It’s raining praises for Baahubali. Joining the bandwagon is none other than Bollywood’s mega star and India’s legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan. Even before the release of trailer of Baahubali, actor Rana Daggubati managed to show the trailer to Amitabh Bachchan and the Zanjeer star’s response to it is ‘amazing’, ‘astonishing’ and ‘unimaginable’. In a Tete-a-tete with Rana, Amitabh called Baahubali an ‘incredible work’ and praised Rajamouli as ‘renowned talent’.

‘Rana I feel very privileged to seen this first look of Baahubali. And I’m absolutely amazed, astounished at how you have been able to recreate this. Magnificent visuals, am sure the story is equally good. You’re working with Rajamouli. He is such a renowned talent. How did you conceive something like this. It’s just imaginable,’ shared Amitabh as his first-reaction soon after watching the trailer.

Rana told, ‘The film was shot for close to 400 days. The last action piece you’ve seen was shot for 120 days alone. We went and fought for 120 days.’

Amitabh, ‘My goodness, this is unbelievable. I feel very small in front of something like this. It’s a great effort. I doubt anything like this has been seen on Indian Cinema before. I hope millions and millions of people would see this effort. Normally, we see these kind of structures, frame work is seen in one of the progressive Hollywood cinema.

I believe this was all shot in Hyderabad. I feel very happy and honoured to be part of Industry that’s inventing this fantastic material. I’m happy the film is dubbed in Hindi and being made in Tamil, Telugu.

All the best Rana. I wish Rajamouli Ji all the very best and the people connected with it. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Now I feel I should have been in this project. Each time I see astonishing work, I feel envious. I wish I was part of this project.’

Sharing the video, Rajamouli wrote, ‘A big thanks to Amitabh Bachchan ji for his kind words… The team is still in shock from hearing the praises for Baahubali. It is very encouraging to hear such wonderful things about our work from one of the greatest legends of Indian cinema!’

Allari Naresh is one comedy hero producers can bank on. That safe hero tag is almost stripped off by now with back to back to flops at box office. His confidence and patience is so strong that always this comedy hero tries to bounce bank strongly. That’s why everyone has their bets high on James Bond.

In the wake of Rajamouli fixing July 10th as Baahubali release date, director Guna Sekhar blocked June 26th as the release date for his historical epic flick Rudramadevi. Giving no respite to Guna, soon Allari Naresh joined the 26th bandwagon by announcing his James Bond on same day.

It got further blocked when Sandeep Kishan’s Tiger and Naga Shourya’s Jadoogadu also laid hands on same date. Indicating that VFX work is yet to be done, Guna smoothly pulled himself out of race. When everyone is expecting that Naresh will strike gold now, he gave a shock.

After threatening Rudrama, then Tiger, now Naresh has dropped from the race and the further date of his James Bond is yet to be fixed. That’s nothing but wasting 26th June. Because no other films are in race for next two weeks until Baahubali arrives. Seems like this is a blessing in disguise for Sandeep and Shourya to score big. Conquer the box office guys!!!

What! Really? Why will a loving dad make some spicy comments on his daughter’s pregnancy? Well, here’s the story! The Universal Star Kamal Haasan was questioned about her daughter’s wedding and her relationships for which Kamal replied in a shocking way.

It is known that Kamal doesn’t actually believe in marriage and is even fine with a live-in-relationship. He said that commenting about Shruti’s marriage is not fit for me while I love to have grand children. However, he left to Shruti’s choice whether she will deliver kids post or pre marriage!!!!

So, what do you think about this bold dad who believes in love rather than marriage?

Whenever Rajamouli immerses himself into making films, he thinks of nothing else but making them to the best of his abilities. He has been following the same principle since the beginning of his career and always challenges himself to make one big film after the other, as he thinks nothing less than making an epic each time. In the process, Rajamouli faces several testing times and his wife and stylist in his films, Rama Rajamouli, comes in as his support system.

Yesterday, Rajamouli and Rama met the media and revealed several unheard snippets of their professional and personal lives. Speaking about the making of Baahubali, Rama said that she had warned Rajamouli before he commenced the film and asked him why he dreams such a costly and risky dream of making a huge epic like Baahubali.

Rama Rajamouli said that she was apprehensive that the film’s budget will overshoot during the making and that Rajamouli was undeterred and was so committed towards making this film, that he didn’t show an ounce of nervousness and thoroughly enjoyed every day of making the film for the past three years. Talk about conviction, folks!

