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Though it is not being spoken in the open, a lot of grapevine has been making rounds in the Telugu Desam Party circles and few sections of the Tollywood circles. This is about the relation between young tiger Jr NTR and Nandamuri Balakrishna. Well, the buzz is that both seem to be going through some friction.

Ever since the audio release function of ‘Dammu’ happened with not one member of the Nandamuri family being present, the speculations have gone high. Now, another update has arrived. ‘Dammu’ was not given any support by Balayya fans is the talk and this is not showing a good sign to anyone.

So, few senior members of the TDP and well wishers of the Nandamuri family have reportedly begun making efforts to bring peace between Babai-Abbai. Whether all this is true or not, if there is indeed some cracks between NTR Jr and Balayya then it wont do any good to the Nandamuris or the TDP.

This heroine is has ruled the roost for a great deal of time, but is now fearing that her career might take a u-turn. Apparent reason for thinning of offers is her growing age and the growing number of young heroes in tinsel town.

Petite beauty Trisha rubbished off rumors earlier that she is worried about her aging face that can be noticed. But, after ‘Dammu’ got out in theaters, her age is quite noticeable and she is no more a young looking cute chick. Sources are saying that Trisha, who is now on a holiday trip to East Asian countries, is gearing up for a massage in Thailand to get back her lost glow.

This special Thai-massage with mud, clay and hot pebbles rubbed around the body will keep off wrinkles and reduces aging of skin. This petite hottie will be soon romancing RaviTeja for the second time in an untitled flick.

Young hero Ram, who is having a strong streak in him to deliver energetic performances, is worried about the hurdles that are knocking him down. One is Power Star Pawan Kalyan and the other is Stylish Star Allu Arjun.

Ram has won accolades in the likes of Allu Arjun when it comes to moving swiftly on the dance floor. But, most of the time, his energies are compared with Arjun’s. Indeed this is worrying Ram as he is unable to come out with distinct mark to stop these comparisons. On the other hand, if he does some exaggerated performance, we’re immediately reminded of Pawan Kalyan.

Recently, producer Allu Arvind also openly stated that Ram resembles Powerstar in his acting. Insiders are saying that Ram is now working hard to come out of this cocoon with a distinct style of his own. ‘As long as he imitates those two heroes, people speak that way. Ram should work with guys like Puri and Trivikram to get his body language changed’, say a top producer.

The entire shoot of Powerstar Pawan Kalyan’s Gabbar Singh have been wrapped up in Switzerland Today. Film’s lead lady Shruti Hassan, who had a fantastic time with the cast and crew of the unit, is missing them big time already.

After director Harish Shankar declaration of the wrap of entire shoot, Shruti kissed Pawan on his cheeks and big goodbye to her fabulous co-star. She is very excited about this project since the day she was roped in to play the role of village belle Bhagya Lakshmi (her character name in Gabbar Singh). The unit sources say, Shruti excelled in her role and Gabbar Singh will be a memorable film in her career.

The multi-talented beauty pinned a lot of hopes on Gabbar Singh, expecting that the outcome of this biggie will bring her good fortune by giving her the much needed hit. In a Industry where filmmaking is treated as Business, only ‘success’ counts and nothing else matters. You may be talented, but without success your talent will go in vain. So Shruti, keep your fingers crossed till the release of Gabbar Singh!

Ram Charan is doing things which are thought not possible for a Telugu hero to do. Even Megastar hasn’t wrapped such popularity at National level even after acting in a couple of Hindi movies. Now the question is about Chiru’s support to him.

While he is busy with the shoot of ‘Zanjeer’ during day time, Ram Charan is keeping busy with parties during the evenings. His dinner with Bollywood hunk Salman and another outing with spicy siren Bipasha Basu is an example of this. Sources are saying that Chiru is giving full support to Charan’s parties as that will help him get much publicity and contacts. It is not only acting and on his work one should concentrate.

Keeping a tab on happenings in the tinsel town by attending the hot gala events in the nights, will help you market in the town, which Ram Charan needs well at this point of time. Chit chats with heroines and fun time with heroes is all part of the game, and Chiru’s, Upasna’s family knows this well it seems.

