'Jai bolo Telangana' gets censor clearance

Censor Board finally cleared Jai bolo Telangana with A certificate. The film will release on Feb 4. The release was delayed due to objections from Censor Board.
Telangana public had expressed ire at the Censor Board for its effort to stall the release of Jai bolo Telangana.
The movie’s story revolves around the movement for separate Telangana statehood. The film industry is completely dominated by Andhra people; therefore nobody is showing interest to exhibit the movie in Telangana region too. May be financial consideration one of the reasons?
N Shankar who is known for his movies with social message has produced and directed Jai bolo Telangana. It is believed that the project is backed by Telangana Rashtra Samiti leader K Chandrasekhar Rao. KCR plays his real life role in the movie.
Jai Bolo Telangana movie starring Jagapathi Babu was landed in censor troubles few days ago. The censor board of AP state didn’t agree to clear the film unless some controversial scenes are removed from it. The makers of JBT have sent the film to National Censor Board which ordered for a revisal committee. The committee imposed some cuts for which the director and producer N. Shankar obliged.

Censor Board awarded the film A certificate after the necessary cuts are done and hence Jai Bolo Telangana is gearing up for release on February 4. If everything has gone well the film might have seen light by tomorrow.

Jai Bolo Telangana is creating huge buzz in Nizam region for its content and even the people from other regions are attracted by this movie with the censor controversy.


Published Date : Friday, 28/1/2011 9:36 AM IST

Erra Gulabilu & Gaganam releasing on 11th Feb

Erra Gulabilu, under the direction of Gautham Menon is all set for a release on 11th February in Tamil and Telugu versions. The movie stars newcomer Veera, Sameera Reddy, Karthik in the key roles while Samantha will be seen in a cameo. Erra Gulabilu is a thriller and deals with the story that happens in a night at ECR. The run time of the film is 90 minutes, which doesn’t carry any music. The trailer of the film is creating more curiosity among the audiences.

On the other hand, Nagarjuna’s experimental flick Gaganam too is releasing on the same day in both Telugu and Tamil versions. Being directed by Radha Mohan and produced by Dil Raju, Gaganam is about the hijack of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 that takes place in Tirupati airport. Nagarjuna is playing a commando in the film. Interestingly, both the films don’t carry any music and both are experimental flicks for the directors.

Let’s wait to see, which of these both films clicks at the Box-Office


Published Date : Friday, 28/1/2011 9:32 AM IST

Raviteja's Veera in full swing

Raviteja is presently busy with the shooting of Veera which  is being directed by Ramesh Varma and produced by  Ganesh Indhukuri under Sanvi Productions banner. Kajal and Taapsee are playing the female leads in this film. Raviteja is doing a role that has two different shades and one of those is a very powerful one like Vikram Rathod in Vikramarkudu, says the director.Veera is touted to be the high budget film in Raviteja’s career.
Paruchuri Brothers and Abburi Ravi are dialouge writers for this high voltage action film. Veera has eight fights and seven songs. SS Thaman who composed music for Raviteja’s Kick and Mirapakay is again scoring music to Veera. Veera is gearing up for its release in the month of May.

O My Friend shooting to begin from third week of February

It is known that Siddharth has signed a new film with Dil Raju, which was tentatively titled as O My Friend. The latest news is that the movie is all set to commence its shoot from the third week of February. O My Friend will be directed by a debutant Venu Sriram and Amrita Rao of Athidi fame might play the female lead in the film.
As of now, Siddharth is currently busy with the shooting of his forthcoming film, titled 180 with Priya Anand and Nitya Menon as female leads. On the other hand, Dil Raju is busy with the promotion of Nagarjuna starrer Gaganam, which is slated for a release on 11th February.

