And there had been several speculations over Krish replacing Devi with Chirantan Bhatt. However, after the film went onto become highest-ever grosser in Balakrishna’s career, this issue had been dropped by media, others.

But in a latest revelation, director Krish has opened up about the issue and what exactly went wrong. In fact, taking many by shock, Krish admitted his mistake and cited ‘lack of time’ as the reason. He said that it was decided only after proper understanding and Devi was conveyed about the same which he said to had taken it in his stride.

Krish said that he was busy and he couldn’t travel often to Chennai where Devi is based out of and he was also running out of time as the film had to hit the screens for Sankranti and in between, he had planned to tie the knot. So Krish said that amidst all this, he couldn’t accommodate Devi for the project and stated that he would take the total blame for it.

Krish also heaped praises on Chirantan who proved his talent in a very short span of time. “Since I already worked with Chirantan, I had great belief on him that he’d make it on time and he did deliver his best. If wee see the film’s background score, he nailed it,” said Krish. The acclaimed director also credits veteran lyricist Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry for his praise-worthy lyrics for the songs.

Very rarely we do see married actresses shedding that weight after pregnancy! But actress Sneha, who’s tied knot with actor Prasanna, successfully underwent some weight loss and grabbed opportunities in like Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam as well. Although she bulked up a bit after conceiving her child, she managed to cut down over-weight over the time.

But now, the 35-year old actress is further working hard to shed around 10 more kilos for her upcoming Malayalam project. Thani Oruvan fame Mohan Raja, who is making a multi-starrer Malayalam film with Siva Karthikeyan and Fahad Fazil, has picked up Nayanathara and Sneha as leading ladies.

Titled Velaikkaran, the film marks the second collaboration of Fahad Fazil and Sneha while they first acted together for Pramani in 2010. But, the film had very few scenes involving them.

So, in order to match herself alongside Fahad now, Sneha is busily working out to kick off the extra flab accumulated during her pregnancy. The actress already managed to shed 7 kilos and is taking up rigorous exercises to become more fit. So, let’s hope Sneha’s slimmer look will be loved by her fans and audiences.

After waiting for more than a decade, the fans of Pawan Kalyan had full satiation by watching their favorite actor’s mass entertainer ‘Gabbar Singh’ (2012). Ever since, their wait continues for another such film.

Although Pawan scored industry hit with Attharintiki Daredi (2013), it was a family entertainer. Later, the matinee idol had two other big opportunities in the form of ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’ and ‘Katamarayudu’ to satisfy his huge mass fan base. Unfortunately, the former ended up as a disaster and the latter is reportedly on its way to become another disappointment.

These two films had high expectations and immense potential but the lazy screenplay in the case of former and the tags of ‘routine’ and ‘remake’ in the case of Katamarayudu killed the prospects of both action entertainers.

Pawan’s next film, a Trivikram directorial, has the actor playing a software engineer. Trivikram’s films generally cater to all sections of audiences, mainly family. Fans can expect a power packed entertainer this time but not a typical mass entertainer given Pawan’s character, IT analyst.

Next in the line is ‘Vedhalam’ remake, which is another mass entertainer. But, the remake tag is again a big hurdle for the movie. As the 2019 elections are also approaching, how many more movies Pawan will do is a moot question. ‘Can we see Pawan again in a feisty mass film?,’ wonder Pawan fans.

Known is that hunk hero Prabhas will be featuring in youngster Sujith’s upcoming movie whose shooting already got started. Their plan is to release a teaser of the movie along with Baahubali: The Conclusion such that audience will know what to expect from Prabhas’ next.

And Prabhas is not taking it easy when it comes to standing by his words that he will at least do two films a year from now onwards. Reports are coming out that he has picked up a young Tamil director who made two dashing movies that have stunned Tamil box office and also impressed Telugu folks.

Other day at both Ramoji Film City and also at the pre-release party, director Atlee made his presence felt in Hyderabad. He’s the one who made films like Raja Rani whose melodic love story created a storm, while his action film Theri with Vijay has simply shocked all the action lovers. With him not attending any other function in Tollywood post the success of those films and only attending Baahubali 2 event, there seem to be something to read between the lines.

Otherwise, what is the connection between Atlee and Rajamouli that the young director attended the event? We have to wait for a while to know what is really cooking.

From the past few days, active discussions on social media have been happening over Stylish Star Allu Arjun contemplating on replacing his title card with ‘Mega Stylish Star’.

Going by the word of reliable sources, these proved to be nothing but baseless rumors taken birth during the discussions of some mega fans.

