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After opening to unanimous positive critics reviews and audiences’ response, Nani’s Krishnagadi Veera Prema Gaadha is racing ahead at the box-offices worldwide. The film has already crossed the 15 crore share in Telugu states and grossed close to $475,000 in the US until Sunday.

KVPG is particularity continuing its decent run at overseas box-office and it will cross the half million mark by Monday. The film has already surpassed Express Raja’s lifetime collections ($420,000) in the US and is currently trailing behind the other Sankranthi releases Nannaku Prematho ($2,100 K), Soggade Chinni Nayana ($840 K) and Nenu Sailaja ($650 K).

Out of these three, KVPG is all set to cross Nenu Sailaja in 3 more days and if it maintains its steam well, crossing Nag’s SCN by this weekend is a possibility, placing it only behind Nannaku Prematho, before the summer biggies takeover.

Trade pundits are already predicting that KVPG will easily cross the 25 crore share mark, making Nani the most bankable star. However, the slight drops in Ceded and other areas are posing a threat to the range of the film’s success.

Power Star Pawan Kalyan and Thala Ajith are biggest fans following stars in their respective industries in this era and both are known for treating their co-stars like friends and family members. So, they have admirers not just in common audience, but also in film industry.

One such person is upcoming artist Kabir Duhan Singh, who has worked with both these superstars. In fact, Kabir considers them as his elder brothers. “Despite being big stars, both Pawan sir and Ajith sir are very warm and friendly to not just co-stars but to everybody on the sets.

It’s like I’ve found two elder brothers in them,” said Kabir in an interview. Kabir made his acting debut with Gopichand’s Jil and his first Tamil movie was Ajith’s Vedalam. Currently, he is playing baddie in Pawan Kalyan’s much awaited picture Sardaar Gabbar Singh directed by Bobby.

Kabir won accolades for his villainy acts in Jil and Vedalam and the handsome villain is hoping to enthrall Pawan Kalyan fans with Sardaar Gabbar Singh hitting the screens on April 8th.

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s sister Arpita Khan Sharma’s baby shower ceremony held on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14th) was a star-studded affair with many Bollywood celebrities making their presence for the event.

That above picture of two other expecting moms Genelia and TV actress Kanchi Kaul together at the ceremony with Arpita is going viral in social media.

Genelia wore a white maxi dress while Arptia and Kanchi Kaul posed in red and pink outfits respectively. The three pregnant ladies proudly flaunted their baby bumps.

In fact, the second time mom Genelia was the centre of attraction at the event. Genelia and her husband Riteish Deshmukh are already parents to a baby boy Riaan.

Music directors performing live in concerts in India and abroad is not a new thing. All the leading music composers like AR Rahman, Ilayaraja, MM Keeravani and Devi Sri Prasad many others enthralled their fans by occasionally conducting live shows in India and UK, US, Dubai etc.

The latest to join this club is Tollywood’s hotshot music director SS Thaman. Thaman will be heading to America along with his team in April to perform live in eight concerts in eight cities as a Ugadi and Tamil New Year musical treat for his fans.

Last night, Allu Arjun released the stylishly shot teaser of Thaman’s US tour. Bunny and Thaman earlier gave a chartbusting music album with Race Gurram and the duo has again teamed up for Bunny’s upcoming action entertainer Sarrainodu, which is releasing this summer.

After admitting being in relationship with an owner of an event management firm, national-award winning actress Priyamani is now prepping up to tie the knot with him. In a latest interview to a TV channel, Priyamani divulged that she’d be marrying her beau Musthafa Raj this year.

Recalling her first meeting with Mustafa, Priyamani said she first met him during a dance show and slowly it developed into love. If all goes well as per plan, Priya would be marrying Mustafa in 2016. However, good news for Priya’s fans is that she wouldn’t be quitting acting.

“I’ll act in films after marriage also. I’ll come up with good scripts. I’ll not quit acting,” Priyamani said giving a sigh of relief to her fans. Priyamani was noted for several films in Telugu including NTR-Rajamouli’s Yamadonga, Pellaina Kothalo, Golimaar. She got a rare opportunity work under the direction of Mani Ratnam (Raavan) and Ram Gopal Varma (Raktha Charitra II ).

