Hyderabad: The makers of upcoming Tamil-Telugu bilingual “Baahubali – The Beginning” are said to be spending over Rs.1 crore for the film’s audio launch here on May 31. A bevy of popular southern film stars is expected to attend the function.

“The audio launch for both Tamil and Telugu versions of the movie is being planned on an unprecedented scale. It will be launched in Hyderabad on May 31. An outdoor venue is being finalised and the makers are expected to spend over Rs.1 crore for the event,” a source told IANS.

“While the guests’ list is being finalised, several popular stars from Telugu and Tamil industry is likely to attend the audio launch. The entire team of ‘Baahubali’ will be present as well,” the source added.

At the audio launch, the much anticipated trailer of the movie will be unveiled as well.

“Right from the beginning, the plan was to release the trailer and the audio at the same time to create maximum buzz. The team has already started making arrangements,” the source said.

Directed by S.S. Rajamouli, the film is said to be the story of two brothers, played by Prabhas Varma and Rana Daggubati, for a kingdom.

The movie, said to have been made on a budget of over Rs.100 crore, also features Anushka Shetty, Ramya Krishnan, Sudeep, Sathyaraj and Nasser in important roles.

“Baahubali – The Beginning” is the first part of the movie. The second installment is slated for release next year.

Filmmaker Karan Johar has already bought the theatrical rights of the Hindi version of both the films.

Raghava Lawrence’s Ganga has been minting money at the box office as the new releases failed to challenge it on any level.

Ganga has gone from strength to strength at the ticket windows to become hugely successful on the business front. The movie has collected a worldwide share of 17 crores (estimates) by the end of its second weekend.

Everyone who invested money in Ganga is already into profits and there is still no sign of drop in the collections.

The movie is likely to enter 20 crores club by the end of its second week run. Balakrishna’s Lion may affect the collections of Ganga if it strikes chord with the masses. If Lion fails to impress, then Ganga has chances to make to it to the twenty five crore club.

Lawrence’s grip on mass masala and the power of horror-comedy genre has worked wonders at the box office.

Looking at the humongous success of Ganga and Kanchana 2, many Telugu and Tamil directors are now churning out many more horror comedies to cash in on the trend.

Actress Catherine Tresa has replaced Trisha Krishnan, who earlier walked out of filmmaker Selvaraghavan’s yet-untitled Tamil project citing date issues.

“The makers have zeroed in on Catherine as Trisha’s replacement. Since the film is set to go on floors very soon, everything was finalised in a hurry. Catherine will join the sets soon,” a source from the film’s unit told IANS.

The film features Silambarasan aka Simbu in the lead, while Taapsee Pannu will be playing the other leading lady.

The project was said to be the second time collaboration of Trisha and Simbu after “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya”, but since she has also signed Kamal Haasan’s next film and “Aranmanai 2″, she couldn’t allocate dates for all the projects.

Manchu Manoj is all set to begin a new innings of his life from 20th of this month. He is getting married to his girl friend, Pranitha Reddy. In the eve of the marriage, Manoj is throwing a big bachelor party to all his friends in Bangkok.

Besides his outside connections, Manoj invited lot of friends from the industry too. It is learnt that actors Nani, Andy Srinivasan, Adarsh, Allari Naresh and others are with him in Bangkok. All of them were flown to Bangkok on a specially booked flight.

Manoj has no new releases after his Current Teega. He is currently shooting for his next, Attack directed by Ram Gopal Varma. He has a new film on cards with director Dasaradh which will go on floors after his marriage and honey moon trip.

Superstar Mahesh Babu is planning to do two films at a time after he is done with his current venture Srimanthudu.

Srikanth Addala will be directing one of Mahesh Babu’s next two films. This will be launched on May 31st and goes to sets from June or July.

Mahesh will launch another film in September or October that will be directed by Trivikram. There has been suspense over Trivikram’s next as the speculations are rife about the ace director teaming up with Pawan Kalyan again. However Trivikram decided to do a quickie with Mahesh Babu before taking up Pawan’s film.

Trivikram and Mahesh have earlier teamed up for Athadu and Khaleja. Their third project will be produced by Radha Krishna who made Julayi and S/o Satyamurthy with Trivikram.

If everything goes per plan Addala’s movie will be released for Pongal and Trivikram’s will be ready for next summer.

