Going by the current trends happening in Telugu Film Industry, it seems like internal family wars are going to be unstoppable here. Especially when there is an argument that outsiders are not finding enough theatres and chances to make it big in the industry, analysts feel that even the family-backed heroes might slip into trouble soon.

As we confirmed already, NTR’s Nannaku Prematho and Balayya’s Dictator are arriving on January 8th and 14th respectively. Two biggies from the same Nandamuri family are arriving in just a week gap, and 30% of fans are unlikely to pick both. Because it’s the question of money for many middle-class people and C-centre folks. They will be picking only those films that give them maximum satisfaction for ticket money.

Even family audiences will also think in similar way. After Balayya recedes from acting career, then Mokshagna is likely to enter the scene. Then we will have Jr NTR, Mokshagna, Kalyan Ram fighting from Nandamuri family for placements. So, the one who delivers better content will have more chances of succeeding than everyone.

Coming to Mega family, this set of heroes enjoy the biggest threat from each other. Barring Pawan Kalyan, we have Charan, Bunny, Saidharam, Varun Tej and Sirish in the game. As these heroes are continuously making films, at one point films of their cousins are likely to clash with them. If arrangements are made for two weeks gap, no doubt the same middle class money troubles will play the bigger role and fans are likely to wait and watch the best film among the two.

Same is the case with Akkineni family who has Nagarjuna, Chaitu, Akhil and sometimes Sushanth in the race. With this family inclined towards romantic films most of time, their producers might eye similar seasons, making the Brand Akkineni lock horns with each other.

Another scenario is that, if not family wars, wars with friends are also inevitable. Charan is likely to face Akhil and Rana one day; Bunny might get Prabhas in his way; and so on. With two many heroes running for the show, these wars can’t be avoided. Even if they plan very cautiously, our ways of missing release dates, delaying production and unnecessary postponements will lead only to a fight at box office.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is always open to do experiments. The Attarintiki Daredi actress is all set to go deglam in her next. Sam, who usually plays ultra glamorous, stylish roles, for a change decided to do a non-glam role. She will be essaying the role of a slum dweller in Vada Chennai. Buzz is that Sam has signed the project on the dotted line and going to join the shoot soon.

Touted to be a two-part film featuring Dhanush in the lead role, veteran Tamil filmmaker Vetrimaaran is helming the film. Set against the backdrop of North Madras, the film is billed to chronicle three decades in the life of a gangster.

What’s more? Samantha is going to dub in her own voice for the film. This is not all. She will be seen speaking in a local Tamil accent. Since she is essaying the role of a slum girl, she will be seen with a tan and no make-up.

It is an open secret that actor Rajasekhar and his wife Jeevitha are not on healthy terms with the Mega family. In the past, the clashes between both the families were quite evident and were made public during the initial stages of Chiru’s PRP. But looks like the animosity has cooled down a bit on either sides.

Recently, Rajasekhar and Jeevitha were invited for the Diwali celebrations in New Jersey, USA. The celebrations were organised by the Telugu Kala Samithi has  in America. Rajasekhar participated in the event enthusiastically and even enthralled everyone as he danced to some of the hit numbers from Powerstar Pawan Kalyan’s films.

Interestingly, both Jeevitha and Rajasekhar made sarcastic comments on Pawan Kalyan, when the latter imitated Rajasekhar’s trademark dance step from the superhit ‘Rose Rose Roja Puvva’ song in his blockbuster film Gabbar Singh.

Rajasekhar’s daughters Sivani and Sivathmika, actors Madhavilatha and Sudha also took part in the Telugu Kala Samithi Diwali celebrations.

Akhil Akkineni’s debut movie, Akhil may be heading towards a big disaster in USA. The movie had a good start in Overseas by collecting $90,268 from 117 screens for the Premieres there. However the collections are on a down slide, once the negative reviews of the movie are out.

The movie had collected $22K from 104 locations there on Wednesday and on Thursday, it had collected paltry $6,855 from 72 screen which is alarming. The movie was bought for a whopping 4 Crore in Overseas, which is highest ever for a debutante.

But it looks like the movie is heading towards a big disaster. If the film recovers over the weekend, there is at least an out side chance of minimizing the losses.

Akhil who has debuted with a bang-on film is said to be very happy with the reviews that his first film has got. Though the film has been having mixed reviews, Akhil’s performance has been appreciated and he is said to be very happy with all the positive talk.Apparently, he confided that he reached his goal with his very first film as no review has written anything negative about him, though many had pointed the flaws in direction.

Well, right now, Akhil and family are happy and he is said to be considering his second film. Since he now knows his strengths and weaknesses, Akhil will be doing films that will suit his age and image, it is being said.

Meanwhile, the film’s unit is confident that the film will pick up gradually.

There have been reports in the media that producer DVV Danayya has promised to return money to the buyers that have lost lot of money on his film Bruce Lee.Bruce Lee has collected a worldwide share of around 40 crore in its full run falling far short of the pre release theatrical business it has done. Overseas and Nizam buyers have lost so much and others to incurred notable losses on this biggie.

It was believed that Danayya and Charan have promised to share the losses suffered by the buyers. However Danayya denied the news and said that he never promised anybody to return the money. Interestingly Danayya who was supposed to be one of the producers for Charan’s next film, which is a remake of Thani Oruvan is not related to the project anymore.

Film sources believe that it is a strategic move by Mega camp to keep Bruce Lee buyers out of this film’s way. As per trade sources buyers who have bought the movie haven’t lost much as they have sold the rights to exhibitors and various third parties prior to the release. Hence there shouldn’t be pressure from the original buyers that are more or less in the safe zone by the time the movie was declared a flop.

