Why did Anushka skip 'Damarukam' launch? - JustTollywood.com News

Damarukam is considered as prestigious film in the career of Nagarjuna. Fresh from refreshing ‘Gaganam’ and mass ‘Ragada’ this would be once again an important flick for Akkineni hero joining the comedy director Srinivas Reddy.Apparently heroine Anushka skipped the grand launch of movie and every where this has become a discussion of sorts.Anushka considered as close buddy to Nagarjuna is off late loosing her glamour with increasing flab on wrong areas. Film industry insiders murmured that anushka is out on a secret weight reduction program to return back with sharp curves, attractive physique for Nag and that’s the reason why she bunked the function.

While some other sources mentioned that anushka is presently busy shooting of Prabhas ‘Rebel’ and so skipped the occasion. What ever may be the reason, audience invite anushka into ‘Damarukam’ with her amazing oomph as what she displayed in her first flick ‘Super.’ With Nagarjuna and Anushka as a team, there could be no dearth for glamour…folks.

Article Involves:: Akkineni Nagarjuna, Srinivasa Reddy (I), Anushka, Prabhas

Srikanth under Neelakanta's direction? - JustTollywood.com News

Srikanth is taking part in the regular shooting of ‘Virodhi’ directed by Neelakanta and produced by Anil on the banner of Meka Movies. Presently, the shooting is in progress near Hampi.The exact location is the forests in and around Gangavathi area, wherein some key scenes of the film are being shot, some 15 km away from Hampi.Ajay and Kamal Kamaraju are playing the villains in the movie. The film would be on the lines of ‘Roja’ of Manirathnam and will have a backdrop of Naxalism. Srikant is playing the role of a journalist in this movie. Neelakanta, who shot into limelight with films like ‘Show’ and ‘Missamma’ faded out with Box Office duds like ‘Nandanavanam 120 km’ and ‘Mr Medhavi’. Neelakanta is committed to return to glory by making this film a big hit.

Article Involves:: Srikanth, Neelakanta, Ajay, Kamal Kamaraju, Mani Rathnam

I like Socio-Fantacy film's : Nagarjuna - JustTollywood.com News

Nagarjuna’s new film Damarukam was launched on a grand scale, couple of days back at Annapurna Studios amidst of Tollywood bigwigs such as Movie Moghul D Rama Naidu, legendary actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Puri Jagannadh,S.V.Krishna Reddy etc.Being directed by Srinivas Reddy and produced by R R Venkat, Damarukam has Anushka Shetty in the female lead role.This is the forth time Nag and Anushka are pairing up after Super,Don and Ragada.Speaking about this socio-fantasy film Nagarjuna says, “I was waiting to do a socio-fantasy film and now RR Movies Banner has provided the opportunity. I liked Damarukam script, which is entirely unique from the regular ones. The movie has lot of scope for graphics and at the same time it looks stylishly. I will appear in four distinct get-ups in the entire film.”

Article Involves:: Akkineni Nagarjuna, D RamaNaidu, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Puri Jagannadh, S V Krishna Reddy, Srinivasa Reddy (I), R R Venkat, Anushka

Hot heroines 'Power' tensions - JustTollywood.com News

Power Star Pawan Kalyan is a boon for new heroines who turn like a bane with in no time. Yes, the hot debutant heroines who made it besides Power Star in recent releases never had a face lift and many of them took the entry door from Tollywood. Fresh example is Nikesha Patel of ‘Puli’ failed miserably.Now, the two new babes Sarah Jane Dias and Jiah Khan debuting in Telugu industry with ‘The Shadow’ are worried as what could be their fate of doing besides Pawan Kalyan. This movie directed by Vishnuvardhan is the story of underworld mafia don and journey with in him self. Although Sarah and Jiah are popular figures in Indian film circles for too much of skin show, it is to be seen how far they succeed in registering a success releasing their ‘Power Star’ tensions.

