In what can be called as a good news for erotica lovers, the Indian censor board has lifted the 10-month long ban on “modifying” films with A certification that allows filmmakers to cut the objectionable content for TV screening.

Apparently, the censor board lifted the ban after numerous requests from the TV broadcasters and the film industry. “We have asked producers who have films with ‘A’ certificate to make cuts (to the film) voluntarily,” said Pahlaj Nihalani, chairperson of CBFC.

Recently, a C&AG audit had objected to the re-certification of over 172 from A to U/A. Since then, the modification of objectionable scenes has been banned by the CBFC.

Each year, cable & satellite (C&S) rights form a major chunk of revenues for film producers with nearly 12% overall industry’s revenues, which can average up to 400-500 million rupees, according to a FICCI-KPMG report.

After painstakingly waiting for a solid hit since Kandireega, Energetic Star Ram managed to taste a modest success with the comedy entertainer Pandaga Chesko. And recently, Ram’s much-hyped film, Shivam, released with a lot of buzz but fizzled out at the box-office in no time.

The primary reason for Shivam’s failure was the outdated and lackluster story. The routine and zero freshness narration completely bored the audiences who were fresh from watching content oriented blockbusters like Baahubali, Srimanthudu, Bhale Bhale Magadivoy etc.

But now, Ram seems to have realized his mistake quite quickly. In his latest interview, Ram said that Hari Katha is completely a story-driven film. The Energetic Star further said that Hari Katha is one subject which he has never attempted in his decade-long career.

“It is going to be a surprise for moviegoers who are used to seeing me in mass entertainers,” said Ram. Hari Katha is being directed by Kishore Tirumala and produced by Ram’s uncle Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.

This Dasara season will see an intense competition between two major film families, the Mega family and the Akkineni family. While Ram Charan’s Bruce Lee is releasing on the 16th October, Akhil’s debut film Akhil is releasing on 22nd. Both the films are made with lavish budgets and nearly 100 crores are at stake.

While the onus is on the Cherry-Akhil clash, it is also a battle between the senior stars of Tollywood, Chiranjeevi and Nagarjuna, who will be seen in their sons’ films. While Chiru will be seen in a 3-minute special fight sequence along with Charan, Nag will be seen with Akhil and Naga Chaitanya in a special song.

Naturally, the presence of these doting dads in their sons’ films will add a lot of value and increase the hype in the trade.

While Bruce Lee is a special film as it marks the return of Megastar to Tollywood after 8 years, Akkineni fans who tasted the family treat in Manam’s climax are raring to witness the magic once again in ‘Akhil’. We will have to wait for a few more weeks to see who will win the battle in this Mega-Akkineni tug.

After all this is a competitive industry and comparisons bound to happen. So, when Kalyan Ram is taking a smooth sugarcoated class to Nandamuri fans the other day, everyone is busy getting connected to one person. Yes, you guessed it right. It’s none other than Mega Brother Nagababu. If Mega functions used to witness ‘Powerstar’ shouts, then we have ‘Jai Balayya’ shouts adoring Nandamuri functions these days.

While Pawan Kalyan and Balayya will remain mum on these happenings, maybe there is a chance that if they have no idea of them, the other heroes from the respective families are facing the music. After getting irritated for times, finally Nagababu lashed out at those fans who are disrupting the functions, at a recent event.

Similarly Kalyan Ram also tried a dose on the fans who are creating some unwanted disturbance at Sher audio launch. But what is being discussed is that, if Kalyan Ram has handled fans very smoothly, Nagababu has given black and blue with hefty voice and in strong tone.

What if Nagababu too handled fans like a Kalyan Ram? Because such harsh reaction from him has upset many fans, albeit it distanced those ‘shouts’ from mega functions that took place thereafter. Anyway, divisions among fans are quite visible, and chanting ‘unity’ tune will not work until Pawan makes appearances at mega functions and Balayya-Jr NTR are seen together.

Ram Charan has paid a sudden visit to the sets of his uncle Pawan Kalyan’s forthcoming film Sardaar Gabbar Singh. Charan himself revealed that he met his Baabayi Pawan on the sets of Sardaar recently. “I have met Baabayi (Pawan Kalyan) during the shooting of Sardaar Gabbar Singh. I dropped in when they were shooting for a song and everything was going good,” told Charan indicating that all is well within Mega Brothers.

When asked about when he is going to start working in the production of Pawan Kalyan which was announced by the latter’s production house Pawan Kalyan Creative Works sometime back, Charan said, “I’m eagerly looking forward to work in the film. Currently, script work is going on. Two to three writers are working on the script. Once everything is finalised, the film will soon roll onto floors.” Ask him who is going to direct the film? “It hasn’t been finalised yet. It will be announced by Baabayi.”

Meanwhile, Charan is going to work on the Telugu remake of Tamil super hit Thani Oruvan which will go onto shoots from mid December. Director Surender Reddy is going to wield the megaphone. After this, Charan will be teaming up with director Gautham Menon for an action drama. So, Ram Charan-Pawan Kalyan movie might take sometime to materialise.

Director Gunasekhar’s historical epic Rudhramadevi was expected to do well on the second day looking at the booking it had but the final number at the end of the day has surprised many. The film has performed better than expected and posted a solid figure for second day.

Rudhramadevi’s second day is almost on par with the second day of the recent blockbuster of Superstar Mahesh Babu. That’s how well the film has performed and it’s looking to continue that solid run on Sunday too for a superb first weekend.

Overall Rudhramadevi is expected to get around 20 Cr from the two Telugu states for the first weekend. The makers would happily take this after what they have gone through on the morning of the opening day. To know the real word of mouth we still have to wait and see film’s performance in the weekdays.

Egg and stone have been thrown and pelted respectively at Telugu heroes but the north folks have gone a step ahead and thrown chappal at hero recently. Incidentally all these incidents are politically related.

The top hero who was bearing the brunt of the people was none other than Singham hero Ajay Devgn. The star has been recently roped in to campaign for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bihar and it’s there the incident had happened. The identity of the person who threw the shoe is not yet known and he remains at bay.

This incident just once again highlights how people don’t give a damn about the stars and in fact they are seen as soft target as there is nothing that can be done by the star in incidents like this.