All of a sudden, there is fresh buzz began to surround Nandamuri Balakrishna’s milestone 100th film in spite of a known fact that he is presently occupied with 99th project ‘Dictator’ in direction of Sriwass. Yes, Balayya’s 100th film is reported to get its launch on June 10th of 2016 which happens to be the birthday of our hero.

With no surprises, none other than Boyapati Srinu is going to be the director. In fact, this action loving director who earlier delivered two stupendous hits ‘Simha, Legend’ for Nata Simham is sitting on the script work from last few months. As soon as Boyapati completes ‘Sarainodu’ with Allu Arjun, the next task is already assigned and he will jump on to the untitled 100th.

While there were random speculations in Nandamuri Fans circles about SS Rajamouli can be the best director to handle Balayya but nothing of such sorts happened because Balayya promised Boyapati and stood on his word. Undoubtedly, the budget and scale of this venture will be very big and this can be the real challenge before director and hero.

Most glamorous and star heroine Anushka’s new film ‘Size Zero’ has got different kind of response from Regional Censor Boards of Telugu and Tamil. With the film nearing to release in next couple of days, producer Prasad V Potluri has arranged for Censor Certification and cleared all the formalities to go for a smooth release.

While the Telugu version of ‘Size Zero’ is issued U/A Certificate, the Tamil version titled as ‘Inji Iduppazagi’ is given a clean U certificate. While reasons behind such different of opinions from two boards is still unknown, some sources revealed that Sonal Chauhan’s glamour show and a lip kiss of hero Arya with heroine Anushka might have forced them to go for U/A.

Anyways, this also indicates that fewer portions of ‘Size Zero’ might be treated differently in both Telugu and Tamil versions. Apparently, Anushka remains the central attraction of film and the crowd puller for this entertaining flick.

Ram Gopal Varma says that his upcoming film Killing Veerappan will be something different from what he has done till now. “The police tried to nab him for nearly 20 years. I had done research since the early ’90s as I wanted to do a film on him. The film is not Veerappan’s side of the story or a biopic on him. The subject deals more about how a police officer killed the bandit,” says RGV, adding that he plans to release the film on December 4. Crores were spent to nab Veerappan and hundreds of policemen were on the assignment. “But a cop came up with an intelligent plan and killed him. I have met this person and I have also met Veerappan’s wife,” says RGV.

He adds that the film was shot mostly in real places though he didn’t get permission to shoot in some other locations. Shiv Raj Kumar, son of legendary late actor Rajkumar, is playing the intrepid police officer. “In Karnataka, two people are very famous for good and bad. One is Rajkumar and the other is Veerappan. The Kannada star had been kidnapped by Veerappan and that was one reason to rope in Shiv Raj Kumar for the film,” says RGV. Recently, the director had heavily criticised the Censor Board on Twitter, but he doesn’t think that the Board will create any trouble for the film.

Pooja Jhaveri, who made her debut in Tollywood with the film Bham Bholenath last year, is set to romance Sumanth Ashwin in her next film. The film, to be directed by Manu, will be the remake of the Malayalam hit film Ordinary.

Meanwhile, Pooja is also busy with a few Tamil films including one opposite Dhanush, directed by Prabhu Solomon. “The makers had seen her in this Dhanush film and roped her in for their Telugu film,” says a source.

Pooja had also worked as a choreographer for many Bollywood films in the past and had acted in many commercials before making her Telugu debut.

After Loafer, director Puri Jagannadh’s next project will be Rogue. The bilingual film, releasing in Kannada and Telugu, will see the debut of Ishan, son of producer C.R. Manohar of Mahatma fame.

According to a source, the director will also introduce Aisha Sharma with this film. Puri had earlier introduced Aisha’s sister Neha Sharma with Chirutha, which was also Ram Charan’s debut film.

“Aisha is almost confirmed as the female lead. Shooting will start in December,” says a source.

With Cheekati Rajyam getting a good response from the audience, Kamal Haasan is a happy man. “Though I have heard it many times in my career, but it is always new when people praise a film. This film’s success gives me more scope to experiment. If it was not successful, we wouldn’t try this genre again. It would take another 10 years to try out a different genre,” says Kamal. He adds that he postponed going back to Chennai thanks to the positive reports about the film.

