Generally perception is that Nandamuri Balakrishna is very bad tempered on the shooting sets of his films. He shouts at his co-stars for any small mistakes and also gets angered easily. This is however proven wrong by many and sexy seductress Sonal Chauhan joins that long list of Balayya’s admirers. “Many have scared me saying Balayya is ill-tempered.

But he’s very cool and jovial guy on the sets. He makes you laugh with his jokes and helps in getting scenes right. Very best co-star I’ve ever worked with”, says Sonal, adding that without his “Legend” she will be no where in Tollywood.

“Has Legend not worked, I would have not got all these offers that are running around me now. Balayya is very generous that he offer me Dictator again”, she adds. Is she not bored of playing these second fiddle roles? “No, I’ve my own space in these films. In Dictator, my role is going to be very entertaining”. Talking about Balayya’s bad-temper, we need to remember Katrina Kaif too.

Talking about her experiences down South on a leading Bollywood interview show, she admired Balayya. “He’s the only actor who’s very professional, coming to sets on time and respecting his co-stars”, she shared couple of years back. That’s Balayya for you folks.

Heroines getting married and going off the limelight can be thought-through as end of their glamour career. Off late, yesterday’s heroines are returning back to cinema for fulfilling their thirst beginning the second or third innings taking up elderly characters. Either North or South; the passion theory is applied the same on artists. Currently, Chiranjeevi’s heroine Sonali Bendre is back in news.

Well, she isn’t going to act again as heroine. Sonali turned a writer and her new book on parenthood titled as ‘The Modern Gurukul: My Experiment with Parenting’ is out in the market. This book is reportedly to give a glimpse of her personal life documenting the journey of Sonali as a mother and wife. As we all know, Sonali married Goldie Behl and they even have a 10 year old son Ranveer. The book primarily shares an intensely personal, raw account of her life as a mother, the challenges faced and lessons learned in raising her son. ‘I thought I was compiling a book on certain points on what I learnt but finally, the book became personal and more personal,’ Sonali says it with a smile.

Raj Tarun registered a resounding hat-trick in Tollywood with the super successes of ‘Uyyala..Jampala’, ‘Cinema Choopistha Maava’ and ‘Kumari 21F’. This is the crucial phase of his career selecting right projects to be treated as a star hero. Raj Tarun has three more projects which have been in production/pre production stages and they are ‘Seethamma Andhalu Ramayya Sithralu’, an untitled project from Geetha Arts and a silent film by RGV.

Apart from the above projects Raj Tarun has reportedly signed up for yet another film which is touted to be a multi-starrer with Manchu Vishnu in other lead role. This comedy entertainer will be directed by G Nageswara Reddy. However, analysts are of the opinion that Raj Tarun would merely need to do films as a solo hero rather multi-starrers to get his craze increased among the movie lovers.

Prince Mahesh was seen in two shaded roles in his ‘Nani’ long back. He was also seen in dual roles in ‘Koduku Diddhina Kapuram’ as a child artist. However, never ever the actor has been seen in dual roles in movies for a long time. If the buzz from inside sources is to be believed, Mahesh may play dual roles in AR Murugadoss’ project. We’ll know further details soon about Mahesh’s role in the movie. The movie will go sets in the early first half of next year.

Mahesh is currently busy with his ongoing project ‘Brahmotsavam’. Kajal, Samantha and Pranitha are sharing screen presence with Mahesh in this complete family entertainer. Micky J Meyer composes the music of the film. The movie is being directed by Srikanth Addala on PVP Cinema and MB Productions. The film is slated for release in the month of April next year.

Well-known music composer Harris Jayaraj has replaced Devi Sri Prasad for Suriya’s Singham sequel. Although it’s DSP who composed tunes for Singham and Singham 2, he has been replaced now with Harris for Singham 3. While the exact reasons for this major development are not revealed, it’s heard that DSP’s busy schedule would be reason.

DSP is now super hectic. While he is rendering tunes for already committed projects, he is busy preparing for his acting debut. Given that Dil Raju and Sukumar are going to launch him as hero, DSP wants to do rigorous work out and want to look fit.

Meanwhile, Anushka Shetty, who is going to play female lead, is now on strict diet. She is planning to shed her extra kilos which she gained for Size Zero. She will soon join the sets of Baahubali and simultaneously, she would also join the shoot of Singham 3.

The film’s first schedule is planned in Vizag. Diretcor Hari, who helmed first two films, will also be directing the latest film in its franchise. Suriya is said to be super excited to don cop hat again.

Disaster result of ‘Akhil’ film does not stop Akhil coming up with more crazy projects. Akhil is now looking for the bright prospects of his upcoming projects. It has already been reported that Akhil would be teaming up for a movie with sensible director Krish. Akhil wishes to show his acting expertise rather commercialty with his next venture and Krish is said to be an ultimate choice for him.

Latest snippet is that Krish has recently registered a title ‘Raayabari’ at the film chamber. It remains to be known whether Krish locked this title for Akhil or for any other project. More details on Akhil and Krish’s project may be known in near future. ‘Akhil’s debut venture ‘Akhil’ collected a full run share of Rs.18.50 crores at the end of its full run world wide. VV Vinayak has directed the movie on Shresht Movies owned by hero Nithiin. Sayesha Saigal was the female lead of the movie.

