Sometimes, the kind of decisions our heroes take on particular scripts truly wonder and disappoint film lovers. That’s what we have to say about Pawan Kalyan’s Katamarayudu as well.

Ajith’s Tamil film ‘Veeram’ is a routine faction film where the hero changes his path for the sake of his love. Featuring Tamanna in the lead opposite Ajith, the film was a good hit at Tamil box office. Like many producers who bank on Tamil hits to rake in some immediate moolah, a producer got the film’s dubbing rights and brought it here as ‘Veerudokkade’.

Irrespective of such feat, the film’s remake is planned and somehow Pawan Kalyan has accepted to do it. Though they say that he has taken just the plot line but everything else is changed, none can’t believe it until movie releases.

What’s more pain is that, a TV channel is airing this dubbed version ‘Veerudokkade’ almost every week and all the family viewers are catching glimpses of it. Now that most Telugu cinema lovers are getting to watch this Tamil version of Katamarayudu, Pawan’s film will invite the brunt of comparisons from day one itself.

Whatever the reason maybe, Katamarayudu will not be a cake walk if masses fail to connect to it.

Malar! She is better known and liked by that name, though she is actually Sai Pallavi. Now this woman is most desirable according to a poll and results by Kochi Times, surpassing all the other beautiful heroines.

That’s is no surprise, because Malar literally stole many hearts with her lecturer role in Nivin Pauly’s Premam and is making her Telugu debut with Fidaa in Sekhar Kammula direction and pairing Varun Tej.

Looks like the most desirable woman is soon moving towards taking the top slot in Telugu filmdom too.

These is no doubt Nani has good market in the US but hardly anyone might have expected him to more than double his previous best with his latest release ‘Nenu Local’.

As per reliable trade reports, Nenu Local has raked in $161K from Thursday premiers. This number surpasses the previous best of Nani, $72K (Gentleman) by an unbelievable 125 per cent.

Nani is currently in the US and the news of the Natural Star attending the premiers might also have persuaded his fans to throng to the theatres, resulting in the highest premiere collections.

The film has received average to above average reviews and Nani will be in the US for another month. If he decides to attend a few more shows, Nenu Local could well become Nani’s second million dollar film.

Hero Gopichand’s upcoming action entertainer in Sampath Nandi direction is geared for first look release on February 4th.

Produced by J Bhagawan and J Pulla Rao, this high budgeted and technically top end project has Gopichand in a stylish makeover.

Makers have released Gopichand’s modish silhouette as pre look. Hansika Motwani, Catherine Tresa have played female leads while SS Thaman composed the music.

Dr. Rajasekhar, the versatile actor who acquired the image of an angry young man through such films as ‘Ankusham’, ‘Magadu’ and ‘Aagraham’, is one of the most loved all-round actors in the history of Telugu cinema. He is currently doing an action entertainer in the direction of Praveen Sattaru.

Titled as ‘PSV Garuda Vega 126.18M’, the film is produced by Jyostar Enterprises and presented by Shivani Shivathmika Movies.

Currently, certain action episodes are being shot in a crucial schedule in Bangkok and the same will go on up to Feb 15th.

The director, having made the critically-acclaimed ‘Chandamama Kathalu’ and the adult comedy ‘Guntur Talkies’, is out to unveil a stylish and suave Rajasekhar in this flick.

As the actor celebrates his birthday on 4th Feb, the film’s First Look was released by the makers, who are going to reveal more details soon.

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, who gives sleepless nights to celebrities with his razor sharp tweets, has targeted celebs of almost every film industry every once in a while. Mega family is the most affected victim of Varma’s satires on twitter.

In the last one month, all the three mega brothers have reacted to Varma’s comments on separate occasions. First, Naga Babu breathed fire on Varma during Khaidi No.150 pre-releae event. Usage of words like ‘Akku Pakshi’ is a testimonial of how frustrated he was with the ‘Siva’ maker’s tweets.

Later, during an interview, Chiru softly criticized Varma for degrading his own stature with such unnecessary criticism of others. Pawan Kalyan went a step ahead and commented that he wouldn’t deal with a person who claims openly of watching porn despite having a married daughter.