‘Vangaveeti’ is the film that is catching fire in media with Kamma-Kapu element. Thanks to RGV who is making a big noise with this film stating that it’s his last film in Telugu. The producer of this film is Dasari Kiran Kumar who is known with his films like Genius and Ramleela.

Kiran Kumar is a Real Estate baron popular in Vijayawada and Vizag. But his passion towards films made him a producer. That’s known for many but what is not known prominently is his connection with Mega Family.

Dasari Kiran Kumar worked as Chiranjeevi Fans Association President for Guntur District almost a decade ago. His main strength was mobilizing thousands of people on roads for any kind of rally related to Chiranjeevi and his films.

Eventually he signed off to that position just before Chiranjeevi started PRP and became a close aide to YS Jagan. He stepped into Real Estate and earned big. Now with ‘Vangaveeti’, his name started sounding bigger than before.

Way back in 2011 during the release of her debut Tollywood film Ala Modalaindi, Malayali actress Nitya Menen found herself in an unwanted controversy when reports of her alleged statements in which she said that she didn’t know who Prabhas was made a huge splash.

Several media houses published numerous articles calling Nitya an arrogant and a headstrong girl. In her latest interview to a popular news channel, Nitya revealed the actual version of the controversy.

The curly haired beauty said that she used to watch a very few films those days and she didn’t know much about many Tollywood stars except Chiru, Venkatesh, Balakrishna and Nagarjuna.

Nitya further revealed that when the journos mentioned Prabhas’ name, she said ‘who?’ just to clarify the name as she couldn’t hear it properly and the impatient journos quickly propagated that she didn’t know who Prabhas was and it snowballed into a major issue.

It is already known that wedding bells are all set to ring again at Megastar Chiranjeevi’s residence. Chiru will finally fulfill his wish to get his youngest daughter Srija married in a traditional affair. Already, the wedding celebrations have kick started and the Pasupu-Kunkuma ritual has been performed. Now, latest update is that Srija will wed on the 25th of this month.

The lucky groom is Kalyan, a resident of Chittoor and Srija’s schoolmate in her childhood. Apparently, both the families wanted to perform the wedding in March, but they advanced it to February due to the unavailability of an auspicious date.

Chiru is reportedly planning to perform the marriage in a simple manner in the presence of both the families and without any media attention. Even a wedding reception looks doubtful and inviting filmy friends is also ruled out as of now. This is Srija’s second marriage.

In the past, she married Sirish Bharadwaj against her parents’ wish. However, the tumultuous marriage ended in a divorce, after serious differences cropped up between Srija and Sirish. The couple had a daughter, who now lives with Srija ever since she returned to her parents’ home a few years ago.

Notwithstanding that he recently underwent knife for his shoulder ailment which he has been suffering from longtime, Mega Star Chiranjeevi was spotted on a treadmill in a city gym recently. While he was wearing a sling to his right hand, Chiru managed to work on the treadmill with the support of his left hand.

As he is prepping up to the shoot of his landmark 150th film, remake of Kaththi, which is touted to be his comeback film, Chiru seen on treadmill bring cheer to his fans. Taking time off from his schedule, Chiru made it for his personal trainer G Praveen Reddy to open the latter’s gym in the city.

Chiru praised Praveen for equipping the gym with latest equipment. On other hand, Chiru is busy with the wedding preparations of his younger daughter Sreeja. He was recently seen in traditional ritual of grinding turmeric powder along with his better-half Surekha.

‘Baahubali’ created a tsunami across the nation and the waves are not pacified still. The evidence is, many top heroes from different industries are willing to act in expensive folklores. Followed by Baahubali, actor Vijay did ‘Puli’ but failed to do magic.

Now Ajith is all set to act in a Bahubali kind of film in the direction of Vishnuvardhan. This film is going to be a historical one, dealing with monarchical days of Tamilnadu where obviously Ajith will be playing a warrior.

Inside sources say that it’s ‘Baahubali’ that disturbed many top stars and the film ‘Bajirao Mastani’ is the one that cannot be forgotten in this context.