As reported by us earlier, Hrithik Roshan is likely to reprise Telugu Superstar Mahesh Babu in the Hindi remake of Srimanthudu. The latest buzz is that writer-director Koratala Siva who originally made movie in Telugu, is expected to helm the Hindi remake as well. Discussions regarding this are going on.

Siva has 50 per cent share in the Hindi remake rights whereas the rest lies with Eros International. Hence both are joining forces to make the movie. Hrithik has already watched the movie couple of times and impressed with it. However, Hrithik suggested few changes in the climax and Koratala would be making those changes soon.

Hrithik’s dad Rakesh Roshan himself likely to be playing onscreen dad (essayed by Jagapathi Babu in Telugu) in the Hindi version. First Koratala would start his next (Janatha Garage) with Jr NTR from January. After wrapping up the film in August 2016, he’ll work on the Hindi version of Srimanthudu from September 2016.

Other than in “Srimanthudu” case, the two times when Mahesh’s films are sold for higher prices, the result is drastic. It not only affected distributors, but our himself said, ‘lot of money and things are at stake’ and he got disappointed hugely. There was a time when Mahesh said sorry to fans But what’s the reason for all this hype and over-the-top selling.

During both 1 Nenokadine and Aagadu days, Mahesh’s movies got huge hype, due to various factors. His sky rocketing charm and stardom coupled with the image of director have brightened the chances of selling. Blame it high production costs or other issues from producers side, those two film got sold for hefty prices, more than 70+ crores business, and when the films flopped, that led to heft losses. The bigger thing to be looked upon is, hype has led some big Bollywood companies owning those movies and that has led to selling at high prices.

Now that the news of Mahesh’s next with AR Murugadoss is out, and hyped that Mahesh is getting around 25 crores as remuneration, no doubt Bollywood companies will be trying to own the movie at higher rates. Will that lead local distributors to invest heavily again? Not this time maybe, because 2015 haven’t been productive for any as Srimanthudu helped them only to recover previous losses. So, hype could kill business this time.

After Akhil, his elder brother Naga Chaitanya is in the news these days. However, it’s not about a film this time, it’s his marriage. There are rumours doing the rounds of Filmnagar and on Twitter that Chaitanya will announce his marriage, and the bride-to-be on his birthday on November 23.

Though the actor has laughed away the rumours, his marriage has become a big topic lately. Chaitanya was seen with an actress at a local restaurant recently. Someone saw the pair and spread the news that he would marry the same actress and might announce this on his birthday.

Meanwhile, Chaitanya’s upcoming film with director Chandu Mondeti was officially announced on Wednesday. Shooting will start in the first week of December in Vizag. The film will be a remake of the Malayalam hit Premam.

Raghava Lawerence is remaking Kalyan Ram’s successful Telugu movie, Pataas in Tamil. Lawerence tweeted that The regular shooting of the film began today in Chennai. The film is titled Motta Siva Ketta Siva. Incidentally this is the title for Lawerence’s other film.

But Lawerence felt it will suit more for Pataas remake and passed it on to this project. The first schedule will happen in Chennai for a month. And then the team will shift to Hyderabad. They have also drawn schedules in Hong Kong and Switzerland for the songs shoot.

Nikki Galrani is going to romance Lawerence in this film. Sai Ramani is wielding megaphone for this remake while RB Choudary is producing the film under his Super Good Films banner.

Twelve years after the award-winning Telugu film Aithe was released, director Raj Mudiraj is making Aithe 2.0, in Telugu and Hindi. The film was launched on Tuesday in Hyderabad.

Raj, meanwhile, says that it is not a sequel. “Aithe 2.0 is a techno thriller which highlights the ill effects of social media and technology on youth. It’s going to be a different film and has no similarities with Aithe. But I can say that my film is a complete reboot version of the old film. The Hindi version is titled Pirates 1.0,” says Raj.

Shooting has already started and the director plans to complete it in 40-45 days. The actors are a mix from the Hindi and Telugu industries — Indraneel Sen Gupta, Zara Shah, Abhishek, Karthavya Sharma, Neeraj, Mrunal and Mrudanjali. K. Vijayarama Raju is producing this bilingual film.

Three producers, Radha Mohan of Bengal Tiger, PVP of Size Zero and Kona Venkat of Sankarabharanam, have come to an understanding and have decided to release their films within a week from each other instead of simultaneously. “In the present scenario, most films need just one week to get good revenues, so we decided to release our films with one-week gaps,” says PVP, praising producer Radha Mohan’s decision to postpone Bengal Tiger to a later date.

Says Radha Mohan, “First I wanted to release on November 5, but Akhil’s movie was there, so I postponed it to November 27. But Size Zero will be releasing then. Now I am releasing on December 10 to give space to Sankarabharanam too.”

“Generally if a film is postponed, rumours spread that the film is having a reshoot. But at this juncture PVP and Radha Mohan clarified about their release dates. This is a good sign for the industry and I hope everyone gets good revenues,” says Kona. The films are now releasing on November 27, December 4 and 10 respectively.

