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Glamorous mothers grooming their daughters as next generation heroines is a general trend followed in films. When it comes to the case of yesteryear beauty queen Sreedevi and her daughter Jahnavi, this trend becomes much more specialized. There is a big talk on the debut of Jahnavi with any of the South Films owing it as their pleasure because Sreedevi roused to great heights of fame in B-town only after making it to top in South film industry.

Although nothing of a clearance is offered by Sreedevi on Jahnavi’s first entry but the way this doting mother is focusing on daughter’s career is seen all the way when she is focused to cameras at recent event of Lakme Fashion Week. The pretty daughter is easily stealing the limelight wearing attractive costumes revealing the needed. Some say, Sreedevi is trying extra mile to show herself still as younger as her daughter while Jahnavi is silently pulling the camera crowds.

Satellite Rights have become the best business tool for Producers to recover their prime investment made in production of a film. Unlike small and medium budget average films that are also making Rs.1 Crore easily in the form of Satellite Rights, one could anticipate on what would be the price of a film coming from Junior NTR and that too with positive pre-release talk? Yes, we are talking about ‘Dammu’ in direction of most successful Boyapati Srinu slated for release very soon and price of the Satellite Rights.

Fresh update from our filmy sources says that Zee Telugu bagged the rights of ‘Dammu’ for a whopping Rs.6.6 Crores which is highest in terms of any business on smaller screen circuit. Although there is good competition among TV channels to buy best movies, ‘Dammu’ faring for this kind of big show is nothing surprising because Junior NTR is the craziest star in Andhra Pradesh.

The prominent and prestigious Film Awards of India is National Film Awards, which are officially announced few minutes ago in New Delhi. Here is the list of 59th national film awards winners:

Best Actor: Girish Kulkarni for the film ‘Deool’ (Marathi)

Best Actress: Vidya Balan for the film ‘The Dirty Picture’

Best Hindi Film: ‘I Am’ directed by Onir

Best Feature Film: ‘Byari’ (Kannada) and ‘Deool’ (Marathi)

Best Children Film: ‘Chillar Party’ of Salman Khan

Best Special Effects: ‘RA.One’ of Shah Rukh Khan

Best Choreography: Bosco-Caeser for Senorita from the film ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’

Best Make Up: Vijram Gaekwad for ‘The Dirty Picture’ and ‘Bal Gandharva’

Best Costume Designer: Niharika Khan for ‘The Dirty Picture’ and Neeta Lulla for ‘Bal Gandharva’

Best Supporting Actor: Appu Kutty

Post ‘Simhadri,’ the stream of failures faced by junior ntr made a strong point that Nandamuri Young Tiger should adopt more for versatile characterizations instead of hanging on with directors who focused only on his mass mannerisms. Accordingly NTR changed his working methodology for ‘Kantri, Adurs, Brindavanam’ to re-appear in a new charm. Luckily, more or less all three clicked at Box Office and Junior came out of those branded punches and stories by which Nandamuri Heroes are usually addressed with.

Stills of ‘Dammu,’ the upcoming flick from NTR are creating tense moments especially for Nandamuri Fans. Reason being director Boyapati Srinu calling ‘Dammu’ as a regular film. Going by some deadly experiences of other Nandamuri Heroes in recent time, the big questions that need answers are…can audience accept NTR getting back in his best or old action form? Will Boyapati’s run of the mill mass treatment work this time? Wait till next month and we are to get enough answers.

It appears, hero ram is all set to create a rare record among the present day heroes of tollywood. His latest movie, ‘Endukante Premanta’ is being canned in two languages simultaneously. They are Telugu and Tamil. The Tamil version of the film has been titled as ‘En Endraal Kaadal Enbein’. Currently, he is giving his own voice for the Tamil flick. According to ram, he is facing a different experience in doing the movie in two languages.