The meeting between AP CM Chandrababu Naidu and Pawan Kalyan has been much hyped, but it turned out to be a mere photo-op meeting.Neither Babu nor Pawan Kalyan has given any clear-cut statements as to what went on during the meeting between them. Pawan too did not give any clarity to the farmers who were waiting for some news from him.

Meanwhile, the director of his film Sardaar has been rescheduling shoots as per Pawan Kalyan’s tours and personal work. And now talk is that Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena will contest in the GHMC polls. So the director is worried about further delay.But sources close to Pawan Kalyan say that the star would finish the movie’s shooting and won’t delay it further. In fact, he hinted that he won’t be expanding Jana Sena’s party strength at this moment as it requires huge amount of money. Pawan Kalyan said he doesn’t have enough money to expand the party. Giving political statements as chief of Jana Sena and on the other hand, he will get on with his film shootings.

Universal Hero Kamal Hassan’s Cheekati Rajyam is all set for a grand release in Telugu on 20th of this month. The Universal Hero met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu to permit for the Special Premiere of the movie in Vijayawada. He even invited Chandrababu for the Premiere.

Kamal announced that the Special Premiere will happen on 19th in both the Telugu states. There will be a gap of 8 hours between both the Premieres to ensure the movie cast get time to travel.

Cheekati Rajyam’s Tamil version, Thoongavanam released on 10th of this month in Tamil Nadu and the movie had got good reviews there and is doing well at the Kollywood box office. Given that there are no big releases here the next week, the movie is expected to get a good opening here.

Akhil Akkineni’s debut movie, Akhil which created a record in debut films with its first day figures, suffered a fall on its second day. There were significant drops for the film in many centers with the bad talk and working day effect doing the trick.

The distributors who have invested over 47 Crore on the film are worried about this trend. They hope the movie recovers from evening shows today and will hold up this weekend.

Here is the breakup of Akhil’s second day collections: 

Nizam: 98 Lakhs
Ceeded: 51 Lakhs
Uttarandhra: 33 Lakhs
East: 22 Lakhs
West: 16 Lakhs
Krishna: 15 Lakhs
Guntur: 18 Lakhs
Nellore: 11 Lakhs

AP+Nizam: 2.64 Crore

Looks like Anushka Shetty and marriage rumours are inseparable. It is so common in the film industry that if an actress works with the same hero or director a few times, rumors easily start spreading about the duo!Anushka has also not been spared from this problem, caught in the centre of a storm that’s making the rounds in a few sections of the press and websites. The actress who romanced Prabhas in more than five films was recently seen alongside him recently in SS Rajamoui’s blockbuster hit Baahubali.

The couple share a great bond and Anushka said in an earlier interview, that she would love to work on any number of films with Prabhas. Now, grapevine has it that the duo was seeing each other, right from their Billa days and now with the success of Baahubali, both of them want to get hitched soon! However, it is said that the family of the Rebel star is against the alliance and want Prabhas to tie the knot to a girl of their choice instead.

If sources are to be believed, Prabhas’ uncle Krishnam Raju and his wife have already chosen a girl from Bhimavaram who is said to be a relative of the actor. The girl is in the final year of her B. Tech course and her picture is being circulated in social media. This has reportedly upset the Rudramadevi star and hence Anushka is rumoured to have flown to an overseas destination to focus on her weight loss after she gained several kilos of weight for her role in Inji Iduppazhagi/Size Zero. When we contacted Anushka’s manager Raghu, he denied it as totally fake news and a figment of someone’s imagination.

“Even last year, rumours about madam’s marriage to a businessman were being circulated, which were false. I don’t know from where they are getting such news”. On the report of Anushka taking off to Thailand for weight reduction he said, “That’s also not true! She is very much here only and working out as well to reduce those extra pounds”. In a recent interview to media, Anushka had said in a lighter vein, “It has become a routine for the media to link me with all the stars I work with. This gossip does not affect me these days. With so many films in my kitty including Singham 3, Baahubali 2 , I can’t think of getting hitched anytime soon”.

Akhil Akkineni had recently participated in one of the TV shows and made interesting comments about his opinion of various heroines in the industry. He chose Samantha when he was asked to choose a friend from the current generation heroines.

He preferred bubbly beauty Raashi Khanna as his sister which may break the heart of the chubby beauty. Further he picked Rakul Preet Singh as his girl friend option and vulturous beauty Amy Jackson as his dating partner.

Akhil had kept aside all the lead heroines aside and opted for a new comer Sayesha in his first film. We will have to see if any of these girls will get lucky even in his second film.

From the last few days we have been seeing rumours about Prabhas’ marriage. Some websites have even published some photographs of a Bhimavaram girl saying that she is Prabhas’ would be. The photo spread like a wildfire. However Prabhas’ Uncle refuted all these as baseless rumours.

Krishnam Raju almost fired at media, “I do not know from where these rumours come from. We have seen them coming in the past too. If there is some thing like that, media will be the first to know”. Prabhas is working out to get in to the skin of his character for Baahubali-2.

The regular shooting of the film will begin in December and the movie will hit the marquee towards the end of the next year. 40% of the movie shooting is already complete with the first part.

Hero Raj Tarun has had two to three hits on hand. And with that he has managed to get few more films with good banners.He has a film with Geeta Arts, one with Vamsi Sr and of course he has Kumari 21F. Usually, heroes in his range get Rs 25 lakhs, but with Cinema Choopista Maava, his range has increased to Rs 50 to Rs 60 lakhs.

The makers invested near abouts Rs 1.5 crores and they got up to Rs 10 crores. Naturally, that is a good bargain for small films.

Now, Raj Tarun is asking for Rs 50 to Rs 60 lakhs. And if Kumari 21F becomes a hit, then he is likely to increase it to Rs 1 crore. And for that to happen, there is only 1 week to go. Well, he surely has lady luck smiling on him.