Balayya Became 'Ravana' For Prabhu Deva

The turning point in Ramayana is when Seeta is kidnapped by Ravana. After she returns, she is asked to go for an ‘Agnipareeksha’ by Rama. Right now, a grapevine has been making strong rounds in Chennai. The topic is ‘Nandamuri Balakrishna is the Ravana for Prabhu Deva’.

Well, Balayya has been hailing Nayantara fully and has been showering her with compliments from the start till end of ‘Sreerama Rajyam’. This is being discussed strongly in Tamil magazines. Some have taken it a step ahead and added that Prabhu Deva has now begun to get doubts for Nayan staying in Hyderabad for longer time and moving along with Balayya.

The Tamil magazines gave a finishing touch by mentioning “Onscreen Balakrishna is Rama, off-screen he is Ravana.” However, the Tollywood folks who heard all this quash it as trash. They say “Don’t know why Tamil media is so interested in Tollywood. Recently, they linked Naga Chaitanya with Anushka now they are attaching Balayya with Nayan.”

Southern Heroines 'Backfire' In Bollywood

Southern heroines have dreamt a lot to hoist their sexy flag in Bollywood and ran to Mumbai. But they failed there and hence coming back to pavilion. The popular in the list are Priyamani, Trisha and Shreya.

Trisha appeared in Bollywood film 'Katta Meetha' but that flopped miserably. Knowing her fate in Bollywood she came back immediately. Similarly Shreya appeared in 'Mission Isthanbul', 'Awarapan' sort of films and ran back with failures. Priyamani appeared in 'Ravan' and understood her fortunes in Bollywood. And these ladies are saying that South is their mother’s place and hence they cannot go away from the fold of Southern audiences.

It is only Asin who is still lingering there in Bollywood to bag a few offers at least in slow and steady fashion. She got close to some Bollywood biggies there those can promote her.

Well, other ladies might not know the tricks of the trade.

Mahesh Babu's Son Shocks Surprisingly

The film ‘Dookudu’ is yet to release but the dialogue ‘bhayaaniki meaning teliyani blood raa naadhi’ has become most popular among Mahesh Babu’s fans and film lovers on a whole due to trailer. It’s not just Mahesh’s fans, even Mahesh’s son has been reciting that. Here is the story.

An associate director working in ‘Dookudu’ team has arrived at Mahesh Babu’s residence to submit some dialogue papers. He was waiting at the lounge and meanwhile a black three feet tall dog has come out running. Mahesh Babu’s son Goutham Krishna chased it and caught. He was sitting on that and playing with its fur. The servant has come out shouting, “Babu! Adhi karusthundi, vadileyyi..bhayapadathaavu”. Then Goutham Krishna looked at servant seriously and said, “Bhayaniki meaninge teliyani blood raa naadhi”, emulating both his father and grand father.

The associate director witnessed this entire scene and got shocked at the talent of the little super star. He returned to the unit and shared his experience.

Comedian's 'Kama Kreedalu' With Divorced Lady

Who flashes on the mind of anyone when the expression 'top comedian' hits the ears? Yes, there is no second thought. The 'gentleman' is aggressive in exhibiting his libido and he is at present visiting the flat of a divorced actress J in Film Nagar, as per close sources.

His driver has leaked this information stating that he is frequenting her flat taking advantage of her living in 'single'. “Earlier our boss used to spend time similarly with another aunty in film industry Hema, but now he changed his hub to J", said the driver.

The comedian is running in ripe age but preferring the ladies those are of his daughter's age. Although it is an affair of mutual consent, when such things come out in public, things go upside down with respect to image and careers!

Male Makeup Men On Actresses' Private Parts

A hot topic of discussion has begun to make rounds in industry. Usually most of the good makeup artistes are men. They are good at their job. Now, when it is an item song, the entire body has to be smeared with makeup since the actresses wear bare minimum costumes and entire body gets exposed to camera.

However, it is heard that some of the artistes are urging that they want lady makeup artistes to be there. If outsiders come, then the makeup artists association is causing a lot of hungama. Moreover, the quantity of registered lady makeup artistes is very minimal.