Article Involves:: Pawan Kalyan, Nikesha Patel, Sarah Jane Dias, Jiah Khan, Vishnuvardhan

Nara Rohit's next flick is 'Solo' - JustTollywood.com News

Nara Rohit, who made his debut as hero with ‘Baanam’, earned good recognition as hero, though the film was not commercially a big hit.Now, he is getting ready to work in the direction of Parasuram, who bagged a hit with his debut film ‘Yuvatha’, failed flat with ‘Anjaneyulu’ of Raviteja. Now he is planning to regain his lost image.The latest flick of Nara Rohit in the combination of Parasuram was titled ‘Solo’ and the director is confident of returning to glory with this movie. Even the stills of Nara Rohit released to the media appear to be different looks-wise and get-up wise. Parasuram is committed to change the image of Nara Rohit, who is presently maintaining an art film hero’s image to a youthful hero.Let us wait and watch how Parasuram presents Nara Rohit.

Article Involves:: Nara Rohit, Parasuram, Ravi Teja

Nata Kireeti to play Gopichand's father? - JustTollywood.com News

Rajendra Prasad is experimenting several roles and he got good recognition for portraying the father’s roles in ‘Aaa Naluguru’ and ‘Bava’.Of course, he continued to do hero roles, but also trying to accommodate in character artiste’s roles, despite enjoying star status since 80s and 90s.In fact, Rajendra Prasad is not accepting many films in the absence of proper stories with comedy backdrop as the present generation directors are not being able to handle the subjects.The latest buzz from the Film Nagar is that the Nata Kireeti had agreed to play father to Gopichand for his forthcoming film ‘Mogudu’ to be directed by Krishnavamsi.It is learnt that Rajendra Prasad will have a full-length role in this movie.

Article Involves:: Rajendra Prasad, Gopichand, Krishna Vamsi

'Mangala' release on Mar 2! - JustTollywood.com News

Charmi starrer suspense thriller 'Mangala' will hit the screens on March 2nd.Directed by Osho Tulasiram on Mantra Entertainments banner, the film stars Pradeep Rawat,Uttej,Vijay Sai et al.Ch V Sharma and Osho Tulasiram produced this flick.This combination had earlier come up with Mantra which won critical acclaim.Vishwa composed music for this film. The audio of this movie was launched a couple of weeks ago but failed to evoke any response from the audience."We are releasing it on Mahashiva Ratri festival day. It will be yet another milestone movie in Charmi's career. We hope audience love the movie just like they did Mantra" producer said.

Article Involves:: Charmi, Tulasi Ram, Pradeep Rawat, Uttej, Vijay Sai, Chandana Ramesh, Viswas

'Erra Gulabilu' comes out with A certification - JustTollywood.com News

Gautham Menon’s suspense thriller Erra Gulabilu is gearing up for its release on 18th February.Meanwhile, the film has completed its censor formalities and has come out with A certification.The film is a dubbed flick of Tamil film 'Nadunisi Naaygal', also reaching the Kollywood screens on the same day.Sameera Reddy,Karthik,Veera are playing the lead roles in the film while Samantha will be seen in a cameo role.The run time of the film is just 90 minutes, and the director did not include any songs, to make the suspense thriller much interesting.Ashok Vallabhaneni is bringing the Telugu version to big screens under Mana Desam Movies banner.Erra Gulabilu will lock horns with Ram Gopal Varma’s directorial Katha Screenplay Darsakathvam Appalraju that is releasing on the same day.

Article Involves:: Gautham Menon , Sameera Reddy, Karthik Siva kumar, Veera(Tamil), Samantha , Ashok Vallabhaneni, Ram Gopal Varma

'Dongala Muta' completed shooting? - JustTollywood.com News

Ram Gopal Varma has stood by his words by wrapping up the entire shooting part of Dongala Muta in just four and half days. The shooting part began on 9th February and wrapped on 13th February.The entire Dongala Muta was shot in normal shift timings in the natural-light with just four canon cameras and no additional equipment. Ravi Teja,Charmi,Prakash Raj, Laxmi Manchu,Brahmanandam,Subbaraju,Brahmaji and Supreet are playing the key roles in Dongala Muta.The movie is currently stepping into post-production works and is schedule for a worldwide release on 4th March.