After a lot of dilly dallying, finally, actor Nani’s new movie to be directed by Hanu Raghavpudi was formally launched. The film’s muhurat was held on Monday and the yet-to-be titled film is being produced by 14 Reels Entertainment. Initially, Rana was supposed to team up with Hanu for this project, but since he’s stuck with two big films – Rudhramadevi and Baahubali, he opted out of the project. With this, Hanu roped in Nani for this fresh romantic entertainer.

Hanu Raghavapudi made a decent debut in 2012 with romantic drama Andala Rakshasi. The movie was critically acclaimed and it fared decently at the ticket windows. Starring newcomers then, it turned out to be a good film and the film’s music became instant hit. Now that Hanu joined his forces with Nani, expectations are high. In addition big production house like 14 Reels Entertainment joining the team, it boosted the film’s prospects in trade circles.

In a statement, production house said, “Happy to announce that we held pooja for our Production No. 7 today starring Actor Nani & Directed by Hanu! This film will bring together a young and bright team consisting of DOP Yuvaraj (assisted Ratnavelu for Robo & 1-Nenokkadine), Music Director Vishal (protege of A.R. Rahman’s Music School in Chennai & scored music for scores of short films, ad jingles and Santosh Sivan’s critically acclaimed ‘Inam’), Editing by Nandi Award winning MR Varma, Art by Avinash who will all give the movie a very promising look together. The entire team is charged up to give you all very fresh romantic entertainer.”

Superstar Mahesh Babu managed to meet few physically challenged people who proved their mettle in their respective fields and stood out as champions notwithstanding their disabilities. Known as “Veers”, Mahesh met them and spend quality time with them as part of an interaction arranged by a soft drink firm.

” Five Veer’s who have excelled in their fields in spite of their disabilities inspired the film star and the interaction was an emotional and enlightening experience for both the Veer’s and for Mahesh Babu,” said a leading soft drink in a statement.

Speaking at the event, Mahesh said, “The Veer’s displayed a true spirit and have done exceptionally well for themselves in their respective areas of interest. This initiative is a great opportunity for people with disabilities to move forward and strive towards realizing their full potential.

After having met these five Veer’s I am sure that there are many others like them that have received similar training and are working hard towards success. It is individuals like this that embody the famous saying ‘Where there is a will, there is a way’ and are an example from which all of us should learn.”

Campaign Veer aims to address challenges such as inclusive education and employment, skill training and development, and advocating for disabled-friendly technology. The campaign is working at imparting vocational training to these individuals and ascertains their requirements so that they can be made job-ready.

Remo D’Souza’s dance drama Any Body Can Dance 2 (ABCD 2) has exploded off the starting block to record this year’s highest opening weekend collections.

Critics were mostly left cold by the dance film but cine-goers flocked to buy tickets and business has currently been totaled up at over Rs 45 crores, almost halfway to the magic number of 100 crores and higher than the takings of Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Piku in their first weekends.

ABCD 2 is the sequel to 2013 film ABCD: Anybody Can dance, which had some small time dancers and Prabhudheva in pivotal roles. This time, D’Souza put his money on the rising star-quotient of Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor, and the results are amazing.

Though the film opened to mixed reviews, the audience seems to have showered it with a lot of love and praise. The story of the film revolves around a bunch of Nalasopara dancers who aspire to win the World Hip Hop Dance Competition.

Meanwhile, the Mohit Suri-directed Hamari Adhuri Kahani, starring Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi, has found little love from audiences with the film earning a dismal Rs 30 crores in two weeks.

Right now, Naga Chaitanya is busy with Gautam Menon’s film and the film’s shooting is progressing steadily. Once he finishes that, he will get started with Chandoo Mondeti’s film which is being produced by Harika Hassine banner.

But the big question is about who the heroine was. At the time of Oka Laila Kosam, he chose Pooja Hegde. So there was speculation about who Chaitu would choose this time around.

He decided to opt for Tamanna who has two hits in her kitty. In fact, Tamanna had acted in 100% Love and Tadakha opposite him and both the films were hits.

Though Tamanna was not lucky for other big heroes, her pairing with Chaitu has been a hit always. So, Chaitu hopes to pair up with Tamanna once again.