Now, mega daughter Sushmitha also has some strong words for Varma. She said that mega family laughs off RGV’s tweets over lunch and dinners. ‘There is freedom of expression in this country and anyone can say anything. But, those saying only negative things should be blocked from social media,’ she said firmly.

Although Sushmita said that mega family takes Varma’s comments lightly, their reactions explain how frustrated they all are. Varma has already retorted in his usual witty manner to Naga Babu and Pawan’s comments.Let’s see how Varma reacts to Sushmita’s fresh comments.

NTR doing a triple role in his next is common information. Tentatively titled as Jai Lava Kusa, Tarak would be playing as villain in one of the three roles.

However, the latest buzz is that there’s no heroine for the NTR’s third role that see him in negative role. Usually, heroes taking up roles with negative shades isn’t uncommon. Even Nani was last seen in such role in “Gentleman”. But usually, such roles turn out to be positive as the movie progresses towards the end.

But not even having a heroine opposite NTR’s bad role is something drawing suspicion and hinting that this could had been a full-length role with negative touch.

Meanwhile, two leading ladies Nivetha Thomas, Rashi Khanna have been roped in opposite NTR for the film.

Touted to be an adaptation of Ajith-starrer Godfather which also saw Ajith in three roles including a villain shade role, the moot question is how director Bobby would handle this project. As informed earlier, the film will be launched on Feb 10th and it will roll onto the floors from Feb 15th.

Tarak has now hit gym to shed his weight that he gained after Janatha Garage. After Jai Lava Kusa, NTR would team up with Trivikram Srinivas.

Pawan Kalyan and Chiranjeevi teaming up for a film is one of the most craziest combinations ever. The two biggest stars and brothers going to share screen space in a film to be directed by genius like Trivikram Srinivas is certainly a mega news.

However, this sensational news hasn’t got the buzz that is actually expected. And there are several reasons for this. Especially many doubts are looming large on the combination due to below points.

Feasibility

First and foremost is the feasibility of the project. While Pawan is quite occupied with his schedule of films – RT Neason and AM Ratnam film, Trivikram and Radhakrishna film, two other films under Dasari’s production and Mythri’s production are in loop before his shift to politics, Chiru already announced his 151st with Surender Reddy and 152nd with director Boyapati Sreenu. In the meantime, Trivikram too has his commitments with Pawan, Jr NTR. And no one really knows what would be the status of the film as it all depends on the situations, prevailing conditions.

Story

Story is very very important than just the combination. When such two biggest stars are going to share screen space, balancing both the characters is very crucial. Especially, the fact that Pawan fans have already distanced from mega fans, there lies a greater challenge to director Trivikram Srinivas. So, story and characters, screen presence and equal herois

Timing

The timing of the announcement too isn’t a great idea. Had it been made on a holiday or a festival day, the traction would had been higher.

Unfulfilled Promises

Let alone acting in a film with Megastar, Pawan hadn’t even attended the public functions of Chiru. Well, Pawan might had been busy with his own works, but the actual point is also that there are many of the films that didn’t materialise even after Pawan’s commitment.

Pawan-Dasari film, Pawan’s Kobali with Trivikram, Pawan-Mythri film, and the list of unfulfilled promises goes on and on.

Politics

None other than Pawan had announced that he’d quit films during Sardaar Gabbar Singh promotions. He reiterated that he may not do more than 2 to 3 films before plunging into full-fledged politics. Pawan had also announced to contest in 2019 elections from Eluru, i.e only two years away from now. Taking note of these, it’s unlikely that Pawan would team up with Chiru before the elections as both Chiru, Trivikram should also make time for him.

PS: Let’s hope Pawan, Chiru overcome all the above hurdles and come together to enthrall fans.

Looks like there is more than enough room for historical and period films in Tollywood. Starting with Baahubali to Rudramadevi and the most recent Gautamiputra Satakarni, every film under that genre is either blockbuster or a super hit. And this time, we may get to see another star hero in this type of films.

When the last time we saw Jr NTR telling historical dialogues (in Yamadonga) eloquently and rhetorically, Tarak totally reminded the historical performances of his grand father NTR. His accent, fiction, delivery of dialogues and screen presence- he was absolutely flawless in all the aspects. Although it became a big boon to him in the later days, he never attempted a complete periodic film so far.