Nara Rohit had been working double shifts to complete two films. On one hand he is shooting with Nanditha Raj as his co-star for the family entertainer Savithri, directed by Pavan Sadineni, while simultaneously he is also busy with Raja Cheyyi Veste directed by debutant Pradeep. This film is being produced by Sai Korrapati of Eega fame.

The actor was working two shifts for the two films at Ramoji Film City. During the day he would shoot for Raja Cheyyi Veste while the night shift was for the other film. He is now moving to Eluru town for the second schedule of Savithri. Meanwhile, the actor has also completed another film with director Kumar Nagendra, a remake of the Tamil film Maan Karate.

The launch of Chiranjeevi’s niece Niharika Konidela’s debut film was a low-key affair. Her film was launched officially on Monday as the makers felt that it was an auspicious day. Only her family members and the film’s unit was present at the launch. Rama Raju is the director and Madhura Sridhar is producing the film.

“We worked a lot on the script and conducted workshops. It was very successful and most of the actors are ‘in character’. So at this time, we didn’t want to disturb them with a big launch function and had a low-key launch,” says Madhura.

Naga Shaurya is playing the lead actor in this film. Shooting will continue in Hyderabad for a few days and then shift to Araku near Vizag for the major schedule.

Do people in the west think differently than us, especially in terms of sexuality, flaunting curvaceous figure and talking those stuff with children? If we have to go by what Pawan Kalyan’s Puli heroine Nikeesha Patel has said, then we may say yes.

When asked about going scorching hot for screen, like she has done in couple of recent films in Tamil and Kannada, Nikeesha says, there’s nothing wrong it. “Obviously when you’re sitting in a beach, the costume is a bikini only. Even on screen, I don’t mind to wear.

Years later I could show that to my kids telling this how your mom used to look then”, she says. Even at the promotions of her latest Tamil Karioram, which will be ‘Leela’ in Telugu, she flaunted her curves in a revealing outfits.

Despite all this openness, why Nikeesha failed to get huge offers? “I’ve got calls from many big heroes during the time of Puli. But I’ve quoted huge remuneration at that time. I don’t have regrets about it anyway”, she quipped. Anyway, Nikeesha’s no-big-deal attitude with bikini is the talk of town now.

Richa Gangopadhyay is one actress who bagged plum offers in Tollywood. She left Telugu Cinema when offers are coming her way, to pursue her higher studies in USA. But the NRI girl was active on Twitter and in one of her recent interaction with fans, she declared that she is not planning to comeback.

“Will always be grateful for my 5 years as an actress, but am even more grateful to what it taught me about myself and what I really want. For me, life is more than just about pretty shoots, dialogues, awards, fame, material pleasures…and especially being someone you’re not. Im an introvert by nature and tried out the acting profession to try something new.

It was a learning experience for sure 🙂 (sic)”, Richa tweeted. She tried to explain that she was never interested in films but that happened by chance. She further explained that even the marriage plans are not on cards any sooner. Whatever may be her future, lets wish her all the best.

A statement from Akhil on foreseeing Nandamuri Mokshagna as real competitor for him in near future has raised many eye brows because Akhil nowhere gave a thought to present generation young heroes as his threats. Well, that’s a rare exposure of confidence in this young sensation. If Akkineni Fans enjoyed the statement in one perspective, Nandamuri Fans are cautioning the same in their own perspective.

Although Balakrishna hasn’t revealed any future plans about introducing Moksha to films as the youngster is still occupied with studies, there is enough of knowledge he would have gained watching the obstacles Nagarjuna faced in launching Akhil. Like Nagarjuna, even Balayya has a big family name to base on and good command over industry circles to trace a story or director but it’s a big gamble there on.

Instead of waiting till the penultimate hour, Balakrishna should make it a habit to keep an eye and ear on new stories which can possibly suit for Mokshagna. Of course trends are dynamic in film industry but Moksha having blessed with the tag of Nandamuri advantage can easily register his position if Balayya groups a right combination of talents in writer, producer and director.

Despite repeated requests from Ramcharan not to address Chiranjeevi cameo in ‘Bruce Lee’ as Mega Star’s 150th film, a section of anti Fans have been so provocative to call it as Chiranjeevi’s 149.5 and 150th. So far, Mega family failing to give any clarity on milestone film is further leading to more confusion and space for anti Fans to comment and criticize which obviously is proving irksome for Mega Fans.

Well, the present situation of Chiranjeevi can be very well analyzed. Till the time they come across a strong story and script, they cannot announce anything officially. On the other side, Chiru cannot take the risk of accepting a weak story just for sake of pleasing Fans temporarily. There is a recent buzz on ‘Kaththi’ or ‘Vedalam’ remake as most probable scripts, Mega family is looking at.

Before blaming it on inefficiency of our senior writers and star directors, why not Chiranjeevi come out of his regular circle and try something new from fresh talents? Before getting it too late and breaking more promises, Chiru has to realize a truth that industry is well seeded with many new, innovative thoughts. The task is to find those right guys crossing all the barriers.