Who else other Ram Gopal Varma understands the value of sound in effectual presentation of a film. He is a setter of new benchmarks in Indian cinema when it comes to innovative ways of sound recording. For example, ‘Shiva, Deyyam’ still remain as elementary learning classes for amateur sound recording engineers. In total contrast, Rgv is planning to go for a silent (mookie) movie with Raj Tharun as hero.

‘I am working on this concept of a silent film and finally cracked a crime comedy script starring Raj Tharun as hero. This will be a multi lingual project to release in many languages. Along with Raj Tharun, there will be many artists from multiple film industries to work on this project. As there is no language to the film, we can have a widest release in as many states,’ Rgv enumerated the idea.

From the times of 1913 starting with ‘Raja Harischandra’ or 1921 released ‘Bheeshma Pratigna’ to ‘Pushpaka Vimanam’ released some 30 years back, there are experiments done on silent movie without any sound. All of them are today reckoned as biggest technical experiments and Rgv is on the same path to glorify the importance of silence with this untitled flick.

In what is seen as a welcome change, Mega Star Chiranjeevi has met his brother-in-law and producer Allu Aravind on Wednesday evening. Though Chiru met Aravind on friendly note, it’s buzzed that the duo discussed several things including the recent debacle of Bruce Lee. Apparently, Chiru sought Aravind’s support for upcoming projects as Aravind is experienced producer and distributor to which the latter given his nod without a doubt.

It’s learnt that Aravind would likely to oversee the production of Ram Charan’s next movie, billed to be Telugu remake of Tamil superhit Thanu Oruvan. “Aravind garu will see the film and will take a final call,” said a source in the know. If all goes well, Geetha Arts would take part of the film’s production. Ram Charan is also said to be keen on joining forces with Geetha Arts.

The mega camp is now in a reunion mode. After brothers Pawan Kalyan, Chiranjeevi met each other and stated support for  one another, Chiru blessed Varun Tej’s Kanche. By meeting Mastermind Allu Aravind the latest, Chiru is sending strong signals that mega camp is reuniting and to get strong like never before. Even sources in the mega camp too watching the developments closely. Looks like, good news is on cards for mega fans.

From decades back, Mega Heroes are rated as best of commercial heroes in South India. Every film from their compound is considered to be a blockbuster assuring profits for all those associated. In fact, Pawan Kalyan, Allu Arjun and Ramcharan made this statement stand true in its spirit taking the legacy from Chiranjeevi. However, the times have changed and today, they are considered as loss makers for producers.

For example, analyzing this one year’s graph clearly showcases the degrading trend. Allu Arjun’s ‘Rudhramadevi, S/O Sathya Murthy’ or Varun Tej’s ‘Kanche, Mukunda’ or Sai Dharam Tej’s ‘Subramanyam for Sale, Rey’ and lastly, Ramcharan’s ‘Govindudu Andari Vaadele, Bruce Lee’ have thrown producers and buyers into several losses. Coming to Pawan Kalyan, there is no trace on how much budget Sharath Marar has spent on ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh.’

This is not a general rating which Mega Fans expect from their heroes. Truly, times are running bad and situations are unfavorable for entire Mega camp. Until and unless, they come up with anything that is industry shaking, there will be hard recovery in short future span.

“Pl don’t believe any rumours or gossips regarding our movie “Bruclee”. It’s still running with good collections..Still getting good response“, (sic), tweeted Kona Venkat, today afternoon. Well, that makes clear that he is quashing all the rumours, but here comes the ‘mega’ doubt.

Which rumour Kona is quashing? There is a buzz that Bruce Lee distributors are approaching Film Chamber officials to sort out their losses. In fact, nearly 30% losses are predicted for the film at box office, regarding which there is a divide talk, that the loss would be repaid through next film with producer offering them a movie for lesser prices next time. Is Kona quashing this one?

Or there is another buzz that Kona is getting ready to file a defamation suit for 10 crores on Sreenu Vaitla, as he feels that the director insulted him by giving credit as story-writer, while the story was changed from the original version he has given. Is Kona saying this is untrue?

