Close on the heels of ongoing online war between the fans of Pawan Kalyan and Allu Arjun, the gap is slowly widening. While fans continue to troll rival hero, his films and fans, the opposite team too is countering strongly. And now this mega war has intensified with heroes from mega family too allegedly taking sides. Looks like, Sai Dharam Tej has taken side of his Chinna Mamvaiaha Pawan Kalyan and tried to ridicule his cousin Allu Arjun.

In his latest offering Winner, it seems, Sai Dharam Tej takes potshots at Allu Arjun. Although not directly, yet the satires were clear thus inviting anger of Bunny’s fans.

As part of the film, Sai had to play a jockey who rides horses. In one particular scene where Sai was threatened by showing him a racing horse, the dialogue goes like this, “If it’s a ‘Race Gurram’, our man will ride on it.”

In another dialogue, it’s said,” ‘Race Gurram’ and ‘Nannaku Prematho’ are the two Telugu films that I dislike.”

Naturally, these two alleged satires on Bunny haven’t gone well with his fans who feel it’s intentionally done to belittle their favourite star. Let’s see where this rift within the family ends.

The makers of Ghazi have resorted to innovative and promoting marketing strategy resulting in film opening to excellent selection.

The makers have now cleverly restricted the screening in the 2nd week as a regular commercial film like ‘Winner’ was releasing. They have retained all fresh centers for releasing from 10.03.2017 when no films are releasing for two weeks. As the word of mouth has also spread about the film, they are expecting the word of mouth to go bigger by 10.03.2017 so that the film could be released in all smaller centers where people know by then about the film and its success.

Overseas, the makers are opening many fresh locations in view of stupendous business the film did in the first week.

This smart positioning is bound to help Ghazi in the coming weeks.

Actress Shweta Basu Prasad, who has been missing from Tollywood ever since the alleged 2014 ‘Sex scandal’ fiasco where her name was dragged into, has landed in Hyderabad after a ling time. Well, it took considerable time to recognize her as she was no more a chubby lady.

Shweta was in Hyderabad yesterday to take part in the promotional event of her new Telugu film ‘Mixture Potlam’. As soon as shutterbugs spotted her, they rushed to capture the transformed version of Basu in camera. She looked lean, fit and stylish. Her face has also changed significantly.

For the past past two years, Shweta has been working as a script consultant in Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s production house. She also is having a smooth romantic relationship with an assistant director whom she met at work.

Shwet seems to have worked on her body, got leaner and is once again looking for opportunities to showcase her acting skills which won her a National Film Award as a child actress.

The Akkineni clan had the biggest shock of all time after the most debated wedding of Akhil and Shriya Bhupal’s wedding was called off. The couple was set to tie the knot in a grand ceremony in the month of May in Italy. Fashion designer Shriya Bhupal is the granddaughter of GVK Reddy, the famous business tycoon.

Akhil and Shriya had got engaged two months ago in a private ceremony. The engagement was called off due to some personal differences in between the lovebirds.Post this decision, Nagarjuna and GVK had to personally get in touch with the invited guest to cancel their Paris tickets. The actual reason behind this sudden development is not known to anyone as yet.

If the latest reports are to be believed, Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who got engaged recently are under pressure. The actors were trying to plan their wedding in the second half of the year. But the recent break off between Akhil and Shriya has impacted the Akkineni clan badly. Akkineni’s family has been affected with the recent incident, and they have been building up pressure on Chaitanya and Samantha to tie the knot immediately.

Bankable versatile hero Sharwanand’s upcoming flick’s first look was released yesterday on the occasion of Maha Sivaratri.

This young actor entertained us with a feel good movie like Satamanam Bhavati for Sankranthi. Now he is coming up with action entertainer with his upcoming flick Radha. This movie which is touted to be a cop entertainer has almost completed its shoot. The presenter BVSN Prasad has released the first look poster of Sharwa who is looking excellent in police uniform with a crown of Lord Sri Krishna. This poster conveys that this movie has all the commercial elements. Prasad also states that all should watch the movie to know the reason for the name Radha

The movie is directed by a debutant Chandra Mohan. Bhogavalli Bapineedu is bankrolling this movie. The makers have declared that they will release this movie for Telugu New Year which is on 29th March.

Emerging hero Nani, who gave a super hit with his latest film “Nenu Local” in which he played the role of B Tech Babu, seems to be a man in hurry.Even before he digested the success of his latest film, Nani has started work for his next film “MCA” under Dil Raju’s banner. The film to be directed by Venu Sriram, is going on to the sets very shortly. But before that, his another film “Ninnu Kori” in which he played the role of a lover boy, is going to hit the screens very soon.

So, Nani has been doing a series of films one after the other, while taking every precaution in picking up interesting subjects and ensuring that the budget does not shoot up. Since all his films can assure minimum guarantee returns, Nani has become the most sought-after hero for the producers. It is not an exaggeration to say that no other hero has as many projects on hand as Nani has at present.

