Expectations were high on Thikka before the release, since Sai Dharam Tej delivered hat trick of hits with Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham, Subramanyam For Sale and Supreme. Even with an average content, Thikka would have become a big hit. Nonetheless, Thikka was criticized as meaningless film.The Suneel Reddy directed film made of Rs 22 Crores is the highest budgeted film in Sai’s career. One thing we must agree is lavishness is seen in every single frame. Other than that, the film offers nothing for any section of audiences.

On the flip side, Venkatesh’s Babu Bangaram received mixed response after its release. Fortunately, the unanimous negative talk for Thikka is helping Babu Bangaram to rake decent shares. Moreover, there is no other film for Telugu audience to watch at theaters for now, other than Babu Bangaram, when it comes to new arrivals of this week.In fact, Babu Bangaram is the biggest opener in Venkatesh’s career. Although the film’s collections slowed down on second day due to average ratings and also because of Thikka’s release.

Usually, openings will be high for medium to high range heroes films. Likewise, houseful boards were seen in many theaters for very first shows of Thikka. But, sudden drop in collections was witnessed from matinee shows itself.As per trade analysts, the Maruthi directed movie made of decent budget would be a safe venture for producers as well as distributors in most of the areas, wherein Thikka would end as one of the biggest disasters of the year.

The association of mega fans, which has been the biggest and strongest in the Telugu film industry, seems to be getting weaker of late with internal wars.

After the cold war between Pawan fans and Allu Arjun, now another social media war has started between Sai Dharam Tej and Allu Arjun fans. Anti-fans might enjoy this but the hardcore mega fans feel that these kinds of internal wars will only make antis stronger.

A senior and true mega fan opined that all the mega heroes and mega fans must be united at this tough time as few unidentified forces are working in collaboration to divide and rule mega fans just like British first divided and then ruled Indians. He also requested the senior mega heroes to take this issue seriously and sort the differences out even if they have to summon the young mega heroes and presidents of mega fans associations.

The most eagerly awaited audio album of NTR’s Janatha Garage was released on the 12th night and almost all the songs turned out to be instant chartbusters. The success of the audio has increased the hype for the film, which is releasing on September 2nd.All the six tracks in Janatha Garage have the typical DSP trademark stamped on them. However, one particular song, the hit number Jayaho Janatha, has been the topic of intense discussions on social media and is receiving a lot of criticism.

The Jayaho Janatha song has complete similarities with the interval fight in Ram Charan’s hit film Yevadu, which was again scored by DSP himself. The background vocals and instrumentation in Yevadu fight is much alike the Janatha Garage’s theme song, Jayaho Janatha.

Tollywood music composers getting inspired and often ‘lifting’ the soundtracks directly from foreign language and other Indian language films and music videos is nothing surprising. But DSP copying and reusing his own composition is definitely a first in Tollywood.

Young hero Raj Tarun is doing two films simultaneously- one with debutante director Sanjana and the other is with Dongata fame director Vamsi Krishna. Both these films are being made under AK Entertainments Banner.

Latest we heard is married model and actress Pujitha Ponnada is roped in to play Raj Tarun’s love interest in Sanjana’s film. Pujitha is a well known face to netizens since she acted in many short films in Telugu such as Unspoken, Anu Nenu Tanu, Upma Tinesindi, Deepika Padukone, Boochi etc. In fact, Raj Tarun also started off his career doing short films had turned lead actor with Uyyala Jampala.

A software engineer by profession, Pujita Ponnada is born in Vishakapatnam and was brought up in Chennai was also seen in couple of Telugu films such as Thuntari and Oopiri. Although she played brief roles in both films, she will be seen essaying lead actress in Raj Tarun’s film.Director Maruthi is providing story and screenplay for this movie that will have space for another heroine.