Censor Board decision elapsed for tomorrow

Jai Bholo Telangana produced and directed by N Shankar deals with movement for separate Telangana. Director Shankar said that the movie only depicts the democratic movement and aspirations of Telangana people. Jai Bolo Telangana stars Jagapathi Babu in a special role and Chakri has composed the music for this film. N. Shankar said that the movie is slated for release on 28th of this month. But it seems that censor board isn’t willing to give clearance to the film because it contains some controversial scenes and Censor Board panel feels that this film might hurt the sentiments of people in some parts of our state thus causing trouble to law and order. Hence the bureau of Censor Board decided to meet again and finalise the certification issue by tomorrow.

ANR honoured with Padma Vibhushan

Akkineni Nageshwara Rao was conferred Padma Vibhushan award for 2010 by the President of India. The other names who were approved by the President of India for the conferment of Padma Awards-2010 were  Cricketer VVS Laxman, educationist Koneru Ramakrishna Rao, Professor Pullela Ramachandrudu.
Playback singer SP Balasubramaniam and actress Waheeda Rahman conferred with Padma Bhushan. Rama Rao got Padma Vibhushan in the field of science and technology. GV Krishna Reddy and Dr K Anji Reddy are also in the list who got Padma Bhushan awards from Andhra Pradesh.

Ravi Teja and Gunashekar's movie titled Nippu

Mass Hero Ravi Teja who is known for remarkable style of comedy and action is now all set to work in Guna Sekhar’s direction soon. A title Nippu has been registered in the film chamber and  Director YVS Chowdhary is producing this movie. Gunashekar wanted Katti as the title for this movie but Kalyan Ram had already used that for his last film. So he has selected Nippu  as the title and this film will begin its shoot from summer this year The cast and crew details of this project are yet to be announced.Currently, Ravi Teja is working for ' Veera', being directed by Ramesh Varma.

Published Date : Tuesday, 25/1/2011 9:21 AM IST

1st Week Collections of Anaganaga O Dheerudu

Anaganaga O Dheerudu, directed by Prakash Kovelamudi (son of K. Raghavendra Rao) which is one of the most awaited movies of the season didn’t live up to the expectations. The mixed reactions and reviews over Anaganaga O Dheerudu are reflecting over the collections too. The film collected a first week share of around 5.7 crore worldwide.
This amount is good for a Siddharth film but not for a film of Anaganaga Oka Dheerudu budget. The production cost of AOD is around 32 crores, says the buzz. So if the film should have collected around 12 crores in the first week to keep the hopes alive. .
Even though the makers are planning to dub it and release in Hindi and Tamil we can’t expect it to do wonders over there with this content. So, Anaganaga Oka Dheerudu will go down as a commercial failure despite being regarded as good attempt.

Published Date : Tuesday, 25/1/2011 9:19 AM IST

MS Raju to introduce Ashwin

Producer MS Raju, who made hit films like Varsham, Manasantha Nuvve, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and Okkadu among others, is launching his son Ashwin as hero with a film titled Mirchi. This film will be produced by M.S.Raju and Ramji Maganti and will be directed by MS Raju himself. This shooting was expected to start six months ago but MS Raju was said to be not happy with the script. In fact VN Aditya was drafted to direct the film. After differences cropped up between MS Raju and Aditya over the script, the producer himself decided to direct his son’s debut film. Mirchi will be officially launched this week and the regular shooting will start from February.

Published Date : Tuesday, 25/1/2011 9:17 AM IST

Deadly blast at Moscow airport, 10 killed & Dozens injured

At least 20 people have been killed and dozens injured in a blast at Domodedovo airport in Moscow. A news agency has said 23 people have died and around 130 people are thought to have been injured.

Published Date : Monday, 24/1/2011 8:25 PM IST

Naga Chaitanya to act in ‘Bejawada Rowdylu’

Ram Gopal Varma, who is known for controversies, had announced that he is going to produce ‘Bejawada Rowdylu’, a film based on the rowdyism in Vijayawada. However, he did not announce who will play the lead role in the movie. Recently Varma announced that Naga Chaitanya would play the lead role in the movie, which surprised  the entire Telugu film industry.
Varma says, ‘The story is yet to be finalised besides the other cast and crew. I will reveal all the details once we finalise everything.’Given the confident note of Varma, sources in the Film Nagar claim that the film would be yet another ‘Shiva’ in Varma and Chaitu’s careers.

