Googly is what they say, about this reaction faced by Kona Venkat upon the release of his latest movie Shankarabaranam. First day’s first show itself generated negative talk about the flick’s content and that lead to people blasting him for over confidence and also criticising other talented filmmakers like Sreenu Vaitla.

If we have to discuss about the most silly and logic-less point from this Nikhil and Nandita starrer, what could we talk about other than the title itself. When names of all the characters have Bihari nativity like Happy Takur and Rajjo Takur, how come their house is named “Shankarabaranam”, a pure Telugu word. That happens to be the biggest comedy Kona has every made.

Also a classic movie of same name, directed by K Viswanath, spoke volumes about music, while there is no such connection in this crime comedy. Anyway, who expected that Kona will give perfect justification for grabbing that classic title. At least, the film would have impressed if not this title justification.

Notwithstanding his recent duds like Shivam, Masala, Ongole Githa and Endukante Premanta, hero Ram is unfazed and moving ahead. Ram is currently working on his next Nenu Sailaja. The film’s first look has been released.

Directed by newcomer Kishore Tirumala, Malayalam girl Keerthy Suresh is pairing up with Ram. Apparently, the story is narrated by hero Ram (Hari) in the film and hence it’s been titled as Nenu Sailaja.

Recently, the film’s Goan schedule is wrapped up. Ram looked simple in this avatar. If all goes well, the film would hit the screens by the end of January. Ram is pinning hopes on this that it would overturn his fortune.

Being hailed as Tollywood’s top writer, Kona Venkat penned stories for ultra high budget entertainer Bruce Lee and gave dialogues and screenplay inputs for Akhil, also Kona penned the screenplay for horror-thriller Tripura and also written and produced the Friday release Shankarabharanam. In fact, Kona even gave himself the credit for ‘direction supervision’ in Shankarabharanam.

Now, all the 4 films released within a gap of less than two months and bombed heavily at the box-office. This got Kona’s brand value and reputation as a successful writer at a huge stake. Now, Kona’s back-to-back flops have got Balayya’s fans shivering. And the reason is the Sankranthi release Dictator, which has been penned by Kona Venkat.

During Shankarabharanam promotional interviews, Kona claimed that he will prove Tollywood that he can also write new-age scripts without using the done to death ‘making villains bakra’ plot. But Kona skipped his promise and used the same old plot for Shankarabharanam and critics panned him for such a routine screenplay for an interesting plot.

Now, Balayya fans are highly worried that Kona might have used the same routine template even for Dictator, which might push Dictator to a corner. Kona’s back-to-back disasters will also show a negative impact on the pre-release business of Dictator and Gopichand’s Soukhyam, opine the trade analysts.

Latest cover page of GQ India is shaking India’s winter with its hotness. As the fog uncovers itself each day, this hottest cover page featuring Katrina Kaif in a boldest avatar is as stunning as it could be.

Probably the text of the cover story, “Katrina Kaif (Finally) Opens Up”, is a tricky revelation. Dressed in a sleek black designer bra, she’s giving a hottest treat of her bosom in this spicy photo shoot.

As Kat unveils that hotness, should we now feel that she opened up her glamour quotient and sex appeal or she opened up about something about her personal life? Before finding out what Ranbir Kapoor’s girlfriend has opened up, maybe it’s time to feast on this open-heart glamour.

Baahubali is the biggest budgeted Telugu film ever, while Rudramadevi is a film made on history after long time. Leaving their whims and fancies as giants aside, both these films had a fair share of hurting other small budgeted films in the race, because of their clarity-less planning over the release date.

Without confirming that July 10th is their date, Baahubali has looked at various slots from April thereby confusing many other films like Vishnu’s Dynamite and Mahesh’s Srimanthudu which are aiming at some dates. And then, Rudramadevi is the baap of all postponements as a new date was announced almost four times due to some issues related to financial stuff.

If their personal reasons for postponements are justified, what about the domino effect of these release date miss-outs? Films like Shankarabaranam got postponed for nearly 2-3 months due to Rudrama’s bad planning. As these biggies didn’t declared their release date firmly, other small films are confused when to start their promotions. By the time small films kick-started their promotion, fixing particular date, these biggies suddenly joined the race by postponing their dates.

Except Bruce Lee that got fixed on October 16th as their date nearly 4 months in advance, all other biggies juggled their dates upsetting other films. How to tackle this issue anyway? Can small film makers feel a touch of security by laying strict conditions over release dates for biggies? Maybe it’s possible. In Bollywood and Kollywood as well, films bigs or small, have to fix their date two months in advance and will not be allowed to defer it by a week or two.

If they miss the date, they need to wait for a month in Chennai, while 2-3 months in Hindi arena. Telugu producers are now planning to bring same rule into existence for Tollywood with effective from January 1st, 2016. Also if someone want release date change, next possible date should be picked only after leaving four Fridays. So, there will not be a chance of freehand to films like Baahubali and Rudramadevi to alter their release dates as per their comfort and choice.

Remember Anisha Ambrose? Well, she is none other than the girl who supposed to romance Pawan Kalyan his popular Gabbar Singh franchise. Anisha who was announced as female lead opposite Pawan in Sardaar was later replaced by Kajal Aggarwal. While it was a huge disappointment for her, she hasn’t got good offers for a while and she was written off.

In a relief to her, she has been cast as a female lead opposite Sundeep Kishan in his next. Anisha will be pairing up with Sundeep in the Telugu remake of Tamil Superhit Neram. While Sundeep steps into the shoes of Nivin Pauly, Anisha reprise Nazriya role in the original.

Tentatively titled as 123, Anil Kanneganti, who shot to fame with Manchu Manoj’s Mr Nookayya, is wielding the megaphone for this film. Sai Karthik is going to render the tunes. Anil Sunkara is going to present the film under AK Entertainments.