Chiranjeevi Proves Local Writers Not Worthy?
As Mega Powerstar Ram Charan confirmed that this father, the Megastar, will make a full fledged re-entry with Tamil film Kaththi remake, an old doubt has resurfaced again on discussion tables. Is Chiru’s decision to pick up a remake film not proving the point that local writers are not worth enough to chalk out a story for this iconic hero?
Tollywood is split into to over this debate, as some say, Chiru’s move is a big insult to Tollywood’s very own writers. In the recent times, Chiru’s big hits have come through Tagore and Shankardada MBBS, and these are written by other language writers for other tinsel towns.
After listening to stories narrated by various writers including Paruchuri Brothers, Kona Venkat, BVS Ravi and others, Chiru decided to go with Kaththi remake than a story developed by local writers. While a group is heavily criticising Chiru, others question, if local writers are writing such socio-political scripts, where are they now.
Yes, in a dimension it looks like our Telugu writers are not interested in developing socio-political films like a Shankar, Murugadoss or KV Anand. Except Srimanthudu in the recent days, there is no concept based film that is carved out by Telugu writers, while Krishnavamsi’s Khadgam and Rakhil spoke about such issues long back.
Rajasekhar Refuses To Become His Villain
Hero Rajasekhar is busy turning to villain roles now. But that sounded like only a rumour from a while as nothing solid is happening on that friend. Finally he took to villainy in Teja’s movie, as per some reports. Here is an interesting titbit.
Sometime back news has come out that Rajasekhar’s elder daughter Sivani will debut as a heroine with the movie “Vandaku Vanda”. Much information about this project is not divulged but the latest we hear is that Rajasekhar will debut as a villain this flick. This news has come out when Dil Raju has approached the angry hero to star as villain in Raviteja’s Yevado Okadu, being directed by Venu Sriram.
Citing that he would like to debut with Vandaku Vanda as a villain, Rajasekhar refused to take up Raviteja’s movie. Probably after Jagapathi Babu, Rajasekhar will be that senior hero who is taking to villainy. Very soon, Srikanth is also taking this mantle of antagonist.
Devi Sri Prasad Father Sathya Murthy No More
Young music sensation of Indian cinema Devi Sri Prasad’s father Sathya Murthy Garu is no more. He is reported to have breathed the last yesterday night in Chennai suffering with major heart stroke. Although rushed to nearby hospital, he was discharged immediately for being bought dead.
This is a big loss for both Telugu and Tamil cinema industry. Sathya Murthy aged 61 years worked as writer for around 90 films and maintained wonderful friendly relations with all top celebrity families in Telugu and Tamil cinema. Devi Sri is said to have flew to Chennai last night and last rites will be held today evening in Chennai.
Many cinema celebrities are rushing to Chennai for consoling DSP on this major loss. Cinejosh team prays for Sathya Murthy Garu’s soul to rest in peace. Be brave and handle the situation DSP…entire industry is with you.
Ram Charan Bags Celebrity Icon Award from Ritz
Mega Power Star Ram Charan was given away the ‘Most Admired Celebrity Icon of the Year 2015’ award by the popular magazine ‘Ritz’. These awards are given to those personalities who excel in respective fields such as arts, politics and business.
On the other hand, Information Technology minister of Telangana, KTR was conferred the award for his excellence in politics. The awards ceremony was held at Taj West End in Bangalore on Sunday, 13 December. These awards were given away by ‘Ritz’ in association with CNN-IBN.
Speaking on this occasion, Ram Charan broke out the sensational news that his father Megastar Chiranjeevi’s 150th project will be the remake of Tamil blockbuster ‘Kaththi’ and it will be directed by VV Vinayak. An official announcement maybe made on the auspicious day of Sankranthi.
Venkatesh and Industry Hit’s Director to Team up!
Victory Venkatesh is likely to work with an industry hit’s director. It is a known news that ‘Drishyam’ was declared the biggest industry hit of Malayalam film industry. Venkatesh, himself, did the Telugu remade of the movie with the title ‘Drushyam’. The movie got blockbuster result in Telugu as well.
If the buzz from inside sources is be believed, Venkatesh maybe teaming up with Jeethu Joseph, the director of original version of ‘Drushyam’. More details on this project will be out soon.
Venkatesh, in the meanwhile, will be doing ‘Babu Bangaram’ in the direction of young director Maruthi. Nayantara will share the screen space with Venkatesh in the movie. Suryadevara Nagavamsi will be producing the movie on Sitara Entertainment. Venkatesh and Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s ‘Gopala Gopala’ stood as an average grosser at the box office.
NTR Chief Guest for ‘Dictator’ Audio?
Natasimham Nandamuri Balakrishna’s new film ‘Dictator’s audio launch function will be held on December 20 in AP’s capital Amaravati. It’s going to be a star studded event with a few crazy celebs may grace their presence as guests amidst huge fanfare.
Speculations are now doing rounds on the chief guest of this function. Earlier, Power Star Pawan Kalyan was speculated to be attending the event as a chief guest. Latest snippet is that it will be none other than Young Tiger Ntr, who is going to attend the event as a chief guest but not Pawan Kalyan. If at all this news is proved right, Nandamuri fans will go jubilant and the war between the Nandamuri heroes gets ended.
