Akkineni heroes are too busy these days and each one of them is busy with their professional work. Nagachaitanya is busy with ‘Premam’, while Nagarjuna is busy with ‘Om Namo Venkatesaya’.But these days, Akkieni heroes are stooping down their levels with lots of cameo appearances despite doing full fledged roles.

This special appearance strategy of Akkineni family has started since ‘Manam’. Akhil Akkineni did special appearance in that movie. Nagarjuna followed it in ‘Size Zero’ as his close friend Anushka did female lead role. Similarly in ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’, Nagarjuna forced Akhil and Nagachaitanya to do cameo appearances.

Even though they never acted in the movie, both of the promoted Bangaraju character by sporting Nagarjuna’s rural outfits. Even in ‘Akhil’, Nagarjuna did a cameo role.

Now continuing the same, Naga chaitanya and Akhil have done guest roles in ‘Aatadukundaam Raa’. Sushanth does lead role in this project. And in the upcoming ‘Premam’, Nagarjuna is going to do a special appearance. He is also doing another cameo role in ‘Nirmala convent’.

Akhil Akkineni’s second film has been in soup from longtime. While there had been several speculations on what would be Akhil’s second movie, here comes some clarity. None other than director Maruthi is going to team up with Akhil. After the success of Babu Bangaram, Maruthi has hit the jackpot to helm Akhil’s second.

First Akhil was supposed to team up with Hanu Raghavapudi and 14 Reels, but the proposed film was shelved with Hanu set to work with Nithiin. Even Mythri Movie Makers was supposed to do a film with Akhil, but it didn’t materialise. Akhil had planned to collaborate with Manam director Vikram Kumar and even Vikram was keen. But the film got delayed and Vikram is busy with his personal life. As Vikram is prepping up for his wedding in November and post which Vikram would take some more time and then start working on the script, Akhil has no other option but to choose others  as he has already waited so long for his second after his debut Akhil tanked without a trace.

The latest is that Maruthi’s film is almost confirmed and it’d be produced by none other than Radha Krishna aka Chinna Babu. An official announcement is awaited and Nag would be making the announcement soon. Nag is very keen on the script of Akhil’s second film.

The expectations have reached sky high over Chianjeevi’s much anticipated 150th film, ‘Khaidi No.150’. Recently released first look was welcomed with thunderous response. Now, Mega fans are eagerly waiting for the hit item number from this film.

If we look back, all the films from Chiru-DSP combination gave chartbuster item songs. Their first film ‘Shankar Dada MBBS’ had ‘Naa Pere Kanchanamala’ song was a big hit then. In ‘Andarivaadu’, it was ‘Kodi Koora’ song. We know what sensation ‘Aakaleste’ song created from ‘Shankar Dada Zindabad’. This track record is exciting Mega fans to the core.

Though the original ‘Kaththi’ had no item song, the makers of ‘Khaidi No.150’ are planning to add that mass touch to the script. Several top heroines like Tamanna and Rakul are being considered to shake a leg with Chiru in this number. We need to wait for some more days to know the complete details.

For more than a month now, Team Baahubali has been busy toiling hard in the scorching heat while shooting the most expensive and critical climax war schedule at Ramoji Film City. Today was the last day for this excruciating schedule.

However, just as the team got itself all set to shoot this morning, Rain Gods decided to play spoil sport and it rained cats and dogs on the film’s sets which made it impossible for the shooting to progress. With no option left, the team decided to call off today’s shoot.

But the team only decided to best utilize the break by rejoicing with a game of cricket. This morning, Rajamouli tweeted, “Last day of war and rain plays spoil sport. Unit decides to utilise it for cricket”. Jakkanna also posted a video of the team members playing cricket near the waterlogged sets.

It may be recalled that even during the filming of Baahubali The Beginning, heavy rain destroyed the huge corn field which the film’s production designer Sabu Cyril erected exclusively for the film. Baahubali 2’s shooting will be wrapped up by December and the film will release on 28th April, 2017.

Contrary to few media reports that AP government had issued a Government Order against the benefit shows of films and reports that it would affect the openings of NTR’s forthcming release Janatha Garage, it’s learnt that there wasn’t any such GO passed by AP government and hence such reports have been proved to be false. According to the official information available, AP government hasn’t released any GO like that in the recent times.

Usually, the authority to permit the benefit shows lie with the district collectors who take a final call followed by police permission with theatre owners ensuring that no anti-social events would take place. And hence, state government has no direct role in cancelling or permitting the additional shows.

With the reports turning out to be false, NTR fans have all up for celebration. Directed by Koratala Siva, who is hot on the heels of the successes Srimanthudu, Mirchi, expectations on Janatha Garage are way too high. Trade is betting big on the Koratala-Mythri film and huge openings are expected. Let’s wait and see how the film would open on Sep 1st.

