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Gossip: At Last 'Allare Allari' Releasing Amidst Chaos

Gossip: At Last 'Allare Allari' Releasing Amidst Chaos

At last, the film 'Allare Allari' is releasing on 22nd of this month. The film completed its shooting long back but due to the producer Basheed and his delay in payments, the film release was procrastinated. Now however, the settlements were apparently made and the film is releasing. Inside reports say that director Muppalaneni Shiva made the film very well and only awaiting its success.
Like the film 'Dhee' that was released late but turned out to e a hit we have to see if that happens to 'Allare Allari' as well.
Venu, Allari Naresh, Mallika Kapoor and Parvati Melton acted in the film.

High Dose of Shriya's Hot Cleavage Show

It is being observed in trailers, stills and posters that Shriya has given a full length cleavage show in the film 'Shivaji'. That means there would hardly be scenes which show Shriya without cleavage. Shankar seems to be more romantic while making this film than before and hence Shriya is shown hot through out.
Shriya also might have understood the logic that it is difficult to match with Rajni Kanth without showing the might of her glamour. Hence she too might have nodded positively for everything that Shankar wanted. These are all the Krishna Nagar talks in Hyderabad about the film.
The Shivaji fever s on high in Hyderabad as the D Day is coming nearer that falls on 15th June.

Mahesh Babu surprises Nishita

Superstar Mahesh Babu sprang a pleasant surprise on a seven year old girl, who is recovering from a post cardiac surgery complication, by greeting and cheering her up on her birthday at Rainbow hospital on 31 May.
Nishita, who was operated upon by Dr. P Gopichand for congenital heart problem a month ago, developed a severe lung problem and had a difficulty in coming off the ventilator, although she recovered from the surgery. She needed multiple intercostal drains, advanced ventilator techniques and intensive care management. The Paediatric Intersive Care Unit headed by Dr. Dinesh Chirla at Rainbow Children Hospital has literally pulled her out from the jaws of death.
Nishita, a great fan of Mahesh Babu, has been watching his movies on laptop during recovery and had been the only source of happiness. Seeing this the Rainbow Children Hospital had arranged a surprise birthday party for her by getting Mahesh Babu to visit her at the hospital on her birthday. In spite of his busy schedule, Mahesh Babu along with his wife Mrs Namrata visited Rainbow children hospital on their way back from airport and wished Nishita a happy birthday. The couple helped the child cut cake and cheered her up. Nishita was all smiles as she realized her dream of seeing Mahesh babu. Nishita’s parents expressed their gratitude to the superstar for his great gesture.

Telugu Film News 05-06-2007

Gossip: Director Turns Lesbian?

Many rumors on a female Director based at Chennai afloat. She has directed a film, which has become a disaster. She is now crestfallen. Every one in the industry knows she is a boozer and chain smoker. One more curious thing about her personal life is taking rounds. She is a lesbian too. Though she has a hubby, she prefers a female companion in her bedroom, grapevine says. When she was in Hyderabad, a pretty gal accompanied all her stay.

Photo Feature: Can We Believe She Is 59 Now?

Just see this recent photograph taken with Karan Johar, the director with Jaya Bachchan and her daughter Shwetha and Hema Malini and her daughter Isha. Look at Hema Malini. Can we believe she is 59? It's the secret of cosmetic surgery supported by her regular dance practice and Yoga. Is that not inspiring?

Now It's Mummaith's Turn To Irritate EVV!

EVV got into row with another female artiste. As the dust over his tussle with Kamilini Mukherji settled, he had a problem with item gal Mummaith Khan. Though he has created a character called 'Manchala Malleeswari' exclusively for her, he is now planning to replace her with another dancer. He is trying for Mumtaz of 'Gemini' fame. She has made her mark as item gal in Tamil and Hindi films too. Why EVV wanted to change Mummaith? He is keeping it a guarded secret. Sources close to him say, this is because of her adamant attitude. 'Blood rushed head with her instant success', they conclude.

Rajini's New Style in Shivaji....

'Mantra' Will Be Another 'Anukokunda Oka Roju'?