Incidentally, Ntr’s ‘Naannaku Prematho’ and Balakrishna’s ‘Dictator’ will be releasing just a day’s gap for Sankranthi. ‘Dictator’ has been starred by Anjali and Sonal Chowhan. Thaman has composed the music of the movie. The movie was directed by Sriwass on Eros International.
Sampath Nandi’s Record Hattrick Hit
With the roaring success of ‘Bengal Tiger’, director Sampath Nandi has completed a resounding debut hattrick. As we know, Sampath Nandi has made his debut with ‘Yemaindhi Eevela’ and completed a hattrick with ‘Bengal Tiger’. Checkout the details of the hattrick hits of Samath Nandi.
YEMAINDHI EEVELA: This small budget film was released on 12 November, 2010 with zero expectations and got mixed reviews. Much to everyone’s surprise, the movie scored ‘hit’ at the box office.
RACHCHA: Prior to this film’s release mega fans were in disappointed mood with ‘Orange’s flop. However, the blockbuster success of ‘Rachcha’, its dubbed versions ‘Raksha’ and ‘Ragalai’ made the movie getting Rs.56 crores share collections at the box office. The movie stood as one among top five grossers of Tollywood then. Sampath Nandi turned out to be the most promising mass director of Tollywood.
BENGAL TIGER: Mass Maharaj Ravi Teja’s ‘Kick 2’ was a huge dud. Once again, Sampath Nandi weaved a magic and made Ravi Teja getting his form back. It’s going to be the biggest grosser among Ravi Teja’s films faring around Rs.40 crores.
Nandamuri Heroes Follow Pawan Dialogue!
As reported yesterday, Nandamuri Balakrishna is looking for big heads to negotiate with Junior NTR and Sukumar on possible pushing of ‘Nannaku Prematho’ release date from Pongal to January third, fourth week or February first week. Sources say, a prime TDP politician from Telangana region known for his close contacts with cinema celebrities is going to meet producer BVSN Prasad in next couple of days to forward the proposal from Balayya.
Apparently, Sukumar and NTR are in Spain with last leg of shooting. So, any final decision from BVSN Prasad has to be consulted with hero and director. Going by the high craze for Balayya Babu and Tarak or the political rifts dividing them, any collision of these two films can possibly damage their reputation in two states.
Like a dialogue from Pawan Kalyan ‘AththarintikiDaaredi’ which says, ‘Ekkado Neggalo Kaadu Raa Ekkada Thaggaalo Thelisonode Goppodu,’ let us see who among the two Nandamuri star heroes will step back?
Fancy offers for Abbayitho Ammayi satellite rights
Even though the demand for satellite rights of the small films decreased considerably in the recent times, good films despite their range are getting good offers from the TV channels. Latest entry in the list is Naga Shaurya’s Abbayitho Ammayi. Both MAA TV and Gemini TV have come forward to offer 3 Crore for the satellite rights of the film.
The makers have not given nod to any of the channels till date. Abbayitho Ammayi is all set for a grand release on December 24th as Christmas Special. The film is Maestro Ilayaraja’s 999th film.
As a tribute to the Maestro, the makers are planning to release the film in Tamil as well. A new girl, Palak Lalwani is making her debut with this film. Ramesh Varma is the film’s director and Vandana, Kireeti and Srinivas produced this film together.
Yet Another Young Heroine Shocks Puri
Looks like Puri Jagannadh is having some really tough times with his Rogue heroines. Initially, Puri signed in Bollywood starlet Amyra Dastur for his ongoing film Rogue. However, Amyra gave a rude shock to Puri by quitting the project and signing Jackie Chan’s Kung Fu Yoga.
Puri then roped in Aisha Sharma, sister of his Chiruta heroine Neha Sharma. Things were all fine and Aisha even shot for several days in the film’s Bangkok schedule recently. But here comes a shocking jolt to Puri. Apparently, even Aisha has exited from the project now. Inside sources say that Aisha left Rogue due to dates issues.
On the other hand, Aisha’s bad luck in Tollywood continues as she could not make her Telugu debut even though she was considered for high profile films like Shivam and Premam. With Aisha’s exit, Puri will now have to find her replacement opposite the debut hero Ishaan. Rogue also has Polish beauty Angela Krislinzki as the second female lead.
Loafer Run Time Locked
Mega Prince Varun Tej’s Loafer had completed its censor formalities recently and received U/A certificate. The movie’s run time according to the censor, is 139:52 minutes. Puri usually comes up a racy screenplay and if the content is good again, then it will be a convenient run time for audience to enjoy.
The movie will be releasing on 17th of this month in highest number of theaters in the actor’s career. The promotional drive will begin with the Platinum disk function this evening in Vijayawada.
Bollywood model Disha Patani is playing the female lead in the film and it marks her Telugu debut. Maverick director Puri Jagannadh is wielding megaphone for this movie. Sunil Kashyap is the music composer.
