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Varun Sandesh is reportedly playing a small role in Mohan Babu and Allari Naresh starrer Mama Manchu Alludu Kanchu. Varun will be seen as Mohan Babu’s son in the movie. He reportedly shot for 15 days for the movie to do this character and returned from USA just for this shoot.

“I can not refuse this character when Vishnu offered me. They always treated me like their son during Pandavulu Pandavalu making. So, I felt it as a honour to act in this movie,” Varun Sandesh said.

Mohan Babu will be seen as a angry old man in the film while Naresh will be seen as his son-in-law in a naughty role. Damarukham fame Srinivas Reddy is wielding megaphone for the movie high on comedy. Plans are on to release it for Christmas.

The third schedule of Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Brahmotsavam began couple of days ago in Ramoji film city. The schedule will go on till December 9th there. Then the makers will shift to Ooty on December 13th and the Ooty schedule will go on till month end. They have decided that the movie will be releasing on April 29th.

The agreements with the distributors are being made accordingly with the same date. They are planning to complete the entire movie shoot by March. Samantha, Kajal Aggarwal and Pranitha are playing the female leads in this film.

Srikanth Addala who delivered a super hit to Mahesh with Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu is wielding megaphone for this film once again. Potluri Vara Prasad will be producing the film on his PVP Cinemas banner. Mickey J Meyer is the music composer.

Young Hero Nani and Lavanya Tripathi’s Bhale Bhale Magadivoy had finished its full run at the box office. The youthful entertainer had minted 27.11 Crore share in its full run which makes it the biggest hit of the year in terms of Return on Investment.

The movie had got profits to every one involved in the trade. Also this success had got a big relief to Nani who is with out a proper hit after Eega.

Here is the breakup of Bhale Bhale Magadivoy Final Collections:

Nizam: 7.10 Crore
Ceeded: 2.10 Crore
Uttarandhra: 2.15 Crore
East: 1.55 Crore
West: 1.05 Crore
Krishna: 1.30 Crore
Guntur: 1.65 Crore
Nellore: 0.50 Crore

AP+Nizam: 17.4 Crore
Karnataka: 2.75 Crore
USA: 6.11 Crore
ROW: 0.85 Crore

Total WW: 27.11 Crore

Today, voluptuous Punjabi bombshell Raashi Khanna turns 23 and the buxom beauty celebrated her birthday in agrand manner last night. All the younger generation celebs like Ram, Sundeep Kishan, Sai Dharam Tej, Varun Tej, Allu Sirish, Rakul Preet Singh and Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja took part in the revelry.

Raashi first made her acting debut with the John Abraham starrer espionge thriller Madras Cafe. Raashi then stepped into Tollywood with the 2014 summer hit Oohalu Gusagusalade and followed it up with a cameo in Manam. Raashi went on to act in mass entertainers like Joru, Jil and the recently released Shivam. Raashi is currently awaiting the release of Bengal Tiger.

Chandrasekhar Yeleti who became a penchant for delivering content worthy films, now came up with an interesting project titled Manamantha. Malayalam Superstar Mohanlal and Yesteryear actress Gautami are playing the lead roles in the film.

The regular shooting began today at Aluminium factory, Hyderabad. Earlier Victory Venkatesh was approached for the project and he even evinced his interest in doing it, but some how that did not well beyond that point and now Mohanlal is brought in Venky’s place.

The movie will be produced by Sai Korrapati, who produced films like Legend, Eega etc. The movie is a multilingual which will be made simultaneously in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam languages.

Sukumar and Allu Arjun is one of the rarest combinations in Telugu film industry with ensuring high success rate. In fact, both of them began to build the stardom in parallel with ‘Arya’ movie. Later on Bunny became a Stylish Star and Sukumar also grew as star director. However, Sukku’s track record in dealing star heroes, for example Mahesh Babu with ‘Nenokkadine’ isn’t so happier.

Currently, Sukumar is in spain with final leg shooting of ‘Nannaku Prematho’ with Junior NTR while his last flick ‘Kumari 21 F’ sprung a surprise hit at Box Office. Here comes an unofficial information on Sukumar is very much excited to work with Bunny again and as soon as both of them gets relieved from their present commitments, a project of these two is very much on cards. Although Sukumar’s plan to introduce Devi Sri Prasad as hero with Dil Raju as producer grabbed enough heat in market, we still have to wait and see; whether DSP is ready to take up this challenging task keeping his musical career at stake. For any minute changes in the plan, Sukumar and Bunny can cash on it immediately.

The highly anticipated Telugu film of Mahesh Babu in direction of AR Murugadoss is going to take off sometime by middle of next year. Whole of the story, script is prepared with utmost attention so as to meet the heavy expectations this project will set once it gets rolling on. To match all these, Muruga roped in ace cinematographer Santosh Sivan and music composer Harris Jayaraj is also given the very big task.

It is almost after one decade Murugadoss is returning into Telugu cinema. Of course, many of his Tamil films are dubbed into Telugu. If reports are to be believed, Muruga-Mahesh film will also be simultaneously shot in Tamil with Vijay as hero. As soon as Muruga completes his current Hindi assignment ‘Akira’ with Sonakshi Sinha, more details will be rolled out. Vijay and Mahesh Babu are presently ruling stars in Telugu and Tamil cinema respectively. The typical Murugadoss script and direction style is well suitable for the star heroes. So, his technique of going for a bi-lingual with the two star heroes can be a safe business move.