Milky beauty Tamanna is doing opposite to ram. G.V.Prakash Kumar is composing the music. Sravanthi Ravi Kishore is producing the movie under Sravanthi Movies. Karunakaran is the director. The makers are planning to release the movie on the same date in both the languages.

There are bundles of talents lying outside the film industry. While some get an easy access into industry others aren’t endowed with the same. The second category of craftsmen adopts various paths like exhibiting their inventiveness on Youtube or any other social networking platforms. One such team which came to light by the good work of TV9 is of ‘Businessman 2’ with tagline of ‘Toilets Don’t Need Agreements.’

Four people Mallik, Suresh, Hanuman and Anil who made a parody of ‘Businessman’ in the name of ‘Businessman 2’ is going rounds on net spreading the humor and social message for improvement in civic sense among public. On the other side, some of Mahesh Babu Fans are angry with TV9 for promoting such ‘D’egrading stuff but definitely others are to agree ‘Businessman 2’ as a quality attempt by this very small team. Fortunate enough that team members of ‘Businessman 2’ are die hard admirers of both Puri and Mahesh Babu.

Balakrishna and Chiranjeevi have been friends (!) in the film industry, but have turned foes due to their political ideologies. Recent verbal exchanges between the stars have put their relation at bay. Balakrishna crossed the line by furious verbal attack against Chiranjeevi and the latter maintained his cool.

Now there is a buzz being heard among the film circles that Balakrishna is going to throw more satires on Chiranjeevi in the film Adhinayakudu. This movie has political backdrop and Balakrishna plays the role of Chief Minister in it. There are many powerful scenes and dialogues written for this character it seems.

Balakrishna has taken indirect and direct digs at Chiranjeevi in this film and the director has created situations is what the grapevine say. If this turns into reality and Balakrishna targets Chiranjeevi through movie, then the rift between the stars will get even worse.

In fact, the minute a flick comes from Mega Camp, the buzz goes straight about the director of that movie accrediting hit or flop. Even before the release of Megapower star’s ‘Racha’, an interesting is going on about its director.

The latest story doing rounds in Film Nagar is that director Sampath Nandi was sidelined from ‘Racha’ to rope in a senior director for handling certain scenes. Action scenes are conceived with a help from this senior (our guess is V V Vinayak), who used to give tips to Ram charan’s director before everyday shoot. Some of the scenes are said to handled by Charan himself, where he felt a low confidence on Sampath’s conceiving. To add fuel, Charan’s ramblings about Vamsi Paidipalli’s (director of his next, Yevadu) clarity is giving thoughts that Sampath had no such clarity. ‘Sampath being a second film director and no experience of handling a mass-commercial entertainer, these kinds of gossips pop up.

Else, everything is cool here and everyone including Charan and Chiru are confident of this young director’s work’, a highly placed source in Chiru’s camp revealed. All these ‘secret-director’ gossips will vanish once ‘Racha’ scores a point at BO in summer, else scene will be reverse for Sampath Nandi.

Telugu heroes Ram Charan and Ram are soon going to test Tamil waters. Charan have been waiting to conquer Tamil market for a while. Although Magadheera did a reasonable business in Tamilnadu, delaying it for two years didn’t help Charan’s cause. Now he is trying to get a bigger slice of Kollywood market with Racha.

On the other hand, young actor Ram is all set to release his upcoming movie Endukante Premanta in Tamil. Ram claims that this film is a true bilingual, where every shot is picturized twice in both the languages. Karunakaran is the director of this film and this marks his debut in Tamil.

Both these films have Tamanna as the heroine and that should help these films to fetch good Collections across Tamilnadu. Tamanna is a big star in Tamilnadu and her fans have been desperately waiting to see her back on silver screen. Despite the fact that these are Tollywood movies, Tamanna factor should help these films to grab the attention of Tamilians.

Much awaited movie of Nandamuri hero Balayya failed to impress fans with its first look. Let’s have a look at the immediate responses of people after watching the promos of ‘Adhinayakudu’.

