Two hurdles for Mahesh and Charan

Till date, only Superstar Mahesh and Mega Powerstar Ram Charan are largely spoken when it comes to the upcoming Dasara season. Their movies are hitting the tinsel town on that eve, Mahesh's Aagadu on Sep 15th and Charan's Govindudu Andarivadele on October 1st. But this feat will not be a cake walk for them, if we bring two other star heroes into the scene.

Aagadu and Govindudu have simply got their things set nicer by meticulously planning a two week gap. Much to their surprise, on the eve of Independence Day and the ensuing weekend, Jr NTR's Rabhasa and Surya's Sikander are hitting screens on August 14 and 15 respectively. Imagine the scene for Aagadu if at all Jr NTR and Surya score big blockbusters. Mahesh's movie will fall short of theatres for sure. Though it manages to get many screens somehow, theatres at crucial centres will be missed.

And if the run of Rabhasa and Sikander continues for long and Mahesh too scores a hit with Aagadu, then that impact will surely fall on Govindudu Andarivadele. These days, films are getting released in large number of theatres, and minting their money and quitting theatres in no time. In this kind of trade scenario, it will be tough if last comers, here Mahesh and Charan in this case. Let us see how they overcome these two hurdles.

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Jr NTR turns Choreographer

All these years we have known Jr NTR as one of the finest dancers in the Telugu Film Industry. Now, We got an opportunity to witness his choreography skills.    

Yes, Young Tiger has donned a new avatar for 'Rabhasa'. The best part of NTR's 23rd flick is the actor turning into a choreographer and composes dance moves for himself. Makers have been with the idea of using this special song for promotional campaign of the movie.   

Apparently, NTR's Rabhasa is carrying low buzz and the ineffective first look teaser have to be blamed for it. The reports of Tarak's choreography will generate the positive buzz for sure.  Except for 12 days of Talkie and some Patch Work, The shoot of 'Rabhasa' which is being directed by Kandireega fame Santosh Srinivas is complete. Last day of working for NTR is July 9th. Audio release will be in the 3rd week of July and movie hits the screens on Independence Day (August 15th). 

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Bharat Ratna for NTR?

He is the doyen of Telugu cinema and unarguably Telugu's most worshipped matinee idol. The On-screen God's foray into politics is nothing short of filmy story. His splashy political debut in 1982, which set tremors in the Indian political history, has still been talked about and used as a case-study by all new political parties. Bringing the solgan of "Aatma Gouravam" (Self-respect), veteran NTR pledged to rout Congress whose leadership belittled Telugus and changed five Chief Ministers of AP in five years. Every choice, decision he took 32 years ago is still being followed, practiced by many political parties now.

NTR decided to field educated candidates who had a good name in the society and were not indulged in corruption, which was an innovative political concept at the time. NTR himself decided to contest from two assembly constituencies, Gudivada and Tirupati. NTR used many innovative ways of campaigning, such as being the first politician in India to use rath yatras for campaigning. For this, he used a modified Chevrolet van which was given the name of Chaitanya Ratham. In this, NTR travelled across the state of Andhra Pradesh, crisscrossing all the districts. With his son Nandamuri Harikrishna, also a film actor, driving the van, NTR notched up over 75,000 kilometres during his campaign, a distinctive sight with the van's yellow party flags and banners and NTR sitting on top of the vehicle hailing the crowds. NTR campaigned for restoring the dignity of the Telugu people and advocated the forming a closer bond between the government and the common people.

NTR's efforts have paid off. Within just 9 months, TDP surged to Power. Putting an end to Corrupt and inept rule of then Congress, NTR's Telugu Desam Party won a massive 202 seats out of 294 Assembly seats. NTR sworn in as 10th CM of AP on January 9, 1983. He is the first non-Congress Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.Since then, he has never looked back. NTR later went onto become CM for thrice. His populasit schemes like 1 Kg rice for 2 Rs, initiatives like abolition of Patel-Patwari system, development for backward castes were all historical and magnum opus.

No doubt, NTR holds special significance in the hearts of Telugus. His name, his work, his classic films, masterpieces will all be cherished as long as the earth lives. On the eve of his 91st birth anniversary today (May 28, 2014), there is a ray of hope in every Telugu that TDP-BJP combine, Chandra Babu-Narendra Modi Jodi, will fulfill their dream- to see Bharat Ratna conferred for NTR. And yes, it will be proud moment to every Telugu.

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NTR corporate 50 crore deal?

Industry source claims that- after tasting massive success with 'Atharintiki Daaredi'- top corporate house Reliance is trying to woo another superstar NTR by striking a 50-crore deal which is expected to be clinched very soon. 

