With Nagarjuna’s latest film Om Namo Venkatesaya turning out to be biggest disaster beating the likes of Brahmotsavam and Sardaar Gabbar Singh, naturally, there has been a great pressure from the distributors and buyers of the film over their compensation.

In overseas alone the film incurred a massive loss as the overseas distributor who invested nearly 3.6 Crore said to have lost almost all. And the situation is no different in domestic market too as distributors suffered great losses cutting across the regions. While it’s buzzed that the producer assured them of compensating with his next film that is said to be a bigger film, distributors are still looking towards Nag’s assurance or his intervention in the matter.

Given that almost all the distributors have invested in the film by taking finance for interests, they are looking up to Nag for a meager compensation now before producer compensating with his next that may take nothing less than a year-and-a-half.

It’s learnt that Nagarjuna has charged a bomb for the film i.e around 8 Crore. And this is certainly huge for a devotional film. So, distributors of ONV are hoping that Nag would step in for them. Even for Brahmotsavam, Sardaar Gabbar Singh, star heroes Mahesh, Pawan too intervened in the issue along with producers and said to have settled for most of the distributors who were hit badly.

Now the moot question is whether Nag will do it or not. Let’s wait and see.

Bellamkonda Srinivas, son of popular Telugu film producer Bellamkonda Suresh, is heard to be making all the efforts to pair up with only top actresses.

After shaking his leg with top actresses like Samantha and Tamanna in his first two films, Bellamkonda is romancing happening beauties Rakul Preet Singh and Pragya Jaiswal in his third film. As per latest reports, he might romance cute beauty Keerthy Suresh in his fourth film.

Keerthy has become an in-demand actress in Tollywood with just one film, last year’s super hit romantic entertainer ‘Nenu Sailaja’. Her second Telugu film ‘Nenu Local’ has also become a super hit. Interim, she added another feather to her cap by signing Pawan Kalyan-Trivikram’s crazy project.

In fact, Keerthy was also considered to romance Mahesh in Koratala Siva’s new film. Reportedly, she even reserved her dates for this project. However, after she was recently sidelined from this movie, Bellamkonda has reportedly sought those dates initially allotted for Mahesh’s film for his next film.

Keerthy hasn’t yet signed on the dotted line but she was reportedly offered a lucrative sum to come on board.

A day after Nagarjuna Akkineni unveiled his look from the new horror-comedy that he is playing a key role in, ‘Raju Gari Gadhi 2’, his future daughter-in-law, Samantha shared an intriguing pic of herself from the film’s sets.

Dressed in all-black, Samantha is seen sitting on the floor in this pic. Neither her full face nor her complete body can be seen in the pic. It may be noted that even Nag shared a pic which didnt reveal his full look.

Sam and her father-in-law are making sure to create intrigue and raise expectations on this Ohmkar directorial with these half-revealing photos.

Mega fans who are already elated with the official announcement of Ram Charan’s new film #RC11 going on floors on march 20, are in for another pleasant news.

As per official reports, Sushmitha, who styled for her father, megastar in ‘Khaidi No.150′, has been roped in to continue her good work for her brother, Ram Charan this time.

Impressed with her work, both Charan and Sukumar have reportedly offered her the opportunity to design costumes for #RC11. As the film is set completely in village backdrop and that Charan will be sporting the most unconventional look of his career, designing costumes for him will surely be a challenging task.

Sushmitha’s work in Khaidi No.150 was well appreciated. The credit for showing megastar ever-younger in Khaidi No.150 must be given to two persons, Cinematographer Ratnavelu’s immaculate eye and Sushmitha’ trendy costumes.

Mega fans hope that Sushmitha will once again shine with #RC11.

Over the years, young tiger NTR Jr has been credited with so many titles like powerful performer, best diction, finest dancer, mass star, major crowd puller at bpx office etc. However, the actor was rarely acknowledged for his style statement. It seems that NTR has finally decided to concentrate on this style factor.

