Nandamuri Kalyan Ram’s Pataas which released last year is one of the most successful films in terms of return on investment. The movie is now being remade in Tamil with Raghava Lawerence in the lead role. Super Good Films, RB Choudary bagged the remake rights of the movie.

Sai Ramani will direct this film which will go on sets by this year end. Lawerence is currently shooting for his next, Motta Siva Ketta Siva.

The shooting of the movie is progressing at brisk pace in Tamil and it will be later dubbed in to Telugu after its completion. On the other side, the pre-production work of Pataas remake also began.

Our readers are aware that Megastar Chiranjeevi is planning to do the remake of Tamil blockbuster Kaththi as the prestigious 150th film. The project is likely to be announced on 16th of this month. On the other side, rumours are sprouting about the movie’s cast.

They say Vivek Oberoi who played Paritala Ravi in Rakta Charitra is being considered as the baddie in the movie. The confirmation is expected only after the official announcement. VV Vinayak is likely to handle this project.

The movie will start for Sankranthi-2016 and is targeting at Summer release. Ram Charan and his mother, Surekha will be producing the film on their newly launched, Konidela Productions banner.

The film industry is considered to be a haven for those who are creative and talented and it is also the hotbed for some out of the box ideas. While this may be the conventional side, there is also an unconventional side. There are many instances in the cine circuit wherein projects keep taking different twists and turns. Today, the situation is such that you are not even sure about a film till it enters the theatres.

The Tollywood circuit which was once a very orthodox and disciplined industry has also come under the influence and many cases happen here as well. Here is one such ironical example. Recently, a talented writer cum director brought a story to one producer and the producer liked it. As for the remuneration, the producer said “Let the shooting commence I will give when it is happening.”

In between, the shooting stopped due to lack of funds and after waiting for a long time, the writer decided to discuss it with someone else. But to his surprise, the producer is saying no citing “It has not worked for you or us so it won’t work for anyone.” This became an issue and the writer was in a major emotional turmoil and stress for a long time. But he didn’t give up his efforts and wanted a way out.

At that point, one of his friends advised the writer to slightly change the title and change the story and its character names a little. The writer did that and approached another producer. The result is, the producer approved this and the deal is almost getting finalized. Such type of gimmicks and unusual things keep happening and at the end of it all, you can only realize one thing, cinema is all about stroke of luck and fate.

Gunasekhar’s Rudhramadevi had a sensational first weekend collecting about 20 Crores only in the Telugu States. However the movie could not keep up the steam from its fourth day. The movie succumbed to the pressure of the working Monday and witnessed drops.

The collections in Nizam are slightly on better side. Even though the drops are there, the movie performance can be still considered as ‘decent’ given that talk. The movie had collected 2.82 Crore share on Monday.

Here is the breakup of Rudhramadevi four days collections: 

Nizam: 9.60 Crore
Ceeded: 3.90 Crore
Uttarandhra: 2.01 Crore
Krishna: 1.20 Crore
Guntur: 1.91 Crore
West: 1.18 Crore
East: 1.70 Crore
Nellore: 92 Lakhs

AP+Nizam: 22.42 Crore

Directors going to the extra mile of abusing and humiliating actors to extract best performances is nothing new in film industry and our very own director Teja is known for such temperament. Yet another star director joins the list now.

Selvaraghavan (Sri Raghava in Telugu) is co-writing and producing a movie in his wife Geethanjali’s direction. The film is titled Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam and it had senior editor Kola Bhaskar’s son making his acting debut. Also, Punjabi actress Wamiqa Gabbi makes her Tamil debut with this film.

In her latest interview, Wamiqa, who will also make her Telugu debut with Sudheer Babu’s Bhale Manchi Roju, narrated her first day shooting experience with Selvaraghavan. Apparently, Wamiqa was struggling with her lines and Selva, after waiting for while, lost his patience and shouted at Wamiqa amidst the entire unit.

Shocked by this, Wamiqa was left in tears and immediately called up her dad and told him that she won’t do the film. Her father, who always believed that Wamiqa was a born actress, criticized her for her low spirit which was when Wamiqa determined to give her best shot for the film.