Sources say that the essence in the film 'Anukokunda Oka Roju' and 'Mantra' will be similar. Charmy is acting in the new flick 'Mantra' now. It is stated that the film is about a girl who faces an unexpected incident in life and the narration goes on suspense and thrilling elements. Is it not giving an impression that the film will be something on the lines of 'Anukokunda Oka Roju'?
Charmy is very much attached to the fate of the film with an expectation that it will be successful at box office and critics. Kousha danced for an item song in this film.
Tulasi Ram is directing this film and it is going to complete the shooting part by 13th of this month.

'Creative Star' Becomes 'Rudra' Now

This is a unique approach that the actor followed in recent times. Kiran Teja is an unknown face for people although he acted in the film 'Brahma'. He forcibly made people know about him with News Paper Ads, hoardings and interviews. He titled himself as 'Creative Star' and said that his friends have given that to him. He made the film run for 50 days and that is fine. Now he dragged it till 100 days and making big celebrations. Former Education Minister PV Ranga Rao also had come to this function to felicitate Kiran Teja and film unit.
Now Kiran Teja says that he is going to hit the tinsel town with 'Rudra' as next project. 'The Warrior' is the caption given to that. He said that he is learning skating and horse riding as required for the character in that film.
So after 'Brahma' it's 'Rudra'. We can come to conclusion that 'Rudra' also runs for 100 days for sure with Kiran Teja's 'efforts' in creating artificial hype. That's how his title 'Creative Star' can be justified. What next!!!

Katrina: Salman & I are not getting married

Katrina Kaif is sick of rumours that she is marrying Salman Khan this month.
Katrina says "I can’t stop people from writing what they have decided to. Many actors are not accessible, but I am. Why don’t people call me up before writing things that are not true? All this is nonsense. I am working. I am happy. Let me be. A few days back, 500 people gathered outside Salman’s residence thinking he was marrying you that day.Sometimes people get carried away in excitement."

Impression: Actress 'Matured' At Late Age? Soha Ali Khan is the sister of Saif Ali Khan and daughter of former heroine Sharmila Tagore. She emerged as an actress and Rang De Basanti made her popular.

She shares her personal profile this way:
First Film:

Dil Mange More (Yes! She really got more films after that)

Biggest Asset: Family Background (She seems to be sincere in telling truth)

About Me: I'm able to stay alone now. I'm matured now than before (Matured now! Too late)

What's required in women: Sensuality and innocence (first is ok, why the second?)

Dress Sense: Should suit my body structure (yes she is sensuous)

My philosophy: I always try to make everyone happy (yes she is innocent)

Kiss Scenes: I have no hesitations (fine! Bold enough)

Sameera Reddy: I am not dating anyone

There have been rumours and there have been alleged romantic link-ups of Sameera Reddy, but all of them turned out to be nothing more than fancy canards and gossip. The truth, says Sameera, is that she is still single and waiting for her dream man. “I am single and am on the look out. I have been focusing too much on my work and its high time I had a bit of fun in life. What I feel bad about these days is that when I open a magazine or a tabloid, I see that I am being linked to someone. I am still surprised that even now people bring up the topic of my relationship with Sanjay Gupta. It’s all in the past and I had never really spoken about it in detail to anyone. I haven’t even been in touch with him for long. Also, there is still talk about my ‘affair’ with my Telugu film co-star NTR jr, which was all hearsay. It has turned into a situation where if I see no link-ups about me, then I will think that my career is over,” she laughs.
She adds, “I am busy doing great films. Where do I find the time for all this? I have Abbas-Mustan’s Race and what I love about my part in it, is that my character is mute. Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna and Bipasha Basu also star in it. I have Kamaal Hai with Ashwini Dheer who wrote the comic series, Office-Office. Then there is Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s The Voyeurs. It is about cameras and the fact that everyone’s life has become a sort of public property. I am playing a girl who comes from Behrampur to become an actor. The film shows how she is exploited by the one she trusts the most.”

Posani's Hatred On Jaya Prakasha Narayan

The recent release 'Operation Duryodhana' has shown director Posani's hatred on Jaya Prakash Narayan of Lok Satta directly. A man starts a new party and approaches Paruchuri Gopala Krishna, who is an elderly person in the film. The man says, "Our party comes with new ideology of washing out bad in political parties. In single word to say we aim at Rajakeeya Prakshalana".
Responding to that Paruchuri says in anger, "What the hell are you talking? Do you feel your party is the only party which is pure? How can you start a party saying that other parties are impure and unethical…."
This shows that it's direct hit on Jayaprakash Narayan's 'Lok Satta' and it's the outcome of Posani's hatred on that.
When this scene was rolling on screen a few audiences in the theatre murmured the name of 'Jaya Prakash Narayan'. That's an evidence for public understanding as well.

