Telugu Film News Dec 21, 2007

Manoj’s Nenu Meeku Telusa?

After making his efforts in three regular films, Manoj is all set to do a different film with a novel story idea now. This film will directed by Ajay Sastri who worked with Krishna Vamsi as associate director for Rakhi. Ajay Sastry also worked for popular advertising agency ‘O & M’ in the past. This film is titled as ‘Nenu Meeku Telusa’. This film will go to floors in the month of January 2008. More details later.

Anushka with Venky?

Anushka has joined the big league by doing films with big heroes. After doing films with Nagarjuna and Bala Krishna, she is expected to be paired up with Venkatesh soon. This project is titled as Chintakayala Ravi. Venkatesh will do the role of a software engineer in this entertaining comedy. Yogi who directed ‘Oka Raju Oka Rani’ in the past will direct this film. Nallamalupu Bujji produces it. Priyamani is the other heroine considered for this project. Vishal Sekhar who composed music for SRK’s Om Shanti Om would be composing music.

Colors Swati’s Asta Chemma

Colors Swati who made film debut with Danger and did an entertaining role in AMAV is all set to do a solo heroine project. This project is titled as Asta Chemma. National award winning director Mohana Krishna Indraganti will direct this venture. Indraganti’s debut film Grahanam won national award and his next project Maya Bazaar did not do well. More details later..

Balu Balakrishnaki Yama Yama Fans Muhurat

Balu Balakrishnaki Yama Yama Fans Muhurat

Crew:Banner: Sri Sai Datta Production;Music:Daddy Srinivas; Story, Screenplay: M. Venkataramana; Lyrics: Daddy Srinivas;Exe.Pro.: Nalgonda Sriramulu; Dailogues: Sai Subrahmanyam; Camera: Subbu-Venkat; FIghts: Satish; Dance: Lawrence, Kaladhar, Venkat; Editing: Satyam.Producer: Venkataramana; Director: Daddy Srinivas

First New Year for Chiru without Srija

Film star Chiranjeevi thinks that his second daughter Srija is lucky. His stardom went up after she was born. So Chiru had been making it a point, family sources point out, to celebrate important occasions with Srija. But now that Srija had left the family to marry a boy outside her caste and against the wishes of her family, Chiru may not be able to celebrate the new year with his daughter.

This is the first time that Chiru is missing Srija on January 1. If Chiru was busy shooting, Srija would call him up to say "daddy happy new year". But this time she may not get the chance what with film star's anger still simmering. She may not be able to greet even her mother.

So Srija and her husband Sirish will celebrate the new year on their own while the Chiru family may not venture to celebrate the event. After all, the love of dad and mom is greater than the love shown by children. They are yet to come out of the shock and may keep the new year a low key affair as they did on the Diwali and Dasara.

According to sources, Srija and Sirish are planning a big new year bash with their friends unmindful of the trauma and mental agony their family is undergoing.

Street Talk: Lawrence Is Too Selfish To Resist!

If your memory permits to go back and see then just recall the scene from Mohan Babu's 'M Dharma Raju MA'. The road side beggar (played by Mohan Babu) uses local politician Satyanarayana as a tool and grabs what he wants without letting that known to anyone. During the counting of votes, initially M Dharmaraju MA sits at the tip of the chair, when listens that he is leading, he moves little back and sits comfortably. When he knows that he wins, he rests back in the chair and breathes happily. That scene was shown as a symbolism of his conquering nature in crooked way.

Now the scene can be attributed to Raghava Lawrence. He entered as a dancer into the industry and with the blessings of Chiranjeevi he turned a choreographer. Then he became director, actor and now the music director as well. It is said that in the film 'Don', he grabbed 5-6 departments only by convincing Nag and Kumar Choudary. But what he promised might be different from what he had narrated, say a few in the industry. During the film 'Style', initially he narrated the story keeping Prabhudeva and Raja in main leads. But when the project came to his hands he highlighted his own character and made other two roles of Raja and Prabhudeva submissive. Lawrence wants top recognition and he wants to eat away bigger cake always. Now the same thing repeated with Nagarjuna as well, as per impressions. Nagarjuna is professional and he hardly pokes his nose into director's department. But Lawrence, with his over selfish behavior, is polluting the industry, say Film Nagar sources. He flopped 'Style' showing himself as hero. He kept down Nagarjuna by over shadowing him in 'Don'.

