Reason for Shivaji Delay

This is about Shivaji, sources in Chennai claim that, the actual reason for the delay in the movie release is not the post-production work but the business problem, which has not been done. The reason behind this they cite is that a ruling party politician’s son was reportedly interested in buying the rights of the movie and offered a sum of 85 crores, which the producers declined and said they would be able to do business to the tune of 120 crores and explained in what way it was possible - as the first 2 weeks the ticket prices could be hiked to 180 Rs.

So the politician’s son, immediately got a rule passed by the government that the ticket price in Tamil Nadu shouldn’t exceed 40 Rs., this happened in January and regarding this issue, there was a problem in the release of Tamil Pokiri also.

Now at that prices, the distributors are hesitating to buy the movie and Rajnikant is away to Himalayas for meditation, and the producers are in a fix as their price is not coming up to their expectation and they don’t want to under sell the film, hence delaying the movie umpteen times.

The voice behind Shriya in Sivaji

Cinema is an unusual place for a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the BITS, Pilani, to be in but Kanika says she finds the place
very interesting. She started her acting career as the heroine in Susie Ganesan's Five Star, a film produced by Mani Ratnam's Madras Talkies. And now she lends her voice to Shriya in the Rajnikanth starrer Sivaji. Earlier, the actress has also dubbed for Sada in Anniyan.

She done a movie with Srikanth(Ottesti Cheptunna). Earlier reports came that shriya voice is dubbed by sandhya. But that rumor mills are shut down with this.

Director @ 21

AVERAGE age of a debutant director in Tollywood is 30 years.But here is a guy named Suman Pathuri, with no filmi background,is going to director a Telugu commercial film at a tender age of 21. He is from Sanjose,CA and well trained in film making at Academy of Art University,San Francisco.Eariler he worked as co-director for Vennela. A New lead pair will be introduced in this movie produced by Ram K Reddy,Ravi Pendekanti, Prasad Dasari on Out of the Box films banner. Kishore(remember Khadar in Vennela?),Ravi Varma will be seen in other important roles. Sirivennela pens lyrics and Mahesh Shankar (Flavors,Vennela fame) scores music.The film will begin its regular shoot in 3rd week of July.

Devi and Charmi! is love in air?

Latest buzz is that Devi Sri Prasad fell flat to the charms of Charmme. Intimacy is said to have developed between the duo when the music director visited the sets of Pournami, an MS Raju movie, in which Charmme played the heroine. His last scored music for Rakhi, which is considered the swan song of the heroine in Telugu industry. Devi Sri is said to have used his spell to cast her in Shankar Dada Zindabad, but in vain. Megastar himself declined the recommendation as she had declined the item number in Stalin, pushing the chance to Anushka. All said and done, Devi Sri’s obsession goes unending. Though Charmme announced on her birthday (May 17th) that she had no marriage plans for the time being, idle talk is ripe about the probable wedlock of the duo.
Did Charmme say goodbye to her screen mentor Krishnavamsi?

NTR and NTR together in Yamadonga

As Reported earlier NTR lent his voice for a song in YamaDonga. Here are few more snippets about that song and the film. This song is on NTR and Mamata Mohandas in the film. And in real, NTR and Mamata Mohandas gave their own voices for this song. Mamata Mohandas is already familiar to Telugu audience with her voice (she sang Rakhee.. Rakhee song in NTR's Rakhee). This song has 4 stanzas (2 charanalu 2 pallavulu) and is filmed in 4 sets. The song is completed recently at Padmalaya studios.

• Confrontation scene between Yamudu (Mohanbabu) and NTR. This scene is supposed to be another highlight in which NTR will say a lengthy dialog that will leave the audience stunned.
• Also, some extraordinary graphics were added to this film. As sources say, NTR will be on screen with legendary NTR in graphics. Earlier similar graphics were used to show legendary NTR in the film Kalisundaam Raa. It is of no doubt that fans will go crazy with this type of highlights in the film.

SS Rajamouli is the director. MM Keeravani is the music director. Mohan Babu is playing the role of Yama dharmaraju while Rajeev Kanakala plays Indra.

Prince kosam Peter vesina master plan

Peter Heins made a story, then narrated to Mahesh Babu. Mahesh liked it but there was a small..oops big hitch. The problem was that if Mahesh were to do this film, he would have had to undergo martial arts training for six months in Vietnam and the whole film would be shot in Vietnam and surrounding forests. Inko problem undhi aagandi. The budget would be thirty crores and the actor told him to cut it down to twenty as the producer wouldn’t gain. Also the working period of the movie would be for 200 days in which the action sequences would be for 80 days.

Generally for a movie a team works for twenty days in a month, so for 200 days they would have to shoot for 10 months and the post-production would come upto one year and the training part would take not less than 8 to 9 months..meaning a total of two years would go into that movie. This incident happened during Pokiri release and if Mahesh Babu would have done this film, aayana fans mind block ayyedhi and we wouldn’t get to watch a Mahesh Babu film for two years.

