‘Dynamic’ In final legs Of Shooting 0

‘Dynamic’ introducing Aneesh as hero, Barbie as heroine and Keerti as director. Aruna Srinivas Reddy is producing this action oriented flick with music by Praveen Kumar, Sri Sai and camera by Nandamuri Hari. The unit has so far completed 80% of the talkie part. The last schedule will begin on 15th September and will continue for a month to complete the remaining part of the film’s shoot. According to producer the audio launch will take place at Nellore in October. Other prominent cast include Raghu Babu, Ali, Dharmavarapu, Kasi Vishwanath, Subba Raju, MS Narayana, Melkoti, Kala Sagar, Hema, Shilpa, Subharani, Aruna, Jyothi Sharma, etc.

Sumanth romancing with Priyamani & Vimala Raman 0

Sumanth in his film carrer is coming with 2 female lead character.He starring with Priyamani and Vimala Raman in his upcoming movie. This movie currently shooting in and around hyderabad under the direction of Viji Sipivishta.The movie title has not been finalized and this movie is producing by Gauti Harinath and Kumar Brothers under Kumar Brothers Cinema banner.

At a Press Conference Producer informed that "This is a romantic family entertainer with new story and screenplay. Sumanth is playing a role that is said to be the first of its kind in his film career. Right now some key scenes involving Sumanth, Vimala Raman and Priyamani including the main cast is being canned. The next schedule will begin on September 9th at Bangkok and Pattaya for about 15 days where we will shoot 3 songs and a few key scenes.”

Director Vijisipivishta said, “The main strengths of this film are story and screenplay. The film is blend with entertainment as well as sentiment.”

Cast: Sumanth, Priyamani, Vimala Raman, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Shayaji Shinde, Telangana Sakuntala, Giribabu, Srinivas Reddy, Kalpana, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Vizag Prasad, Jenny, etc.

Crew: Music: Koti; Editing: K V Krishna Reddy; Camera: John; Project coordinator: R Dilip Singh; Executive Producer: A Pandu; Story, screenplay, dialogues and direction: Viji Sipivishta.

Jyothika’s 'Maatarani Mounamidi' In Telugu Soon!. 0

‘Mozhi’ was a super duper hit Tamil film starring Jyothika, Prithviraj, Prakash Raj and Brahmanandam. This film was directed by ‘Aakasamantha’ fame Radha Mohan (currently directing Nag’s Gaganam) and produced by Prakash Raj under Duet Movies banner in 2008. Now the same film is brought to the Telugu audience by S A Kantha Rao of Indus Inspirations. Titled ‘Maatarani Mounamidi’, the film is being dubbed into Telugu.

According to SA Kanta Rao, Jyothika’s performance, Brahmanandam’s role, story, music and production values are the highlights of the film. Vidya Sagar composed the music. There are altogether six songs of which 3 were written by Veturi and 3 by Vennelakanti. The music will be launched very soon. Sashank Vennelakanti penned the dialogues. The film is expected to release either during September end or in the 1st week of October.

Madhu Shalini tending to Tollywood Drug Scandal!. 0

Madhu Shalini is being dragged to the drug scandal which created much hype of tollywood these days.As per the sources the largest circulation had News paper in Hyderabad had airing that it would bring the dark life of the heroine to the open. Madhu Shalini exploded on the media recently when it was reported that her name was found in the address book of the Ugandan national who was peddling drugs in Hyderabad. The actress has claimed that she was willing to give her blood samples to prove her innocence. This is the claim the paper is contending. It says that blood samples could be forged with the help of the police. Madhu needs to be careful with her uttering, else she could be in for some trouble! For now, the buzz is that she is busy shooting for a Tamil movie in Chennai but those who know Madhu say that she is really a nice girl at heart.

Anjali dubs for her telugu version Shopping Mall!. 0

Tamil Movie ‘Angadi Theru’ is being dubbed to telugu and relasing as Shopping mall .This movie is produced by Suresh Kondeti under SK Pictures banner. To be presented by Santosh Studios Pvt Ltd., the film featuring Mahesh and Anjali was directed by Vasanthabalan.

Now the interesting news is that the heroine Anjali is dubbing her own voice for the Telugu version too. Although her mother-tongue is Telugu, she was born and brought up in Chennai. It seems that she took it as a challenge and dubbed her own voice. Right now the dubbing is progressing at Chennai. It is learnt that Suresh Kondeti is taking enough care to give the audience a feel of watching a straight film.

