Balakrishna’s Lion had a promising start at the US Box Office as it collected $62000 from the premieres.

Despite the start Lion failed to hold its ground as the collections dipped drastically on Thursday ($12000). There isn’t any betterment in the trend on Friday as the film collected just $13000 that indicates disinterest of audiences in it.

Dongata starring Lakshmi Manchu released a week late in US, but couldn’t get a decent start in spite of getting favorable reviews. The film collected a mere $1300 on Friday.

Although Lion’s run in US isn’t good enough, the film is holding well in the domestic circuit. Lion has collected a theatrical share of around 7.4 crores in first two days in the Telugu states.

Lion should do exceedingly well to be a safe bet for everyone involved. As per trade reports the film’s collections in mass dominated centers are decent compared to that of big cities and A centers. The makers decided to reduce the run time of the movie by editing out some parts.

After acquiring the status of a legendary director in Tollywood, Dasari Narayana Rao lost his shine with a string of miserable flops. In a recent interview, Dasari stated that audiences are no longer ready for his good films and stated Erra Bus as an example. Today, Dasari once again said that these are not the times for good films in Tollywood.

This morning, Dasari visited the Sri Kalahasti Temple and performed Rahu-Ketu prayers. The veteran director and politician has been stuck into the murky coal gate scam and his name was included in the charge sheet filed by the CBI. Dasari said that this is nothing but a political conspiracy and hoped that he will soon come out clean from the allegations.

Dasari also said that he himself advises everyone to make and watch films with good content and values. However, the veteran filmmaker lamented that even films with good stories are not being accepted by the audiences and that the state of small films is pathetic.

“Lion” has finally arrived and it has shares of positive and negative stuff. Coming to the film’s lead Nandamuri Balakrishna, though fans are ready to accept whatever he does on silver screen some aspects are to be taken care of. Especially those physical aspects of him need to be corrected at the earliest.

In many close-shots, Balayya’s age is visible as he is failing to take care of his facial muscles and growing tummy. Like a Kamal Haasan, even Balayya looks damn handsome if he turns little slim. Also while romancing young heroines of 25-30 years age, he needs to take care of his makeup. Because in romantic scenes, that age-difference is getting visible. Probably it is better if Balayya stops doing intimate and naughty romances, which is way far from his age. Or he should pick heroines with matured look to do undertake such acts.

As Balayya’s 99th film is getting ready to roll in a couple of weeks, surely he has less time to slim down for the role. He need to make sure camera angles and other technical stuff will take care of his weakness that have come up with age. Maybe its the job of director and cinematographer to help Balayya a lot in this aspect.

Murari, Okkadu, Athadu, Pokiri, Dookudu-All these films have one thing in common. Don’t say that they all have Superstar Mahesh Babu as their leading hero, because we all know that. Fact is that all these titles are three letter words when written in Telugu. That’s the sentiment that struck our leading numero uno star now.

While the the title “Srimanthudu” got quite familiar with fans and movie lovers, Mahesh Babu is mulling over a title change, which we already know that. Insiders shared us that this title-change is purely basing on sentiment of three-letter-words that won him success. Though flops like Khaleja and Aagadu are also similar 3 letter words, Mahesh feels that the sentiment spelled him a favour 80% of the time. That’s why he now wants “Srimanthudu” to be named as “Magaadu”. That clears all our doubts, isn’t it?

Coming to the film, Koratala Siva has almost wrapped the film and is busy canning scenes on lead casting in Hyderabad’s Ramoji Film City at the moment. For now July 17th is the release date of flick and may alter depending on other happening flicks at box office.

Nandamuri Balakrishna’s summer entertainer, Lion, was released to humongous response from his fans. The film registered solid collections on its first day and ended up collecting decent figures even on its second day’s run, totalling more than 7.75 crores. However, the film is already facing a huge setback.

Within just one day of its release, Lion has fallen prey to the piracy menace with thousands of the film’s pirated DVDs being sold on the streets of Ongole town. Owing to the craze for the film, the DVDs are being sold like hotcakes and the local exhibitors are losing huge shares. Even bigger danger of the pirated DVDs being spread to other close towns and villages is frightening the distributors.

Soon after being informed, the Ongole town police have raided on the shops that are selling Lion’s pirated DVDs and took the pirates into their custody. Several cases have already been filed on the pirates. Apart from the huge production costs and other financial issues, the producers and the distributors are having sleepless nights due to piracy. Will there be a day where this menace will be curbed completely.