Article Involves:: Ram Gopal Varma, Ravi Teja, Charmi, Prakash Raj, Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna, Brahmanandam , Subba Raju, Brahmaji , Supreet

NTR Marriage is Fixed on May 5th - JustTollywood.com News

NTR and Lakshmi Praneeta marriage is fixed on May 5th. The lagna patrika for his marriage was completed at 8:05 am today. This event was held here in Hyderabad in a traditional ceremony in the brides residence. Praneetha is the daughter of Narne Estates proprietor Narne Srinivasa Rao.NTR father Hari Krishna addressed media and Ntr fans that Jr NTR is going to get married to Lakshmi Praneeta on 5th May.Nara Chandra babu Naidu,Balakrishna,Daggubati Purandhareswari,Kalyan Ram and other Family members attended and blessed the would-be-couple.

Only Nandamuri family members was invited for the ceremony, apart from Family Kodali Nani,Vallabhaneni Vamsi Mohan attended the event. Nandamuri and Narne Families are planning to celebrate this occasion like never before. This would be one of the costliest marriages in India. The guest list for this marriage includes Political and film celebrities.

Article Involves:: N T Rama Rao jr, Nandamuri Hari Krishna , Nandamuri BalaKrishna, Kalyan Ram, Kodali Nani, Vallabhaneni Vamsi mohan

Sukumar changed his way? - JustTollywood.com News

Director Sukumar is too much of a technician.Never he thinks the same as ordinary audience always going over the board in his brain work and best example is his extra creative ‘Jagadam, Arya 2’ which weren’t connected to general public.The reason being Sukku’s boundless originality inserted in to each and every frame.Now, Sukumar dealing Naga Chaitanya & Tamanna’s ‘I Love You Mahalakshmi’ is a reason for Nagarjuna fans to worry.

Although Sukku is confident about delivering a super hit this time but doubts still persist and here is happy news. Sources with in the industry report that Geetha Arts producing this flick had put the brakes consistently on Sukumar’s though process to guide him in becoming a pucca commercial director. ‘I Love You Mahalakshmi’ is considered to be the best product from Sukku till date and a super hit is what every body is expecting.

Article Involves:: Sukumar, Naga Chaitanya, Tamanna

No hopes on Mahesh Babu? - JustTollywood.com News

Director Shankar seems to have lost hopes on bringing back Mahesh babu into his team of Telugu remake of Hindi hit ‘3 Idiots.’ After hero Vijay making his way back into the Tamil team of ‘Nanban,’ there was wide spread speculation about Mahesh too thinking positive on the Telugu version of project.But for time being all the hopes can be dashed away because Shankar completed the first schedule of Tamil remake and is getting ready to travel London for shooting of songs in second schedule. After the super hit audio of ‘Orange,’ music composer Harris Jayaraj is giving all the original tunes for this flick except the ‘All Izz Well.’ Looks like Mahesh lost a good opportunity. By the way, Prince is very busy with ‘Dookudu.’

Article Involves:: Shankar, Mahesh Babu, Vijay (Tamil), Harris Jayaraj

Krishna Vamsi and Gopichand's 'Mogudu' launched - JustTollywood.com News

Krishna Vamsi’s directorial with Gopichand in the lead titled Mogudu was launched on 13th February at Ramanaidu Studios.Apart from the cast and crew of the film, Tollywood bigwigs Puri Jagannath,VV Vinayak,Surender Reddy,Rajamouli,D.suresh Babu and others attended the launch. Jr.NTR gave the first clap for the muhurat shot in the film.Kajal Agarwal is playing Gopichand’s love interest in the film and Nallamalapu Bujji is producing it under the banner Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions.Kalyani Malik is scoring the music for the film.

Article Involves:: Krishna Vamsi, Gopichand, Puri Jagannadh, V V Vinayak, Surender Reddy, S S Rajamouli, Daggubati Suresh Babu , N T Rama Rao jr, Kajal Agarwal, Nallamalupu Srinivas (Bujji), Kalyani Malik

Asin in 'Rana'? - JustTollywood.com News

No sooner was Rajinikanth’s next film Rana announced, than the media started speculating about which heroine would star opposite him.After Aishwarya Rai had stupendous success being paired with Rajinikanth in Robo, it is every Bollywood girl’s dream to work with the south super star.Rana has Rajini in a triple role and is directed by K.S. Ravikumar. Considering Rajini’s pan-Asian market, the makers are looking out for an actress who has a national presence.The initial buzz was that leggy Deepika Padukone was the lead contender and that she would adjust her dates to work in the film.Now, it is reliably learnt that Asin, who had worked with Ravikumar in Varalaru, has been approached and even a one-line summary of the script has been narrated to her.

