Charmme who is happy being a producer and actor for recent release Jyothi Lakshmi directed by Puri Jagannadh recollects an incident that happened 7-8 years back.

She says when she bought her first car, she was hit by a guy from the back and once he realized I was a heroine, spoke badly.

Naturally, it showed that a guy who could not respect a heroine would not respect the women in his house. So, I dragged him to a police station and filed a case against him, says she.

Dil Raju’s latest production venture, Kerintha is turning out to be a big disaster in USA. The tragedy is that the US distributor may not even recover the costs of drives even. The movie had got decent reviews and every one expected the movie to do well at the box office. But they were wrong.

The movie even had no competition from any other Telugu film as Jyothi Lakshmi release was cancelled as the customs department did not release the film’s drives in the last minute. The Overseas rights have been sold for Rs.50 lakhs and expected to loose every thing including additional Rs.20 to 25 lakhs expenses incurred on drives, transportation, theaters etc. Dil Raju may have to make up for this loss for the distributor with his next film. Here is the breakup of Kerintha Overseas Collections:

Thursday (Premiers): $1,572
Friday: $3,221

Universal Hero Kamal Hassan’s Cheekati Rajyam shooting is going on at brisk pace. Strong Buzz emerging from Kollywood is that the movie is a heavily inspired from a French film in which the entire story takes place in one night. The story revolves around a reputed cop and Kamal Hassan will be seen as a cop in this flick.

Interstingly, Kamal had ropped in three action choreographers – Gilles Conseil, Silivain Gabet and Virginie Arnaud to compose the fight sequences of the film. Kamal Hassan’s associate Rajesh is directing the film which is a bilingual made simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil.

70% of the movie is shot in Hyderabad and the rest of the 30% will be canned in Chennai. Trisha is pairing up with Kamal Hassan for the second time in her career after Manmadha Banam. The bilingual film is being produced by Kamal Hassan himself on his RajKamal Films International banner.

Hyderabad is becoming a tough venue for Big Fat audio launches these days with local Police imposing strict rules for the conducting of public functions. As result, Baahubali audio release event which was to take place in Hyderabad was cancelled in the last minute and was shifted to Tirupati. But the makers of Srimanthudu managed to obtain the police permissions.

The event will take place in the regular Shilpa Kala Vedhika. Police reportedly imposed some conditions on the issuing passes and managing the crowd to which the makers obliged. The event will take place on 27th of this month. On the other side, the makers are busy wrapping up the movie shoot. It is expected that the entire shooting will be complete by 18th.

The final product will be ready for July 17th release. But since Baahubali is releasing on July 10th release, Srimanthudu is likely to be pushed further. A clarity regarding the release date is expected to emerge in the audio function. Probably July 31st or August 7th release is on cards.

The other day, a popular Newspaper had aired a story that Puri Jagannadh is shown door out of Chiranjeevi’s prestigious 150th project. All the other media went mad about the news and covered it extensively. Finally Puri came up with an indirect explanation regarding the rumours. On Saturday night, Puri tweeted, “Just narrated 1st half to Megastar and am happy he’s thrilled..I want to work very hard to make 2nd half 10times better (sic)”.

With this tweet, Puri had clarified two things. First thing is that he is very much a part of that prestigious project and second one is that he is working on the project and not neglecting it. Puri will finish the promotion works of Jyothi Lakshmi and then will begin the shooting of his next project with Varun Tej.

He will be completing Varun Tej’s project by September and then will begin the shoot of Auto Jaani. The movie is being planned for Sankranthi 2016 release. Ram Charan himself will be producing this monumental film. Interestingly Ramcharan’s debut film ‘Chiruta’ was directed by Puri Jagannadh and his first film as a producer will be also directed by the same Director. Reliable sources in Chiranjeevi’s camp tells us that Auto Jani is an out and out mass entertainer.

Vultrous Beauty Charmi who recently started a new innings by turning in to a producer, seem to be taking her new profession seriously. Production is not going to be a one film affair for Charmi and she is gearing up for her second venture. She will be also the part of the production team for Varun Tej’s next.

She will be the presenter while C.Kalyan is the producer just like in the case of her debut production venture, Jyothi Lakshmi. Puri Jagannadh is the director for both the films. This film was supposed to made with Nithin but he is now replaced with Varun Tej.

The Mega scion had just completed Kanche with Krish. His debut film, Mukunda ended up as a dreadful experience and Varun wants to make amends for the failure with these two films. Puri had already announced that the movie will be going on floors in this month itself and it will be wrapped up the time Auto Jaani begins in September.