Nagavalli First Week Collections

Nagavalli is performing average business all over. As it was released in Holiday season that turned out to be the biggest advantage for this film and also made Producer Bellamkonda Suresh and distributor is happy with its collections.

As per the producer, the collections of first week was Rs. 12 crore approx.

Nagavalli collections Region Wise:

Nizam - 5 crore
Vizag - 1 crore
East Godavari - 65 lakhs
West Godavari - 55 lakhs
Krishna - 55 lakhs
Guntur - 1 crore
Nellore - 55 lakhs
Ceded - 2 crore
Chennai 55 lakhs

Hero Ram under Gautam Vasudev Menon direction soon...

Director Gowtam Menon’s earlier straight film in telugu was 'Ye Maya Chesave' which gave break to Naga Chaitanya and also gave row of opportunitiess to new star Samantha. Now Gautam Vasudev Menon is planning to do a movie with actor Ram as the lead. This movie is said to be a youthful romantic entertainer.
AR Rehman is expected to compose music to this untitled movie. Vallabhaneni Ashok who is producing (Erra Gulabilu -directed by Gautam Menon starring Samantha and Sameera Reddy) is the producer of Ram’s film.

Surya demands 20 Crores Remuneration

We know that Gemini Film Circuit is remaking bollywood’s 3 Idiots in Tamil and Telugu. Ace director Shankar is directing the movie. But the movie witnessed major changes in cast like Mahesh Babu and Vijay saying no to play Aamir Khan’s role in Telugu and Tamil respectively. This made Shankar to make a decision to rope popular actor Surya to play Aamir's role in Telugu and Tamil versions.
Now the latest news is that actor Surya reportedly demanded Rs 20 crore to play leading role in both versions of the movie. However Aamir Khan had received a remuneration of Rs 20 crore wih 3 Idiots in Hindi apart from director Raju Hirani. Ileana is playing Kareena Kapoor’s role in Telugu and Tamil. , we have to wait and see whether producer would heed to his demand or not?

Ragada's Sensational first day collections

Nagarjuna's Ragada had collected an average of Rs. 2.50 crores on its first day. It once again worked out Nagarjuna's december release sentiment. It is the movie that set a record first day collections in Nagarjuna's career. Producer Shiva Prasad Reddy told that Ragada has collected Rs. 2.54 crore on its first day. The film is produced by D. Siva Prasad Reddy with Anushka and Priyamani as the heroines. Charmi makes a brief but very important appearance in Ragada. Also in the cast are Kota Srinivas Rao, Tanikella Bharani, Raghu Babu, Pradeep Rawat, Dev Gill, Satya Prakash, Sushanth Singh, Supreeth, Venniradai Nirmala, Sana and Dr. Bharath Reddy.
Now this film is expected to be one of the biggest grossers this year and Ragada also expected to break first week collection records in entire Nagarjuna's film career.

Ileyana to replace Kajal Aggarwal?

'Merupu'  directed by Dharani and  produced by N.V. Prasad and Paras Jain under the banner of Mega Supergood Films.is expeceted to have major shuffling for heroine role. According to latest reports,  Ileana is likely to replace Kajal Agarwal as the heroine. This change is due to busy shooting schedule of Kajal Agarwal.
Merupu has Ram Charan Teja playing an Indian football player, who strives to take his team to an international standard despite match fixing and other inner politics in the selection of players. We know that Ram Charan Teja's father Chiranjeevi had played a goal keeper role in Vijetha.

Other Details : Devi Sri Prasad scores the music. Camera is by P.C. Sreeram, editing by V.T. Vijayan, art by Thota Tharani and dialogues by Paruchuri Brothers.

Bollywood Top Gun enters 45

Bollywood superstar  Salman Khan was born on Dec 27th, 1965. He made his screen debut in 1988 with the film Biwi Ho To Aisi. Salman Khan has been one of the top stars of Bollywood for over two decades. This year will see a total of 237 Hindi movies (including dubbed ones) release till December 31. And, the only two genuine super hits are Dabangg and Golmaal 3. Tees Maar Khan (TMK) is just four days old hence we can't figure it out from the top race.

“Of course, there are films like Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, Band Baaja Baaraat, Ishqiya, Khichdi — The Movie, Love Sex Aur Dhoka and Tere Bin Laden that got critical acclaim and managed decent numbers too,’’.

Salman Khan had a fantastic outing this year with 'Dabangg '  which went on to be the biggest Bollywood hit of  2010. It is the all time second biggest hit of Bollywood Industry. Dabangg made Salman  to gear up to the top race. Not only with  Dabangg hit, the highest grosser of 2010 also won hearts with his role as the anchor of Big Boss Season 4.

Let us wish Salman Khan a very happy birthday and hope he bags many more hits like Dabangg.

