[A FIRST LOOK AT A SET IN SHAKTI]
Young Tiger Jr.NTR’s upcoming movie ‘Shakti’ is likely to release on 31st March, 2011. The female lead of the film is Goa Beauty Ileand D Cruz.The film is touted to be a highest budget one with a whooping budget of 45 crores in Jr NTR’s career so far. Currently, filmmakers are busy wrapping up the final schedule of the film. The latest buzz is that Shakti Film’s Distribution Rights have been sold for a price of 8.5 crores in Ceded Area and filmmakers are planning for worldwide release on 31st March.
‘Shakthi’ is being made on the highest budget ever (in Telugu Cinema), highest technical values and highest number of locations. It is said to be a socio-fantasy film filled with loads of graphics.
One of the biggest visual extravaganza ever in Telugu cinema, Shakti is all set to make a big splash early this summer. After days of maintaining secrecy, the film’s team is going to reveal the film’s designs on February 14. Meher Ramesh, the director of the film, shared the news on Twitter yesterday. He revealed that the film’s audio might be held on February 27 or March 2 and the venue could be either Hyderabad or Guntur. The exact date of audio launch will be confirmed shortly. The film’s shooting began exactly a year ago on February 6 in Jaipur and after shooting in Hyderabad, Hampi, London, Egypt, Jaipur and several other places it’s all set to unleash its power on March 30. Jr NTR is playing the lead role and Ileana is the heroine. The film, which is touted to be a sci-fi and visual effects extravaganza, also has Jackie Shroff, Sonu Sood, Manjari Phadnis and Pooja Bedi in important roles. Aswini Dutt has produced the film on Vijyanthi Movies banner.
The gorgeous and beautiful Ileana currently shooting for Jr.NTR’s Shakti and Rana’s Nenu Naa Rakshasi has agreed a film in Bollywood. She clarifies that”Cinema is a universal medium. It has no limitations. We artistes, regardless of our region, can’t lead a frog in the well existence. I want to do films in all languages, and portray characters that will test my abilities. I will never forget the roots, My first break came with the Telugu film Devadasu. “
Sound Indian queen Trisha has denied the reports about her marriage with a business man. The actress after completing her shoot of a Telugu film in Mysore is back to Chennai and was stunned by the news of her marriage.
Trisha tweets “Guys I’m not getting married. Ha!Ha! Wonder where people get such rubbish information. Also, don’t U think that there should be a guy somewhere in the horizon? Fortunately or unfortunately not. So nothing in the near future.”
Her next shoot will be on the sets of Mankatha in Mumbai during next week. This states that the news Trisha to marry an Industrialist is a rumor.
Bejawada Rowdilu the most sensational title announced by RGV showcases the rowdyism in Vijayawada. RGV said to media that “The lead hero of the movie is Naga Chaitanya and the story is yet to be finalized besides the other cast and crew. I will reveal all the details once we finalize everything.”Isn’t it good news for the fans of Akkineni and the young dad Nagarjuna who find the movie as anotherShiva for their family?
Naga Chaitanya’s forth coming film produced by Bunny Vasu under Geeta Arts is ready to wind up its shooting very soon. Major part of the shooting has been completed under the direction of Sukumar.
Milk white beauty Tamannah is pairing with the young chap Naga Chaitanya in this movie. This film is produced by Bunny Vasu under Geeta Arts banner. Recently, he has announced the title of their film as ‘I Love you Mahalakshmi.’
Actress Sonali Bendre is quite shocked to hear the hot news that she has gone pantyless to Karan Johar’s party. Sonali condemned these pantyless reports in a severe tone and said that she has never done such cheap tricks even when she was busy as an actress. “How will I do such things now? I am married and married to a respectable family, mind you,” she said.
The news and pics about Sonali Bendre pantyless act has hit the internet on Saturday morning and within no time it has reached the top slot in trends. Sonali Bendre says she didn’t attend the party without underwear. “I dressed in a decent way and these rumors have upset my family,” said the actress who is married to director Goldie Behl.
Sonali Bendre was one of the top rated heroines a decade ago and has many hits to her credit. These pantyless rumors should’ve certainly upset the beautiful lady.
