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Mega fans are on a high these days with back to back since the start of 2012. Their recent release Nayak is also garnering good collections and it is expected to do big with Sankranthi round the corner. But even in this jubiliant mood, Mega fans were in a shock. The first look teaser of Allu Sirish’s Gauravam released yesterday and they were highly disappointed with it.

Mega fans are already in doubt regarding the facial features of Sirish and the teaser added fuel to it with out showing the close up shots of the hero in it. The film is a social drama which apparently revolves around a city boy who goes to a village to help his friend. Prakash Raj has produced the film under Duet Movies banner. Thaman has scored the music. The film’s audio will release later this week and it’s expected to hit the screens very soon.

The stylish star joins the list of actors in Tollywood who endorse jewellery brands, including Nagarjuna (Kalyan Jewellers), Mahesh Babu (Jos Alukkas) and NTR Jr (Malabar Gold). Allu Arjun is currently in Bangkok shooting for his next film Iddarammayilatho.

Popular Playback Singer Murali breathed his last today. He suffered a heart attack in Kakinada Railway Station. Murali was very dearer to Pawan Kalyan fans. He was popularly called as Kushi Murali since he became famous for rendering ‘Aduvari Matlaku’ song from Kushi. Later, he lent voice for several blockbuster songs of Pawan Kalyan like Killi Killi (Gudumba Shankar) ,Kevv Keka (Gabbar Singh) and Jaromochindi (Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu)

His career was recently blooming when this shocking death occured. It was a tragic loss to his family and we express our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family.

Nara scion Rohit who had established an name for himself for being chosy with good subjects, is currently shooting in Ramoji film city for his next movie. A special railway station set is rected there for this purpose. The movie had recently completed a major schedule in Rajahmundry. ‘Lover’ is the title in consideration.

A new comer Karthikeya is wielding megaphone for this movie. Lover is the title considered earlier for Allu Arjun – Vasu Varma movie. Bollywood babe Adah Sharma and Monal Gajjar will be seen along side Rohit in this movie. DS Rao is producing the movie under his Sri Shailendra movies banner. Anup Rubens is scoring the music.

She is just two years old in the industry and considered as a lucky charm of Tollywood. Samantha is on high this season. Reportedly this voluptuous beauty is getting offers from all the top notch directors. The year 2012 turned out to be exciting for her and she is looking forward for the same this year.

SVSC is all set to be released on January 11th. She is currently working in Naga Chaitanya’s ‘Autonagar Surya’ and another movie directed by Trivikram Srinivas, in which she is going to romance Pawan Kalya. Its working title is ‘Sarada’. Vikram Kumar’s ‘Thrayam’ is planned to be a bilingual movie in Tamil and Telugu in which Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna and Naga Chaitanya will play the lead roles. If things get together in the right track, Samantha will get the
inestimable opportunity to work with heroes of three generations in this bilingual movie – ‘Thrayam’. Even she is trying her mark to step into Bollywood.

Trade sources say that recently Samantha got a whooping sum of 1.25 cr. With this the sultry-curvy Samantha stood as highest paid actress in south dethroning the other heroines in the south.

Actress Tamannah may be one of the busiest heroine down the South but that does not assure that she is in peace of mind. She is feeling insecure regarding her position in Kollywood. She alleged that some section of people in Kollywood film Industry are conspirating against her for not getting offers in the movies. She also added that when the time comes she would reveal the names who are conspirating against her.

The actress who entered into Tamil movies with ‘Kedi’ movie in 2006 but the film was flop at the box office then she entered into Tollywood industry with the movie happy days which has brought her name and fame. She again acted in Tamil movies like ‘Kalluri, Padikkadavan’ with Dhanush, ‘Payya’ with Karthik, ‘Ayaan’ with Surya, and after some gap she is presently acting with hero Ajith.

Ram Charan’s Nayak which released yesterday opened to a record openings every where in AP.  The movie had collected 8.75 crore on the opening day which is a record crossing Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu.

Nizam: 2.41 Crores [2nd best after CGR]
Ceded: 1.85 Crores
Guntur: 1.14 Crores [Including SGs worth 22 Lakhs ]
Krishna: 51 lakhs
UA: 90 Lakhs
West: 71-75 lakhs
East: 81 Lakhs
Nellore: 42 lakhs

Total : 8.75 Crores [AP Record is considered SGs

Looks like Kamal Hassan had finaly yielded to their pressure and dropped the DTH Premiere idea. Kamal was so stubborn to go up with this idea but the repeated talks with theater owners could not change their stance of banning the movie in theaters. Finally, the movie release which was supposed to release on January 11th is now postponed to January 25th. The film will reportedly have a DTH release either on the same day of the theatrical release or some days after it.

Viswaroopam was more in discussion for the controversial DTH Premiere idea than the actual movie itself. To generate extra income for the big budget movie, Kamal had come up with the idea of screening of the movie in DTH few hours before the theatrical release. However, there was a stiff opposition from theater owners who feel this new idea will be a detriment to the theater collections.

The moment Nayak is announced all eyes are on Magadheera pair Ram Charan and Kajal. When the film hit the screens many went mad over the beautiful chemistry between Cherry and Kajus.