Although, the remuneration of NTR is yet to be fixed but they would be doling out 50 crores to produce a big budget flick with Nandamuri star after roping in a top director and actress. After losing money in funded movies like 'Devudu Chesina Manushulu', 'Bhai' a creative team of Reliance has joined the script discussions (almost like a co-producer) and tasted big success with 'Atharintiki Daaredi' and now wants to expand its base in T-town with bigger deals. 

Even, one of the richest Indians Mr. Anil Ambani, has invited T-town stars for his house-warming ceremony last year, revealing his intentions to park himself in T-town in a big way. Good for T-town stars

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Nag should shun character roles ?

Agreed that Nagarujuna's last few films like 'Greekuveerudu' and 'Bhai', tanked at the box office, but Nagarjuna shouldn't lose his track and jump into character roles bandwagon, says a distributor. Since even his colleauge Venkatesh realised his mistake of doing 'Seethamma..' and jumped out of 'Govindudu Andari..', since his stardom was getting affected. Even today, Nagarjuna market is around 15 crore plus and could coolly do a matured or different love story or a family drama and pull in crowds, since his pet fan following of girls, women and family audience are intact. 

Just a matter of time, before he bounced back into reckoning, until they shouldn't do brotherly roles with NTR or anyone else?

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Good News: Jr NTR To Become Father

It seems like Tollywood's top stars are welcoming their cute heirs almost at the same time. After news about Bunny getting ready to become a doting father very soon, here comes a titbit of good news about Jr NTR too.

Highly placed sources confirmed that Jr NTR's wife Lakshmi Pranathi is pregnant and expecting first child. The delivery is expected in a couple of months. Nandamuri camp is going all out to welcome the fourth generation kid into their family. Ever since Lakshmi Pranathi was caught with her baby bump during some recent outings with young tiger, speculations are rife that the couple are expecting soon.

'Both NTR and Lakshmi are shopping heavily for their new family member. At regular times, Jr is taking breaks from shoots to attend his loving wife', a source said. Married on May 5th, 2011, Jr NTR will be getting ready to play father role in real life in no time, but there is no official word about the happening from Nandamuri family yet.

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NTR's direct fight with Balakrishna

Nandamuri Taraka Ratna has been asking media to address him as NTR in short. Despite being in film industry for more than a decade NTR is yet to get the taste of success. However he is not giving up. He is doing so many films at the moment. One of his new films, Eduruleni Alexander is all set to release in few days.
 
Eduruleni Alexander was actually planned to release in this week, but the makers decided to release on March 29th. This means NTR is going to take on Balakrishna's Legend that is releasing a day ahead of it. Fans make hue and cry if the same happens for Balakrishna and Jr. NTR films. But Taraka Ratna doesn't have that problem.
 
Taraka Ratna and his team are very much aware of Legend's hype and expectations on it. But still they are going to lock horns with the Legend. Is NTR adopting to 'Hair and Hill' (Famous adage in Telugu) theory or is he really playing the tough guy? Whatever the reason be, this Alexander is not Eduruleni Alexander anymore, he has to 'face' the heat of the Legend Balakrishna. 

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Is NTR directing parts of 'Rabassa' ?

Unhappy with the working style of one-film director Santhosh Srinivas, superstar NTR has reportedly began to call the shots for his upcoming film "Rabassa". Since a lot in stake in this action entertainer ( after a disaster like "Ramayyya...'') NTR doesn't want to take any chances and almost wielding the megaphone, say a industry source. 

After giving enough inputs in the script, the actor is also taking interest in comedy track and also suggesting how the songs have to be shot lavishly and elegantly. With top Bellamkonda Suresh obliging to actor's interest, since he has paid him a bomb of Rs. 15 crores, the scion of Nandamuri family is going all out. So, unofficially, NTR becomes the first gen x T-town star, to exhibit is directorial skills. A blockbuster in the making or not, that remains to be seen.

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Mahesh to fill Pawan's vacuum?

Among five to six big stars, Mahesh Babu would be heaving a sigh of relief since his arch rival Pawan Kalyan is stepping into politics to ease the competition and make it much easier for him to attain numero uno slot. 

Industry pundits are busy predicting that Pawan would lose his strong fan base, like many other earlier stars for his political stance, and ultimately only benefit Mahesh Babu who is expected to take up the mantle of uncrowned king of T-town by consolidating his fan base. 


