Nandi Awards 2008 announced - JustTollywood.com News

Nandi Awards's announcement for the year of 2008 has instilled celebrations in the Telugu film industry. The reason being that panellists have given a fillip to offbeat cinema by prizing films like Gamyam and Vinayakudu in prestigious categories.
The selection of Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Direcotr, Best Music Director has also been a reason for cheer. Obviously, the winners are jamborific. It is only a matter of time when the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, K Rosaiah, hands over the awards to the winners in a function.
Here is the list of winners in various categories.

Category	Winner	Movie/Producer
First Best Feature Film	Gamyam	Saibabu Jagarlamudi
Second Best Feature Film	Vinayakudu	Prem Patra
Third Best Feature Film	Parugu	Dil Raju
Akkineni Award for best home-viewing feature film	Ashta Chemma	Ram Mohan
Best popular feature film providing wholesome entertainment	Ready	Sravanthi Ravi Kishore
Best film on national integration	1940 lo oka gramam	Nandireddy Narasimha Reddy
Second Best Children film	Durgi	PHVSN Babji, P Balachandra Reddy
Second best documentary film	Memu Manushulame	Com of Social Welfare Dept
First best educational film	-	-
Second best educational film	Adavi Naa Thalliro	Alla Rambabu
Best director	Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi	Gamyam
Best Leading Actor	Ravi Teja	Neninthe
Best Leading Actress	Swati	Ashta Chemma
Best supporting actor	Allari Naresh	Gamyam
Best supporting actress	Raksha	Nachavule
Best character actor (gummadi award)	Mukkuraju	1940 lo oka graman
Best comedian actor (allu award)	Brahmanandam	Ready
Best comedian actress	-	-
Best Villain	Sonu Sood	Arundhati
Best Child Actor	Bharat	Ready
Best child actress	Divya Nagesh	Arundhati
Best 1st film director	Sai Kiran Adivi	Vinayakudu
Best screenplay writer	A Karunakaran	Ullasamga Utsahamga
Best story writer	RP Patnaik	Andamaina Manasulo
`Best dialogue writer	Puri Jagan	Neninthe
Best lyric writer	Sirivennela	Enthavarako (Gamyam)
Best cinematographer	Chota K Naidu	Kotha Bangaru Lokam
Best Music director	Micky J Meyer	Kotha Bangaru Lokam
Best Male playback	Shankar Mahadevan	Venkatadri
Best Female playback singer	Geeta Madhuri	Ninne Ninne (Nachavule)
Best editor	Marthand K Venkatesh	Arundhati
Best art director	Ashok	Arundhati
Best Choreographer	Prem Rakshit	Kantri
Best audiographer	Radhakrishna & Madhusudhan Reddy	Arundhati
Best costume designer	Deepa Chandar	Arundhati
Best makeup artiste	Ramesh Mahanti	Arundhati
Best fight master	Ram - Lakshman	Neninthe
Best male dubbing artiste	P Ravi Shankar	Arundhati
Best female dubbing artiste	R Haritha	Nachavule
Best special effects	Rahul Nambiar	Arundhati
Special Jury Award	Anushka	Arundhati
Special Jury Award	Batukamma	Batukamma (P Saraswati)
Special Jury Award	Allu Arjun	Parugu
Special Jury Award	Suseela	1940 lo oka gramam
Best book on Telugu cinema	Arudra Cine Mini kaburlu	Arudra Cine Mini kaburlu (Dr. Ramalakshmi Arudra)
Best film critic on Telugu Cinema	Parcha Sarath Kumar

Gamyam, Vinayakudu and Parugu get Nandi recognition - JustTollywood.com News

The Government of Andhra Pradesh-sponsored Nandi Awards have been declared for the year 2008. Gamyam (directed by Radha Krishna a.k.a. Krish) and Vinayakudu (directed by Sai Kiran Adivi) have bagged the awards for Best Film and second Best Film respectively. With awards going to these two films that were made on a shoestring budget, small filmmakers in the industry must be upbeat.
Gamyam that starred Allari Naresh and Sharwanand in lead roles, was a tale of self-discovery where the rich guy Sharwanand gets to know of the real world outside and gets transformation.A film that sensitively portrayed the emotional journey of one lead when he trudges villages and highways in search of his love life, Gamyam was heart-rending when audience saw Naresh dying in the end.
On the other hand, Vinayakudu is a simple love story based in Cyberabad. Produced by Saritha Patra, the Krishnudu-starrer (who will next be seen in Village Lo Vinayakudu, wrongly touted as a sequel) was a romantic comedy that fared decently at the box-office.The hero here is a fat man who loves a girl but the heroine does not reciprocate until she is attracted to his inner personality one fine day.
As two of films made with distinct subjects get the covetous Nandi, it's a milestone Tollywood will savour for long.However, the biggest surprise was 'Parugu' which has been adjudged third Best Film. The film, directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar had Allu Arjun and Sheela playing the leads, was said to have many scenes that seemed to be a rip off of real life situations in Chiranjeevi's family.
Though it was an average film at the BO and does not boast of much entertainment values either, jurists felt it deserved a Nandi. Well, what can one say at the decision of the eminent panel?