Hero Siddarth’s Jil Jung Juck movie is widely being discussed at the moment. At this point of time, a tweet posted by the talented hero has come under public scanner. And that is now leading to many discussions across cinema lovers.

One of his recent tweets read: “That moment when you realise that what you thought was the worst thing that happened to you is actually the best thing that happened to you”. Some people who noticed this tweet instantly are saying that they have also seen heroine Samantha replying to this tweet and later deleting it. As per their revelations, Sam’s tweet reads, “That moment when I realise you’re just somebody that I used to know”.

Whether Samantha replied or not is not known, but Siddharth’s tweet is still there. This former love-birds, who never agreed or confirmed that they were in a relation, are now creating tweet wars between their two fan groups. None is trying to decode Siddharth’s tweet now, as they know he will come up with some tight and tough blasting if people fail to interpret it properly.

Last year in November, hip siren Ileana D’cruz’s “Happy Ending” opposite Saif Ali Khan has released. Shockingly she was offered no single role post that movie in Bollywood. Though she tried her luck in Tollywood again, her efforts went in vain. Finally a year later it seems her prayers are answered.

Finally this spicy Goan lady got a call from Akshay Kumar now, for a project that will be directed by Neeraj Pandey. This director-hero duo has earlier worked on films like Special Chabbis and Baby, and now they turned producers for this new movie titled “Rustom” while a newcomer Tinu Desai will debut as director.

The film revovles around some real life incidents set in 1950s and Ileana will be seen as leading lady in the movie. Another star heroine might play villain if all goes well.

This could be the biggest break Ileana is waiting for, from a long time. While Akshay’s films like Special Chabbis and Baby did nothing to the Hindi career of South hotties like Kajal and Taapsee, we have to see what magical spell he could cast for another southern starlet Ileana now.

‘Saradaa’ was the title initially considered for Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s industry hit ‘Atharintiki Daredi’. The makers, however, went by ‘Atharintiki Daredi’ and left ‘Saradaa’. In the meanwhile, Manchu Vishnu is doing a movie at the moment which has been titled as ‘Saradaa’. It’s going to be a hilarious entertainer. And now, Manchu Vishnu seems to have got the title of Rajamouli’s upcoming project.

Till some days ago, it was gossiped that Rajamouli was planning a Rs.1000 crores project which was titled ‘Garuda’. Prince Mahesh was supposed to be the hero of the movie. As per an interesting update, hero and producer Manchu Vishnu has registered a title ‘Garuda’ on his own banner 24 Frames Factors. Perhaps, Rajamouli dropped the idea of making ‘Garuda’ project such that Vishnu has taken over the title. Anyways, we need to wait and see which genre would Manchu Vishnu opt for this project.

Mega Prince Varun Tej who stumbled at the box office with his debut movie, Mukundha finally managed a hit with his second film, Kanche. The movie in its full run collected 13.72 Crore share Worldwide.

It can be considered a Hit as the pre-release business is 13.5 Crore. Nizam and Overseas distributors have got profits while the distributors of other areas have tasted losses.But still this result with an offbeat venture is admirable.

Here is the breakup of Kanche Total Collections: 

Nizam: 4.25 Crore
Ceeded: 1.35 Crore
Uttarandhra: 1.21 Crore
East: 0.69 Crore
West: 0.57 Crore
Krishna: 0.83 Crore
Guntur: 1.04 Crore
Nellore: 0.30 Crore

AP+Nizam: 10.24 Crore
Karnataka: 1.05 Crore
ROI: 0.35 Crore
USA: 1.78 Crore
ROW: 0.30 Crore

Total WW: 13.72 Crore

Naga Chaitanya’s debut venture ‘Josh’ was a huuge disaster at the box office. However, the actor was successful in doing super hit films ‘Ye Maaya Chesave’ and ‘100% Love’, which were made as romantic entertainer. On the other hand, all the mass entertainers done by Naga Chaitanya tasted flop results. Seems like Chaithu realizes the importance of doing romantic entertainers. Two of his future projects are being made as romantic entertainers.

It is a known news that Naga Chaitanya is working in the direction of ‘YMC’s director ‘Gautham Menon for ‘Sahasam Swasagaa Sagipo’ which is being made as a romantic entertainer. One more romantic film of his took off yesterday which is the remake of Malayalam blockbuster ‘Premam’. Chandu Mondeti wields megaphone for the project. Shruthi Haasan, Anupama and Aisha Sharma will romance with Chaithu in the film. Naga Chaitanya is expected to bounce back with these back to back romantic entertainers.

Anushka has almost completed a cycle of acting besides star heroes of Tollywood. From Chiranjeevi to Venkatesh among veterans and in the new generation from Raviteja to Mahesh Babu, there is only one lucky heroine who managed wonderful chemistry with each hero and it is our Sweety. However, Anushka might be a bit disappointed only on one aspect of missing out Pawan Kalyan from list.

Despite a fact that Anushka is very much open to romance Pawan at least once in coming days but the chances look dim because of their different paths. While, Sweety is remaining so selective about the stories with period-history subjects and fantasy based scripts ruling her career track, there is no way she might turn towards glamorous characters. ‘Just like the way you people are keeping the fingers crossed to see me act besides Pawan Kalyan, I am also very much in the waiting. Please, some body of you refer my name to Pawan sir,’ that’s the way Sweety is requesting.