Ever since Devi Sri Prasad has been kept out of Balakrishna’s Gautamiputra Satakarni, there’s a lot of curiosity on who’s going to replace Devi for the Balayya’s landmark film. Since the film happens to be historic epic, many in film circles thought Krish may zero in on Keeravani or Ilayaraaja. However, Krish proved their guesses wrong by roping in Kanche music director. Chirantan Bhatt is finalised to compose music for Gautamiputra Satakarni.

Given that the music of Kanche was well received, Krish had retained Chirantan. Chirantan had worked for films Gabbar is Back, Ragini MMS 2 and even worked for two tracks in Ram Charan-starrer Zanjeer.

But Chirantan feels working for GPSK is challenging and interesting as he doesn’t have much freedom to use instruments like he does for regular commercial films. What’s more? Chirantan has already started working on the tunes and since it’s historic epic, the film would mostly have melodies.

Jr NTR starrer Janatha Ganage, which is re-scheduled to hit screens on 1st September, has been making headlines from last few days. Now days before the film’s release, a section of Pawan Kalyan fans in Andhra Pradesh are boiling over the murder of their co-fan Vinod Royal, who was reportedly killed by Jr NTR fan in Karnataka.

Agitating the death of Vinod, a large section of PK fans and members of Jana Sena are protesting against Jr NTR’s latest outing Janatha Garage and decided to quit the film.

On other hand, Pawan Kalyan met Vinod’s family and expressed his deepest condolences in Tirupathi. Off the Renigunta airport-Tirupathi road, towards Vinod’s residence, the roads are filled with Pawan Kalyan fans.

It remains to be seen how this move by Pawan Kalyan fans will effect Janatha Garage.

Do you remember Nithya Menen’s long delayed film Malini 22? The film which is a remake of Malayalam hit 22 Female Kottayam was already released in Tamil and was a disaster there.

The Telugu version had been postponed numerous times and Telugu audiences have almost forgotten about the movie. Now, the makers are planning to release the movie with new title.

Ghatana is the new title for the film which is slated for release soon. The film’s teaser focused majorly on Nithya was released recently. Furthermore, they are promoting the movie as ‘from the director of Drishyam’.

Sripriya who made remarkable directorial debut in Telugu with Venaktesh starred Drishyam has helmed Ghatana. More often than not, makers change title when a film gets delayed for elongated time period.

Likewise, Malini 22 makers have also done the same thing by changing the title to Ghatana to endorse it as a fresh film. Will change of title help the film any way?

Nithya Menen will be seen as a nursing student and Krish J Sathaar, Naresh will be seen in prominent roles in the rape thriller and revenge drama movie.

Blockbuster combination of “OohaluGusaGusa Lade” team Avasarala Srinnivas, Naga  Shourya and Sai Korrapati team up again for another romantic entertainer Jyo Achyutananda this September under Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram banner.

Jyo Achyutananda Audio which was released on Aug 21st already received an outstanding response from the Telugu music lovers all over the world. Songs of the movie Oka Lalana, SuvarnaSuvarna, Akupacchani chandamamala and the title song Jyo Achyutananda are already super hit.

Hansika who was not seen much in Tollywood in the last couple of years is back in the groove. Offers are raining on this 25-year-old actress.

As she is quite popular till few months ago, she didn’t worry about Telugu career and happily continued doing Tamil movies but chances in Kollywood are slowly going down. So she realized that it is time to try her luck in Tollywood again.

To get her foot back in Telugu cinema, she slashed remuneration. She is now signing Telugu films half the price she quotes for a Tamil movie. Hence Tollywood producers who are also facing the dearth of right heroines are giving her chances happily.

Hansika recently signed Gopichand – Sampath Nandi’s movie as well as Manchu Vishnu’s next. So the trick of slashing the remuneration has worked for her.

Rajamouli and his team didn’t care to promote “Baahubali The Beginning” in Telugu media. They didn’t interact with the local media either. Still, they were able to deliver and create history as far as collections  are concerned.

As the movie has now become a craze at national level, the team of “Baahubali 2” is now focusing completely on national and international media publicity.

Buzz in the industry is that the producers of “Baahubali 2” have hired a PR agency in Mumbai to promote the movie in Bollywood media right from the production stage. So the agency is giving all hyped up inputs about the movie to the Bollywood media regularly so that the interest among the Hindi audiences is sustained till they close all the business deals for the Hindi version.

The team has also hired an international marketing agency for the China and other foreign market releases. “Baahubali” team is in the opinion that the local Telugu media is anyhow forced to give the publicity to the movie, as there is huge buzz around it. So the team is giving a damn about local media.

Recently, Rajamouli canned the scene of Kattappa revealing why he killed Baahubali. This news of filming of the scene of why Kattappa killed Baahubali was sent by the same Bollywood PR agency to all the Bollywood media but not given to local press. Their preference is Bollywood media although the film is essentially Telugu movie.

TV anchor turned successful filmmaker Ohmkar bagged a brilliant chance of entering into PVP cinema compound for his next project Raju Gari Gadhi 2. This film is officially confirmed of coming as sequel to 2015 commercially super hit film Raju Gari Gadhi.

Marked by hit formula in horror comedy genre, Ohmkar earlier tied up with Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram banner for the first part. Now, he is joined by Pearl V Potluri, Param V Potluri and Kavin Anne for the second part. Ohmkar owned Oak Entertainments banner is also one of the production partners.

“Ohmkar is ready with an engaging Raju Gari Gadhi 2 script. We will be announcing more details on cast, crew very soon,” PVP Cinema PR sources said exclusively to greatandhra.

Apparently, Raju Gari Gadhi increased the responsibility on Ohmkar to progress for next projects with caution. He also has plans to direct big stars in coming days. A project of Ohmkar directing Venkatesh can be expected by early next year.

Even before the release of superstar Rajinikanth’s Kabali, director of the film PA Ranjith made waves not just in Kollywood but all over South India. Boosted with the intense craze generated by the trailer, Ranjith announced that he would be working with 24 star Suriya soon after he’s done with Singam-3 shoot.

Yes! It was during Kabali promotions, director Ranjith notified media about his next project with Suriya. At the same time, rumors were ripe that he’s got acceptance from Ilayathalapathy Vijay for an Tamil upcoming film. Now, it turns out, that film with Suriya is not shaping up.

Seems like the advantage gained by Kabali trailer has been shattered post the film’s release for PA Ranjith. However, actor Suriya plans his next with Muttiah, Komban fame, for a family entertainer. More details will be out soon.