Mega Star Chiranjeevi has apparently dropped a bombshell on the New Year day. In what is seen as a disappointing statement which may not go well with many of his fans, Chiru reportedly made it clear that he’d not do films after his 150th film. Interacting with his fans at his residence on New Year day, Chiru made aforementioned comments.

Chiru was quoted as saying to fans that he’d stop doing films after his landmark 150th film and his 150th film would be his last film as lead hero. “150th film will be my last film. I don’t want to do films afterwards. 150th film too am doing it for my fans, well-wishers who keep on asking me for it,” Chiru apparently shared with his fans.

Talking about his much-awaited 150th film, he stated that it will be directed by VV Vinayak and it will go onto floors in February. “Yes, it’s remake of a Tamil film  (Kaththi) and it will have Vinayak’s direction. Movie will start next month,” Chiru confirmed officially to his dearest fans.

When unhappy fans put pressure on Chiru to continue after 150th flm, Chiru didn’t budge. He gently replied, “Charan, Arjun, Varun, Sai are all there for you” Chiru added to fans to support them. However, Chiru hasn’t told about his future plans that whether he’d get back to politics and stay active in it.

Looks like, Chiru doesn’t want to continue as a lead hero after 150th film and it needs to be seen whether it’s a permanent break or temporary break from films. But, as of now, this decision comes as a big shocker to all his fans.

One of the popular choreographers in Tollywood, Jani Master, shares close relationship with several industry people. Recently, he was in news when he revealed how Ram Charan helped him with financial and medical assistance when his wife was delivering their child.

And now, Jani Master has yet another revelation which shows director Trivikram Srinivas’ generosity. The choreographer took to his Twitter profile yesterday and tweeted, “on this new year I just wanted to share one thing.. During #SonfSatyamurthy shoot Trivikram Sir gifted me Hyundai Verna car.”

Jani Master went on to state that Trivikram is “very close to my heart and the unconditional love he always shows on me is simply superrrrr..” Yesterday, the choreographer met Trivikram to greet him on the new year and even tweeted a photograph with his favorite person.

Actress Amala Akkineni, who has played a few cameo roles in the last few years, says she’s only open to do such roles but has no plans of getting into full-fledged acting as she already has too much on her plate. The 47-year old currently heads Annapurna International School of Film & Media (AISFM), and is also an animal activist and a co-founder of Blue Cross of Hyderabad. “I am not looking at full-time acting. I wear many hats and I am extremely satisfied with what I am doing right now. I am in leadership position in all the organizations I’m associated with so it is not that I’m looking for more,” Amala told IANS.

Explaining why she prefers doing cameo roles, she said: “I would definitely consider doing cameos because it is important for me as being in education for cinema, film and media I must be in touch with the industry I am educating for”. “It is a crucial part of my understanding and being relevant in education.” “Every year I get two calls from reputed directors’ camps who ask me, ‘Amala will you come? I have absolutely lovely cameo for you’. I show up and I make that connect and understand more of what I have to prepare the younger generation for,” she added.

Last seen on the big screen in Mohit Suri’s “Hamari Adhuri Kahani”, Amala will next star with Kamal Haasan. “It was a pleasant surprise. Kamal sir asked me ‘Are you still acting, Amala?’ I said ‘yes sir but only cameos’. Meaning I can’t up-and-out my family and commitments and relocate to another city, but I can do it for 10 days,” she said.

“He sent Malayalam director (T.K. Rajeev Kumar) to narrate me the script. And it was very touching and a relevant film. They will be filming it in US in February. I’m excited to be a part of it,” she revealed.

Buzz around Nannaku Prematho has been increasing by the day. It is arguably the favorite movie of the business circles among the Sankranthi releases. Expectations soared as high as the balloons after the audio launch. Songs are already topping the charts and the promos are trending on YouTube. NTR fans are kicked about Nannaku Prematho but this film has put someone in a fix.

We are talking about Ram Charan who is in plans to launch the remake of Thani Oruvan soon. Thani Oruvan is about the mind games between a clever businessman and an intelligent cop. The interesting play between the villain and the hero made Thani Oruvan a huge success. Ram Charan is hoping that it would impress our audiences too as the premise is fresh from the usual films. Nannaku Prematho trailer gave enough hints about the ‘mind games’ between NTR and Jagapathi Babu, the villain.