Aamir to host Bigg Boss 5th Edition ...?

Rumors are floating in bollywood that Aamir Khan had come to an agreement with  Endemol, which produces the reality show Bigg Boss, to host its edition 5 this year.
The last show has been hosted by Salman Khan and it was not successful in getting good TRPs as compared to Amitabh Bachchan’s Kaun Banega …The producers of the show are said to be of the opinion that if they can bring in Aamir Khan to host the Big Boss then they have a chance of getting better TRPs. Aamir hasn't done a reality show yet and so if he host Bigg Boss 5 it will definitely become a good platform for his debut as a television host.

Pawan Kalyan to remake Dabangg

Power Star Pawan Kalyan is showing keen interest to remake Salman Khan's biggest blockbuster of Bollywood in the year 2010, Dabangg in Tollywood. Dabangg was produced with a budget of Rs 42 crores and also collected Rs 212 crore huge amount.
The film is reportedly titled Gabbar Singh and the surprising news is Pawan Kalyan himself is producing and acting the movie on his own banner Pawan Kalyan Creative Works. Harish Shankar, the director of Mirapakaya will direct this film. The film will be made to match the expectations of fans and audience from power star Pawan Kalyan. The shooting will commence soon and Gabbar Singh will release in 2011 itself. The movie will be made with high budget and technical values.

EVV Satyanarayana Passes Away

Hit Director Evv Satyanaryana Passed Away Few Hours ago, He was suffering from Throat cancer since long time and was admitted to Apollo hospital few days ago Where he breathed his last. Director Evv Started his career with Chevulo puvvu, and his super hit fims include appula apparao, jambalakidi pamba, abbayi garu, alibaba aradajanu dongalu, hello brother, Bendu apparao R.m.p. satyanarayana has two sons Aryan rajesh and Allari naresh. He launched his elder son Aryan with movie Hai but he was more successful with his second son and actor allari naresh with hits like Kithakithalu and Bendu apparao. Tollywood Cine Artists Expressed their deepest Condelences to Evv's family.

Published Date : Saturday, 22/1/2011 7:04 AM IST

Manchu Lakshmi to produce Oo Kodathara Ulikkipadathara

Manchu Lakshmi, who made her acting debut with Anaganaga Oka Dheerudu has been getting rave reviews for her act in the movie. However the actress in not in a rush to do all the films that comes her way. Currently Lakshmi Manchu is busy with the pre production work of her next production. Titled, Oo Kodathara Ulikkipadathara which will star Manchu Manoj in the lead role will be produced by his sister. Earlier Lakshmi and Manoj worked together for partly successful Jhummandi Nadam.
Oo Kodathara Ulikkipadathara will be directed by a newcomer and the hunt for heroine is still on. Lakshmi Manchu is looking for a beautiful girl to cast in this movie. She bagged the credit of introducing Taapsee to tollywood.

Megastar with V.V.V ...?

Megastar Chiranjeevi’s re - entry into films has been confirmed long back when his son Ram Charan said that his father will act in movie and he will be the producer for it but the plans to launch that mega venture have been postponed due to the sudden change in the politics.
Although Chiranjeevi’s re-entry has been declared, there is silence for long time about the director of this 150th film. There were many names that popped up in discussions and the latest news is that director VV Vinayak was okeyed to take up this prestigious task. Chiranjeevi recently watched Allu Arjun’s Badrinath rushes and was very impressed with Vinayak’s work in it. Therefore, he asked Vinayak to direct his 150th film, says reports. VV Vinayak and Chiranjeevi earlier worked for super hit film Tagore. Mega fans would be extremely happy if this combination comes together again.