If Election Commissions stops Pawan's political stint, otherwise Mahesh who is riding high with two 50-crore hits "Dookudu" and "Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu" and 40-core "Businessman" is expected to overcome his recent debacle "Nenokadine", with "Aagadu" and would be new Badshah of T-town. Since other contenders like Ram Charan, Jr NTR, Prabhas and Allu Arjun are few notches behind Mahesh. Mahesh's fans are curiously waiting for Pawan's big announcement on March 14 (Friday) as they want to see their matinee idol to take over the reigns of T-town.

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Mahesh Babu Out, NTR In!

Here is the biggest news scoop of the year 2014! Jr NTR is likely to replace Mahesh Babu, according to our highly-placed sources. And yes, this is an epic film and we're talking about Gunasekhar's upcoming magnum opus "Rudhramadevi". With leading star Mahesh Babu stuck with dates issues, director-producer Gunasekhar is reportedly contemplating to cast another superstar NTR to essay the warrior role of 'Gona Ganna Reddy' in this historical film. 

Even though, Mahesh evinced interest but unable to spare immediate 20 days for the film and reportedly suggested his director friend to look for good alternative since the director has almost completed major portions of his 3-D spectacle. Although, earlier there were reports that Guna might cast Ravi Teja for the same role, we hear that director-producer has dropped the plans. 

So Gunasekhar who launched NTR with "Bala Ramayanam" would be joining hands with scion of Nandamuri clan yet again for another historical film. It will also be first time, NTR would be sharing screen space with beauty queen Anushka and short-legged lass Nithya Menen. While Nithya pairs up with NTR, Anushka will be seen alongside Rana Daggubati. If all goes well, NTR will step into Mahesh's shoes. This is raising temperatures in Tollywood indeed. For more developments, stay tuned!

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NTR first, Mahesh next!

It's common knowledge by now that Mahesh Babu, had thought of teaming up with director Puri Jaganndah, soon after his present commitment Aagadu with Srinu Vytla. But destiny has other plans for Mahesh. Owing to his contract with UTV films, Mahesh Babu has to begin working on their project with director Koratala Siva which was announced much earlier. With this, Puri Jagan has to wait for a while to direct Mahesh.

Puri, who is known for wrapping up projects at a breakneck speed, has decided to do a film before his project with Mahesh takes off. He is going to direct none other than Jr NTR. Puri and NTR, who haven't joined their forces after debacle of Andhrawala (ten years ago in 2004), have now decided to break that jinx. Puri has apparently narrated a story line to NTR who quite impressed with it.NTR has given a go-ahead to Puri, if rumour mills are anything to go by.

NTR, who is currently sweating out for Santosh Srinivas' Joru (tentative title), may finish it by the end of April. It's a cake walk for Puri to get ready by April as he finishes a script within 20 days. If all goes well, this project will go onto floors from May. It's not clear who is going to produce the film and other cast. So, NTR is first for Puri and Mahesh is second as per the commitments. Meanwhile, directors Sukumar, Koratala Siva and Vamsi Paidipally too busy weaving stories for NTR. Despite going through rough phase, NTR is hot cake for the top directors in tinsel ville. 

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NTR wary of producer's 20 crore debt ?

Despite giving his nod to a leading producer (whose recent film is a superhit) in principle, reigning star NTR is hesitant about the huge debts of that producer. Because, his film will have to carry the burden of the debt ( a usual practice in T-town), so scion of Nandamuri clan, is keeping his options open. 

Since the said producer has reported run up debts of Rs. 20 crore, piled up by his previous disasters, but he claims that the debt is just 10 crores, which is manageable and under control. Whereas, NTR has his own doubts and checking it out with his friends in the industry, however, the director is busy in fine-tuning the script, but surely there is a 'trust deficit' between producer and actor, so let's see, how things would pan out. 

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Mahesh Babu Flop alerts Jr NTR!

Few days ago a press note has been sent from producer BVSN Prasad stating that Jr NTR's next film under Sukumar direction will be launched in April. When news circles started speculating that this project has been canceled due to dismal performance of Sukumar's 1 Nenokkadine, this press note was sent to put an end to those speculations.

However, as per latest news from film nagar sources, the speculations turned out to be true as NTR is apprehensive about doing his next with Sukumar. The director earned bad name for escalating the budget and taking so long to wrap up a film. Therefore NTR is not in a mood to experiment with Sukumar right now.
 
There is another news floating around that Sukumar asked for one year time to prepare subject for NTR and hence this film is postponed indefinitely. If everything falls in place this project may start in 2015, sources said. One thing is pretty clear at this point. NTR is not going to do Sukumar's film as his next. Meanwhile his current film Joru (earlier Rabhasa) is expected to release in July. 

