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The shooting of Daggubati scion Rana’s upcoming movie ‘Krishnum Vande Jagadgurum’ is complete except for one song. A song titled ‘Ranga Marthanda B Tech Babu’ was shot on Rana and Raghu Babu recently. The remaining song will be canned very soon and then the movie will enter extensive post production work. The makers are planning to release the movie in October.

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum is an action thriller with all commercial elements. The bilingual movie focuses on the illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh. Rana Daggubati is playing a B Tech Babu and can be seen sporting six pack abs. Actress Nayantara appears as a documentary writer and she is Rana’s love interest in this most-awaited movie.

Now demand is only for writers who pen dialogues or songs that include ‘nee jimmada’. Though they are fully aware that the word come with a meaning of death wish to others, it invariably finds way in films. Heroine always uses such words on hero. Even in songs all the lyrics are monotonous so much so that every one knows that after sambaram , ambaram comes. Still writers use the same old word again and again. There are very few poets and writers who can write without using words repetitively. One wonder how many are there who can pen songs without repeating the same words again and again.

Opportunities are only for those who move closely with directors, producers, music directors and heroes. After Vishwanath introduced Veturi and later Sirivennela no song writer and poet came in tollywood. Anant Sriram, Ramajogayya Sastri are still toddlers compared to the greats and film makers are not having time to scout for new talent that emerge in magazines or dailies. Recently at the ‘Yeto Vellipoindi’ audio launch, film makers did not even find it fit to include the names of lyricists on the album. One wonder whether Ilayaraja tuned songs with out being penned?.

Similar is the trend in dlalogue writing. Talented few like Tanikella Bharani and Trivikram Srinivas confined themselves as actor and director. LB.Sriram and Janardhan Maharshi are sometimes using their pen and creativity. Though there are many writers for commercial films, none of them could deliver dialogues with depth and feel. Jandhyala penned scripts and dialogues for others even after he became director. Vamsi couldn’t get any hits after Tanikella stopped writing. After the demise of KV.Mahadevan, K.Murari stopped film making. This shows the lack of writers. Trivikram Srinivas a talented writer stopped writing. It seems none of the film makers want his scripts. It is a known fact that ‘Shirdi Sai’ suffered from uninspiring songs and dialogues. One wonder why film makers did not use the services of Srivennela. May be they felt he is not that qualified. Currently one are there who can write songs like veturi.

Till some years back film stars used to be out of the world and many people felt that they are highly inaccessible as they used to stay aloof from public appearances and functions. That’s why many fans and die hard movie lovers used to throng their houses on holidays or weekends at the hope of catching a glimpse of their matinee idols. However things changed and stars started descending down to people much to their delight. They started performing live at various functions and even started mingling with fans and people as competition grew up and PR skills and public interactions becoming order of the day to increase their popularity.

Sometime back during the 100 day function at Vijayawada, Megastar danced to the popular number ‘Dai dai dama’ and the veena step driving the fans crazy. Even King Nagarjuna did it in ‘King’ audio function while Young Tiger NTR danced to ‘Taaliya Taaliya’ at Sakthi audio launch. Even beautiful Ileana danced to ‘Premadesam yuvarani’ knocking the hearts of many in the process.

This soon became a must at various functions. Young Tiger and DSP danced in ‘Oosaravelli’ launch, while Stylish Star Allu Arjun did it in style in ‘Arya-2’. Natasimha Balakrishna who always delights with powerful dialogues during his film functions danced to ‘chalaki chupulatote mantram vesi’ along with Chakri in ‘Srimannarayana’. Even beauties Tamanna did it in 100% Love, Charmi more recently for ‘Sakku Bai’ in ‘Damarukam’. Manchu Manoj enacted stunts in ‘Vastadu Na Raju’ at Vijayawada and danced in ‘Salim’. During ‘Ukodatara Uliki Padatara’ he was joined by Deeksha Seth and Tapsi.

However not all stars perform to the delight of fans. Heroes like Power Star Pawan Kalyan, Prince Mahesh Babu maintain stoic silence while mass heroes who leave all in awe with powerful action like Prabhas, Raviteja and Gopichand will not open their mouths at functions. However Shirya is the toast of all eyes with her performances in various functions.

King Nagarjuna’s ‘Shirdi Sai’ which was released a week back got mixed response from movie lovers and devotees. Many felt they had high expectations on the film which came in the combination of Nagarjuna and Raghavendra Rao as they earlier presented them films like ‘Annamayya’ and ‘Sri Ramadasu’. However all those are belied mostly because of unwanted and unexpected comedy of the film which made ‘Shirdi Sai’ a laughing stock.

