Veteran producer-director Dasari Narayana Rao took a dig at the big families of Tollywood during the audio release of Tripura on Thursday evening. While praising actor Naveen Chandra’s hard work in the industry, he said, “These days, 10 actors are coming from the big film families. It is very difficult for outsiders to get a chance… and even if they get a chance, it is very difficult to prove their talent. It’s not easy for outsiders in the industry.”

While not naming the Ram Charan starrer Bruce Lee, he said, “I reiterate once again that small films should be released on the festival days. Look at the releases few days ago on Dasara. All are doing well and all are small films.” The one big film, Bruce Lee, which released on Dasara, did not do well at the box office at all.

Praising some of the directors for their films’ success, he added, “Sekhar Kammula, Krish, Rajamouli and a few other directors’ films tasted success because of them. It was their success; they believed in their story, not the star.” he says. He added that he had argued with the late Sivaji Ganesan about the same. “A director can create a hundred stars, but a star can’t create a director or a star,” said Dasari. Kona Venkat and Krish Jagarlamudi attended the music release of Tripura along with the film’s director Raj Kiran and the unit.

There are many rumours about the debut film of Akkineni Akhil. The film, also titled Akhil, supposed to be released on Dasara, October 22, was postponed due to technical reasons in the last minute. While the new date might be announced any day, Akkineni fans are restless. According to a source, Akhil had started the film’s publicity long back by visiting a few colleges. He had also gone to the US to promote the film.

While Nagarjuna and the makers have been saying that the film was postponed due to some graphic work not being up to the mark, Akhil apparently was very upset when he found that his father was the reason behind the film’s postponement.

“Akhil was unable to digest the news and he didn’t talk to anyone for a few days. The actor was supposed to attend a media conference, but he refused to come. Thus, Nagarjuna attended at the last minute. He didn’t even answer his father’s call,” says a source.

Akhil is under pressure from fans because when the news of the film’s postponement came out, they started getting nasty with their comments and it hurt the young actor a lot. There’s also some talk that Nagarjuna postponed the film to help his friend Chiranjeevi as his son Ram Charan’s film Bruce Lee was also releasing on Dasara. Will Nagarjuna clear the air on the rumours of a father-son rift?

Actor Nikhil’s upcoming film Sankarabharanam is based on the Hindi film Phas Gaya Re Obama. The 2010 small-budget film was directed by Subhash Kapoor with Rajat Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra, Manu Rishi and Neha Dhupia as the lead actors.

The story is about an NRI who comes to India to sell his ancestors’ property and lands in trouble. The Telugu film’s story is also the same and most of the shooting was done in Bihar just like the original Hindi film.

Sankarabharanam has been produced and written by Kona Venkat. “The original idea of Sankarabharanam was taken from Phas Gaya Re Obama and we wove the story around it. We have taken the rights for the entire South,” tweeted Kona Venkat. Nikhil plays the NRI and Nandita is the female lead while Anjali will be seen in a special role as Munni. Debutant Uday is the director.

Kalyan Ram Nandamuri’s latest film Sher failed to grab the attention of film lovers right from the first show. In spite of scoring huge hit with his previous film, Kalyan Ram failed to generate interest on his new release.Sher directed by Mallikarjun had a disastrous opening day at the box office and the collections on second day are even worse. Although this film is not making much buzz at the ticket window, it has caught the attention of gossip circles with a controversial dialog.

In one scene a comedian says “Saha Jeevanam chesi kooda hand istunna ee trend lo, hand chusi love cheyadam enti?” to the heroine. Those who have seen the film are stressing on this dialog that it is surely directed at Pawan Kalyan!

Pawan Kalyan who was in live in relationship with Renu Desai for many years finally married her because of the pressure from media and political circles during PRP days. However he divorced her soon after that to marry a foreigner. In fact Saha Jeevanam word became popular among Telugus because of Pawan Kalyan. Don’t know if the writer of Sher took a dig at the power star or just pointing out at the latest trend.

According to the buzz from film circles, Ileana is all set to reenter Telugu cinema industry with Ram Charan’s next film.Ram Charan is remaking Tamil blockbuster Thani Oruvan in Telugu under Surender Reddy’s direction. Necessary changes are being made to the script to suit Ram Charan’s image. Heroine has a key role to play in this film. Nayanthara played the female lead in original and Surender Reddy wanted an experienced actress to essay this character.

Kajal Agarwal was considered but she has already done three movies with Ram Charan. So they are going for Ileana as she never paired up with Ram Charan in the past. Maybe it is Surender’s call to rope in his ‘Kick’ beauty in this film. They haven’t signed up anyone for the villain role yet. Aravind Swamy played the villain in original and has won accolades for his performance. Who is going to do this character in Telugu?

Meanwhile Allu Aravind has joined hands with NV Prasad to produce this movie on the request of Ram Charan. Stay tuned for more updates on this interesting project.

Critics might have written him off for not scoring commercial hits, but hero Siddharth never ceases to amaze us. All his latest Tamil flicks like Jigarthanda, Kavya Thalaivan, Enakkul Oruvan have won critical acclaim.

Siddu is coming up with a dark comedy now and it is titled “Jil Jung Juck”. Produced by Siddharth himself under a new comer Deeraj Vaidy’s direction. First look of this film is doing rounds everywhere now.

For his rugged look with twirled moustache, leather jacket, guns and greasy outlook, no doubt our Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana star is the show stealer. Also it proves that you can’t write him off so easily saying that his juice is over. No, it isn’t.

While he is not picking up Telugu films these days, his fans are expecting him to release this “Jil Jung Juck” simultaneously in Tollywood too. Also, we’re waiting for you to sign a Telugu movie soon. Siddu, are you listening?

Whenever a film release gets postponed, fans are going berserk and taking up foul words and abusing on social sites. Recently Akhil experienced similar situation, while Nitin face most of the heat for the postponement of “Akhil”.

Extending the culture, people started blasting the team of “Shankarabaranam” when it is announced that the film dropped from Diwali race. This Kona Venkat production is dropped from 11th November release and pushed to 30th November, all because of leaving space of “Akhil”. And that has hurt Nikhil’s fans on the social network.

Same is the case with Ravi Teja’s fans as “Bengal Tiger” release got pushed from November 5th and a fresh date isn’t announced yet. Mass Raja’s fans are asking why “Akhil” didn’t give up 11th while Ravi’s film got fixed for this date a month back already. All these discussions are leading to arguments, accusations and finally foul mouthing.

While it’s tough to control the swarm of these verbals happening on social sites, it’s fans who should realise that movies are all about business for producers and they will release at a comfortable time. If producers thinks about prestige and ego, then crores of rupees will be at stake.