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From a long time there is criticism that those heroes only with family background are ruling Telugu film industry. This is some sort of hypothetical statement because any hero would need a hit to continue in industry, while family support would be helping him to get his debut easily.

If we look at the current number of heroes from big film families, it’s Mega Family that scores the top. Following Chiru’s legacy, there are Pawan, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, Sai Dharam, Varun Tej and Sirish continuing in the game. It makes the no. of Mega successors in industry to 6, the highest number of actors debuting from any other film family in almost near generation.

Like the celebrated Raj Kapoor family too didn’t have 6 actors at once during Rishi Kapoor and Sashi Kapoor era. Standing next to Mega family is Akkineni Khandan, with five heroes in the crease. Though Sumanth is not continuously active, he’s one along with Nagarjuna, Chaitanya, Sushanth and Akhil who followed ANR’s footsteps. As Supriya is not active at the moment, we couldn’t consider her, and that makes Akkineni’s score 5 not out.

And here goes Nandamuri family. Treading in legendary NTR’s path, Balakrishna, Jr NTR, Tarakaratna and Kalyanram, made their film debuts and continuing as heroes. They score 4 together and if Mokshagna enters, the score will be 5 soon. Manchu’s have scored 3, with two heroes and one heroine, including Vishnu, Manoj and Lakshmi followed Mohan Babu to industry. Daggubati family has two, Venky and Rana, in the game.

Among all these heroes, those with immense talent and peculiar style became star heroes, while others are continuing as minimum guarantee heroes. Some have neared the edge of retirement too, while few are yet to find ground. That’s all for now folks.

Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu had a good outing in its fourth weekend. Absence of any notable films and Kick-2 getting a disaster talk, the movie had got decent collections every where. More over the addition of extra scenes worked in favour of the movie just at the stroke of the fourth weekend.

Here is the breakup of Srimanthudu 24 days collections: 

Nizam – 20.41 Crore
Ceeded – 8.51 Crore
Guntur – 5.30 Crore
Vizag – 5.28 Crore
Krishna – 4.12 Crore
East – 4.31 Crore
West – 4.09 Crore
Nellore – 1.95 Crore

AP+Nizam – 54.97 Crore

The makers of Anushka’s Size Zero had announced grand plans of having the audio launch event in Malaysia. They planned to release the audio albums of both Telugu and Tamil versions from the same dais that day. However they have changed their mind for some reason.

The audio launch event is now shifted to Hyderabad and it will happen on September 6th. Size Zero is a romantic comedy in which Anushka plays an obese The movie is also not releasing on October 2nd as planned earlier.

They wanted to have a simultaneous release of the movie in Telugu and Tamil but the presence of Vijay’s Puli at Tamil box office for October 2nd prompted the postponement.

The First Look Teaser of Anushka and Aarya’s Size Zero was out a short while ago. The 30 seconds trailer hints at the movie being a joy ride with Anushka being an obese and her struggles with over weight are portrayed funnily.

The last visual Anushka kissing the weight ticket may be after her trials to get the Size Zero figure. The teaser definitely increases the expectations and hype on the movie making it an interesting weight (Oops.. wait).

Anushka should be admired for the effort she put in to do the role as Obese. The audio launch event will take place on September 6th in Hyderabad and the movie is likely to see the light some time in October.

Director VV Vinayak is a big name. As he’s fondly called Vinay, he’s also called a money-spinner as his films always have all those commercial elements coated quite heavily. Currently he’s launching another star-kid Akhil, with the movie ‘Akhil’ and busy with the post-production work of it.

If we have to talk about his upcoming projects, it is heard that Vinay is actually getting a script cooked and it’s almost in final stage. This is for Superstar Mahesh, the buzz says. For Mahesh Babu’s film, just in case if VV Vinayak has this socio-fantasy script okayed, as being publicised in film circles now, there are lot of cautions our director should actually take into consideration.

Unlike pumping in  80 crores or 100 crores budget, Vinay should actual pump content. Because most of his recent films, like Nayak and Alludu Seenu, doesn’t have huge content except dynamics, commercial thrills and heroism. If Mahesh delivers the same thing, then it’s going to be another Aagadu kind of.

Anyway, some insiders stated that since Vinay stated at Srimanthudu audio function that he will make a movie with Mahesh with 100 crores budget, all these talks are popping up. Otherwise, Vinayak is buy with Akhil and Mahesh is focused on acting and producing Brahmotsavam, but these two haven’t finalised any story yet.

Stylish Star Allu Arjun’s next under the direction of Boyapati Srinu is tentatively titled Sarainodu. The first schedule of the movie is now completed. The movie unit had canned a high octane action sequence with Bunny and Aadi Pinnisetty in this schedule.

The shooting will go non-stop till completion and they are planning early 2016 release. Allu Arjun placed a new record with his recent film, S/O Satyamurthy of becoming the only Telugu hero with two 50 Crore share films back to back.

On the other side, Boyapati is excited with the success of his Legend. SS Thaman will be scoring the music and Geetha Arts will be producing this flick which is touted to be an action oriented Love Story. Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa are the heroines.