If you are a Telugu film lover and if you also by sheer coincidence happen to be from either of the Godavari districts, then all you want to do is to work with megastar Chiranjeevi.

Now that Chiranjeevi may not work post his 150th film, the film itself has become crucial not only for megastar but also for all those who want to work with him one last time.

When Puri Jagannadh was making Temper, everyone was curious to know what his next film was. Then came the news that Mahesh had okayed the project.

But Puri went about making Jyothilakshmi. Also since Mahesh got busy with other projects, their film got stalled temporarily.

And now Puri’s dream has come true. After a lot of contemplation, mega family has finally decided to get Puri to direct Chiranjeevi’s 150th film. In the past, Puri had directed Ram Charan in his debut film and now Charan will be producing megastar’s film.

So now the big question is what is the story for the film? Well, in the past, VV Vinayak and Akula Siva had told innumerable number of stories to the megastar, but he did not like anything.

It is not yet known as to what story BVS Ravi and Puri had told the megastar to convince him. However, it is being said that it will be an out and out commercial film. Again there are doubts if Chiranjeevi would do an ordinary story as his 150th film.

Some say it will be a periodical film and Puri hasn’t done such a film till date. And megastar will stay off political films for now for sure. So the popular thought is that it will on lines of Temper, which will be a mix of message and out and out commercial elements.

There is also talk that while Nayanatara will play the main heroine, Anjali is likely to play the second heroine. And Charmme will get to do an item number, if everything goes as per plan.

Nara Rohit is always known to choose a variety of subjects. The actor’s next, Asura is creating a good response from all quarters. So far the makers only released few posters from the film. But the innovative poster designs and negative title for a hero playing a Police officer created good interest on the film.

The audio release event of the film will take place on 14th of this month at Hotel Park Hyatt. Several film and political celebrities will be gracing the event. The makers are yet to confirm their release plans. They say they will wait for the right time to release.

Priya Banerjee is romancing Nara Rohit in Asura. A new comer, Krishna Vijay is wielding the megaphone. Sai Karthik is the music composer. Lahari Music Label bagged the audio rights of the movie.

Well, the ever-sensuous lady of the Indian Cinema, Sridevi Kapoor’s daughter Jhanvi Kapoor seems to be going crazy. Jhanvi Kapoor hit the headlines recently about the speculations with respect to her debut in Bollywood and Tollywood as well.

According to the sources, it is said that the star Producer Karan Johar who launched the hit careers of Alia Bhat, Varun Dhawan and Siddarath Malhotra will be launching Jhanvi too. It is said that the two daughters of Athiloka Sundari are following her path and are getting  trained for their acting careers.

Jhanvi has been spotted with two of her friends partying hard with a topless attire only with her inner  on. So, is she hinting her style to Bollywood?

Well, the sizzling beauty Trisha Krishnan hit the headlines a few days back for her shocking break-up with her engaged boyfriend, Varun Manian.

She confirmed this with a tweet saying that she is happy being single again. Rumors sprang up that Trisha decided to break up with Varun and so walked out of the project he was producing while Superstar Dhanush’s brother Selvaragahavan was directing it.

But the actual reason was Trisha bagged an opportunity to romance with the most professional star Kamal Hassan. Earlier Trisha acted along with Kamal while she did not pair up. But now she is excited that she is going to act like his girlfriend and wife in the next movie. So, as the dates are to be adjusted. Trisha walked out of the Varun’s funded movie.

However, there were rumors that this all happened because of the break-up story but the actual one is because she could not adjust the dates. So, Trisha dumped Varun’s project to romance the ever-young Kamal Hassan!

Milky Beauty Tamannah’s little Bollywood stint had cost her a big loss back in Telugu. She lost may opportunities in the South to accommodate time for Bollywood films which bombed miserably at the box office and so the actress decided to be very careful about her career in future.

In one of her recent interviews, Tamannah was asked about the love in her life for which she got an interesting answer, “For now I only have the love of parents and brothers. A guy’s love is too far. At present, I have given all my love to films”, Tamannah said.

Tamannah is playing a crucial role as ‘Avantika’ in Rajamouli’s Baahubali and is the lead role in Raviteja’s Bengal Tiger. She is also doing a Telugu-Tamil bilingual film starring Karthi and Nagarjuna. She is all excited of the projects in her hand to come in to winning ways in Telugu film industry.