With Kona not giving clarity regarding various rumours doing rounds, there is a possibility that his clarification will give rise to another rumour.

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  Heroine Nayantara is rumoured to be dating director Vignesh Sivan and the two are also heading towards a marriage, if reports are to be believe. All in all, we have Nayantara’s WhatsApp selfie confirming things as the two are seen posing with a hug. What has Nayan to say about this.

  “Just because we work in the entertainment industry, it doesn’t mean that our personal life is entertainment for others. I feel that it is immaterial and irrelevant for media to speculate and write about my personal life”, says Nayantara, who is overwhelmed by hat-trick hits in Kollywood.

  After scoring hits with Thani Oruvan, Maaya and Nanum Rowdy Dhaan, she became a sensational heroine with such hits in a row. However, Nayan feels her relationship is strictly personal. “Respect my privacy. I will not comment, react, deny or speak about it”, she concludes. As she hasn’t denied, though she didn’t commented, reacted or spoke about it, people know what to expect now.

Despite Kalyan Ram’s repeated appeals that Nandamuri Family is always a single unite and will be united, fans are said to be leaving his pleas to deaf ears. The happenings in Coastal districts on the eve of “Sher” release tomorrow are really hurting some honest admirers of Nandamuri family.

In the towns like Kakinada, now banners are put by some Nandamuri fans, who claim that they are Balayya Fans. They are not just Balayya fans, they are only Balayya fans. But they extend their wishes to Kalyan Ram for “Sher” and then feature Mokshagna’s image along with Sr NTR’s picture on the flexi sign board. What does this indicate in the first case?

Just one look at the banner makes it clear that except Jr NTR everyone is present in the scene. We wonder what is this difference and disparity fans are trying to show regarding Young Tiger. Needless to say, hardcore Nandamuri fans are not able to digest this.

The trend of presenting costly gifts to heroes, directors and heroines by the producers has been revived again in Tollywood.A decade ago this was the most common practice by the producers to gift the actors after the success of the movie. Now, Mahesh Babu has restarted this.

The latest director to receive costly gift from the producers is Maruthi, who received luxury Jaguar car costing Rs 80 lakhs. Bunny Vaas, Pramod and Vamsi who produced Bhale Bhale Magadivoy with Nani in the direction of Maruthi ordered the Jaguar car soon after the release of the movie. Now the car was handed over to him.

Bhale Bhale Magadivoy has collected about Rs 25 Crs and the movie was made with mere Rs 10 Crs. A month ago, Mahesh Babu did the same by presenting costly Audi car to his director Siva Koratala who made Srimanthudu. The film set new record of becoming all-time second biggest hit in the history of Tollywood after Baahubali.

So overwhelmed with the success, Mahesh Babu immediately gifted the director such a luxury car.

Rajamouli’s magnum opus Baahubali broke every record at the box office to become India’s biggest blockbuster.Expectations were pretty high that Baahubali would set new benchmarks in terms of TRP ratings too.

MAA TV bought the satellite rights of Baahubali for a whopping price. They have expected Baahubali to get above 30 points and set a new benchmark in TRP. However Baahubali only got 21.8 which is lower than Magadheera’s television premiere. Magadheera got 22.7 but it is not the highest ever for a Telugu film. This record is reportedly held by Sri Ramadasu with 24 points.

There was so much buzz about Baahubali’s television premiere but the ratings prove that not everybody has shown interest in watching the epic movie on TV. Movies that were aired on other channels during Baahubali premiere managed to get decent TRP! However this is the best in last five years surpassing Attarinti Daredi’s 19+ TRP.

Mumbai: Actress Taapsee Pannu, who is a teetotaler in real life, has turned down an offer to endorse a liquor brand. She says she refused to be associated with the brand as she “doesn’t want to propagate” consumption of alcohol.The “Baby” actress added that she is picky about brand endorsements as she feels they are an extension of her personality. “I have always been cautious of the brands and products I endorse because I think it helps my audience to form an image of how I am in real. I only endorse products I use or believe in.”

