Puri Jagannath was once considered dashing director with his success streak and daring attempts. But he lost his midas touch from few years and has been churning out underrated movies. But Puri showed some promise with NTR’s Temper.

Temper gained confidence in buyers such that they invested huge in Loafer which has young mega hero Varun Tej in lead. The movie has covered business of over 19 covers including publicity and prints. Movie promoted as an emotional output from Puri Jagannath.

Puri even stated that Loafer is “Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammayi” kind of film in years. But the film failed miserably at box office and collected a share of just 11.65 crores and gross of about 20 crores. With this it can be easily understood that distributors recovered upto just 60 % which major areas like Nizam left distributor in huge losses.

Pawan Kalyan lodging complaint against BVSN Prasad just a day before the release of Nannaku Prematho came as a shocker to everyone. Even Pawan fans are shocked over the news as Powerstar is not known for taking extreme measures for the sake of pending money. Tarak fans are devastated to know Pawan Kalyan is causing problems to Nannaku Prematho at the last minute. NTR fans are crying foul and alleging that this is a ploy against Tarak by Balakrishna and his supporters.

Pawan Kalyan’s closeness to Chandrababu Naidu and NTR’s recent differences with CBN and Balakrishna triggered these opinions. But the thing is Pawan Kalyan is not causing any problems to the release of the movie. He didn’t ask the chamber to stall the release until his dues are paid. So Pawan is not creating any problems to the movie but only dealing with the producer who didn’t keep his word.

BVSN Prasad promised to clear Pawan Kalyan’s dues before Nannaku Prematho is released. But he failed to keep his word and stopped attending to the calls of Pawan’s managers. So Pawan had no option but approach MAA regarding the pending payment.

Pawan made sure that Attarintiki Daredi had a smooth release by clearing few financial hurdles. BVSN Prasad didn’t bother to clear Pawan’s dues even after the movie went on to become an industry hit. Pawan waited for more than two years before lodging a complaint.

Eros International which is co-producing Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Dictator today sprang a surprise with the posters of NTR’s Nannaku Prematho. The Nannaku Prematho posters carried the logo of Eros prominently prompting rumors that the Eros completely bought the rights.

Still the distributors of Nannaku Prematho say otherwise, they still are dealing with BVSN Prasad, the producer, not with Eros. Even sources at Eros deny that they bought Nannaku Prematho. Then why did the logo suddenly appear on the posters.

Was it mistake done by designer? Or has the deal dropped off suddenly? Seems there is confusion around it.  Meanwhile, Nannaku Prematho is releasing in nearly 60 screens in Chennai, and in highest number of screens in Mumbai and Bangalore as Reliance Entertainments planned it meticulously. Reliance Entertainments is partner in the film.

When two or three films release simultaneously, they naturally eat into each other’s market share thereby causing losses to one another. Therefore, the AP Film Chamber in a bid to protect buyers and producers is trying to come out with a set of guidelines according to which any film should submit a letter indicating its release date clearly and if it is unable to come on that date, there should be a gap of at least one week for its release.

Responding to this new experiment, the producers of ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’, ‘Nannaku Prematho’ and ‘Express Raja’ submitted letters to the Chamber in the same order.

Apparently, the producers of ‘Dictator’ gave the letter very late to the Chamber. A per the rules, ‘Dictator’ must be asked to release after the other three films. But the Chamber did no such thing as it was a Balayya movie. Why mess with him?

After Pawan Kalyan has lodged complaint with the Movie Artistes’ Association, it’s turn of his close aide and director Trivikram Srinivas who filed complaint against Attarintiki Daredi producer BVSN Prasad. As per reports, Prasad owes Rs 2 Crore each to Pawan and Trivikram.

Since the movie Attarintiki Daredi released over two years ago and the movie turned out to be one of the biggest hits in the film industry, and producer Prasad hasn’t kept his commitment, Pawan and Trivikram said to have miffed and decided to move MAA.

Highly-placed sources close to Pawan corroborated that Pawan and Trivikram were dejected with what Prasad has did. This apparently led the duo to complaint against Prasad in MAA.

Meanwhile, the talk is that Mega Panchayati is going on about this. While Tarak fans are angry about the fresh controversy, Power Star fans too reportedly fuming on the producer of Nannaku Prematho. Let’s wait and see what’s going to happen in the next few hours.

