Star producer Aswini Dutt is making the film Kantri with NTR& Hansika in the lead roles. Meher Ramesh is directing his first Telugu film. He was the assistant of Poori Jagannath. As for the filmnagar sources, Meher Ramesh scripted Kantri keeping Pawan Kalyan in mind and narrated the script to Pawan, somehow Pawan didn’t like that script and politely said No to that director.
The director went to Bunny with minor changes in the script, even that couldn’t get finalized. Finally he approached with some more changes in the script, NTR immediately accepted to do this film. Now the film’s shoot progressing in South Africa, the director is filming couple of sings on the lead pair.
NTR’s Kantri was written for Pawan Kalyan ?
|Trisha’s item number in Rajni’s Kucheludu
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Actress Trisha has jumped onto the wagon of star Item numbers with her accepting for a special performance in Tamil super star Rajnikanth’s bilingual Kucheludu. The film is being directed by P.Vasu who had earlier worked with Rajnikanth for the hit Chandramukhi. Produced by Aswini Dutt in Telugu, the film also stars Jagapathi Babu and Tabu in important roles. The film will go on floors from March 10th this year.
Gopichand in Suresh Productions next
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Riding high on the critical and commercial success of his last film ontari, actor Gopichand has all the reasons to celebrate. Gopichand was recently signed on by leading production company Suresh Productions to star in their latest venture Shivam. To be directed by Vasu (former assistant of S.J.Surya) the film, though presented by Suresh Productions, will be produced by Exhibitor cum realtor turned producer Anand Prasad. Mani Sharma will be scoring the music for the film.
Will Nag accept Tamanna as his heroine?
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Nag’s next film King begins to roll very soon. Sreenu Vytla will be directing the film. D Sivaprasad Reddy is the producer. Trisha is the main heroine. Devi Sree Prasad is the music director. Now the latest we hear that the director and producer are opting for Tamanna (Happy Days)as second heroine. Will Nag accept this? In his recent interview, Nag said that he can’t shake his legs with heroines like Ileana- as there is lot of age difference and she looks too young.Let us wait and see- what Nag’s decision for the King?
Rajinikanth‘s film releases tomorrow
| Sivaji - The Boss didn’t even need subtitles to pull people to the theatres in Mumbai. The magic of Rajinikanth was so empowering. Now the Superstar is set to weave his magic one more time on the people of cosmopolitan, but with his previous movie. Yes, that’s right, now Chandramukhi will be released in Mumbai, in Hindi and the best part is that Rajinikanth himself will be rendering voice.
The movie will be released by Dilip Dhanwani of the Royal Film Company with 150 prints. This is a new record for a dubbed movie.
Chandramukhi though based on the Malayalam original, Manichitrathazhu starring Mohanlal, did exceptional business in Kerala. It also broke couple of records in Telugu. The movie ran for close to 900 days at Shanthi theatre in Chennai. Now it is all set to woo the Mumbai cinema fans. In-spite of Bhool Bhulaiyaa, the Akshay starrer, which was again based on Manichitrathazhu running well in the city, distributor Dilip Dhanwani is very confident of the movie’s prospects. Talking to Behindwoods he said, “Rajinikanth is a big brand here. Though the actor has stopped doing Bollywood movies, people remember him for his unique style. I am sure they will come to just see him.”
Nayanatara & Trisha with Bala Krishna
|Two top heroines Nayanatara & Trisha are to be roped with Nandamuri Anadagaadu NBK for the film Sivaramakrishna. NBK‘s own banner Ramakrishna cine Studios is producing the film . V Samudra will be directing this film. Presently Balayaa is in K.Raghavendra Rao’s periodic Pandurangadu, will be leaving for the tourist destinations of Thailand and Cambodia, on March 1st to film a couple of songs. Now don’t get the director wrong. Though the songs are being picturised on Balakrishna and Sneha, K.Raghavendra Rao will not be hitting the beach but instead will capture the beautiful and mystic Hindu temples in those regions for his devotional saga. Thailand and Cambodia were former strong holds of a Hindu and Buddhist empires and still are home to a good number of Hindu and Buddhist populations. Trust the Veteran director to present his movies with a dash of uniqueness.
Allu Arjun goes to watch Hrithik
|Allu Arjun sporting a casual look, sans make-up and most importantly, minus any hang-ups went to watch the night show of Jodha Akbar yesterday.