So, like 'Style', even the film 'Don' too was made with same attitude problem of Lawrence, say some sources.

SP Bala Subrahmanyam Hiked Up To Rs. 30,000

SP Balu is not so busy in singing unlike his previous years. He didn't make any of his working hour waste in 80s and 90s. But due to the influx of new trendy voices, he lost many chances and at the same time he is not craving for singing more number of songs. He is very selective and singing the songs whichever come to him. He is now compromising with remuneration as well. After a long gap, he hiked up his payments very recently.

Balu hiked up his remuneration for singing a song to 100%. Earlier he used to take Rs 15,000 for singing a private devotional song. But now he hiked that up to Rs 30,000. And for film song he is taking up to Rs 60,000. And for stage shows his remuneration starts from Rs 3 lakhs.

And Shankar Mahadevan is taking bigger than him. He is not giving his time to sing private devotional songs but if he accommodates he is claiming Rs 50,000 and for film song he is taking a pay check of Rs 75,000 or Rs 1, 00,000.

Shankar Mahadevan and Balu are proven to be expensive singers in South India as of now.

'Anasuya' Copied From 'Silence Of The Lambs'?

Ravi Babu's 'Anasuya' is releasing today. This is the hot impression that is making rounds by noticing the similarity between the trailers of 'Silence of Lambs' and 'Anasuya'.

Watch 'Silence of Lambs' Trailer using this link (duration: 1 min 49 sec):
http://www.ziddu.com/download.php?uid=bq2blZSna6ygm5zzaKqZm5GmaKeblZw%3D6

Watch 'Anasuya' Trailer using this link (duration: 1 minute 42 sec):
http://www.ziddu.com/download.php?uid=Z62hlpytbbGb4palZbGWlZaiZ6uimJk%3D5

Well, inspiring from Hollywood flicks has become a common aspect for many Indian film makers. If that is adopted firmly, then the film would be a sure success. It's the story of a serial killer who will be smoked out by an FBI Agent and a Criminal Psychology Expert in English. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins played leads in 'Silence of Lambs'. Here Anasuya, played by Bhoomika, is a media journalist and Criminal Psychology expert. Isn't there some resemblance? Let us see how far Ravi Babu copied the 'Silence of Lambs'.

Rumors: Rojaramani Is No More A Possessive Mom!

Rojaramani, the possessive mother of Tarun, heaved a sigh of relief with Arti Aggarwal entering wedlock. She had her own apprehensions regarding Tarun's fascination for her. Arti's much-publicized abortive attempt to commit suicide had scared Rojaramani too much. Arti's love for Tarun became open secret with this incident. Rojaramani kept a close vigil on Tarun's private affairs. But now, Tarun is a free bird. Her mom is not coming on his new acquaintances with gals. So Tarun is a free bird now. Let us see how far will he fly as a lovebird!!

Gallery: 10 Exclusive Spicy Heroine Suhani

Snippet: Tensions For Rajendra Prasad's Flick

The release date of the film 'Mee Sreyobhilashi' is getting postponed from time to time. As the two films 'Don' and 'Anasuya' are releasing this week, it's pushed for next week as per the sources. The film has a message to convey in philosophical way. It took very long time for this small film to complete the shooting.

CC Reddy made this film on his Visu Banner in the direction of Eshwar Reddy. Mee sreyobhilashi is the film that s being acted by Rajendra Prasad with a motive to win award after 'Aa Naluguru'.

The film might be willing to release in a week where no other new film is going to hit the screen.

Reel Talk: Vishnu Entering Audio Market!

Manchu Vishnu is now entering into audio market on his own banner 24 Frames Factory. The name of this banner says that it can enter into any business related to the 24 frames of film making. Freshly Vishnu is releasing audio of 'Krishnarjuna' on his banner. With this Vishnu is debuting into audio market.

Initially it was said that Keeravani would be bagging the audio rights to release on his Vel Records. But as Mohan Babu is the producer of the film he pushed it on to his son's banner 24 Frames. Keeravani scored music for it and it is releasing on 26 th of this month.