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NTR locks on Megastar's lucky date

When is Jr. NTR's Rabhasa going to hit the screens? Earlier it was announced that this film will release on March 28, the day on which Aadi was released. But due to rescheduling this film is now pushed to May. As per film sources, Rabhasa will release on May 9th, the date that has turned out to be super lucky for Megastar Chiranjeevi.
 
Two of Chiranjeevi's biggest hits were released on May 9th. Jagadeka Veerudu Atiloka Sundari and Gang Leader turned out to be monstrous hits and released on the same date in consecutive years. Gabbar Singh was actually slated for May 9th release, but it came on May 11th. Pawan Kalyan planned to release Gabbar Singh 2 on May 9th this year, but that film's shoot has been delayed.
 
So NTR is coming on this mega date and if this proves to be lucky for him, we will get to see that long pending blockbuster from the Young Tiger. Rabhasa is carrying positive reports among the industry circles. It is shaping up so well that it will have everything that summer audience expect from a big star's film, sources told.

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Who's eligible for The Best Entertainer Crown ?

The meteoric rise of director Trivikram Srinivas with two back-to-back hits 'Julayi' and 'Atharintiki..' could give some sleepless nights to SS Rajamouli and Srinu Vytla who are holding the top position in T-town with a series of blockbusters and also necessitate a debate, that who is the best entertainer among three most popular dream merchants. 

Even though, T-town witnessed the emergence of some gen x directors, like Vamsi Paidipally, Harish Shankar, Sampath Nandi, Boyapati Srinu and Maruthi who showed few sparks but they need to deliver more hits, to lay claim for the top slot. So, lets see, on whom the crown of best entertainer sits pretty well. No doubt, Rajamouli stands taller among all directors, by exploring various genres like socio-fantasies like Magadheera and Eega, sports-centric movie (sye) and a laugh-riot (Maryada rammana) and now sets out to make a historical film 'Baahuballi', to have definite edge over his rivals, with his creative genius, whereas, Trivikram is not far behind in success rate, but one thing for sure, he likes to play if safe and doesn't take up novel plots or genres and likes to work around simple plots, but heavily relies on his inherent strength 'flair for comedy' and comes up with very powerful punch lines, to keep audience entertained. Giving these two a stiff completion- is Srinu Vytla, the master of humour-driven films like 'Dhookudu', 'Baadshah' who sometimes overlooks 'logic' and like to etch out lot of humour and accodomates loads of comedy characters into his script, (particularly Brahmanandam), but assures laugh-a-minute. 

Even though, threesome have preferences over picking up 'plots' but they mostly rely on song-& dance routine, separate comedy tracks and other so-called ingredients, to engage audience for 3 hours. All of them can design powerful roles for stars and Rajamouli showed it with hits like 'Yamadonga' ( NTR), 'Chatrapathi (Prabhas) but later began to work with lesser known actors like Sunil, before returning to star-driven film 'Baahubali'. Whereas, Trivikram began the other way round, as he scored a hit with young actor Tarun (Nuvve Nuvve), before moving to the big league of stars Mahesh babu(Athadu), Pawan Kalyan (Jalsa) and Mahesh (Khaleja) but couldn't deliver hit with Chiranjeevi in 'Jai Chiranjeeva', since too much comedy on a big star, backfires at times, without a plot, that justifies their superstardom. Even Srinu Vytla, flip flopped with stars like Chiranjeevi (Andarivadu), but found his winning streak with Ravi Teja (Venky) flamboyance and then tastes sucess with Mahesh (Dookudu) and NTR. So he has developed a brand of his own for 'entertainment' and many directors are finding it easy to emulate his formula and love to tickle the pink bones of the viewers.

Whereas, Rajamouli graph has been almost steady for the last decade, but Trivikram became a comeback specialist since he had big flops inbetween to dent his progress, whereas Srinu's also had non money-spinners like 'Namo Venkatesa' but reached the top with one solid hit 'Dhookudu'. All of them capable of handling big stars and can inspire big stars to put in some good performance, as all of them are considered tough task masters. All of them draw inspiration from Hollywood movies like Eega (coackroach), Magadheera (Troy, Braveheart) and Julayi was inspired by 'Italian Job' and Srinu's 'Dhookudu' was rip off of 'Good Bye Lenin' but they are good re-working on these hired themes and make it believable, by sketching boy-next-door protoganists and their simplicity and good-heartedness eclipses the unbelievability factor, in hero's task accomplishment.  

In terms of versality, Rajamouli leads the pack, but Trivikram and Srinu are easy to emulate and discovered the formula for success in T-town humuor-ridden star movies- and don't mind overlooking 'logic; to create magic, whereas Rajamouli is a stickler for perfection and doesn't like to compromise easily. So for now, Rajamouli, is entitled for the crown, but Trivikram-Srinu could also stake claim, by trying some different genres and catapult T-town to a different level and break the notion, that T-town can deliver only 'no brainer' stuff. 

