Srimanthudu has been a memorable film for Superstar Mahesh Babu in many ways. While basking in the glory of film’s grand success, Mahesh revealed how he got emotional and moved to tears after his father and senior actor Superstar Krishna praised his acting and the film.

And now, there are two more special people in Mahesh’s life who were all teary eyed after watching Srimanthudu. Mahesh participated in a brief chitchat with his fans on his Facebook page this afternoon. When a lady fan and him how Namrata and Gautham reacted after watching Srimanthudu, Mahesh said, “They were ecstatic & proud.. eyes filed with happy tears.”

Mahesh also said that Namrata and Gautham watched Srimanthudu 7 times, while Sitara watched it twice and even matches her steps with her dad’s to the film’s songs.

After two back to back disasters, Mahesh is back with a bang with the sensational success of Srimanthudu. After clocking record numbers in almost all the centres it released, Srimanthudu has already broke even in all the areas except Nellore and Uttarandhra and is still managing to collect decent shares in its second week.

Surender Reddy directed Kick had given kicking second life to Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja in tough times. The actor is expecting its sequel Kick 2, hitting the screens on 21ts of this month, to provide him hat trick success. His previous hits were Balupu and Power.

Expressing his special concern over Kick series, Ravi Teja declared third installment for the Robinhood kind of drama. “If everything works, there will be Kick 3,” announced Ravi Teja during his interaction with media, as part of Kick 2 promotions.

Even after delivering one of the biggest blockbusters like Race Gurram, director Surender Reddy chose to work with Ravi Teja for Kick 2. This describes Suri’s love towards Kick series.

Another great news heard from sources is, top production and distribution house Eros International impressed with Kick 2’s new trailer and is negotiating with the filmmakers for theatrical rights.

If deal finalizes, Kick 2 makers will pocket profits prior to the film’s outing. Kalyan Ram is producing the hilarious action entertainer that has gorgeous Rakul Preet Singh playing leading lady. Brahmanandam is said to be big boon for Kick 2.

Interim, Ravi Teja is busy wrapping up Sampath Nandi directing Bengal Tiger to release in November.

A woman named Shikha Monga from Chandigarh has been in a legal tussle with the world’s leading beverage company Coca-Cola since 2003. Apparently, Shikha, who was then a college going teenager, spent all her pocket money and bought several bottles of Coca-Cola to take part in a Kahona Pyar Hai promotional contest in the year 2000, in which the company announced that the winner will go on a dinner date with the Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan.

Even though Shikha won the contest, the company never kept its promise and upon repeated meetings and writing numerous letters, Shikha was offered Rs. 5 lakhs as the company was unable to arrange the dinner date with Hrithik. Shikha, after realizing that the company had cheated her, filed a law suit in a local court in 2003, claiming Rs. 2.5 crore as damage charges for causing her insult in the society.

After 12 long years, the court finally issued notice to Coca Cola. The court also exempted Shikha from paying Rs 2.43 lakh as court fee saying that “the applicant is not possessed of sufficient means to pay the court fee and she is indigent.” In her law suit, Shikha stated that she felt humiliated because of Coca-Cola as all her friends and relatives kept on asking her about her dinner date and that she was called a liar.

Superstar Mahesh Babu is all set to thank his fans for making “Srimanthudu” a stupendous hit that has collected nearly 70 crores ‘share’ by now. After thanking them through media, through his success meets, he’s now getting ready to hold a “Thank You” meet on August 20th at Shilpakala Vedika. That’s a good idea but it might foil the chances of others.

Both “Kick 2” and “Rudramadevi” are the two films that are waiting for a soft slot at box office where they can escape of the pressure of Baahubali and Srimanthudu easily. For that reason, they have waited for nearly two months and zeroed on August 21st and September 4th respectively.

After the release, Baahubali has anyway minted 500 crores and then stopped its promotions. But even after grabbing 100+ crores gross, Srimanthudu is not stopping his publicity streak. If he holds a Thank You meet on August 20th, that is going to shadow the August 21st releasing Kick 2.

Because if Mahesh holds a meet a day before, surely he’s going to grab all the attention. Every media house will give exclusive coverage about the event and people will also stay busy discussing about it. There is no way Kick 2 could emerge tall from the herd if Srimanthudu still continues his publicity.

Coming to Rudramadevi, already promotions of this 70 crore budgeted epic drama are not at all impressive. There is no aggressive ways of taking the film to crowds by roping in the lead stars of the film including Anushka, Rana and Bunny. Though our Size Zero hottie is trying her best, that’s not enough.

And for the little promotions what they are doing, Srimanthudu is a menace because after wrapping Hyderabad Thank You meet, this village-adopting chap is coming to Vizag and Vijayawada too. We have to see how these other upcoming biggies will tackle Mahesh and his meetings.