After winning appreciation for his handsome looks and ease in acting, young hero Naga Shaurya won everyone’s hearts today with his kind gesture towards an Indian Army soldier’s family. This morning, Naga Shaurya donated Rs. 50,000 to the family of soldier B Satyam, who was recently killed in an encounter with terrorists in Kashmir.

Naga Shaurya came down all the way to Bobbili in Vizianagaram district and met Satyam’s wife and children and handed over Rs. 50,000 and also assured further assistance. Speaking on the occasion, Shaurya said that he is doing charity with his father Sankara Prasad’s inspiration.

Naga Shaurya has been the talk of the town when reports broke about the Mega heroine Niharika Konidela signed her debut Tollywood film opposite him. Shaurya has a couple of films on floors, Kalyana Vaibhogame with Nandini Reddy and Ammayitho Abbayi in Ramesh Varma direction.

Thanks to the hotness shown in Bruce Lee songs, seductress Rakul Preet Singh has now become a stunner. She’s on demand. And her budget has now shot up to 1.5 crores, which she justifies. Anyway, who’s getting ready to pay such a whopping price to Rakul at the moment?

As she signed Jr NTR’s Nannaku Prematho and Bunny’s Sarainodu sometime back, no doubt, those pay checks will be under 80 lakhs only. At the moment there is no star hero who could sign this hot and tall lady. Though there is budget to give her, there are no immediate films coming her way.

Mahesh Babu just started Brahmotsavam which has three female leads. His next will be started only after February 2016. So, no chance for Rakul till then. Same is the case with Jr NTR, Allu Arjun and Ram Charan, who are working with Rakul now and may not consider her for immediate next.

While Baahubali star Prabhas is yet to come out of the magnum opus, Ravi Teja scored a flop with Rakul and may not immediately repeat her. Youngies like Nani, Gopichand, Sharwanand, Nitin and Ram may not have budgets for this hot actress now. Rather they will go for yet another new actress. So, which hero could immediately sign Rakul Preet? She needs to wait for 2 months minimum it seems.

After facing several financial hardships all through the 3 years of Rudhramadevi’s making, Gunasekhar was in for a huge relief just a day before the film’s release in the form of tax exemption from the Telangana CM KCR. Gunasekhar even arranged a press meet to publicly thank KCR for supporting him in difficult times.

While many rightly thought that KCR gave tax exemption because Rudhramadevi’s story will be showcasing the Kakatiya warrior queen’s legacy in a grand way, maverick director Rajamouli revealed the real reason behind the film getting tax exemption.

Tweeting about Allu Arjun, the man behind the tax exemption, Rajamouli said, “Heard that it was again Bunny who was Instrumental in getting the tax exemption.And he excelled on screen.A hero on screen and also off it.Respect Gannareddy.err..Gona Gannareddy.

” Praising Bunny’s role on and off the screen, Rajamouli also said, “Gona Gannareddy all the way. When the film was almost stalled, bunny’s entry into the cast revived it.” No doubt that Allu Arjun emerged as a silent hero with his magnanimity to show his support for a prestigious film.

It’s a dream come true for this costly writer. When every other story writer in Tollywood is not even getting more than 20 lakhs pay packet, he demanded a cool crore, says buzz. He’s none other than Vakkantam Vamsi, who has shot to fame with Surender Reddy’s movies.

Though he hasn’t had many blockbusters to his career, he’s said to be charging 1 crore for his story, while we have to depend on someone else for dialogues. From couple of years, this writer is seriously working to become a director and got nod from Jr NTR.

However, his first script chosen was “Temper” and that ended up getting directed by Puri Jagan. We hear that Vakkantam impressed Junior yet again, with a new script now. As NTR is having time till 18th to fly to Spain, to kick start “Nannaku Prematho” new schedule, he’s hearing various scripts.

One of the stories narrated by Vakkantam has not just bowled him, but he’s giving chance to the costly writer to realise his dream of becoming director. Probably NTR will join Koratala Siva’s film after he wraps up Sukumar’s movie and then take up Vakkantam’s movie from March 2016 or so.