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Pawan didn't give money to YVS ?

Even though, an leading English daily wrote that Pawan was giving full support and even funded his nephew launch film "Rey" but its just its their figment of imagination, since Pawan reportedly didn't spare even a rupee to producer-director YVS Choudry and the bearded director had to toil hard on his own to arrange the finances and even pledged most of his properties to complete the film which has been in the making for two years, according to a reliable sources. Adding to his woes, the film got delayed in production and crossed the 30 crores budget for various reason, including an injury to hero Sai Dharam Tej and other issues with permissions in US, etc, 

The producer-director who already lost a bomb in his earlier flop, "Okka Mogadu", was already in financial mess, but for his big liking for Chiranjeevi & family and also Pawan, he took the responsibility of launching the Sai Dharam Tej in a lavish film and weaved a script, to showcase the dancing talent of the newcomer, since his uncle Chiru was a dancing sensation. Even though, Chiru and Pawan, made some enquries about the script and the project, but Chiru family and Pawan never extended any financial help to YVS. 

So, the director would only know the 'pain and anguish' he is undergoing and unfortunately, even big distributors haven't shown keen interest till date, despite his lineage. But still the director is leaving no stone un turned and recently shot one song for 37 days, (a producer of even Mahesh or Pawan film couldn't afford) to make it a memorable film for the young lad. May be, Chiru or Pawan could attend the audio function or issue a press release, but cash-rich stars are in no mood to bail out YVS and left him to struggle on his own. 

Even YVS should take some blame for his miserable situation, since he shifted loyalties from Nandamuri camp (making films with Harikrishna and Balakrishna and has the mascot of legendary NTR for his banner) to Chiranjeevi's family but it didn't help him in anyway. Any other producer, in his place, would have shelved the costly and unviable project, but courageous YVS, is atlast releasing the film in February, now its turn of the audience, to bail him out, otherwise, he will suffer even more. Kudos to his bravery.

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Historious NTR wedding card

N T Rama Rao is a legend who gave a strong identity and respect for Telugus in this country. And anything related to him means historical to us. So, here is one such thing. This is the wedding card of the Nandamuri stalwart. It was on May 2nd, 1942 that NTR and Basava Tarakamma became husband and wife. See the historical wedding card folks! 

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Mahesh and Pawan not interested to expand their markets

A regional hero can't just be happy with the market he has in his region. Every hero needs to explore new waters and expand business. Tamil heroes are always try to get a grip on South Indian market and even Bollywood heroes are doing their best to get as much out of SIM. Barring very few youngsters, our heroes are not keen on doing this.

Any film with a superstar in it cannot be made under Rs. 50 crores now. Recent biggies Attarintiki Daredi, Ramayya Vastvayya were made with a budget of over 50 crores and Mahesh Babu's 1 budget estimate has already crossed Rs. 65 crore going by the reports. When such big money is involved in a film, it is important for the hero to try his hand at other markets.

Superstars like Pawan Kalyan and Mahesh Babu have not shown interest in other markets at all. Even after being there for around fifteen years, Pawan and Mahesh are still not interested in expansion of market. Even NTR also is not in to this and when young heroes look up to these stars as an example, they don't see the importance of exploring new business areas. Hope the big stars of Telugu Cinema realize what they are missing and take necessary measures. Better late than Never!

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Murder Attempt On Junior NTR Failed

 
Junior NTR is one of the most loved actor in Telugu film industry, but the news which has sent shock waves in Tollywood, shows that he has made some enemy for himself. Yes! It is reported that a stranger with gun intruded into the young tiger's residence. Fortunately, the security guard, who got alarmed at the right time, is said to have spoiled a murder attempt on the popular Telugu actor.

Today a local daily has reported that an unidentified intruder jumped the compound wall and entered into Junior NTR's house in Road No 37, Jubilee Hills on Monday wee hours. Alerted by alarms, the guard made an attempt to nab him while he was climbing the wall. But the stranger jumped and ran away. A complaint was reportedly lodged at with Jubilee hills police station, who are now busy investigating the case.
 
Reports suggest that police have got some details from the CCTV footage from the house of MP Lagadapati, which is just opposite to NTR's residence. It is said that the miscreant arrived in a vehicle that had no number plate. While the further investigation is said to be going on full swing, a high security is provided at NTR house. But sources close to the actor say that it is a baseless rumour and fans should not be panicked by such reports.

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