SC reduces tax on dubbing rights

Hit films dubbed into Telugu have always run house full in theatres in Andhra Pradesh. Now the Supreme Court has further reduced the taxes on dubbing rights, which has made distributors happy.
The apex court has said that the entertainment tax on films dubbed into Telugu should be reduced from 20 per cent to 15 per cent.
After this a Hindi film distributor went to court against discriminatory taxes in Andhra Pradesh.
"Films particularly from English run very well. Like Spiderman, Ghost Rider, Pirates etc. Even Shankar's Aparichutudu and Rajini's Chandramukhi ran for more than 100 days," said Gautam Reddy, Distributor.
For Telugu films, higher taxes on films made in other languages had so far served as a buffer. There was even a proposal to ban dubbed films two months ago because it was felt that dubbed films curb the growth of small budget Telugu movies.
"There will be a employment problem. Atleast 10,000 people are directly dependent and lakhs of people are indirectly dependent on the film industry. There are already starving because of lack of jobs," said T Prasad, Secretary, AP Film Chambers.
Of the 198 movies that released in Telugu last year, 90 were dubbed from other languages. And only five were dubbed from Telugu to other languages.
The notion has always been that Tamil films are more creative than Telugu. But producers here argue that Tamil Nadu charges 50 per cent tax for a Telugu film to be dubbed which explains why more films are imported than exported in Telugu.
The fight against dubbed movies it appears will not be over soon, with the council planning to appeal again.

Wallpaper Of The Day 04-06-207 Katrina Kaif

Biography

Nickname : Kat

Height : 5' 8?" (1.74 m)

Born on July 16, 1984

Katrina Kaif is one of eight siblings, all girls, from a mother who is a Caucasian of British Nationality, and a father who was formerly from Kashmir, India, but who has since acquired British citizenship.Katrina grew up in Hawaii, but was brought up in London, UK. She started modeling accidentally when she was in Hawaii at the tender age of 14, when she was approached for a jewelery campaign. Thereafter she continued modeling in London.Continuing to model was the reason she got her break in a Bollywood movie "Boom" offered by none other than film-maker Kaizad Gustad.She was flooded with modeling assignments the minute she set her foot on Indian soil, especially with her innocent expressive face, hour-glass figure, and drop-dead gorgeous looks.

Professionally she started off as a model with photographer Atul Kasbekar, and upon being accepted, she received offers from LG, Cola, Fevicol, Lakme, & Veet. It was the Lakme commercial that got her noticed. She retained Matrix as her Manager to accept work on her behalf and at the price she deserved.

Moving to different culture and country was not much of a culture shock for her, as she states that no matter where you come from, the bottom line is that everyone wants to be loved, respected, and cared for.Unlike other artistes from foreign lands, Katrina did not experience any difficulties in getting a visa nor of getting it extended in India.Although linguistically challenged, Katrina puts on a bold face and states that other Bollywood artistes like Sridevi, who did not know Hindi, did get offers from Bollywood film-makers, and she is no different.

She is taking Hindi and dancing lessons to fit in with the Bollywood culture. She likes to display a picture of her learning Kathak dancing where she used to dance 7 hours a day non-stop.Despite of her soft gorgeous looks, she is not easily intimidated, but admits that she is very emotional, almost an incurable romantic, wears comfortable non-revealing clothes when at home, hates to do her hair, and above all dislikes make-up. Admitting to being lonely in the beginning, but now has several nice friends who she can hang out with.Although her first movie "Boom" was panned by the critics and shunned by the audiences, two other Telegu movies "Malliswari" and "Pidugu" did get her noticed. She grossed Rs.70 lakhs for Malliswari - making her top the list of the highest paid actresses during a South Indian movie debut.Not done with South Indian movies, she has been signed in a Tamil movie "Bheema" opposite National Award Winner Vikram.She has received decent reviews for her part in "Maine Pyar Kyon Kiya", as well as a brief appearance in "Sarrkar".Katrina has now made Bombay her base, and doesn't mind singing and dancing around trees while she's at it, and is determined to make it big in Bollywood.

