Often, one of the most sought after music composers in Tollywood, Thaman, is under intense public eye for his allegedly ‘copied ‘ tunes, mostly from English and western music and sometimes even from Bollywood. The most recent song composed by Thaman which was under scrutiny was the Ganesha song from Dictator, which is allegedly ‘lifted’ from the ‘selfie le le’ song from Salman’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan.

In a latest interview, Thaman opened up on the allegations about his copy tunes. Speaking honestly, Thaman said that it is not just him who selects a song (to copy) but that several other people like director, producer lyricists etc are also involved in the overall decision making whether to take an existing song to adapt it to Telugu.

Thaman said that everybody in the crew knows about the original and that it’s a collective decision. “Will my mother serve me food if I play a copied tune at home?,” says Thaman. Talking about his way of copying tunes rather too honestly, Thaman said that he does not know how to smartly copy tunes like other music composers and that is why he always gets caught by music lovers.

“A good thief never gets caught, only a bad thief does. Maybe I am a bad thief and that’s why I get caught,” discloses Thaman.Thaman’s next film, Bruce Lee, will have its audio launch on 2nd October.

One happening has just changed the total excitement of fans. Just a day before the release of this highly hyped fantasy flick, Income Tax department has given the biggest punch. That’s making producers and distributors sweat it out with tension.

Today morning, residences of hero Vijay in Chennai, Madurai and Cochin are raided by IT sleuths in the wake of big budgeted “Puli” releasing. As the makers of the film have spread news that the film wrapped a near 100 crore rupees business including all areas of Tamilnadu, Income Tax officials laid special focus on them.

Both Vijay and his producers houses are raided simultaneously. These raids haven’t stopped as by the afternoon, residences of some prominent distributors who are releasing the film are kept under the noose. There is no way IT officials will cut loose until some other distributors’ offices and residences are raided till late night today.

Already few theatres in Tamilnadu, especially in top tier cities like Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore have cancelled the early morning 5 am and 8 am shows, and also started refunding the money. That has worried Vijay fans and the position of morning 11 am shows will be known only late tonight.

While there is no clarity on Telugu and Hindi versions here Puli Telugu premieres in US are cancelled as they sent Tamil drives instead of Telugu and Tamil premieres are very much on schedule.

Score one hit and you’re kept on the throne of years irrespective of the flops you deliver. Though movies like Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum, Malli Malli Idhi Raniroju, Dongata and others are not big commercial hits while success of “Gopala Gopala” was pushed into remake category, but still writer Sai Madha Burra enjoys that unique patronage.

On one side, many young and aspirant directors are said to be running after Sai Madhav for his dialogues. And on other side, we have the likes of Pawan Kalyan and Nagarjuna who asked this writer to interfere in their projects Sardaar and Soggade Chinni Nayane respectively. For Pawan’s movie, Sai Madhav is writing one version of dialogues and a mixture of his dialogues and director Bobby’s work will be used together. Writer Bobby is however unhappy with this development.

Coming to Soggade Chinni Nayane, shooting of the film got stopped after Nagarjuna felt some scenes are not really turning well and they lack depth. Apparently this ghost and grandson is inspired from a Hollywood movie which also inspired Surya’s “Rakshasudu” movie.

Only after Sai Madhav made some changes to the script, the shooting is now getting rolled after 2 months gap. But the developments are said to be worrying debutant Kalyan Krishna and producer Ram Mohan who provided the original story for Nagarjuna.

They say, with many below average commercial performers to his name, how come Sai Madhav Burra became too crucial for Pawan and Nagarjuna. Maybe there’s some unexplored spark in him which only our senior heroes has seen.

Tamil Star hero Vijay is coming up with Chimbu Devan directed Puli hitting the screens worldwide tomorrow with premiere shows in early hours. Although the film is generating enormous curiosity in Tamil, no one is even talking about the sci-fi here. While Tamil spectators and Vijay fans say the trailers of the film were eye-feasting, they appeared like ‘Jujubi’ for Telugu cinema goers.

Since Vijay doesn’t have remarkable market value here, Telugu producers are promoting the film with Shruti Haasan and Sridevi’s alone posters across major cities in Telugu states. Vijay posters are hardly seen, wherein Shruti’s glamorous and Sridevi’s devilish posters are seen everywhere.

Both Shruti Haasan and Sridevi are prominent faces for Telugu spectators. While Shruti is on full form here with Srimanthudu success, Sridevi will be seen on Telugu screens after ages. Cashing on craze of these starlets, producers are cleverly using their posters for the promotions, rather Vijay’s.

However, it is to be seen whether Shruti Haasan and Sridevi can pull Telugu audience to theaters, since Vijay has less fan base here.

Tollywood’s Srimanthudu Superstar Mahesh Babu has at last finalised Siddhapuram in Kottur mandal of Mahaboobnagar district as the Telangana village that he will be adopting in association with the state minster KTR and other local authorities.

Mahesh has also been working simultaneously on his developmental plans for his native village, Burripalem, and already started the groundwork. In the process, he has completed the first step in adopting Burripalem by submitting an online application to adopt Burripalem. Mahesh involved his production company, G Mahesh Babu Entertainments in his adoption plans.

Revealing Mahesh’s groundwork, the Tenali MPDO B Srinivasa Rao said that a total of 3 teams have been formed in association with the local authorities to scrutinize the village needs. Mahesh and his team are primarily working on a 12 point agenda to chalk out the difficulties the village is facing and also to develop infrastructure and facilitate basic needs for Burripalem.

Megastar Chiranjeevi had completed the shooting of his cameo for Bruce Lee. The three days shoot of the Megastar concluded a short while ago. The actor will be seen in a three minutes cameo in the movie and it will mark his comeback to Telugu film industry. The makers are planning to complete the shooting part by October 4th and the entire shoot by October 10th.

They have also booked a slot for censor on October 12th. They will finish the censor formalities that day with rough copy if the first copy is not ready. . The audio launch of the film will be happening on October 2nd in Hyderabad.

The makers are planning the audio release event in a variety format like never before. So far they have released a song and teaser, and they have got good applause. Thaman had composed tunes for this movie. Srinu Vaitla is the director.

Heroine Samantha’s residence in Chennai and her temporary guest house in Hyderabad are raided today morning by Income Tax sleuths, creating much worries for her fans.Raid on Vijay is justified because his “Puli” has made nearly 100 crores business and tomorow the film is releasing. At the same time Nayantara’s “Mayuri” is a sleeper hit and many say she amassed crores of rupees in this process.

Also as the news of Nayan’s destination wedding is doing rounds, IT officials might have felt that she is evading some tax. What about Samantha then? None of her films have become stunning hits and she hasn’t started any business like her other peers in film industry. Why is she targeted?

Some rumours suggested that our numero uno starlet has invested huge in rapidly expanding Chennai’s real estate market, due to which IT sleuths targeted her. Others say that some people from film industry who don’t like Samantha’s growth have complained against her through powerful sources to IT department. Whatever it maybe, Samantha’s father confirms that there is no such thing called ‘black money’ or ‘tax evasion’ in her account as his daughter is Ms Perfect.

“There is no black money with us. It’s all pure white money for which we are paying the tax. IT people asked the same and we clarified”, said Joseph Prabhu, father of heroine Samantha. “My daughter is not having crores and bungalows by earning this money in film industry. She has as usual some thousands of rupees in her bank accounts. The news fascinates media, but there is nothing beyond expectation, especially in black”, he added.