Makers of Srirastu Subhamastu hoped that their film would do well in the second attempt, but the US audience didn’t show any interest in watching it on second release. This film has been turned down by the overseas audience when it was first released on 4th August.

As the film has been doing steady business in the Telugu states, the makers believed that it will be received by the US audience if they release it again. They have claimed that they are rereleasing it on public demand, but the US audience didn’t pay attention to it despite no notable releases during this weekend.

Srirastu was able to collect only a few thousands of dollars in its rerelease while Pelli Choopulu added more than $ 30K to its tally in its fifth weekend. Srirastu is more or less a safe venture in India but it is a big failure in overseas.

We all knew actors and actresses would go to any level in case they earn money. Most of them endorse various brands and act in lots of ads without understanding the consequences. Despite Government has warned that misleading brand endorsements can get them 5 years imprisonment, most of them continue to do the same.

Now in this case, recently an online Rummy game site has roped in Rana Daggubati and Prakash Raj as their brand ambassadors. The Rummy online site is making some extensive ads all over.

In their Facebook page, they shared their advertisement showcasing Rana Daggubati and Prakash Raj. However fans lashed out both of them in the comments section. Most comments said, they don’t have social responsibility and they are worse than sluts who will do anything for money.

Despite the comments are being deleted, the page is completely flooded with more negative comments. Not even one single comment is in favour of Rummy gaming nor the two actors. It’s high time they don’t accept such ads and act responsibly.

Celebrities can never just sign brand endorsements just like that as misleading advertisements can take them behind bars for a span of 5 years and face a fine of Rs.50 Lakhs under a new draft law. This will be taken up by a group of ministers today.

The Centre in August last year had introduced the Consumer Protection Bill 2015, in Lok Sabha, to repeal the 30 -year-old Consumer Protection Act. A Parliamentary Standing Committee submitted its recommendations in April.

After studying the report,  Consumer Affairs Ministry has accepted some key recommendations and they have decided to take some stern action on celebrities for wrong endorsement products.

A group of ministers, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, is scheduled to meet today to discuss the changes proposed by the Consumer Affairs Ministry in the draft law before placing it for the Cabinet approval.

The craze around Young Tiger NTR’s Janatha Garage has been humongous and Tarak fans are currently busy with the arrangements for midnight and early morning benefit shows in almost all the centres in the twin Telugu states and the neighboring states.

Tarak has a huge fan following even in Chennai and the latest update proves how crazy fans are to watch Janatha Garage’s first day first show. Apparently, the film’s benefit show tickets were auctioned off at the SRM University in Chennai.

The auction was organised by the TDP Yuvasena’s Chennai wing, which is also organising the benefit show. A die-hard fan of NTR grabbed the first ticket for a staggering Rs. 31,000. The second and third tickets fetched Rs. 17,500 and Rs. 13,000 respectively.

Meanwhile, NTR fans are hoping that the film will beat Pawan Kalyan’s Sardaar Gabbar Singh’s opening record apart from taking on Baahubali in several areas. With this craze, the film will surely smash a few day one records if it gets a good talk.

Even before the release of trailer, there was a lot of hype surrounding ‘Jyo Achyutananda’. This is majorly because of its film director Avasarala Srinivas. His first film ‘Oohalu Gusagusalade’ was so magical and that it remained in the hearts of every youngster. Now, Avasarala shared an interesting fact about ‘Jyo Achyutananda’.

He said that this film took birth on a hospital table. During the shoot of ‘Kanche’ in Georgia, Avasarala broke his hands and was hospitalized. He got ‘Jyo Achyutananda’s storyline just 10 minutes before getting operated. After that, he developed the line into a full-fledged story and made this film.

He said that this film would be a light hearted entertainer and what attracts the viewers is the ‘bromance’ between Nara Rohit and Naga Shourya. Hope this film becomes a super hit and Avasarala passes out this second film phobia with flying colors.

With Indian actors grabbing big roles in English films, the crossover between Bollywood-Hollywood has been bigger in the recent past. The latest pair of entrants into Hollywood, from India, are Nargis Fakri and national award winning actor Rao Kumar Rao.

Yes, both the actors have been roped in as lead pair for an upcoming Hollywood flick titled ‘5 Weddings’.

The India-born American actress Namrata Singh Gujral, who has several Hollywood films, docu-dramas and musical videos to her credit, will direct the romantic-drama. Slated to shot in Chandigarh and Los Angeles, the film will go on floors in November after Raj finishes his ongoing project ‘Bareli ki Barfi’.

According to our reports, Nargis will be seen as an Indian girl raised in LA, United States. However, it would be interesting to see them together in a Hollywood film.