Hero Balakrishna is known for his easy mingling nature and naughty acts. Balayya is fun loving personality who likes to enjoy every bit in life and tries to entertain people around him. In fact, Balakrishna forgets his stardom when he is with close pals.

Recently, actress Kushboo Sundar and few others stated of missing Balakrishna at 80’s reunion party in Chennai, since they know significance of his presence at such events. Off late, the Nandamuri hero is singing on stages at film events. But, one incident is reassuring fans of both Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna about their friendship.

When everybody was on dance mood at Mega 60 birthday bash, Balayya surprised one and all by exhibiting love towards his close friend Chiranjeevi. When Devi Sri Prasad was singing the song ‘Shankar Dada MBBS’, Balayya went close to Chiru and pecked his cheek.

And what more, he shouted the bit ‘hu ha hu ha’ to stimulate the ambiance there. Balakrishna was there throughout the party and had blast along with other industry buddies. It was really a congenial gesture from him.

Interim, Balakrishna is in Europe shooting for Dictator set for release during Sankranthi. On the other hand, Chiranjeevi will soon join Ram Charan’s Bruce Lee sets. Hope, Balayya and Chiru’s friendship continues forever!

Singeetham Srinivasa Rao who is known for his critically acclaimed films like Pushpaka Vimanam, Aditya 369 etc is beginning a new innings with Varun Tej’s Kanche. The ace director is playing a crucial role in the movie.

He will be seen as a Piano Master in the movie and Krish says his character is a very colourful one. Kanche is being planned for October 2nd release. There is an extended weekend then due to Gandhi Jayanthi falling on Friday and so they think it is going to be an apt date for release.

Kanche is set in the backdrop of World War-2 and Krish claims that ‘Kanche’ is a film that has never been made in Telugu Cinema and quite possibly Indian cinema before. Bollywood model Pragya Jaiswal is romancing Varun in this film.

The other day, actor Prakash Raj met Telangana IT Minister K Taraka Rama Rao and announced that he is adopting Kondareddypalli village of the backward Mahabubnagar district in the state through his Prakash Raj Foundation.

The actor is touring the village today with his team and is busy in identifying the requirements of the village. They will prepare a framework to address various issues plaguing the village one after the other.

Prakash Raj will very soon adopt a village from Andhra Pradesh as well. The village is likely to be from the drought hit Anantapur district. The actor deserves all our accolades for this wonderful initiative.

Quashing wide-spread rumours that actor Allu Arjun was injured, Mega producer Allu Aravind clarified that the rumours are not true and baseless. Setting the record straight, Aravind made it clear that Allu Arjun wasn’t injured but Arjun’s wife Sneha Reddy was undergoing a minor surgery. Aravind said that Sneha has been admitted to a private hospital for a minor surgery and there’s nothing to be worried. He said that she’d be discharged from hospital by the end of the day.

“Arjun is completely healthy and alright. He was not injured. Sneha is admitted to hospital for minor surgery and she will be discharged by evening,” Allu Aravind was quoted as saying. Since Sneha Reddy is undergoing surgery, Arjun said to have visited hospital to accompany her. Sources in the know said that it was very minor surgery and there’s no need to worry.

Actors Prabhas, Sharwanand and Nani definitely don’t have much in common besides being actors in Telugu Film Industry. Yet they’re all connected through a common thread called UV Creations. All these three stars got their best films in their careers when a hit was much-needed to them. It’s Mirchi for Prabhas (Before Baahubali), and Run Raja Run for Sharwanand and now, Bhale Bhale Magadivoi for Nani.

While Mirchi helped Prabhas fans forget his long-break for Baahubali, Run Raja Run gave a breather to Sharwa by becoming an out-and-out commercial success. The case for Nani too is no different as his latest offing Bhale Bhale Magadivoi bailed him out and helped him resurrect his career.

Thanks to producers Vamsi and Pramod of UV Creations, the man behind these success spree. Vamsi this time around collaborated with Bunny Vas who is known for chalking out good promotional strategies. The value addition to this combo is meticulous planner, producer Allu Aravind.

Marking the launch of a new banner GA2 Pictures in association with UV Creations, the banner’s maiden venture BBM proved that it’s a successful combo and we hear that Bunny Vas along with Vamsi going to produce a slew of films in a row.

The team of Maruthi, Nani, Bunny Vas, Vamsi and Allu Aravind together made BBM a stupendous hit. Now many are comparing Nani’s BBM to what Run Raja Run for Sharwa and what Mirchi is for Prabhas.

By looking at the making videos and working shots, we will surely get a picture of what is happening on a movie set. By looking at such pictures of Anushka’s ‘Size Zero’ movie, there are certain doubts raised. Here goes it.

From Keeravani’s re-recording studio to the sets of Size Zero when crucial scenes are shot, we got glimpses of director Prakash Kovelamudi rarely but his wife Kanika Dhillion is present everywhere. She has written the script for this flick, and that makes her technically present on sets all the time.

But looking at the pics, it’s creating doubts if she has directed the film too. A women-centric film by a lady director is not a bad idea, but then what’s Raghavendra Rao’s son is doing when ‘kodalu’ is calling the shots? It’s just a doubt anyway.