Parama Veera Chakra Trailer - Balakrishna, Sheela, Amisha Patel, Neha Dhupia

NTR & ILEANA STARRER " SHAKTHI " MOVIE LOGO FIRST LOOK

Kudirithe kappu coffee audio launced

The Audio of the music of the film Kudirithe kappu coffee composed by Yogeshwar Sharma has been launched through Aditya Music at a function held at Club Jayabheri in Hyderabad which was attended by tollywood celebrities and the entire cast and crew of the film.
Music Director's introduction:
Yogeshwar Sharma made a debut as a music director through this film in tollywood. The young music director is the son of lyricist Sirivennela Seetarama Sastri. The film stars Varun Sandesh and Suma Bhattacharya in the lead roles. This movie is being directed by Ramana Salwa and the producers are Shiva and Mahi.

Censor Board's objection for a Scene in Trailer

Vishnu is the producer and hero of his latest film 'Vastaadu Naa Raju'. Vasthadu Naa Raju starring Vishnu Manchu and Tapasee has run into trouble with the Censors  Board 's objecteion to a trailer of the movie where heroine Taapsee’s navel is exposed. Taapsee wears gagra choli in that particular song in which navel is exposed in close up which caused objection from censor board. This song was picturised  in Venice.
Vishnu challenged the decision of censor board and posted the trailer in YouTube. Vishnu asks for viewers discretion whether there in any thing wrong in the song. His last film Saleem despite liberal expose of hot Ileana failed to attract audience. Actor-producer Vishnu Manchu was upset with the Censors' objection, as the song was shot in Venice on a high budget. Tollywood circles were also confused with the objection for a navel shot, as numerous Tollywood movies featured similar scenes.

Vastadu Naa Raju Status: audio released

Censor Certification : Yet to come

Farah Khan offer for Akshay Kumar!

It seems that Farah Khan is planning a sequel to Akshay Kumar-starrer “Tees Maar Khan”, which already hit the screens on Friday 24th. It is likely that Akshay Kumar will be given another chance to act in her sequel. This became evident when Farah and Katrina went to shoot the grand finale of STAR Plus’s cookery game show ‘MasterChef India’. she was so impressed with Akshay’s hospitality that she ended up offering ‘Tees Maar Khan 2' to the actor,” said a source.
Akshay, of course expressed his joy at the same moment!
The finale of “MasterChef India” will be aired Saturday.

'No One Killed Jessica' gets A certification

Censor board has awarded the A-certificate to “No One Killed Jessica”  which was  based on a real murder. This movie was okayed by the censor board without any cuts. Movie makers hailed the decision of the censor board saying that they were happy because they will be now  able to take the actual story to the audience .
 Vikas Behl, a senior official of UTV(which  produced the film)  commented hats off to the censor board for their decision.
“No One Killed Jessica” directed by Rajkumar Gupta is based on ramp model Jessica Lall’s murder case. Vidya Balan will be playing the role of Jessica’s sister Sabrina who fought for justice of her sister. Rani rani mukherjee plays a role of journalist in the film.
The movie cleared several restrictions posed by different members like former top cop Amodh Kanth who urged the censor board to ensure that only facts relating to the Jessica Lall murder case should be presented in “No One Killed Jessica”. He was the joint commissioner of police (southern range) when Jessica was shot dead in a night club by Manu Sharma, the son of a Haryana politician in 1999. Manu Sharma was given  a life sentence verdict by the Supreme Court.

This movie is set to release on Jan 7th.

Ragada team celebrated Triple platinum disc function

Celebration for  the success of the  audio 'Ragada' was held grandly on on 23rd Dec at Cinemax hyderabad. Entire  film crew participated in the triple platinum disc function. Music composed by S S Thaman had good numbers that was well suited  the mass image of Nagarjuna in the movie. Speaking to the media Nagarjuna said that “I am very confident on Ragada success. The whole unit worked very hard to make this movie success. He said that he was quite relaxed after watching the first copy of the movie . Shiva prasad reddy, Veeru Potla, B.A.Raju, Ramjogayya Sastry and others participated in this event.

Ragada and Manmadha Banam hits theatres

Tollywood's romantic hero Nagarjuna’s Ragada and Kamal Hassan’s Manmadha Banam are now listing in many theatres in AP which were released on December 23rd. Although Ragada has an edge over Manmadha Banam in AP due to strong mass appeal of Nagarjuna. we can’t completely write off Manmadha Banam as Kamal Haasan enjoys a good market in Telugu too.
Manmadhan Ambu is dubbed into Telugu as Manmadha Banam and the dubbing right holders of this film are expecting it to be a big hit in Telugu also. Dubbed films did well this year in Telugu and we have to wait and see if Manmadha Banam will be hit in telugu or not.
Ragada is an out and out commercial mass entertainer whereas Manmadha Banam is a romantic comedy made with a humongous budget. Anushka and Priyamani are paired up with Nag in Ragada and Trisha played the heroine in Manmadha Banam while Kamal Haasan played a detective role.

Anil Kapoor turns 51

Bollywood's famous actor 'Mr.India' turns 51 today i.e on 24th dec. “I am looking forward to my birthday on Dec 24 and I will celebrate it with my friends,” Anil said in an interview.
Though he is celebrating his birthday with his buddies today due to jam-packed shooting schedule of the super-spy series “Mission  Impossible” in  Vancouver, canada..the Actor is planning to celebrate his birthday eve with his family for the New Year. The actor reveals he will “have a holiday with family in Goa”.