With Balakrishna scorching the screen once again with three different getups, horrific yesteryear ‘Okka Magadu’ scenes are recollected by fans. Neither the trailer nor the other video songs of ‘Adhinayakudu’ have scored a point with Tollywood audiences. Other than Balayya’s looks, there is nothing new offered with the songs though heroine Lakshmi Rai gave a limitless access to her oozing sex appeal. Music director Kalyani Malik failed to run the show with some foot tapping music unlike his previous venture ‘Andhrudu’ with director Paruchuri Murali.

Now, the sole focus is on the versatility of the story, which could make the film a decent treat for the money invested on tickets. Insiders are saying that the film is a masala treat with full of comedy interlaced with the sizzling glamour quotient of heroines. Let us hope the movie will strike ‘gold’ at Box Office!

The tough taskmaster S S Rajamouli has been branded as the numero uno director of Tollywood and many top league actors and technicians eagerly wait to be part of his project. Right now, the entire focus of the film industry and audience is on Rajamouli’s new movie ‘Eega’ which is slated to be a graphical extravaganza.

While that is one side, it is heard that Rajamouli is being mocked by one actress. Well, she is none other than the heavy duty bombshell Namitha. Apparently, Namitha is arriving with a movie called ‘Midatha’ and those who heard the title say this is just mocking Rajamouli and his film.

Apparently ‘Midatha’ is a dubbed movie and Namitha would be seen oozing the oomph to the fullest. The film also has another sex bomb Ragasiya showing her curves. This is slated for a release in the month of April. With ‘Eega’ also arriving around the same time, the ‘Eega’ vs ‘Midatha’ clash would be interesting.

Several gossips have been making rounds for the past few days about the heroine of Power Star Pawan Kalyan’s new movie, ‘Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu’. Kajal was earlier, considered the female lead of the movie. However, she is facing dates problem to act in this movie. Later, some of the media sources spread a gossip that Aishwarya Roy would be the heroine of the movie. This gossip was also proved to be wrong.

As per the latest grapevine, the makers are reportedly negotiating with Anushka to be roped in as the heroine of their project. We have to wait and see whether these discussions will work out or not. This movie is going to be launched on 15th May and it would be completed in the month of September. The movie is likely to be released in the month of October. Puri Jagannadh is the director.

King Nagarjuna is doing another creative venture in his career in the form of ‘Shirdi Sai’. As of now, he was seen as devotee through the movies like ‘Annamayya’ and ‘Sri Ramadasu’. Both the movies proved to be box office super hits. This time he is going to be seen as the God in Shirdi Sai. As per his fans, he is going to break following records.

* His ‘Shirdi Sai’ is going to cross 100 days centers and total shares of his contemporary heroes Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna’s mythological flicks like ‘Sri Manjunatha’ and ‘Sri Ramarajyam’.

* Earlier, Vijaya Chandar’s ‘Karunamayudu’ earned lot of fame to him. This time, Nagarjuna is going to achieve that feat as ‘Shirdi Sai’.

* Nagarjuna is likely to get national award for this movie that no Telugu hero has achieved it so far.

Behind the screen, plenty of business deals happening for ‘Rachcha’ are shocking to hear about. Apparently, out of the form Ramcharan still has the Mega Charm to do wonders at BO and ‘Rachcha’ is standing out as an example. As per inner reports, producers of ‘Rachcha’ are sitting happy with table profits after investing nearly Rs.30 Crores on film and in parallel completed the business of all the areas except Nizam for Rs.32 Crores which means makers are already safe enjoying the profit in the form of Nizam + 2 Crores liquid cash.

On the other side, Junior NTR’s ‘Dammu’ pre-release business is reported of closed at nearly Rs.40 Crores. Problem for ‘Dammu’ is the high investment which is said to be somewhere near to Rs.38 Crores. Wish that, both NTR and Charan storm the BO to re-approve the stamina of Telugu cinema.