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Akkineni Naga Chaitanya is currently busy wrapping up the shoot of his Premam. His other film, Saahasam Swaasaga Saagipo is also gearing up for release. On the other side, Naga Chaitanya had given green signal to Kalyan Krishna who delivered a huge blockbuster with his first film, Soggade Chinni Nayana.

The film will have its launch on April 16th. Kalyan Krishna is currently giving final touches to the script. Samantha will romance Naga Chaitanya for the fourth time with this film. They previously paired up in Yem Maya Chesave, Autonagar Surya and Manam. Both Yem Maya Chesave and Manam are considered classics in Chaitanya’s career.

Nagarjuna will also be producing this project on his Annapurna Studios Banner. The movie shooting will go non-stop till completion. In all probability, Naga Chaitanya will have three releases this year. On the other side, the other cast and crew for this new project are being picked by Kalyan Krishna. —

In Naga Chaitanya’s superhit youthful flick 100%Love, a Mumbai starlet manner Tara Alisha Berry made her debut and got decent recognition as Chay’s bride. She then appeared in JD Chakravathy’s Money Money More Money.

After failing to get the right offers in Tollywood, Tara shifted her base back to Mumbai. In Bollywood, Tara played a rather outrageous role in the adult rated film Mastram and a couple of low budget films. Now, Alisha is back with easily the most erotic film of the year, Love Games.

The film is coming from the Bhat camp which is an expert in dishing out sleazy, erotic thrillers. Recently, Love Games’ trailer was released and its steamy theme of married couple finding sex partners in a party has turned everyone’s attention. Alisha’s bold portrayal of a lady who falls for a married man is expected to strike the right chord with the audiences.

Superstar Mahesh Babu was the original choice for the upcoming science fiction thriller 24. However, Mahesh had turned down the offer since he didn’t like the second half. Then, Vikram Kumar approached Suriya who accepted to do the movie.

This is the second time; Suriya accepted a film that was actually rejected by Mahesh Babu. Previously, Tamil director Lingusamy approached Mahesh Babu with an action story. When Mahesh Babu said no, Lingusamy made the film Sikandar (Anjaan in Tamil) with Suriya.

It is learnt that, Mahesh Babu actually loved the first half of 24. But, he wasn’t too convinced with the second half. Although the Srimanthudu star likes experimenting with innovative scripts, he refused 24, since he found loopholes in the script.

Vikram Kumar is known for narrating complicated stories in simple manner and Manam is the best example. In fact, Mahesh showed interest to team up with the director, but things didn’t materialize. Meanwhile, 24, the film that shows Suriya in triple roles- as elder brother, younger brother and son of elder brother is scheduled for release on April 14th.

Popular Malayali comedian cum villain Kalabhavan Mani breathed his last just a while ago in Kochi following several liver related ailments. Mani was 45. He was admitted to a hospital recently and was being treated in ICU.

From being a modest auto driver in his native place Chalakudy in Kerala to winning the special jury national award for best actor, Mani lived quite an eventful life until the last. He was also a popular political figure and he was supposed to campaign for the CPM in the upcoming polls.

Kalabhavan Mani was quite popular for his villain roles in Telugu films such as Venkatesh’s Gemini, Mahesh Babu’s Arjun and Rajasekhar’s Yevadaithe Nakenti.

Fresh from the grand success of his Sankranthi release Express Raja, talented hero Sharwanand is celebrating his 31st birthday today. On this occasion, the hat-trick hero interacted with media and spoke at length about his personal and professional lives.

Recently, a relatively new producer claimed the Telugu theatrical release rights of Sharwanand’s long delayed film, Yemito Ee Maya. The film has now been titled Rajadhiraja and it is set for its release in March.

Many thought Sharwa would promote the film aggressively to maintain his success streak. However, Sharwa, in his birthday interview, categorically denied having any association with the project.

Sharwa wondered why the producers are releasing the film now when the Tamil version’s DVDs were released almost a year ago. Sharwa further said he has nothing to do with the film. This leaves the producer to fight it out all alone at the box-office.

We have been hearing lot of rumors about Mahesh Babu’s Brahmotsavam lately and here’s the fresh one to join the list. Mahesh Babu is not happy with the script and hero characterization, claims grapevine. Superstar initially liked the story idea and the emotions in the script and has given a go ahead to the project.

However, Mahesh is having some doubts regarding the elements that please his fans and masses. Mahesh expected Srikanth Addala to elevate his character like Koratala Siva did in Srimanthudu.

But the SVSC director failed to do so. Gossipmongers say that the shooting has been delayed for few days to do some changes to the script. Despite the delays and retouches to the script, Mahesh is still not entirely happy with how it shaped out.

PVP has taken this to Raghavendra Rao and the veteran has suggested hiring Paruchuri Brothers to make the necessary changes. So the senior most writers were assigned for the job and did some changes to the script. Is Mahesh happy with the changes made? Even the gossipers have no clue about it.

Birthday Boy Sharwanand is all set for his quarter century in filmdom. In a career spanning over a decade, Sharwa has done 24 films in Telugu, Tamil. Now the Gamyam star is prepping up for his 25th film. Buoyed with 3 hits (Run Raja Run, Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju and Express Raja) in a row, Sharwanand is very choosy about his 25th film.

Keeping it under wraps, Sharwa says, ” Presently three directors are working on the scripts. Whichever goes first depends on how they shape up. But am going to work with all three of them for sure.” Sharwa adds that Vijayawada MP Kesineni Nani’s brother Kesineni Chinni (Siva Naga Prasad) is going to produce his 25th film.

Ask him whether he increased his remuneration? Pat comes reply. “I haven’t asked or demanded any producer to increase my fee. They themselves increasing the pay considering that my previous films fared well at Box Office. I think it’s fair too.

At the same time, I always tell my producers to control the budget. I don’t want any producer or any distributor to lose money on my film,” reasons Sharwa. Is working with ace directors on cards? Sharwa says he’d love to act under top directors like Mani Ratnam, Rajamouli, Trivikram, Puri Jagannadh.

He admits he’s great fan of Puri’s trademark characterization of heroes. Sharwa also says he’d like to be part of thrillers, concept-based films which are catching up of late.

Rebel Star Krishnam Raju is dreaming to make a film with young rebel star Prabhas. After so many trails, Prabhas has given nod to his pedda nanna to star in the remake of Bhakta Kannappa, it seems. Krishnam Raju is completing 50 years in industry and his magnum opus Bhakta Kannappa completes 40 years.

Krishnam Raju says Prabhas will only apt for the role and he has plans to start the project after Prabhas completing Baahubali: The Conclusion and a film with Sujeeth. “Prabhas is enthusiastic to do Bhakta Kannappa. We even worked on script, but went back since the film requires heavy budget.

Now, we are relieved with the humongous success of Baahubali. When Prabhas walks carrying a siva linga on his shoulder, overseas audience accolade it.

We have plans to make Bhakta Kannappa in that scale. The film’s look will completely be changed with my script work and Preabhas presence,” informs Krishnam Raju. Krishnam Raju is likely to pen script, direct as well as produce the movie- Bhakta Kannappa.