Tamil Nadu’s capital and the economic and cultural epicenter of the state, Chennai, has been devastated by flash floods that have been creating a havoc across the city and several other parts of the state over the last couple of weeks. Transportation and communication systems have taken a bad hit due to incessant rains.

In addition to the government’s relief measures, Tamil film stars have been chipping in to rehabilitate the flood affected victims. While star hero Suriya donated 25 lakhs through his foundation, Vishal offered 10 lakhs and Dhanush gave away 5 lakhs respectively.

Following suit is our own Tollywood crazy hero Burning Star Sampoornesh Babu. This morning, Sampoo took to his Twitter page to announce his contribution of Rs 50,000 towards the Chennai cyclone relief measures.

Sampoo also reminded how Tamil stars generously contributed during the Hudhud cyclone in Vizag last year and requested the Telugu film industry to help the Chennai flood victims with a noble heart. Let us hope that Sampoo’s modest contribution and appeal will inspire other Tollywood stars.

The yesterday released ‘Size Zero’ grabbed some eye balls for its good content of dealing with Obese Women, their psychological state and how some of the Slimming Centers are cashing on these weaknesses. Directed by Prakash Kovelamudi with Anushka, Arya and Sonal Chauhan in lead roles, the film is also a triangular love story between the three above mentioned characters.

As a part of working on romantic chemistry between these characters, Prakash and Kanika came up with some scintillating stuff. For example, the lip locks between Arya and Sonal Chauhan have caught the interest of youth audience. With Sonal upping the glam quotient liberally showing off skin, her characterization is justified as intimacy develops with hero Arya. For a moment, Anushka’s heavy physique is shadowed by Sonal’s glamour which of course can’t be digested so easily by Sweety’s admirers. Despite a fact that Anushka played central lead character, there is also Sonal perfectly served the spicy glamour deal. After this film, there is ‘Dictator’ coming up from Sonal with Balakrishna as hero.

All eyes are on Shruti Haasan, the saucy seductress who has scored 100+ crore hits in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi simultaneously. Her craze has shot up leaps and bounds, and everyone is looking forward to find which hero she will sign in her next Telugu film. Naga Chaitanya’s Premam remake will see Shruti Haasan reprise the role of Malar, played by dancer Sai Pallavi in the original.

In Malayalam version, Sai Pallavi has even featured her pimples and scars on the face, without any makeup. What about Shruti now? Even this hot Tamil lady is also going to wear a de-glam look for the role. She will be seen in minimal makeup and her sarees will be a treat.

Specially made Mangalagiri Cotton sarees will be the costumes for Shruti, both in scenes and songs. In couple of scenes, she will be seen in Guntur made cotton chudidhars.

While Naga Chaitanya will be seen as a Telangana boy in his Engineering 4th year, Shruti will play the role of an Andhra girl who comes to Hyderabad to teach computer science for Engineering students. She has to look both elder to Chaitu and then maintain that heroine kind of looks. In reality, Shruti is 11 months older than our Akkineni lad.

Generally perception is that Nandamuri Balakrishna is very bad tempered on the shooting sets of his films. He shouts at his co-stars for any small mistakes and also gets angered easily. This is however proven wrong by many and sexy seductress Sonal Chauhan joins that long list of Balayya’s admirers. “Many have scared me saying Balayya is ill-tempered.

But he’s very cool and jovial guy on the sets. He makes you laugh with his jokes and helps in getting scenes right. Very best co-star I’ve ever worked with”, says Sonal, adding that without his “Legend” she will be no where in Tollywood.

“Has Legend not worked, I would have not got all these offers that are running around me now. Balayya is very generous that he offer me Dictator again”, she adds. Is she not bored of playing these second fiddle roles? “No, I’ve my own space in these films. In Dictator, my role is going to be very entertaining”. Talking about Balayya’s bad-temper, we need to remember Katrina Kaif too.

Talking about her experiences down South on a leading Bollywood interview show, she admired Balayya. “He’s the only actor who’s very professional, coming to sets on time and respecting his co-stars”, she shared couple of years back. That’s Balayya for you folks.

Heroines getting married and going off the limelight can be thought-through as end of their glamour career. Off late, yesterday’s heroines are returning back to cinema for fulfilling their thirst beginning the second or third innings taking up elderly characters. Either North or South; the passion theory is applied the same on artists. Currently, Chiranjeevi’s heroine Sonali Bendre is back in news.

Well, she isn’t going to act again as heroine. Sonali turned a writer and her new book on parenthood titled as ‘The Modern Gurukul: My Experiment with Parenting’ is out in the market. This book is reportedly to give a glimpse of her personal life documenting the journey of Sonali as a mother and wife. As we all know, Sonali married Goldie Behl and they even have a 10 year old son Ranveer. The book primarily shares an intensely personal, raw account of her life as a mother, the challenges faced and lessons learned in raising her son. ‘I thought I was compiling a book on certain points on what I learnt but finally, the book became personal and more personal,’ Sonali says it with a smile.