Nandamuri Balakrishna and director Krish attempting to revisit India’s history and thus making a film on India’s mighty Telugu warrior Satakarni (ruled the India in 2nd Century AD) is being touted as the Telugu pride.

As the film is inching closer towards its release on the eve of Sankranthi (Jan 12), which again is the major Telugu festival and festival of farmers, the makers of GPSK are hoping to get tax exemption from the governments of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana.

Since TDP government is in ruling and it’s giving due importance to the film considering Satakarni’s rich historic significance besides its connection to the film’s protagonist Balayya, TDP government is expected exempt the film from the entertainment tax levied by the state govt.

And now all eyes are on KCR about the T-state’s exemption on the entertainment tax on the film. Already Balayya has met KCR on Friday at his house after the Assembly session and asked him to watch the special screening of the film.

One has to wait and see whether KCR would give in the tax exemption to GPSK or not. An announcement regarding the tax exemption to GPSK is expected to made by Friday evening or latest by Saturday morning.

Ram Charan has already confirmed that he will be seen in a 30 second cameo in his father, megastar Chiranjeevi’s Khiadi No.150. During a recent promotional interview, Charan has explained how hard it was for him to shoot with megastar.

Charan revealed that although his shot is of just 30 seconds, he had taken several takes to pull off the scene. ‘When I see megastar in action, just like any of his millions of fans, I can’t do anything but stare at him in awe. For this very reason, my unit had to bear with me for several takes as I couldn’t concentrate on my acting,’ confessed Charan.

It may be recalled that Chiru and Charan were earlier seen together on silver screen in the young hero’s industry hit film ‘Magadheera’ and ‘Bruce Lee’. In both those films starring Charan, Chiru played a cameo and this time, Charan is returning the favor. January 11th is the day when the father and son duo will once again be seen on silver screen.

Interim, Charan is busy with the preparations of pre-release event and is also taking care of film’s promotions.

All the fans of Milky Beauty Tamannaah need not worry as the actress is not going to tie the knot and quit movies. Tamannaah has been signed on as the leading lady in the Tamil remake of Telugu blockbuster romantic entertainer, Pellichoopulu.

Now, the talk of the town is that the star heroine like Tamannaah has been chosen to reprise the role of a middle-class, girl next door character played by Ritu Varma in the Telugu version. However, this is a masterstroke by director Gautham Menon, who is going to produce Pellichoopulu’s Tamil remake.

The Tamil version will be directed by Senthil Veerasamy, a producer and actor who will be seen as the villain in Gautham Menon and Dhanush’s upcoming movie. The hero who will reprise Vijay Deverakonda’s role is yet to be finalised.

Released as a small film, Pellichoopulu created a huge sensation last year as it went on to collect nearly 25 crores as against its budget of Rs.1.2 crores. Let’s see if the Tamil version will succeed in recreating the magic scripted by the Telugu version.

Megastar Chiranjeevi’s Prestigious 150th film, Khaidi No 150 is all set for a grand release on January 11th as Sankranthi Special. The movie shooting is complete earlier last month and the movie’s censor works are also complete. Ram Charan will be seen in a little cameo in the film. He will be seen in a dance bit of the film in a song.

Khaidi No 150 which is the comeback project for the Megastar is creating tremendous hype in the trade circles. The makers of this prestigious project are looking at a Pre-Release Business of a whopping 103.5 Crore including satellite and others. The movie’s Pre-Release Event will happen at Haaiilands Open Grounds on Vijayawada and Guntur Highway.

The dais is being readied and Mega fans of Krishna and Guntur districts have filled the entire stretch on the highway with Banners of the film. On the other side, there is a huge demand for the event’s invitation passes. Some of the miscreants are even selling the passes and fake passes in the Black Market.

Bold and beautiful actress Hebah Patel is celebrating her birthday today. Let’s have a look at her career and interesting details about her.

Age:

Although her looks make one believe her as a teenager, this hot lady has just turned 31. Her birthday is 6th January 1986 (source – Wikipedia). She is from Maharashtra.

Opportunity:

With the aim of becoming a journalist, Hebah studied Mass Communication however destiny had other plans for her. She worked as a back stage helper to models at fashion shows in Mumbai to earn pocket money.