If makeup problem is one side, the other hitch is with costume designers. It is heard that they are sitting during change of costume in the room. Usually, some problem or the other keeps coming so they go and ‘adjust’ things. Well, the actresses can’t keep complaining all the time.

But they are lamenting that all males only is causing trouble, especially for item girls. For heroines, a standard is maintained, so when she demands a change is being made. But it is not the same for character artistes and item girls. This is nothing new since all this is happening from past 30 years but people are coming out now with complaints.

Bellamkonda Puts 'Fire' Under Ram

Hero Ram is suffering a lot now for getting into logger heads with Bellamkonda Suresh in collecting the full due of remuneration from him for the film Kandireega'. Producer Bellamkonda paid full dues to Ram but now teaching him a lesson.


Bellamkonda decided not to promote Ram on the posters of 'Kandireega'. It is said that he gave instructions to publicity designers to keep only Ram's face on poster and place the pictures of Hansika, Colors Swathi and Aksha in big way dominating Ram's face. It is an idea to show that the film can be taken to audience even without Ram's poster.


Knowing this Ram is coming to the feet of Bellamkonda to compromise with him. Not stopping at that Ram is also getting close with electronic media reporters to promote him in positive light in connection with 'Kandireega' success.

Bellamkonda Puts 'Fire' Under Ram

Hero Ram is suffering a lot now for getting into logger heads with Bellamkonda Suresh in collecting the full due of remuneration from him for the film Kandireega'. Producer Bellamkonda paid full dues to Ram but now teaching him a lesson.

Bellamkonda decided not to promote Ram on the posters of 'Kandireega'. It is said that he gave instructions to publicity designers to keep only Ram's face on poster and place the pictures of Hansika, Colors Swathi and Aksha in big way dominating Ram's face. It is an idea to show that the film can be taken to audience even without Ram's poster.

Knowing this Ram is coming to the feet of Bellamkonda to compromise with him. Not stopping at that Ram is also getting close with electronic media reporters to promote him in positive light in connection with 'Kandireega' success.

Bunny Unhappy With Trivikram!!

Just recently, news was making strong rounds that Allu Arjun has gone to Australia for attending a surgery on his shoulder. However, the film nagar folks have expressed their own doubt as they have another information which seems to be the real reason why Bunny left for Australia.

Well, it is heard that Bunny is not happy with the script prepared by Trivikram Srinivas for his new movie. Since it is two months since ‘Badrinath’ has been released and Bunny’s next project is yet to hit the floors, Allu Aravind and Co. felt it would be an embarrassment so they came up with this sketch.

Since script changes will take time, Bunny didn’t want to waste time so he left for Australia in the disguise of surgery. On the other hand, there is also a talk that Allu & Co. are not showing much interest in a grand launch of the movie. So, unless it hits the floors nothing is confirmed, as per few sources.

Secret behind NTR's exit from Twitter

Junior NTR who was not interested to be a part of any social networking website before changed his mind and joined Twitter. He expected a grand welcome from his fans and he did get a great one. NTR stayed active on Twitter for few days and used this platform to promote his film Brindavanam.         Suddenly one day he stopped tweeting and was never back till now. Why did NTR go off twitter? Here is some interesting scoop on this. NTR wanted to show his star power on Twitter by gaining lakhs of followers within no time. But that didn't happen and was left far behind Mahesh in terms of follower count. Even after being very active on Twitter, NTR's followers count didn't increase in big numbers.         Meanwhile Ram Charan too joined Twitter and the insecurity started to creep in NTR's mind. Charan's follower count crossed 10k… 25k within no time and NTR feared that Charan too would overcome him in the future, which will damage his image. So NTR went off Twitter and like he predicted, Charan's follower count is almost as much as Junior's now. And Mahesh is not even in the vicinity.

Wake up Pawan Kalyan !

