In Tollywood, every Friday decides the fate of several hundreds of people whose films test their luck at the box-office. In an industry where nothing else matters except success, whoever delivers it becomes a star.

With many such starry dreams, a young IT professional quit his high paying job for his passion to tell stories on the big screen. He is Sriram Adittya. The young filmmaker’s directorial debut, Bhale Manchi Roju, has been released today to positive reviews.

Surprisingly, Sriram never had a filmy background and he never even worked as an assistant director. However, he made a few interesting short films which won accolades on YouTube. It was his short films that got him the chance to direct a film starring a noted hero like Sudheer Babu. The young lad mesmerized the critics and audiences with his intelligent twists which was full of twists and turns.

During the premiere show at a Hyderabad theater last night, Sriram’s friends created a huge hungama to celebrate his successful debut. The euphoria is nothing less than that of a star director’s film’s release. Well, no doubt that Sriram is this Friday’s star and also a promising hope for Tollywood’s future.

This Sankranthi sees a very intense battle of the biggies, with Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Dictator, NTR’s Nannaku Prematho and Nagarjuna’s Soggade Chinni Nayana releasing within one day gap, thereby leading to an inevitable clash at the box-office. Especially, a lot is riding on Balayya’s Dictator since the film is the actor turned MLA’s 99th film.

Fans want nothing short of a historic success with Dictator, and pinned all their hopes on this project. However, one major concern for all Balayya fans is the film’s writer duo, Kona Venkat and Gopimohan.

Of late, both Kona and Gopi have been going through the worst phase of their careers, with many big and prestigious films they had worked bombing miserably at the box-office. And the first and foremost complaint regarding their scripts and screenplays or even the dialogues is the done their death monotonous and stale story template.

Yesterday, Gopichand’s Soukhyam released to some really poor reviews from critics and even audiences seem to have been completely fed up with Kona’s ‘genius’ inputs.

This got Balayya fans to desperately hope for some magic during the Sankranthi fight. And it is mainly Kona and Gopi for whom Dictator’s success is of utmost importance.

Our readers are aware that Universal Hero Kamal Hassan and Amala Akkineni are pairing in a film titled ‘Amma Nanna Aata’. The film will directed by TK Rajeev Kumar and will start rolling in America very soon.

Kamal Hassan and his team are in USA for finding out suitable locations for the film shoot. The makers are going to make the film simultaneously in four languages – Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam.

Zarina Wahab is one more heroine in the film. Kamal Hassan is out of form for a very long time. His last film, Cheekati Rajyam also did not do well at the box office. Fans hope Amma Nanna Aata will be his comeback film.

Do you remember the song ‘Goli mar beje mein’ from Ram Gopal Varma directed Bollywood hit film Satya starred JD Chakravarthy. What will you do while listening to this song; mostly you will dance to the tune. But, an over enthusiastic 26 years-old-man shot himself to death.

The incident took place in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. The youth named Virendra Sharma went inside his room singing the song ‘Goli maar bheje mein…’ and asked his wife for food, before the shot was fired. He was immediately rushed to district hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.

“Virendra may have pulled the trigger accidentally or must have committed suicide. Murder angle cannot be ruled out,” opines police. As per Police, Virendra had a criminal record with several criminal cases against him.

A pistol was also recovered from the spot. Virender was living on the upper portion of a duplex along with his wife and a month-old son. Police started investigation to find out whether it is a case of suicide or murder.

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.