Dialogues are penned by Sashank Vennelakanti and music is rendered by Vijay Antony and GV Prakash Kumar. The film is expected to release in September.

Buzz:- Jyothi and Saira Banu arrested in brothel case!.. 0

On Sunday mid night, actresses Saira Banu and Jyothi indulging in prostitution at Kundhan Bhag area were caught red handed by the Hyderabad police. On receiving the information, the police reached the apartment and arrested the two along with seven others including a citizen from Ubekisthan. The important point to be noted is that this apartment is closer to the ministers’ residences. It’s learnt that four male organizers and a female organizer are running this brothel house.

Saira Banu, who entered Tollywood recently, acted in films like ‘100 Kotlu’, ‘Aa Roje’, ‘Tik Tik Tik’ and ‘Anaganaga Oka Aranyam’. Jyothi, of course is a familiar face who acted in many films like 'Hungama', 'Evadigola Vadidhi', etc., the most famous film being ‘Pellam Voorelithe’.

Recently, we have learnt about some members in Telugu film industry being involved in the drug scandal and now, the involvement of heroines in prostitution has come to limelight. Source:Ragalahari

Sridevi to launch Sunil-RGV’s 'KSDA' Movie? 0

Sunil-RGV’s upcoming project ‘Katha-Screenplay-Darsakatvam-Appalaraju’. As you all are aware the muhurat for this film is going to be held on August 27th. Now as per the latest information received, evergreen actress Sridevi is going to be the chief guest of this launching event. She has agreed to attend the function on the special request made by Ram Gopal Varma. Remember, RGV made two super hits with Sridevi – ‘Kashna Kashanam’ and ‘Govinda Govinda’. Yet another hot news is that our Colors Swathi is going to pair with Sunil this time. Interesting! Isn’t it!

‘Maryada Ramanna’ bicycle Auctioned for 1.51 Lakhs 0

A Telugu film producer bought the much-hyped ‘Maryada Ramanna’ bicycle. The auction was held at Annapoorna Studios on Saturday, and the highest bidder was producer Gopi, one of the producers of Namo Venkatesha . He offered Rs 1.51 Lakhs as his bid. Director Rajamouli and the producers of the film added 1.51 Lakhs each. Hero Sunil’s mother added another Rs 51,000, producer B.A.Raju added another Rs 10,000 and a realtor gave Rs 25,000. The total collected amount of Rs 5.49 Lakhs was donated to Devnar foundation that runs a school for blind children. Source:Telugucinema

Sreeram Chandra Wins Indian Idol 5 0

It’s a dream come true for this young lad from Secunderabad who has now captured the entire music community by his unforgettable and breath-taking performances. In the Grand Finale on August 15, 2010, Sreeram Chandra became the first South Indian to win the title Indian Idol 5, after beating his fellow contestants Rakesh Maini and Bhoomi Trivedi.

This Indian Idol 5 fetched Sreeram Rs 50 lakh gift cheque apart from Tata Winger Platinum, Maruti Suzuki bike, a contract with Sony Entertainment and the chance to sing in Yash Raj Films. What more we can expect as recognition for aTelugu boy, who has stolen everybody’s heart including the judges Anu Mallik, Sunidhi Chauhan and Saleem, by his mesmerizing voice.

The thrilling performance by all three contestants – Bhoomi, Rakesh and Sreeram, who have been rocking the Indian Diaspora in different countries as well as the music lovers in India has come to an end with Kareena’s short and sizzling appearance and mind boggling performance of the three contestants which also brought out their dancing abilities apart from singing.

Shankar Mahadevan today made a memorable appearance with his trade mark singing along side dear Sreeram who the entire Telugu community has been praying to become Indian Idol 5.

Last came Mr Amitabh Bachchan with his charismatic voice and enviable personality who also reminded everybody of his next assisgnment KBC 4. He is the chief guest to announce the winner by pressing a button for a screen which displayed Sreeram’s face. Sreeram was speechless for a moment and Amitabh Bachchan helped him in delivering atleast a sentence from him. Ragalahari wishes Sreeram ‘All the Best’ and success forever.

