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Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini and Jaya Bachchan starrer cult-classic Sholay is completing 40 years after release on Independence Day of August 15th. Big B’s son Abhishek Bachchan who is busy promoting his upcoming film All Is Well had few words about his dad’s film in a recent interview.

When asked whether he remembered watching it for the first time, Abhishek replied, ‘I don’t exactly remember the film’s impact. But yes, I went to the premiere of the ‘Sholay’ when I was in my mother’s stomach. What I really love about ‘Sholay’ is that it is a very contemporary film. It is ageless; it is as close as we can get to the perfect potboiler, masala film we have ever made.’

Sholay was first 1 crore budget film in India. The action adventure collected over five times to its actual budget. The Ramesh Sippy directorial ran for over five long years at Minerva, one of India’s largest movie halls in Mumbai. Sholay was ranked first in the British Film Institute’s 2002 poll of “Top 10 Indian Films” of all time. In 2005, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare Awards named it the Best Film of 50 Years.

Old is gold and Sholay will remain as one of all time classics for ever!

Probably Nani got his things right. Maruthi kept his double entendres aside. No rhyming words, timed punches and over-dose of glamour. That’s how the first teaser of Nani and Maruthi’s ‘Bhale Bhale Magadivoyi’ looked like, forcing everyone to ask what these two guys are actually doing.

Going by the trailer, we could say that Nani is an Alzheimer’s patient as he forgets the name of his movie in the promo and the the name of heroine in the film. As the movie’s tag line itself suggests that ‘Memory Nil’, definitely Maruthi might have come up with a fantastic romantic comedy this time. In each and every shot in the teaser of the film, Nani is looking handsome while Lavanya Tripathi is romantic and cute. Probably we have to say that this Maruthi’s clean comedy for the first time.

Okay, let’s not judge a book by its cover, a film by its trailer. Bhale Bhale Magadivoyi’s audio and theatrical trailer launch are happening on August 15th. So, let’s wait to catch up Maruthi’s new creation through trailers very soon. Then only we will know what this duo are doing.

‘Many believe that Nagarjuna is dating so many other girls, but fact is that all those persons are seeing me in various avatars and used to think that Nagarjuna is seeing a new girl every time’, says Amala, laughing heavily. She explained how rumours erupted about Nag regarding affairs with various heroines.

Amala confirms that Nag has never made her feel neglected and never ignored her. ‘From pubs to foreign trips, we both travelled together, because I’m the love of his life. However when people saw me, they didn’t recognise its Amala and felt that it’s some heroine. Because they expected Amala to get fat after marriage. Otherwise, Nag is very loyal, loving and fantastic human being’ she shared.

Also she narrated an incident that happened when they went to Singapore. At that time she got her head tonsured as she offered the hair to Lord Balaji of Tirupathi. Not being able to identify that that the lady in short hair is Amala, a security check guy at the Singapore airport warned Nagarjuna that he’s cheating on his wife.

‘Nag has immediately bowed to him with folded hands and asked him to look at the short haired girl closely. Then the security guy identified me’, said Amala, explaining how rumours around Nagarjuna are created.That’s a lovely couple anyway.

Independence Day is nearing and so is the rise of patriotism among the one billion Indians across the country. To channelise this intense vibe, leading corporate giant Reliance initiated the #SaluteSelfie campaign to pay respects to the Indian army soldiers who brave extremely challenging conditions to protect the country and its people.

The #SaluteSelfie campaign encourages Indians to take their selfies saluting the Indian Army and upload those photographs on social media. Already, several leading celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Saina Nehwal, Virendra Sehwag etc have enthusiastically taken part in this campaign.

From Tollywood, stars like Naga Chaitanya, Akhil Akkineni, Rakul Preet, BVSN Prasad etc uploaded their selfies on their Twitter and Facebook pages.

Superstar Mahesh Babu’s Srimanthudu had a minor slowdown on the sixth day after its release. The working day effect and heavy rains in Coastal Andhra had affected the collections and restricted the movie to 2.27 Crore share in AP and Nizam.

It can be termed as a decent number if not good. The slow down is expected to continue till the Friday matinees from then the holiday weekend effect will help.

Here is the breakup of Srimanthudu Sixth day collections: 

Nizam: 91 Lakhs
Ceeded: 31 Lakhs
Uttarandhra: 26 Lakhs
East: 22 Lakhs
West: 15 Lakhs
Krishna: 14.22 Lakhs
Guntur: 20 Lakhs
Nellore: 8 Lakhs

AP+Nizam: 2.27 Crore Approx

Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja’s introduction song in Bengal Tiger is being canned in and around Hyderabad. The song will have Hamsa Nandini dancing with the actor. It is being choreographed by Kannada director and choreographer, Harsha.

Remember it is Harsha’s movie, Vajrakaya which had a special song appearance of Ravi Teja. 120 dancers are taking part in this shoot. Bengal Tiger is slated for 18 September 2015 release coinciding with Vinayaka Chaviti.

It is said that Ravi Teja will be playing a police officer in this film too. Tamannah and Raashi Khanna are the female leads in this project. KK Radha Mohan is producing the film under his Sri Satya Sai Arts banner while Racha fame Sampath Nandi is wielding megaphone.

Powerstar Pawan Kalyan had just completed a major rain fight sequence in Hyderabad. This fight was composed by Ram – Lakshman masters in night effect. This fight is said to be the major highlight of the movie and Powerstar done and dusted in almost single take.

The makers are ambitious to complete the entire film shooting by December and release the movie for Sankranthi 2016. The next schedule of the movie will begin in September. Kajal Agarwal is likely to join the shoot in the next schedule.

It is already known that the theatrical, remake, dubbing, audio, video and all other rights of the movie are bagged by Eros for a whopping 72 Crore. The makers had to complete the movie shooting and handover the first copy of the film to Eros. The profit/loss incurred on this project will all belong to Eros then.