However Ram Charan speaking to media said naughty beauty Amala Paul amazed him with her performance after much prodding. At first he was not willing to comeout of his preferences or analysis on the performances of both the heroines but later said “Oh! They are both fabulous actors and I get along very well with both of them. Kajal is a seasoned actress and we all know what a performer she is. But I was honestly surprised with Amala, as I had never worked with her before and was a little unsure as to how she would be. But as it turns out, she is very good,” .

He said dual role is a bit difficult in the sense with two heroines arround and getting right costumes. He says “I don’t think I’ve ever changed so many costumes for a movie, especially when shooting for the songs. I had to change my clothes every hour. We’d first shoot a sequence with Amala Paul and then change costumes for a sequence with Kajal. Then my director would say, ‘can we re-shoot that bit with Amala again?’ I don’t think I am acting in a two-heroine film again in the near future,”

Tollywood has given several movies which has strong heroine-oriented roles. The female actors in movies have strong character-based roles. However, the opposite also happens. The female actors are being used just for the purpose of mere skin show or adding sex appeal to the movie.

But most directors like to keep their focus on the heroines. However, in the upcoming movie Seetamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, the unit members have revealed that the camera’s focus is hardly on the actress Anjali. Most of the time, the focus is on the actor Venky and other artists and hardly on Anjali.Everyone is clueless as to why the director Sreekanth Addala is actually doing this.

Grapevine whispers that this is because Anjali was doing extremely well that the director did not find it necessary to focus the camera on her expressions and performance. This may also be good news for Anjali as it is being observed that she has improved as an actor a great deal. Therefore, there did not arise any necessity to pay much attention to her. In fact, Anjali’s career graph is expected to rise up after this movie.

The new Tollywood star power, Prabhas, now has an increasing fan following. More and more youngsters are now following this new heartthrob, not to forget, his female fan following.

The position of the most popular male actor was occupied by the superstar Pawan Kalyan, closely followed by Jr NTR. But it seems that Prabhas is soon catching up. Prabhas’ latest film is Mirchi and the audio release function of this movie got a lot of crowd turn out. The audio release function of Prabhas’ Rebel was also a great crowd-puller. Even his other film functions are also a good crowd-pulling capacity,especially the female fan base.

The movie goers are expressing a lot of faith in Prabhas’ potential to become a Tollywood star power.His fame and popularity are rising to such an extent that he might end up being the next Pawan Kalyan.Prabhas made his debut with Eeshwar in Tollywood. Thereafter, he has acted in a lot of movies and won
the hearts of his viewers. His latest releases are Mirchi and Rebel. He is also supposedly doing another untitled movie with the famous director Rajamouli. He has won best actor award for more than one movie.

It’s the unavoidable fact that, ‘Seethamma… ’ is the curiosity of the festival season. Now the collections of this film are the hot topic in the industry. The songs and trailers released already are the causers of this curiosity and high expectations on this multi starrer film. So it is evident that there will be super openings and any good talk about the film will leads to a long successful run of the movie. And now-a-days, the overseas collections have become another primary source of revenue for a Telugu film. There is a huge following for Venkatesh and Mahesh babu.
 

That too this is a complete family entertainer that promises great collections even abroad. So far, Magadheera has the record of highest collections as 90 crores in Telugu film history and it has been four years since its release. But this upcoming ‘SVSC’ is said to be capable of crossing the mark of 100 crores and will be the first film in Telugu to achieve this.

Ever since the mania of sixpack entered Tollywood by Allu Arjun in Desamudhuru, many heroes are after this body tone. Now it’s Junior’s turn. Jr. NTR was very stout at the beginning of his film career. But with lots of determination, he reduced his weight a lot in Yamadonga and shocked everyone with his new look. He became much thinner in Kantri and he maintained his physic from then.

Now it is heard that he is working out hard for a six pack body. Even a recent pic of his in internet confirms the news. This may for his upcoming film. Recently, the comedian turned hero Sunil entertained the Telugu viewers with his six pack body; Nagarjuna in damarakuram tried his best to show the packs, Mahesh tried but stopped his attempt unfinished. It will be good if all the Telugu heroes concentrate on their personalities along with the stories they choose. Now it has to be seen whether Bandodu’s six packs can break tollywood records shaking box office.

The director’s hero is none other than Ulaga Nayagan Kamal Haassan while the hero’s director is the maverick ManiRatnam. Yes Kamal is going to direct ManiRatnam’s son Nandan launching him through a Hollywood movie. Nandan son of ManiRatnam and Suhasini Mani Ratnam is going to debut as hero. Suhasini initially wanted her son to be a politician and serve the people. But in order to get the fame in public, cinema industry is the best platform, she gave a thought. Nandan is no one till now and has no reputation in public so far. Kamal is going to concentrate on this lad after his heavy project Vishwaroopam. Nandan might have learnt that Kamal Hassan is his grandfather as he is uncle to his mother Suhasini. Even there are good relations between Kamal and Maniratnam. That is why Mani wanted his son to be launched by the hands of god of acting. Complete details are yet to be out.