Source:Ragalhari

‘Sevakudu’ Songs to shoot at Kerala!. 0

‘Sevakudu’ movie starring Srikanth presently shooting hyderabad.The Songs Shooting Schedule of the movie will continue at Kerala and Tamil Nadu locations. Being directed by V Samudra this is a mass entertainer blend with youth elements. Charmi is playing the leading lady. Other prominent cast includes Ahuti Prasad, Pradeep Rawath, dr Brahmanandam, Ali, Jayaprakash Reddy, Nazar, Hema, etc. Musical scores are rendered by Srikanth Deva. According to producer M Sudhakar, Srikanth’s role is the main strength to the film. The interesting story and screenplay will keep the audience stick to their seats.

Pawan Kalyan’s Upcoming Movie Updates 0

Pawan Kalyan’s new movie under the direction of Jayanth C Paranjee will begin its regular shooting from August 29th. This movie will be produced by Ganesh Babu as Production No. 1 on Parameswara Arts banner.

Some of the important features of this film are:

1) About 100 people are working on day and night to construct a magnificent set for this film. The most important scenes involved in the story will be shot in this huge set which would be the main highlight.

2) The movie will commence from August 29 onwards. We are likely to begin this schedule with about 300 unit members. Producer Ganesh Babu is making this film without compromising in any department. 20 days of shoot is planned in some new locations at Kasi.

3) Pawan Kalyan always reminds us of different costumes. He takes special interest in his costumes according to the role he portrays in each film. In this regard he is right now in Europe for getting his costumes designed accordingly. This shows his dedication towards his work. Yet another highlight of the film would be Pawan Kalyan’s look.

4) The dialogue writer Trivikram Srinivas Rao has turned director and gave wonderful blockbusters to the Telugu Film Industry, one among them is Pawan Kalyan’s ‘Jalsa’. After turning director Trivikram Srinivas for the first time is providing dialogues. This itself has generated lot of craze for this film. The punch dialogues written by Trivikram would certainly create sensation at the box office.

5) The shooting will start with a 20 day shoot in superb locations in Kasi followed by Patiyala, Amritsir, Pune, Italy and USA. This would be the biggest budget film among all Pawan Kalyan’s films and the film will be completed on a single schedule with small gaps in between.

6) After ‘Jalsa’, Ileana once again going to pair with Pawan and Kriti Karbanda plays second fiddle to her. It is well known to all about the record breaking audios in Pawan Kalyan and Mani Sharma and now the same combo once again set to create a new record.

Crew: Dialogues: Trivikram; Art: Narayana Reddy; Cinematography: Jayanan Vincent; Co-producer: Sivababu; Presenter: Bade Ravikiran; Producer: Ganesh Babu; Director: Jayanth C Paranjee.

Santhosham Film Awards 2009 -A GLittered Event 0

Telugu film industry being honoured and felicitated at the great event for their outstanding achievements and contributions in their chosen fields. It was a night when the dazzling stars glittered at HICC, Novotel in Hyderabad for Santhosham Film Awards 2009.

The guest list includes Movie Mughal Dr D Ramanaidu, Darsakaratna Dr Dasari Narayana Rao, Legendary singer SP Balasubrahmaniam, top producer Allu Arvind, Mega Power Star Ram Charan Tej, sensational hero Raana, Rebel star Krishnam Raju, MM Keeravani, SV Krishna Reddy, MAA President Murali Mohan, Dr K Venkateswara Rao, Shyam Prasad Reddy, Bellamkonda Suresh, Devisri Prasad, Anushka, Allari Naresh, Srikanth, Ooha, Varun Sandesh, Sai Kiran, Nikeesha Patel, Sraddha Das, Saloni, Kamna Jetmalani, Siya Gautham, Saranya Mohan, Sanjana, EVV Satyanarayana Rao, Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, K Atchi Reddy, Giribabu, Koti, RP Patnaik, Kalyani, Surya Kiran, VN Aditya, Radha, Ambika, Raghu Babu, Parthasarathi, KLNarayana, Chinni Krishna and many more.

The event started off with a prayer song with the dance performance by Sri Sivanand. Firstly the media awards were given followed by the film awards. The glamorous anchor Udaya Babu hosted the Santhosham Film Awards function.

Dr Dasari Narayana Rao was felicitated by the entire film fraternity with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Later addressing the gathering he said, “Many have initiated the awards and left in the middle. But the two film magazines that continued successfully till date are Filmfare and Santhosham. Santhosham Film Awards are being given for the past 8 years without fail. I congratulate Suresh Kondeti on this occasion. These awards will inspire the artists of generation today.”

On the occasion of receiving the Veturi Smaraka Award Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry thanked Suresh Kondeti and said, “This award is the most valuable and biggest of all the awards that I received so far. I’m very happy to receive this award, but at the same time his absence is making me sad. Although he is no more amidst us, he always remains in our hearts. I learnt how to pen lyrics only by following him.”

