Moving on, here is a sensational news that is being heard in film circles as the duo of Superstar and Mega Powerstar are getting ready to join hands for a business venture.

Since the release of “Srimanthudu”, Mahesh Babu started having this new like for Ram Charan as this mega hero is the only star who called and appreciated the former for his risking move which made 85+ crores share at box office. To strengthen their bond of friendship, recently Mahesh and Charan along with their spouses have spent a holiday together in Switzerland to celebrate the new year eve. That’s not all, we have Charan and Upasna as chief guests at Namrata’s 45th birthday celebrations other day. News is coming out that Upasna has now convinced both Charan and Mahesh to invest together in a new venture.

While Ram Charan is a keen investor who already owns lion share in TruJet Airlines, thanks to Upasna’s splendid entrepreneurial skills, Mahesh is completely new to this investing block. However he got convinced that like a Nagarjuna and Chiranjeevi owned MAA TV and other Ventures together for a long time, even he could do similar kind of partnership with Charan. Though information related to their companies and investments isn’t divulged to any, we have a speck of access to it.

An insider shared, “Charan wants to build couple of hotel chains in India and Mahesh will be a partner in it. It may turns to be a huge venture. Already T Subbirami Reddy who has constructed a 7-star hotel in City and formed an allegiance with a leading hospitality partner to manage it, has stepped in to give tips to these two”

These enormous projects however take time to materialise, hope these two chase their targets easily in the new venture if they takes up.

Move over from the love story of Samantha and Naga Chaitanya as the couple already made their relationship official and going to get hitched soon. The latest is that Tollywood has allegedly got new love birds.

The name of a young hero, who usually stays away from controversies, has surprisingly popped up and apparently his closeness with his co-star is what led to these speculations.

Both have good hits of late and success said to have brought them much closer. The couple is traveling a lot and spending quality time together. Their alleged linkup is now the talk of town.

Reportedly cupid struck on the sets and both instantly get along well. Though the Mallu beauty entered into Tollywood recently, she has got noticed with work and now she’s in the limelight as she also signed a big film.

It’s not new for young hero being linked up. In fact, earlier, marriage rumours of the him with the sister of a popular star’s wife cropped up, but hero had readily quashed them as false then.

One has to see now whether it’s just an attraction or a serious relationship or just another rumour.

As first reported by Gulte, Suriya has finally decided to postpone his film S3 – Yamudu 3. Considering special conditions in Tamil Nadu over Jallikattu sport, Suriya and producer Gnanvel Raja have postponed the film. The producer of the film’s Telugu version, Malkapuram Sivakumar to confirmed the development.The Telugu-Tamil bilingual was supposed to release on Jan 26.

However, this is not first time the film is getting postponed. It was already postponed twice. The action drama starring Suriya, Anushka Shetty and Shruti Haasan was initially planned for Dec 16th release. Later, the film was pushed to Dec 23 release but after much thought it’s postponed to Jan 26th. But due to the ongoing protests in Tamil Nadu for lifting ban on Jallikattu permanently, there’s a turmoil and keeping these in mind, Suriya has come forward to defer the third installment of Singam franchise where he will be seen as DCP Narasimha.

The fresh release date of film would be announced once the Jallikattu issue settles down and peace prevails, a source close to the star told Gulte.

Initially, Venkatesh’s Guru was also planned for Jan 25 release, but for unknown reasons it has been pushed to April. With two big films being postponed and there’re no other releases lined up, looks like it’s going to be dull week for Tollywood unless until any other film makes it to the screens.

After Sankranti releases – Khaidi No.150, Gautamiputra Satakarni and Shatamanam Bhavati, no other film has seen the light of the day as all three were having a glorious run at the BO. Trade is expecting that no other releases for Republic Day may further boost the numbers of the Sankranti films. Let’s see what’s in store.

Shriya Saran is the quintessential example for being the best of both worlds – traditional and modern worlds.