Having said that, Young Tiger is one Tollywood actor who always tries to up the ante when it comes to acting. As per the reports from Film Nagar, director and producer Gunasekhar has penned down a historical drama based on the story of Bhakta Prahalada, titled ‘Hiranyakashyapa’. The filmmaker who visited Varaha Narasimha Swamy on Thursday, along with wife Sharada, disclosed more about the project. ‘If Tarak likes the script, it would be part of this massive project,’ says the Rudramadevi director. With two projects already in the pipeline and much competition among other filmmakers to direct Tarak, it remains to be seen whether Gunasekhar will get the actor’s nod for this historical drama?

The director, on other hand, reveals that script work of Pratapa Rudrudu, a sequel to ‘Rudramadevi’, is underway and it will be rolled out under his home banner. As both scripts are into final stages, Gunasekhar will begin the shoot of Hiranyakashyapa this year and move to Pratapa Rudrudu later.

It is known that legendary Telugu filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao has been in the ICU in KIMS hospital for the past three days. Megastar Chiranjeevi, who visited him on Thursday, spoke to media and ascertained that his health was improving.

Chiru said that Dasari warmly received him and that he never looked like as an old man on ICU bed. ‘Although he couldn’t speak, he wrote on paper and enquired me about the collections of Khaidi No.150. When I said that it has done 150 Cr, he again wrote that it would do 250 Cr. I can’t forget his gesture of twirling his moustache to let me know how proud he is of me and my film (Nenu Khaidi No.150 Share intha ani cheppinappudu, aayana Meesam melipettaru. Adhi nenu eppatiki marchipolenu),’ an excited Chiru said.

Assuring that Dasari was doing fine and that would be back to normalcy in a few days, Chiru said that the ailing filmmaker would attend the thanks giving meet that he is planning to hold on the success of Khaidi No.150.

‘He will be in ICU for 2-3 days more but there is no need to worry. He is a fighter, more than the medical help, his self-belief and courage will bring him back. He will be back,’ Chiru added.

Apple beauty Hansika, who enjoyed the devotion of Tamil tambis for close to a decade, is currently sitting idle as she doesnt have even a single film in hand.

Hansika’s latest Tamil film ‘Bogan’ released on February 2nd. During a press meet, when asked if she would take up heroine oriented films like Trisha and Nayanthara as she didn’t have any new films, the frustrated hottie commented that she was only 25 and that she would think of such films after she is into her middle 30s like Nayan and Trisha.

Hansika’s inadvertent comments hinting as if Trisha and Nayanthara have resorted to heroine oriented films as they were not fit to romance heroes, didn’t go well with the fans of the two actresses. She is receiving backlash from the fans on social media.

Hansika must have forgot that both Trisha and Nayan are not just limited to heroine oriented films and are also acting alongside noted heroes. On the other hand, she has neither.

Fans erecting cutouts for their favorite heroes ahead of their film releases is very common in tollywood. However, Nani seems to have been touched by this and he has a commendable gratitude message for his fans.

Several cutouts of Nani have been placed at theatres across the Telugu states as his latest film ‘Nenu Local’ hit screens today. Cutouts are not new to this ‘Natural Star’ but he looks to be touched by the cutout placed at the iconic Sudarshan 35MM theatre at RTC X Roads in Hyderabad.

He said that when he was a child, he stood at the feet of the cutouts of many films and expressed his happiness after watching a cutout of his standing taller than the theatre itself. He thanks his fans for making him what he is today and promised to keep entertaining them as long as he could.

Nani is no doubt a self-made star who reached to the top from the stage of a nobody so his child-like happiness is understandable.

Meanwhile, stay tuned for the review of ‘Nenu Local’ that will be posted on Gulte shortly.

Actress Rhea Chakraborthy of ‘Tuneega Tuneega’ fame looks damn sexy in this selfie taken at beach.

She must have failed to get recognized in tollywood but the audacious lady is making her presence felt in bollywood. Such sultry looks would surely given sleepless nights to beauty devoted.