Telugu Film News 04-06-2007 Latest

Chiruta for Punadirallu date

Megstar Chiranjeevi's son Charan Teja's first movie, Chiruta, is postponed. It is not going to be released on August 22nd as it was planned earlier. Instead, it might release on September 22 nd, the release date of Chiranjeevi's Punadirallu.

Star Talk: Allari Naresh's Kamal Hasan Dreams

Allari Naresh says that he has many dream roles to play. He says he likes Kamal Hasan's films like 'Guna', 'Bharateeyudu' and 'Nayakudu'.
"I like to do such roles if offered to me. I feel it is not a desire beyond possibility. If people accept me in such roles I can do them as a changeover from series of comedy films", says Naresh.
Saying about his new film with EVV he says, "In my father's new venture I'm playing the character similar to the one played by Ooha in 'Aame'. You may wonder if I'm referring to a female role. But here the problems of men are discussed in comedy. There will be a good dose of sentiment as well. It will be an unforgettable film with son-mother sentiment too".
So this time EVV is coming up with sentiment-comedy combination leaving his full time comedy formula aside. After Style, Chatrapathi, Yogi etc we are here to watch mother sentiment again.

At Last Bhavana Agreed To Do Telugu Film

Bhavana is the beautiful Malayalam actress who has got big following in Kerala. Many Telugu producers tried for her to groove in their films but she has been saying 'No' for all of them. At last she said ok to act beside Nitin in the film 'Takkari' directed by Amma Rajasekhar. In a recent Malayalam tabloid Bhavana said that she will be accepting the roles those give her importance with performance orientation. 'I'm not just for glamour', she said. So she must have accepted the role beside Nitin only for the reason that her character will be meaty.
C Kalyan and S Vijayanand are producing this film and the shooting is starting in Hyderabad on 11th of this month.
Above all, it is being gossiped that it's Nitin's father Sudhakar Reddy who is investing on this film in disguise. The reason is that he spoiled relations with a few distributors and hence he doesn't like to push his name in production now.

Vikram's Bheema shooting completed

Hero Vikram's bilingual, Bheema, has completed its regular shooting. The film was supposed to release last year went over budget and ran into problems. But everything has been sorted out now. On Saturday, the last song on hero Vikram and Trisha, was shot and it was wrapped up. Entire shooting has now finished.
Bheema is directed by Linguswamy and produced by A M Rathnam.

Nitin, Bhavana in Takkari

Nitin has resumed working for his new film. He pairs up with a new heroine Bhavana for this film which has been titled Takkari. Amma Rajashekar is directing the movie, while Teja Cinema is producing it.

Chitra Yatra from June 14th

Veteran producer D. Ramanaidu today (June 4th) launched the logo of Drishya Foundation and Chitra Yatra at Sarathi Studios. Directors B Narasingha Rao and Tammareddy Bharadwaja, Rajkumar, and other film enthusiasts and film researchers have formed the Drishya Fondation in the wake of overwhelming response to first edition of Hyderabad International Film Festival. On the first of its programs, Drishya Film Foundation is organizing 33 day long festival titled "Chitra Yatra" at Hari Hara Kala Bhavan in Hyderabad. From June 14 th to July 17th, 100 classic films will be screened. Three films (One Short/Documentary film, one from world classics and the other from Indian classics) will be screened daily.The significant feature of "Chitra Yatra" is that the screenings will be held only in the evenings from 5 pm till 10 pm. Speaking on the occasion Ramanaidu said that it is good to have such a forum like other states boast of. "Ours is largest producing films in India. Yet we don't have proper institute and film forum. We hope it changes with this. I will give it whatever support needed be," Ramanaidu said. "This foundation is formed to cultivate and develop film culture among filmgoers and conduct international film festivals, Asian films, Regional film festivals. Like in Mumbai's MAMI headed by Shyam Benegal, Drishya foundation will propagate and discover outstanding cinematic skills here," B. Narasingha Rao told the media Tammareddy Bharadwaja informed that the foundation will soon associate with either D Suresh Babu' film institute or will work with state owned institute. Veteran producer D. Ramanaidu today (June 4th) launched the logo of Drishya Foundation and Chitra Yatra at Sarathi Studios. Directors B Narasingha Rao and Tammareddy Bharadwaja, Rajkumar, and other film enthusiasts and film researchers have formed the Drishya Fondation in the wake of overwhelming response to first edition of Hyderabad International Film Festival. On the first of its programs, Drishya Film Foundation is organizing 33 day long festival titled "Chitra Yatra" at Hari Hara Kala Bhavan in Hyderabad. From June 14 th to July 17th, 100 classic films will be screened. Three films (One Short/Documentary film, one from world classics and the other from Indian classics) will be screened daily.The significant feature of "Chitra Yatra" is that the screenings will be held only in the evenings from 5 pm till 10 pm. Speaking on the occasion Ramanaidu said that it is good to have such a forum like other states boast of. "Ours is largest producing films in India. Yet we don't have proper institute and film forum. We hope it changes with this. I will give it whatever support needed be," Ramanaidu said. "This foundation is formed to cultivate and develop film culture among filmgoers and conduct international film festivals, Asian films, Regional film festivals. Like in Mumbai's MAMI headed by Shyam Benegal, Drishya foundation will propagate and discover outstanding cinematic skills here," B. Narasingha Rao told the media Tammareddy Bharadwaja informed that the foundation will soon associate with either D Suresh Babu' film institute or will work with state owned institute.

