Respite for Sunil after Tanu weds Manu makers compromise
The producer Vinod Bachchan, co-producer Shailesh Singh and distributor Sunil Bohra had been fighting over the intellectual rights of their movie, Tanu weds Manu since the last one and half year. The issue was stagnant in courts for a long time and now all the parties involved have decided to compromise the issue out of the court. Vinod will now withdraw the case.
This came as a respite for the makers of Sunil’s Mr.Pellikoduku which is the official remake of Tanu weds Manu. Vinod earlier alleged that the rights were sold with out his knowledge and threatened to stall the release.
Mani Ratnam back to business
Master Magician Mani Ratnam is back to business. His latest audio Kadal is making headlines all over. The audio was scheduled to come out on the 17th of December has hit the stores a couples of day earlier and is now available for the fans from Sunday. It is for the first time in Indian market the audio release of a film album has been advanced.
This is the debut film of Gautham Karthick and Tulasi Nair which is directed in music by AR Rahman. Expectations were already high on the audio of ‘Kadal’, especially after two songs Nenjukulley, and Elay Keechan were released online and both have become highly popular and even topped the iTunes chart.
I have no dream roles – Mahesh
With back to back hits in the form of Dookudu and Businessman, Mahesh Babu is on his way to Number one position in Tollywood. His next movie is a multistarer with Venkatesh, Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu which is the first multistarer movie in Telugu after 2 decades. However, the actor says he doesn’t believe in “dream roles.”
“I don’t have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role. I don’t believe in talking about such things while I am doing the film. People should talk about the character once the film releases,” he quips.
Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu is gearing up for release in Sankranthi season and on the other side, Mahesh will very soon begin the shooting of his next movie with Sukumar after the completion of SVSC shooting.
Major DTH Operators ditches Kamal Hassan
Kamal Hassan’s 150C budget Viswaroopam hogged lime light and brought some much needed publicity to the movie with the actor’s simultaneous DTH release. There was a stiff opposition from distributors, exhibitors and cable operators for this decision but the actor finally managed to go with his decision.
But strangely, when every thing seem to fall in place. Major DTH operators Tata Sky and Sun Direct opted to stay out of telecasting the movie. These two are the major players in Tamil Nadu and their decision will hamper his plans. The movie has been priced for Rs.1000 for one time watch on DTH and will be telecasted 8 hours before the theatrical release. Both the Tamil and Hindi versions will hit the theaters on January 11th but Telugu version will be released later due to big movies like ‘SVSC’ and ‘Nayak’ are getting released at that time.
Orange Tamil Satellite rights sold
Mega Power Star Ram Charan’s ‘Orange’ is being dubbed in to Tamil and is being released as ‘Ram Charan’. The movie fell flat at Telugu box office but is doing good with Kollywood distributors. The satellite rights of the dubbed version have been sold for Rs 35 lakhs, which is very good for a dubbing movie. The makers are planning a good release in Tamil Nadu.
Genelia and Shazahn Padamsee are playing the female leads in this romantic tale. Bommarillu fame Bhaskar had directed the movie. The movie did not go well with the audience as it had a complex story and due to high expectations as it released after Magadheera.
Sharmila needs surgery, 3-week break
YSR Congress leader Sharmila who has injured her knee during her ‘Maro Praja Prastanam’ pada yatra in the Ranga Reddy district may have to rest for 3 weeks as she has to undergo surgery.
Sharmila who broke her yatra on December15 was examined by doctors. In the MRI scan, they observed that the injury needs surgery and 3-week rest. Doctors of the Apollo Hospital said they would perform a key hole surgery on Sharmila’s knee and advise her to rest for 3 weeks.
It may be recalled that Sharmila who has started her Pada Yatra from Idupulapaya on October 18 has already established a record as the first woman to have undertaken the longest Pada Yatra. She has so far completed her yatra in Kadapa, Anantapur, Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts. She was touring the RR district when she fell down from her vehicle and injured her knee. Sharmila’s mother Vijayamma, Jagan’s wife Bharati, YSR Congress MLA Shobha Nagi Reddy and her uncles Vivekananda Reddy and YV Subba Reddy have visited injured Sharmila and enquired about her health.