Chinmayi Sripada, one of the leading playback singers down south with several hit numbers that she sang for popular composers like AR Rahman, Ilayaraja and others, even gave her mesmerizing voice in Telugu for actresses like Samantha and Lavanya Tripathi. Recently, the star singer faced severe onslaught by a star Tamil hero’s fans all for just sharing a WhatsApp joke that featured their favorite hero.

While Chinmayi had no bad intentions and shared the joke on her Twitter page in jest, the so called fans attacked her, using several disgusting words like s**t. What has hurt and shocked the singer even more was that some of these abusing fans were highly educated doctors, engineers and IT Employees.

Last night, Chinmayi took to her Facebook and questioned her abusers and even others if this abusing trend was healthy. Chinmayi said that the internet must be an open platform for everyone to share one’s views and oppose them freely. However, the singer also poised an important question asking if abusing was the only way to express dissent.

While Chinmayi drew applause and support for her courageous stance, it is high time the so called emotional fans of all stars come to their senses and stop targeting celebs and even the fans of other stars on social media. These fans must realize that even their favorite stars do not appreciate their abusing ways. If only the fans learned to appreciate a joke as it is and not take it personally.

Rana Daggubati, who is basking in the glory of Baahubali, is likely to act in Tollywood’s first submarine film. Buzz is that Rana has heard script of an underwater war drama based on the mysterious sinking of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. Newcomer Sankalp apparently narrated the film’s plot to Rana to which Rana expressed his willingness to do. Sankalp hails from Hyderabad who had written a book, Blue Fish that explores sequence of events that led to sinking of PNS Ghazi

During the 1970 INdo-Pak war, PNS Ghazi is the Pakistani attack submarine deployed to assault Indian aircraft Vikrant which sank in the Visakhapatnam coast. The exact reasons for the sinking of PNS Ghazi are not yet known. While Indian Navy claims to have sunk PNS Ghazi, Pakistani establishment contradicts by stating that the submarine sank due to accidental detonation of a mine.

Rana is going to essay the role of a naval officer on board the Indian submarine. Apparently, filmmakers have approached Prakash Raj to play the Indian commander. It’s buzzed that the underwater war sequence will be highlight of the film. What’s more? Already a submarine prototype has been built in Hyderabad where a major portion of the shoot will take place.

Mega Powerstar Ram Charan is yet to score a big blockbuster post the success of stupendous film like Magadheera. Though his films are nearing 50 crore mark, a terrific blockbuster hasn’t fallen in his kitty yet. For all these good reasons, his ‘Bruce Lee’ is now being looked at with heavy hype.

Talk about Bruce Lee is that the film has shades of Gang Leader movie which we have revealed it sometime back. And that talk is enough to excite fans, but click as a Leader, Charan needs to show so many emotions with ease like his father Megastar Chiru.

The then Gang Leader is an emotional high with both mass elements and sentiments smeared all over it in right proportions. It’s Chiru’s show all the way in that film as he excels in each and every scene. Perhaps Charan is yet to deliver such full meals kind of performance. Though he’s building up his fanbase to a new level, somehow he’s lacking in certain secret ingredients.

With a master craftsmen like Sreenu Vytla at the helm, and Charan coming into sets straight from a memorable performance in Govindudu Andarivadele, definitely he should now click as a leader cum fighter in Bruce Lee. That’s what fans are expecting.

Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s next under the direction of Srinu Vaitla is titled Bruce Lee. The movie had sparked off discussion every where as it is uncommon to have a English title. Ram Charan and writer Kona Venkat had explained the logic behind naming the movie so.

Speaking to media, Ram Charan said, “We have titled it ‘Bruce Lee’, The Fighter. I play a stuntman in the film.” He went on to add, “It’s my homage to the legendary Bruce Lee”. Kona also explained the logic in Twitter.

“Bruclee is a very apt title for our film.. Many stuntmen have nicknames.. Ramcharan is a stuntman & he’s nicknamed as bruclee (sic)!!” Kona Posted in his Twitter account. The movie unit is totally busy with the movie shooting as they race against the time to release it for Dussehra.

Kick 2, hasn’t give full kick. Neither audiences got one, nor the makers including hero, director and producer got one. Some errors in decision making, some mistakes in picking content and other issues have plagued the film’s success at box office.

But before we talk about the film’s fate more, hero Raviteja has started the blame game by calling that Surender Reddy’s decision to include huge length in second half has costed him dear. That doesn’t go well with the whole team, as everyone is upset for some different reason or the other. Including Raviteja’s decision to cut down weight and go extreme thin for the film is also being nailed at the moment.

Whatever it maybe, the ultimate loser will be producer Kalyan Ram only. Because both Raviteja and Surender Reddy have got busy in next projects, and maybe they would have lost 30% of their pay. For Rakul Preet there is no gain, but no loss too. But what about Kalyan Ram’s investment, both time and money? It seems like every one is safe except Kalyan Ram.