The Celebrity Cricket league, which will comprise a series of cricket matches between Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood and Sandalwood stars was announced recently. The teams are named Mumbai Heroes (Bollywood), Telugu Tigers (Tollywood), Bangalore Stars (Sandalwood) and Tamil Superstars (Kollywood). While Bollywood, Kollywood and Sandalwood have finalized their teams, Tollywood is still finalizing its team. It is reported that Ram Charan Teja, Nagarjuna and Junior NTR are busy putting a team together. The Bollywood and Kollywood teams will be spearheaded by Salman Khan and Suriya respectively. The Celebrity Cricket league will be held in the last week of January.
he XXIII Metropolitan Magistrate court in Saidapet recalled the bailable warrant issued against Mrs. Latha Rajinikanth and Soundarya Rajinikanth Aswhin after the ladies settled a financial dispute out of court.
The warrant was issued on a complaint filed by businessman Sumerchand Bafna of Teynampet. According to Bafna, Soundarya and Latha Rajinikanth had obtained a loan of Rs. 20 lakhs from him in August 2009. They issued two cheques, dated December 1, 2010, towards repayment, but the cheques bounced. He filed a complaint on December 24, 2010 at the Magistrate’s court. Based on the complaint, the ladies were summoned to appear in court before January 19. Since they failed to do so, the arrest warrant was issued and the matter adjourned till yesterday. Latha and Soundarya did not come for the hearing yesterday also, which resulted in the court ordering the warrant to be executed by March 9.
To avoid the impending arrest, the matter was reportedly settled out of court. Sumerchand filed a petition later in the day to that effect and requested permission to withdraw the complaint, which the court permitted.
The only Hero in Tollywood who is maintaining his physique steadily from the last 20 years is definitely would be King Nagarjuna. This was proved at audio release function of Ragada where he was seen equivalently to Akkineni Youngsters. Now, this Manmadhudu is getting ready for six pack body for his upcoming film titled ‘Dhamarukam’.
It is learnt that as per character in the movie, Nagarjuna is working hard to build the six-pack abs. Dhamarukam is said to be a socio-fantasy film and it is considered to be highest budget film in Nagarjuna’s career so far.
Noted Producer Venkat is producing the film on the banner of R R Movie Makers while G Srinivasa Rdedy is directing it. Anushka Shetty is playing the love interest for Nagarjuna in the film.
Initially, Young Tollywood stars like Allu Arjun and Nithin had shown six-pack body in ‘Desamudhuru’ and ‘Rechipo’ respectively. Lets wait and see how this romantic hero will look in six-pack body.
Hansika currently busy with kollywodd and in tollywood she is doing shooting for Kandireega opposite Ram and she will soon be cast opposite with Nara Rohith.
“I am glad that I am back in Tollywood with two interesting films. This year you will see me in more films. Couple of other films are also at discussion stage,” she said after unveiling a fitness boutique called ‘Curves’ in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad.
When asked about her fitness mantra, she said: “I do exercise for about one hour and take liters of water daily. But I don’t starve. I love curves, so I don’t go for excessive exercises nor do I want a size-zero body. Women need to have a curvaceous figure.”
Dhanush’s (Rajinikanth’s son-in-law) ‘Aadukalam’ (Tamil) released for this Sankranthi bagged huge success. Telugu producers are now vying for the remake rights of the film.
The buzz is that Megastar Chiranjeevi is also impressed with the film and planning to remake it with Ram Charan. Sources say that Megastar is now trying to acquire the remake rights and talked to Rajinikanth in this regard. If this is true and things go accordingly, then the film is likely to be produced on Anjana Productions or Geetha Arts or Ghanta Srinivas’s new banner.
‘Aadukalam’ (which means playground) is based on cock fights. The film is directed by Vetrimaran and stars Taapsee Pannu in female lead. Released on 14 January, it received highly positive reviews
Shriya Saran, beautiful heroine of south film Industry is not getting any great offers nowadays to act. So she has no movies in hand and decided to start a business to settle down. Shriya has been dreaming to open a spa for a while, has finally opened her first outlet in Andheri, Mumbai.