He was spotted at the multiplex with a couple of friends. Given that there was a premiere show of a film happening at the same venue, he quickly ran past the cameramen to quickly get into the theatre without being caught on camera.
Given that Allu Arjun too loves to pump iron and dances wonderfully, we are sure he wanted to check out the well-chiseled look of Hrithik in the film, that is giving sleepless nights to scores of women across the world. Wise move, ain’t it?
Tarun takes to dancing at weddings
|There was a special programme by Devirsri Prasad and Prabhu Deva on the occasion. But it was Tarun too who appeared in the pictures dancing to Prabhu Deva’s tunes.
So will be the first Tollywood hero to dance at weddings? After all, their Bollywood counterparts are paid a bomb for their performances.
Let’s wait and watch.
Nagarjuna’s King hits floors on 7th April
|Trisha will play opposite Nagarjuna in this film. It is also said that this film is all getting ready to hit theatres for December 2008. King is an action-oriented entertainer.
Dheerudu’s grand launch on 28th
|Geetha Arts will be producing this prestigious film, whose music will be composed by Keeravani. Ram Charan has been spending most of his time in gym to have good looks in movie. While Venkat will play the negative role, Sridevi may play an important role in this flick.
Family is Sonali Bendre’s first priority
|So she dropped everything else and went along with mom-in-law, and that was how we spotted her – looking gorgeous as ever and shopping as if there were no tomorrow. Well, like they say, a woman must know how to shuffle her various roles and also multi-task. And Sonali seems to be doing just that.
Jalsa gets ready for success
|Shekhar Kammula looks for new comers
|Dasari son's kidnap drama ends
|Meanwhile, Suseela denied her husband’s allegation while speaking to reporters at Chittoor on Wednesday. She alleged that he was being pressured by his kidnappers to make such statements. “Why should I opt for kidnapping him when I want to live with him?” she asked. “I am not interested in his property and only want to live with him.” Suseela said her father-in-law, Dasari Narayana Rao, had offered crores of rupees to her to part with Prabhu but she refused the offer since she wanted to be with him.
Ramgopal Varma flooded with awards
|Other faces of Sameera Reddy
|Being ultra-glam – does that worry her? “I love being called hot. It’s made me what I am. But there’s this pressure to be glamorous all the time,” she says. “It’s killing. One bad day and they rip you apart. The sort of pictures of me that are published and the sort of things that are written – it used to worry my father till some time ago. But when I was on vacation with my family a few times, and there was gossip that I was elsewhere, that’s when he began to be reassured that most of it was concocted.”
Vishal is comfortable with only action
|"I love you Deepika", says Ranbir Kapoor
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“I love you Deepika”, says Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika too expresses her love for him in front of thousand onlookers. For quite sometime, both of them are going round together but finally they expressed their love for each other at the backstage of the Filmfare Awards.
Ranbir whispered this magic word in Deepika’s ear when both were getting ready at the backstage to collect the best debutante award of 2007. Deepika overwhelmed to hear those words from him and she too whispered back the same. After the award ceremony, both of them walked out and spend some quality time, hugging and kissing each other.
Ever since Deepika has made her appearance in Om Shanti Om, she has hit the headlines for her close association with cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh and model Nihar Pandya. Recently, Deepika has called off her relationship with Yuvraj because of his possessiveness. Before entangled with Ranbir, Deepika went to Yuvi and informed him that she was now going to see someone else. Deepika-Ranbir’s love story is expected to bloom day by day as both will get maximum time to spend with each other in connection to work. The duo is shooting for Yashraj Films.
Sameera takes up Andhra issue
|Siddartha is ready to play a gay
|Pawan Kalyan becomes clean in bigamy case
|Nagarjuna’s King hits floors on 7th April
|Trisha will play opposite Nagarjuna in this film. It is also said that this film is all getting ready to hit theatres for December 2008. King is an action-oriented entertainer.
Jalsa gets ready for success
|Shekhar Kammula looks for new comers
|Court dismisses case against Pawan Kalyan
|The Chief Metropolitan Court of Vizag struck down the case against Pawan Kalyan, much to his relief and that of his immediate family and fans. It is a known fact that Pawan Kalyan's wife Nandini had filed a case against him for marrying Renu Desai, while being married to her. She had also filed another case against Chiranjeevi and his family, citing harassment by in-laws.
Apparently, the team of police officials who had been sent to Hyderabad to gather evidence against Pawan Kalyan failed to secure any firm evidence to prove that he was indeed married to Renu Desai. So, the court promptly struck down the case due to lack of evidence.
