As a comedian, there are few like him. And in his career of 27 years, he has acted in more than 1,050 films, a feat that has got him into the Guinness Books of World Records. However, in recent times, there has been talk that his comedy is becoming routine — to put it plainly, boring. But the comedian says that he simply follows the director’s orders.‘Director’s the boss’: “I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do. I can’t argue with them that this character is routine or similar to my earlier film. The same directors and writers created my earlier characters and made me successful,” says Brahmanandam. “I never take the comments made about me seriously. I just do my work. Sometimes people will laugh, sometimes they may not laugh. Moreover, the film business involves a lot of money and I can’t tell the writer or director to design my character as I like. My job is to act according to the director’s vision.”

10 more films to release: Brahmanandam lists around 10 films of his that are releasing soon — Bengal Tiger, Soggade Chinni Nayane, Aatadukundam Ra, Sardar Gabbar Singh, Sarainodu, Abaitho Ammayi, Soukyam, Loafer, Chuttalabbayi, Garam, Mental Police and Krishnashtami. “These are the ones I can think of immediately, there are some more. I hope everyone understands when they see the list of these films,” he laughs. “And I feel proud that many people, especially kids who visit Hyderabad from abroad, want to see me along with historic places like Charminar and Golconda. That gives me more honour than anything else. When I travel, at many places people look at me and laugh, but I still don’t understand why they laugh. Something is there in me.” “Doing comedy is very difficult and if you do it perfectly you can do any kind of roles. But I still feel sad that an award should be included in the National Film Awards for ‘Best Comic Actor’ too. I don’t know why they never look at in this area,” concludes the actor.

Nobody is permanent: The actor is all for new talent. “I don’t want to be in every film, and I can’t do that. Nothing is permanent in this world. When I was young I would do 35 to 40 films a year. Now I can’t work like that and if I thought along those lines then it would be my stupidity,” he says. Coming back to his roles being criticised lately, Brahmanandam justifies, “If you see the present trend in Tollywood, many are eying the horror-comedy genre, because those films are hits. My characters too are designed by writers on the same lines,” he says. Asked about successful films this year, in which he wasn’t present, Brahmanandam says, “I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film’s success or failure does not totally depend on me,” he says.

Fat pay packet: When asked about his high remuneration, something which stops small filmmakers from approaching him, he says, “I have done many films without remuneration and sometimes for just a token amount. But there is a demand and supply. Whoever wants my presence approaches me. If they thought my remuneration was too high, they would not have taken me.” He adds that he has done films for just Rs 2,500 though he has played key characters in them.

On retiring: The comedian also says that he has not thought about retirement. “Nothing will start with us and nothing will end with us. By God’s grace I have made people laugh all these years and I will continue as long as I can. “Regarding peoples’ criticism, I haven’t given it a thought. I am always peaceful and live my life happily, I don’t worry,” he says.

Completely washing out the stains on him regarding those bold and double-entendre films, Maruthi has emerged victorious with Bhale Bhale Magadivoyi. Like we said earlier, this talented director is now teaming up with senior hero Venkatesh. Here’s what he is going to do.

Refuting reports that they have zeroed on Radha Krishna as the title of the film, Maruthi indicated that a title is yet to be find out for this film.

Anyway, what’s he going to do with Venky now after missing him to show as home minister falling in love with a middle class girl? While Maruthi kept mum, sources close to him revealed he will doing another comedy film only.

Venkatesh is likely to play the role of a cop in this film of Maruthi, but he will be seen as a comedy embracing cop, like in some Rajendra Prasad’s movies. Comedy is a safe theme for both Maruthi and Venky, as our hero is expert at it and the director recently scored hit with one such.

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan here on Wednesday evening said he does not follow any particular routine as far as food habits are concerned and calls himself a “bad eater”. “I’m a bad eater and I’m sure that when you call home the answer will be the same. I don’t follow any routine. My eating habits are very dissimilar to what any of you are following. I just eat whatever comes to me, I don’t know that it is,” said Amitabh Bachchan.

Bachchan who was present at the launch of Shilpa Shetty’s book, “The Great Indian Diet”, said he considers himself the wrong person to be launching a book on diet due to his eating habits. “I never used to do any kind of exercises. Most of the times when I was working in my earlier films, I never really thought about it though or I wasn’t advised about it or I perhaps didn’t have the time. “But having seen some of my visuals in some of my films about 5-6 years ago, I realised that I needed to be in shape and started going to the gym on some kind of a regular basis,” he added. Bachchan turned vegetarian a few years back and is known to be extremely fond of Indian cuisine.

While the makers of Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Dictator are making grand preparations to launch its music on Dec 20th in Amaravati, here is the latest news about hero Gopichand’s upcoming film. The makers of Soukyam have finalised to do its audio launch event on December 13th in Ongole city.

Featuring Regina Cassandra as female lead, the film is directed by AS Ravi Kumar Chowdary who is back in form with Sai Dharam Tej’s Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham. In the past, Chowdary had directed Gopichand for Yagnam which became successful.

Anand Prasad, of Bhavya Creations who produced blockbuster Louykyam with Gopi, is producing this film as well. Though there are no exact reason why the film’s music is launched in Ongole, it’s heard that Prasad wanted to held it in Ongole as the songs of their previous film Loukyam was unveiled in Vijayawada.

The film’s music is scored by Anup Roobens. If all goes well, Soukyam would be hitting the screens on Dec 25 on the eve of Christmas. This will be clashing with Dr Mohan Babu-Allari Naresh’s multi-starrer Mama Manchu, Alludu Kanchu.

Chennai: Akshay Kumar will reprise superstar Vijay’s role in the Hindi remake of Tamil blockbuster “Kaththi”. “Lyca Productions and A.R. Murugadoss will jointly produce the remake, which will be directed by debutant Jagan,” a source close to Murugadoss told IANS. “Kaththi”, which featured Vijay in dual role, was directed by Murugadoss and produced by Lyca.

The film’s shooting will start from April 2016. This will be the second time Akshay will star in the remake of Vijay’s film. He previously worked in the “Thuppaki” remake, which was named “Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty”.

Two flop films can really impact the career of an artiste or a director. And Srinu Vaitla had two back to back releases in Aagadu and Bruce Lee, both of which failed at the box office. So for some time, Vaitla is bound to feel the heat and as of now no hero or producer is coming forward to bail him out. The latest talk in Film Nagar right now is that Srinu Vaitla might be joining hands with Ram to make a movie.

In the past, Ram acted in Vaitla’s Ready, which was a super hit in the careers of both Ram and Vaitla. However, Ram had a flop in Shivam only recently. And the question now is who will be producing the film for them? Well, the answer surely is Sravanthi Productions, which is also the home banner of Ram.

Ram Gopal Varma has a programme called Ramuism on a particular channel. Popular anchor Swapna handles the show and on it, Varma talks of various aspects every week. Of late, the show does not have the required TRPs and probably in the process of making the programme sensational, Varma will be talking about the mega family.

Already, Varma had made some controversial statements about heroes in the mega family. He had said in the past that Mahesh was a bigger hero than Pawan Kalyan and he also went on to say that fans of mega family were mostly uneducated. So what will Varma say in his latest episodes remains to be the big question. Well, after making some offensive statements on Twitter, it surely remains to be seen what Varma will say next. And this will be one episode that the mega fans might want to watch.