While she is the best choice for performing traditional roles that she portrayed in Gautamiputra Satakarni and Manam, she is equally best in revving up the glam quotient in commercial films.

In her latest steamy photoshoot, Shriya is seen raising her oomph and throwing challenge to younger lot of heroines. Shriya sizzled in a special designer gown recently and one must admit that she is ravishingly gorgeous. She proved that she doesn’t catch up with age and her beauty is ahead of it.

Needless to say that she will scorch screens if given hot roles. Directors, are you reading?

Sankranthi blockbuster Shatamanam Bhavati has an excellent second weekend at the worldwide box office. The family entertainer has taken its cumulative well past Rs 20 Cr in just 9 days.

While the distributor share in AP & TG is close to Rs 18 Cr, the worldwide share is Rs 21Cr+.

Below is the area wise break-up of Share.

Nizam – 622 lacs
Ceded – 195 lacs
Nellore – 40.1 lacs
Guntur – 123.5 lacs
Krishna – 117.5 lacs
West – 142 lacs
East – 204 lacs
Uttharandhra – 335 lacs (exceptional – not many heroes have more than Rs 3 Cr share in this area)

9 Days AP & TG Share – Rs 17.79 Cr

Karnataka – 85 lacs
Rest of India – 20 lacs
Overseas – 240 lacs (Approx)

9 Days Worldwide Share – Rs 21.24 Cr

This is the best in Sharwa’s career and one of the most profitable films considering the return on investment. Gong by the decent response, the film is expected to comfortably cross the Rs 25 Cr share mark by the end of this week.

So, in no way, this project is on and neither Nagarjuna got a clue of it. Time to rest these Manam gossips now and wait for Nagarjuna’s Om Namo Venkatesaya as well as Chay’s “Allari Alludu” in the coming seasons.

Bala Krishna’s movies have a very good market in ceded area compared to other regions. Everyone in the industry knows this. His movies break even quickly in ceded region. But there has been a reverse in trend with Gautamiputra Satakarni.

While the movie has been doing well in urban centres like Vizag and other regions, it is slightly lagging behind in ceded region.

The reason could be that Gautamiputra is not a standard Balayya masala movie and is more of a classic movie preferred by multiplex and overseas audiences.

Having said that, the movie is definitely going to turn out to be a safe project for ceded buyers also. It’s only that this is the first time in recent memory that ceded was not in the forefront for a Balayya movie.

Namrata Shirodkar and Upasana Kamineni are the new BFFs in the T-town. First they met in Chiru’s 60th B’day bash in a star hotel and both spent quality time throughout the party. It’s no wonder both the ladies got along well and became best friends.

Recently, Namrata said to have invited mega couple Ram Charan & Upasana to their family holidaying along with Galla and Manjula’s families. Upasana and Charan obliged and joined the holiday. This further cemented their friendship.

And the latest is that Upasana and Ram Charan were the special guests at Namrata’s birthday party held on Sunday. Mahesh Babu has thrown a lavish party to very near and dear ones in friends, relatives circle. The only people from the industry attended the do is Ram Charan and Upsana.

While the makers were successful in holding back the pics of Charan and Mahesh partying together, the pics of ladies Namrata and Upasana somehow got leaked. Check out the pic.

After almost the entire Tamil film fraternity supported the Jallikattu movement taken upon by Tamil Nadu youth, even several Telugu film celebs including Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu tweeted in support of the movement undertaken to save their culture. Now, as AP youth are gearing up for a similar silent protest to achieve Special Status for the capital-less state, will the same Telugu celebs support our very own movement?

Although many Telugu celebs supported Jallikattu movement, it was Pawan Kalyan who played a crucial role in making the AP youth realize the power of silent protests. He already extended the full support of Jana Sena for the Special Status movement to take place on 26th January at RK beach in Vizag.

As Pawan has done his bit and helped the movement take birth, we need to see if other celebs join him and inspire their fans. They need not personally join the protest and a simple supportive tweet is enough to instill courage and dedication among their followers towards the movement.