Recently, Pawan Kalyan had admitted to being in a live-in relationship with Renu Desai, after being separated from his wife Nandini. The couple also have a son.
However, the case against Pawan Kalyan seeking alimony by Nandini and the case by Pawan Kalyan seeking divorce from Nandini are still pendingPhoto session of ‘Robot’
|Different kinds of wigs, brought from the US, were fixed to the superstar for the session and the visuals are said to be awesome. Though the high profile heroine Aishwarya Rai Bachan did not attend the photo session, director Shankar has planned to have a second photo session featuring the lead pair.
Meanwhile ‘Action King’ Arjun has denied the news that he had told that he was not in ‘Robot’. Though the action hero hasn’t confirm his participation, he hasn’t denied it either.
'Kantri' likely to hit the screens on April 28
|The South African schedule will be ending on February 29 and the unit will return to Hyderabad to resume shooting. The film is being made by C Aswini Dutt under the Vyjayanti Movies banner.
As per tinsel ville grapevine, Aswini Dutt is considering April 28 as the release date for the film. It is also being rumoured that NTR's next with VV Vinayak will also be launched on the same day.
Now, that's some good news for the fans of NTR Jr.
Allu Arjun, Tamanna in 'Chandrapratap'
|This one has Tamanna, who was seen in 'Happy Days', playing his love interest. We think it sounds a bit like a historical title to us.
But given the current trend of keeping the actual title under wraps till the release date, it will not be surprising, if the makers came up something more catchy by the time the film goes on the floors.
Gopichand likes his co-star
|She is as good as Soundarya. Only that she also has the glam factor going for her. Which is precisely why, says her Gopichand, that she is someone to look out for in days to come. Though Bhavana debuted in Telugu with 'Ontari', she had acted in a few Tamil and Malayalam films earlier.
Gopichand feels she is one girl who could have a long innings out here. Now isn't that something coming from a co-star of one film?
We wonder what Bhavana has to say about Gopichand after all this. Once we get her to give a byte on that, we will give the news to you ASAP.
Like mother, like daughter
|Hansika Motwani created a splash with her performance in 'Desamuduru'. After which, she decided it was Bollywood that she wanted to conquer. Despite offers pouring in from Tollywood producers, she decided that it was Bollywood that would taker her career to the next level.
But Aswini Dutt's offer was too irresistible for her and she decided to do 'Kantri' opposite NTR. Now, the light-eyed beauty says she will take that one chance, before she goes back to Bollywood.
We hear, it is not just Hansika who is head turner in her family. Apparently, she inherited her beauty genes from her mother, who is a doctor. Last heard, it seems Mrs Mona Motwani gives her little girl tough competition right at home!
Nag goes to thank Lord Venkateswara
|Nagarjuna acted as Annamayya' and then did 'Sri Ramadasu'. Given that he has won Nandi Awards as the Best Actor for both the devotional films, he has decided to pay his obeisance to Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala.
Naturally, his fans went berserk after spotting their favourite star there. The reaction was the same from other devotees too.
Nagarjuna at Tirumala
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Seems like it is not only the common man who visits temples after a wish has been fulfilled. Actor Nagarjuna was spotted at the famous Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirumala, accompanied by the TTD officials and a couple of fans.
Nagarjuna, who is believed to have visited the temple to fulfill his mokku for the success of his last release Don, offered prayers to the lord in the early hours of the day and left immediately there after.
Vijaya Santhi vs Chandrababu Naidu
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Mandha Krishna Madiga organized a Dharna at Indira Park, demanding welfare schemes for handicapped people of the state. Chandra Babu Naidu and Vijayasanthi (Talli Telangana Chief) were invited to support the demands of handicapped. There was hot & hot verbal exchange between Vijayasanthi & Chandra Babu. Vijayasanthi’s question was- ‘Ok, YSR couldn’t do anything for handicapped, but at the same time Chandrababu should disclose what he did in his 9 years rule’.
Chandrababu answered Vijayasanthi’s question by repeating the schemes that were introduced by him during his rule. But Vijayasanthi denied Chandrababu’s schemes and she quoted the fluoride affected area of Nalgonda. Chandrababu said ‘ Vijayasdanthi gaaru, did you see my schemes at that time?’ When the verbal war is going on- the entire Dharna was turned out to be Telangana meeting. Mandha Krishna Madiga who organized this Dharna expressed his sadness with the behavior of political leaders.Sairam’s Vaade Kavali in summer
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Vaade Kavali is the title of director Rajendra Darshan’s Sairam Shankar starring film, production house Sadguru Cinema announced. With major portion of the film and two songs already canned this romantic drama with a unique twist is being readied for a summer release.