Article Involves:: Jagarlamudi RadhaKrishna (Krish), Saikiran Adavi, Allari Naresh, Sharwanand, Krishnudu, "Bommarillu" Bhaskar , Allu Arjun, Sheela

Ravi Teja teams up with Samuthirakani - JustTollywood.com News

After Tarun, who acted in the bi-lingual 'Nee Manasu Naku Telusa' and Ram Charan who is acting in Magadheera's Tamil version, it is now the turn of Ravi Teja. Yes, he is overwhelmed with a talent called Samuthirakani who directed the super hit film Nandodigal. It is well-known that Ravi Teja is doing the Telugu remake of this tale of friendship, but now the new thing is that the mass actor is keen to work with Samuthirakani, who has also been associated with Ananthapuram 1980 (Subramaniapuram in Tamil).
Tamil audiences should prepare themselves to see Ravi Teja whose sheer energy and verve can do magic on the screen. The actor is also adept at doing emotional roles and his act in Na Autograph (Charan in Tamil) has been much acclaimed critically as well.Hope apna hero makes it big in Kollywood.

Article Involves:: Tarun, Ram Charan, Ravi Teja

Prince and Tennis Princess to be seen together - JustTollywood.com News

Remember a film by name Jagadam in which Ram and her muse fawningly compared each other with Sani Mirza and Mahesh Babu? If we had then wondered whether the two some will make a good pair at all, there is finally an opportunity for us to see them together on the small screen.
AIRCEL, a telecommunication company, has signed superstar Mahesh Babu and Tennis star Sania Mirza as brand ambassadors and the endorsement reportedly runs in crores for each! Sania has been seen in many ads in the past,Telugu actor Mahesh famous endorsement so far is Thums Up.Mahesh behave rocked. The only Tollywood star (well, probably) who has been signed for a second product, Mahesh is an actor who is hardly 15 films old. His film 'Pokiri' has been remade in Hindi as 'Wanted: Dead or Alive'. After his 2007 film 'Athidhi' bombed at the BO, there has been no offering from him as yet.

Article Involves:: Ram (I), Mahesh Babu,

Magadheera's Sunday collections for flood-affected - JustTollywood.com News

Tollywood-wallah's have been greatly devastated by the plight of the poor villagers and farmers in flood-affected districts of Kurnool, Krishna and Mahaboobnagar.First, it was individual contributions from stars like Jr. NTR, Charan, and now then came the decision of Movie Artists' Association to hold a Star night(November 7th) in the city for raising huge funds.
Now, Allu Aravind of Geetha Arts has declared that the collections of his magnum opus Magadheera on this Sunday (October 25), will be proceeded towards helping the flood-affected.Now who can't call this a kind gesture. It is to be remembered that Chiranjeevi and his family members were objects of ire of Mohan Babu who controversially said that the family was not one with the film industry even when it came to coming to the assistance of flood victims.
With Charan announcing a help of Rs. 20 lakhs and Aravind making this new gesture, Mohan Babu must be feeling sorry for what he has said before the media.

Article Involves:: N T Rama Rao jr, Ram Charan, Allu Aravind, Chiranjeevi, Manchu Mohan Babu

Sindhu Thulani to marry Surendar ? - JustTollywood.com News

Sindhu Thulani is a rare actress who got lucky with her roles in films like 'Sullan' and 'Manmadhan' in Tamil and 'Aithe' and 'Athanokkade' in Telugu. Though, we haven't seen her since super flop 'Pothe Poni', Tamil audiences get to see her once in a blue moon. Having done different roles and bold scenes, Sindhu strikes a chord with her fans.
However, here is another news from her. She may probably bid aideu to films as marriage is on the anvil. And here fiancee is Surendar Reddy, the Kick-director, who also directed her in Athanokkade.Not yet declared formally, industry sources say that the announcement has been long overdue and that close aides of these two film personalities are eager to make it public as soon as possible.

Article Involves:: Sindhu Thulani, Surender Reddy