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Tejaswi Madivada, the Ice Cream fame is currently busy with many small budget movies on hand. She is continuing to do small characters in the biggies and lapping up heroine offers in low budget films. Tejaswi mostly plays a conservative, girl-next-door kind of roles on screen but she is ready to up the glam quotient when needed.

Here is a personal picture of Tejaswi where she is flying on the beach in hot bikini top. Tollywood is not focusing on this side of Tejaswi by casting her in non glamorous roles. She is guiding them in the right way by posting such photos maybe!

Director Sudhir Varma who shot to fame with Swamy Rara failed to recreate the magic with his second film Dohchay that was also a crime comedy. Raviteja is so impressed with Sudhir’s work in Swamy Rara that he asked him to prepare a subject for him even after Dohchay flopped. In fact Raviteja gave the idea for Sudhir’s next film says the buzz. Raviteja liked Neeraj Pandey’s Special Chabbis very much and always wanted to remake it in Telugu.

However things didn’t work out as planned and the project was shelved. Raviteja asked Sudhir to write something on the lines of Special Chabbis as the director has a knack of making crime capers and con dramas. Sudhir has recently narrated the outline of his script to which Mass Maharaja has immediately given a positive nod. We will soon Raviteja as the con man under Sudhir Varma’s direction. Sudhir is keeping Raviteja’s image in mind and is penning a very interesting character that charms the classes and the masses alike.

Mahesh had adopted his native village in Guntur some time back and with the success of Srimanthudu, the story has been covered extensively all over. Now, Mahesh was to visit the village Burripalem some time back. In fact, the villagers had prepared a to-do list and since the village now has a pucca bus route, they expected Mahesh to come by.

However, that didn’t happen till date. P Kotiratnam, a resident of Guntur city feels that no matter why Mahesh didn’t come by, he must take the initiative and come at the earliest to take up developmental activities in the village. Once Mahesh announced his decision to adopt his father’s village, Telangana CM KCR requested him to adopt a village in Telangana, to which Mahesh agreed.

Pawan Kalyan will now have a new price! Well, talk in Tollywood is that his fans have been putting pressure on him to up his remuneration as Mahesh has also increased his remuneration recently. Now, Mahesh was charging Rs 17 crores per film till recently. But after the success of Srimanthudu, he upped his price from Rs 17 crores to Rs 23 crores. Well, at least that’s the amount he will be charging for Murugadoss’ film, which is being produced by NV Prasad. So talk is that Pawan will be hiking his price too. While he has become quite popular on the political front, Pawan’s price is Rs 17 crores for now.

At least that’s the price he charged for Sardar Gabbar Singh. On the other hand, he had quoted a price of Rs 10 crores for Gopala Gopala.Pawan’s last release was Attarintiki Daaredi and it is known that there is intense competition between Pawan and Mahesh for the top slot. While Mahesh has had stupendous collections with Srimanthudu, Pawan intends to break the record with Sardar Gabbar Singh. The film is expected to release in May next year.

Gautam Kurup who played a baddie in Tamil blockbuster, Thupaki is all set for his Telugu debut. He is playing one of the villains in Nandamuri Balakrishna’s latest film, Dictator. Gautam Kurup joined the movie unit in Delhi.

He revealed to his Twitter followers that he called Balayya as ‘Sir’ but the latter asked him to call him as ‘Bala’. The shooting of the entire talkie part will be completed by the end of the Delhi schedule. The audio launch event will happen in Amaravati on 20th December and the movie is on the way for Sankranthi-2016.

Post Production works are already happening simultaneously. Loukyam fame Srivas is wielding megaphone for this movie. He is also the co-producer of the film along with Eros International. Anjali and Sonal Chauhan are the heroines.

Tamil Star, Suriya is currently acting in a film titled ’24’ in the direction of Vikram Kumar of Manam fame. After this project, he will begin the regular shooting of his next, Singham-3. He will be acting in a bilingual in the direction of Trivikram Srinivas after Singham-3.

Trivikram who is currently directing Nithin in A..Aa. He will be working on that script once the film is done. The movie will be made simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil and will also release on the same day.

