Prasthanam in Feb

Prasthanam starring Sharwanand, Ruby, Sandeep Kishan and Saikumar in the lead roles will be hitting the screens in the month of February. The movie was supposed to release in the month of December but got postponed due to several reasons. The story is based on a political back drop.

Music is by Mahesh Shankar, lyrics are by Vanamali and Chaitanya Prasad, camera is by Savita Singh, and art is by Rajiv Nayar, while story screenplay, dialogues and direction are by Deva Katta who has earlier directed Vennala film. The movie is being produced by Vallabhaneni Ravi under VRC Media and Entertainment banner

Siddardha Striker in Telugu

Film Bommarillu gave an excellent platform to its young hero Siddarth , to firmly establish himself inTollywood. On the other hand, unlike the other heroes in the industry he made his presence felt in Hindi belt with his film ‘Rangdhe Basanti.’ Soon after giving a hit he once again delivered another hit film ‘Striker’ in Hindi.

Film Striker is based upon the circumstances of Mumbai city in ‘80s. Siddarth acts as a caroms champion in this film. Padmapriya and Vidya Malwade are the heroines in this film. Now, this film is being dubbed into Telugu with same title by Indu Films. The film has many interesting things to know about.

The film is directed and produced by successful director Chandan Arora. There are six music directors worked for this film. Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vishal Bharadwaj, Swananad Kirkere, Sailendra Kumar, Blaz and Amit Trivedhi are the six persons who gave music to this film. Hero Siddarth, who has some singing experience in his earlier films, sang in this film also. Striker is releasing on 5th of February.

Naga Chaitanya 3 Film Starts in March

Naga chaitanya’s third movie under the direction of Ajay Bhuyan will be launching in the month of March. ‘Kamakshi kala movies’ is presenting the film with D Siva Prasad Reddy as producer.

On this event, D.SivaPrasad Reddy the producer of the movie said,” We are happy to make a film withNaga Chaitanya in our banner. Kajal is playing the female lead in the film. Ajay Bhuyan is being introduced as a director with this flick. We are trying to bring out the film with high technical values and a good script.

Naga chaitanya is currently busy with the shooting of his second flick under the direction of Gowtham menon.

NTR Marriage

NTR getting married this year. Yes, say the sources close to NTR. 27-year-old NTR was reportedly engaged. NTR will be marrying Lakshmi Pranati, a relative of former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Lakshmi is currently studying in a private college in Hyderabad. The engagement ceremony took place few days ago in a low-key affair. All arrangements are being done for the grand marriage ceremony in May this year. 

Shakti Launched in a style

NTR’s new film, Shakati, in the direction of Meher Ramesh of Katri fame was launched on January 28, 2010 in  a grand style at a golf club near Gachchibowli in Hyderabad. As Vyjayanthi Movies was formally launched on the same day 35 years ago by late NTR, producer Ashwini Dutt started this film with NTR Jr in grand style. K Raghavendra Rao, Dasari Narayana Rao and Krishnam Raju did the honours of sounding clapboard, switching on the camera and directing the first muhurat shot. NTR participated in the film’s muhurat but heroine Ileana could not attend the function.

Ashwini Dutt speaking to the media “35 Years ago, I started Eduruleni Manishi with Late NTR on our banner Vyjayanthi Movies. NTR also named the banner. So I have decided to launch this film with his grandson on this day. From NTR Sr to NTR Jr, this banner has produced some biggest blockbusters, worked with all big stars in Tollywood and best technicians in India. We are proud to start this new film, Shakti, on this occasion with NTR Jr with whom I have made two films already. There are no budget restrictions and no time frame for release date. I asked the director Ramesh to make this memorable film for all of us,” Ashwini Dutt said.

Charan & Trivikram

Ram Charan is Doing the Pepsi Ad in Mumbai Next week, under the direction of Trivikram. Trivikram had made a nice concept for Cherry. Trivikram who meant for the Quality of the direction is now ready with this new script. Even Trivikram is doing a movie with charan, which has not been conformed but soon.  

The Train

Deewana

Deewana

Dil Movie

DIL

Dus Movie

DUS

Sarkar Movie

Sarkar

DON Sreenu getting ready

Varudu first look

Veera

Ravi Teja is all set to appear as Veera, a warrior, in Tolly2Holly’s next production in the direction of Ramesh Varma. Fresh from the success of Ride, Ramesh Varma is starting this big budgeted film in summer 2010. The first look is here. The film has great crew including hotshot music director Devi Sri Prasad composing songs and Sam K Naidu handling the camera. Parachuri Brothers pen the dialogues. Ganesh Indukuri is producing it.