From financial hardships to postponement of the film’s release several times and even the stalling of the film’s shooting for several months due to lack of funds, Rudhramadevi’s director cum producer Gunasekhar faced it all and until the last minute.

The film finally released yesterday to an average response from critics and moviegoers. However, Rudhramadevi braved all these adversaries and notched up a staggering 9.14 crores share in AP and Telangana alone, becoming the 9th highest opening grosser in Tollywood’s history.

Adding to this whopping number, the US Thursday premiers collections of $126,276 and the Friday collections together ended up grossing more than $300,000, a decent show indeed considering the average talk.

Rudhramadevi now has the weekend advantage and with family audiences increasing with each show and with no major film around for competition, Gunasekhar and his distributors will have the last laugh.

Gunasekhar’s Rudhrama Devi has superb start on its release day. The movie had collected a sensational 9.17 Crore share in both the Telugu states which is all time ninth biggest first day figure in Telugu cinema.

The movie had collected 3.50 Crore share only in the Nizam region where it was greatly helped the 15% Entertainment Tax Exemption. The movie is likely to be strong till the end of this weekend and from Monday, the effect of the bad reviews may set in.

Here is the breakup of Rudhrama Devi First Day Collections:

Nizam: 3.5 Crore
Ceeded: 1.55 Crore
Uttarandhra: 67 Lakhs
East: 81 Lakhs
West: 66 Lakhs
Krishna: 47.33 Lakhs
Guntur: 1.04 Crore
Nellore: 46.96 Lakhs

AP+Nizam: 9.17 Crore

Sensuously hot Malayali beauty Nayanthara first made her acting debut with a Malayalam film titled Manassinakkare way back in 2003. She then debuted in Tamil with the blockbuster horror drama, Rajinikanth’s Chandramukhi, a decade ago in 2005.

Nayan stepped in Tollywood with Venky’s Lakshmi in 2006. Just like most other heroines, even Nayanthara’s voice was dubbed by dubbing artistes all through her career.

However, upon director Krish’s insistence, Nayan dubbed her own voice in Krishnan Vande Jagadgurum, which released in 2012. Now, after 10 years of a glorious career in Tamil, Nayan dubbed her voice for the first time in her upcoming comedy film, Naanum Rowdythaan.

Today, the film’s teaser was released and Nayan’s own voice has become the main highlight and fans and critics appreciated for her new role after almost 10 years. Icing on the cake is, the news is Nayan dubbing her own voice has been revealed by her beau and the film’s director, Vignesh Shivan.

Fans are undoubtedly the most needed elements to make films succeed at box office. But this fanism sometimes irritates big stars as they continue to dictate terms.

Not all, but some fans will take this irritation part. They irritate Chiranjeevi by wishing him again and again. They irritate Mahesh to utter film dialogues at audio functions. They force Bunny to talk about a particular big hero from their family. They pressurise Nagarjuna to give them some selfies at airports. But our big stars never oblige such irritating demands.

All these things are little bearable, but Mega fans are now said to be sharpening their knives to fight with Mega Brother Nagababu. Already they have met him in a delegation only with the demand of stopping Konidela Niharika’s film entry. Though Nagababu made it very clear that their daughter will not become a regular commercial heroine, but picks only decent roles that has substances, these fans are said to be uninterested in taking their demand back.

In the past we have seen how Superstar Krishna’s fans created a huge scene when his daughter Manjula even started shooting with Balakrishna for a film. They have disrupted the shoot and threatened Krishna, after which he made Manjula drop her idea of becoming heroine.

Probably so much technology, communication pattern and society is changing, but not the ‘attitude’ of these so called fans. When Kamal Haasan’s daughter Shruti and Anil Kapoor’s daughter Sonam could pull a star-heroine act, why not Chiranjeevi’s niece, we mean Nagababu’s daughter?

Till date, these fans aren’t given an appointment to meet Chiranjeevi, and only if the mighty star appears at Niharika’s launch on 30th October, ‘mega’ doubts might get clarified. If Chiru extends his support, then what could even fans do? Let’s see.

Cool down your heels fans, everyone has a right to pursue their choice of career no matter what the position of their parents is.