Massive fire broke out at Nag's Rajanna sets

A massive fire broke out on the sets of Nagarjuna's film 'Rajanna' on Tuesday. The fire has burnt specially erected sets of a village and a bungalow at Jubillee Hills. Luckily there were no reports of casualties, as the shooting of the film has been halted recently. Reports say that the incident happened because of an electrical spark, which damaged equipment and sets worth Rs. 50 lakhs on Tuesday evening. It is said that the fire spread in no time, as the sets was erected of plaster of Paris. According to the sources, Major part of the films shooting at the sets has been completed but some key scenes are yet to be shot. Now, it is not sure whether the makers of the film will erect the sets again or change the location of the shoots. 'Rajanna' is based on the life of a freedom fighter who fought valiantly against the oppressive upper class during the Nizam regime and lay down his life. Nagarjuna informed us that the script of 'Rajanna' has stuck to the pages of history to impart originality. The movie is going to have dialogues in Telengana Dialect as reinforcement to the pre-independence backdrop. Nagarjuna and Anushka have teamed up again for this magnum opus. Sensational director Rajamouli has shot few fight sequences and songs for the film. Rajanna is directed by Rajamouli's father Vijayendra Prasad.

Top Director to manage Jr NTR's M show

Jr NTR is firm to make sure that his marriage event does not fare anything less than Allu Arjun's wedding ceremony. Right from the wedding card selection to final reception, everything related to this memorable affair will be dealt professionally. As Jr NTR has less number of close friends compared to Allu Arjun in film circuit, it was left for Rajamouli to make star heroes galore the occasion without a miss. There is also a talk that Rajeev Kanakala is monitoring the arrangements in assistance with Narne Srinivas Rao, father-in-law of NTR. Apparently, Rajamouli even planning to take a break from his regular shooting works for the sake of his best friend's marriage is remarkable. Even insiders say creative decoration for Sangeeth, Pelli Pandiri and reception are to be worked after famous by famous art directors. More than all these, there is big discussion on Bachelors Party to be arranged by NTR as soon as he takes break from Surender Reddy's project.

Directors going crazy on Animal Planet

Faction back drop stories were once a trend in Tollywood. Later love stories commanded the Box Office and now novel concepts with small budgets are making good business. As the way Telugu movie stories follow a trend, now it is the season for cinema titles also to show particular inclination. Last few months we are observing wildness of producers and directors in selecting their movie titles. 'Eega', 'Kandireega', 'Puli Veta', 'Aada Pul' are some of the interesting movie names causing laughter in audiences. Some are saying that directors are simply switching on the Animal Planet to find new headings. We might also get titles like Thonda, Balli and Cheema etc in future.

Rajamouli can never experiment

For all those who are still calling ‘Eega’ as an experimental flick, it is high time they should realize that a commercial director like rajamouli can never ever experiment. One can call it just a different genre of film because Jakkanna himself agreed that what was started of as an experimental flick escalated into a medium/high budget film. As already known, rajamouli made producer to invest nearly Rs.5crores only on visual effects of ‘Eega’ that is high for any film. Desperate movie turning into a visual feast for audience, budget could surmount somewhere above Rs.15 or 20crores given the kind of grand look rajamouli adds to his films, of course everything for a positive output. Let us see, how far this efficient team will be able to carve a different kind of movie offering a different kind of experience to audience.

Rajamouli challenges Music Director!

The best combination of director and music composer would do wonders for a film. SS Rajamouli and MM Keeravani stands best example of understanding and rapport between two technicians. Rajamouli visualizes exactly the same as what his brother thinks. Till now, every film in their combination is a blockbuster musically and commercially. The experimental flick of 'Eega' with one animated character as hero and some other live characters has become a challenge for both. Rajamouli as a technican already pre-visualized entire movie and narrated it to Keeravani asking to compose three songs, gripping background for film. Moods and situations in this kind of flicks are totally different, novelistic from regular movies. Keeping the expectations, new thought process of Rajamouli in mind, Keeravani took 'Eega' as a challenge to his receptivity. What remains to be seen is how far music magician reached the outlook of screen magician.

