All the hurdles before the release of Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Lion are now cleared. The makers have arranged a press meet a short while ago in Prasad Labs, Hyderabad and announced the release date as May 8th. A Special muhurtham of 10.04 AM was set on that day for the release.

Balakrishna and the heroines = Trisha and Radhika Apte did not attend the pressmeet due to prior commitments. Lion comes after the super success of Legend and Balakrishna making political entry. But still Lion do not have proper buzz due to a new director at the helm.

The theatrical trailer and music album of the film are also not able to make an impact on trade. Trisha is romancing Balayya for the first time in this movie. Radhika Apte is playing the second heroine. A new comer Satyadeva is wielding megaphone for this project.

Rudrapati Ramana Rao is producing the film under his SLV Cinema banner. Mani Sharma who gave several chart buster audios to Balayya in the past is composing the music for this film.

Rakul Preet Singh is one of the most happening heroines in Tollywood right now. She is currently shuttling between NTR’s Maa Nannaku Prematho and Ram Charan’s My Name is Raju owing to her busy schedule.

Up front, there is Brahmotsavam opposite Mahesh Babu which will go on floors in coming months. But even in this busy schedule, Rakul Preet Singh is forced to romance Nithin. This is to honour a previous contract signed by her.

Earlier, Nithiin was supposed to team up with Rakul for Srinivasa Reddy’s debut film. However, the film did not happen and the advance given to Rakul Preet for the movie and the transfer was signed to a new project of Nithin to be directed by a debutante Mallidi Venu’s direction.

This project is likely to be produced by Nithin’s father Sudhakar Reddy. And thats how Rakul had to sneak in time for a relatively small hero even in her prime. With several high profile projects with Ram Charan, NTR and even Mahesh Babu in hand, it wll be interesting to see how Rakul will manage her dates for Nithiin’s film.

Nandamuri Kalyan Ram is a very changed man post the success of Pataas. He wants to make sure that the hard earned success stays and so he recently showed the door to his heroine in Sher and replaced her with a popular face, Sonal Chauhan even after the move affecting financially.

He is also carefully planning his next project for which he has roped in a known director and efficient producer. AS Ravi Kumar Chowdary who recently bagged a success with Sai Dharam Tej’s Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham is chosen as the director.

Ravi Kumar is currently working on a script for Kalyan Ram and this project will go on floors after Sher release. Dil Raju will be producing this project on his Sri Venkateswara Creations banner. It may be reminded to our readers that Dil Raju earlier distributed Pataas in Nizam.

He is also one of the producers of Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham. So he has good rapport with both the actor and the director.

Few days ago we have seen media sources abuzz with the news that Naga Chaitanya is playing a little cameo in Akhil Akkineni’s debut movie. However Naga Chaitanya turned down the rumours as baseless. Speaking to a TV channel as a part of Dochey promotions, Chaitanya said, “No. don’t have such idea.

But we all are eagerly waiting for Akhil’s full length film. It will be an out and out commercial package.” Earlier Akhil appeared in a guest role in Naga Chaitanya – Nagarjuna’s Manam. The media said this cameo of Chaitanya will be like a reciprocation for his younger brother. There are rumours that the movie is titled ‘Missile’.

The recently release Special Video of the movie has got tremendous response and took the expectations to the next level. The onus is on Vinayak to give him a perfect launch pad as he did for Bellamkonda Srinivas with Alludu Seenu. The makers have already announced that the majority of the movie will be canned in Overseas.

Sayesh Saigal , the granddaughter of Bollywood Superstar Dilip Kumar is playing the female lead in this film.SS Thaman and Anoop Rubens will be jointly handling the music department. Hero Nithin is turning producer with this film under his family’s Sresht Movies Banner. The film will have story penned by ‘Damarukham’ fame Veligonda Srinivas.