Given Trivikram is a top director in Telugu, this project will improve his market here. Suriya’s Studio Green is likely to produce the film in Tamil and Telugu producer may be different. More details of this project later.

Powerstar Pawan Kalyan’s Sardaar Gabbar Singh shooting is progressing at brisk pace in Gujarat. The team is today joined by Popular comedian, Posani Krishna Murali. The team says he is paying an interesting role in the movie. The shooting will now go non-stop till completion as they plan Summer 2016 release for the film.

Earlier the makers have planned Sankranthi release for the movie but it did not happen as the movie shooting was delayed several times due to various reasons. Kajal Agarwal is the heroine in this film. This is the first time Pawan Kalyan and Kajal Agarwal are pairing up for a film.

Vulturous beauty Lakshmi Rai will be playing a special role in Pawan Kalyan’s next, Sardaar Gabbar Singh. She will be also seen in a special hot item song in the movie offering her oomph and glamour.

The rift between Kona Venkat and Srinu Vytla seems to be taking a toll on earlier because latter disappeared from the scene succumbing to ‘Bruce Lee’ disastrous pressure. On the other side, Kona has to stay in the market for three reasons. One for the sake of ‘Akhil,’ second for ‘Tripura’ and third for ‘Sankarabharanam’ as Kona is acting as writer and presenter for the last. However, Kona’s recent comments on Vytla blaming him for changing the overall ‘Bruce Lee’ script ignited the cold war between them again.

While some are questioning on why is Kona stressing only on ‘Bruce Lee’ in spite of his last two disasters ‘Akhil’ and ‘Tripura.’ He has to agree a fact that, so called Vytla-Kona template no more finds any of the takers. If Kona has to come back in demand and bring back his lost glory… everything lies in the hands of ‘Sankarabharanam.’ Inspired largely from Hindi film ‘Phas Gaya Re Obama,’ in fact Kona purchased the Telugu remake rights of this flick and made necessary changes to suit Telugu flavor with story running in Bihar backdrop. Let us see, how far ‘Sankarabharanam’ re-instills industry confidence on Kona.

The ruling trend of horror-comedies is getting more and more vulnerable in Tollywood and Kollywood. The recent hit of ‘Raju Gari Gadi’ has re-affirmed the taste of Telugu audience towards films in this genre. While Tamil and Hindi producers are competing to bag the remake rights of ‘Raju gari Gadi,’ here comes one of such similar movie in Tamil grabbing the attention.‘Hello Naan Pei Pesuren’ starring Vaibhav, Oviya and Aishwarya Rajesh in main leads is directed by S Bhaskar and produced by Sundar C. Ever since the trailer of ‘Hello Naan Pei Pesuren’ is out on Youtube, there is rapid interest generated even in Telugu about this flick. Literal meaning of this movie title is, ‘Hello, This is Ghost Speaking.’

Concept of the film is all about an evil soul struck in mobile phone. The comic and horror stuff there off generating from mobile will carry on the narration. Nevertheless, a flashback for devil and revenge drama can be the possible justification Bhaskar could have offered, as it senses from the trailer. The movie is said to be packed in a very smart, short budget of 1 Crore. Currently, there is a good competition building up for bagging Telugu remake rights of this film.

Talented and beautiful actress Ananya hasn’t got enough of recognition needed to begin a good career in Telugu. Movies like ‘Journey’ although made her a bit popular with Telugu audience, the bad fate of unreleased musical love story ‘Intinti Annamayya’ in direction of Raghavendra Rao gave Ananya a jerky take off. Later on, ‘Amayakudu’ with Krishnudu ruined all her hopes. Anyways, Ananya is back in Telugu circles with Trivikram Srinivas directing ‘A… Aa’ starring Nithin, Samanta in main leads! Without opening the account properly in Tollywood, it can be a dismal decision from Ananya to accept sister character to hero Nithin in the film but she feels the judgment is right.

‘Initially, I rejected the offer from Trivikram sir because it’s a sister role and I am afraid of getting branded for similar characters in future. After hearing the complete narration from Trivikram sir, I felt the role is challenging and worth to accept. I prefer more of quality rather than quantity,’ Ananya said.