Vinayak-Venky combo again

V.Vinayak, director of Venkatesh’s super hit movie Lakshmi, is coming up with another flick. This film to be produced by Kodali Nani will have the same element of success as of Lakshmi. The shooting for this film will begin after the release of Venkatesh’s latest film Chintakayala Ravi, directed by Yogi. Kodali Nani and Vinayak are planning to release this for Sankranthi as was the case with ‘Lakshmi.’

The shooting for Chinthakayala Ravi will begin in February and according to industry sources, the movie has excellent story line and could be another entertainer as Venky’s earlier movies, Nuvvu naaku nachchaav and Malleeswari

jagapathi babu wants to be villain

Versatile and Experimental Actor Jagapathi Babu wants to be a Bad Man on screen. He feels that he can play a Villain’s role if character is interesting. Jagapathi Babu said that he’s basically an actor, so he should be ready to accept any role. He added further that he’s ready to play even a small role depending on the significance of the character.

Jagapathy Babu is on cloud 9 as he got the opportunity to work with Superstar Rajanikant. Disclosing this he said that it is a proud moment for him as Rajanikant himself suggested Jagapathi Babu’s name for Rajani-Vasu combination bi-lingual film Kucheludu. Jagapathi Babu is playing a full length role of Rajani’s Brother in the film. Jagapathy Babu hopes that Ashwini Dutt’s film Kucheludu will be a success as their earlier film Subhalagnam which gave Jagapathy Babu a big break. He thinks that he’s going thru one of the Best phases of his career and he’s confident about his latest film Swagatham’s success.

Rajini's Sultan in 12 languages

Sultan: The Warrior, in which Rajini Kanth’s animated image plays the main role is being produced by his second daughter Soundarya, with plans to be released in 12 languages with a budget of 10 millilon dollars.Hitherto, all the animation feature films produced in our country are in 2D Formatt.

Sultan is the first full length 3-D animation movie. Rajinikanth is the first south Indian hero to appear in animated roles. One hereoine will act against Rajini. But, her image has not been extracted from any heroine and it is a designed image. This movie will also have four songs tuned by A. R. Rehman. The movie will be released in December, 2008.

chiranjeevi's nephew in "happy journey"

Vishwa Teja, a relative of megastar Chiranjeevi, turns hero. He is doing lead role in a a new film Happy Journey, directed by Sabhapathi. The film was launched in a low-key on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at Annapoorna Studios.
Director Sabhapathi said the film explores the younger generation's problems in the corporate world. Tusha and Reshmi are making debut as heroines

tollywood calling nisha

Having made a rather high profile debut with the recently released Balakrishna starrer Okka Mogadu, Nisha Kothari is hoping to set the record straight with her upcoming film, Hari Om.
Okka Mogadu proved to be a big disappointment but Nisha made an impression nevertheless with a titillating performance. Her next venture however, will not have too much hype about it. Directed by Ramana Lokvarma a debutant, Hari Om has a not-so-well-known Sekhar in the lead. Yesteryear superstar Krishna is playing a vital role in the film whose cast includes Raghuvaran, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Pilla Prasad, Ajay, Surya, Abhinaya Sri, Sana, and Chitram Srinu. Varma is producing the film and RP Patnaik's brother Ajay Patnaik is composing the music

Shekhar Kammula's Aavakaya Biryani

The happy-go-lucky director of Happy Days, Shekhar Kammula is now highly sought after personality in the film circles of Tollywood! The talented and promising director is now turning to production and agreed to produce a movie on his own and named his maiden venture as, Aavakaya Biryani!

The title has already created ripples in the filmdom with its unconventional style. It is rumoured that, this is a perfect blend of Godavari based Telugu traditons and Hyderabadi flavoured cosmo culture. But the story line is not yet revealed. the twist in the yet-to-be launched movie is that, Shekhar Kammula is not directing the film. It is revealed that, the movie is going to be directed by a debutante, Avinash and the story is also developed by him only. The movie is scheduled to go on to the sets in the month of February!

Prabhas and Krishnam raju Together

A film with Prabhas and his uncle and veteran actor Krishnam Raju will start any time this year. Finally the wait is over for the fans of Krishnam Raju and Prabhas.

Their film will go on the floors from April and the uncle and nephew are said to be excited about sharing screen space. Since both of them are known to be intense actors, we wonder who will overshadow whom?

Krishnam Raju will also be busy producing films under his own banner Gopikrishna Movies Limited from henceforth.

He has said that Reliance has approached him to make films for them here and he said that they have decided on a number suitable to both parties.

Bheema Climax To be Changed for tollywood!

Vikram’s Bheema was released in Tamilnadu on this Sankranthi, but, fallen flat on the expectations. Now, this film’s Telugu version release has been postponed.

The reason cited for this postponement as the failure of Tamil version. The Producers think that the film’s Tamil version didn’t fared well due to a sad climax in which all will die. So giving a second thought to this the producers has decided to change the climax and make it a happy ending film in Telugu. At the same time the producers are in a dilemma as the film already took 2 ½ years to complete, due to many reasons and to change the climax it needs mores time. At present the producers postponed the release of Telugu version of Bheema and are on consultations about the climax change.

Krishna back as a cowboy!!

after a gap of many decades, we will get to see superstar Krishna as a cowboy once again in the film '100 Kotlu'.

Another highlight of the film would be Brahmanandam’s Bruce Lee get up.

The film is produced by YK Rao under the Sri Manjunatha Banner and directed by Marshal Ramana. Baladitya and Saira Banu play the lead roles.

It is set for release on January 25.

Pawan Kalyan gonna take a break???

Is Pawan kalyan going to take a short break from movies? According to filomnagar sources, Pawan Kalyan, who is busy with the shooting of ‘Jalsa’ is more interested in Politics than films these days. They say that Pawan has gently rejected some offers recently and is focusing on his brother Megastar Chiranjeevi’s entry into politics by holding discussions on the sets of ‘Jalsa’ regarding the strategies for the same. Sources say that Pawan may not act in movies for about two years after
jalsa which is going to release in march

Sequel to krishnarjuna

‘Krishnarjuna’ made by Vasu with Vishnu and Nagarjuna as heroes,was based on the Hollywood comedy ‘Bruce Almighty’ which had Jim Carry and Morgan Freeman in the leads. If this movie is a success, it may have a sequel based on‘Evan Almighty,’ the sequel of Bruce Almighty, which was released in 2007, Vishnu was reported to have said in an interview recently. So another movie in the combination of these heroes can be expected soon.