Karishma Kotak is the heroine of Megastar in SDZ and her debut film SDz is yet to release. Venkatesh who saw Karishma in SDZ audio function is said to be decided to take her for his next film as female lead. And Karishma is also showing interest to work with Venkatesh. Some more details are awaited.
Two mega films from Mega Star's family are now releasing at a reasonable interval between the two. While 'Shankardada Zindabad' is releasing on 25 th of July, 'Chirutha' is tentatively releasing in September. The date was announced earlier that Chirutha will be hitting the screen on September 22nd, the release date of Chiranjeevi's first film 'Pranam Khareedhu'.
Fresh gossip says that the overseas distribution rights for the film Shankardada Zindabad were sold out for around Rs 1.60 Crore while 'Chirutha' has gone for around Rs 1.50 Cr.
The rights of 'Chirutha' were sold out in Andhra Pradesh at an approximate price of Rs 27 Crore as per the grapevine, where in some areas it overtook Chiranjeevi's 'Sankardada Zindabad' as well.
Coming to the film 'Athidhi', the entire distribution rights were sold out for UTV at a price around Rs 23 Cr. Initially, producer Ramesh Babu sold the distribution rights of the film in some areas. Now he paid back that amount to those distributors of those specified regions as he signed an agreement with UTV.
The unofficial sources say that the overseas rights of 'Yamadonga' were sold at a sum around Rs 65 lakhs.
That's about the apparent business figures of the newly releasing films.
Jonnaviththula Ramalingeswara Rao is known as film lyricist for many. He is also known as great scholar who has command over Telugu and Sanskrit, among literary circles. But he has got another phase now.
He is almost acting as 'Mahamanthri' and 'Raja Purohitha' for Balakrishna. After the split with Astrologer Satyanarayana Choudhary in the 'shooting episode', it is said that Balakrishna made Jonnaviththula close to him. He also knows Astrology to some extent and advises Balayya on those matters.
Well, Jonaviththula makes foreign visits along with Balakrishna. Indeed, that is the duty of a Minister when he assumes someone as his king!
Director Sukumar is all set to make a film with Prabhas. The producer had paid him advance much before the making of the film 'Jagadam'.
At that time another three producers also lined up behind Suumar with an idea to make one film each. But they didn't pay anything to him in advance. After looking at the result of 'Jagadam', they have dropped the idea of making films with him.
But the proposed film with Prabhas has been intact till date because of the advance payment. Sukumar has scared all most all the producers in the industry by consuming more days for completing a film. It took 287 days for him to finish off the production of the film. Though he estimated the cost of the film for Rs.4Crores, it went up to 14 Crores.
Puri Jagannath made the film 'Andhrawala' long back that toppled at box office. The main reason for its failure is that NTR portrayed dual role in which one is father's character. Audiences couldn't be able to digest that.
Now Puri says that he will give a hit to NTR. NTR also wished to work with Puri. Right now Puri is busy with Ram Charan's 'Chirutha'. So, after that he may think about his work with NTR.
Let us wait and see when that day comes.
The film 'Toss' that was released in the direction of Priyadrashini Ram with Upendra and Raja in lead roles is not bagging the collections tantamount to the hype created to it. The film bagged good openings in all the centers including A,B,C. About 75 to 80 percent of collections are done with this film. It is the film in which Upendra acted after a very long time. But the narration in story and fast paced editing spoiled the tempo of the film.
'Lakshyam' that was released before last week is standing still at the box office crossing the 'average' talk in first week. It is making good collections and making producers happy.
Sivaji is still sustaining in many centers and the audiences are seen in about 40 percent in theaters of 'Dubai Seenu'.
'Satyabhama' released in the combination of Bhoomika and Sivaji toppled at the box office. Its condition is still worse in B, C centers.
Karnataka Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy's wife Anita's Kannada TV channel "Kasturi" will be launched in a big way on August 18. Bollywood's actor Amitabh Bachchan and Mega Star Chiranjeevi are among the invitees.
"The function, to be held at the Bangalore Palace grounds, will be one of the most talked-about event in recent times. A cultural troupe from Australia will perform a dance set to Kannada music. Over a lakh are going to attend the launch," Kumaraswamy told media on Thursday.
The channel, which will have news and entertainment programmes, will officially begin to function from August 27. "We have tied up with a New Delhi-based English news channel. It will not be a JD(S) channel," the CM stated. Taking pride that Kasturi will be the first Kannada channel to be started by a Kannadiga, Kumaraswamy said the idea was conceived by him in 1995, when he was into film production.
Gossip says that Posani Krishna Murali is seriously trying to impress Chandrababu Naidu in all the possible ways. He believes that TDP comes to power in coming elections and wishes to take at least a little cake before that.
It is said that the close friends of Posani encouraged him to get the MLA ticket and contest in coming elections from TDP. Hence he is making the film 'Apada Mokkula Vaadu' in which he is going to blast Congress and its rule directly in some scenes and indirectly in other scenes as per the gossip. Even in 'Operation Duryodhana' he chanted 'Samaikyandhra vaadam', with which TDP makes its move.
If it attracts Chandrababu, then Posani may get the cake he expects. Let us see if this grapevine comes true.
Ravi Babu is the son of Chalapathi Rao and he boasted that his father has seniority in doing rapes on screen and hence taught him how to rape while acting in first rape scene in the film 'Sivayya'. That is the point to boast about a father by his son. This shows that Ravi Babu has vulgar mind set which he feels quite normal and acceptable.
He made the films 'Allari' and 'Ammayilu Abbaiyilu' that run on soft porn jokes here and there. Indeed, Allari is the best among his films. He made 'Soggadu' and 'Party' those toppled miserably.
Now he is making two films. One is on the lines of Hindi film 'Metro' with Nikitha and the other is 'Anasuya' on the lines of 'Page 3' with Bhoomika. Will he stick on to his vulgar comedy even in these films? Observers say 'Yes'. He made the script with a few elements those attract adults.
Indeed, that should be a unique treat from him.
