TOLLYWOOD FILM NEWS 10-05-2007

Gossip: Jahnavi Wants To be Hot!


Jahnavi, an anchor-turned- actress, regrets for being conservative in exposing.

While she was doing as an anchor in Gemini TV, she would attract her viewers certainly not with her gift of the gab, but with her other 'assets'.

When she had offers in the film, she opted being deadly decent and she said blunt 'no' to exposing.

Her chances in the films dwindled and she looked back to the small screen. New gals replaced her. Coming to terms with hard realities, she is now expressing her willingness to appear sexy on screen. She may be a hot star very soon.


Film Talk: 'Dhee' To Be Made In Hindi



Srinu Vaitla is enjoying bright time now. He bagged big hit with 'Dhee' freshly. He is making the same film in Hindi shortly. Yes, it's Sreenu Vaitla who is going to direct in Hindi as well.

That's the debut of him into Bollywood. The proposals are concluded and agreements were signed on this project. The casting is yet to be chosen and that will be announced shortly.

So Vaitla is growing as director on National level as well. We have to see if he makes his way to Bollywood if this film turns successful.

Impression: Uday Kiran Didn't Attend His Mother's Ceremony



First Ceremony (samvatsareekam) of Uday Kiran's mother was held a week ago in Hyderabad . Uday Kiran was in Hyderabad but didn't attend the ceremony.

He said it seems that he was busy in the shooting of the film 'Viyyalvari Kayyalu'. It's Uday Kiran's father that performed all the rites. The 'hero' didn't attend even to take the prasadam.

Many had bitten their ears discussing about this. If he were abroad there would be some sense in not attending such ceremony. But he skipped being in Hyderabad. It is said that Uday has no belief in such rites and rituals be it in the case of mother or anyone.

NTR National Awards: Cong aims to spoil TDP’s ‘star’ plans

Hyderabad: The state government is trying to put a spoke in the wheels of Telugu Desam Party’s plans to rope in Amitabh Bachchan and Rajnikanth for its Mahanadu at the end of this month and honour them with NTR national awards.

Instituted by the state government during TDP’s time in 1997, the awards have not been announced by the Congress government since 2004. The award comprises Rs 5 lakh in cash, a citation and a memento. Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Rajkumar, Bhanumathi Ramakrishna, Lata Mangeshkar and Dilip Kumar have been the recipients of the award in the past.

Peeved with the state government ignoring the NTR awards, the TDP and the NTR Trust have decided to pool in their resources and give the awards for the years 2003 to 2007 at the Mahanadu slated to be held in Tirupati from May 27 to 29.

Accordingly, TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu wants to rope in Amitabh Bachchan and Rajnikanth. “Through Amar Singh, Naidu will get Bachchan while he himself has good relations with the southern superstar. Apart from cobbling up the third front, the Mahanadu will have star attraction if these two actors make it,” a TDP leader said.

However, the state government is planning to throw a spanner in the works of the TDP. Getting wind of such a move, the YSR regime plans to upstage its rival by announcing the NTR awards from 2003 and give them away along with the Nandi awards in November this year. “We are waiting for the chief minister to return from the US trip to take a final decision on this matter,” an official said.

If the state government does announce the NTR awards before the Mahanadu, it will nullify TDP’s moves. However, last year, too, the government made a similar promise of announcing the NTR awards along with the Nandi awards, but it did not happen.

This time around, the battle over the NTR awards is set to be renewed after both YSR and Naidu return from their foreign trips next week.


Photo Feature: Watch 6 year Old Cute Kamal Hassan



It's a still from Tamil film 'Kalattur Kannamma' that was released in later 60s. The same film was remade into Telugu with the title 'Mooga Nomu' later. The same was made in Hindi with the title 'Main Chup Rahoongi'.

Well, who is the young boy in this photograph? Can you guess?

It's his first film.

He is Kamal Hasan who was just 6 year old then. Savitri and Gemini Ganesan paired up in this film for lead roles.



Screen Talk: EVV May Name His New Film 'Bharya Bhartalu'!



Director EVV is trying his best to make his son Allari Naresh number one comedy hero on Telugu screen. He is in high spirits for the success of 'Attili Satti babu'. Now he is busy making a film with Naresh on Raasi Movies banner. He shot a few songs with him in Bangkok recently. He has not yet named after the film. He, however, is toying with the idea of naming it as 'Bharya Bharthalu'. Along with Naresh, there is one more hero who has secondary importance in the film. As Uday kiran and Raja rejected to play this role, he booked Harish, a forgotten hero. Harish is a child artiste- turned hero.