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During the audio release function of Nannaku Prematho, senior star Jagapati Babu announced that he will revive his father’s Jagapati Art Pictures banner and produce successful movies. But looks like Jaggu Bhai has changed his mind now.

In his latest interview, Jagapati Babu talked about his future business plans and revealed that he will soon launch his online portal named “Click Cine Kart”. This website is catered to those trying out their luck in the film industry.

The website will charge a nominal fee and act as a bridge between talented aspiring filmmakers and established production houses, thus paving way for quality films. The website will be launched by veteran actor and filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao on Ugadi.

Nani’s next in the direction of Indraganti Mohan Krishna is nearing completion. The movie shooting is about 70% complete. The makers are planning to complete the shoot as soon as possible and release the film towards the end of May or early June. Even as they near the completion of the film production, the makers are still in a dilemma in fixing a title.

Earlier they said ‘Dhamaka’ is the title but later decided against it. Sridevi Movies, the production house bankrolling the project had registered two titles with Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce. Yevaditadu and Nani Gentleman are the titles in consideration.

So the final title may be one in these two. Surabhi and Niveda Thomas are romancing Nani in this film touted to be a romantic comedy. Siva Lenka Prasad who previously produced films like Aditya 369, Vamsanikokadu and Mithrudu is making a comeback with this film. Senior Music director Mani Sharma is composing music for this film.

Tired of constant delays, Mahesh Babu has finally put a deadline for the completion of shooting. He reportedly asked his director Srikanth Addala to finish the entire shooting by May 1st week.

Mahesh Babu planned to release his “Brahmotsavam” in April but the shooting is still in progress and a lot more is to be shot. Due to this, he has also postponed the launch of his movie with director Murugadoss to June.

His idea of releasing two movies in a single calendar is not materializing. So he is worried that if the shoot of “Brahmotsavam” delays further, he won’t be able to release Murugadoss’s movie for next Sankranthi.

Hence he has now put a serious deadline to the completion of shooting process for “Brahmotsavam”. This is said to be his final warning to the director.

“Brahmotsavam” is a family romantic entertainer set in the backdrop of Tirupathi. Kajal Agarwal plays his former lover in the film while Samantha is main love interest. Pranitha will be seen as someone who seeks the attention of Mahesh Babu.

This romantic drama is written and directed by Srikanth Addala with production by PVP Cinema.

Bidding ‘goodbye’ to his character Sardaar Gabbar Singh, where Pawan play an angry cop, Pawan has shaven off his moustache. Soon after wrapping up the shoot of songs in Switzerland, relieved with the hectic shooting schedule, Pawan has got rid of his facial hair. He is now sporting a clean shaven look.

This is not first-time Pawan shaving off his moustache. He is known for sporting varied styles often. At times, he sports with long beard, other times he’s seen with simple moustache and when there is no film shootings in near sight, he usually removes his moustache. But it all depends on Pawan’s mood.

With only 3 days left for the release of Sardaar Gabbar Singh, Pawan Kalyan is very much excited about his brainchild Sardaar as he worked extensively for the film as an actor besides penning story, screenplay. Since the movie is dedicated to all his fans, they’re equally excited about the film.

Often, we come across the demand of banning other language films being dubbed into Telugu. Legendary playback singer, actor and dubbing artiste SP Balasubramanyam condemned this demand and suggested that filmmakers who vouch for ban on dubbing films should instead make better films. “Why should we ban dubbing films?,” Balu shoots a direct question.

Stating that dubbing other language films into Telugu as more challenging than making a straight film, Balu said that filmmakers should not look down on the dubbing films. Balu also reminded the instances where several low budget dubbing films ran well as compared to straight films featuring top Telugu stars.

Balu also recollected how he turned a dubbing artiste with music director Chakravarthy’s encouragement and also revealed his experiences behind dubbing for 8 roles in Kamal Haasan’s Dasavataram. SPB on Monday unveiled ‘Dubbing songs in Telugu Cinema’ research thesis and made the above comments.

Calling spade a spade, yesteryear actress Annapurna said that young heroes are interested in ‘glamourous’ and good-looking mothers and says that could possibly be the reason behind the reduce in roles to her. “When they play young on screen, naturally they’d prefer young and glamourous mothers. People like me would suit for granny roles. Even for granny roles, they’d want someone who’re seen in TV commercials,” says Annapurna in a candid interview to a news channel.

However, Annapurna doesn’t blame anyone but says, “It’s the trend in the society. Cinema follows the society. These days mothers are quite modern and glamourous. So audience expect the same from films as well.” She also says one can’t put onus on the stars completely as 50% is in the hands of the directors.

Annapurna adds that she’d like to act with all new-generation stars as it’d give her opportunity to learn new things in acting. Yet, she doesn’t regret. She says she’s pretty happy with what she has achieved as she shared screen space with almost all the legendary actors in the Telugu Cinema.

Music Devil Devi Sri Prasad will be scoring music for Nandamuri Balakrishna’s Prestigious 100th film to be directed by Krish. He previously scored music for Balayya’s Legend and so this will be their second combination film.

This is also the first period film offer for Devi and so he is taking it as a challenge. One of the production houses involved in the film, First Frame Entertainments Pvt Ltd. registered the title ‘Gautamiputra Sathakarani’ with Telguu Film Chamber of Commerce.

Balakrishna already revealed that the movie is based on the story of Gautamiputra Sathakarani. So there are good chances for that to become the film title. According to Filmnagar sources, The movie will have its launch in Amaravati, the upcoming capital of AP on April 8th as Ugadi Special.

This is the first star hero movie launch in Amaravati. Balakrishna’s earlier film, Dictator is also the first film to have its audio launch in Amaravati. It is also said that Krish wants to rope in Rana Daggubati for an important role in the film.

Here is some worrisome news coming up for Baahubali fans. A little birdie in Filmnagar says that Rajamouli recently watched some rushes of the film and is not very happy with the output. The ace director who is a hard task master reportedly wants to go for reshoots given the high expectations on the film in audience.

However reshoot will mean lot of time waste and also increase in the film budget. And so the film producers are also worried. APHerald.com tried to get in touch with Baahubali team regarding this news but they are not available for comment. The movie recently received National Award and so suddenly the hype and expectations on the film got doubled.

The makers on the other side, have announced the release date of the film as April 17th, 2017. The Release date will work wonders for the films as it is chosen keeping in mind – Summer, Tamil New Year, Good Friday and No Bollywood biggies before or after 50days. ‘Why Kattappa Killed Baahubali?’ is the million dollars question asked by film enthusiasts across the nation. Every one are eagerly waiting for the release of the second part for the answer.