Mega powerstar Ram Charan who has begun shooting for his Bollywood debut venture ‘Zanjeer’ has already wrapped up the first schedule. Now he is not taking it easy and has begun his other project. Recently, it is heard that Charan was spotted shaking a leg with a gorgeous foreign girl.

Well, all this is happening for his new movie ‘Yevadu’ and the girl in picture happens to be the British beauty Amy Jackson, the second lead of his movie. The shooting of ‘Yevadu’ has begun in Hyderabad and currently the song shooting is happening which is being canned on the young pair.

This is being directed by Vamsi Paidipally while Dil Raju is the producer. The lovely smile beauty Samantha is the leading lady and the stylish star Allu Arjun is doing a brief but important cameo in the film. The music for the film is being composed by Devi Sri Prasad and it is more of a suspense thriller.

The movie unit of Victory Venkatesh’s Shadow have left to malaysia for a 50 day long schedule. A couple of songs and few crucial scenes on lead actors and main cast will be canned in this schedule. Venkatesh had reportedly playing a don in the movie

Taapsee is the female lead in this film.Srikanth and Madhurima are the another lead pair in this film. ‘Shakthi’ and ‘ Kantri’ fame Meher Ramesh is the director of the film while Paruchuri Kiriti is producing the movie on United Movies banner. S S Thaman is scoring music for this film. The movie is expected to release towards the end of the year.

With Dammu running well, Jr.NTR has now shifted his focus on to his next project Baadshah. The movie will be directed by Srinu Vaitla and produced by Ganesh Babu. The music has been composed by Thaman and the script writers for this movie are Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan. Regular Shoot of the movie starts from 10th of this month in Hyderabad.The movie story is set mostly in Italy where the team will shoot for 50 days. Kajal Agarwal is pairing up with NTR in the movie. Thaman is rendering the music.

Vaitla has completed the script of the movie and is raring to go on to sets once again after his recent success Dookudu.

Recently Siddharth has stepped out from the project “Sukumarudu” due to clash of his dates with other big projects and Aadi has been roped in his place .Ashok of Pilla Zamindar fame will be the director and K Venugopal and KVV Satyanarayana are the producers for this flick. Nisha Agarwal will be pairing with him in the movie. The regular shooting of the film starts towards the end of this month

Sai Kumar’s son Aadi’s second Telugu film “Lovely” was released recently but could not attract the audience. Aadi had pinned high hopes on the movie to do well at the box office.

Aswini Dutt’s Vyjayanthi movies banner was once known for making huge movies with crazy combinations. Some of those movies were huge hits and kept the cash registers ringing loud. However, times have changed significantly and all his moves started to bite dust leaving the mega producer in debt. Also his bad reputation in paying remunerations on time had lost him the backing of several heroes.

Hence, Dutt had decided to take the other route. He is trying to rope in medium budget movies and small directors to try his luck. He is currently producing Ravi Teja’s next movie under Solo fame Parasuram direction and a project of NTR with Sampath Nandi direction is on cards.

The warrior getup in Magadheera had not only changed the dynamics of Telugu cinema trade, it also created strong urge in NTR to portray roles with such getup. He had tried one in Shakthi and failed miserably. The getup actually turned negative for the movie. However, NTR did not give up. He once gain tried them in Ruler song in his latest movie, Dammu. The song which was an instant chart buster when the audio released but the onscreen presentation was a huge let down and the warrior get up once again proved a disappointment for NTR.

Lets see if NTR’s desire will be fulfilled in future!

Rana Daggubati and Ram Charan had already plunged in to Bollywood and are seriously trying their luck there. One of the other serious contenders is Mahesh Babu. Mahesh had suddenly shot to fame with two back to back blockbusters. His TV commercial for Thums Up national wide had suddenly attracted eye balls from all sections of India. He is now a well known face through out India. With all this in his kitty, the big question asked is when is his debut in Hindi cinema.

Sources close to Mahesh tells us that the actor is seriously considering to step in to Bollywood but he wanted to make it big just like in Telugu and is waiting for rigt director and script for his debut.

That’s an interesting strategy. Isn’t it?