Shriya named it as Shree Spa and has plans to open in different parts of India. However, her parents will take care of the massage centre. What is more interesting is that she has stood up again for humanitarian cause by employing visually impaired people. This is the address of Shriya’s Shri spa… 216, second floor, kamdhenu building, no 1,1st cross lane, above dominos lokhandwala complex, Andheri West.
Pranitha’s Tollywood break didn’t set the box office on fire, which has left her disappointed as she was confident that the film would do well. However, Bava generated much buzz because of Pranitha’s liplock with Siddharth. She says “There's no harm in kissing scenes. I'm open to them as far as the script demands it,” she says, adding, “I've started shooting for another Telugu film, which I can't talk about right now.”
Young reble star Prabhas’s Mr. Perfect is supposed to release for pongal. But due to present turmoil in the telugu film industry the movie is out of pongal race. Kajal and Taapsee are the female leads .
Dil Raju is planning to release this film in the last week of January it seems. Chances are likely to release Mr. Perfect in February too. Prabhas is donning a completely different avatar in this film. Dasarath of Santosham fame is the director of this film.
S.Rajamouli’s latest venture “Eega”was launched a few days back.And also he is planning to make a movie with young rebel star Prabhas ,which may see the light in next summer. The buzz is that…Rajamouli has titled that movie as “Brahmarshi Viswamitra”.Official announcement on this from the director is due though.
Rajamouli earlier made a movie named Yamadonga with Jr.NTR for his banner titled Vishwamitra Creations. The confusion for his next movie might have started because of this. I
As of now Rajamouli is busy pre-visualizing Eega, which is going to have lots of visual effects. The regular shooting of Eega is expected to start in January, 2011.
. Raghavendra Rao, the name itself can do the magic. Setting a trend with movies like ‘Annamayya, Sri Ramadasu, Pandurangadu, Sri Manjunatha,’ here comes the news about his latest venture ‘Shirdi SAi Baba’ that is to take off very soon. Raghavendra Rao himself revealed the plan about starting this new project.
Ever since the news has come out, enthusiasm levels of movie lovers are increased to know about who is that lucky hero to portray the lead role of shirdi sai baba? If internal sources are to be believed Raghavendra Rao is known to be eying upon his lucky hero Nagarjuna but there is also a strong gossip that as Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna and Nagarjuna have already got their share of hits with Raghavendra Rao, it will be Venkatesh this time. With in few more days total details will be out. Let us hope that, Ragahvendra Rao comes out with his best again.
Rebel star Prabhas new film is going to sets from January 2nd 2011 tentatively titled as “Rebel’ .It is directed by Choreographer turned director Lawrence is getting ready to direct Prabhas.As per the sources from Film Nagar, the film is most likely to be launched on January 2, as the strike in the Tollywood came to an end by now.
Glamour queen Anushka is going to pair up with Prabhas again after ‘Billa’ in this movie. J Bhagawan and J Pulla Rao are jointly producing the film on the banner of Sri Balaji Cine Media.
Presently, Prabhas is busy with his film ‘Mr Perfect’ directed by Dasarath, and produced by Dil Raju on the banner of Sri Venkateswara Creations. Kajal and Tapsee are pairing up with Prabhas in the female leads for ‘Mr Perfect’.
Successful music director Thaman SS was roped in to score music for the movie. Director says, ‘Our film is basically an action entertainer and the film would have all kinds of commercial elements that could attract all classes of audiences.’
It is news that Deva Katta who directed Prasthanam is all set to take off with his new project and he has titled it ‘Autonagar Surya’. Sometime back the news is that Nandamuri Balakrishna was the apt choice but it is not meant to be so.
It is heard that Deva Katta declared it is not Balayya but he is yet to reveal the true hero of the film. The buzz is that this happens to be based on conflicts between trade unions at Vijayawada which have a strong political flavour.
After looking at Deva Katta’s work in ‘Prasthanam’, many realised that his hand in political subjects and intense emotional dramas is quite strong. And already, ‘Autonagar Surya’ has become one title which has become a hot topic of discussion due to its subject.
Many Heroines are suffering from the misbehavious of their fans. Some times fans also received a slap from these heroines.