Sairam Shankar‘s past movie "Hello Premistara" didn‘t do well at the theatres. We hope that this movie will do good at the Box Office. The film stars newcomer Suhasi as Sairam Shankar’s leading lady.
Aakash in a film based on his own Life
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Aakash, Sridevika and Vani are playing the lead roles in Prema Bandham that is releasing on March 1. The film‘s release had been put on hold for a long time for reasons best known to the filmmakers. "It‘s true the movie was supposed to release last year but in the last minute we decided to reshoot some parts of the film and that is what caused the delay. The film is very close to my heart because it almost mirrors some incidents in my life. I enjoyed working in the film," shares Aakash. Perhaps that is the reason why he is also producing the film.
Asin-Ajith’s 'Avatarudu' soon
|Is Manoj doing '50 First Dates'?
|We are not playing spoil sport by disclosing the film’s plot, but then we cannot help but find too many similarities with certain films. So, naturally, we are trying to put two and two together.
First, 'Nenu Meeku Telusa' looked like it was inspired by 'Memento', now looks like it is inspired by Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore-starrer '50 First Dates'.
But the film’s director Ajay Sastri is mighty thrilled. He says it is better to keep the audience guessing. Now, Manoj get to romance two girls on screen – Sneha Ulhas and Riya Sen. The Bong beauty’s name was under wraps till she was spotted in the city.
The film’s first schedule has been completed in a special set erected for the film in Madhapur.
The second schedule will begin soon, says Sastri. The music would be the highlight of the film, he says. Achun, another debutant will be composing the music for the film.
Mamata’s weight dilemma
|Acting in multiple productions is no less than doing a trapeze act. If it is a singer-cum-actress like Mamata Mohandas, then there bound to be many more complications.
For starters, date adjustment would be a huge issue, what with all producers wanting to complete their film at the earliest. Poor Mamata was caught in a tricky situation recently.
She was recently seen in Krishnarjuna opposite Vishnu. Apparently, director P Vasu was after her to put on some weight to make a good screen couple with Vishnu. On the other hand, she was shooting for another film where the hero is lanky.
So, the makers of that film insisted she shed weight to look right for the hero. Now, poor Mamata had to put on and shed off weight simultaneously.
Now doesn’t that sound nightmarish?
Mahesh babu with six pack body
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He is expected to play hero in Trivikram Srinivas' direction. However, the director is presently busy with Jalsaa and that movie is set for release in summer.
The fans of Mahesh Babu are debating whether the director could complete the film before the end of 2008. Varudu is the title under consideration of the movie. However, the sources in the film industry say, the director and hero are committed to complete the film in time.
Telugu Top heroines SALARY list
|Here are the Salary figures of 15 Telugu heroines
- Ileana –------------------ Rs One Crore
- trisha—-------------------Rs.60- 65 lakhs
- Nayanatara- -------------Rs.55- 65 alkhs
- Anushka---------------------40-45 lakhs
- Shriya- ------------------ 65 lakhs
- Genelia----------------------40 lakhs
- Priyamani—----------------30 lakhs
- Charmy----------------------30 lakhs
- Mamatha Mohandass------40 lakhs
- Kajal agrawal---------------20 lakhs
- Farzana--------------------8- 10 lakhs
- Sneha------------------------30 lakhs
- Meera Jasmine--------------25 lakhs
- Bhoomika--------------------40 lakhs
- Mumaith Khan-------------Rs30-35 lakhs
Secret behind Rambh’s figure?
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It was way back in 1992 that Amritha , (that was original name of Rambha) began her career. Her first film was Sargam, a Malayalam film.
It is almost 17 years that she entered this industry; the heroines who entered along with Rambha have already got retired from the industry.
But this thunder thighs girl is able to manage the show as the heroine after 17years long career. She is playing the heroine role in the film Donga Sachchinollu of Raghu and Krishna Bagawan.
What is the secret behind this:-
According to filmnagar sources, Rambha is spending about Rs30, 000/- a month on beauticians and Cosmetics to clinch the offers.