The attraction of glamor world and the attention she got at the fashion shows lander her in modeling world and the rest is history.

Acting Debut:

Before making her debut in Tollywood, Hebah has acted in a Tamil film Thirumanam Enum Nikkah (2014) and a Kannada film Adyaksha (2014).

Success in Tollywood:

After a moderately successful debut with ‘Ala Ela’ in 2014, Hebah became an overnight star after playing the titular role in Sukumar’s coming-of-age love story Kumari 21F (2015).

With hits like Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada, Eedorakam Aadorakm and Nanna Nenu Naa Boyfriends in 2016, she is yet to deliver a flop.

Mega Offer:

Her upcoming film, mega hero Varun Tej starrer ‘Mister’ is her mighty opportunity to attract the attention of big filmmakers and top heroes.

We all know that Samantha is going to tie the knot with Naga Chaitanya soon and she already made if official. In this case, Samantha has revealed that she is made about ‘EX’. She also confessed she is mad on ‘EX’.

Don’t jump into speculations. Here we mean it is ‘Exercise’. Samantha who is a hot chick confessed that she often wishes to do exercise and she maintains a strict diet to keep her body fit and hot. Regarding her Work and Profession in 2017,

Samantha said, “I had a very good outing in 2016. 4 of my movies were blockbusters and my parents also accepted my marriage proposal. I always have faith on hard work and I never believe in Luck factor. I never bother about hits or flops.

I had a very tough time last year and that helped me to find real happiness. I will act in 5 movies this year. I am still mad on doing exercises. I hit the gym regularly. That is the secret of my beauty.”

Asian distributors is releasing Khaidi No 150 backed by the mega-family and Sudhakar Reddy and Suresh Babu are firmly behind Gautamiputra Satakarni. Besides, there is Shatamanam Bhavati backed by Dil Raju who has his own hold over theatres in the Nizam area.

Given this strong competition for theatres in Nizam area this festival, the distributors have come to an arrangement that there is no point in competing with one another and losing out on revenues.

Acordingly, they have come to an arrangement where each movie would get its due prominence and not impinge on the other film.

Hero fan following, local popularity, revenue potential and other factor have been taking into consideration and screens earmarked accordingly. And finally, depending on the word-of-mouth, the number of screens would be increased or decreased accordingly.

Meanwhile, industry sources report that Asian has paid an advance o Rs 12 crore to Ram Charan for Khaidi No 150. Charan had reportedly asked for Rs 15 crore. From the revenues, after the deduction of theatrical rents, commission etc, the net revenue would be shared in the ratio of 80:20 between distributor and producer.

It is a wrap for Prabhas. The actor completed the shoot of Rajamouli’s epic drama “Baahubali 2” last night. He has been immersed with this movie from 2013.

After dedicating three and half years of time for “Baahubali” part 1 and 2, Prabhas is now free of this series that brought him national and international recognition.

Rajamouli promised Prabhas to complete the movie before Sankranthi when the shoot was delayed last month. And he did. Last night, the team worked overtime and finished Prabhas’s portions. Rajamouli also informed the public about the end of Prabhas’s shoot through twitter.

“And thats a wrap 4 prabhas 3.5 years. Onehellof a journey Thanks darling.No one had as much belief on this project as you. That means a lot.”

Soon after the release of “Mirchi”, Prabhas moved to Rajamouli’s “Baahubali”. Since then he has not accepted any other movie as he completely surrendered to Rajamouli’s vision and breathed only “Baahubali”.

The dedication and hard work really paid off well. Before this movie, Prabhas was not popular outside Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Today his popularity is on par with Bollywood superstars.

Prabhas will now be relaxing at home for few weeks and then he is expected to work on the mission of losing weight for his next action adventure drama that may go to the sets in the month of May.

Rumours spread that AP government denied permission to Chiranjeevi’s Khaidi No 150 filmmakers to celebrate pre release function at Vijayawada showing undue favouritism to its own MLA Balakrishna whose 100th film Gautami Putra Satakarni is releasing on Jan 12, 2017 during sankranti.

While the whole world is on the edge of tense and very much immersed in World war II, and while India was still
under British rule fighting back to gain independence, the love and deceit between three different individuals is Rangoon all about.

