Around a month ago, Powerstar Pawan Kalyan was in news when several media houses reported that Pawan will take part in protest meets acts Tamil Nadu against the Tamil Nadu government's new order of abolishing Telugu language in Tamil schools. However, there has been no news from Pawan Kalyan until now and there were several noises against Pawan's backtracking.
As per the latest reports, the BJP's high command in the centre requested Pawan Kalyan not to oppose Jayalalithaa, with whom they have been trying to maintain a healthy relationship since the last year general elections. Senior BJP leader from state M Venkaiah Naidu reportedly convinced Pawan against taking part in protests in Tamil Nadu.
Political circles have been commenting that BJP's pressure was the reason behind Pawan not attending even the Tamil Nadu Telugu Yuvasakthi protest meet in Hyderabad recently. During the meeting, senior filmmaker Thammareddy Bharadwaja and CPI leader Narayana opined that Pawan's presence would help the protests gain momentum.
Fanism is bit high in Kollywood compared to all other industries. Fans try to trend top on social media whenever content of their star's film hits online. Rajinikanth, Vijay and Ajith have huge mass fans base and whether a still or a video byte or a teaser or a trailer of these actor's is released, fans will trend it on top for hours, sometimes a whole day. Usually, record views are registered for such video content and fans literally wait online for hours for teaser and trailer to release.Yesterday in the late night, Ajith's upcoming mass action entertainer Vedalam teaser has been released and kicked up a storm on YouTube. The teaser has crossed Tollywood most liked teaser- Pawan Kalyan's Sardaar Gabbar Singh count of 25 K likes, in just 20 minutes. Within an hour, the teaser crossed 50 K likes and so far 78K+ likes and more than half a million views are registered. It has already broke most of south India records and set for new bench mark.Vedalam is second film in Ajith and director Siva combination after the super hit of Veeram. So, expectations are sky high on this project. Shruti Haasan is leading lady opposite Ajith and Lakshmi Menon will be seen as his sister. The film is about to hit the screens for this Diwali.
Superstar Mahesh Babu is a family man has less number of friends, especially in industry. The Dookudu star is an introvert talks rarely, but smartly. Mahesh was busy with interviews after Srimanthudu went onto become a blockbuster. When he was asked whether anyone in the industry called to appreciate him for the success, Mahesh answered, it was only Ram Charan who congratulated him. Apparently, this statement hurt Allu Arjun. Of late, Allu Arjun is busy promoting Rudhramadevi where he played the role of Gona Ganna Reddy. The actor stated he personally called Mahesh Babu to applaud him for the success and his performance in Srimanthudu. "Prabhas and Rana are very good friends of mine in the industry. I don't know Mahesh much. I spoke few good things about Srimanthudu at my friends and told them to convey my wishes to Mahesh Babu. When I heard Mahesh's statement, I immediately made a call to him and apologized for the belated wishes. I said I liked the film and lauded him for his performance. He said 'it's ok and spoke authentically."Interim, while Mahesh Babu is shooting for Brahmotsavam, Allu Arjun is working for Sarainodu.
"Movie is industry is not about bad persons all the time. Maybe there are those who appear in front of us during our hits and then disappear in flop. But there are good people who care for you no matter you score hit or flop", says Anushka, who is eagerly awaiting for the release of "Rudramadevi" October 9th.
"Director Rajamouli, his wife Rama, Supriya, Prabhas, Producer Syam Prasad and Pramod are my good friends from Telugu film industry. Whenever I need them, they attend in a jiffy. They don't behave differently even if I got a flop or a hit", she avers.
Talking about friendships, Anushka stresses that it matters how we behave in each situation rather than how others behave towards us. "I believe that career and friendship are two different things. Only people with similar mindset could become good friends. I'm luck that I've found one such bunch here in Telugu industry", Anushka said.On the sidelines of promoting her upcoming release "Rudramadevi" on October 9th, Anushka shared her thoughts this way.
Ram Charan's Bruce Lee is expected to unleash a new Box Office clash between Mega fans and superstar fans. Charan's upcoming action entertainer Bruce Lee is now targeting Mahesh Babu's Srimanthudu BO record if industry grapevine is anything to go by. Given that Mahesh's recent offing Srimanthudu pipped Charan's Magadheera, Pawan Kalyan's Attarintiki Daredi becoming second highest grosser in Telugu film industry, Mega clan is now keenly making it moves to make Bruce Lee a blockbuster and beat all the existing Box Office records.Since Mega Star Chiranjeevi is also seen in guest appearance, a la Magadheera, Ram Charan is so keen on promoting the film like never before. This time, Charan is taking care of all the details, including minute details related to film's promotion and taking the final call on it.Even the release of Bruce Lee is expected to be a massive as producer DVV Danayya is going all out to release the film in as many as theatres possible. The movie, featuring Rakul Preet as Charan's romantic interest and Kriti Kharbanda as Charan's sister, also marks the reunion of Sreenu Vaitla and Kona Venkat. Considering all the above aspects, trade is also closely watching Charan's Bruce Lee that is slated for Oct 16 release. Let's wait and watch whether Bruce Lee could beat Srimanthudu record or not.
Young hero Akhil Akkineni is all set to make his grand debut on silver screen with "Akhil" on October 22nd. On this eve, the youngster explains that cinema is not about making money but it's an art form that couldn't have any logical value."For many people, cinema is some kind of business, but for me it's an art. Like a painting on a canvas, cinema is a 2 hour long art we create on screen. People will have different opinions, but still an art form will have both appreciation and criticism", says Akhil. He feels that films require investment and they have to be recovered, but there's no guarantee that 'business' is the only criteria all the time. Akhil has an example to illustrate this. "If you make coke in a factory, all the bottles should have the same taste. But for films, every film should have different taste, it's not like Coke. So, there's no guarantee that this much investment and ingredients, will bring that much success", he avers. Probably Akhil is the youngest hero who has such grip on film business and could differentiate between art and it's business quite simply. Simply put, his grandfather is a legendary actor and businessman who established Annapurna Studio, while his dad is known for restaurants, racing teams and TV channel apart from running the family owned film-studio.
Powerstar Pawan Kalyan and King Nagarjuna has neared that seniority already. While this mega hero still enjoys a superstar clout, Nag's popularity is diminishing slowly. At this time, the news of their film shooting going for a kaput has upset their respective fan bases. And then, they repaired it effectively. "Sardar" is always the talk of town for its starting-trouble, delays and halts. The other time news has erupted that Pawan walked away from sets due to tiff with director KS Ravindra (Bobby). Though the shoot started later with new cinematographer Arthur Wilson, as previous camera man Jayanan Vincent walked out of project, people haven't believed that Sardar is being rolled. Same is the case with Nagarjuna's "Soggade Chinni Nayana" as the film got halted for months. Citing some changes in the script, Nag has kept it on the backburner until writer Sai Madhav Burra gave some inputs. But still film lovers doubt if this film's shooting is happening or not, and if it's releasing soon or not. Luckily Pawan fans got that morale boosting from hot lady Lakshmi Rai, who has shared the pictures of Gabbar Singh from location. Those selfies with Pawan has undoubtedly proved that Sardaar is very much happening on the sets. At the same time, Nagarjuna has other day issued a press note saying that Soggade Chinni Nayana shoot has completed, giving kick to their fans. Both these senior stars have anyway kicked the spirits of film lovers much higher now with these news.