NTR turns Singer

NTR has already surprised everyone by shedding his weight. He is now slimmer and looks very handsome. Now, he springs another surprise. NTR has sung a song for the first time. He lent his voice for Yamadonga and crooned super hit song, "O Lammi Tikka Reginda ... " from Yamagola. Music Diector M M Keeravani remixes the song for Yamadonga. A month ago, it had been recorded.

The newer version, of "O Lammi Tikkaregindi..", is sung by NTR and heroine Mamata Mohandas and it features both of them in it. Mamata has already sung for Rakhi.

Those who have heard NTR’s voice are raving him. “He crooned like a professional singer. Perhaps this is the first time that a song is shot on the lead pair that is originally sung by themselves,” a unit member said.

In the early stages of filmmaking, actors used to sing songs for themselves. But after playback system is introduced actors stopped singing. So Rajamouli brings in that magic again.

Yamadonga is the hottest project in Tollywood now. It is also being made in gigantic manner. It stars NTR, Mamata Mohandas, Priyamani and Mohan Babu in the lead roles. The film is slated for July release and is produced by Cherry and Urmila Gangaraju on Viswamithra Creations banner.

Mahesh Babu to endorse Hero Honda

This is the hottest buzz in the Film Nagar,Mahesh babu is soon endorsing World's Largest Two Wheeler Company Hero Honda,The deal is already done...as per the sources. Let's wait &see !

Ram in YVS 's Rey

Director and producer YVS Chowdhary is planning another film with Ram. Last year, he introduced Ram with Devadasu and it turned out to be a blockbuster. Presently, YVS is making Okka Magadu with Balakrishna. Soon after this, he is planning another love story with Ram. It is likely to be titled ‘Rey’ - short form of ‘Orey’.

This title is chosen because YVS feels a song in Okka Magadu, which goes with ‘Rey’, will become very popular as it was happened with ‘Okka Magadu’ song in Seetaiah.

Can Prabhas wait too long?

It is observed that the current movie moghuls of Telugu industry Dil Raju and MS Raju had continuous hits with Dil, Arya, Bhadra, Bommarillu, Manasantha Nuvve, Okkadu, Nee Sneham, Varsham, NVNV. Both of them gave a disaster after the success streak with Munna and Pournami and the common factor for both these films is ‘young rebel star’ Prabhas.

Coming to Prabhas, he is on a holiday for two months and he is planning to do his next film only in October with Puri Jagannath but Film Nagar people don’t think so as Pawan Kalyan is very interested to work with Puri Jagannath and also it is said that Jagan has a script for PK and also registered a title Kantree. If this combination materialises, Jagan will have the credit of continuously worked in three films with members of Chiru family.

I can’t do comedy anymore: Venky

It was pleasant to watch Venky being forthright and spontaneous in the programme on NDTV. Some of the answers were like this, on heroines who suited him more, “Divya Bharti though I had done one film (Bobbili Raja) with her, Soundarya and Sridevi, Trisha recently from AMAV.”

When asked about his father’s stint in politics, “I’m in no position to advise anyone, each one should make their own decisions, politics though is not my cup of tea. Yes, he did wonders for his constituency when he was there and for his age, and he being a clean and honest man, things worked out fine. But he is different and I’m different.”

He adds, “I used to watch him since I was a kid, so I see myself more as a producer or a production manager. Acting was just incidental. Direction is too much of a burden for me. I’m close enough with all my technicians and directors and I sometimes give them suggestions, they are happy to take it.”

When asked about the third generation of actors coming into the industry from his family he talks of Arjun his son. “He already has fans associations, they keep writing letters to him. I don’t mind he becoming an actor but he should first go through the regular grinding of education.”

“Two years down the line I find myself doing a bilingual a Telugu-Tamil film, and later a Hindi movie perhaps, maybe some character role a tough cop from South getting into Mumbai or a lawyer, it should be a mature stuff. I can’t do entertainment and comedy, love stories any more, people won’t enjoy it.”

Power Star-Trivikram film in full swing

Devisri Prasad has already composed three rocking tunes on par with Pawan Kalyan’s standard and is finally eager to give the best output as it is his first film with PK. That leaves us with one question about Ramana Gogula. Once a regular with Kalyan’s movies this time he has been given some rest. Some of Pawan Kalyan’s films without Gogula are Kushi, Gudumba Shankar, Balu, Bangaram, current Kalyan film and after the not-so-impressive Annavaram audio Kalyan has preferred Devisri Prasad.

We all know Kalyan involves in all the departments and takes care of every minute detail, and after the completion of Annavaram he started giving time to the script session and after complete satisfaction he has now commenced the shooting.

Raviteja’s film with Vinayak confirmed

Ravi Teja has just okayed a project with VV Vinayak to be produced by Cable TV Kasi and this will be taken up immediately after Dubai Seenu. Trisha will be the female lead.