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Film Talk: 3 Vulgar Films Awaiting Buyers

Three C Grade films are seriously struggling to find buyers. They are 'Donga Mogudu Pakkinti Ammayi', Chilipi Krishnudu and Ratriki Rathri. All the 3 films are based on C Grade Sex comedy and are about to release on Yuva Shakti Pictures.
Out of the 3, the film 'Chilipi Krishnudu' is made on Malladi Venkateshwara Films. New face Mamata acted in lead role while flop hero Rajendra Babu (a hardcore fan of Kodi Ramakrishna Krishna who acted in his direction as well) played hero.
It is known that only very few selected audiences in B, C centers would patronage these films. Till recent past, the C-Grade dubbed films based on eroticism ran for about 30-4- days with houseful collections in the centers like Vizag, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada and Mangalagiri. The buyers are expecting from Vizag and Andhra area. This is to say that still the efforts of makers of such films are observed in filmdom.

'Shankardada' Releases Tentatively On July 6th

The shooting of 'Shankardada Zindabad' is almost completed except 3 songs. The unit is flying to Australia to complete those 3 songs. The film is set to release in July (tentative date in air is 6th July) while the audio will be hitting in the second week of June. Although the producers are planning to release the film in last week of June, practical problems may hinder that. Although the date is not announced officially, it's making rounds as tentative date. Devi Sri Prasad scored music for the film while Prabhudeva directed it. Karishma Kotak of Kingfisher calendar fame paired up with Chiranjeevi in this film. The shooting of the film was packed up very soon and it is said that no big creativity is used in making other than truly translating the film 'Lage Raho Munnabhai' scene by scene. We have to see how it works out.

Dev against Dav, bats for Ravi Shastri

Former captain Kapil Dev has slammed the Indian cricketers for their propensity for foreign coaches and declared that Ravi Shastri is ''the best option'' for the post of Team India coach.

''Ravi Shastri is the best option for the job. The baord and Shastri himself should take the initiative and offer to coach India,'' Kapil said adding that it would be in the best interest of Indian cricket.

He also criticised players' support for foreign coaches namely Dav Whatmore and Tom Moody.

''Since they (the Indian cricketers) haven't played under these two, they shoudn't be saying anything in their favour. I am disheartened by the fact that the current players do not want an Indian to coach the team,'' Kapil said on a TV programme to be aired on Aaj Tak.

Madan Lal and Anshuman Gaekwad also echoed Kapil's sentiments on the issue.

Remembering, his tenure, former coach Madan Lal said ''there were times when I was helpless, but they (players) did not understand this. I didn't had any support staff either.'' Commenting on Whatmore's almost successful candiature Madan Lal said, ''Appointing a former coach is derogatory to the former Indian players. Since the current team doesn't want an Indian to coach them and only one man is running the race, he is likely to win as well.'' Although, he put forward his candiature and said, ''the Board should call four-five candidates. I am aggressive to and well qualified for the job.'' Former coach Anshuman Gaekwad also supported Kapil Dev and Madan Lal, he said, ''this time the selection process has no transparency about it.''