Sources add that Asin, who made a comeback in Tamil with Vijay in Kaavalan,is also keen to team up with the superstar, provided the script fascinates her.The movie has A.R. Rahman composing the tracks.Meanwhile, back in Mumbai, Asin has signed Sajid Nadiadwala’s Housefull 2 with Akshay Kumar. The southern beauty is also holding discussions with King Khan for the film 2 States. Reportedly, Asin will be starring opposite Shahrukh in the adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s novel. Shahrukh Khan is co-producing the film and is directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. Asin could not be contacted as she is shooting in Bangkok with Salman Khan for her upcoming film Ready.

Article Involves:: Rajinikanth, Aishwarya Rai, K S Ravi Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Asin, Vijay (Tamil), A R Rahman, Salman Khan

Celebrity Cricket League Curtain raiser on Mar 5 - JustTollywood.com News

Much awaited Celebrity Cricket League matches will have a curtain raiser match on March 5th.The venue is likely to be Visakhapatnam.As it is a curtain raiser match, it will be between Bollywood team and South Indian film stars team.In this curtain raiser match, Bollywood team will be led by Salman Khan and South Indian film stars team by Victory Venkatesh.Though the actual CCL matches will be held after IPL and World Cup Cricket, this curtain raiser match will stimulate interest among people in these matches.

The match will be live telecast on Gemini TV.In June, actual matches will happen between Tollywood,Kollywood, Bollywood and Sandalwood teams.Tollywood team is owned by Vishnu Manchu, Kollywood by Tamil Nadigar Sangham,Sandalwood by Sudeep, Bollywood by Salman Khan family.In the curtain raiser match on March 5th, Tamil superstar Surya, Kannada Star Punit Rajkumar, Hindi actors Kunal Khemu, Ritesh Deshmukh, Tollywood star Vishnu Manchu will be seen competing with one another.Looks like all is set for Crickentertainment.

Article Involves:: Salman Khan , Venkatesh, Vishnuvardhan Babu Manchu , Sudeep (I), Surya

Jagapathi Babu's 'Blackmoney' - JustTollywood.com News

Jagapathi Babu is on a movie signing spree. He announced that this year onwards he will do 10 films every year. Perhaps keeping his promise, he signed 'Blackmoney' with Pusala Radhakrishna as director.Natti Kumar who is producing 'Chattam' with Jagapathibabu will produce 'Blackmoney' too.The shooting is scheduled to start on February 18th and the film will hit the screens in May this year.On eve of Jagapathibabu's birthday on Saturday, Nattikumar announced the details of 'Blackmoney'. Two heroines are expected to star with Jagapathibabu and a leading hero will play a cameo role in this flick.

Meanwhile, his film 'Chattam' will release on February 26th."We are very happy that Jagapathibabu announced his deciscion to act in 10 films an year. If every hero does the same, we don't have to depend on dubbed films and also thousands of film workers will get work to do" Nattikumar said.

Article Involves:: Jagapathi Babu, Pusala Radhakrishna, Natti Kumar

'LBW' release on Feb 18 - JustTollywood.com News

LBW Life Before Wedding directed by debutant Praveen Sattaru will release on February 18th. Most of the actors in this film are fresh faces. The music of this movie composed by R Anil has earned good reviews. "The film has two stories in it.It is about youngsters and what happens in their lives spread across 900 days.This is an experimental film. We finished shooting and even completed post-production work." director Praveen said.Working Dream Production a new banner is producing this film. New faces Asif Taj, Rohan, Chinmayi, Abhijith, Anithanath et al played key roles in this film.Kiran Bhuneti and Naveen Sattaru are the producers of this low budget youth entertainer.Buzz is that the film is innovative and has generated curiosity among urban audience.