NTR is showing his power at the box office with Dammu yet again. He has been shaking the box office with divide talk and average reviews. Dammu managed to collect above 13.5 crore rupees in first three days and that too in AP alone. Besides it has done well in the first weekend in Karnataka too. It is too early to say if Dammu reaches safe zone or not as the talk is still not so encouraging.

Keeping commercial outcome of Dammu aside, one thing is pretty clear with this movie. NTR is the best performer among the current crop of actors. He is extremely brilliant in emotional scenes. No one comes close to him in this aspect. He is very good at mouthing powerful dialogues. None others can beat him in this department.

NTR is improving with comedy timing and is decent in romantic scenes. He is a pretty good dancer and fights so naturally. There is raw power in his fights. All in all NTR is a complete actor and Dammu once again proves a point to his critics. He should have won at least two Nandi awards by now. Somehow he has been missing to bag the best actor award despite superb performances. Hope Dammu fetches him his first Nandi as the best actor.

So far, the entire NTR clan had one set of common fans and followers, particularly Balakrishna and Jr NTR who enjoyed the same fan following. Fans of Balakrishna were by default fans of Jr NTR and vice versa. But things have changed overnight. Last Friday, when Jr NTR’s much-awaited flick ‘Dammu’ hit the screens, hate messages started doing the rounds within hours of the film’s release saying that Balakrishna’s fans should not support the film.While mixed talks are continuing, there are those who are trying to figure ou the reasons for the film not doing well. And a very shocking talk has begun to make rounds.

It is heard that Nandamuri Balakrishna is one of the key reasons to kill the film. Sources say he has given instructions to his fans and followers to spread negative talk through SMS. It is also heard that with his influence he has got the police forces to be stationed across many theatres in the state.

Usually, giving ‘A’ certificate is censor board’s job but implementing it is police department’s job. However, due to their various other assignments they don’t really care. But if they have a special force or pressure they will do it. Only someone powerful can do that. Buzz is that through Chandrababu Naidu, Balayya is using influence and the police is involving and sending away family audience.The other point is, Balayya scored hit with ‘Simha’ under Boyapati’s direction but if ‘Dammu’ also becomes a hit then credit will go to Boyapati. And it is heard that Balayya wants to prove that because he was there the film became a hit. If this talk is true then it sure is a major damage for ‘Dammu’.

The question now is whether ‘Dammu’, starring Jr NTR and Trisha, will do well in the box office. Well, if it doesn’t, we know who Jr NTR would blame.

For all those who still doubt on Pawan Kalyan’s dancing abilities, answer is going to be in the form of ‘Gabbar Singh.’ Like Mega Star who never performed big or mind blowing dance moments in his career, it’s the grace and body language which makes audience to go in whistles, even Power Star is to show the magic in same format. The second teaser of ‘Gabbar Singh’ released to media is a strong proof on how director Harish Shankar made Pawan to move his body.

Post ‘Kushi,’ never have we seen Pawan Kalyan performing dances wholeheartedly. However, he openly accepts of being not a good dancer yet a small shake is enough for Fans to take the film’s success sphere to a new high. This is what going to happen in ‘Gabbar Singh’ because neither Pawan nor choreographers could control their temptations for DSP’s mass tunes.

Well, Dammu opened well at the box office, but it is performing well below the expectations. It is likely to face problems from sixth day as the initial hype is gone now. Even though Dammu can hold its ground for another week or so, then it will have to make way for the next biggie Gabbar Singh. Buyers of Dammu will have to recover their investment in the meantime and it seems highly impossible with this talk.

However, NTR fans or the star himself need not worry too much about Dammu’s under par show. Why because the actor’s lineup of films look bright and promising. Srinu Vailta’s Badshah is NTR’s immediate release after Dammu. We all know that Vaitla is a director with special skills. He always blends the hero’s image with his style of entertainment and delivers minimum guarantee films. As pet the buzz, Badshah story has shaped up really well.

After Badshah, NTR has a film each with Puri Jagan and Trivikram. Both the directors are known for making films according to the strengths of the actors. Although Puri made a flop called Andhrawala with NTR, he is looking forward to settle the scores with a big hit. Trivikram on the other hand explores the funny side of actors and highlights their comedy angle in a brilliant fashion. Also these directors have a good following among the family audiences and class sections too. That will come in handy for NTR to expand his range as a star.