As Mahesh was born and bred in Chennai, he must have felt the need to support Jallikattu, which was appreciable. However, it’s the Telugu people who made him a superstar and his support for the special status movement will definitely inspire his millions of fans to take part in the protest.

Jr NTR’s stand at this protest is also crucial as he too commands a huge fan base. However, his ties with ruling TDP are at stake if he supports this movement.

Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, Prabhas and even megastar are mum on this. Probably, they are wary of the consequences if the protest turns violent. However, their support can create a huge impact on their fans.

On the other hand, some young heroes like Nikhil, Sundeep Kishan, Sampoornesh Babu, Siva Balaji and some filmmakers have also supported the movement with their tweets. Sundeep Kishan is gearing to even join the protest.

CM Chandrababu Naidu looks to be silently watching the happenings as he has neither condemned nor supported the movement.YSRC chief YS Jaganmohan Reddy has extended his support though.

Interestingly, TS youth are supporting the AP special status movement by creating awareness on social media.

As Jallikattu protesters in Tamil Nadu are in no mood to stop the protests despite its state government’s ordinance to promulgate the bull taming sport and seeking lift of permanent ban on the sport, the situation is said to be out of control.

The peaceful protest is taking a violent route and several incidents of police vs protesters being reported, the producers of Suriya’s Singam 3 are in dilemma over releasing the film on Jan 26th as per the plan.

With people are in tumultuous mood, Suriya and producer Gnanavel Raja are toying with the idea of postponing the film. Already the film has been postponed twice. Initially it was supposed to hit the screens on Dec 16, but was shifted to Dec 23 in order to leave 2 weeks space for Ram Charan’s Dhruva (Dec 9) in Telugu.

Due to political turmoil following demise of its CM Jayalalithaa and cyclone Vardah and prevailing conditions in the state, S3 has been postponed to Jan 26th. But going by latest situation in Chennai, it’s unlikely that Suriya would go ahead with the release of his film.

If it happens, then the movie will also be postponed in Telugu. Already Venkatesh’s Guru which is supposed to hit theatres on Jan 25th is postponed to April. If S3 too is deferred, there would be no big releases this week. And this in turn may help ongoing festival releases Gautamiputra Satakarni, Khaidi No.150 & Satamanam Bhavati.

Let’s wait and see.

1) Khaidi No. 150: Megastar’s comeback film continued to dominate the box office after a record breaking first week.

The film’s weekend performance was so good that extra shows were added in many centers on Sunday. The film has now entered the 90 crore club and has become the only film after Baahubali to achieve this feat.

It should have steady run for another week as there was no alarming drop during the week days.

2) Shatamanam Bhavati: Dil Raju’s confidence in this family drama paid off big time as the film is getting superb shares across all centers.

Shatamanam Bhavati collections have been better than Gautamiputra Satakarni since the festive period is over. It has collected 20 crore share from worldwide box office and is likely to become the first 25 crore film for Sharwanand.

3) Gautamiputra Satakarni: Balakrishna’s historical magnum opus did well during Sankranthi week, but has lost fuel after that.

The film’s collections haven’t improved much over the weekend as it fell short of Shatamanam Bhavati weekend shares in all the major centers.

4) xXx: Return of Xander Cage: Deepika Padukone’s Hollywood debut has been getting lukewarm response in Telugu states. The film is doing okay in Hyderabad multiplexes.

5) Dangal: Aamir Khan’s all time blockbuster Dangal is still drawing decent audience during the weekends.

Since the launch of Jana Sena, Power Star Pawan Kalyan has been sailing both filmy and political boats simultaneously and he always iterated that problems of people will be his highest priority than anything else. And he proves it again!

Following the massive social media rage after Jallikattu movement, Andhra Pradesh is getting ready for special status fight, which is strongly backed by Jana Sena chief. The actor turned politico has infact re-instated the movement through a series of tweets.