Some time back Heroine Shriya slapped one of her fans who misbehaved with her at Tirumala temple from the crowd. Bhoomika also suffered such incident when she went to a sari shop opening a few years ago. Actress Jothika suffered the touch of a fan from behind in Chennai crowd once upon a time. Recently Genelia also slapped a fan at Kalamandir shop opening in Vijayawada for touching her hip.
Today Samantha slaped her fan at Tirupathi shopping area who misbehaved with her touching her private part.
We have finally entered the new year lets hope its a good year for the industry and welcome the New Year 2011 with good hope.
Let us have a glance that top 5 commercial hits of Telugu film Industry in 2010.
1.DARLING:-
This is one of the commercial hits for Tollywood as well as young rebel star Prabhas who was looking for a deserving hit came in with ‘Darling’ . The female lead of this film Kajal Agarwal attracted the audience with her beautiful acts. The film was made with a budget of Rs 23 crores and it raked in Rs 30 crores bailing the producer B V S N Prasad out of a possible crisis.
2.SIMHA
With this film Nandamuri Balakrishna has become really Simha in terms of getting collections. The film not only brought life to the ailing Tollywood box office but also boosted the spirits of the Nandamuri fans who were starved for a hit. It also brought to light a rather elegant pairing of Balayya with Nayantara along with two other heroines and some hardcore fights. Director Boyapati Seenu who was craving for the big break finally got it through this action fiesta.
3. Maryada Ramanna
After magnum opus ‘Magadheera’, Rajamouli gave a surprise to tollywood that he announced a film ‘Maryada Ramanna ‘ with the noted comedy actor Sunil as the hero and this had no sleazy romance or massive fights. The film was made with a budget of Rs 20 crores and it managed to garner Rs 40 crores at the box office. The film also marked a new lease of life for actress Saloni.
4.Brindaavanam
Young tiger NTR junior image has changed with ‘Brindavanam’. It has brought forth an entirely new hero with a clean family image and a classy look. A wholesome family entertainer which was brimmed with the glamor of Kajal Agarwal and Samantha, this also brought back the career of director Vamsi Paidipally onto the track. The film was a lucky winner of sorts as it clashed with Mahesh Babu’s ‘Khaleja’ which had a rather painful storyline.
5.ROBOT
This is the best masterpiece in the recent past which not only took the Indian cinema into a new wave of technology but also conveyed a message that is of essence to today’s generation and the future generation. Superstar Rajinikanth has proved that he is the emperor of the box office while the showman Shankar sent a strong message to Shahrukh Khan that his conviction towards his script is always right. Many said that for the first time, they found Aishwarya Bachchan to be naturally beautiful and the music by the Chennai Mozart A R Rahman did the rest of the magic. The film made a whopping Rs 60 crore business in Tollywood.
Prestigious Hollywood movie maker Walt Disney’s first south Indian film production, biggest fantasy adventure and technical extravaganza Anaganaga O Dheerudu (Once upon a Warrior) entire overseas (except India) theatrical screening rights were bagged by BlueSky Cinemas, Inc. We are proud to launch this movie overseas and it’s an honor for BlueSky to work with Hollywood movie maker Walt Disney. Anaganaga O Dheerudu is a high budget socio-fantasy extravaganza. The graphics and visual effects of the film would definitely be a feast to the eyes of audiences.
Siddharth and Shruti Hassan in lead roles followed by Lakshmi Manchu as a powerful negative role under the direction of Prakash Kovelamudi (Son of director K.Raghavendra Rao)
Movie is all set to hit screens on Jan 14th, 2011 with premiere shows on Jan 13th.
Highlights of the movie:
1. The special effects are by Main VFX Company FIREFLY hyderabad and not pixar, Additional VFX: EFX, Labyrinth, Pixelloid. The creative and technical work is outstanding and is a serious showcase of what is possible in India, with absolutely no supervision from outside the country.
2. It has an ensemble music team with Salim-Sulaiman doing the background score, and a song each from MM Keeravani, Koti, Mickey J Meyer and Salim-Sulaiman themselves.
3. Stunts by Hollywood and China stunt masters.
4. This could be a first possible Telugu movie with sub-titles.