Writer Chinni Krishna's story impressed cherry

Well known Writer Chinni Krishna who penned the scripts for such highly successful films like Gangotri, Indra, Narasimha Naidu and Badrinath has written a film script exclusively for Ram Charan Tej and gave it to the actor who liked it.
After the debacle of Orange, Ram Charan is said to be in the hunt for good scripts and going through the storylines given to him by reputed writers. He is playing the role of a football player in his fourth film Merupu which is being directed by Dharani. The shooting of the film is now in progress.
Ram Charan tweeted about his conversation with writer as “one my fav writers chinni krishna who wrote for gangotri, indra, narashimanaidu and now badhrinath and came to narrate a storyline. what i heard was interesting story line. "
But cherry is reluctant to say ok to the story he asked the writer to make necessary improvements and meet himnext time.

'Mirapakaya' records good first week collections

Ravi Teja’s latest movie i.e Sankranti release Mirapakaya collected a share of 11.28 crores (after tax and theater rentals) in 7 days in AP. Makers of ‘Mirapakaya’ are extremely happy the way their film has been performing thus Ravi Teja’s Mirapakaya proved a winner at the box-office. Out of four films released during Sankranti festival season, Mirapakaya was declared a hit.
Mirapakay was directed by Harish Shankar and produced by Ramesh Puppala under Yellow Flowers banner
Richa Gangopadhyay and Deeksha Seth paired opposite Ravi Teja.

The area wise collectons for the first week are:

S.NO           Area Share                    (Rs.)
1                   Nizam           -       4, 15, 00,000
2                   Ceded          -        1, 82, 00,000
3                   Guntur          -        1, 01, 00,000
4                   East              -            98, 00,000
5                   Vizag            -        1, 08, 00,000
6                  Nellore          -            60, 00,000
7                  Krishna          -            72, 00,000
8                   West            -             92, 00,000
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Total                                           11,28,00,000
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Dookudu new shooting schedule lauched today

Mahesh starrer 'Dookudu' has kick-started its shoot today at Ramanaidu Studios after gap in Hyderabad. Earlier the film has completed a schedule at Turkey. Samantha, the hot and happening actress of Tollywood is playing the female lead in the film.
Dookudu is being directed by Srinu Vytla and produced by Achanta Gopichand, Anil Sunkara and Achanta Ram jointly in the banner 14 Reels Entertainment. Dookudu is the second film under the banner 14 Reels Entertainment, first being Namo Venkatesa, also directed by Srinu Vytla. S.S Thaman is composing the music for the film.


Published Date : Wednesday, 19/1/2011 11:45 PM IST

Mobile number portability to begin from Jan 20

Latest advertisements in leading news papers say that Mobile number portability (MNP) is going to be launched through out india from January 20th 2011 exept J&k. Mobile customers who aredisgusted with the service provided by their networks are eagerly waiting for this date to switch from their network provider to a new networks with out the need of changing their loved phone number. Mobile number portability (MNP) which permits users to retain their number while switching mobile phone providers, makes at least 687 million Indians stronger consumers. Regardless of the issue whether users are prepaid or postpaid, customers will be able to demand better services, tariff plans and rebates from providers.

With this service the customer can switch to any of these prime service providers in india like Airtel, Idea Cellular, BSNL, Aircel, Loop, Vodafone, Etisalat, Sistema and Videocon. The customer has to pay a maximum of Rs 19, the lowest in the world, to migrate to a new mobile phone company.

These are the steps to port your mobile number to another service provider of your interest.
1) Generate UPC (Unique Porting Code). This can be done by sending an SMS to 1900.
     The SMS should be in this format: PORT Eg: PORT <99XXXXXXXX>.

 2) Go to the new service provider, he will ask for this UPC code obtained through sms when you fill the SIM form.
  
 Fill the form and obtain your new service providers SIM card. Switching charges: Rs 19.

Finally You will get a message from your new provider on your existing number about when to start using the SIM. That's it.

Published Date : Wednesday, 19/1/2011 11:41 PM IST