Bollywood Bhaijaan, Salman Khan, is clearly not shying away from his relationship with Romanian beauty, Iulia Vantur as he has recently gifted her a brand new car.

Salman Khan has been dropping hints on how he’s getting closer to her and how close she is to her family. Vantur was seen at all the important events of the Khan Parivaar and looks like she is now a permanent member of the family as well.

According to reports, Bhaijaan gifted a grey colored four wheeler after his birthday celebrations. But we are not sure if she will be driving it around much because as it was reported earlier that Vantur preferred traveling in an auto to stay low and away from the media.

Sources also reveal that this gift was a special one which might show that Salman is pretty serious about her and wants the relationship to work despite the alleged rumors about Iulia not being comfortable with her beau’s closeness to Daisy Shah and Zarine Khan.Salman Khan is currently in Karjat shooting for his upcoming film Sultan.

Actor Pawan Kalyan has lodged complaint against Attarintiki Daredi producer BVSN Prasad to the Movie Artistes Association over his pending remuneration. Apparently, Bhogavalli Prasad hasn’t paid full remuneration to Pawan Kalyan yet although promised before.

According to reports, Prasad had promised Pawan that he’d pay the balance amount during the release of his next movie i.e Nannaku Prematho with Jr NTR. While Nannaku Prematho is all set for release on Jan 13 and Pawan didn’t receive balance Rs 2 Crore, Pawan said to have moved MAA.

During the release of Attarintiki Daredi, piracy fiasco unfolded as over 90 minutes of the film’s footage got leaked. Then reports were rife that film’s lead actors Pawan, Samantha and director Trivikram Srinivas had cut short their remuneration although there was no official confirmation from anyone of them. Since the movie later turned out to be one of the biggest hits in the film industry, producer not returning the amount said to have irked Pawan Kalyan.

Pawan usually goes soft on such monetary issues. But Pawan himself filing complaint against a producer definitely comes as a big surprise. Let’s wait and see what’s going to happen.

Getting into the Sankranthi race while three other biggies are in contention is affecting the prospects of Express Raja. This Sharwanand starrer is the low budget movie among the Sankranthi releases. Express Raja attracted buyers as it was produced by UV Creations that has a very good track record. However buyers didn’t expect Express Raja to compete with many big films.

Although UV Creations managed to get decent amount of screens in AP and Telangana, it is turning out to be extremely difficult to get theaters in other states. Express Raja is not releasing in Chennai as there are many Tamil releases along with the Telugu biggies. Even the buyer from Karnataka has backed out at the last minute, sources said.

The buyer agreed to pay 35 lakh rupees for Karnataka rights with so much buzz going around Express Raja. But the buyer didn’t expect the movie to compete with many big films. Competition is so high that Soggade Chinni Nayana’s Karnataka distribution rights were sold for just Rs. 30 lakhs.

Same buyer who made an agreement with Express Raja bagged SCN rights for cheap and he felt that 35 lakh for ER is very high in this scenario. So he said he will pay only Rs. 15 lakh for Karnataka rights to which the makers of Express Raja didn’t agree. As of now Express Raja is not releasing in Karnataka. It may have a delayed release depending upon its performance in Telugu states.

Actor Jr. NTR, who has worked with several directors in his over a decade-long career, says nobody could match up with the dedication of Sukumar, with whom he has worked in the forthcoming Telugu drama “Nannaku Prematho”. Sukumar-directed “Naanaku Prematho” releases worldwide on Wednesday. “Sukumar is the kind of director you don’t want to criticize even if his film fails, because there’s so much genuine effort in his work. I’ve never seen a director with so much of dedication and commitment. He pushes you to give your best,” NTR told media.

Recalling how committed the director was on the sets, NTR said: “We shot for nearly two months in London. Sukumar must’ve barely slept for two hours a day throughout this schedule. We’d start shooting from 7.30 a.m. and finish the day by 8 p.m., after which he will discuss next day’s work with his assistant till 2 a.m.” NTR also revealed that he was originally supposed to team with up with Sukumar for another project.

“Sukumar was working on another script when his father passed away. He then narrated this story about how a son fulfils his father’s last wish. I was touched by the story. Unlike my regular commercial films, this one has a very strong emotional core,” he said. The film, which has music by Devi Sri Prasad, also stars Rakul Preet Singh, Jagapathi Babu and Rajendra Prasad in important roles.