There are many stories from the past, our present day producers and directors should learn the lessons from. Off late directors are spending more of their financial resources on technical aspects in film making without having a solid story in hand. For any movie, story and its span are the deciding factors taken for granted the typical mindset of Telugu audience who discuss more about story and casting.

Of course, technicalities like scouting apt locations to be utilized with top cameramen at work or skilled editing, using the VFX and all those extras rather serve as additional forces when you have a strong script with substantial story point to be shot into a full-fledged cinema. Any imbalance in this composition can prove dismal for producers and buyers.

This is the topic of present relevance because every new poster or still released from Junior NTR ‘Nannaku Prematho’ is definitely nifty and polished with trendy look. Till now, neither Sukumar nor NTR have made any attempt to give a sneak-peek into actual story point in the film. For now, they have won hands on appreciation with superbly designed style quotient, what it needs is a right substance to match with this style.

In contrast to the speculations grew in film circles about writer cum director Kishore Thirumala handling ‘Nenu… Shailaja’ with hero Ram and heroine Keerthy Suresh approached satirical specialist Trivikram Srinivas for suggesting few changes in his script has proved to be wrong.

In fact, Ram needs a hit at any cost and Sravanti Ravi Kishore is among those early producers who identified the spark in Trivikram before giving him a break. With all due respect towards Ravi Kishore, when Kishore rang the bell of Trivikram, the help was immediate and imminent is what the gossips said.

However, all this is completely false and entire ‘Nenu Shailaja’ script is written from a real life story happened before the eyes of Kishore. So, there will be lot of authenticity and reality in characterizations.

As of now, ‘Nenu Shailaja’ gathered superb positive pre release buzz and those trailers released some time ago during the audio function have caught the youth interest wonderfully. On January 1, we are all set to welcome the New Year with a different love story.

There are many reasons for the year’s biggest debacle ‘Akhil’. However, heroine Sayesha Saigal has come up with a sensational reason for the movie’s failure. She opines there were no much romantic moments between the lead couple and so was the negative result of the movie.

” There should have been a few more emotional and meaningful sequences between the couple. The couple looked beautiful but they hardly had any romantic sequences. The boy doesn’t even say, ‘I love you’ to the girl. Also, the content needed to be a little more meaningful. I suppose, a little focus on the couple could have brought in many youngsters to theaters. In the absence of romance, the chemistry between the couple was missing too,” says Sayesha.

Sayesha is making her Bollywood’s debut with ‘Shivay’ starred by Ajay Devgn. On the other hand, Akhil yet to announce the details of his second film. Although speculations are doing rounds about his next project, Akhil, ruled out them through his recent tweets.

Megastar Chiranjeevi’s highly anticipated 150th project was expected to be launched on the day of Sankranthi. Here is a little change in the launch date of the movie. January last week has reportedly fixed as the muhurtham of this much awaited movie and the exact date of launch will be announced at the earliest.

Having heard numerous scripts for his 150th, Chiranjeevi has finally decided to work for the remake of Tamil Blockbuster ‘Kaththi’ starred by Vijay. VV Vinayak will be directing this message oriented commercial potboiler.

Mega Power Star Ram Charan will produce this film while Lyca Productions will co-produce the movie. Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoy will play an antagonist in the movie.

The names of many heroines like Milky beauty Tamannah have been heard to play the heroine of this movie. However, the makers are yet to reveal the details of the cast and crew of the movie.

Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Dictator is planned for Sankranthi release. The movie shoot is currently in its last leg. The makers have finished the item song shoot on the other day in a special set erected in Hyderabad.

Sexy Seductress Mumaith Khan and Leggy Lass Shradda das shook their booty in the ‘Tingo Tingoo’ song which is already a chartbuster. The movie is being readied for January 14th release as Sankranthi release.

Thaman is the music composer for this film and this is his first film with Nandamuri Balakrishna. Loukyam fame Srivas is wielding megaphone for this film. He is also the co-producer of this film which is being funded by Eros International.

Senior Producer Bellamkonda Suresh’s son, Srinivas’ second movie under the direction of Bheemineni Srinivasa Rao is titled ‘Speedunnodu’. The movie is currently in the last leg of its production. The makers are planning to release the film on February 5th.

They will very soon release the first look poster of the film and begin the promotions. Srinivas despite the decent success of his first film, Alludu Seenu took a very long time to begin his second. This film is the remake of Tamil blockbuster, Sundara Pandian.

The movie has a item number by Milky Beauty Tamannah. Bheemineni’s wife Sunita is producing the film on her Good Will Cinema banner. Sri Vasanth who scored music for Sudigadu is also working for this film.

We all know that, megastar Chiranjeevi is going to act in Kaththi remake as his 150th project. The film to be helmed by VV Vinayak is in final stages of pre-production. Writing team is making useful and needed changes to the script to suit the Telugu sensibilities. More hilarious episodes are added to make the film a wholesome entertainer.

Latest we heard is muhurat for Chiranjeevi’s 150th movie launch has been finalized. The milestone project of megastar will have its opening ceremony in last week of January. Exact date will be unveiled soon. Initially, makers thought of holding the event for Sankranthi, but they pushed it to other date owing to some reasons.

The film also marks Chiranjeevi’s son Ram Charan’s foray into production. Chiranjeevi last seen in a cameo role in Ram Charan’s Bruce Lee: The Fighter will play dual roles in Kaththi remake. The yet to be titled movie deals with problems faced by farmers due to multi-national corporations.

Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi was reportedly approached to play main antagonist, and the Rakta Charitra actor has given his nod to star in the social message film. Other cast and crew is being finalized.

Director Ram Gopal Varma who has a huge craze in the Bollywood industry has been staying in Hyderabad and concentrated in Tollywood for a while.

Though his recent Telugu films have bombed at the box office, he has garnered a lot of lime light with his comments on the Mega family.

He turned to his Twitter account and said, ‘After “Killing Veerappan”releases i am shifting back to Mumbai..will miss Puri Jagan ,KCR,My Mom and my tweets on the Mega Family’.

Extreme passion in movie making prompted director and producer Gunasekhar to invest in huge money in ‘Rudhramadevi’ project. When no star has come forward to perform the great warrior ‘Gona Gannareddy’s role, ‘Rudhramadevi’ might not have seen light.

However, when Stylish Star Allu Arjun gave his nod to do the historical role at the eleventh hour, all of Gunasekhar’s hardships gone disappeared. The movie, though, might not have earned huge project, saved the director-producer from huge losses. Star power of Allu Arjun weaved a magic at the box office such that the movie entered 50 crores club.

Citing this gesture of Allu Arjun, some of the media houses treated him ‘Hero of the Year’. Meanwhile, Allu Arjun’s ‘Sarainodu’ is currently on sets. The makers have zeroed the release date of the movie as April 8. Rakul Preet Singh has done the romantic interest of Allu Arjun. Geetha Arts is the production house of the movie.