Prabhas - Rajamouli - KRR film announced

Top director S S Rajamouli has finally announced his proposed film with Prabhas. On Friday morning (February 18, 2011), hero Prabhas, Rajamouli, veteran director K Raghavendra Rao met the media at Cinemax in Hyderabad and announced the project. The film is to be produced on RK Films banner belongs to K Raghavendra Rao.

"I made debut with Student No.1 which was produced by RK Films. Once again I am doing film for this banner. So it is like home coming to me," Rajamouli said. 

Rajamouli also said he is roaring to go to make a big film. "I planned to make a big-budgeted movie after completing Maryada Ramanna but suddenly I am drawn into 'Eega'. So I am happy to announce that I would be doing this big-budgeted movie once I wrap off the shoot of 'Eega'. Pre-visualization work for this fantasy film is already on and we would go to the sets from September," he added.

Prabhas said he is excited to be part of this project. "I would put all my energies and give my 100 percent to this film," he said excitedly. "K Raghavendra Rao garu directedBobbili Brahmanna which is biggest till date in my pedananna Krishnam Raju's career. Bobbili Brahmanna was produced by home banner and I am now happy to be working under his banner."

'Eega' shoot from Feb 21

Eega, the much-talked about movie from top director S S Rajamouli, is finally going to the sets from Feb 21st. Although the movie was launched two months ago, Rajamouli was busy with Rajanna (his father's directorial venture) and pre-production of this movie. So now he is commencing the regular shoot from next week. Also art director Ravinder in Hyderabad is erecting a special set. 

On the other hand, a leading Tamil producer has already snapped the rights of this movie for a whopping amount. Eega is also to be released by this producer in Tamil simultaneously with the Telugu film. 

Nani and Samantha are the lead pair while Kannada actor Sudeep is playing antagonist in the movie.  Animated 'Eega' (Housefly) is the main hero of the movie. Korrapati Sai is producing this flick, while M M Keeravani is providing the music. 

Hero Raja Reveals His 'Past Birth'

Lately, the small screen circuit has become a better platform for actors to project themselves. So… many from Tollywood come up with their stints on TV. One among them recently was hero Raja and he was seen in a rather unusual yet interesting program unlike the regular reality and dance shows.

All this happened in the MAA TV Channel between 9 pm and 10pm yesterday. Raja went through the regression therapy in front of the viewers. Well, regression therapy is a hypnotic therapy which heals many deep rooted problems of individuals by taking them through their past births and connecting them with their current life.

Raja could visualize his past and went back 3000 years in his life. Apparently, he was somewhere in the Middle East in a desert kind of place. It seems he was a tribal leader and revealed that do not fear and be a leader was something which was picked up in that life and he has been following the same till date.

The other revelation is that he was loyal to the king then. As soon as they heard this, the viewers waited to see if he will take the name of Y S Jagan as today’s king but he didn’t. Overall, Raja was thrilled with the total experience and admitted that he felt like a different and relieved person.

Akhil Akkineni’s Debut With Rajamouli

Akhil Akkineni, the lovely son of Nagarjuna and Amala is going to debut on silver screen in the direction of SS Rajamouli, as per the highly reliable sources. It is known that Rajamouli is now making ‘Eega’ and later committed to do ‘Rajanna’ with Nagarjuna with the story which was given by Vijayendra Prasad.

It is being said by film folks that Nag agreed to do Rajanna only to get close to Rajamouli and his style of making films.

Nag and Amala have long back decided to make their son debut only in the direction of Rajamouli. Not only that, even Rajamouli kept on meeting Nagarjuna at his residence during story narrations and witnessed Akhil there and loved to work with him.

That way Akhil is going to hit screen in Rajamouli’s direction. That is almost confirmed.