Earlier there was a news that Vinayak trying his hand in production with venkatesh. But as of now the idea is shelved and project with ravi teja is confirmed. Hope this movie will make Vinayak a good come back after a debacle Yogi.

Hero Clarified He Has No Relation With Her

A few weeks ago a gossip has seen light that a senior 'Doctor-Actor' was having relationship with a late character artiste's daughter, who was working in Lagadapati's camp.
Knowing about this, last week, the hero condemned this way with one of his close friends: "I had many cheap relations with many. But alleging me in this relation with her is wrong. There is no such 'relation' between that lady and me. We are good friends and that's all. That gossip disturbed me a lot".
Well, in his condemning he openly admitted that he had many relations with many. That's really bold talk without any hypocrisy. But pity, now the hero is undergoing psychiatry treatment in Chennai.

Ameer Khan Behaved Like Chiranjeevi Fan

Yesterday Chiranjeevi was in Mumbai to give a clap for Ameer Khan for the Hindi version of Ghajini that is being made by Allu Aravind in the direction of Murugudoss.
Chiranjeevi-Murugudoss relation is with Stalin and the director ran to meet Chiranjeevi and has shown his respect for him.
Everybody in the set got sensitized with the arrival of Chiranjeevi and it is said that Ameer Khan also got carried away by them.
He has forgotten that he is a big star in India and has shown his respect for Chiranjeevi like any other fan. He shook his hand and expressed happiness on his face.

Trisha in Rajini's Next ?

Just when everybody thought that Trisha was finished in Telugu because she was not accepting any new offers in Tollywood, she is now back with 'AMAV'! She looks so beautiful and graceful in the film that it is going to be a long time before the audience loses its interest in her.
Ever since Rajinikanth completed shooting his 'Shivaji' talks have started about his new projects. Speculations have already started about the heroine of this film.
Asin was very keen on becoming his heroine in 'Shivaji'. So was Trisha. But Rajinikanth surprised everybody by bringing in Shriya. This time around, many are convinced that Trisha just might become his heroine.
The fact that she is concentrating exclusively on Tamil increases the possibility.
Today, the 4th of May, happens to be her birthday. Tollywood's birthday present to her is the very successful 'Adavari Mataluku Ardhale Verule'.
She is also the heroine of Tamil actor Vijay's new film.

Last minute lo scene cut

Venkatesh has a very high success rate as far as his films are concerned and plays it safe in the kind of subjects he chooses - minimum guarantee family entertainers which are normally a safe bet and are a big draw with all kinds of audiences.

This happened during the post-production of AMAV-In the climax where Venky walks out of the hospital and the climax had an abrupt ending. A comedy scene comes in which is not Selva’s style and according to his original idea the scene had supposedly Venky and Trisha hugging each other and crying and a couple of dialogues and no comedy scene after that. The reason for this we hear is that it was Venky and Suresh’s idea to end the scene there as it had a lot of melodrama much against the wishes of Selva. But who cares about all this, isn’t the film running well?

RGV impressed with Chakri!

Ram Gopal Varma is said to have impressed with music director Chakri’s work for Dhee. Varma had recently seen the film and appreciated Chakri for giving such an excellent tunes and providing super background score.

Since than the rotund music director is on cloud nine. Chakri says Ram Gopal Varma even promised him a Bollywood film.

Although, Chakri has given two blockbusters this year, he is not getting his due credit. He feels all the directors and stars that he has worked with have not given him the right credit.

Rajani dubs for 'Sivaji' a second time

Superstar Rajanikanth is not happy after watching the rushes of 'Sivaji'. He disclosed this to director who immediately arranged for the re-dubbing work. Rajanikanth has accordingly re-dubbed for the film all over again.

He has now left for the Himalayas. He will stay there for a couple of weeks. 'Rajanikanth will come back in time for the release of 'Sivaji' which is set for release on May 17.

Make hay while the sun shines

When producers are spending crores on making movies, paying crores to directors and hero’s, why does it become an issue when a heroine charges just above fifty lakhs per film? She doesn’t run the film entirely on her shoulders though but name atleast half a dozen films which have worked at the BO without an attractive heroine or an item lady. As long as they are in demand, as long as the craze continues producers don’t have a problem paying them that much.

Check out our Tollywood Heroines Latest remunerations in Lakhs)
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Anushka 35 Ileana 75 Nayantara 50 Trisha 60 Charmme 25 Shriya 45 Bhumika 35 Asin 40 Genelia 50 Sneha 25 Kamalini 15 Poonam Bajwa 10 Parvati Melton 15 Amritha Rao 75-100

Meera Jasmine 30 Navneet Kaur 8 Priyamani/Ekta 5 Mamta Mohandas 10 Laya 10 Saloni 10 Archana 3 Poonam 5 Kalyani 15 Gopika 10 Sameera 50 Riya/Kousha 5 Hansika 40 Mumaith Khan 10