Anil's Cine Journey

Anil Kapoor's 31 years in the film industry is a rags-to-riches journey. From spending his childhood in a chawl in Mumbai to walking into the global recognition, He grew up in a tenement in Chembur, Mumbai where he shared a single room with seven others. He has starred in many hit movies like “Mr.India”, “Beta”, “Viraasat”, “Ram Lakhan”, “Tezaab”, “Parinda” and “No Entry”.
With over 100 films for his credit since 1979 the actor stills looks young. In his own words “I’m just fortunate and lucky that I’ve got the genes that make me look younger than I am. I’m just happy. What can I say…I’m blessed,”.

Dabangg Bags five Awards

Salman Khan’s recent block buster “Dabangg” had claimed  five trophies at the Big Star Entertainment awards here Tuesday night i.e on 21st december. This is the first function to be held by Big Star Entertainment to distribute film awards. Recent hit Dabangg name was heard sound at awards distribution. Dabangg hero Salman Khan won the most entertaining film actor award and Dharmendra bagged the Big star entertainer for 50 years of glory. It also won best film, best director, best entertaining song (”Munni badnaam hui”) and best male singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for the song “Mast mast do nain”. Many other winners of different categories were also announced at the same event and the awards distribution function will be aired Dec 31 on Star TV.

Tees Maar Khan in Theatres Today!

Bollywood's 'Tees Maar Khan' is hitting the screens on December 24, 2010 , it's going to be a grand X'mas release. We all know that Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif are playing the lead roles. After a gap of three years this is the latest movie directed by Farah Khan . Farah Khan continues her trend of having star’s special appearance in this film too.  Music for 'Tees Maar Khan' was composed by Vishal Shekar. His music is rocking now especially 'Sheela Ki Jawani' is rocking at the top chartbusters with hot performance of Katrina Kaif. Tees Maar Khan is expected to be full of fun and action with good dance numbers.  Let's see how Tees Maar Khan performs in theatres.

Movie Name: Tees Maar Khan

Prime Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Akshay Khanna, Raghu Ram, Rajiv Laxman and others

Music Director: Vishal-Shekhar, Shirish Kunder

Director: Farah Khan

Producer: Twinkle Khanna, Shirish Kunder, Ronnie Screwvala

How to combat With Stress At Work

In this modern society, everyone is working on a tight deadline.  You have to manage everything with precision to carry out your daily process efficiently with in a specified time schedule. At work place too, people find themselves loaded with work and always under stress to meet the targets and the deadlines.Experts believe that though stress is an inevitable part of your life, taking undue stress will not serve the purpose. It will only cause you health problems, make you less focused on task at hand and add to your problems.

Suggested below are steps of Stress Management.

Make your work more organized – Always maintain a ‘To do’ list, this will help you prioritize your work. You’ll focus on things that are more important and won’t waste time in things that can be done a little later. This will help your focus more at work, increase your productivity and help you meet your deadline.

Don’t over expect - A major reason why people are always under stress is that they over expect from themselves and set unrealistic goals. Plan a realistic timetable when you are assigned a work. If it appears impossible to meet a deadline, consult your boss. Ask for things that need to be completed on a priority basis. Focus on completing those task in time. You should also not promise what you can’t deliver. This will help you reduce stress.

Get more resources – If you feel that you cannot meet the deadline alone, generate resources that can help you achieve your target. When you have too much at hand, delegating work to others is a smart and a wise move. You can also take ideas and opinions from your senior, co-workers and friends on how you can possibly meet your deadline.

Take a vacation - If you feel that constant stress is bogging you down, consider it’s time to take a break. Keeping yourself away from stressful situations for some time will rejuvenate you. When you get back to work with renewed energy, you’ll be able to focus more and meet your deadline.

Take up energizing activities - The best way to increase your threshold for stress is to exercise and meditate daily. Also, you should take out time to listen to music, do some reading and communicate more with your spouse or friends.

Hefty Visual Affects in 'Anaganaga O Dheerudu'

Siddharth-Shruti Haasan starrer Anaganaga O Dheerudu , directed by Prakash Kovelamudi in collaboration with Walt Disney is said to a rich technical splendor! It is said to be 4000 visual effects that cover over 72 minutes of the film’s run time. The makers say that it will be a daunting task for audience to differentiate between the graphics and live shooting. Meanwhile, the audio of the film is to be released on December 18th  and the film would be released for Pongal.

Akkineni invites AP CM

 Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner Akkineni Nageshwara Rao and his son Nagarjuna had visited the  Secretariat to meet Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy in his office in the C block and invited him to chair as the chief guest for the Akkineni National Award function to be held on January 11. CM had agreed to participate in the function upon the request made by them. When asked about who would be awarded on his name Akkineni  responded that this year's award goes to popular film maker K. Balachandar.