Super Star in search of a girl
On reading this statement, anyone can jump to the conclusion that it was stated by some young hero or a director about a heroine or his lost love. But you will be surprised to know that these are words of no ordinary person but Super star Rajini Kanth. He told this on the event of his 63rd birthday at a moment reminding an incident from the earlier stages of his career.
Can you guess who that girl is? It’s the girl who ever first took the autograph from Rajini Kanth. Apporva Ragangal was a Rajini starrer film that was released almost 30 years back. Rajini went to Krishnaveni theater in Chennai to watch the film on the day of its release. At that time, a little girl came to Rajini asking for his autograph. As there was no autograph book available, Rajini gave his autograph on the backside of the movie ticket. “I haven’t forgotten that moment and I never will” said Rajini. And he continued “she might be a woman now and I have been waiting for past 30 years to meet her again” and he is confident that he would meet her sometime in his life again.
Rana’s 6 in a row
Rana is the another hero who is going to be very busy in the new year 2013. After his first commercial success from Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum, there seems to be no free pages in Rana’s diary. He is going to do 6 films in 2013 and starting with which film is not finalized though. These 6 films includes tamil, telugu and Hindi films.
Rana is one such hero in Tollywood, who tries to experiment various genres of films. His earlier work in dum maro dum and department, bagged him another two projects in Hindi. One is Aditya Battacharya’s and another is Ayan Mukerjee’s. Rana is playing a prominent role in Ajith, Nayanatara, Aarya, Tapsi starrer tamiil film under the direction of Vishnuvardhan (Panja fame).
This hunk recently scored good marks and acclaims from critics from his energetic performance in KVJ, promising a quality hero for the industry.
Ram Charan turns ‘Ram Charan’
Ram Charan Tej is a hero who needs no more introduction as son of Mega star Chiranjeevi. One of his future recent ventures is titled as ‘Ram Charan’. This time it is not for Telugu audience but for tamil screens. Coming to details, Genilia is the female lead, Bommarillu Bhaskar is the director and music by Haaris Jayraj.
These details might have reminded you about the film ‘Orange’ which was released a couple of years earlier in Telugu. Yes Orange is being dubbed into Tamil this time with the title ‘Ram Charan’. Ram Chanran is a known face in Tamilnadu from the Tamil dubbed Magadheera which entertained tamilians as well. In order to use the image of Charan, the dubbing producers decided on this title with the name of the hero.
These kinds of business tricks are not new to Tollywood. After the success of Telugu dubbed Aparichitudu, many old movies of Vikram were dubbed and released in Telugu with the names like Vikram’s ‘Remo’ just to encash the craze of the recent blockbuster of stars. Ofcourse most of them scared the audience. Now its our turn in Tamil land.
This film may boost the image of Ram Charan in Kollywood. Recently the audio launch for Ram Charan was held. Except the music director, Haaris Jayraj no one else from the project attended that event.
The award that missed Rajamouli
Rajamouli is the only qualified director among the directors of Tollywood today in every aspect. He proved his mettle by making the films like Magadheera, Eega where other directors won’t even dare to dream about. He is an inspiration to many Hindi and Tamil directors too. After Eega that made a nationwide buzz, irrespective of language, whole nation awaits for his films now. That is why this genious was recently nominated for prestigious CNN-IBN awards. This award is given to various talents throughout the country every year. This year, Irfan khan, Sridevi, Vidya Balan, Ranjbir Kapoor were nominated in the entertainment category, all are from north. Rajamouli was the only nominee from the south.
Unfortunately, Rajamouli lost the award to Irfaan khan for his outstanding performances in the world cinema ‘The amazing spiderman’, ‘Life of Pie’. It is little sad to know our Rajamouli couldn’t bag the award. But it is no loss to this maverick filmmaker, who got the talent to compete in Oscar race one day or the other.
That is why we can say that the award missed Rajamouli. What say?
Telangana possible, if KCR family commits suicide
The formation of Telangana state is possible only if Telangana Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrasekhara Rao commits suicide along with all his family members.
