Currently a debate is going on in trade circles how Shahrukh Khan is following his favorite star, Superstar Rajnikanth. While Dilwale just crossed 3 million dollars ‘gross’ from USA box office, the actual fact is that his collection is not enough back home to save the local distributors.

Here is Superstar connection to Dilwale explained. Before the release of “Lingaa”, superstar Rajni praised Lingaa story and concept as top notch. He kept on promoting the film in Chennai, Hyderabad and Mumbai too.

Presence of Sonakshi Sinha is seen as a huge advantage up north. Frankly, all that hype ended as a goof up, because huge hype is also a factor responsible for the film’s flop show. Despite the fact that the film collected 100 crores and above, distributors lost nealry 50% of their investments.

Same is the case with Dilwale that failed to entertain audiences. Even if the collections cross 100 crores ‘nett’ by tomorrow, a week after release, distributors won’t feel happy.

Because they should get nearly 250 crores ‘nett’ to break into profits, say trade reports. So, Dilwale is following the Lingaa way at box office. Will distributors of Dilwale revolt like the ones of Lingaa?

Superstar Mahesh Babu failed to give break for sexy model Kriti Sanon in Tollywood, but she has shot to fame later with “Heropanti”, her debut Bollywood flick. In no time, she landed in Shahrukh Khan’s Dilwale and her career is expected to take a major turn now.

Surprisingly in film industry, it’s not that easy to get fortunes turned. Dilwale is going flop route and Kriti’s character in the film is not much weighed. Neither it has any potential that she will be seen as a crowd puller. Though Kriti is having couple of projects in hand, if Dilwale’s failure is one big blow, then the second one came from Yash Raj Films.

If the rumour of Kriti rejecting Salman’s “Sultan” stayed like a rumour, that would have helped her. But YRF suddenly sprang into the scene and clarified that they never approached her in the first place. That reduced, sorry almost zeroed, the hype around Kriti and other big stars may not think of her very soon.

Often, most low budget filmmakers undergo numerous hardships during the making of their films. Even though they manage to wind up the shooting and ready the film for a release, they mostly end up finding no takers and their films lie in the labs.

This lack of trust on small films by distributors is affecting some really well made low budget films. However, things have changed for good with the entry of a few noted producers and distributors. One of the frontrunners in this list is the hotshot producer cum distributor Sai Korrapati.

A couple of months ago, Sai Korrapati acquired the low budget horror-comedy Raju Gari Gadhi and gave it a wide release along with huge publicity. The result was a blockbuster. Apparently, the producer even suggested a few crucial chances to the film’s script, which played a key role in the film’s huge success.

Now, he acquired Jatha Kalise, another low budget film, which is releasing today. Sai Korrapati even managed to pull in bigwigs like Rajamouli and Keeravani to promote the film and the result is that the film is releasing amidst positive buzz.

While trade circles are hoping that his Midas touch will once again work in Jatha Kalise’s favor, Sai Korrapati has already become a Messiah for small budget filmmakers, with many producers  trying to grab his attention towards their films.

Time flies away so fast and it certainty did for the handsome young Mega hero Varun Tej. Yesterday, Varun Tej completed a grand one year in Tollywood since his debut with the December 24, 2014 release Mukunda. Varun pulled off a rare Mega feat of acting in 3 films in the first year of his debut.

This Sreekanth Addala directorial was launched in a grand manner with Varun’s star uncles, Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan, gracing the muhurtham ceremony. Mukunda, even though failed to mint money at the box-office, introduced a confident actor in Varun Tej and the young lad showed promise for being a sensible actor from the Mega family.

Even Mega fans lapped up Varun Tej immediately for trying out something new right on his debut. The accolades  increased even higher for Varun’s terrific portrayal of a brave WW II soldier in Krish’s Kanche, but the film suffered losses in some areas.

And most recently, Varun once again impressed everyone with his first ever mass avatar in Puri Jagannadh’s Loafer, but again, the film is staring at a loss at the box-office. Irrespective of his films’ unfortunate box-office results, Varun’s penchant for experimenting with his roles is definitely a welcome sign and an inspiration to his fellow young actors. Let’s hope that Varun gets lucky with his upcoming films.

Last Saturday, 20-year-old economics student from Kirkuk, Shaimaa Qassim Abdelrahman, created history by becoming Iraq’s first Miss Iraq after 43 years by outshining more than 200 contestants. The pageant took place amidst intense protests from religious fanatics. However, Shaimaa’s happiness is short lived.

