yesterday"RAGHUVARAN" and today "SOBHAN BABU"PASSES AWAY

It is a tragic day for Tollywood. Shoban Babu, the greatest ever-romantic hero Tollywood has seen, passed away on Friday morning (March 20, 2008). DUE TO HEART ATTACK
It is a tragic day for Tollywood. Shoban Babu, the greatest ever-romantic hero Tollywood has seen, passed away on Friday morning (March 20, 2008). Born as Uppu Sobhana Chalapathi Rao on January 14, 1937 in a middle-class family, Sobhan Babu went on to become romantic icon, the soggadu for generation of Andhra Ladies, and remained as top hero for two decades along with superstar Krishna.

IN THE SAME FASHOIN YESTERDAY RAGHUVARAN-A TOP VILLIAN IN TOLLY AND KOLLYWOOD EXPIRED DUE TO HEART ATTACK

Raghuvaran, 49, is survived by his wife Rohini, from whom he had separated, and a son. A heavy smoker, he was having health problems for quite sometime and was admitted to a private hospital about a week ago. Raghuvaran, who had carved a niche for himself in roles that displayed sadism, had acted in more than 80 films in Tamil and Malayalam and had bagged many awards, including the Tamil Nadu government's 'Kalaimamani' (artiste of excellence) and best character artiste awards.

shreeya is my fauorite -simran

Simran is one of the sexiest actresses in both Tollywood as well as Kollywood. She may have lost out on some of her looks and shape after her mirage but she continues to be a big draw. Simran is now trying her luck at the small screen.It is a rare thing in the film industry for one actor to praise another actor. When it comes to the heroines, the rivalry is much more intense.

So it came as a big surprise when Simran had some high praise for Shriya.Simran said that among all the actresses in the industry, Shriya is her favorite. Simran said that Shriya is a very good actress and also has a great body. Her sex appeal is also very high, says Simran.Simran says that Shriya can convey many meanings with just her eyes. Simran has certainly set a good example by praising one of her colleagues. Will more people follow suit?

ileana bought a huge appartment

Top heroine Illeana who is charging Rs One Crores per film paid the taxes for the first time. She also reported her investments and informed them that she had recently bought an apartment worth Rs 1.75 Crores in Lanco Hills.The others who paid the amount suddenly are producer Aswini Dutt, Chiranjeevi, Ram Charan Teja, Tarun, Pawankalyan and others.

IT raids-next target chiru?

Income Tax Officers are continuing more raids on Tollywood. On Wednesday, it was the turn of Dasari backed Siri Media to face the music. Siri Media, top distribution company, was raided by IT sleuths at their office in R.P.Road in Secunderabad.With Congress government giving nod for these raids on their party supports and party men, many predict that their next target would be megastar Chiranjeevi who is planning to float a political party next month.Government is very serious about Chiranjeevi’s earnings. They suspect that he is evading taxes by routing his earnings to non-profit organisation - Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust - which comes under tax relief.

allari naresh movie launched

Post the success of Gamyam, Allari Naresh is again flooded with offers. Already half a dozen movies are under the progress, now another flick is launched. His father and director EVV Satynarayana's long time associate Eeshwar G is directing him for a new film that was launched on Wednesday morning (March 19, 2008) at Nanakramaguda Cine Village in Hyderabad. Manjari and Shraddha Das are the heroines. A well-known industrial company Wellfare is entering into the production with this.Naresh said, "Director Eeshwar worked with my father for 15 years and I share great vibes with him. I am happy to be part of his maiden directorial venture."

CHARMEE'S new project

Charmee is increasingly turning out to be most bankable actress in Tollywood. Last year, she had single handedly made a film (Mantra) big hit. So she inks many new deals. While she has one more film that is slated for release, Charmee has begun working for a new film being produced by new banner - Cosmos Entertainments.A debutant Prabhu Solomon is directing the film which was launched at Annapoorna Studios, Hyderabad. Veteran actor Krishnam Raju sounded the clap board for muhurat shot. An youngster Aravind is paired opposite Charmee.

jalsa-hitting on 27th

It is confirmed now that the film 'Jalsa' is pre-poned for 1 day. Ram Charan's birthday falls on 27th March and that too auspicious on Thursday.The scheduled date for the film's release is March 28. Now the fans are happy for the same. They can enjoy watching the film one day before the stipulated time.Now the ball is in the court of 'Jalsa's technical team to complete the formalities a day before the actual schedule date. It is said that the film is releasing with 1000 prints world wide and about Rs 20 Cr is invested on it.

