'Bangaru Babu' to release on 20th February

'Bangaru Babu', starring Jagapathy Babu and Meera Jasmine, is slated to release on 20th February. Smt. Dasari Padma is presenting the movie under Soubhayga Media Limited banner. K. Rama Krishna Prasad is producing the movie while Jonnalagadda Srinivas Rao is directing the movie.

Balakrishna ready to contest against Chiranjeevi

Balakrishna stated that he is ready to contest against Chiranjeevi, while talking to media persons at Hindupur on 29th Janauary. He arrived in Hindupur in order to participate as a party of his Rayalaseema tour. A press meet was held in the town on the occasion of his arrival. Addressing a question raised by a journalist, Balakrishna said that he is ready to contest against Chiranjeevi in the coming elections on behalf of TDP incase the party high command orders him so. When asked about Telangana issue, he clarified that the division of the state will be according to the aspirations of the people.

Balakrishna ready to contest against Chiranjeevi

Balakrishna stated that he is ready to contest against Chiranjeevi, while talking to media persons at Hindupur on 29th Janauary. He arrived in Hindupur in order to participate as a party of his Rayalaseema tour. A press meet was held in the town on the occasion of his arrival. Addressing a question raised by a journalist, Balakrishna said that he is ready to contest against Chiranjeevi in the coming elections on behalf of TDP incase the party high command orders him so. When asked about Telangana issue, he clarified that the division of the state will be according to the aspirations of the people.

Sri Hari to appear as full fledged hero after one year

Nowadays, Sri Hari is playing character roles rather than full fledged hero roles. After a gap of more than one year, he is set to appear once again as a full fledged hero on the screen with his forthcoming movie ‘Srisailam’, which is set to release on 31st January. K. S. Nageshwar Rao is directing the movie. Interestingly, Rebel Star Krishnam Raju is playing an important role. The movie features three heroines namely Sujitha, Sindhu and Suhasini.

Rahul Nambiar turns director

It is not Kodi Ramakirshna but, Rahul Nambiar who made a great name with success of 'Arundati'. Rahul was the visual effects supervisor as well as the creative director of the movie. He was also involved in several departments such as editing and music. He himself directed 60% of the movie. He admitted the fact in an interview given to a website.

Now, he is set to turn a director and producer Shyamprasad Reddy is planning to produce the movie under his banner. Now, they are planning either to dub or remake the movie in Hindi. The project may commence after 7 months. Both, the producer and Rahul are in high spirits with the resounding success of the movie and both of them are confident that the Hindi version will set a new record like ‘Ghajini’.

HC hands over ANR's 'surrendered' land to relative

Justice L Narasimha Reddy of the AP High Court has declared veteran Telugu actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao's alleged surrendering of 25 cres surplus land in Nuzividu of Krishna district as invalid and directed the authorised officer of the land reforms department to hand over this land to ANR's relative Akkineni Venkataratnam immediately. Delivering the judgment on a petition filed by Venkataratnam, the judge said the government is free to take over the actor's share of 25 acres which fell on the southern side. The petitioner challenged the takeover of his land under the guise of ANR's surplus land saying that the family settlement deed gave the surrendered 25 acres which fell on the northern side to him and not to the actor. A Giridhara Rao, government pleader for revenue, objected to the petitioner's dissent at this stage and raised doubts about his intentions as to why he kept quite for 12 years and challenged it in 2008 when the surrender was effected in 1996 itself. The agony for the government is doubled because it spent huge amounts on levelling this land for the purpose of constructing sports stadium, hostel buildings and driving test tracks in this land ever since it was vested with them after the actor surrendered this land. As per this judgment, the state government has to now surrender this southern share of 25 acres and the authorities have to hand over the levelled northern share to Venkataratnam.

(Courtesy: Times Of India )

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ nominated for Oscars

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was nominated for Oscar Awards 2009 under 10 categories namely best motion picture, best director, best cinematography, best film editing, sound editing and screen play. Satyajith Ray was the last Indian to receive Oscar award. Earlier, movies like Sharuhkhan’s ‘Devdas’, Ameerkhan’s ‘Lagaan’, and ‘Swas’ were nominated for Oscar. However, they could not win the award and now, most of the movie pundits are predicting that A.R. Rehman may receive the award as the best music director.

Kasi Vishwanath’s next movie in February

Director Kasi Vishwanath, who earlier directed movies like ‘Nuvvu Leka Nenu Lenu’, made his debut as an actor with recently released flick ‘Nachchavule’. His role as a strict father in this movie earned him good appreciation as an actor.
Good many offers started flowing in and now, he is busy with almost dozen movies. However, he does not want to neglect his prime job, i.e., direction. He is set to commence his next directorial venture in ‘Nachchavule’.

Legal battle: Kiran Kumar Vs UTV

Legal battle: Kiran Kumar Vs UTV
Producer Kiran Kumar Koneru, has landed in legal troubles. He has received an injunction from the court on the Telugu remake of ‘A Wednesday’.
Earlier, the producer claimed that he had purchased the Telugu remake rights of ‘A Wednesday’. However, UTV claimed that they did not sell the remake rights to anybody. The producer still claims that he had purchased the rights. He is reported to have submitted some proofs of purchasing the rights to the court. Let us wait and see who will win the legal battle.

‘Arundhati’ receives over whelming response

‘Arundhati’ has become a grand success and is faring extremely well at the box office. At first, the movie was released with 100 prints and after watching over whelming response from the audience, the producer has increased the prints to 250 by 23rd January. The movie is released in USA with 12 prints on 23rd January.

Sharwanand on cloud9

‘Kadhalna Summa Illai’, the Tamil remake of ‘Gamyam’, is faring well in Kollywood too. The flick was released in Tamil Nadu during Pongal and has been receiving good response from the audience despite the release of good many big movies on the same day.
Radhakrishna alias Krish, the director of Telugu version, made a good name with this movie. Raj TV remade the movie in Tamil. The Telugu version was starred by Allari Naresh, Sharwanand and Kamilini Mukherjee. Sharwanand and Kamilini Mukherjee were repeated in Tamil version too while Ravi Krishna, of ‘7-G Brindavan Colony’ fame, replaced Allari Naresh. Now, Sharwanand is on cloud9 with the success of Tamil version. Now, he is acting with Mohan Babu and Ramya Krishna in ‘Raju-Maharaju’.

ANR away from NTR’s death anniversary for the first time

For the first time, ANR kept himself away from the death anniversary of late NTR. As his health did not permit him, he did not visit NTR Ghat to pay his homage to late NTR on his 13th death anniversary. Earlier, he visited NTR Ghat and paid homage to the departed soul every year on his death anniversary.