“This (liquor brand) definitely doesn’t feature in that list and I was pretty surprised that it came to me at first place. It’s definitely not a product I would ever endorse, not only because I am a teetotaler, but also because I don’t want to propagate the use of the product,” Taapsee said in a statement.

The actress, who has worked in Bollywood as well as other regional industries and even has her own wedding planning company, was offered an alcohol endorsement last week. On the film front, Taapsee is prepping up for “Runningshaadi.com” and “Agra Ka Daabra”.

Hyderabad, Oct 29: Tollywood actor Prabhas’s marriage plan is a hotly debated topic among youth. The actor too revealed that he would marry after the release of ‘Baahubali’ movie.

The actor’s uncle Krishnam Raju too claimed that he would find a suitable match for Prabhas and would perform the marriage, after the release of the film. ‘Baahubali’ completed 100 days and even ‘Baahubali 2’ shooting commenced recently, but Prabhas has not commented on the matter.

It is said that Prabhas will marry after completing the shooting of the film in 2016.

According to sources close to the actor, the family members decided to marry Prabhas to a girl from Bhimavaram in October 2016.

Of late, whenever a big Tollywood film is being planned or announced, it has become mandatory that Jhanvi Kapoor, the elder daughter of yesteryear diva Sridevi, is also linked with that project. In the past, Jhanvi was rumored to be playing the female lead in several crazy projects like Akhil’s debut film, a film with Ram Charan and even Naga Chaitanya.

Now, Jhanvi is back in the news with media houses carrying reports of her Tollywood debut with Young Tiger NTR in his upcoming film, Janatha Garage. The film was launched last Sunday and already creating ripples among gossip mills. Of course, these are just rumors as Sridevi outrightly stated some time ago that there’s still a lot of time for Jhanvi’s acting debut.

Jhanvi was also rumored to be playing the heroine in a film to be directed by Rajamouli’s father Vijayendra Prasad with Dulquer Salmaan as the hero. On the other hand, Bollywood bombshells Parineeti Chopra and Amyra Dastur and south hotties Samantha and Shruti Haasan are also reportedly in talks with Janatha Garage’s unit for the heroine’s role.

Gorgeous Delhi beauty Taapsee Pannu is a rare glamorous mix of dimples and curls. The actress also is an online activist of sorts and never minces words to voice her opinions against the wrongdoing in the society. Such strongly opinionated actress, if offered a huge liquor endorsement deal, will she accept it? Well, of course, Taapsee, a complete teetotaler, declined the offer.

Recently, a popular liquor brand approached Taapsee to endorse their brand. However, Taapsee refused to sing the deal as she does not want to propagate consumption of alcohol. Talking about the reason why refused to sign the deal, Taapsee said, “I have always been cautious of the brands I endorse because I think it helps my audience to form an image of how I am in real. I only endorse products I believe in.”

Taapsee also said that she is choosy about brands as she believes they are an extension of her personality. Taapsee, even after giving a blockbuster with Ganga, is yet to sign a film in Tollywood and Kollywood. In Bollywood, Taapsee has two projects, Runningshaadi.com and Agra Ka Daabra.

Veteran writer Kona Venkat took to Twitter after the news about him filing a defamation suit against Sreenu Vaitla for changing his script without his consent.Kona Venkat didn’t mention about the ongoing controversy and simply stated that ‘Don’t believe in rumors and gossips’. Kona Venkat still believes that Bruce Lee is getting good collections and good response.

“Pl don’t believe any rumours or gossips regarding our movie “Bruclee”.It’s still running with good collections..Still getting good response (sic),” Kona tweeted a while ago. Sreenu Vaitla hasn’t responded on this issue yet. Kona and Vaitla had serious differences after Dookudu due to the ‘clash of egos’.

Kona blamed Vaitla that he taking credit for other’s hard work. He didn’t work for Vaitla’s Aagadu and then Charan brought them together for Bruce Lee saying that cinema is beyond personal issues. However return of Kona and Gopi Mohan didn’t change the fate of Bruce Lee. It has bitten dust at the box office like Aagadu.