Varudu Logo

The first look of ace director Gunashekar's current film, Varudu, with Allu Arjun has been released. Till now no official still was leaked out. The film's logo was released today (Friday, January 22, 2010). "We are happy with the film's out come. It would be another hit in our combination after Desamuduru. Gunashekar is making this film as an all-round entertainer that caters to varied sections of audiences. We are planning to release this summer," Danaiah, producer of the film, said.
Gunashekar praised Allu Arjun for giving knockout performance. "His acting skills will be talked for a long time in the movie. And also Tamil actor Arya's performance would be praised by one and all. We are making it with high technical values and rich production values with 100 real families participating in the shoot," Gunashekar said. It has music by Manisharma.

56th National Awards for year 2008

1. BEST FEATURE FILM - Antaheen (Bengali)
2. INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FILM OF A DIRECTOR - A Wednesday (Director : Neeraj Pandey)
3. BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT - Oye Lucky ! Lucky Oye (Hindi)
4. NARGIS DUTT AWARD FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION - Aai Kot Nai (Assamese)
5. BEST FILM ON FAMILY VALUES - Little Zizou (English,Gujarati)
6. BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES- Jogva (Marathi)
7. BEST FILM ON ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION/PRESERVATION - Jianta Bhoota (Oriya)
8. BEST CHILDREN’S FILM - Gubbachigalu (Kannada)
9. BEST ANIMATION FILM Roadside Romeo (Hindi)
10. BEST DIRECTION - Bala (Naan Kaduval - Tamil)
11. BEST ACTOR- Upendra Limaye (Jogva, Marathi)
12. BEST ACTRESS - Priyanka Chopra (Fashion, Hindi)
13. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Arjun Rampal (Rock On !!, Hindi)
14. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Kangana (Fashion, Hindi)
15. BEST CHILD ARTIST - Shams Patel (Thanks Maa, Hindi)
16. BEST MALE PLAYBACK  SINGER - Hariharan (Jogva, Marathi)
17. BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER - Shreya Ghoshal(Antaheen, Bengali)
18. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Avik Mukhopadhyay (Antaheen, Bengali)
19. BEST SCREENPLAY- Sachin Kundalkar (Gandha, Marathi)
20. BEST AUDIOGRAPHY- Pramod J. Thomas( Gandha, Marathi)
21. BEST EDITING- A. Sreekar Prasad (Firaaq, Hindi)
22. BEST ART DIRECTION- Gautam Sen (Firaaq, Hindi)
23. BEST COSTUME DESIGNER - Neeta Lulla (Jodha Akbar, Hindi)
24. BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST - Moorthy V. (Naan Kadauul, Tamil)
25. BEST MUSIC DIRECTION - Ajay and Atul (Jogva, Marathi)
26. BEST LYRICS - Anindya Bannerjee and Chandranil Bhattacharya (Antaheen, Bengali)
27. SPECIAL JURY AWARD - Bioscope (Malayalam)
28. BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS - Govardhan (Mumbai Meri Jaan, Hindi)
29 BEST CHOREOGRAPHY - Chinni Prakash & Rekha Prakash (Jodha Akbar, Hindi)
30. BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED
a) Mon Jai - Assamese
b) Shob Charitro Kalponik - Bengali
c) Rock On  - Hindi
D) Vimukthi - Kannada
E) Thirakkada - Malayalam
F) Harishcnadrachi Factory - Marathi
G) Vaarnam Aiyiram - Tamil
H) 1940 LO Oka Gramam - Telugu
I) Yarwng - Kokborok
J) Gaggara - Tulu
31. BEST BOOK ON CINEMA - Bollywood Melodies (English) Author: Ganesh Anantharaman
32. SPECIAL JURY MENTION -  The Director’s Mind (English) Ujjal Chakraborty
33. BEST FILM CRITIC -  Altaf Mazid and R.K. Bidur Singh

Allari MLA

Allari Naresh has signed a movie with Bindaas' production house AK Entertainment Banner.  The film is titled MLA, the acronym for Manchi Lakshanalunna Abbayi.  Debutante director Veerabhadram Chowdary will wield the megaphone.

As Bendu Apparao and Malli in Shambo Shiva Shambo, Naresh proved that he can dabble in sentimental, comedy and emotional roles with ease.  Now, you can expect a good performance as an absolutely good guy character in MLA.

Srihari is playing the most important supporting actor of the film.  It may be noted that this is just another film in his kitty.

He is a happier lot these days, as he has already got K Vishwanath's Sumadhuram and another project with director Vamshi in hand.  Though these are not big releases, given that there is not much hype surrounding them as yet and also as the once-front line directors have not been delivering hits in recent times, they are special to him as the roles he is playing in these films are distinct.

