‘Okka Mogadu’: An unforgettable flop show of Balakrishna

Bala Krishna’s ‘Okka Mogadu’, released during Sankranti, 2008, was an unforgettable failure in his film career. However, YVS chowdhary, the director as well as the producer of the movie, made big bucks by selling this movie at higher price for distributors. It was reported that he produced this movie, with a budget of Rs. 12 crores and sold it to distributors for Rs. 20 crores. It was only local distributors and exhibitors, who suffered the losses.
YVS Chowdhary made very bad name with this movie. If this movie became a block buster, YVS would have become equal to directors like Puri Jagannath, VV Vinayak and MS Rajamouli. Prior to the releaseof the movie, it was believed that the movie will rewrite the record of ‘Narasimha Naidu’, one of the biggest hits in the career of Balakrishna. The movie turned a flop show because the director tried to project Balakrishna as another ‘Bharatheeyudu’.

The real color of superstar Krishna

Super star Krishna has started his second innings in politics on 5th October, by extending his support to Congress. Krishna asked his fans as well as Mahesh Babu’s fans to support Congress, during the forthcoming assembly elections. The super star started his political career, way back in 1983, when NTR launched TDP. When the entire industry was with NTR, Krishna and Jamuna were the only two people to campaign for Congress. However, the super star did not contest the elections in 1983. For the first time, he entered the election fray, only in 1989, when he contested from Eluru parliamentary seat and won the elections. But, he lost his seat in 1991. As it is projected, he is not the loyal follower of Congress. He kept himself away from the politics. He did not campaign for Congress, during either 1999 or 2004. Now, after a very long gap, he is set to campaign for Congress, as it is in power. It shows his cleverness. Vijaya Nirmala, the wife of superstar Krishna, contested from Eluru assembly segment and lost the elections. Now, He is backing Congress, simply because YSR is reported to promise the superstar to help him in overcoming his financial problems. He wants to keep Mahesh Babu away from politics, because his career may get affected, if he takes an active part in politics. In 1989, Congress won the elections, because of the bad rule of NTR and not because of campaign of film actors like Krishna, Jamuna, Dasari Narayana Rao, Prabahkar Reddy, Gummadi and others.

A bollywood movie on Silk Smitha

It is not new in Indian film history to produce movies on the real life story of film stars. Long ago, Mani Ratnam directed ‘Iddaru’, on the life history of MG Ramachandran. Recently, a movie was made on the life story of Sreevidya, an actress of yester years, who passed away few months. Now, Ektha Kapoor is planning to produce a movie on the life of late Silk Smitha, whose role will be palyed by Mallika Sherawat. Smitha’s life is another tragedy in the history of Tollywood. Having cheated by good many people in her personal life, she ended her life by committing suicide in 1996. (Written by S. Chandra Shekara Reddy Posted on: 23rd October, 2008)

Veteran comedian Nagesh is no more

Nagesh, veteran comedian in South Indian film industry, took his last breath on 31st January, 2009. He owns a very rare record of acting in more than thousand movies. He acted with big wigs like MGR, Sivaji, Kamal Hasan and Rajnikanth. In a few movies like ‘Server Sundaram’, he acted as full fledged hero. Kamal Hasan is a great fan of Nagesh and used to offer him a role in each one of his movies. He acted in Kamal Hasan’s recent movie ‘Dasavatharam’ too. Several Kollywood bigwigs like Rajnikanth, Kamal Hasan and Manorama paid their homage to the late actor.

Heroine Sangeetha marries Krish

Actress Sangeetha married singer Krish on 1st February in a temple in Thiruvanamalai amid of family members, relatives, friends and colleagues on both the sides. Several film personalities like Venkat Prabu, Maheswari and SPB Charan graced the function.
The heroine is popular in both Tollywood as well as Kollywood. In Telugu, she acted in movies like Krishna Vamshi’s ‘Khadgam’, Ravi Teja’s ‘Ee Abbai Chala Manchodu’ and S.V. Krishna Reddy’s ‘Pellam Vureluthe’.