Suriya’s Telugu-Tamil bilingual project with filmmaker Trivikram, which was announced a few months ago, will finally go on floors next year, a source said. “As soon as Suriya completes shooting for ‘Singam 3’, he will start working on the project with Trivikram. It will be his first bilingual film which will also mark his debut in Telugu filmdom,” a source from the film’s unit told IANS.

To be produced by Haarika and Hassine Creations, the film is likely to have music by Devi Sri Prasad. Suriya currently awaits the release of Tamil psychological thriller “24”, and he will soon start shooting for “Singam 3”.

Controversies love child Ram Gopal Varma is at it again. Stroking a new controversy, RGV stated that porn star Tori Black has a great effect on his life than what Mother Teresa did. Showcasing his admiration for Tori Black, RGV went onto dedicate his autobiography “Guns & Thighs” to Tori Black.

Talking about it, RGV said, “Tori Black contributed more to my life than Mother Theresa. I don’t know Mother Theresa well and what she did because I’m not into charity or welfare work. All of them in the book’s dedication (Mad Magazine, Ayn Rand, Urmila Matondkar, Bruce Lee, Amitabh Bachchan, Tori Black), one way or the other, they did something in my life. If Dawood Ibrahim hadn’t existed, I wouldn’t have made Satya or Company, so I can’t take away the contribution he made to my life.”

However, RGV had to take away Dawood’s name as the book publisher opposed to the idea of including Dawood’s name suspecting troubles. “If it’s my film, I’d have said I don’t care,” clarified RGV who usually never compromises. At the moment, RGV’s autobiography is on stores.

VV Vinayak is known as one of the coolest personalities in Telugu cinema industry. He always maintains good relations with his producers and heroes. Even Vinayak has lost his cool in regard of Akhil movie says the buzz. Vinayak was asked to pay about sixty percent of his remuneration back to the buyers for Akhil who has lost so much in it. Vinayak has reportedly paid back 2.5 crore in cash and another 2 crore in the form of post dated cheques. He is furious over Akhil producers for making him the scapegoat for this failure. He asked Akhil producers to produce every penny that was spent on the movie. He also asked them to produce the business details of the film.

Both Vinayak and Akhil have given back a chunk of their remuneration taking responsibility for the failure. But the producers Sudhakar Reddy and Nithin were not willing to compensate the losses of buyers as they say that they have lost so much already. Vinayak is not buying this and asked them to produce every detail about the money spent and made on the movie. Akhil ended up as a colossal flop as the movie made only 17 crore from the theatricals while it was sold for 47 crore. Yes, it was a mega disaster!

Parineeti Chopra and Sania Mirza are back from their mini vacation-work stint in Goa. The two took to social media to post few beautiful pictures from their holiday. Sania captioned it as, “Goaaaa mini vacay with this one @ParineetiChopra (Ok ok and some work too)” A biopic on the Hyderabad tennis sensation starring Parineeti is in the works and shooting is likely to start in December.

Parineeti, who has not bagged a film deal since her last flick ‘Kill Dill’, was Sania’s first choice for the film. In an interview with DC, when asked who she thought was best suited to play her? “Parineeti Chopra,” Sania said.The biopic which will be helmed by Farah Khan will be based on Sania’s autobiography.

Megastar Chiranjeevi’s film has been in discussion like a daily serial for a very long time now. But the latest talk about the film is that no news will be given out about the film till the ceremonial opening shot happens. In the past, there was talk about various directors and different scripts. For some time, it was said that it will be a remake and later it was said it would be a direct film. So for now, everything about the film will be kept under wraps till the shooting happens.

Already, Ram Gopal Varma has been targetting Chiranjeevi ever since he rejected Puri’s story and that has created quite some confusion. Meanwhile, things are progressing behind the scenes, say industry insiders. Well, it surely is a big wait for the mega fans who want the film to start immediately.

How many people go to the theatre nowadays to watch a movie? Barring a Mahesh Babu or Pawan Kalyan flick, all other movies are struggling to get half decent openings. And part of the reason has to do with the steep hike in ticket prices and the urbanization of the movie-going experience. In short, cinema which was once the common man’s escape from the travails of daily life, a simple pleasure is now an unaffordable luxury. Assume that a middle-class couple went to IMAX or another multiplex with their two children. The tickets alone would come to Rs 600-1000. And the parking charges for their bike or four -wheeler apart from the cost incurred for refreshments, all accompanied by the eternal VAT add up to a princely sum. Instead, he would be better off downloading the movie from the internet and watching it at home. The experience of watching the pirated version of a movie might not beat the one at a cinema hall, but it is better to have ‘Vada Paav’ at Gokul Chat rather than eat an idli at Hyaat. It will be far easier on the pocket, experience be damned! Or better still, wait for the television premiere.

Representatives of Tollywood will now be meeting KCR to demand a hike in price of tickets at single-screen theatres. The highest ticket price at a single screen theater will become Rs 125 on par with multiplexes. The film industry also wants flexibility in pricing. This means, theatres can increase the price of tickets during weekends which means that the prices might be further increased for a hit film during weekends. In addition to the proposal to hike the ticket price from Rs 70 to Rs 125, it is also being planned to increase the lowest ticket rate from Rs 10 to Rs 30. In short, the industry is doing everything it can to commit suicide. If the ticket hike takes place, it will be a death blow to small films. They struggle to get theatres for release and even if they get the odd multiplex or single-screen now, who will shell out that kind of money to watch newcomers? This seems to be a ploy to protect the branded personalities of Tollywood. The industry should take such steps as would result in the masses coming back to theatres, steps which would make cinema once again within reach of the common man. Instead, they are going about in the exact opposite direction. Is it any wonder than that piracy is on the increase apart from a decline in the number of movie-goers?

Kolkata: Bollywood icon and Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has been associated with showbiz for over four decades, says celebrities are the “most defamed” people. At a time when superstars like Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan are being condemned for their comments on intolerance, the 73-year-old actor took to blog to express his views. “We are without any doubt the most photographed people individuals in the entire universe… We are therefore the most defamed and defuncked audience, nothing alarming…It has been the practice since our days of yore,” Big B posted. Big B, who calls his fans his “extended family”, was overwhelmed when a group of his admirers from Egypt flew down to meet him in person.

“The Egyptian Twitter group with 11 members is here with me in celebration for so many dates and expressions… And they have inundated me with gifts… The system of family worked really well… They are more than family now.” Meanwhile, the “Piku” star is busy shooting Ribhu Dasgupta’s “Te3N”. He even shot on a scooter. He posted: “’TE3N’ a novel idea and a novel film… riding in Kolkata… cycle PIKU… motor cycle ‘TE3N’.