A silent protest by large group of youngsters and students of AP is being planned at RK beach in Vizag on 26th of January.

As the number of social media posts grew by leaps and bounds, a demand popped out that all films shut down their campaigns till AP achieves special status. And that’s where the movie unit of Katamarayudu decided not to bring out the teaser which was promised earlier.

The official page of Katamarayudu posted on Twitter, ‘#Katamarayudu teaser will not be released on 26th Jan.  Will announce the date soon. Stay subscribed and thanks for the support’.

Actor Sourabh Raaj Jain says if not for actor Akkineni Nagarjuna and filmmaker K. Raghavendra Rao, he wouldn’t have accepted the offer to play Lord Balaji in the Telugu devotional drama “Om Namo Venkatesaya”.

“Playing a mythological character was not new to me. I have played Krishna on Hindi television and I had decided to take a break from essaying such characters. So when the offer to play Lord Balaji came my way, I turned it down,” Sourabh told IANS.

However, director Rao and Nagarjuna insisted that he should be part of the project.

“When the offer came to me the second time, I learnt that Nagarjuna Sir is also part of the film. When I met them they helped me understand the story better and made me see my character in a different light,” he said.

On working with Nagarjuna, who was the prime reason for Sourabh to accept the project, he said: “No matter how much I say about him, it will still be less.

“He’s very humble, kind-hearted and he guided me right from the beginning. It was slightly intimidating to watch him perform but the compassion he has in his eyes for his character made me play my role with conviction.

“He also helped me with my lines and whenever I had difficulty understanding the language, he’d explain it in Hindi or English,” he said.

Talking about the experience of working with septuagenarian director Raghavendra Rao, Sourabh said his passion for cinema inspired him.

“The passion with which he makes films at his age is so inspiring. We had shot on mountains and it required a lot of physical activity. He didn’t have any problem climbing and walking long distances,” he said.

The film, which is slated for release in February, also stars Vimala Raman, Pragya Jaiswal and Jagapathi Babu.

Shruti Haasan, who is the latest entrant in the Singam franchise, has increased her oomph in this fast-paced action entertainer featuring Suriya. Though Suriya and Anushka Shetty would be seen as couple, it’s learnt that Shruti Haasan is going to steal the thunder with her glam show.

Shruti would be seen as a modern girl and her on-screen chemistry with Suriya would be talked about, say sources close to the unit.

The film directed by Hari is all set for release on Jan 26. Let’s see how S3 would fare at the ticket windows.

As T-town’s love couple Samantha and Naga Chaitanya are going to get engaged to each other the next Sunday i.e Jan 29, preparations are going on at breakneck speed.

So after a week, Sam turns into the member of Akkineni family and it’s interesting how she calls her father-in-law-to be Nagarjuna whom she had professional relation so far as she also shared screen space with him in Manam.

Apparently, Sam is calling Nag as “Nag Sir” so far. But since she’s going to be part of the family, she is in dilemma on what to call him. Already, Nag said to have given instructions to Sam not to call him “Nag Sir” anymore.

Since Sam got used to calling Nag as Nag Sir, it may take sometime for her to come out of it and say ‘Nag Mama’. Meanwhile, Nag started teasing Sam asking what did she decide to call him and Sam is escaping by laughing off to Nag’s question.

Only 150 Members for Akhil’s Marriage!

Meanwhile, Nag has confirmed that Akhil’s destination wedding in Italy is going to be a private affair restricting it to only 150 members close to both the families. However, there would be a grand reception hosted to who’s who of film, political personalities in Hyderabad.

Unlike Sam, Nag doesn’t have a problem with the younger daughter-in-law to be Shriya Bhupal whom he know since her childhood.

“I know Shriya since her childhood. Since then, she used to call me Nag mama. And this indeed is turning to be true,” shared elated Nagarjuna.

Even as he crossed his 50s and marching towards 60, Nag is still looking young and one has to wait and see how his daughters-in-law would take care of him.