Jagapathi’s attire and persona is similar to that of Aravind Swamy’s in Thani Oruvan. Also the ‘game’ between hero and villain has been highlighted in the theatrical trailer of Nannaku Prematho. If the film is focused mainly upon this mind game then the idea of remaking Thani Oruvan would not be exciting anymore. Luckily Thani Oruvan remake hasn’t hit the floors yet and they could take a call after Nannaku Prematho strikes the screens.

So Ram Charan, Surender Reddy and his team will be as eager as NTR fans to watch Nannaku Prematho for Pongal.

Young hero Ram’s latest entertainer Nenu Sailaja opened to good collections everywhere. Indeed, it’s a good start for the New Year. The film is said to have collected around 3.5 Cr share (Here) in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on day one. This is career best opening for Ram who is very much relieved with the success talk.

Nenu Sailaja is doing well even in mass centers like Ceded where it raked Rs 65 lakhs share on first day. In Krishna district, the romantic entertainer collected a share of Rs 1.21 crores, while Vizag share is 29 lakhs on day one.

Including Thursday premiers, Nenu Sailaja minted $123K in overseas (Rs 81.5 lakhs), which is in fact biggest opener (There) for Ram in the region. After, Bhale Bhale Magadivoy, Nenu Sailaja is going to be another overseas winner. Until Sankranthi, no big films are arriving to cinema halls.

So, Nenu Sailaja will unanimously rule the box office until the biggies outing for the festival. Since the film directed by Kishore Tirumala is targeted at youth and families, it is expected to perform decently during the Sankranthi holidays too.

But, only problem is Nenu Sailaja may sacrifice many theaters to biggies like Nannaku Prematho, Dictator and Soggade Chinni Nayana. Nonetheless, two weeks time is more than enough for a medium range film to recover budget from theaters.

Bollywood’s new on-screen couple Arjun Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor turned the heat on with their first look poster of upcoming flick ‘Ki and Ka.’ The poster, which was a treat to the fans for the New Year, displayed the sizzling chemistry of the duo.

Directed by R Balki ‘Ki and Ka’ also stars legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan and actress Jaya Bachchan in cameo roles. The film is scheduled to hit the screens on April 1, 2016.

Former actress turned filmmaker Renu Desai often thrills fans of Powerstar Pawan Kalyan by posting photographs of her’s and both her children, Akira and Aadya. Yesterday, Renu celebrated the New Year along with her good friend and the director of Pawan’s blockbuster Kushi, SJ Surya and her kids.

Renu and Surya met for lunch and Renu tweeted a photograph of them clicked by Akira at a restaurant saying, “New year lunch with Surya sir…:) pic clicked by Akira &Aadya hiding behind me :D” Renu and Surya have been good friends since Kushi days and her addressing Surya as ‘sir’ was indeed surprising.

This special luncheon also raised several discussions about whether the good friends are collaborating for a film in the near future. Until a few days ago, there were reports that Pawan and Surya may team up once again for a high budget film. Will it materialize soon? Will Renu be part of the project? We will have to wait until an official confirmation.

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone had first fuelled speculation about her possible Hollywood debut by sharing a picture with Vin Diesel where she was seen hugging the Hollywood hunk while looking at the camera mysteriously. As per reports, Deepika is finalized to play one of the lead roles in XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage that will also have Asian action stars Tony Jaa and Jet Li starring in other important roles.

There were reports that Deepika had turned down Diesel’s “Fast and Furious 7” to accommodate dates for her 2014 release “Happy New Year”. Now, the actress could allot call sheets as the news of Deepika being part of the upcoming sequel of XXX franchise is official.

Off late, Hollywood filmmakers are keen on casting Bollywood and other Indian star actors in their films. In fact, they have a reason for this. Presence of an Indian actor will automatically provide good trade in the country. Likewise, Bollywood’s current top actress Deepika Padukone is big add-on for XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage.

Deepika Padukone achieved hat-trick hits in 2015 with Piku, Tamasha and Bajirao Mastani. Fortunately, all these films showed the slender babe in influential roles. One thing for sure is Deepika will rock Hollywood too with her maiden venture!

Actor Pawan Kalyan’s much delayed Telugu actioner “Sardaar Gabbar Singh”, which is nearing completion, will hit the screens on April 8.

“The final month-long schedule kicks off in Hyderabad next week. As soon as it’s done, the project will get into post-production. The makers are planning to release the film on April 8th,” a source from the film’s unit told IANS.