Ram Charan Tej cut the cake of Santhosham Magazine and later while speaking, “I’m very happy to receive this Santhosham award today and Filmfare award yesterday. These 5 to 6 awards are not sufficient for a film like ‘Magadheera’ because it is the hard work of some hundreds of people. So I’m dedicating this award to all of them. Shyam Prasad Reddy garu introduced a great artist likeAnushka through a great film like ‘Arundathi’. Had she been a man she would have been a great competitor for me. But still she is a busy star now.”

The following are award winners:

Film Awards:

Best Actor: Ram Charan Tej (Magadheera)

Best Actress: Anushka (Arundhati)

Best Film: Magadheera (Allu Aravind), Arundhati (Shyam Prasad Reddy)

Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr Dasari Narayana Rao

Veturi Smaraka Puraskaram: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry

Allu Ramalingayya Smaraka Puraskaram: Raghu Babu

Special Appreciation Award: Srikanth (Mahatma)

Special Appreciation Award: Raghu Kunche (Bumper Offer)

Best Family Film Director: Kodi Ramakrishna (Arundhati)

Best Stylish Film: Billa (Krishnam Raju)

Best Stylish Director: Sukumar (Arya 2)

Best Message Oriented Film: Adhinetha (Radha Mohan)

Best Musical Film: Kick (Suresh Reddy)

Best Family Film: Raju-Maharaju (Kumara Swamy)

Best Comedy Film: Bendu Appa Rao RMP (Dr D Ramanaidu, EVV Satyanarayana)

Best Debut Director: Kishore Kumar (Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam)

Best Debut Producer: CR Manohar (Mahatma)

Best Screenplay Writer: Chinna (Aa Intlo)

Best Dialogue Writer: Chintapalli Ramana (Arundhati)

Best Music Director: Koti (Arundhati)

Best Lyricist: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry (Mahatma)

Best Playback Singer (Male): SP Balasubrahmaniam (Mahatma)

Best Playback Singer (Female): Kausalya (Gopi Gopika Godavari)

Best Villain: Sonu Sood (Arundhati)

Best Character Artist: LB Sriram (Sontha Ooru)

Best Supporting Actor: Ramjagan (Mahatma)

Best Debut Heroine: Karthika (Josh)

Best Art Director: S Ravindar (Magadheera)

Best Choreographer: Prem Rakshit

Best Cinematographer: Senthil (Arundhati, Magadheera)

Best Fight Master: Peter Hynes (Magadheera)

Best Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao (Magadheera)

Best Dubbing Artist (Male): Ravishankar (Arundhati)

Media Awards:

Best Channel Reporter: Raghu (MAA TV)

Best Channel Cameraman: Nageswara Rao (Gemini TV)

Best Film Journalist: Imandhi Rama Rao (Vaartha)

Best Photo Journalist: Praveen (Vaartha)

Best PRO: L Babu Rao (Arundhati)

Best Publicity Designer: Suresh Bujji (Magadheera)

Best Production Manager: Yoganand (Magadheera)

Magadheera bags six Filmfare awards!. 0

The 57th Idea Filmfare Awards 2010-South ceremony honouring the best South Indian films of 2009 was held grandly on August 7th, 2010 in Chennai. The awards in 40 categories were given to Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films.

SS Rajamouli’s prestigious film ‘Magadheera’ walked away with six Filmfare awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Ram Charan Tej), Best Director(SS Rajamouli), Best Cinematography(Senthil Kumar), Best Music(MM Keeravani) and Best Playback Singer-Male(Anuj Guruwara). Whilethe best actress award was bagged by Anushka for her role in ‘Arundhati’, the special jury award had gone to Yuvan Shankar Raja for his music in ‘Oye’.

On other hand, ‘Nadodigal’ won the Best Film award in Tamil, while Prakash Raj won the Best Actor award for his performance in ‘Kancheevaram’ and Priyadarshan won the Best Director award for the same film.

This time the Lifetime Achievement award was given to two persons-Kannada actor Ambareesh and Malayalam thespian KPAC Lalitha.

Happy Birthday 2 Prince Mahesh babu (Birthday Wallposters) 0

Way2tollywood team Team Wishes Mahesh Babu Many many Happy returns of the day and wish him Every Luck In Upcoming Life ..Happy Birthday 2 Prince Mahesh babu (Birthday Wallposters)

‘Bava’ releases in October!. 0

Siddharth’s ‘Bava’ releases in October. In fact Siddharth confirmed the same by tweeting on his account about the releases of his other films too.

