On behalf of Government Of India’s official entry to Academy Awards (Oscars), this film is not even picked. But there is this wild-card entry like thing, which would anyway allow films to compete for Oscar even if the country picks them or not. That’s what happened with Dialogue King Saikumar’s latest Kannada movie.

For Best Foreign Film category, India has sent “Court” as an official entry. However, in the 300 movies list of probables picked by The Academy for final scrutiny, there is Kannada blockbuster “RangiTaranga” too. While the film features all debutants as main leads, including a debutant director Anup Bhandari, it has versatile actor Sai Kumar playing the antagonist.

“We’ve never thought that the film will make it to Oscars. If the film ends up on final list, then it’s going to be a wonderful film. If at all the film wins Academy Award, then I’ll dedicate it to my grand daughter”, says Saikumar, reacting on the whole happening.

One of the top rated choreographers, Jani Master, has got a big break in Tollywood with Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s ‘Rachcha’. He also worked for the movies like ‘Naayak’, ‘Yevadu’ and ‘Bruce Lee’ with Ram Charan.

While speaking to idream media recently, Jani Master revealed how Ram Charan offered a helping hand at the crucial stage of his. ” Ram Charan sir is like my best brother. When my wife suffered severe health complications during the 8th month of her pregnancy, Ram Charan sir sent us to Apollo Hospitals for treatment. It was around Rs.5 lakhs towards the hospital bill but I paid just Rs.350.

Moreover, Upasna garu and Charan sir have taken care of everything in the hospital. When I met Ram Charan sir later, he said he was not that type of person, who maintains relations just for the sake of works. He promised to stay along with his dear ones although they would be in tough times,” said Jani Master.

Meanwhile, Jani Master also revealed more good things about Ram Charan in his interview. He said Ram Charan is gold at heart.

Superstar Mahesh Babu’s sister in law and his wife Namrata Shirodkar’s elder sister Shilpa Shirodkar is making comeback to small screen after ages with a TV serial Silsila Pyar Ka, where she will be seen as Janaki Tiwari, a wealthy industrialist in Bhopal, is very overprotective about her son.

Shilpa who acted in several Hindi films such as Gaja Gamini, Mrityudand, Gopi Kishan and Hum, had bid adieu to films in 2000 after she got married. Shilpa was last seen couple of years ago in a TV show Ek Mutthi Aasmaan in a cameo role.

The veteran actress informed that she has found lot of changes in industry. According to her, attitude of film personalities have been changed. ‘People are more professional now, everything is more scripted, written and there are no last minute changes. Everyone does their homework and come so everyone is more prepared,’ opines Shilpa Shirodkar.

Shilpa Shirodkar feels blessed to be a part of the industry at this time and believes that this is one of the best times the industry has seen.

Interim, the show Silsila Pyar Ka that has Abhay Vakil and Chhavi Pandey in pivotal roles, will be telecasted on Star Plus from January 4th, 2016.

Akkineni Nagarjuna is in for a huge shock as Andhra Bank issued notices to Nagarjuna owned Annapurna Studios for failing to clear Rs 37 crore, calling the studios a willful defaulter. Apparently, the bank even filed a case against Annapurna Studios.

In its case, the bank accused the MD of Annapurna Studios Nagarjuna, Supriya Yarlagadda, Venkat Akkineni, Nimmagadda Prasad, Nag’s sister Naga Suseela. Speaking to the media, the bank’s authorities said that Annapurna Studios is a defaulter in paying back to several banks to the tune of Rs 100 crore.

While Annapurna Studios’ default debt money is Rs 37 crore, the studio also has not cleared its loans to other banks such as Axis Bank and Indian Bank. Apart from issuing the notice and filing a complaint, the bank is currently taking the special powers and provisions stipulated by the RBI to make the defaulters clear the loans.

As the pre production work for Ramcharan new movie that is ‘Thani Oruvan’ remake is quickly taking a shape in hands of director Surender Reddy, in parallel he is also working on finalization of cast, crew. In regards to the past discussions made on selection of main antagonist, the name of Aravind Swamy was almost locked by makers and also Mega Fans too.

However, here comes a latest update from close Mega camp members that Surender Reddy is looking for one more alternative because of Aravind Swamy’s huge remuneration demands. At the same time ever since ‘Thani Oruvan’ has come into Tollywood central topic, many of the Mega Fans and excited audience already watched the Tamil original either through online prints or in theaters.

‘Repetition of Aravind Swamy in the same character may not create the same impact. Surender Reddy is suggesting a famous Bollywood actor for this well etched characterization and an official confirmation is yet come from Charan and Chiranjeevi,’ the same source added.

Right from hero Gopichand to producer Bhavya Anand Prasad, everyone is playing a safe game with their new film ‘Soukhyam’ releasing tomorrow in theaters. In fact, content of the movie as seen in trailers evidentially proves that director AS Ravi Kumar Chowdary hasn’t experimented anything new on Gopichand, Regina. Routine light hearted commercial formula and beaten screenplay from Gopi Mohan, Kona Venkat with illogical episodes are going to provide a laughter riot.