This was the strange observation made by firebrand YSR Congress party leader and former minister Konda Surekha. Flagging off a padayatra to extend solidarity with Y S Sharmila in Parkal constituency of Warangal district, Surekha alleged that KCR was building up his party over the dead bodies of Telangana martyrs.
“If KCR comes out of his farm house, Telangana agitation begins and he goes back to his sleep in the farm house, the agitation subsides. It has become a practice for KCR to kick up agitations and take the lives of a few innocent Telangana youth, and later goes back into hiding after bargaining with Sonia for financial package,” she alleged.
Surekha demanded that the TRS president should disclose in how many days he would fetch Telangana state, if YSR Congress party gives its consent for separate state. She said all the political parties should send only one representative each to the all-party meeting on Telangana.
Kamal Hassan can not face Ram Charan
Kamal Hassan may be a Universal Hero and may have many blockbuster to his credit but thats all is history now. The actor now can not compete with the current crop of heroes. Going in to detail, Kamal Hassan, the actor, director and producer of the movie had earlier planned for the simultaneous release of the movie in three languages – Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu for Sankranthi. And now the makers have decided to postpone the Telugu version. They say that non availability of theaters due to Nayak and SVSC release as the reason for the postponement.
But Kamal Hassan is confident of the movie success and hopes to get a buyer in Telugu once it generates good talk in Tamil and Hindi. On the other side, Kamal is planning to release the movie on DTH 8 hours before the movie release.
Lawerence fined for Rebel disaster
Young Star Prabhas’s ‘Rebel’ which released few months ago not only became a thorn in the flesh of fans but also the makers of the movie. The producers of the movie, J.Bhagawan and J.Pullarao, have lodged a complaint in producers council against the director Lawrence then alleging that the director has accepted to complete the movie ‘Rebel’ with a budget of Rs.22.5 crores. However, the makers had to shell out Rs. 45 crores at the end of the shoot. The two producers held Lawrence as the responsibility for not honoring the agreement. Finally, the meeting of the two parties took place yesterday in Film chamber and the council instructed Lawerence to pay 2.5C compensation for the Producers.
Lawrence had agreed to pay an amount of Rs.2.5cr to the producers within one month of time and he has agreed to pay another amount of Rs 25 lakhs as service charges to the committee for the settlement.
Sai Dharam Tej exploiting Chiranjeevi’s fame
Sai Dharam Tej’s Rey is in all sorts of trouble after the movie was in production for more than 2 years. The movie budget was inflated and is in bad books of the buyers. But the makers are trying a way out of this. They are planning to remix Chiranjeevi’s super hit song, ‘Golimaar’ from Donga movie in their movie to bring some hype to the movie. The song will be very soon shot on Sai Dharam Tej and Shradda das. The movie is being planned for release on March 28th release.
Saymani Kher is the first heroine, while Shraddha Das (of Arya2 and Mogudu fame) is playing second fiddle to Saymani. “Rey” is a high budget film, this music oriented love story is coming with the caption “Shout for success”. Rey is also being produced by YVS on his Bommarillu vari banner. Chakri is composing the music.
Prabhudeva Vs Rajinikanth
Prabhudeva and Rajinkanth had worked together for many movies when the former was a choreographer but now both of them are going to compete each other as both their films are set to release on the same day, February the 8th, 2013.
Rajini’s Kochadaiyaan and Prabhudeva’s ABCD- Any Body Can Dance will hit the theatres on that day. Co-incidentally the two movies will be released in 3D while their huge fandom will remain in the dilemma of watching which movie first. While Rajinikanth’s Kochadaiyaan is directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar, Prabhudheva’s Any Body Can Dance is directed by director and choreographer Remo D’Souza and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur. Ganesh Acharya and Prabhudheva star in ABCD – Any Body Can Dance which is the first Bollywood dance film of India in 3D. On the other hand Kochadaiyaan features Deepika Padukone along with Rajinikanth while the movie is believed to be inspired from an emperor during the 8th century, but is not confirmed.