Bava movie is directed by debutant Ram babu and produced by ML Padmakumar Chowdary under Sri Keerthi Creations banner presented by Sandeep. Dr. Rajendra Prasad is playing Siddharth’s father in this movie. Praneeta is making her Telugu cinema debut.

Siddharth’s ‘Bava’ movie depicts the story and relation between Bava- Maradalu (brother-in-law and sister-in-law). The movie runs between a girl and her mischievous brother-in-law. Chakri has scored the music for the film. Chintapally Ramana writes the dialogues, while Aravind Krishna handles Cinematography.

Prakash Raj roled in to Mahesh -Sreenu Vaitla’s project!. 0

Mahesh Babu-Sreenu Vaitla’s project is the pivotal role to be played by one of the top actors. Srihari was considered earlier for this role but the latest reports claim that the same has now gone to Prakash Raj. As you all know Srihari is Sreenu Vaitla’s favourite, but as per the sources, the role in this film is aptly designed one only for Prakash Raj. Thus they decided on Prakash Raj in place of Srihari. With Samantha as leading lady opposite Mahesh and music by Thaman, the movie would kick of some time in mid-August. This is the Production No. 2 for 14 Reels Entertainment banner.

Jr NTR and Lakshmi Pranathi Wedding on NOV 18th 0

The much awaited wedding of Jr NTR and Lakshmi Pranathi is going to take place on November 18th, 2010. The VIP wedding will take place on grand scale at Hitex Grounds in Hyderabad. It is learnt that famous art director Anand Sai will work to design an awesome mandapam. On other hand, NTR is hell bent to complete both his films ‘Brindavanam’ and ‘Shakti’ much before his scheduled wedding day

Rana Replaces Ram in "Oosaravelli"!. 0

Director Surender Reddy has finally zeroed on in Rana after much brainstorm. Soon after the blockbuster Kick, Surender Reddy planned two films one with Mahesh Babu and another with Ram. His film with Mahesh Babu titled Mr.Perfect will only take place in 2011. So before that he wanted to start another film, Oosaravelli, with Ram as hero. But the movie’s script has gone several changes and finally it had its launch few months ago. Then after the script change, he titled it as Ram and Genny. But few months later, producer Sravanthi Ravikishore and Surender Reddy have decided to drop the project, as it is no longer viable due to budget constraints. So the hit director has toyed with several ideas but finally has decided to revive his pet script Oosaravelli and zeroed on Rana who made debut with Leader.

Buzz is that producer Bujji, who is lying low these days after Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam, is producing it. Rana who is also trying hard to finalise his second film in Telugu after his proposed film with Selva Raghavan dropped is happy that Surender Reddy has chosen him. Source:TeluguCinema

Telugu 'Happy Days' as Inidhu Inidhu in Tamil 0

Veteran Actor now turned producer Prakash Raj who produced many hit films in Tamil, of late has been buying the remake rights of several Telugu films. While he recently bought the Tamil remake rights of Deva Katta’s ‘Prasthanam’, he launched the audio of ‘Inidhu Inidhu’ (a Tamil remake of Sekhar Kammula’s ‘Happy Days) on other hand. The musical scores were rendered by none other than Mickey J Meyer who earned a remarkable name after his contribution to the original version ‘Happy Days’. Incidentally Prakash Raj is introducing cinematographer KV Guhan as director through this Tamil remake ‘Inidhu Inidhi’. In recent times he also remade his Tamil super hit film ‘Abhiyum Naanum’ (Aakasamantha in Telugu) in Kannada as ‘Naanu Nanna Kanasu’ and received good accolades.

Balakrishna’s 'Simha' Axe Auctioned 0

A celebrity item at auction will not only draw the media attention but also raises money for a good cause. In this line NTR’s ‘Adhurs’ started this new trend in Tollywood which is being followed by other stars’ films. Recently Ram Charan Tej’s ‘Magadheera’ also followed the same concept.

Today, Movie Artists Association (MAA) carried out an auction at Film Chamber of Commerce in Hyderabad on the weapon used in Balakrishna’s latest hit ‘Simha’. The money raised from this event will be used for its charity proceeds. Along with MAA president Murali Mohan, Balakrishna, director Boyapati Srinu, Tapasee, Benerjee, AVS and others participated.