Article Involves:: Praveen Sattaru, R Anil, Asif Taj, Rohan (I), Chinmayi Gatraju, Abhijit Pundla, Kiran, Naveen Sattaru

'Ramadandu' out in Feb end - JustTollywood.com News

Krishnudu starrer 'Ramadandu' is all set to release at the end of this month.The movie is based on football game is directed by Vegeshna Satish.Veteran actress Gautami's niece Soumya is playing the heroine in this movie.Bandi Radhika Narayana Rao and Bandi Rathnakumar produced this film. Krishnudu is seen as football coach who plots, inspires and trains his team to win the matches in this coach drama. The audio of the movie was already released.The film will hit the screens in the last week of February.

Article Involves:: Krishnudu, Satish Vegeshna, Gautami, Soumya, Bandi Radhika Rani, Bandi Rathna Kumar

Balakrishna to play a key role in Manoj's movie? - JustTollywood.com News

Manchu Manoj, who had bagged some moderate hits like ‘Bindaas’ and 'Jhummandi Nadam’ and presently enjoying their success is getting ready to play in his forthcoming flick ‘Oo Kodatara Ulikki Padatara’ to be produced by Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna on the banner of Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures.The latest information about the film is quite shocking for the Telugu film lovers. It is reliably learnt that Nandamuri Balakrishna was approached by the team to play a key role in the movie and he had give his positive nod to play that character.It may be mentioned here that Balakrishna, after becoming a hero,did not play a special character in any other film and he played the solo hero so far.

However, it is learnt that Balakrishna was impressed with the storyline and his character which would come in the flashback episode. The flashback scene would be like a backbone for the movie.For the first time Balakrishna is making a guest appearance in another film. Let us wait and watch how good the character would be after the film’s release.

Article Involves:: Manchu Manoj, Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna, Nandamuri BalaKrishna

It is Nitya Menon in Dil Raju's new movie! - JustTollywood.com News

It is well aware that Dil Raju is planning to produce a film ‘O My Friend’ with Siddharth as hero introducing Venu Sriram as director.Earlier, the producer selected Amrita Rao as heroine opposite Siddharth.Amrita Rao had earlier made her debut into the Tollywood as heroine opposite Maheshbabu in ‘Athidhi’. While the talks are going on, Amrita Rao demanded that she should be provided a five-star accommodation during her stay in Hyderabad for the shooting of the film.

With the recent decision of the Tollywood top film personalities that no heroine should be provided a five-star accommodation as part of the cost-cutting exercise, Dil Raju pleaded his inability that he can’t violate the rules set by the industry. So Amrita Rao refused to accept the offer and jumped out of the project. So, the producer is now making efforts to rope in Nitya Menon of ‘Ala Modalayindi’ fame as heroine for the flick

Article Involves:: Siddharth, Dil Raju, Venu Sriram, Amrita Rao, Mahesh Babu, Nitya Menon

'Mahankali' cans item song - JustTollywood.com News

Rajasekhar is playing a sincere police officer character in ‘Mahankali’ directed by Jeevitha and produced by Yeluru Sirender Reddy and A Parandhama Reddy on the banner of Anjeri Arts. Madhurima is playing opposite Rajasekhar as heroine.The film had recently canned an item song at Ramoji Film City involving Rajasekher,Saleem Panda,Jeeva, Chandrasekhar and Kausha under the choreography of Rock Nani. Producers say, ‘Only few patch work, canning of two songs and the climax are yet to be shot for the movie.

Recently we shot some scenes in Dubai involving the villains. We are planning to shoot some climax scenes in Hyderabad airport. We are planning to shoot the balance songs also in and around Hyderabad. The shooting would be wrapped up by the end of this month.’Dialogue are by Mohan, music is by Chinna, camera is by PG Vinda, while screenplay and direction are by Jeevitha Rajasekhar.

Article Involves:: Rajasekhar , Jeevitha, Yelluri Surender Reddy, A Parandhama Reddy, Madhurima, Saleem Paanda, Jeeva, Yeleti ChandraSekhar, Kausha (I), Rock Nani, Mohan (I), Chinna (II), P G Vinda