As per the latest reports, the dreaded terrorist outfit ISIS has threatened Shaimaa over a telephone call and gave her an ultimatum to either join ISIS or be kidnapped. However, a resilient Shaimaa, whose cousins who used to work for Iraq federal police and were killed while fighting ISIS terrorists, is determined to not bow down to the terrorists’ demands.

“I am afraid of nothing, because I am confident that what I am doing is not wrong. I want to prove that the Iraqi women have their own existence in society and that they have their rights like men,” said the courageous beauty queen.

January 13th, 14th and 15th. These three dates mark the release of three big movies, Nannaku Prematho, Dictator and Soggade Chinni Nayana respectively. Interestingly the heroes of these three films are from three big families, of course star kids, who always enjoyed the patron cine lovers have towards their dads.

Earlier it was considered that if films release on festival time, then there will be huge first day collections. Even now, collections are there, but surprisingly theatres are not getting available. In many towns and villages, exhibitors are interested only in hit films but not all.

Though they manage the release of one of these three films in their theatres, a week later they will screen only the best among them. Pray cinema-god that all the three will turn blockbusters, which otherwise distributors who invested heavily on these films will be at loss.

Nannaku Prematho business will be more than 55-60 crores of theatrical rights, while Dictator might touch 37-40 crores and Soggade Chinni Nayana for 25 crores.

Guess who will be at huge loss if a film among them these three fails. Being big families heroes, fan base is strong, but due to hefty competition from other movies like Krishnashtami and Express Raja, there is no option than scoring a hit.

Religious intolerance, the bigger topic India has ever seen on news tables and discussion board rooms these days. Especially when stars like Aamir and Shahrukh, who hail from a Muslim community in a land that is dominated by Hindus, made comments on this intolerance, the outburst for-and-against them is viral.

Probably Aamir Khan is the most wrongly quoted actor in the intolerance debate, because he hasn’t directly made any such comment but only emulated the views of his wife Kiran Rao. Keeping that debate of finding the good, bad, ugly of Aamir aside, look at this star’s other side now.

Last night he turned santa claus for his family, and surprised the kids at his home with his gifts, confectioneries and confetti. Looking at the way this 3 Idiots and PK star celebrated Christmas, probably it’s better to spare him from religious intolerance debates.

What sort of story should be picked to score a hit at box office? That’s a puzzle even the biggest of super stars couldn’t answer. Megastar Chiranjeevi will also not have an answer for this. But still, its the duty of any hero to pick right scripts as per their conviction. Currently Ram Charan is said to be in deep thinking about the happenings in his career.

Though picked scripts like Govindudu Andarivadele and Bruce Lee very carefully, they have disappointed him big time. That’s the reason he’s now thinking twice about making any move regarding Thani Oruvan remake.

Already director Surender Reddy made enormous alterations to the native Tamil version such that it will suit local audiences, but Charan is said to disappointed some where.

All these contradictions and confusions are arising because very strong beliefs took a retort with director like Sreenu Vaitla tumbling. Into deep thinking, hope Charan makes his moves carefully but in a swift time.

The Last song shoot of Young Tiger NTR’s Nannaku Prematho will now begin on 27th of this month. A special set is being erected in Annapurna 7 acres Studio for this purpose. DSP already began recording this song.

The makers have confirmed that the audio release event is being planned on 27th of this month. January 13th is the release date as Sankranthi Special. Creative director Sukumar is wielding megaphone for this movie. Rakul Preet Singh is playing the female lead beside NTR.

Rajendra Prasad and Jagapathi Babu are playing important roles. Senior Producer BVSN Prasad is producing the film under his Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra banner.

“Yes, Mahesh has showered his love on me that way. But it’s not true”, says Sudheer Babu, who is arriving with “Bhale Manchi Roju” this Friday. Why did Sudheer felt that Mahesh love is not true?

The context in which Sudheer stated that Mahesh words are not true is quite interesting. Actually Mahesh expressed from the bottom of his heart that Sudheer is trying very heard to make his mark felt on Tollywood. “All he needs is just one hit to become a big star.

I wish Bhale Manchu Roju is that film”, claimed Mahesh, during audio release. Responding on that, Sudheer says, “Mahesh showered his love that way. Actually it takes 4-5 blockbusters in a row to become a superstar. With one film we can’t become a superstar. But I should thank Mahesh for his love towards me”.

Directed by newcomer Sriram Aditya, Bhale Manchu Roju is a kidnap comedy featuring Sudheer Babu and Wamiqa Gabbi in the leads.