Sampath Nandi’s rise in Tollywood is nothing less than a sensation. After directing a low budget film starring Varun Sandesh, Sampath surprised everyone by teaming up with Ram Charan, Pawan Kalyan for a while and finally Ravi Teja.

While his success story seems like an overnight phenomenon, it took Sampath many years of struggle and even humiliations to reach to the position he is at the moment. In his latest interview, Sampath revealed a funny yet an embarrassing situation which took place during the early days of his Tollywood dreams.

Inspired by legendary poet C Narayana Reddy, Sampath Nandi took to writing short stories in his childhood and even won a few prizes. One day in during his school days, Sampath saw an ad by D Ramanaidu’s Suresh Productions which was looking for fresh stories. Sampath immediately sent his story and got a letter from Suresh Productions.

Thrilled, Sampath threw a party for his friends and treated them to sweets and tea. Months passed by and Sampath never heard from Suresh Productions again. His friends started teasing him about his much hyped script ending up as a no show.

Sampath then took the letter sent by Suresh Productions to his teachers, who told him that it was only an acknowledgement letter that Suresh Productions received his script. Sampath revealed that he felt ashamed for ignorantly celebrating for his script which was actually rejected.

Nandamuri Balakrishna’s prestigious 99th fill Dictator has been running successfully agree releasing huge amid humongous expectations. In the film, Balayya shared the screen space with three charming beauties, Anjali, Sonal Chauhan and Aksha.

Talking about her experiences while shooting with Balayya, Aksha revealed several amusing tidbits about Balayya’s down to earth nature even though he is such a huge star. Aksha revealed that she greeted Balayya saying “Hello sir” on the first day of the Delhi schedule.

To this, Balayya made an animated face and reportedly said, “I will not talk to you if you call me sir. Just call me Bala”. Praising Balayya’s friendly nature to no limits, Aksha also said that she and Balayya discussed endlessly about sun signs, politics and world cinema etc.

Of late, all the costars who worked with Balayya are all praise for the senior star who is known for his temperament. But Balayya has toned down his temper and has been winning everyone’s hearts.

Here’s Nara Lokesh, the grandson of legendary NTR, posing for a selfie with his late grandfather’s 3D printed statue in his iconic Sri Krishna avatar. Lokesh tweeted saying that this 3D printed statue of his grandpa is the first step towards building NTR Museum.

Ever since it came into power in the bifurcated Andhra Pradesh in 2014, TDP has been working towards building the NTR International Museum in the legendary actor and people’s leader in his hometown Nimmakuru in Krishna district.

Lokesh took the entire responsibility of building the museum and he even visited New Delhi to study the architectural styles of several museums, finalized the NTR museum’s design and also held talks with several architects of global repute.

The museum will make NTR’s hometown a major tourist attraction and it will showcase the legendary star’s path to stardom in films and politics showcased in a short film to be directed by none other than his son and TDP MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna.

Oscars, also called Academy Awards felicitates the best talent in films, not just for Hollywood, but for International films also. Its more like a dream and target for any passionate filmmaker, actor or any technician to grab at-least one Golden statue in their lifetime.

This year, academy awards will be honoring an Indian origin technician Rahul Thakkar with Oscar of Technical achievement Award for his works and contribution with “Groundbreaking design”. Rahul Thakkar will be awarded Oscar during annual scientific and Technical Awards presentation on February 13th along with 9 other technical achievement award winners.

The Academy will be honouring all other awardees on February 28th, the grand event of Oscar awards 2016. Its a rare yet proud honour for an Indian origin and though India sends an official entry every year to academy awards, none of them have seen the golden statue for Best Foreign film category.

But films with Indian theme have given chance for Indians to grab some of these, in the likes of Gandhi and Sludog millionaire. Famous musician AR Rahman and legendary writer Gulzar won Oscars for their ‘Jai Ho’ song in Slumdog Millionaire in Nest Original Song category.

Legendary filmmaker Satyajit ray was awarded Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1992 for his vision on cinema. Satyajit Ray accepted the award from his hospital bed, as he was ill during then. Resul Pookutty, who worked for Slumdog Millionaire as sound editor was awarded Greatest Sound Mixing award at Oscars.

Ileana is getting bold each day and here she threw one steamy picture from her latest personal stuff. This hip beauty has completely left Tollywood for B’town and since then, she is getting adopted to Bollywood.

Ileana is seen blushing in hot smiles, hiding her face in pillow and no wonder this picture is captured by her photographer rumored boyfriend Andrew Kneebone, who else. Ileana has no films in hand at this moment, but the craze is still on.

New Delhi: Actress Asin Thottumkal on Tuesday exchanged wedding vows with electronics company Micromax founder Rahul Sharma in a closely-guarded ceremony. The couple married as per Christian rituals at the Dusit Devarana hotel here in the morning, and another celebration is in the pipeline later in the day.