Pawan Kalyan is undoubtedly one of the major stars in entire South Indian film industry. His star power never went down despite giving numerous flops. But that looks like history now as buyers are slowly losing faith in Pawan’s script selection. Although he is a big star at the box office, Pawan is not converting that stardom into success.             With back to back disasters Puli and Teenmaar, Pawan Kalyan’s next film is not having any business craze. Tentatively titled Shadow, this film is directed by a Tamilian Vishnuvardhan. Pawan’s choice of directors too is reason for his diminishing stardom. He is deliberately ignoring star directors like Rajamouli, Vinayak and Puri Jagannadh.             We can recall that the only one hit that Pawan got in the last decade was Jalsa and it is directed by one of the frontline directors of Telugu cinema, Trivikram! Even then Pawan doesn’t realize the value of working with star technicians and he is paying big price for it now. We came to know that buyers are not showing interest in Pawan’s other film Gabbar Singh too. Wake up Pawan, or else you will have to sleep forever.

Our festival will start next month: Mahesh Babu

The audio launch of the much-awaited film of the year 'Dookudu', which stars Mahesh Babu and Samantha in the lead was held at Shilpa Kala Vedika in Hyderabad Today, August 18. Mahesh Babu, who always wants his work to speak, said for the first time he felt like doing it at the audio launch. "Usually, I stay away from audio functions. I don't know why, But for the first time I felt like doing it with Dookudu team. For me, this audio launch is looking like a 100 days function. Thaman has given his best for Dookudu. Director Srinu Vytla has literally put his blood into this movie. I will be grateful to him for giving a film like Dookudu to me. Samantha is one of the most dedicated co-star I have ever worked with. She is just brilliant in Dookudu. I have never worked with such an efficient producers in my career. Dookudu is slated for release next month. Our festival will start next month," said Mahesh Babu. Srinu Vytla looked very confident on the output of the film. "I'm waiting to see this film with fans. Though I have taken time to shoot this film, I think it's worth the wait. This film will 100 % reach the expectations of the fans. There are many surprises in this film. I worked for 1 and a half year on this film. The reason for this is I like Mahesh very much. I treat Mahesh as my brother and I made this film with the same responsibility. He is responsible for the terrific output of Dookudu. Dookudu will turn out to be a 100% Blockbuster. I have never said that my film will score huge success till now. But, I'm saying it for Dookudu," said Srinu Vytla. Samantha said she is a huge fan of Mahesh Babu. "I'm a huge fan of Mahesh Babu. Even I am eagerly waiting for the release, like any other fan. I thank Srinu Vytla for offereing me this film. Special thanks Roopa Vytla," said Samantha. Brahmanandam opined that Dookudu will do wonders at Box Office. "I won't say that this is a 100 days or 200 days or 300 days film. This film will be like a full meal for Mahesh fans. Mahesh Babu has done terrific job. Srinu Vytla always created special characters for me in his films. In 'Dookudu', I play a full length role along with Mahesh. Comedy has worked out extrodinarily in this film," said Brahmanandam.

Mahesh Babu is just amazing: Hot Beauty

In a recent interview, Tollywood's hot sensation Samantha spoke at length about her films and her experience of working with Top Stars in the Industry. On Dookudu "In Dookudu, I play the role of a sweet girl, who is little naughty. The film is carrying high expectations and every one is excited about it. Mahesh Babu is just amazing. Sreenu Vytla has done very good job". On her Roles "I'm very happy with the films that are offered to me. I just want to compete with myself and keep raising the bar. I don't want to stuck with Jesse('Ye Maya Chesave') all through my career. I need to do better roles". Number Game "I don't think about this Number 1 and Number 2, because every friday the Number 1 changes. So, If I keep thinking about all that I will be little mad. I cannot concentrate on the No 1 race". On Bollywood "I'm very happy with the South. I will continue being in South India, till the audience here stop wanting me". Working with Star Heroes "It's brilliant to work with these stars so early in my career, because you learn so much - Not just about acting, there perspective about cinema, respect for cinema. So, It's very important I got to learn all these from Superstars. All this is going to help me a long way in the film career". On Lip-locks "It all depends on the situation and the role. I go with the instinct, at that time if I like it I will do it".