Apparently, Nani wants to make hay while sun shines. He is adopting an aggressive approach in cashing in on the craze he has and the success he has been achieving. Some of the projects Nani has approved include a film with Hanu Raghavapudi, director of Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaatha; and another film with Merlapaka Gandhi, who made successful films like Venkatadri Express and Express Raja.In fact, he was very busy with his shooting for another film, when Nenu Local was released. So, he is out with a new film for every four months!

Allu Arjun-starrer Duvvada Jagannatham being produced by Dil Raju under the direction of Harish Shankar, has been generating a lot of enthusiasm after the release of its promo.Everything – Allu Arjun’s get up and the first look – are appearing new. Though such roles were played by several heroes in the past, it is really interesting to watch Allu Arjun doing this character of Agraharam Chari.The fact that a stylish actor is being shown in a peculiar angle itself has brought a lot of craze for DJ much before its release.

However, going by the sources, there is a lot of action element in DJ, though it is being portrayed as a comedy film. Known for elevating the hero character in his films, Harish Shankar has scripted several action scenes for this film.According to highly placed sources, the get-up being projected for Allu Arjun as Duvvada Jagannatham is just a hidden identity and the character has actually a heroic angle.

Since Duvvada Jagannathm is being released in theatres after Baahubali-2, Dil Raju has launched an early launch of the publicity campaign only to build the craze among the audiences.By and large, the DJ team is fully jubilant to the response it is getting for the first look and teaser ad.

Ever since Shruti Haasan was photographed with a ‘mystery’ man at Mumbai airport recently, there has been a lot of speculations, rumours about him and the actress. While strong speculations are doing the rounds that Shruti is in relationship with this guy, the identity of the person is finally revealed. It’s learnt that guy in question is none other than Michael Corsale, a theatre artiste based in London.

Michael said to had flew down to Mumbai from London to spend valuable time with Shruti Haasan on Valentine’s Day. The couple is reportedly seeing each other for over three months.Michael and Shruti have met first time in London when Shruti was there to record a track with the British alternative rock band, Dinosaur Pile-Up. Since then they have become close and get along very well.

However, Shruti is maintaining silence on the ongoing speculations. When she was contacted by media, Shruti made it clear that she doesn’t want to talk about her personal life. Thus Shruti chose to neither confirm nor deny the speculations about her relationship with Michael.

South actor Siddharth, who occasionally raises his voice and expresses his opinions over the happenings in society, has held the newly elected US President Donald Trump responsible for the racial attack against Telugu youths Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok in which the former lost his life.

Siddarth accused Trump of spreading hate among Americans towards immigrants. He appealed people not to be shocked and saddened over the murder of our own but express anger at the Trump administrations.’Don’t be shocked! Be angry! Trump is spreading hate. This is a hate crime! RIP #SrinivasKuchibhotla,’ Siddarth posted on his social networking page.

The family of Srinivas Kuchibhotla and several NRIs have also alleged that hate crimes have increased in the US after Donald Trump got elected as the President.

Actress Shweta Basu Prasad, who has been missing from Tollywood ever since the alleged 2014 ‘Sex scandal’ fiasco where her name was dragged into, has landed in Hyderabad after a ling time. Well, it took considerable time to recognize her as she was no more a chubby lady.

Shweta was in Hyderabad yesterday to take part in the promotional event of her new Telugu film ‘Mixture Potlam’. As soon as shutterbugs spotted her, they rushed to capture the transformed version of Basu in camera. She looked lean, fit and stylish. Her face has also changed significantly.For the past past two years, Shweta has been working as a script consultant in Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s production house. She also is having a smooth romantic relationship with an assistant director whom she met at work.

Shwet seems to have worked on her body, got leaner and is once again looking for opportunities to showcase her acting skills which won her a National Film Award as a child actress.

The much-hyped Megastar Chiranjeevi’s entry into Television screen has failed to score any big Television ratings. The TRP’s for his TV show are in the normal range.He took over the anchoring of “Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu” from Nagarjuna for the Season 4 that is being telecast on Star Maa TV.

The TRP’s for this show in the first week are an average of 5.80, which is very normal rating for a high profile show like MEK.Star MAA TV, which ranks second in overall popularity among Telugu General Entertainment Channels, hoped to score more than 10 TRP’s with this show as they have publicised the program heavily.

Chiranjeevi delivered biggest hit with “Khaidi No 150” and he is basking in the glory of the movie’s success. So, naturally even the analysts predicted of high ratings for his maiden TV show. But he got lukewarm response.No wonder then that recently writer Yandamuri Veerandranath opined that Chiru’s anchoring style is artificial compared to Nagarjuna. On other hand, anchor Ansuya’s TV program “Jackpot” on Gemini TV got more than 6.5 TRP’s. So, Anasuya has scored over Chiranjeevi.