Julia played by Kangana Ranaut is back after little long gap, but has come strong this time. For the first time, Kangana is caught in love triangle of Saif and Shahid Kapoor, who also lived in their roles as a big shot and a soldier respectively.

It remains pure ignorance, if steamy love scenes and lip locks can’t be matched with intense scenes of a period drama. Rangoon proves the same and Kangana’s sultry scenes with Saif and French kisses with Shahid never allow you to blink, no exaggeration here!

The characters’ love scenes never really looked sidelined, yet artistically placed only to explain the bond between them. This romance written by Vishal Bharadwaj gives us only few glimpses in trailer, while the film is hitting screens on February 24.

Puri Jagannadh teaming up with Venkatesh and Suresh Babu for a high-budget film is no breaking news. But the news is that the ace writer-director is doing “Jana Gana Mana” with Venkatesh which was originally supposed to do with Mahesh Babu. Sources privy to the information divulged the info to Gulte.

Although Puri and Mahesh announced to do film Jana Gana Mana, it hasn’t taken off for a while. Blame it on Puri’s lean phase and also Mahesh’s busy lineup of commitments.

In between, Puri seems to have decided to go ahead with Venky. Apparently the film will have a whopping budget of Rs 45 Crore which is highest in Venky’s career.

Reportedly, Suresh Babu would pump in Rs 20 Crore whereas the remaining Rs 25 Crore would be borne by Venkatesh himself.

However, an official confirmation is awaited.

We have not known the villainy angle of Avasarala until Gentleman and now the actor-director is coming in a fresh makeover which comes as a total surprise. Avasarala Srinivas has gone for complete transformation and the soft guy we know no longer exists in this film of adult comedy, wherein he romances four beautiful girls.

Have a glance at the hot romance of Avasarala Srinivas with Surpiya Aysola, Tejaswi Madiwada, Mishty Chakraborty and Srimukhi in Babu Baaga Busy, the official remake of Bollywood adult comedy, Hunterrr. The movie is directed by debutante Naveen Medaram, who earlier worked in the graphics department for two Hollywood films. Babu Baaga Busy finished its shooting and gearing up for release any time soon.

Has Dil Raju committed same mistake of playing with safe family emotions at the cost of having no story on hand? What’s the actual point to make ‘Shatamanam Bhavathi’ a special release in Pongal season?

Except the scenic Athreyapuram beauty and Mickey J Meyer’s soothing music, there is nothing like a central conflict established in ‘Shatamanam Bhavathi’ trailer. Maradalu Anupama Parameshwaran from foreign land visiting mother land India and falling in love with Bava Sharwanand against the wishes of family appeared like a central point which is dealt numerous times on Telugu screen. With no freshness in main plot, Dil Raju and Satish Vegeshna should have depended more on treatment with enormous feel good factors and a big casting team.

Dil Raju’s feebleness was visible in handling this genre in past with ‘Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu’ missed on core conflict. However, Mahesh Babu does the trick helping the film to deliver goods at ticket counters. Can Sharwanand become a Mahesh Babu to repeat the same SVSC result for ‘Shatamanam Bhavathi’ is a question to be answered?

On comparative scale, ‘Express Raja’ succeeded in between ‘Soggade, Nannaku Prematho and Dictator’ because it was a lighter, laughter riot with multiple tracks. On the other side, GPSK is a strong content based film while KN 150 is a mass masala commercial entertainer. How far SB can overcome these two big names will also be a challenge to wait for?

Megastar Chiranjeevi is one such rare hero who can flaunt all elements of acting in his movies. Especially, he stands the best in action and comedy. His extreme levels of comic timing can be watched in his blockbuster films ‘Donga Mogudu’ and ‘Rowdy Alludu’.

The director of ‘Khaidi Number 150’, VV Vinayak, in his recent video interview revealed that the film has good content of humour which is on par with the sum of the hilarious content seen in ‘Donga Mogudu’ and ‘Rowdy Alludu’.

‘Khaidi Number 150’s original version ‘Kaththi’, doesn’t have that stuff of comedy. But then, Chiranjeevi and Brahmanandam’s comedy scenes in ‘Khaidi’ make the difference. The film is all set for a record number theaters across the globe. Mega Power Star Ram Charan is producing the film on Konidela Production Company.  Kajal Aggarwal is the heroine.