Allu Arjun’s rising popularity has become a concern for some mega fans in the recent years. The actor allegedly setting up separate Allu Fans groups has intensified the insecurity of mega fans. A sort of alleged cold war is also under progress between Allu fans and mega fans.

Suddenly, rumors started spreading that in his bid to pacify the mega fans, Bunny has decided to get the ‘Mega Stylish Star’ title and come back under the mega family tree.

Well, Bunny has always been a loyal to Mega family, especially megastar. He never forget to sing praises of megastar at any platform. The actor has surely got embroiled in a few unnecessary controversies with certain mega fans but he hasn’t made any significant effort to distance himself form mega family.

Moreover, he himself is a star now, probably a bigger star than his contemporaries in neighboring states. He really doesn’t need to change his title to ‘Mega Stylish’. So, he will remain ‘Stylish Star’ Allu Arjun as he has been before.

Its three days since the release of Pawan Kalyan’s Katamarayudu and trade experts are predicting that the action entertainer will be another loss venture for buyers. Well, Katamarayudu could have become a profitable venture with proper planning.

Katamarayudu has reportedly generated a weekend share of around Rs 35 Cr (from 2 telugu states) which is not a mean task. Given that Pawan Kalyan’s films pull crowds to theatres for at least two weeks notwithstanding the odds, Katamarayudu may have decent run, if not exceptional until another potential film hits screens.

Even the biggest debacle of Pawan, Sardaar Gabbar Singh collected around Rs 50 Cr share. Pawan is the only star whose films run for a few weeks even with disaster talk whereas the films of his competitors, falls flat on their faces on the first day itself in case of disaster word of mouth, say trade experts.

Given these statistics, Katamarayudu may end up around 50 crore share in the worst case scenario. While 50 Cr is considered landmark for some heroes, Pawan’s films are called disasters given the sky high pre-release businesses.

The budget of Katamarayudu was said to be close to Rs 20 Cr to 25 Cr, barring Pawan Kalyan’s remuneration. There is no other big name involved in the film except Shruti Haasan. The film was intended to be a compensatory project for Sardaar buyers but the makers once again repeated their mistake and sold the rights to humongous Rs 85 Cr.

Given the meager budget involved in the making, had the makers sold the rights for affordable prices, Katamarayudu would have been a safe if not profitable venture. The over-enthusiasm of buyers is also a reason for escalating pre-release businesses of biggies.

Buyers must also administer caution while acquiring rights for unrecoverable prices. There is no use crying and protesting after films flop at box office.

From the past few days, active discussions on social media have been happening over Stylish Star Allu Arjun contemplating on replacing his title card with ‘Mega Stylish Star’.

Going by the word of reliable sources, these proved to be nothing but baseless rumors taken birth during the discussions of some mega fans.

Allu Arjun’s rising popularity has become a concern for some mega fans in the recent years. The actor allegedly setting up separate Allu Fans groups has intensified the insecurity of mega fans. A sort of alleged cold war is also under progress between Allu fans and mega fans.

Suddenly, rumors started spreading that in his bid to pacify the mega fans, Bunny has decided to get the ‘Mega Stylish Star’ title and come back under the mega family tree.

Well, Bunny has always been a loyal to Mega family, especially megastar. He never forgets to sing praises of megastar at any platform. The actor has surely got embroiled in a few unnecessary controversies with certain mega fans but he hasn’t made any significant effort to distance himself form mega family.

Moreover, he himself is a star now, probably a bigger star than his contemporaries in neighboring states. He really doesn’t need to change his title to ‘Mega Stylish’. So, he will remain ‘Stylish Star’ Allu Arjun as he has been before.

Director Puri Jagannadh has got a shocker in form of the regional Censor Board. The steamy liplock scenes that we have seen in the trailers and promo songs are now scissored.

Whoever witnessed the sizzling chemistry of Mannara and Ishan thought it’d be an eye-feast since Mannara flaunting her beauty with no-holds-barred. But here’s the shock as Censor said to have chopped a few crucial romantic scenes from the movie. However, despite all these, Puri takes this in his stride and doesn’t complain about Censor Board. He says he’s quite confident on the film and excited how youth receive it.

Meanwhile, the film’s run-time is locked at 2.08 hours. Puri says Rogue is just an entertainer and doesn’t have any complex themes a la ISM. “It’s purely a love story. After a break-up, how Chanti (Ishan) impresses other girl is what the story is all about,” Puri divulges the plot of Rogue that’s hitting the screens on March 31.