We has exclusive news that NTR has personally shopped his costumes in Dubai for his new film, #NTR27. This is probably the first time that NTR has done anything like this for any of his movies.

The ‘Janatha Garage’ actor is playing three different characters in his new film, tentatively titled ‘Jai Lava Kusa’. With three diverse roles, he will have the opportunity to satisfy all sections of audiences.

NTR has changed gears from ‘Temper’ and has been putting full efforts for an image makeover. Mass audiences have always been his forte. With films like Nannaku Prematho and Janatha Garage, he grew close to class and family audiences as well.

With ‘Jai Lava Kusa’, NTR looks to be targeting urban youth, who generally likes stylish actors. Get ready to witness a super stylish NTR on big screen in a couple of months.

The shoot of ‘Jai Lava Kusa’ has already commenced and NTR is expected to join the team soon.

National Award winning actress Vidya Balan, who is known for her power-packed performances in movies like ‘The Dirty Picture’, ‘Kahaani’ etc. is coming up with yet another film having a bold theme.

Vidya is playing the madam of a brothel in her upcoming film titled ‘Begum Jaan’. The film’s first look poster was released today and Vidya is introduced as an intimidating lady. Holding a hookah pipe in hand, Viday is seen sitting on a chair in the poster. The tagline of the poster reads, “My Body, My House, My Country, My Rules”.

‘Begum Jaan’ is inspired from the real story of a brothel, that was divided against the will of its inhabitants during the India-Pakistan partition in 1947. The film is slated to hit screens on April 14.

Producer Sharrath Marar has roped in a reputed media agency from Mumbai for Pawan Kalyan’s Katamarayudu. After his last production venture Sardaar Gabbar Singh was hosted by a local digital platform, Sharrath has zeroed in on an upcountry digital agency.

Webgyor, a noted digital marketing agency from Mumbai, has come on board for Pawan’s Katamarayudu. It’s said that the agency has wide network of clients and this is the firm’s major move into South film industry, particularly into Tollywood.

With the humongous response to the teaser as well as the ‘Mira Mira Meesam’ song from Katamarayudu, the agency said to have shell-shocked. Although it had heard of Pawan’s huge fan base, they have come across only after the film’s teaser received a thunderous response – in terms of both views and likes.

It’s learnt that the same digital platform is also expected to handle Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena account as well. Sharrath had vast media experience. He was the South head of Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited before his stint as the CEO of MAA TV. Sharrath subsequently moved on to work with Pawan closely and started his production house Northstar Entertainment Pvt Ltd.

Akkineni Nagarjuna starrer recent devotional film ‘Om Namo Venkatesaya’ has turned out to be one of the epic disasters in the history of Telugu cinema. Each and every buyer lost great amounts on this film.

The film’s worldwide theatrical rights were acquired for a huge Rs 35 Cr and guess how much the film collected in its full run? Its a mere Rs 9.6 Cr, which is about 25% recovery. With 75% losses, ONV has been termed by trade pundits as a gigantic disaster.

The overseas distributor became the highest loser as he lost 90% of his investment, making the film the biggest ever overseas disaster in Tollywood history.

Below is the break-up of full run Share of ONV:

Nizam – 2.89cr
Ceded – 1.05cr
Nellore – 0.36cr
Guntur – 0.78cr
Krishna – 0.48cr
West – 0.49cr
East – 0.57cr
Uttharandhra – 0.93cr

Total AP & TG share – 7.55cr
Karnataka – 1.30cr
Remaining – 0.75cr

Total Worldwide share – Rs 9.6cr.

Despite favorable reviews and good performances, ONV was completely rejected by all sections of audiences.

After this, would any Telugu filmmaker dare to make a devotional film?

The undisputed king of Box office, Aamir Khan, who has once again rewritten records with his latest release ‘Dangal’, has gone for an unconventional photo shoot for the March edition of Filmfare magazine.

