India’s Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan, has the highest number of Twitter followers in the country with more than 16.6 million fans longing for his regular tweets about his films, daily routine and even occasional chat and poetry sessions. This morning, the Big B woke up to the worst shock of his life. His Twitter account has been hacked by unidentified people and Amitabh himself revealed the news.

This morning, the senior Bachchan tweeted, “T 1980 -WHOA !..My Twitter handle hacked ! Sex sites planted as ‘following’ ! Whoever did this, try someone else, buddy, I don’t need this !” This indeed is a huge shock which exposes the cyber vulnerability and proves that even the biggest of the celebs are no longer protected from cyber bullies.

Amitabh has a verified profile on Twitter and he follows 984 Twitter handles. All the fraudulent sex accounts have since been unfollowed. Amitabh, however, has not confirmed whether he will take any legal action against the hack. It is indeed appreciative of the Superstar for reacting to the incident in a calm and composed manner, with some sense of humor.

Ace director SS Rajamouli’s masterpiece Baahubali is going international. The film’s Hollywood as well as other foreign versions will hit the marquee in less than a week days. The Prabhas and Rana starrer film has crossed Rs 600 crores worldwide is just 100 crores away to beat PK’s record which is clearly conquerable with international outing. Baahubali’s international version edited by Vincent Tabaillon of The Incredible Hulk fame is 23 minutes shorter than the Indian theatrical version.

On top of BO records, Baahubali will be screened at the upcoming 20th edition of Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) to take place between October 1 and October 10. Baahubali will have screening on Oct 4th, 7th and 9th. Rajamouli is gracing the film festival along with other film unit.

Rajamouli’s previous film Eega had done decent business in China and other countries. Baahubali with much bigger concept and high standard visuals is sure to amaze Hollywood spectators. The film is about two brothers at war for an ancient kingdom.

The first look teaser of Powerstar Pawan Kalyan’s Sardaar Gabbar Singh will be released tomorrow night on the occasion of the actor’s Birthday. So far only two schedules of the movie were completed and the third will begin very soon.

The recently released first look poster released on Independence day, just shot the expectations to sky level. Earlier they have planned the movie release for Sankranthi 2016 but now it looks impossible given the pace they are shooting the film. Power fame Bobby is wielding megaphone for this film.

Devi Sri Prasad will be composing music. Pawan Kalyan’s close friend Sharath Marar is producing the film under his North Star Entertainment banner. Eros International had purchased all the rights of the film for sensational price.

Before making re-entry as hero with Rakumarudu, Mahesh Babu acted in several films as child artist. Now, his son Gautham is also wishing to continue as child artist. Gautham made onscreen debut with dad Mahesh Babu’s 1 Nenokkadine. Unfortunately, the Sukumar directorial utterly botched at box office. Surprisingly, Gautham didn’t watch the film thus far, as stated by Mahesh himself at an award function. In fact, Gautham likes watching family entertainers and has no interest in action movies.

Gautham watched Srimanthudu and appreciated dad for selecting a sensible subject. Mahesh Babu also informed that, Gautham wants to star in Brahmotsavam as well as other upcoming films of him. However, Mahesh is yet to decide on it. “Gautham thinks he can bunk school, if he continues acting in films,” quipped Mahesh. Gautham won his first ever award at MAA TV Awards for his performance in Nenokkadine and it was presented to him by none other than his grandfather Krishna gaaru.

Brahmotsavam is going to be family entertainer with inclusion of ensemble cast such as Samantha, Kajal and Pranitha. Srikanth Addala and other team members believe Gautham presence will be add on for the film. It is to be seen what Mahesh Babu will decide on it!

Voluptuous beauty Raai Lakshmi, the actress who never ceases to mesmerize her beauty admirers with a series of exotic photoshoots, is back with a fresh set of stills that are setting off the heat waves yet again. In this exclusive bikini shoot, Raai Lakshmi sizzles in a long, floral netted gown that teasingly hides her curves, making the beholders of her beauty go crazy asking for more.

These stills are being spread like wildfire since morning as today marks the 4th anniversary of her action thriller Mankatha (Gambler in Telugu) starring Thala Ajith. Raai Lakshmi played the role of a con girl named Sona and she titillated the audiences with her sensuous act in the film. In her next outing, the gorgeous dame will frighten her fans in a horror flick titled Begumpet.

From a long time there is criticism that those heroes only with family background are ruling Telugu film industry. This is some sort of hypothetical statement because any hero would need a hit to continue in industry, while family support would be helping him to get his debut easily.

If we look at the current number of heroes from big film families, it’s Mega Family that scores the top. Following Chiru’s legacy, there are Pawan, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, Sai Dharam, Varun Tej and Sirish continuing in the game. It makes the no. of Mega successors in industry to 6, the highest number of actors debuting from any other film family in almost near generation.