Talk-Of-Town: Director's 'second' setups

Quite natural in the industry for directors and producers is to maintain 'second' setups. However, the setup we are talking about is not the one you think. All of a sudden, there has been a rise in the 'new film announcements' of this star director. Like his guru Ram Gopal Varma, ace director Puri Jagannath is also announcing many flicks at same time. Whether it is to increase his brand value or to create a hype for his current projects is yet to be found. But, the names of the flicks and his repeat flicks with the heroes he has worked previously is all news now. Currently he is doing 'Businessman' with Mahesh Babu and the duo was known earlier for creating records with 'Pokiri'. Likewise, he is doing Idiot-2 with Raviteja and the combination is always a lethal weapon. Now, he announced another 'second setup' with Jr NTR and they are much talked earlier for their biggest failure movie 'Andhrawala'. So, how the 'second setups' are going to work at BO for this dashing director is to be seen now.

Samantha shot back at Anchor Jhansi

Anchor Jhansi made a blunder at the audio launch of Mahesh Babu's upcoming film 'Dookudu'. After the trailers of the film got aired on big screen for fans, Jhansi mistook Samantha as Tamanna. She even addresed the actress of the film as Tamanna. "Mahesh Babu andaniki heroine Tamanna ela match ayindho chusaru kada," said Jhansi. Samantha was shocked with this unexpected thing. It's an embarassing situation for her. It's for sure that, not even had she ever dreamt of such thing would happen to her. How can an Anchor forget the name of the Actress? Some even raised doubt that - Whether Jhansi knows that Samantha played the female lead in the film or not? Immediately after this incident, Jhansi called Samantha up on stage to question about her experience working in Dookudu with Mahesh. Samantha cashed in on opportunity and shot back saying: "Peru Marchi Poyava". Everyone present at the audio launch including Mahesh, laughed wholeheartedly with Samantha's counter. And it's time for Jhansi to get embarrassed with the developments. Hope this leading anchor will not repeat such blunder again!

Nandamuri Family attacks with 'Ugra Narasimha'

After winning that 'Nandi' award, Nandamuri top-hero is thinking quite differently to continue the legacy it appears. The whole family is now teaming up with their sub-families to launch an attack on the BO, say sources. According to grapevine, a noted director earlier prepared a script for multi-lingual flick in South languages. Supposed to be a Powerstar Pawan Kalyan and Mallu mega-hero Mammootty starrer, this flick is shelved due to the non-availability of Pawan's date. However, the director has now approached Balayya's camp to work out the same script. Early birds are singing that Balayya accepted the proposal in single sitting and directed Nara Rohit to get into the scenario. The entry of Nara Rohit may sound different, but there is no doubt that he is also a sub-camp of Nandamuri clan. Finally, to sum up, the flick is tentatively titled as 'Ugra Narasimha'. Looks like, before someone else does that, Nandamuri brand is opening the gates for multi-starrers again in Telugu.

Our first combination will stand out as best:Jr NTR

Young Tiger Jr NTR is signing back-to-back films. The other day he announced a film with Puri Jagannath, and now he has teamed up with successful director Srinu Vytla. The actor is confident that this film in their combination will stand out as best. "This is my first film with Sreenu Vytla. The story is very inspiring. I think, our first combination will stand out as best. It is an action entertainer. After Boyapati Seenu's film, I will start shooting for this film," said Jr NTR. Srinu Vytla is excited to work with Jr NTR for the first time. "I'm excited to direct NTR for the first time. After hearing the story, NTR too got very excited. This film is a blend of comedy and action. After Dookudu, this film will go to floors," said Srinu Vytla. Ganesh Babu is producing this film on Parameswari Arts banner. He is also producing Jr NTR-Puri film. For the very first time in his career, Jr NTR is doing back-to-back films in the same banner.

Can Prabhudeva show his True Love???