Aamir’s look with long hair, long beard and a quirky moustache is similar to the one he sported in his upcoming film ‘Secret Superstar’. Aamir’s trendy apparel however was attention grabbing. He is seen in a never-seen-before avatar in the photo shoot, which is very special for him given the ‘Ghajni’ star will celebrate his 52nd birthday in this month, on March 14.

On work front, Aamir’s ‘Secret Superstar’ is slated to hit screens on August 4, 2017. His next project is ‘Thugs Of Hindostan’, which also stars Amitabh Bachchan.

In the uncontrollable happiness of meeting and hugging his favorite hero, an ardent fan of top Kannada hero Sudeep breathed his last. This tragic incident happened in Thumukuru of Karnataka.

Going into details, Sudeep visited Gayathri theatre in Thumukuru to meet and thank his fans for making his latest release ‘Hebbuli’ a grand success. Upon learning that Sudeep will be coming, fans hoarded in huge umber at the theatre to catch a glimpse of their favorite hero.

Sasidhar (45), an ardent fan of Sudeep, was one of the very few to have got the chance of not just meeting but affectionately hugging the star hero. Sasidhar reportedly seemed euphoric after this incident.

Later, on his way back, he suffered a massive cardiac arrest and sadly, passed away even before he was taken to hospital. The incident filled the hearts of Sudeep fans with inextinguishable sadness.

The way Pawan Kalyan calls the shots in making his films, even the director will be stunned to look at such creative decisions. While the numero uno hero has left to Italy to shoot for songs of Katamarayudu, an interesting discussion is going on in film Nagar about the film’s interval.

Apparently, in the original version Veeram movie, during the interval scene, Tamanna collapses due to a hit from rowdies and Ajith carries her to a hospital. But we have come to know that in the Telugu version Shruti Haasan just walks away from the scene while Pawan Kalyan just keeps staring at her. Why this lifting of heroine got cut off from the scene is a major discussion now.

Some say that Pawan Kalyan altered the script in his style and hence he changed the scene of lifting heroine into his hands to just the heroine walking away. However, few sources added that Pawan was suffering from huge back pain at that time and hence avoided it. For that reason, he’s heard making slight modifications to the scene.

Whatever may be the logic, Pawan didn’t carry Shruti in the interval scene like a Tamanna and Ajith episode. That’s one big change made in Katamarayudu if any romance lovers are concerned about it.

At a time when star heroines are finding tough to earn crores of rupees easily, it’s this small time actress who has stunned everyone with her terrific investment. The first question that comes to anyone’s mind is, where did she got such enormous money from.

Coming from a middle-class family, this Telugu lady acted in couple of good hits as a leading lady and later took up many small films. Her remuneration for each film was around 5-10 lakhs back that won’t leave her with huge bank balance. Not really a cool 2.5 crores to buy a villa in a posh gated community in Hyderabad. But she bought one, registered on her own name and named the building with a divine title.

To think positively about this, we may have to say that she has invested in real-estate 5 years back and struck a fortune. But still such investments from her hardly-happening career income won’t become 2.5 crores in this short span and that too after real-estate in the city took a downward spiral from past few years.

Some insiders revealed that it is her ‘other activities’ and ‘sports’ that led to stashes of cash to her treasure box. Though she speaks about women rights and plays victim card always, reality is that she’s in need of luxury and goes to any extent for the sake of it.

Senior Bollywood hero Sanjay Dutt is in news these days not just for the alleged rumors of his marriage with yesteryear diva Rekha, but also for the customized bike that he rode on the sets of his new film ‘Bhoomi’.

Sanjay Dutt happens to be one of the very few Bollywood stars who enjoys immense die-hard fan bases. Recently, while Dutt was shooting for his comeback film ‘Bhoomi’ in Agra, a fan came to meet him on the sets.

When the fan asked Sanjay Dutt to ride on his bike, which was a customized two-wheeler having uncountable headlights among other added features, the ‘Munnabhai’ actor obliged and rode on the bike for a few minutes. The pictures are currently going viral on social media.