Intellectuals to meet today to discuss about Chiru Party
|Some intellectuals from Hyderabad are meeting today 24th February at Progressive media center to discuss about Megastar’s political entry.
The intellectuals’ are-
- B Dhanam-former Chief Secretary of AP
- B Madhusudhan Reddy- Professor OU
- KV Rajeswar Rao- former ZP Chairman
- Mohan Reddy- Former Chairman- Marketing
- Paruchuri Appaji- writer
- Ramesh- Telangana cultural association
- PSV Satyanarayana- Ayurvedic Doctor
- Tripurana Venkatarathnam- former Minister
- Kudipudi Suryanarayana-Politician
- 10. A Rama rao- advocate
- and many more
Trisha- She is special
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Everyone who knows Trisha closely vouches for the fact that the girl has nerves of steel. She is cool, confident and extremely hardworking. And now she has become a busy bee, and it looks like for the next six months she will not be able to squeeze out a break!
She is doing four films in Tamil- Kuruvi, Abhiyum Naanum, Sarwam, Chennayil Oru Mazhaikalam and the biggest Telugu movie of the year Puri Jagannath’s Bujjigadu-Made in Chennai and also signed King with Nagarjuna.
In Telugu she has bounced back as hot property after the super success of Krishna, but before that she has to complete her Tamil assignments. How does Trisha cope up with five films at a time? The answer is simple- planning with clockwork precision her dates and hard work.
Last week she was shooting for Abhiyum Naanum continuously in the night, as the shoot was at the domestic airport in Chennai which is given for film shoot only between 11.30 pm and 5 am. And during daytime on some days she had Kuruvi shoot in various Chennai locations.
Next week she is off to Ootty for wrapping up Abhiyum Naanum. Prakash Raj and Radha Mohan the director of the film is introducing a new Tamil boy from Mumbai as Trisha’s love interest in the film. Trisha is going out of her way to accommodate the newcomer by cooperating with the director for any number of retakes.
Meanwhile the buzz in Kollywood is that Trisha is going to do the Tamil and Telugu remake of the super hit Kareena Kapoor- Shahid Kapoor love story Jab We Met. She will start the shoot in May/ June, by then her Kuruvi and Abhiyum Naanum would have released.
Trisha is in love with her work, and slowly but surely she is growing as an actress of substance with both Abhiyum Naanum and Sarwam promising to be different. Well, for the pretty girl, that’s where the thrill is.
Nagarjuna-Trisha’s film launch in April
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Director Srinu Vytla latest film, being produced by D.Siva Prasad Reddy, will be formally launched on 7th April. Nagarjuna and Trisha will be pairing up for the first time in this venture that might be titled as King. The film will be ready for release by 18th December, the production house announced. Devi Sri Prasad will be composing the film’s music.On the other hand, Nagarjuna’s 2007 hit film Don is being dubbed into Hindi as Don No. 1 and will be released by Imran Khureshi, who has bought the film’s rights. The dubbed version will be ready for release shortly.
'King' to be launched on April 7
|Nagarjuna’s next film King will officially be launched on April 7. Though Sreenu Vaitla is very busy finishing off Ready, he is trying his best to concentrate on King simultaneously.
News is that Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan are giving the final touches to the script right now. The film as we had reported will be an entertainer.
After a long time, Nagarjuna will be dancing to the tunes of Devisri Prasad. They had earlier worked together for 'Manmadhudu'.
'Jalsa' to release with maximum prints abroad
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America, UK, Singapore, Dubai, Canada, Malaysia, Australia… 'Jalsa', say the Geeta Arts reps will be the first Telugu film that will release with the maximum number of prints in all the above mentioned countries.
The film too has been made on a very huge budget. Apparently, the house set has been erected with Rs 1 crore and a set for a song has been put up with Rs 70 lakh.
Given that the music is already a rage, after the songs had been leaked on to the Net, there are high expectations from the film.
Another highlight, say the makers, is the presence of three heroines opposite Pawan Kalyan.
Filmi judges in 'Rela re Rela', a huge success
|Their panel consists of LR Eswari, Suddala Ashok Teja apart from Goreti Venkanna and Chandra Teja. Directors such as Dasarath and actor R Narayana Murthy too took out their time to be the guest judges on the show which is being aired on MAA TV.
The show has been very popular not only in Hyderabad, but also in districts all over AP.
Various cash prizes are also given to the participants in order to encourage them and that too has added to the popularity of the channel.