Time comes for everyone to show how special they are and here it is for Prabhudeva, it appears. This dance-master was in the news all these days for all those things he has done against society. Ace choreographer Prabhudeva has ringed the bells with the proposal of marrying curvaceous beauty Nayantara. With interference of court, the spring-man has already divorced his wife and distributed the assets. However, when it comes to showing love, Nayantara has an edge over this dance-master. The sexy beauty got converted to Hinduism before learning how to practice it. Sources revealed that she got a tattoo drawn on her body highlighting Prabhu’s name thereby reciprocating her love. Critics are saying that other than grabbing Nayan’s wealth, Prabhu hasn't done any such loveable thing so far. Though some are countering the statement saying he has already given hand to his wife and siblings only for the sake of this enchanting beauty. Lovers may not agree to this, as that is looking like lust. So, can Prabhudeva show his true love???

Producer 'Mama' spoiling Rising-Hero

When you come from a big family and became (made) a star, then there is no need to look back as their support always pushes you forward. But when you are on your own, with a little support from family members, you need to be very careful. For instance, take the case of young and energetic hero Ram. Though he is niece of noted producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore, the young hero is almost on his own. He proved a mark that he is highly flammable and performance oriented, unlike our other 'babulu'. However, with each growing day of him in the industry, his 'mama's interference in his chores is spoiling him, sources revealed. The other day, Ram is into a scuffle with golden producer Bellamkonda Suresh over a remuneration issue. At this tender stage of career, it is not good for Ram to mess up relations with big producers. All the issue is due to the pampering done by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore to extract more money from Bellamkonda. With his mama's support he can become only a family hero, but with some big-producers support he can stamp in the industry as an ace mass-hero, a critic added.

Producer 'Mama' spoiling Rising-Hero

When you come from a big family and became (made) a star, then there is no need to look back as their support always pushes you forward. But when you are on your own, with a little support from family members, you need to be very careful. For instance, take the case of young and energetic hero Ram. Though he is niece of noted producer Sravanthi Ravi Kishore, the young hero is almost on his own. He proved a mark that he is highly flammable and performance oriented, unlike our other 'babulu'. However, with each growing day of him in the industry, his 'mama's interference in his chores is spoiling him, sources revealed. The other day, Ram is into a scuffle with golden producer Bellamkonda Suresh over a remuneration issue. At this tender stage of career, it is not good for Ram to mess up relations with big producers. All the issue is due to the pampering done by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore to extract more money from Bellamkonda. With his mama's support he can become only a family hero, but with some big-producers support he can stamp in the industry as an ace mass-hero, a critic added.

"Ram Gopal Varma deserves a standing ovation"

Ace filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says Ram Gopal Varma deserves a standing ovation for making a film like 'Idhi Prema Katha Kadu'. The film is a bi-lingual(Telugu, Hindi), which is inspired from the sensational murder of TV Producer Neeraj Groover. "RGV deserves a standing ovation for making a film like this. I think, he is fearless man. He used a new technology in this film. This film takes Indian Cinema to next level. It will surely touch the audience. Though it is titled 'Idhi Prema Katha Kadu' - In my view, it is actually a great love story," said Mahesh Bhatt. Mahesh Bhatt watched the special screening of the film on Tuesday, August 16. The film features Mahie Gill('Dev D' fame) in the role of Kannada actress Maria Susairaj. In 2008, Television Producer Neeraj Grover was murdered in his own flat. Police arrested Kannada actress Maria Susairaj and co-accused, ex-naval officer Emile Jerome Mathew in connection with the murder. Maria Susairaj was released from prison last month, after spending 3 years imprisonment. Emile Jerome was sentenced to 10 years jail term.

This film will be a Blockbuster: Jr NTR

Looks like crazy director Puri Jagannath is on a signing spree. A couple of days back, his much-awaited film with superstar Mahesh Babu was launched. Yesterday, he announced the sequel to his superhit film 'Idiot' with Raviteja, which starts its regular shooting in January. And now, his new film with Jr NTR will go to floors in summer 2012. "I have readied a terrific storyline for NTR's film. It's a love story with action backdrop. This film will give a new image to NTR. Shooting begins from April 2012. My close friend Ganesh Babu is producing this film," said Puri Jagannath. Jr NTR is excited to work with Puri again, after a long gap. “I have been waiting to team up with Puri since a long time. I'm confident that Puri will mould it well and this film will surely turn out to be a Blockbuster," said Jr NTR. Earlier, Jr NTR and Puri worked for 'Andhrawala' which turned out to be dud at the Box Office. But, the duo were determined to score a success this time. Let's see what happens!

