Mumbai: The government had offered the notedBollywood actor Rishi Kapoor the chairmanship of Central Board of Film Certification, but he declined it because he felt it was a thankless job, he claimed today. “It’s true (that I was offered the job). I think it’s a thankless job, and I don’t have the patience to watch so many films,” Kapoor told PTI.

Asked about his opinion on the current rules and regulations of the CBFC for clearing the films, Kapoor chose not to comment. Pahlaj Nihalani, the current chairman of CBFC, has drawn controversies because of his conservative approach, with the social media taking a dig at his “sanskari” policy. Kapoor was last seen in ‘All is Well’ alongside Supriya Pathak, Abhishek Bachchan and Asin. He will be seen next in Karan Johar’s home production ‘Kapoor & Sons’.

Mega heroes have huge fan base than any other in Tollywood. Irrespective of talk, mega films get phenomenal openings. Likewise, Varun Tej who is yet to deliver a commercial hit has disappointed mega fans once again with Loafer. The young mega hero has won hearts with his matured performance, but Puri’s poor work on writing and making is killing the movie chances at box office.

Loafer mostly got average to below average ratings and response from public was also negative. Despite these facts, the movie has got exceptional openings. Loafer minted around Rs 3.75 crores of shares on its first day in AP and TS. This is in fact, career best opening for Varun Tej.

Loafer collected a share of 50 Lakhs in Ceeded, 38 Lakhs in Uttarandhra, 38 Lakhs in Guntur, 36 Lakhs in East, 25 Lakhs in Krishna and 24 Lakhs in West Godavari. Day one estimation for Nizam area is around Rs 1.30 crores.

The figures hint that, Varun has good support from all mega groups. On the flip side, according to trade sources, Loafer day two collections are not up to the mark owing to many reasons. Negative mouth talk, release of other big ventures like Dilwale, Bajirao Mastani and Dilwale are prime reasons for weak shares on second day.

Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan who became familiar to Telugu spectators with his villainy acts in films like Allu Arjun’s Race Gurram and Ravi Teja’s Kick 2, has hurt his hand badly while shooting for hero Sai Dharam Tej’s upcoming film Supreme. A small accident occurred on sets.

To save a fighter, Ravi Kishan broke his left hand. Comedian Shaking Sheshu of Jabardasth TV show was also injured in the incident. Supreme film unit was canning an action scene in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. Unfortunately, an accident happened on the sets.

The good-heart Ravi Kishan broke his bones, in order to save a fighter. He was immediately rushed to near by hospital. Post treatment he left to Mumbai. So, the shoot of the film has been called off for today.

Coming to Supreme, the film directed by Anil Ravipudi is biled to be a ful fledged mass masala film like the director’s maiden venture Pataas. Sai Dharam Tej is playing cop and Rashi Khanna will be seen as his love interest. Mega villain Ravi Kishan will be seen as main antagonist. The Dil Raju production venture is expected to release in summer.

Top director SS Rajamouli’s father V Vijayendra Prasad who penned stories for several blockbusters is testing his luck as director once again. So, far he directed 3 films- Arthanghi, Rajanna and Sri Krishna, out of which none gave him recognition. The veteran director is now coming up with his latest directorial Valli.

With effect of Baahubali and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, there is good buzz on the project. Today, the makers have released Valli first look poster, where actress Neha Hinge is seen carrying moon, lifting it up from the sea.

Like how gorgeous the newbie Neha Hinge is appearing, the poster is equally stunning with perfect editing.In fact, the poster depicts various meanings for different age groups. While it appears like an old poem to old-age people, it seems to be a hot poster due to the hot exhibition of Neha Hinge in see-through costume.

However, the line ‘The Thing That Can Not Be Seen, Can Control All That Can Be Seen…’ gives good impression to everybody. Touted to be a scientific thriller, Valli has Rajiv Kanakala playing male lead. Rajkumar Brindavan is producing the flick on Reshma’s Arts Banner. Valli is in final stages and makers are looking for good time to release the film.

