Pretty excited by the result her “Dongata” has fetched at box office, producer-director Lakshmi Manchu says that she is feeling the true power of happiness now. Sharing her thoughts in a  TV channel’s live show, she credited her director Vamsi Krishna for the success of this film, and also her team of writers.

“While reading the scenes during script stages, I can’t get through them because I can’t control my laughs. I didn’t expected Dongata to become such a big hit, but the response from various quarters proved that it’s going to be biggest”, said Lakshmi. She informed that her dad’s fans from all areas called her to congratulate. Also distributors have expressed their happiness that they will be able to safely recover investment and amass profits, she says.

Probably the post-release promotions need to pepped up for “Dongata” such that the graph goes up. Being holiday season, an ‘average’ mouth-talk is enough to make any small film a big hit. Give some time, numbers will talk for Lakshmi.

Puri Jagannadh is once again ready with his latest film, Jyothi Lakshmi. Starring Charmme in the main lead, the film deals with the hardships faced by a young girl who dreams of becoming a film star. The film’s first look poster has been launched yesterday and Charmme’s mass avatar has become a talk of the town.

Speaking to the media, Jagan said that Jyothi Lakshmi’s main plot has been inspired from famous Telugu novel Mrs. Parankusam written by erstwhile legendary writer Malladi Venkata Krishnamurthy. Interestingly, this is the second straight film in which Jagan has not penned his own story after his previous film Temper in which Jagan roped in star writer Vakkantham Vamsi to pen the story.

Even though Jagan dabbled with the screenplay department for Temper, the main writing credit was given to Vamsi. Not stopping here, Jagan has once again teamed up with yet another popular writer BVS Ravi for the much discussed Megastar’s 150th film, making it a hat-trick film in which the story is not written by him.

This paved way for an interesting talk about Puri Jagannadh being happy with losing the extra responsibilities of writing the story and screenplay by himself. This can set the director free from the burden of scripting and he can freely concentrate on directing. Let’s hope that this new strategy work out for Puri Jagannadh in his upcoming films.

Nara Rohit is on a signing spree of late. After proving his mettle as an action hero in Rowdy Fellow, Rohit has signed another action film on the dotted line. Titled as Appatlo Okadundevadu, the movie is set against in the period of 1992-1996. Billed to be an action entertainer, the film is weaved based on the real-life incidents in the lives of two youths and made to appeal to the present audiences.

Director Sagar K. Chandra, of Ayyare fame, will be wielding the megaphone. Given that Sagar did justice to Ayyare, which was also based on a real-life incident, Rohit believed in Sagar and given his go ahead. Sri Vishnu will be seen as another lead actor alongside Rohit in the film. Young producers Sunny Raju and Hari are jointly producing the film under Vasishth Movies banner. Rohit will join the shooting of the film in the first week of June.

Meanwhile, Nara Rohit’s three films are awaiting release. His upcoming films include Asura, Pandagala Vachadu and Sankara.

Almost a dozen flop films are there in this Delhi girl kitty, though she is not responsible for such out come. Ravishing beauty Taapsee won womens fame for her beauty all these days but success is eluding her. And now she has plenty of reasons to smile.

Whenever Taapsee is in Hyderabad Earlier she use to flash beautiful smile always. Somehow that smile never had an inner happiness. But when we saw her today beaming smiles to cameras at media meet, 100% satisfaction could be read on her face. Probably back to back successes have made her stomach full.

Ganga and Kanchana 2 are running with full crowds, while Why Raja Why is a smashing hit; her cameo in Dongata is eye candy-what else Taapsee will need? In this momentum, she signed 3-4 new flicks.

Right now, superstar Mahesh is said to be very angry. Well, naturally, the next question would be who is he angry about? So the story from Film Nagar is that Mahesh terribly miffed with the unit of Baahubali. And here is the story.

If you have been following news, then you will know that Baahubali was slotted for release in May. So, the team of Koratala Siva’s Sreemanthudu decided that they will give Baahubali a month’s gap and decided to release their film in July or on July 17 to be more precise.

Since both their films are big, they felt that a month’s gap would be appropriate. Now, suddenly, Rajamouli has announced that he would be releasing Baahubali on July 17. And that’s precisely the reason why Mahesh is said to be really angry right now.

Naturally, his feelings are totally understood. Had Rajamouli announced the same some time back, then Mahesh would have pushed the film to May. Now, it will become a prestige issue and Koratala Siva and Mahesh will have to stick to July just to prove a point.

Prestige apart, releasing simultaneously will mean cut in revenues to both parties involved as the buyers will shell out huge amounts for both the films.

If both of them release with a gap, both of them will mint money at the box office. However, now it remains to be seen who will back off by July.