“People are liking the film and I thought that I should thank the Telugu people for this success. In my early days, Telugu people had encouraged me when Maro Charitra had released. Thanks to that encouragement, I can try different genres,” he adds.

Talking about his upcoming film Amma Nanna Aata, Kamal says, “It’s a great pleasure to work with Amala after such a long time. The film is a family and romantic drama and most of the shooting will be held in the US.” He adds that Zarina Wahab will be playing a key role in this film, which will be directed by his friend Rajeev Kumar.

Naga Chaitanya’s ‘Saahasam Swasagaa Sagipo’ has carried enough hype due to its eye-catching first teaser and the first look posters of the movie. On the occasion of Naga Chaitanya’s birthday today, the makers have unveiled another interesting teaser of the movie that caught everyone’s attention.

As the background voice narrates, Naga Chaitanya seemed like a regular guy who likes his friends, girl friend and a bike. What if this cool guy happens to face tough situations wherein he faces criminals and gangsters? The teaser just has given the hint that everything was not a cakewalk for the protagonist and he should fight for a cause. Malayalam actress Manjima Mohan has played romantic interest of Naga Chaitanya in the film. The movie has its music scored by AR Rehaman. Gautham Menon, himself, directed and produced the movie on Photon Kathas.

“Not move out of this great country. India is what has made you AAMIR KHAN. We are not in Afghanistan, to feel so insecure. For record, As an actor I love Aamir Khan“, says Manchu Vishnu, setting the record straight. As the opposition against Aamir’s intolerance comments is growing fast, Vishnu too joined his peers from Tollywood in connection with this.

In a much generalised and matured statement, Vishnu stated that ‘intolerance’ is everywhere in the world. “Ask Hindus & Muslims in Pakistan about it, Muslims in Bangladesh, ask my African American Brothers about intolerance in one of the greatest nations USA“, Vishnu said.

He felt that few isolated media hyped events cannot represent the general mood of this Great Country, India. “Idiots have created a sense of insecurity earlier, some incidents now and maybe in future also. As a society we need to correct that”, he opined.

Well, Telugu Film industry says that Vishnu’s comments are the most matured hit-back and a befitting reply to Aamir Khan so far.

Aamir Khan’s statement of growing intolerance in India has caused a stir in celebrity circles. His comments have been off late attacked and criticized by many. ‘If Aamir, Sharukh and Salman the three biggest stars of the Hindu country India are Muslims, I don’t understand where intolerance is? In a predominantly Hindu country, if 3 Muslims can become the biggest iconic super stars that it-self proves the majority aren’t intolerant. Some celebs complaining about intolerance should be the last ones to complain because they became celebs in a so called intolerant country.

Isolated incidents cannot be taken as sign of intolerance and the super stardom of 3 Muslims is proof enough of the vast majority’s tolerance. Isn’t Aamir, Sharukh, Salman, three Muslims becoming biggest stars of a Hindu country proof enough that India is tolerant? It’s the celebs need for creating drawing room debates to increase their popularity which flares up non-existent negativity between communities. If you are really feeling like a family and there’s a problem in the family, family members in public won’t say there is intolerance in the family,’ Ram Gopal Varma reacted. Anupam Kher and Paresh Rawal too went so serious on Aamir comments.’Dear Aamir Khan, did you ask Kiran which country would she like to move out to? Did you tell her that this country has made you Aamir Khan,’ as said by Anupam Kher.

The perfect youthful entertainer struck with current generation audience is the super hit film of ‘Kumari 21 F.’ Written by Sukumar and directed by Surya Pratap, this movie has Hebah Patel, Raj Tharun performing superbly in main leads. As story and script are totally youth-centric with enough of bold, spice factor added by Sukku, this has become the most eligible subject for remakes in other languages.

As per official reports flowing in from ‘Kumari’ team, there are numerous phone calls received by Sukumar and his team of producers regarding the sale of remake rights for Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi languages. Sukumar Writings is the new banner established by Sukumar has owned all the rights. Despite amazing prices quoted by top production houses from Mumbai and Chennai to bag the remake rights, it looks like Sukumar is still playing the game in centre concentrating currently only on promotions of Telugu version.

