Hyderabad: Sometime back, director Praveen Sattaru announced that he would be making a biopic on the life of celebrated badminton player Pullela Gopichand.

Sudhir Babu was supposed to play the lead role; an apt choice for Sudhir Babu was himself a national player and has played alongside Gopichand. But to date, there has been no further news about the project and Praveen Sattaru is busy with ‘Guntur Talkies’.

Insiders say that the project may have been shelved. If that is the case then it is indeed a sad thing because Tollywood seldom gets to watch movies in that genre. It would also have been a fitting tribute to a badminton champ who made the Telugus proud.

One Telugu film and one hit. The 100 per cent success rate heroine Keerthy Suresh is luring Telugu gossip mongers to come up with top range rumors. Looks like, Keerthy is no more eyeing on heroes like Ram who blessed her super hit ‘Nenu Shailaja’ because she is being paired by rumor mills opposite to Ramcharan in ‘Thani Oruvan’ remake and now to romance Mahesh Babu in his upcoming Murugadoss directorial.

Despite the names of various Bollywood and Kollywood heroines sprang besides Ramcharan, finally we heard of Surender Reddy is talking with Keerthy for allotting bulk call sheets. This one of course needs an official confirmation. In no time, fresh grapevine says about Mahesh Babu has also personally called up AR Murugadoss to lock Keerthy as his heroine without wasting much of time and resources scouting for Bollywood babes.

It’s too greedy for Keerthy, if she is really offered the above two and accepted the both. To be much more practical, either of the above projects can take Keerthy to evolve as a star heroine in Tollywood in parallel proving to be a factor of envy for all other seniors Shruti Hasan, Tamanna, Kajal and Tamanna.

‘Nannaku Prematho’ is less than half a mind game between Jr NTR, Jagapathi Babu and more than half Sukumar’s unwanted intelligence forcibly added into screenplay. Whatever, when audience liked it there’s nothing one can comment on it. However, Mega Fans are a little worried with floating gossips on crucial mind game scenes shot for NPT are lifted or say inspired largely from ‘Thani Oruvan’ which is now being remade by Ramcharan under Surender Reddy direction.

Apparently, the above gossip is also half true and half untrue but from viewers perspective, every scene in every film is either inspired or copied from some or the other world or local cinema. It’s not lifting the cream that matters. What matters is presenting the same in a befitting manner keeping the soul in sync with story or script written hero centrically.

‘Thani Oruvan’ remake is a project lies entirely as a burden on Surender Reddy’s shoulders. Being a technical director who understands the minute detailing in every shot, he shouldn’t be worried much with NPT because the theme and basic story of ‘Thani Oruvan’ is wholly non-identical with NPT.

Among the four new movies released massively on the occasion of Sankranti, thankfully each of them got decent response from all sections of audience catering to their different tastes. Despite four big films in Box Office battle, there was no dearth for competition among buyers who paid fairly risky prices to bag distribution rights in various regions of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and of course Overseas market.

As we are coming close to one week, how far are these buyers safe in recovering their investments? Let us have a glance. ‘Dictator’ from Balakrishna is although doing a safe business in lower class B, C and D centers, reports say there is a long way for distributors to get into safe shores with at least 30 per cent of their investment still under risk. ‘Nannaku Prematho’ is of course roaring in higher order metros, urban centers and Overseas, yet the situation is grim with nearly 20 per cent of the distributors investment still to be recovered in domestic market while in Overseas, profits are guaranteed.

In contrast to insecurity prevailing around above two films, ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’ from Nagarjuna and ‘Express Raja’ from Sharwanand is considered as safe bets from business point of view. While Nagarjuna released his movie on commission basis in many areas providing a win-win situation for distributors and exhibitors, ‘Express Raja’ is also guarded with minimal profits for sure. Finally, two are safe and other two are fighting to fall in a safer zone.

In a bid to justify the removal of Aamir Khan as ambassador of ‘Incredible India’ campaign, a top official claimed that Khan tarnished ‘brand India’ while being the ambassador.

Amitabh Kant, Secretary of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, stated that the actor by calling the country as intolerant went against his role as brand ambassador.

Without revealing the name directly, but hinting towards Khan, Kant further said that brand ambassador cannot turn as destroyer of brand.

In late 2015, Khan sparked huge intolerance debate across India after he expressed his views over the rising ‘intolerance’ in the wake of Dadri incident. He further revealed that his wife suggested that the family should move out of the country for safety.

Maverick director Ram Gopal Varma’s latest offering, Killing Veerappan is deemed as the comeback film of the sensational director. Even though the movie did not do up to the talk in Telugu, it is a super hit in Kannada.

We are said that Gemini TV had come forward to pick up the satellite rights of the movie’s Telugu, Tamil and Kannada version for a whopping 6 Crore. This deal will make the film a super profitable venture for the makers.

On the other side, it is already known that a businessman from Dubai was flat with the film and offered to make a biopic of Veerappan in Hollywood. He and his international partner will be producing this film which will mark Ram Gopal Varma’s Hollywood debut. He is currently working on that now.

Nandamuri Balakrishna is one actor who always maintain cordial relations with his costars. The actor is always known for identifying the talent of the heroines who worked with him. He was so impressed with Nayantara and recommended her to Bapu for Sri Ramarajyam.

It was a very gutsy decision back then since Nayantara never attempted such roles till then. Now it is said that Anjali managed to impress him very much with her performance in his recently released Dictator movie. The actor reportedly promised to give a role in his prestigious 100th film.

There is a cutoff for everything. Too much of anything gets too bad. Junior NTR badly needs a strong hit and everyone admits it. Going for Animal Sacrifices and Inhumane Practices to please the almighty for blessing NTR a hit resulted only in extreme criticism targeted against Ntr Fans.

One such incident which is spreading like a wildfire on Internet is Lamb Slaughtering done by Ntr Fans in Kadapa and Pulivendula region during ‘Nannaku Prematho’ release time. Such brutal acts are sure not to please even Junior NTR but Fans have shown their frenzy by asserting to slaughtering of a lamb in theater premises. Fans sprinkled the lamb’s blood on ‘Nannaku Prematho’ posters which made the overall act cruel.

It is worth to mention here about a ‘Bahubali’ scene where Bahubali that is Prabhas stops animal slaughtering while beginning preparations for battle with Kalakeya. When directors like Rajamouli and Prabhas Fans are spreading the knowledge to stop this ritual killing, why not Ntr Fans too appreciate and adopt such enlightenment? Shooting the whole episode on camera and posting on Internet is further gruesome.