‘Audiences are showing more interest to watch entertainers and not those tear jerking scripts or heavy sentiment based stories,’ Gopichand puts it straight. Just like his team, even producer Anand Prasad appears to have taken a safest path. Reports say, ‘Soukhyam’ is sold out in almost all the areas at decent prices which guaranteed early profits for makers.

Given the grown up commercial stamina in Gopichand after ‘Loukyam,’ there was certain space for Anand Prasad to hike the theatrical prices but he wanted the business to be closed and offered the area wise rights at reasonable prices without any deadlocks. Even if the movie opens to average talk, everyone associated with ‘Soukhyam’ trade are going to benefit.

Here is a strange demand from movie goers of Telugu states. They raise a big demand of banning bulk Smses during the festival days of Sankranthi season. They cited interesting reasons for their demand.

According to movie goers fans of a few top heroes sent hatred messages as part of bad propaganda on their rival heroes some time ago. The Smses affected adversely on the openings of the films of their target heroes.

And now, movie goers suspect fans of some of the heroes, who are worrying about the fate of their heroes movies, would be sending bulk messages again aiming at the disaster results of their rival heroes. Misuse of political powers of political parties is also suspected by the movie goers.

That’s why, movie goers raise a big demand of banning bulk messages in festival days of Sankranthi season. On the other side, analysts opine that a real hero should not encourage such cunning strategies to get his movie scoring a super hit. Real heroes should not get feared of facing any sort of competition.

Prince Mahesh and director Murugadoss’ film will go on sets soon. According to the sources the movie will have the theme that has Mumbai backdrop. The director and the cinematographer Santhosh Sivan will scout the locations in Mumbai soon.

As we exclusively reported, the movie’s title is being contemplated ‘Chattamtho Poratam’. The movie substance of the movie deals with the flaws in judiciary system of India. Shraddha Kapoor or Parineeti Chopra will be roped in as the female lead of the movie. The movie will be made as Telugu-Tamil bilingual.

Mahesh is currently working for his new movie ‘Brahmotsavam’. Kajal, Samantha and Pranitha are teaming up with Mahesh in this family entertainer. Micky J Meyer composes the music of the film. Srikanth Addala is directing this movie on PVP Cinema. The movie hits screens on April 29.

Senior writer Kasi Viswanath is no more. He was 68. This writer and actor was suffered severe cardiac arrest when he was travelling from Hyderabad to Vizag in Lokamanya Tilak Express. As per reports, Kasi Viswanath suffered heart attack when the train neared Khammam railway station. He was rushed to a hospital in Khammam. However, he was declared to be dead by the doctors.

Kasi Viswanath provided stories for 70 films. He worked for many top directors of Tollywood such as Dasari Narayana Rao, Relangi Narasimha Rao, ‘Rajachandra and Vijayabapineedu.

Tollywood witnessed the deaths many celebrities from Tollywood this month. Kasi Viswanath’s demise comes as another shocker to film fraternity. Cinejosh is saddened with the demise of Kasi Viswanadh. We convey our heartfelt condolences to the members of his family. May his soul rest in peace.

It was widely speculated that maverick director Puri Jagannadh would be directing Megastar Chiranjeevi’s prestigious 150th film. Puri has also prepared a script and titled it as ‘Auto Johnny’. However, the project has not got materialized.

On the other hand, Mega Power Star Ram Charan has recently confirmed that Tamil blockbuster ‘Kaththi’ would be remaking with his father as the hero in the combo of top director VV Vinayak.

In the meanwhile, Puri Jagannadh has reportedly narrated ‘Auto Johnny’ script’ to Mass Maharaj Ravi Teja and got it okayed from the star. The movie is likely to go on sets soon. Ravi Teja’s latest offing ‘Bengal Tiger’ is running successfully at the moment. Directed by Sampath Nandi the movie has Tamannah and Rashi Khanna as female leads.

Young Tiger NTR is all set to make his Kannada Singing debut today. The actor will be recording a song for Kannada Superstar Puneeth Raj Kumar’s landmark 25th film, Chakravyuha. The Producer of the film is a close friend to Tarak and he convinced the actor to make this happen.

Tarak is also singing a song for his Nannaku Prematho too. Previously he rendered voice for a handful of songs for his movies and all those songs are chartbusters. On the other side, Nannaku Prematho is currently in the last leg of its production.

The last song shoot will begin later this month in a special set erected in Annapurna 7 acres Studio. The movie is planed for January 13th as Sankranthi Special.

Nagarjuna and Karthi’s bilingual multistarer film, Oopiri was shot in Vishakapatnam for the last two days. The team returned to Hyderabad last evening and will very soon begin the shoot here. The movie shooting is almost nearing completion.

The first look posters of the film released couple of months ago, have garnered good response from all quarters. The movie is inspired from French film, Untouchables. The movie was extensively shot in the never before seen exotic locales of Paris, Lyon and Belgrade, Nagarjuna will be seen as a patient suffering from a deadly disease while Karthi will be his care taker.

Tamannah is the female lead. The film is having music by Gopi Sundar of Ustaad hotel. Potluri Vara Prasad is producing the film under his PVP Cinemas banner.