Hyderabad gearing up to greet Salman Khan
Salman Khan popularly called as Sallu bhai is a darling of masses in Hyderabad like any where in the country. Old city has a massive cult following of the Dabangg actor.The actor is a big icon in this part of city, you will see pictures of Salman Khan on auto rickshaws, in gyms, hair salons, etc. The actor is now coming to the city for a private programme called the Times Salman Khan Night.
Salman Khan’s Dabangg 2 is all set for release on December 21st. “Dabangg 2”, has been produced as well as directed by his younger brother Arbaaz. The film, features Prakash Raj as the villain.
1.25 Cr for Golden girl Samantha !
Samanta Ruth Prabhu is currently the top heroine in Tollywood. The actor has gone past her peers like Tamanna, Trisha and Anushka as far as remuneration and success is concerned. And her recent pay for the next film which Jr.NTR is 1.25 Cr has confirmed her top position once again.
Her pay envelope is next only to Ileana who reportedly demanded Rs1.5 crore for Snehithudu. Sources say that Samanta’s increased remuneration is the result of stiff competition between producers Dil Raju and Bellamkonda Suresh, who were vying for dates from the Dhookudu girl.
Both producers approached her to act opposite the same hero, Jr NTR, in their respective films but Samantha chose Bellamkonda Suresh thanks to the Rs1.25 crore offer. Bellamkonda, in fact, has a history of offering big pay packets and it was him who had given Ileana her first Rs1 crore cheque, for Bhale Dongalu.
“We don’t know how these rumours crop up since no producer offers fancy pay cheques to actors, so these figures are just unbelievable. It’s true that both producers, Dil Raju and Bellamkonda Suresh, had approached her and she could be doing both films back-to-back by allotting dates to Dil Raju from January and to Suresh from March-end,” says Mahendra, who is close to the actor.
Apart from the big pay packet, the actor is the new brand of Dabur Amla across South India, thus indicating her rising popularity.
And the Oscar goes to A.R.Rehman again?
The Oscar winning Indian musician, Mozart of Madras A.R.Rehman is currently creating waves with his latest outing Mani Ratnam’s Kadal across the country and now we hear that the two time Oscar winner is back on the race. His last Hollywood project “People Like Us” has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards for its original scores. This is among the 106 other musical scores competing for the final nominations. Interesting another Indian composer has also made it into the list. Sreevalsan J Menon, a well-known musician from Kerala, for his work in Roopesh Paul’s Saint Dracula.
A.R.Rehman bagged two Oscars for Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. Nominated again for Academy awards for 127 Hours which is again directed Danny Boyle. This time for the film directed by Alex Kurtzman who has earlier directed the films Transformers, Star trek. It’s sad though no Indian movie made an entry to Oscars this time. Let’s hope for Rehman to bag yet another prestigious Academy award
Tollywood Snippets !
Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam is all set to release on January 11, 2013 for this pongal simultaneously in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. But due to the strong competition from Ram Charan’s Nayak, Mahesh Babu, Venkatesh Multi starrer SVSC, Kamal decided to postpone the release of the Telugu version of the film to the end of January, while the Tamil and Hindi versions will go as per the plan.
Much awaited magical multistarrer Seetamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu with Super Star Mahesh Babu and Victory Venkatesh’s duo will wrap up its shoot by December 21st. Except a song on Venkatesh and Anjali, rest of the shoot is almost completed. Recently a song on Mahesh babu and Samantha is shot in Pune. Srikanth Addala is directing and Dil Raju is producing the film.
Sarvanand’s debut venture of his own banner Sarvaa Arts KO ANTE KOTI, directed by Anish Yohan Kuruvilla (Avakai Biryani’s fame) is planned to hit the screens on 28th December. This might be the last film of this year in Tollywood. Keeping in mind the huge competition from big budget films in January, the team decided to release it this month. Priya anand is pairing with Sarvanad.
Prabhas MIRCHI, directed by Koratala Shiva is progressing in jet speed reached to its final schedule. Devi Shri Prasad is scoring the music and the audio launch of the film is likely to take place at the end of this month.