Sometimes rumours do end up as ideas. As these columns spoke umpteen times about the possibility of Nandamuri Balakrishna doing a sequel to his most hyped and sci-fi hit, finally it is materialising now. But it will not be his 100th film, only a 101st.

Grapevine has that acclaimed filmmaker Singeetham Srinivasa Rao has finally convinced Balayya with a new script of famous time machine flick “Aditya 369”. Carving out a story in similar lines, Singeetham has come up with some contemporary stuff which Hollywood hasn’t even touched.

Impressed by this storyline, Balayya has given nod for the project, a big budgeted one, but only as his 101st movie. He has summoned writers and directors like Boyapati and Rajamouli regarding his 100th movie, and this time-machine flick couldn’t be that landmark film, say insiders. We also heard that this sequel of science-fiction drama is likely to be named as “Aditya 999”.

Way back in 1991, Balayya portrayed interesting roles in Aditya 369 and that’s where he enthralled his fans with Sri Krishna Devarayalu avataar. There are no clues about Balayya taking up yet another historical role in he sequel of this time machine drama, but if he takes any such, then its going to be collections tsunami at box office.

Who wouldn’t like to watch him utter those poetic Telugu dialogues in a historical King character!!Meanwhile, the question remains same, what is Balayya’s 100th film? Story and director are the two things that puzzle Nandamuri fans for the now.

Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu Censor formalities which were scheduled to finish today were postponed in the last minute due to some technical reasons. The censor will complete tomorrow morning. The makers are expecting Clean U certificate for the film.

As soon as the censor is complete the overseas prints will be shipped. The overseas premieres will happen on Thursday night and the movie will have a grand release on August 7th. Srimanthudu is being dubbed in to Tamil as Selvandhan and will have simultaneous release on August 7th.

The audio release of the Tamil version will take place tomorrow in Chennai. Mahesh Babu was to dub in Tamil as well but did not do that due to lack of time.

The makers of NTR’s next under the direction of Sukumar are readying the first look teaser of the movie for Dussehra. The first look posters and the teaser will release on October 21st, Vijaya Dasami day. The movie shooting is currently progressing in London.

The movie shooting will be 70% complete by the end of this schedule. After the London schedule, there will be another 20 days schedule in a foreign country and the final schedule will take place in Hyderabad. The makers are planning to release the movie for Sankranthi 2016.

Rakul Preet Singh is romancing NTR for the first time in this film. Rajendra Prasad and Jagapathi Babu are playing important role in the movie. Attarintiki Daredi fame BVSN Prasad is producing the film on his Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra Banner. Devi Sri Prasad is the music composer.

Friendship Day eve turned out to be a night of huge disappointment for all the hardcore Hyderabad fans of adult star turned Bollywood diva, Sunny Leone. The sensuous actress was in town last night to perform at a Friendship Day event organized by a posh night pub. Hundreds of young revellers paid huge amounts to catch Sunny perform live.

The excitement grew by leaps and bounds when Sunny entered the pub premises, while all her fans were cheering hysterically for her. However, soon after her arrival at the pub, Sunny noticed the huge crowd going berserk and within no time, she decided to cancel her show and stormed out of the pub, much to the heartbreak of her fans.

It was a herculean task for Sunny’s personal bodyguards to safeguard her from the overjoyed fans who were desperate to catch a glimpse of her in their mobile phones. Even Sunny’s husband Daniel Weber accompanied Sunny as she swam through the heavy crowd to reach her car. Soon after Sunny left, angry fans got into a brawl with the organizers about the cancellation of the event.