While some devotees took it in their stride, the twisting of Sai making heavenly abode, no one could digest the obscene comedy which hurt the feelings of many. Some say it was Parachuri brothers who influenced Raghavendra Rao and Nagarjuna to include comedy track. As Raghavendra Rao believed them and Nag inturn KRR, these tracks are included which proved detrimental in the film’s success.

Shirdi Sai script writer planned a press meet prior to the release of the film, to express his sadness at the interference of Parachuri brothers in the script but he couldn’t reveal as the press meet was attended by Parachuri Gopalakrishna. Many new comers in film nagar say that Parachuri brothers unduly interfere in their scripts and spoil to the core but film makers and directors can not do anything as they have immense reputation in the film industry.

Tollywood films and for that matter Indian film industry irrespective of region, have low impression of heroines. They are looked down lowly by all departments and in front of heroes they don’t have any value. Film industry people may look down heroines as their roles don’t have any scope for performance and are only present for glamor treat. But many pity heroines as it is the glamor treat of heroines and their beautiful presence that are resulting in movie lovers thronging theaters. However they don’t get any credit for the success of the film with entire credit going to heroes. However when any flop comes it will invariably goes to heroines account and they will be branded as iron legs which put a end to their career even before it takes off.

More recently industry is witnessing another new trend in which script writers are including dialogues making fun of heroines which will be hurled by heroes. Trivikram has that quality from the beginning and in Julaayi he insulted Ileana through Allu Arjun saying ‘karuvochina countryki brand ambassador’. This made her say good bye to Tollywood permanently. More recently Balakrishna in ‘Srimannarayana’ insulted Parvathi Melton saying ‘bonguku pant shirt vesinattu undi’. Even in ‘OK OK’ Udayanidhi Stalin insults Hansika saying ‘maidapindi moham dana’. Mahesh in his films insulted Trisha, Samantha and Anushka .

Yester year Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore had converted to Islam after she married cricketer Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. And now looks like Kareena is all set to follow Sharmila’s foot steps as she is very soon going to marry Saif Ali Khan. October 16th is reportedly the wedding date and it was rumoured in Bollywood that Kareena will be converting to Islam before the marriage ceremony.

Sharmila Tagore had donned the name Ayesha Begum after the conversion. It has to be seen if Kareena also changes her name.

Now a days people are used to hearing the word records, collections etc and many are left wondering whether they are really true or it is just a hype created by the film makers. Even if these records turn out to be true in any particular film, the film will be screened for not more than two to three weeks. It will continue its journey only if another film doesn’t come in its way carrying a good talk. Now a days people completely forgot the words ‘golden jubilee’, ‘silver jubilee’. Even 100 days is becoming a rarity. Some try to find comfort in the fact that while during olden days if a film celebrates 100 days, it comes to three shows per day for 100 days. It adds to 3×100=300 shows over all. Now a days if a film is released in 10 theaters and 4 shows per day, in a week 280 shows would be completed. But all this is number jumbling. For the entire first week only fans watch the film and the fate of the film would be decided in the second week during which people decide whether to watch the film or not going by reviews and mouth talk. Film makers are not concerned about all these but are releasing the film with more number of prints and rake money.

In 1977 NTR starrer ‘Adavi Ramudu’ celebrated 100 days in 32 centers. Dasara Bullodu completed 100 days in 22 centers , 200 days in 4 centers. Its first week collections came upto Rs 10, 68000. But all these were not considered as victories. Lavakusa which was released in 1963 in 26 centers celebrated 100 days and even on its second release it created a sensation. It is the first film to have collected one crore. But it happened in 14 weeks. But current 100crs is no match to Lavakusa’s one crore 80yrs back. This shows that Lavakusha record is unbreakable even now as it is the only film which is widely watched whenever it is screened.

Mega Power Star Ram Charan Teja is on secret mission now a days and is working on single minded focus to emerge successful in his pursuits. After ‘Orange’ debacle, Cherry is planning his career in a careful and perfect manner and is not leaving any scope for mistakes. He is making his bollywood entry and is all set to become genex angry young man with ‘Zanjeer’ under Apurva Lakhia. Priyanka Chopra is starring opposite Cherry.

He has taken all measures so that he wont be facing any criticism that he is ignoring Tollywood in search of greener pastures in Bollywood. He is simultaneously shooting for VV.Vinayak’s ‘Nayak’ in which he is playing dual roles for the first time in his career and also ‘Yevadu’ under Vamsi Pydipalli direction. In the midst of all this Cherry’s secret mission is unearthed.

Sources say he along with Bollywood producer Amit Mehra and director Apurva Lakhia is keen on showing the power by raking record collections on the first day of Zanjeer release. They are eying no less than minimum 25 crs on the first day and are banking on Cherry’s following in AP. Salman’s Ek Tha Tiger created the record with Rs 35 crs collections on opening day. It has to be seen how much Cherry can collect with his fire power.