The impact of ‘Baahubali’ on Rana Daggubati’s career is clearly visible as the actor’s latest release, ‘Ghazi’ has performed extremely well in the first week across domestic as well as overseas markets.By minting a share of 5.72 crs across the two Telugu States, Ghazi took its worldwide first week share to Rs 9.27 Cr, according to reliable trade reports.

Below is the break up of distributor share:

Nizam – 265 lacs
Ceded – 40 lacs
Nellore – 16.5 lacs
Guntur – 47.08 lacs
Krishna – 56.69 lacs
West – 25 lacs
East – 37 lacs
Uttharandhra – 85 lacs

1st week AP & TG Share – Rs 5.72cr

Karnataka – 115 lacs
USA – 195 lacs
Remaining Territories – 45 lacs

1st week Worldwide Share – Rs 9.27 Cr

Ghazi reportedly crossed the Rs 10 Cr share mark on its second Friday and is poised to have a good second weekend.Euphoric with the success of ‘Ghazi’, Rana has already announced to act in yet another war drama for one of his future projects.

Veteran director Singeetam Sreenivasa Rao, who is brain behind classics like Bhairava Dweepam, Aditya 369, Pushpaka Vimanam, Vichitra Sodarulu, has shot off a letter to director Krish appreciating him for his work. On the eve of Krish being awarded KV Reddy award for this year, Singeetam who had also recipient of this award, wrote a hand-written letter to Krish appreciating him for his directorial brilliance.

Krish gently responded and said he’s elated to receive the letter from a veteran like Singeetam. He said he got emotional and said he’d cherish the letter for the rest of his life.

Singeetam’s Letter

“I came to know that my favourite director Krish is being awarded famous KV Reddy Award this year. And I’m more happier today than when I had received the same award many years ago.”He further said, “Krish share three major qualities with my Guru KV Reddy garu whose talent is abundant. Clarity, Responsibility, Purity are the three major qualities Krish have in common with him.”

“I didn’t know Krish when I had watched his first film ‘Gamyam’. After watching the movie, I had found out him and telephoned him and appreciated him. Like I predicted earlier, since ‘Gamyam’ to his recent ‘Gautamiputra Satakarni’, he has churned out every film as an epic. At the same time, he hasn’t left out the commercial elements that are crucial for a film and going ahead in his own trademark style. I’ve no doubt that he’d make greater films in days to come and soon get international recognition.”

Singeetam ended his letter by wishing God’s blessings to Krish.

With erstwhile Andhra Pradesh bifurcated into two states, now film stars are finding all the reasons enough to cater to the emotions of both the states’ people. That’s the reason many films are conducting an audio function in Hyderabad and success meet in Vizag.

Now, to add more spice to this, our filmmakers are choosing backdrop of their films in a similar style to impress audiences of two Telugu states. In his last film Sarrainodu, Allu Arjun has appeared as a Hyderabad guy who goes to Konaseema for pelli choopulu and then the story shifts back to the Telangana capital. To break that feeling of him appearing as Telangana resident earlier, he is now said to be shifting his base to Vijayawada.

In the upcoming movie “DJ Duvvada Jagannadham”, he will be seen running a food business with Vijayawada as his base. He will run Annapurna Catering that is located in Satyanarayanapuram Agraharam, Vijayawada. Though this would not have become a case of attention earlier as many Telugu films are made with Vijayawada and Vizag as a base even before we shifted from Madras, post-bifurcation the scene has changed. So Bunny is a Vijayawada hero now. Directed by Harish Shankar, DJ Duvvada Jagannadham has maverick cinematographer Ayanaka Bose capturing the visuals, while Pooja Hegde rolled out her glamour.

Mega hero Sai Dharam Tej’s latest release ‘Winner’ took a record breaking opening on its release day, Feb 24.

According to trade reports, by raking in Rs 5.58 Cr share across AP & TG alone, Winner has become the biggest opener in Sai Dharam’s career. The number is almost 50 percent higher than the previous best of Sai, Rs 3.85Cr (Supreme). Whatmore, this is one of the highest openings among medium range heroes’ films. The Maha Sivarathri holiday seems to have helped the mega hero scale this feat.

Below is the are wise break up of Share:

Nizam – 166 lacs
Ceded – 104 lacs
Nellore – 19.04 lacs
Guntur – 51.39 lacs
Krishna – 30.47 lacs
West – 54.52 lacs
East – 74.25 lacs
UA – 58.37 lacs

1st day AP & TG Share – Rs 5.58Cr

Worldwide opening day share could be around 6.2Cr and the gross would be approximately 8.5-9cr. The numbers are phenomenal given that the film released in competiton with Vijay Antony’s ‘Yaman’ and at a time when ‘Rana Daggubati’s ‘Ghazi’ was raking decent