Pawan Kalyan kept his Fans and Telugu audience so excited about the upcoming projects to be produced on his own banner of Pawan Kalyan Creative Works. If Pawan is the hero, there is no scarcity for producers and money will be poured like water. But the main intention of Pawan in starting a new own banner is to produce films with other heroes and also to groom young talents to get a much needed break.

Well, a movie with Ramcharan as hero and Pawan as producer is also announced. However, story and director are yet to be finalized. The innate delay happening with Pawan Kalyan Creative Works remaining on back foot with production of new films is their weak financial status, reports a film source. Till the time Pawan accumulates needful money with ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’ to be exclusively deposited in their banner account, there will be no big progress in Charan’s project too.

As we all know, Pawan never cared about money in any stage of his life. Looks like the time has come, he is slowly understanding the necessity of having enough finance on hand which can make many things lot easier. Despite the backing from Sharat Marar, we might have to wait till ‘Sardaar’ release to see a progress in Pawan Kalyan Creative Works.

Bollywood top heroine Deepika Padukone’s foraying into South or especially Telugu cinema has been a fascinating subject for movie lovers. There were several rumors on Deepika would be cast opposite to Mahesh Babu, Ramcharan and other heroes at different occasions but the busiest actress never accepted any of the proposals forwarded by directors and producers from South.

‘I am getting wonderful offers from Telugu with too good stories and characterizations. Many of those super hit Telugu movies are also remade into Hindi. So, language isn’t a barrier stopping from entering into Tollywood. I am ready to take up few assignments in coming days without worried about language.

In Telugu industry, Mahesh Babu is my favorite actor. I just love his acting. More than an actor, he is a good friend of mine. Not just Mahesh, I would love to act besides any hero in Telugu and I am looking forward for at least one project to happen,’ Deepika said while preparing for the release of her career’s biggest film ‘Bajirao Mastani.’

In the context of growing terrorism around world and India too being a sufferer, there has been a raging debate allover on religious intolerance and insecurity to lives of people. When numbers of creative people are expressing their views of dissatisfaction by returning the awards, what is the opinion of Aamir Khan on the entire situation? At the eighth edition of Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards, here is Aamir Khan breaking the silence. ‘In the last six to eight months, a sense of insecurity and fear seeped so deep within society and the same is even in my family. After spending our (my wife Kiran, my children and me) whole lives in India, my wife for the first time asked me, should we move out of India?

Just like everyone, we are scared of atmosphere around and are feared for our children. We are shivering to open the newspapers every day. As an individual and as a citizen, I am alarmed by a number of incidents. Sense of justice, electing our representatives (politicians) to rule us are two important attributes give Indians a feel of security. Whenever there is a violent act reported with innocent killings, I feel very unfortunate and immediately look towards our leaders to take a strong step to reassure the citizens that they are safe,’ Aamir Khan said. On growing terror with Islamic State, he made some interesting remarks too. ‘Any acts of terror connected to religion cannot be encouraged. If a Muslim is engaging in terrorism, then he is for sure not following Islam. If a Hindu does the same, he is not following Hinduism. No religion in this world will teach killing of innocents. Instead of calling a Christian or a Hindu or an Islamic terrorist, we should address them only as terrorists removing the religion tag because terrorism doesn’t have a religion,’ Aamir adds.

Power Star Pawan Kalyan has all praises for top musician Devi Sri Prasad. As we know, Devi Sri Prasad is composing the tunes for Pawan Kalyan’s ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’. Devi has composed a few romantic numbers for the movie. Having listened to the music Pawan Kalyan sent a text message to Devi heaping praises on the music director. Besides, Pawan Kalyan assured him that he would dance superbly for the songs scored by Devi. Devi Sri Prasad, himself, revealed this news to media.

Devi is also scoring tunes for Young Tiger NTR’s ‘Naannaku Premantho’. ” NTR asked me to keep the standards of Sukku and mine with this venture too. I am trying to get a song sung by NTR in this film,” said Devi Sri Prasad.

Meanwhile, Devi Sri Prasad’s latest album ‘Kumari 21F’ received great response from the music lovers. The movie is running with packed houses at the moment. On the other hand, a few filmmakers are trying to rope in Devi Sri Prasad as a hero in their production houses. It remains to be seen whether Devi signals green to be stepped into the shoes of a hero or not.