Couple of weeks ago, a Mumbai based religiosity fundamental Muslim group Raza Academy issued fatwa against the musical genius AR Rahman and world renowned Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi for making a biopic, Muhammad of Prophet Muhammad. To this, Rahman replied in utmost love and warmth, requesting to spread peace and not negative feelings.

Now, the Iranian film board has selected Muhammad: The Messenger of God as their entry to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film award in the upcoming Oscar awards. Muhammad is the costliest film ever made in Iran, with $40 million budget (close to Baahubali budget). The film was partly funded by the government and it was a box-office success too.

This will be yet another attempt for AR Rahman after his double Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, Water, Million Dollar Arm and The Hundred-Foot Journey. On the other hand, even Majid Majidi gave Iran its first Oscar nomination with the classic Children of Heaven in 1998.

Celebrations have already started for Megastar Chiranjeevi’s comeback to silver screen. Mega fans six years wait ends with Ram Charan’s Bruce Lee wherein the megastar is playing a cameo. In fact, it wasn’t an extended cameo role that exists for 20 minutes as reported earlier. Chiranjeevi will be seen just for three minutes and his part will be shot in 3 days.

Yesterday, the production unit started shooting Chiranjeevi’s introduction scene for which they used a chopper and horses. The megastar will complete his part of shooting by tomorrow. He will be seen performing a high octane action sequence.

Actually, director Sreenu Vaitla and his writer-friends Gopi Mohan and Kona Venkat penned a 20 min role for Chiru, but as the release date is nearing Chiru directed them to cut off song and few other scenes to wrap up the film as soon as possible to release it on scheduled date of October 16th.

Though the decision disappointed Sreenu Vaitla, he had no option rather trimming the role. SS Thaman would also feel bad for missing the chance to compose a song for Chiranjeevi. Literally, this is a depressing news for mega fans too as they wished to see Chiranjeevi in a lengthy role.

For decades, script writers and  filmmakers sought inspiration from several art forms like painting, photography and even music, literature and real life stories. While there is nothing wrong in getting inspired from an awe-inspiring creation, in most cases, the inspired films tend to achieve much better cinematic results compared to the films that inspired them.

In Telugu, one such filmmaker who never crosses the fine line between inspiration and copying is the maverick director Krish. While Motorcycle Diaries and Easy Rider provided him inspiration for his debut film Gamyam, Hollywood cult classic Crash motivated Krish to make Vedam. Now, Krish is coming up with an intense love saga set against the World War II.

Soon when Kanche trailer was released, comparisons were drawn between Kanche and the Hollywood hit, Dear John. Now, the latest revelation suggests that Kanche was primarily inspired from yet another Hollywood war classic, Enemy At The Gates. This Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz starrer tells the triangular love story set in The Battle for Stalingrad, a war between the Russian Red Army and the German forces.

In several interviews during the audio launch, Krish said that Kanche is inspired from real events that took place during the WWII. Krish also said that Telugu people played a huge role in the World War II and Vizag was even attacked by the Japanese forces. Altogether, Krish is sure to weave a beautiful story, which Tollywood can feel proud of.

Some actresses reach top heights not because of their good looks, hot curves and PR network, but because of their hard work and dedication. Being a superstar, a happening mom and at 40 years of age, Aishwarya Rai Bachhan is one example of such living greats.

This October 9th, Aish is coming up with her comeback film “Jazbaa” under the direction of Sanjay Gupta. Sharing his thoughts about working with this hottest diva of India, director says, he was just spellbound by the dedication of the Bachhan Bahu.

He shared: “One day Aish’s daughter Aradhya is not keeping well. I asked her to take leave by cancelling the shoot. But she wanted us to continue the shoot because the expenditure will shot up if shoot is cancelled. While we are shooting at night 3’o clock, her staff came running and said ‘she’ vomited. I asked, who is that she? Aish’s staff said it’s her daughter Aradhya. By keeping her daughter in vanity van, she’s attending shoot. For her stature and position, someone else would have stormed away from the set, but Aish continued the shoot. What a dedication she has!!”

Very rarely people with such qualities encounter film industries and then they became great film personalities in no time.

Nani and Maruthi’s latest offering, Bhale Bhale Magadivoy had completed its 25 days run at the box office. The movie had amassed about 25.9 Crore share in this 25 days run so far which is very huge for a small budget film. It is already one of the biggest hits of the year in terms of return on investments. The movie also had an exceptional run in USA.

The movie which is the lone small movie in the one million dollar club managed to recover its full budget with the first week share of the movie in USA. The movie is one of the rare films which brings profits to all those involved in its trade.

Here is the breakup of Bhale Bhale Magadivoy 25 days collections: 

Nizam: 6.65 Crore
Ceeded: 2 Crore
Uttarandhra: 2 Crore
East: 1.38 Crore
West: 0.96 Crore
Krishna: 1.24 Crore
Guntur: 1.58 Crore
Nellore: 0.45 Crore
Karnataka: 2.68 Crore
USA: 6.11 Crore
Rest: 0.85 Crore

Total WW: 25.9 Crore