It is said that the cassette will be priced only at Rs.25 and a premiere show of the film will be shown for 200 lucky winners picked up in draw those buy the cassettes.

Is That Old ANR's Perverted Behaviour?

ANR is the man who has been attracting huge fan following and majority of his fans are from ladies. But the ladies themselves are opining less about that octogenarian Dada Saheb Phalke winner.

A few ladies complain saying, "ANR is speaking in nasty way that doesn't suit his age on the dais. His nasty talk about Anushka, assuming that to be romantic is being relayed on small screens very frequently. That is being used as a promo to promote the film 'Don'. He said that Anushka is so good looking and she has given all the kisses for my son only. He added saying that had she saved some kisses for me I would have asked Raghavendra Rao to make 'Musali Mogudu-Paduchu Pellam' to pair up with her".

It is all old news and there is nothing new in that. Is that a perversion of ANR? But a professional says that is not perversion but only an identity crisis.

A doctor of psychiatry say, "It is the crisis that a man or woman gets while growing old. They want to project to be young at heart by competing with youngsters. They feel that kind of behavior boosts up their aura. But the society wants to see a man according to his age. ANR is like any other old man who wants to seek attention towards his greatest asset, 'the health'. He walks very briskly on dais and while climbing the steps of dais. That is to project that he is young and energetic. He speaks with romantic fervor to prove that he is still libidinous. He has been the star with that image for many decades. So he doesn't want to lose that for ever. He is unaware that such type of talk puts his reverence down".

ANR has been quoting at least a single romantic or semi-erotic line while speaking on dais these days. He is really showing himself as 24 at 84.

Star Talk: 'I Learnt Less Yoga and More Love'

Bhoomika talked to media last evening as a part of promotion for the film 'Anasuya'. After saying about the film and its thrilling aspects she answered a few questions posed by journalists. When asked to say if she practices yoga with her hubby Bharath Thakur she said, "I turned acquaint to him only in yoga classes. But I learnt less yoga and more love at him", Bhomika had broken into a laughter.

Saying about the difference between Bollywood and Tollywood she said, "I feel there are more disciplinary aspects in Tollywood than in Bollywood. Apart from that everything is same here and there. After all, film making is nothing but taking on emotions to celluloid irrespective of language. It is true that Bollywood caters for large set of audiences and Tollywood is confined to limited set of Telugu speaking people. Hence the budget matter varies to some extent between the two".

Saying about her future goals she said, "I want to play comedy shortly. I don't want to bring boredom for people by portraying same kind of roles all the time. I want to be versatile on screen".

In entire interview, Bhoomika projected herself as a sane and shrewd lady with balance in speech. Well, she said nothing new but uttered everything that can be easily expected.

Telugu Film News Dec 20, 2007

Babal Sehgal’s voice for Pawan Kalyan

After nearly a decade, Baba Sehgal, India’s original pop star, will have the Telugu audiences swinging to his tunes. Baba Sehgal, last heard doing a playback for Chiranjeevi in Rikshawodu, is now making a comeback of sorts with the title track of Pawan Kalyan’s Jalsa. Baba Sehgal will be singing to Devi Sri Prasad’s tunes.

Sradha Arya in Satyanand’s debut film

The young and glamorous Sradha Arya (of Nishabd and Godava fame) has being signed on to play the leading lady in acting tutor-turned-director Satyanand’s debut film. The man, who has taught acting to the likes of Pawan Kalyan, is presently working on his debut film with one of his own students as the leading man. Post Godava, Sradha Arya has become the new glam doll of the industry with the many a filmmakers queuing up with offers. The sultry actress has even entered the Kannada film industry.

Nisha Kothari has landed in Tollywood

Another actress making her presence felt in the Telugu film industry is the very sexy Nisha Kothari. A protégé of Ram Gopal Verma, this northern dame, presently working with Balakrishna in YVS’ Oka Magaadu, is becoming increasingly busy in the Telugu film industry. She has apparently agreed to act in a film titled Hari Om with debutante Sekhar as her leading man.