Bulky-Beauty escaped with 'B' Money

The bulky babe stormed the headlines already for that 'excessive-fat' she has portrayed. We are talking about young and gorgeous Hansika Motwani who is enthralling the audiences now with her 'Kandireega'. Apparently, there was news earlier that Hansika has regretted her mistake of growing bulky losing her vigor and charm. For the same reason, she has contacted many 'weight' and 'diet' professional to keep things in check. To attain her sexy old figure, the stunning beauty is now heading to the United States as per reports. However, Hansika is covering up the issue saying that she needs to write her Degree exams there. Reportedly, the fat girl has taken final pay-cheque from Bellamkonda and went into vain without intimation. In fact, the producer is expecting her to do some promotional activities for their successfully running movie 'Kandireega'. For getting her liposuction therapy done to loose wait at right places and keeping her curves intact, the sexy lady has escaped with Bellamkonda Money!

Black-Money behind Akkineni Heroes!

Bits and pieces of gossips are always heard in Film Nagar circles about Black-Money doing rounds. After the demise of a factionist, the ‘seema’ funds got washed out from the industry and still there are some suspicions. With a string of big-budgeted blunders like 'Kedi' and 'Dhada', Kamakshi Movies is the news for not showing any sign of reluctance. Never, the producer Siva Prasad Reddy got backed from producing flicks with Akkineni heroes, from Nagarjuna to Naga Chaitanya. With huge losses incurred in the business, how come Kamakshi Movies is investing a lot of money is the point of discussion now. Critics are saying that a big star-hero is investing his under-table income into this banner. Already big-wigs like Bellamkonda and RR Movies are facing this 'black' heat and the newly added one is this 'Kamakshi Movies'. A senior cine member stated that there is no doubt an excess of invalid cash is flowing in Film Nagar, but it is feeding thousands of empty stomachs irrespective of its legality. What's your say guys?

I used to tease Naga Chaitanya a lot: Actress

Kajal Agarwal, who is Hyderabad to promote her film 'Dhada', says she used to tease her co-star Naga Chaitanya during the making of the film. "Naga Chaitanya is shy person. But, when camera starts rolling he turns energetic. As I was senior to him in the Industry, I used to tease him a lot on the sets. Our combination is looking good on screen," says Kajal. On stardom and being one of Top Actress "I don't believe in stardom and I won't think about number game. As an actress, I want to do justice to the role I play and nothing else matters to me," she said. On working with Mahesh Babu in 'The Busineeman' "I'm very excited to work with Mahesh. My role in the film is completely different from what I have done earlier," says the actress. Opinion on Love At First Sight and whether she has fallen in love with anyone "I don't believe in Love At First Sight. I think, both of them should know each other so well to fall in love. Right now, I am not having the time to for it. But, If I find the right guy then I will not delay in getting married," Kajal clarifies.

Puri Jagannadh Becomes Sri Krishnadevaraya

Puri Jagannadh is one man who is known for his movies and unconventional approach towards taking and script. While that has been his regular trademark, it is now heard that he has got a new title – The Krishnadevaraya of Tollywood. Wondering why? Well, here is the story.

It is heard that every evening, many poets and artists come to Puri’s office which is located at Madhapur. They have a ‘Darbar’ and all will be sharing their ideas, knowledge, jokes etc. with each other. Long back, it was the king Krishnadevaraya who had similar ‘Darbars’ at the end of the day.

A regular visitor to his office revealed “Puri’s spacious office itself is like Hampi, the floor upstairs is like Bhuvanavijayam.” Those who heard this are saying “Poets and artists visiting is okay. Krishnadevaraya used to have Raja Nartakis as well, Is Puri also having them in his Darbar? Who knows….maybe he must be having them too.”