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, the best man and the groom’s close friend, was present for the wedding, which was attended by only close family members and friends of the couple. The security for the wedding was tight and the hotel staff didn’t allow any outsiders or “unknown people” inside the premises.

Asin is primarily known for her work in the southern film industry. Her popularity went a notch higher when she made her Bollywood debut with Aamir Khan starrer “Ghajini” in 2008. Akshay, who worked with Asin in “Khiladi 786” and “Housefull 2”, is said to have played Cupid between Asin and Rahul. And he was the first one to receive their wedding card.

Power Star Pawan Kalyan is one of the rarest actors who always remember his good friends and also those who helped him in tough times. We are recalling one such incident here. Like every star family member, Pawan Kalyan also used to visit sets of his elder brother Megastar Chiranjeevi’s films.

When Pawan went to Kondaveeti Donga shooting spot, the film’s producer T Trivikrama Rao treated him well until he left the sets. Pawan Kalyan had remembered this for ages and offered him dates for the film Badri was directed by Puri Jagannath.

On the film front, Pawan Kalyan is presently shooting for his maiden production venture Sardaar Gabbar Singh. The film directed by Bobby has Kajal Agarwal playing female lead role and Raai Laxmi in extended and Sanjjana in special cameos.

Power-packed Tollywood actor Nandamuri Balakrishna’s prestigious 99th film Dictator is thoroughly satisfying his fans in the B, C centres and is minting money at the box-office. The film’s unit celebrated the success in style and Balayya’s speech at the event was indeed quite startling.

Balayya revealed an interesting incident which took place during the film’s Delhi schedule. Balayya said that the shooting was going on at the Delhi’s famous Jama Masjid and he was roaming around the locality only to be cautioned by his security bouncers who told him that the entire surroundings are full of notorious rowdies.

With a smile, Balayya told them, “I am the biggest rowdy in the world”. Not caring about the caution, the dashing star then went on to roam around the entire residential area and even posed for photographs with fans and gave them autographs. One can’t help but say, That is Balayya!

Mumbai:  Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan on Wednesday spoke out in support of actress Sunny Leone, who was at the receiving end of harsh questions about her professional choices in a TV interview. During the promotional TV interview with CNN IBN anchor Bhupendra Chaubey, Sunny was asked that while she would like to work with Aamir Khan, would Aamir Khan like to work with her. Sunny faced it sportingly, and it is this spirit that has impressed Aamir.

“I think Sunny conducted herself with a lot of grace and dignity in this interview. I wish I could have said the same about the interviewer. “And yes Sunny, I will be happy to work with you. I have absolutely no problems with your ‘past’, as the interviewer puts it. Stay blessed. Cheers. Aamir,” Aamir posted on his Facebook page. He shared the same post on Twitter. Sunny acknowledged Aamir’s support with a re-tweet, which read: “I think my heart just dropped seeing this! Thank you so much for the support. It means the world and beyond to me.”

After reading his tweet on his interest in working with her, she wrote: “Wow you just made my whole year saying that! I was just happy you wrote me back. Respect you dearly!” Sunny, who made inroads into Bollywood with “Jism 2”, is awaiting the release of her new film “Mastizaade”. It is to promote this sex comedy that she went in for the interview with Chaubey. The interview was tagged as “disgusting and sexist” by a string of celebrities, who expressed support to Sunny.

Some of the questions asked were: There are lots of married women who look at Sunny Leone as a threat to their husbands, do you not care about all this? A member of parliament, in his speeches, has held you responsible for corrupting Indian morality. How do you deal with that? She was even asked: If Sunny Leone is becoming brand ambassador of New India, is that a dangerous trend to have? The anchor didn’t stop there. He also asked Sunny if she is the reason behind the growing porn watchers in India.

“Since you have come to Indian cinema, the number of people watching porn has increased proportionately to the extent that we are now the world’s largest consumer of porn. Can you respond to that,” he asked. However, Sunny answered the queries with wit and poise, thereby garnering applause from known names of the film fraternity.

Chennai: Actor Mahat Raghavendra will make a special appearance in the yet-untitled Telugu remake of “Neram” which features Sundeep Kishan in the lead. “Sundeep and I have been friends for many years. I’m really excited about teaming up with him,” Mahat told IANS.

For Mahat, working in the project is like a reunion of sorts with friends. “Besides Sundeep, the film’s producer Anil Sunkara and Bobby Simhaa, who plays the antagonist are also very close friends. It’s not every day that you get to work with such people, so I’m quite thrilled,” he said.

The film is being directed by debutant Anil Kanneganti. It tracks a few hours in the life of its protagonist and emphasises the importance of time, both good and bad, in our lives. Mahat is currently shooting for Telugu film “She”. He will start working on a Tamil project to be produced by veteran filmmaker Bharathiraja from March onwards.