This is what a Mumbai based housewife says, ‘watching Sunny Leone’s videos could lead to rape. Her posts spoil the mind of people, mainly children’, after filing an obscenity complaint on former adult star Sunny Leone. Police too acted quite fast on the complaint, as they booked Sunny under Information Technology Act for obscenity and also charged under Indecent Representation of Women Act.

In the first case, why is our ‘housewife’ surfing Sunny Leone’s adult website? ‘I’m surfing the net and came across Sunny’s website’, she said, of course which isn’t really believable. The police case has now been transferred to Thane Cyber Crime Cell and they are investigating the case. Legal experts that Sunny Leone’s website is like any other paid porn website that is in compliance with US laws and also Canadian laws. In that case, how come our ‘housewife’ attack this curvaceous siren in India is the question.

To take the website down, our authorities should work with USA and Canadian counterparts, while blocking in India could be done if a Court Order says it so. Let’s see what happens. Meanwhile ‘All India Sunny Leone Fans’ started supporting their diva on social network, while Sunny herself claimed no idea of the police case registered against her.

Chennai: Actress Shruti Haasan has reportedly been roped in for the third instalment of the “Singam” franchise. The film, which will be helmed by Hari Gopalakrishnan, also features Suriya and Anushka Shetty in the lead roles.

“Shruti is most likely to play the second lead. While she agreed to be part of the project, the paperwork is still pending. She’s expected to sign on the dotted line soon,” a source from the film’s unit told IANS.

Director Hari had planned to include Shruti in “Singam 3” after he was impressed with her work in their last Tamil outing “Poojai”.

“The film is expected to go on the floors in September. Anirudh Ravichander will be composing tunes, while comedian Soori has been cast in an important role,” the source said.

Suriya, who is currently busy with Tamil thriller “24”, will join the sets from September onwards.

When the heroines are busy they tend to sign a lot of films, but there is no guarantee that they will release on time. But yes, irrespective of their fate at the box office, some films release and some films don’t.

And one film that was made and is ready for release is Jyothilakshmi that is being directed by Puri Jagannadh.

Long long ago, Mantra released and it was a hit. After that Charmme hardly got to do meaningful roles and she is now waiting for the release of Jyothilakshmi and Mantra 2.

However, Charmme herself is keen on Jyothilakshmi as the film is more up to date with present times. Of course, Charmme wants to have two hits, but Puri is surely leaving no stone unturned to ensure that Jyothilakshmi becomes a hit.

There has been buzz about the title of upcoming Mahesh Babu’s film in few sections of media.

As per their claims Mahesh’s movie has been titled Magadu so that it appeals to the masses. However an official statement from the makers read that the title is not Magadu and it will be announced on May 31st along with the first look of the film.

It is widely spread that the film has been titled Srimanthudu, but none of the unit members have clarified it yet.

Director Koratala Shiva stayed mum after Srimanthudu title surfaced in media. Earlier he condemned the reports when media speculated that Magadu title is in consideration. So this is the second time Magadu title made it to news and has been ruled out officially.

Looks like the unit is sticking with Srimanthudu title as no one have ever condemned it despite being circulated for many days.

Wait for two more weeks to get the official confirmation from the makers. For now Magadu rumors can be put to rest.

“Pandem Kodi” is one super hit film of 2005 that made Vishal Reddy a spoken about star in Tollywood. Directed by ace action-movie maker Linguswamy, the film is a super hit in Tamil and Telugu and now the hero-director are contemplating to come up with a sequel. What’s more interesting about this sequel are the lead girls.

We hear that after Shruti Haasan starred with Vishal in Poojai and scored a hit, now it’s Samantha’s turn. Currently this Dookudu girl is busy wrapping her biggies alongside Vijay and Danush and that will take 4-5 months for completion. Buzz is that she will pair up with Vishal for Pandem Kodi 2 and director Lingusway who showcased Samantha in bikini through Surya’s Anjaan has convinced her to become part of this flick.

Along with Samantha, talented Nitya Menon is also likely to pair up with Vishal in for this action entertainer. Earlier Sam and Nitya teamed up for flop flick “Jabardasth” that kicked Siddarth out of Tollywood forever.