Bumper Offer for Raghu

Ever since his Ravanamma number rode the chartbusters in 2009, Raghu Kunche has been a busy musician.  He has two films with Allari Naresh alone lined up.  If in the last month he was signed for 'Betting Bangarraju', in the New Year, yet another Naresh film has come his way.

Titled MLA, the producers have roped in Raghu Kunche as music director.  Besides the two noteworthy ones, there are a slew of other films, small and medium-budgeted, in his kitty.  Which means that Kunche is slowly turning out to be the next big one after Mickey J Meyer et al.

There was also news that he was chosen as the music director of 'Golimaar'.  'Bumper Offer' brought him more offers than any one had imagined.  As a singer, Kunche did prove his mettle.  He then moved on to anchoring, where he made a successful, albeit brief, stint, all owing to his spontaneity.

As a musician, he is sure destined to make strides.  

Let's Wish him all the Best for the year 2010 

Prabhu into Telugu Films

After Satyaraj, his best pal in Tamil filmdom, Ilayathilagam Prabhu is also setting foot in Tollywood. Karunakaran, the maker of films like Toli Prema, Ullasanga Uthsahanga and Balu ABCDEFG, is roping in Prabhu for an important role in his forthcoming film Darling. Prabhas and Kajal Agharwal play the romantic leads in this film.

We know the actor for his roles in movies like Chandramukhi.  The actor may not be familiar to the audience as much as his contemporaries, but he has already been signed by 'Bommarillu' Bhaskar for his film with Ram Charan.

The Telugu audience have always liked intense character actors imported from other industries.  In fact, whenever top Tamil heroes like Rajinikanth and Sarath Kumar have done significant supporting roles in our movies, they met up with immense fame and success. Let's see if Prabhu enlivens the trend.

Leader ??????????????????????????

When was the last time you heard about Leader's date of release?  The last time we heard about it was when it was postponed at the time of the Christmas eve, when the producers said they were planning to release it on the Sankranthi day.

There has been no official confirmation about the release date ever.  The movie, reportedly made at a big cost, is one of the most-awaited movies, in which Rana Daggubati is debuting as an actor.  It is learnt that director Shekar Kammula is making some changes to the script and also re-filming some scenes.

Reasons for the undue delay are exactly not known, but the film may release only in February.  The audio, released in December, has music by Mickey J Meyer.  Usually,  there is not more than a month's gap between the audio and theatrical release.

The AVM movie is a political drama, which Mr. Kammula has made with passion.  Let's hope it comes before us very soon and turns out to be a super hit.

Charan said yes to Dharani

Ram Charan Tej is currently acting in Orange that is being directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar. His next film will be directed by popular mass Tamil director Dharani. this film will be produced by Mega Supergood films banner.

Magadheera Completed 175 Days

Magadheera movie which is the biggest hit in the history of Telugu cinema completed 175 days today. It ran for 50 days in 302 centers and 100 days in 225 centers. It is an all India record. The movie’s 175-days run is affected in Telangana area due to ban on Magadheera. However, Magadheera has successfully completed 175 days run in  all other places

Lakshmi Prasanna is ready for acting

Lakshmi Prasanna, daughter of Mohan Babu is making her debut in Telugu. Lakshmi will be playing a negative role in Siddharth’s upcoming flick which is being directed by K Raghavendra Rao’s son K S Prakash. The film is being produced by Raghavendra Rao. Sruthi Hassan is playing the female lead in the film opposite Siddharth. Well, this seems that the lady is moving in the foot steps of her dad, Mohan babu who started off his career with negative roles

Dubai Seenu Now turned into DON Sreenu

Ravi Teja’s Don Seenu under the production house R.R Movie Makers will be hitting the floors from 25th, January. R R movie makers had earlier given a super hit film Kick with Ravi Teja.

Gopichand Malineni is making his debut as a director with this film. Venkat is producing the film.

Though Ravi teja has signed up other two films, this would be first priority one which will hit the floors.Trisha will be playing the female lead in the movie. Although there was news that Anushka is playing the lead role, finally Trisha was roped in. The total schedule will be wrapped up by the month of June.

Kedi is coming on feb 12

The Jr. NTR film Adhurs was blocked from being released in Nizam and the film was not allowed to be screened for the first day at many places in Telangana. Now the ‘T’ agitators have turned their attention on the soon to be released film of hero Nagarjuna – ‘Kedi’. They are threatening to block the screening of the film in Telangana. Kedi is slated to hit the screens on February 12. It remains to be seen how Nagarjuna will resolve this problem now.

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