Like the celebrated Raj Kapoor family too didn’t have 6 actors at once during Rishi Kapoor and Sashi Kapoor era. Standing next to Mega family is Akkineni Khandan, with five heroes in the crease. Though Sumanth is not continuously active, he’s one along with Nagarjuna, Chaitanya, Sushanth and Akhil who followed ANR’s footsteps. As Supriya is not active at the moment, we couldn’t consider her, and that makes Akkineni’s score 5 not out.

And here goes Nandamuri family. Treading in legendary NTR’s path, Balakrishna, Jr NTR, Tarakaratna and Kalyanram, made their film debuts and continuing as heroes. They score 4 together and if Mokshagna enters, the score will be 5 soon. Manchu’s have scored 3, with two heroes and one heroine, including Vishnu, Manoj and Lakshmi followed Mohan Babu to industry. Daggubati family has two, Venky and Rana, in the game.

Among all these heroes, those with immense talent and peculiar style became star heroes, while others are continuing as minimum guarantee heroes. Some have neared the edge of retirement too, while few are yet to find ground. That’s all for now folks.

Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu had a good outing in its fourth weekend. Absence of any notable films and Kick-2 getting a disaster talk, the movie had got decent collections every where. More over the addition of extra scenes worked in favour of the movie just at the stroke of the fourth weekend.

Here is the breakup of Srimanthudu 24 days collections: 

Nizam – 20.41 Crore
Ceeded – 8.51 Crore
Guntur – 5.30 Crore
Vizag – 5.28 Crore
Krishna – 4.12 Crore
East – 4.31 Crore
West – 4.09 Crore
Nellore – 1.95 Crore

AP+Nizam – 54.97 Crore

The makers of Anushka’s Size Zero had announced grand plans of having the audio launch event in Malaysia. They planned to release the audio albums of both Telugu and Tamil versions from the same dais that day. However they have changed their mind for some reason.

The audio launch event is now shifted to Hyderabad and it will happen on September 6th. Size Zero is a romantic comedy in which Anushka plays an obese The movie is also not releasing on October 2nd as planned earlier.

They wanted to have a simultaneous release of the movie in Telugu and Tamil but the presence of Vijay’s Puli at Tamil box office for October 2nd prompted the postponement.

The First Look Teaser of Anushka and Aarya’s Size Zero was out a short while ago. The 30 seconds trailer hints at the movie being a joy ride with Anushka being an obese and her struggles with over weight are portrayed funnily.

The last visual Anushka kissing the weight ticket may be after her trials to get the Size Zero figure. The teaser definitely increases the expectations and hype on the movie making it an interesting weight (Oops.. wait).

Anushka should be admired for the effort she put in to do the role as Obese. The audio launch event will take place on September 6th in Hyderabad and the movie is likely to see the light some time in October.

Director VV Vinayak is a big name. As he’s fondly called Vinay, he’s also called a money-spinner as his films always have all those commercial elements coated quite heavily. Currently he’s launching another star-kid Akhil, with the movie ‘Akhil’ and busy with the post-production work of it.

If we have to talk about his upcoming projects, it is heard that Vinay is actually getting a script cooked and it’s almost in final stage. This is for Superstar Mahesh, the buzz says. For Mahesh Babu’s film, just in case if VV Vinayak has this socio-fantasy script okayed, as being publicised in film circles now, there are lot of cautions our director should actually take into consideration.

Unlike pumping in  80 crores or 100 crores budget, Vinay should actual pump content. Because most of his recent films, like Nayak and Alludu Seenu, doesn’t have huge content except dynamics, commercial thrills and heroism. If Mahesh delivers the same thing, then it’s going to be another Aagadu kind of.

Anyway, some insiders stated that since Vinay stated at Srimanthudu audio function that he will make a movie with Mahesh with 100 crores budget, all these talks are popping up. Otherwise, Vinayak is buy with Akhil and Mahesh is focused on acting and producing Brahmotsavam, but these two haven’t finalised any story yet.

Stylish Star Allu Arjun’s next under the direction of Boyapati Srinu is tentatively titled Sarainodu. The first schedule of the movie is now completed. The movie unit had canned a high octane action sequence with Bunny and Aadi Pinnisetty in this schedule.

The shooting will go non-stop till completion and they are planning early 2016 release. Allu Arjun placed a new record with his recent film, S/O Satyamurthy of becoming the only Telugu hero with two 50 Crore share films back to back.

On the other side, Boyapati is excited with the success of his Legend. SS Thaman will be scoring the music and Geetha Arts will be producing this flick which is touted to be an action oriented Love Story. Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa are the heroines.