A sequel to 2012 blockbuster “Gabbar Singh”, the film is being directed by K.S. Ravindra and features Kajal Aggarwal in the lead role.

The film, which has music by Devi Sri Prasad, is jointly produced by Kalyan and Sharrath Marar.

A couple faced ire of Twitteratis after posting a selfie with burning hotel in Dubai.The micro-blogging site users slammed the couple for posing before the Address Downtown when it caught fire. The couple posted the selfie three hours before the clock struck 12 for the New Years Eve.

While the fire incident before the celebrations of NYE jolted many, the picture of the couple sparked storm on social media.

Reactions like “the most inappropriate selfie ever” and “people are stupid” popped up after the picture was uploaded.Eyewitnesses claim that the fire began at lower floor of the Address Downtown hotel and continued to spread on the upper storeys. Around 16 people were injured in the rush to evacuate the hotel during the fire incident.

Burj Khalifa, tallest building in the world, went ahead with the pompus show of fireworks even when the hotel nearby, the Downtown, witnessed smoky billow.

Trust Rajamouli to do things differently. Team Baahubali wished the world a happy new year, in its own unique way.

They made a sixteen second video which shows Prabhas and Tamannah escaping from an avalanche. Then as Prabhas turns around, 2015 flashes on screen followed by Prabhas and his lady love jumping off the cliff to safety only to come face to face with the letters 2016 in gold.

‘Racing into the New Year and happy New Year to everyone is the message conveyed.

In his 20 film career, Prabhas has played a myriad of roles, and some of them being quite powerful characters. However, there is one popular character which Prabhas has not played so far, a police character. Almost all the leading Tollywood stars like Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, NTR, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun etc have successfully played cop roles.

At last, Prabhas will also join this special league of Tollywood heroes who set the screens ablaze by playing the cop. Prabhas will play a powerful cop’s role in his next film after Baahubali The Conclusion. The film will be directed by Run Raja Run director Sujeeth and the shooting will kickstart after Prabhas wraps up his part for Prabhas .

The talented young director was supposed to direct Prabhas right after Baahubali’s first part was completed. However, the film had to be postponed due to Prabhas’ commitment to Baahubali makers. Sujeeth already impressed Prabhas with his script and he is currently giving final touches to the script. Prabhas’ home banner UV Creations will produce this film.

Nagarjuna is King of Tollywood and one must agree to it. But on Box Office terms, never did he deliver strong movies with Rs. 40+ Crore films which in fact is recorded as achievement to measure the stardom and potentiality of a hero in South cinema. Such huge numbers for a film are possible only with tremendous opening collections which make Mahesh, Pawan, Prabhas, Charan, Bunny, Jr NTR and others stand in different league.

This is the time for veterans like Nagarjuna to prove that they too are nothing less than the youngsters. In same group, Balakrishna is forerunner in this achievement because his ‘Simha, Legend’ easily crossed ultimate Box Office equations piling huge numbers. So, there are no doubts on ‘Dictator’ to account high openings within first week alongside Jr. NTR’s ‘Nannaku Prematho.’

So, the only hero in Pongal race who should worry about the high range in openings is Nagarjuna. It’s time for makers to promote ‘Soggade Chinni Nayana’ still more aggressively at least from January first week before it gets too late. Humongous opening revenues are the only way to join in Rs.40 and 50 Crore clubs. Hope, Nagarjuna is soon going to achieve this.

Super Star Krishna’s dominating legacy in Telugu cinema is ably continued to the next generation by two heroes Mahesh Babu and Sudheer Babu. In fact, Mahesh is ruling the industry with back to back super hits creating new records and Sudheer Babu also joining the stream with a decent film ‘Bhale Manchi Roju’ brought new joy in Krishna’s face.

As Mahesh is quite busy with ‘Brahmotsavam’ shooting schedules, he could not find time to watch ‘Bhale Manchi Roju.’ So, Krishna is reported to have got a special screening arranged today at Prasad Labs and would speak to media expressing the joy as his son-in-law scored a hit.

In parallel, Krishna is also quite happy with the response for ‘Brahmotsavam’ teaser released yesterday. ‘I can foresee ‘Brahmotsavam’ becoming the biggest hit in summer holidays season. Teaser established the story as family centric and Mahesh is superb in the film compared to all his best looks in past movies. All I want to see is this film becoming number one in industry,’ Krishna said.