aish or deepika for MAHESH BABU

Mahesh Babu’s forthcoming film will go on floors on April 7 on the eve of Ugadi festival (Telugu New Year). Trivikram Srinivas is the director, while Manjula and Ramesh are the joint producers.Mahesh Babu, who has a penchant for Bollywood actresses, is seriously considering Aishwarya Rai or Deepika Padukone for the heroine’s role. Since Ash has her hands full with several projects including the much-hyped Robot with Rajinikanth, it is unlikely that she would sign on this film. Now, efforts are on to woo Deepika. If things work out in Mahesh’s favour, then Deepika will be the third heroine after Amisha Patel and Amrita Rao who have worked with him earlier.

jalsa to hit 100 theatres ?

Pawan Kalyan's Jalsa will be hitting more than 1000 screens worldwide. In Hyderabad alone, the movie is slated to release in 55 theatres, which happens to be a rare record. Buyers are demanding Allu Arvind to deliver the prints a day before, that is on 27th so that they can start screening the film from 9pm show of 27th.

Latest news is that Director Trivikram has introduced hero Maheshbabu as voice narration to pawan kalyan's upcoming movie 'Jalsa'.

Except for Ravi Teja’s Krishna and Allari Naresh's Gamyam, all the movies released this year were a disaster at the box office. No wonder, Tollywood is heavily banking on this film to break the jinx.Devi Sree Prasad music already bagged good talk

shreeya-crossing limits

shreeya-is crossing her limits by over exposing.this picture is an example.sreeya is going to enter bollywood this year so she started to "appear" like bollywood hotty!

tug off war-between "aatadistha" and "jan apparao 40+"

this 20th will see a big tussle between two films for box office honors. The much awaited John Appa Ro 40+ and Aatadistha are releasing on the same day.Both the films will hit the screen on March 20. John Appa Rao 40+ has a crazy combination Krishna Bhagavan is playing the title role and the sexy Simran is playing his love interest. Kuchipudi Venkat is the director. The film is an out and out comedy with some sentiment and family drama.On the other hand, Nitin's 'Aatadistha' is directed by the maverick Ravi Kumar Choudary. He made a few flops in recent times and 'Veerabhadra' is one flick to underline.We have to wait and see as to which film will make a bigger impact at the box office – John Appa Rao or Aatadistha.

mahesh babu lent his voice to "pawan kalyan" in jalsa

Pawan Kalyan and Trivikram's Jalsa is getting bigger by the day. The film already carries gargantuan reports and great positive reports among trade circles. Now, the icing on the cake is 'superstar' Mahesh Babu has lent voice to the film The film has voice over by Mahesh Babu. Director Trivikram who is very close to Mahesh Babu requested the rising superstar to be part of his ambitious film. Mahesh obliged the request and gave voice over.Such things acting in other star's films and giving voiceovers only happen in Bollywood. But it seems our own Tollywood too is maturing and setting new healthy trends. Great going!

trisha opposite NTR

2008 is going to be Trisha's best year in her career. With five films in her hand both in Tamil and Telugu, she is busiest top heroine in South Indian films. Still offers raining on her. Director Vinayak is planning to repeat her again in his next film that stars his favorite hero NTR. Both Vinayak and Trisha are bounced back with their Krishna that went to become big grocer among the Sankranthi releases this year. Now they are teaming up again and the pairing of NTR and Trisha will surely be hot combination too.

jalsa confirmed on march 28th

Putting an end to speculations slight delay in the release of most-awaited movie in this season, Jalsa, the producers have confirmed the release date. This Pawan Kalyan and Trivikram's big budgeted flick will hit the screens on March 28th in almost 1000 theatres across the globe.As the inside talk is highly positive, buyers are gung ho about it and pressurizing the producer to hand over them prints on 27th morning itself so that they can screen in rural areas from the night 9pm shows on 27th.Its music composed by Devi Sri Prasad has already been topping the chartbusters and is reportedly played across FM channels on record number of times.

jalsa based mobile game was released today by the producer and this is for the first time in tollywood a game was created on film.

mohan babu to join congress party?