Shriya Saran might be down to doing middle aged mom characters of late, but that doesn’t mean she is not hot anymore. Shriya Saran is one of the fittest celebrities around and she loves to stay fit by doing workouts all the time.

Shriya posted this picture on her Twitter page and said she loves her workout and its fun along with the hash tags fitness Friday, fitness lover.

She pulls up her shirt to show her perfectly toned abs in this photo. Shriya is into thirties but still maintains a perfect figure that could give any young heroine run for her money. Agree or not?

Bringing in a mention of the Power Star somewhere in the film either through the dialogues or through some spoof has become common for most Tollywood producers. The idea is to draw the Pawan fans to the theaters. These days, spoofs on Pawan have become a norm.

In the last week, there were two movies – Loafer and Bengal Tiger. In both films there is a spoof on Pawan. What is interesting is both used the same song “looking in the face” from Pawan starrer Tammudu. In Bengal Tiger, the song is spoofed on Posani, while in Loafer, it is on comedian Ali.

In Loafer, Ali even does also those acrobats and Karate feats that Pawan does in Tammudu.A word of caution for Tollywood directors. Spoofing brings laughs. But, overdoing spoofs could turn counter productive.

Yesteryear Superstar and veteran actor Krishna Ghattamaneni has been conferred with ANR National Award. Krishna will be conferred with the award at a glittering ceremony in Hyderabad on Dec 20th. Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and present Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah will be attending the event as its chief guest. Krishna has been adjudged with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the ANR foundation.

The other awardees of ANR Award list for the year 2015 is as follows:

‘Visishtha Vyapara Ratna’ for AVS Chowdary

‘Chenetha Ratna’ for Nalla Vijay

Along with Lifetime Achievement Award for Krishna Ghattamaneni, the awardees are called as ‘Nava Ratnas’ by ANR International Foundation which instituted ANR National Award in 2005. The Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR) award recognizes film artistes whose body of work has made a lasting impact of outstanding artistic, cultural and commercial significance to the field of cinema.

The award was given annually to recognize people for their lifetime achievements and contributions to the Indian film industry. ANR National Award was first awarded to veteran Bollywood actor Dev Anand in 2006. The previous awardees include Shabana Azmi, Anjali Devi, Vyjayanatimala Bali, Lata Mangeshkar, K. Balachander, Hema Malini, Shyam Benegal, and Amitabh Bachchan.

Varun Tej who is going from strength to strength with each film is happy with the response he has been receiving for his performance in the film Loafer.However the young actor is upset about mega fans being constantly prodded by Ram Gopal Varma in the name of praising him. His father and Loafer director Puri Jagannadh have upset diehard fans of Pawan already.

Ram Gopal Varma is rubbing salt in the wound by stating that Pawan and Charan fans are spreading negative talk for Loafer. Although RGV does this fun it may hurt the sentiments of few sensitive fans that may permanently dislike Varun Tej for this. Varun Tej wanted this to stop but no one can apply breaks on Varma’s flow of tweets while he is in mood.

Ram Gopal Varma likes to take digs at Mega fans all the time. He keeps himself entertained and engaged by poking at them. Varun Tej is doing his best to be in the good books of Pawan and Charan fans, but Varma is messing it up beyond control.

Beating many big Bollywood movies, Rajamouli’s historical hit Baahubali stood as the most searched movie on Google in India in 2015. The movie not only emerged as the number one hit at box-office in India this year, it also beat Salman Khan’s Bhajrangi Bhaijan and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo on search engine in terms of most searched key words in movies segment.

Baahubali was the most searched key word in India in movies, while Bhajrangi Bhaijan grabbed second place. Third and fourth positions went to Prem Ratan Dhan Payo and ABCD respectively. Shankar’s magnum opus I was the fifth most searched movie in 2015.

The other big Telugu movie that everyone searched for is Mahesh Babu starrer Srimanthudu that stood at 10th place. According to Google, Baahubali’s photograph of Prabhas carrying Shivalingam on his shoulders was the most searched poster. Baahubali not only the most searched keyword, the movie’s reviews and news were the most seen pages on the web in India in 2015.