Meanwhile Size Zero is not hitting screens on October 2nd as planned as Rudramadevi got pushed to October 9th from September.

From an awesome movie like Pelli Pustakam to many films of the present day, versatile actor Raavi Kondala Rao is a gem of a person, not just for acting but also for his character. Much before Pelli Pustakam he’s present in many NTR-SVR era movies and as he shares his experiences, our jaws go dropping.

Explaining about the egos of many popular actors, Kondala Rao reveals that from golden era to this modern era, egos haven’t gone. ‘A star villain like Rajanala felt sad when he has to catch my legs during a scene. He said to me, ‘what is my fate? why I’ve to catch your legs even after being such a big star? how lucky you’re!!’. Though he has done the scene, his words to me in person, explains how egoistic he is’, the senior actor said. At the same time, he spoke about a present day hero too.

‘One day I got a call saying I’ve to do a father character in a popular hero’s movie. Though the character is just for one scene, they want me in that role. Because that hero wont be touching legs of any other actor of the present day. That’s how our star actors are’, Raavi Kondala Rao says, vowing that he won’t reveal any names. Seems like stardoms are spoiling many heroes.

The world is captivated by the selfie craze. Indian smartphone users are not late in joining the selfie bandwagon, and the 24-year old Hyderabadi youngster Bhanu Prakash Racha is all set to take this selfies madness to a global level. Bhanu Prakash is gearing up to challenge NFL star Patrick Peterson’s Guiness World record of 1,449 selfies in one hour.

A Hyderabad based mall will host Bhanu Prakash’s selfie marathon on September 18, with officials from Guinness World Records presenting to oversee the record breaking feat. Bhanu is sure of taking 1,800 selfies and set an unprecedented record. Bhanu first started out with 120 selfies in 3 minutes, beating Dwayne Johnson’s selfies of 105 selfies in 3 minutes.

Bhanu then set his eyes on the ‘Most self-portrait photographs (selfies)’ category and sent his application to the Guinness World Records, challenging  Patrick Peterson’s record. The Guinness World Records accepted to witness his feat recently. To pursue his madness with full sincerity, Bhanu even quit his job at a city hospital and started practicing clicking selfies full-time.

To prepare for the Guinness event, Bhanu started exercising to strengthen his arms and wrists. Already, Bhanu managed to click 1,700 selfies in one hour, and he is confident that he will achieve the target of 1,800 selfies in one hour.

Ever since the news of Superstar Mahesh Babu showing interest in the remake of super hit Tamil action thriller Thani Oruvan was broken this morning, Super fans and even fans of other stars are betting high on whether Mahesh will break his 16-year old tradition. Confused? Well, Mahesh made his acting debut in 1999 with Rajakumarudu.

In these 16 years, Mahesh Babu never acted in a remake film. This staggering feat itself speaks volumes about Mahesh’s penchant for acting in original stories. Mahesh himself revealed in several interviews that he does not find remakes interesting since it is nothing but a repetition of an already proven script.

However, with reports of director Jayam Raja arranging special show of Thani Oruvan for Mahesh, and the Superstar reportedly quite impressed with the film, it is highly likely that Mahesh will indeed break his own set tradition of not doing remakes. Meanwhile, Ram Charan is also said to be in talks with the director to remake the film in Telugu.

Even after a year of the blockbuster success of Kaththi, star Tamil hero and director, Vijay and Murugadoss, are still haunted by plagiarism charges. Ever since the film was released in October last year, director Murugadoss has been facing several plagiarism charges. Last year, a script writer claimed that Murugadoss allegedly copied his script.

Now, a court in Tanjaore, Tamil Nadu issued summons to Kaththi hero Vijay and director Murugadoss, cinematographer George C Williams and executive producer Neelakantha as defendants in the case and ordered them to appear in the court on 15th October. The court issued summons following a plagiarism suit filed by young filmmaker Anbu Rajasekhara.

In his suit, Anbu alleged that Murugadoss lifted the basic plot of his short film Thaaga Bhoomi without his consent. The court has gone through the young director’s petition thoroughly and issued notices to the defendants recently. Not just the basic story, Murugadoss is also accused of stealing several hit scenes in Kaththi from various Hollywood flicks.

It is matter of time Nani gets his second in the elite club of One Million dollars gross at USA Box Office. Earlier he had this feat with Rajamouli’s Eega but this time with the help of no star director.

The movie is super steady in Overseas and had amassed $860K by Monday with some locations yet to report. Even the Monday collections are superb with $140K as per the last reports. The movie is just a whisker away from the one million dollars club.

The movie is looking at a sensational 20-25 Crore share in its full run across the globe. The movie is rock steady in all the areas of the Telugu States on a working day even with rains in many places.

Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s earlier film, Govindhudu Andari Vaadele is dubbed in to Tamil and is gearing up for a release there. The movie is titled Ramleela in Tamil and will be releasing on 25th of this month.

Ram Charan had good success in Tamil with his Magadheera (Maveeran in Tamil) and never really made an impact on Tamil market after that. This late releases may not help improving his market there.

Directed by Senior director Krishna Vamsi, Govindhudu Andhari Vaadele is a decent hit in Telugu. The female leads in the film – Kajal Agarwal and Kamalini Mukherjee are also known faces there. So that should help the movie to some extent.