Vishnu’s Krishnarjuna music on Dec 26th

Music Company 24 Frames Factory will be launching the music of actor Vishnu’s upcoming film Krishnarjuna, on 26th December. The audio cassettes of this film that stars Mohan Babu and Nagarjuna in guest roles will be priced at Rs.25 only. M.M.Keeravani’s tunes of this film will be marketed by audio company Bliss.

Siddarth and Soha Ali Khan engaged?

The latest piece of hot news doing the rounds, both in the Hindi as well as the Telugu film industry is that, that actor Siddarth has got engaged to Nawab of Pataudi’s daughter, actress Soha Ali Khan. The two met during the making of last year’s cult hit Rang De Basanti. Though the rumors began then itself, both of them maintained the “we are just good friends” quote. But according to a latest ondit in a popular Mumbai newspaper, Siddarth, who recently went through a divorce from wife Meghna, met with Soha’s parents in Mumbai and took their blessings. Only time can judge the truth in this news.

Releasing Today: Nagarjuna's Hot Hot 'Don'

The Andhra Pradesh box-office, like it’s counterpart in Tamil Nadu, is superstar driven. Nagarjuna’s biggie “Don” opens today. It is the lone Telugu Christmas release and is directed by choreographer, actor-turned-director Law rence, who last gave Nag the big hit “Mass”. For Lawrence, it is a crucial film – first, because it is first attempt at music direction and, second, he has to deliver a hit what with his last two directorial ventures “Style” and “Muni” sank without a trace. Yoga teacher-turned-starlet Anushka is the heroine in “Don”.

The invested incurred on this film is very big and the reliable sources say that it went up to Rs 24 Cr which proves to be the highest budget in Nagarjuna's career. The shooting of the film ran for months together and Lawrence carried the responsibilities of direction, music composition, choreography and playing a role in it. The film has many expectations and Lawrence once said that Hindi producers would make lines to buy remake rights for this film.

Nagarjuna is also confident on the same. Let us see how the film works out at box office. Audio has got average response. Anushka, the heroine in the film has been highly inviting from the posters wearing torn jeans and revealing outfits.

Wait for the result!!

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Buzz: Tear Jerking Faces Of 'Mantra' Team

Mantra' director Tulasi Ram and the producers Kalyan Ram and Ravi Prakash are seen with tears in eyes. Well, they are the tears of overwhelming happiness. They have made the film 'Mantra' by taking many pains. They invested and struggled big to bring it to theatres. Distributors didn't come forward and hence they have released it on their own holding some doubt. But the result is tremendously good with whopping collections. The openings are big and the sustenance is also impressive.

They have no money in hand to roll on trailers for three days before the release of the film. They released it just like that on Friday. But now they started showing trailers on small screen only from last evening as they got confident on their film.

Now the team is going to enjoy 100% returns on the film as there are no distributors amidst. Thanks to Charmy for pulling crowds.

Press Note: DON Prints Status & first report

Don prints will be arriving here on-time and we will have premier shows tomorrow as per schedule for more info/buy tickets online visit http://www.secondshows.com.

State City Location Name

California San Jose Indian Movie Center (IMC6)
California Los Angeles Laemmle Fallbrook 7
California Los Angeles Laguna Hills Mall Cinemas
California Los Angeles Naz 8 Cinema (Artesia)
Georgia Atlanta Peachtree Cinemas
Illinois Chicago Bloomingdale Court Theater
Indiana Indianapolis Georgetown 14 Cinemas
Maryland Virginia FunAsia P&G Wheaton Plaza 11
Michigan Detroit Novi Town Center 8
Minnesota Minneapolis Brookdale 8 Cinemas
North Carolina Cary Galaxy Cinema
New Jersey New Jersey Movie City Edison

DON's First Screening at Prasad Labs is carrying Extraordinary Report. It was screened yesterday to the Hero Nagarjuna, Producer, Director and their close associates.

'Tollywood Don' Akkineni Nagarjuna's first reaction was " This was the what I felt when I watched SHIVA first copy"

People, who watched the movie along with the Unit members rated it as as Top class Action flick on Indian screen.

Even the people, who worked for the finishing touches (a day before) felt awestruck by seeing at some exhilarating scenes. They felt like watching Hollywood movie.

This talk spread like a wildfire allover the state. All the theaters screening DON weared new look by dawn.