With Chiranjeevi joining the political bandwagon, his fiercest opponent in film field Mohan Babu too is bracing up for the competition. According to sources, he will make his stand clear on his birthday - March 19th. Like in his usual style, he will be celebrating the birthday at a grand function at his residential college in Tirupathi and has invited all the bigwigs of political and film industry.He will be joining the ruling congress party, sources said. Earlier he was associated with Telugu Desam party but severed the ties with the party after the differences with Chandrababu Naidu.Sources say he has blessings of his mentor and congress party leader Dasari Narayana Rao. For the past couple of months, Mohan Babu is also praising Chief Minister YS Rajashekar Reddy at every stage and he also met congress high command in New Delhi few months ago

"KUCHELUDU" mega opening

casting -rajanikanth and jagapathibabu in lead roles-a mega project by"ashwinidatt" under direction of- p.vasu "kuchaeludu" made a grand opening in hyderabad with Dasarinarayana

rao,venkatesh,chandra babu naidu and ram charan tej as main delegates

chiranjeevi shared on this occasion that rajanikanth is a good fren of him and when was disturbed mentally during the last few months rajani invited him to chennai and rajani spent whole day with chiru and made him cool

Chandrababu Naidu praised Chiranjeevi in many ways stating that he is really great. He also said that Rajani is the man to be proud of by entire India as he is popular in countries like Japan as well.

Rajani Kanth while speaking said something about Mohan Babu without telling his name.He said, "I have a great friend from Hyderabad. He told me to be in Chennai and do only in Tamil films as there are many politics in Telugu film industry. He said that he was struggling a lot here. I listened to him. Later, I got a chance to act in a Telugu film. I was also offered 1.5 acre of land in Jubilee Hills as remuneration. Then he said that the producer is betraying me by giving a land in useless place. I listened to him and shunned the film. But now I pity myself. Just imagine 1.5 acre of land in Jubilee Hills. I never go to that place as my heart cries in grief".People enjoyed this wonderful satirical speech of Rajani Kanth

CHIRU'S-TELUGU VELUGU?

It is about the nomenclature of Chiranjeevi's new party. Some said that it would be 'Swayam Krushi' and others said 'Praja Nadu'. But now the new sound is being heard that his party name would be 'Telugu Velugu'.That means, the word 'Telugu' gives a competitive tone for Telugu Desam indeed. NTR popularized the word 'Telugu' with his party name and also approach. Is Chiranjeevi also taking the same path? We have to wait and see what is going to happen.

On the other hand Mohan Babu is going to give an interesting announcement on March 19, on his birthday. We have to see how far it will be connected to Chiranjeevi's political entry.

chennai friends in full efforts to find hero for "MUMAITH KHAN"

A group of friends from Chennai are now ready to make a film in Telugu. They want to make a film with the hot and sexy Mumaith Khan in the lead role.The Madras banner wants to make a film that will showcase the special talents and assets of Mumaith Khan.Mumaith has played the title role in a couple of films like 'Maisamma IPS' and 'Mangatayaru Tiffin Centre'. But both the films did not do well at the box office.

No big hero in Tollywood is now ready to act as hero opposite Mumaith Khan. The Madras Batch has approached several heroes but with little success. Even a relative newcomer like Sarwananad has refused to accept the role. Allari Naresh is also said to have rejected it. The Madras Batch is now trying to rope in ETV Prabhakar who already paired up with Mumaith in Maisamma IPS

manisha koyirala dissapointing in "NAGARAM"

Manisha Koirala was a top actress at one time. But all that was ages ago. She has turned very old now. The younger actresses are all in their teens or early twenties. So Manisha Koirala cannot be a match for them in any way.But director CC Srinivas thought otherwise. He thought that by roping in Manisha to do an item song, she will be adding a big highlight to the film. But the item song was a big flop. The item song not only comes at a wrong time, but the hero Srikanth does not dance with her, in fact he does not even look at the item girl even once.

Coming to Manisha Koirala, even though it was supposed to be an item song, she was covered from top to toe. May be the director was trying to cover up her wrinkles and sagging skin. Manisha looked sexy and gorgeous in old film Bharateeyudu where she played lead. The poor producer now was poorer by a whopping 18 lakhs that he paid to Manisha.