Archive for April, 2007
Maadhi ummadi kutumbam
Raju Bhai audio variety ga start ayyindhi. Apart from Vishnu holding fort what interested us the most was the presence of our best friend KS Rama Rao. Remember there are no friends or enemies in the film industry. In Mohan Babu’s function especially there are only ANNAYYAs and THAMMUDUs.
It will be difficult to explain the [...]
Chaala thanks Shilpa!
Shilpa Shetty has announced she won’t be participating in the Australian reality show Big Brother. Badi Meharbani! If she would have okayed, imagine the number of suitors who would have lined up at her door step, the crores worth of contract papers, the fame, the films, etc. The B-grade actress left it all for our [...]
Naveen is very talented: Mahesh Babu
Refuting rumours that Surender Reddy, the director of Athidhi was not keen on Naveen doing the work for the film, Mahesh Babu tells Cinema Prapancham. “Naveen is still doing our film. He will work on the songs. He is doing Puri Jagan’s film at the moment and I suppose he is busy. Surender is working with [...]
A conversation with Athidhi
Work day begun. Good morning sun. I switch on my mobile. Many missed cals, multiple messages. Impossible auto drivers. I’m already in a pool of exhaustion trying to reach the sets of Athidhi on time. I hurriedly take out my pen and amidst a web of confused words jot down the questions I’m supposed to [...]
Athidhi ki hype voddhu: Surender Reddy
Surender Reddy looks calm and relaxed. He is focussed, sits in front of the monitor and okays the shot. Ask him how it is to work with Mahesh, he says, “Absolutely wonderful. I hardly have any work to do. I just have to explain a line to him and he gives me more than I [...]
Mahesh looks like a bollywood star: Sania
Sania is constantly keeping an eye on the proceedings. A huge propeller is switched on and a unit boy lifts a hand full of dry peepal leaves and raises it near the fan. The breeze blows the leaves, Mahesh dressed in a yellow T-shirt with a black college bag kneels down and fires two rounds [...]
Mahesh Babu fan ayinandhuku garvisthunnanu
Pokiri has completed a year and a huge crowd throngs to see Mahesh Babu in action, he’s shooting for Athidhi. We speak to Mahesh Babu’s diehard fan who came all the way from Tanuku to see his idol and take a picture with him. Here is the text of the conversation with D. Venkateswarlu, Mahesh [...]
Dasari’s disciples to honour 148 directors
May 4th is a D day for Dasari. It’s his birthday. He is going to blow 60 candles and move into the 61st summer. So on may 6th his disciples will be honouring 148 directors. The figure is 148 because he had directed 148 movies. So let’s hop to the location that day where Tammareddy Bharadwaja [...]
Venky is in Israel
After watching AMAV cudn’t help but marvel at Venky’s work, and SMS’d him. He is in Israel currently. I was an ‘athidhi’ at Mahesh Babu’s Athidhi and was floored by the unit’s hospitality. Mahesh didn’t want to know if I was interviewing him for The Hindu or for Cinema Prapancham. He promised to make some time for [...]
Liquids gift chesina Dasari
Our journos are maha thrilled with Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao’s gesture, for the first time andhariki mandhu party iccharanta, our guys can’t stop raving about him.
The occasion was to celebrate the 50 days running of Adivaram Adavallaku Selavu.
Mumait ni pompistha
Srihari spotted a few journos at Prasad Labs, Mahalakshmi editing nadusthundi akkada. So he asked them to come over and see the fight sequences. Our Big B of Telugu media remarked, ‘Fights sare Mumait ni choopiste vosthamu.’ While the scribe got onto his vehicle Srihari smirked, ‘Aithey Mumait paatala CD intike pompisthamu ley.’
AMAV - Morning Show Muchatlu
The opening scene shows Trisha in a car instructing the driver to go ’slow’ so that she can see the showers but little do we know that the instruction is merely a prelude to a drag. However the story picks up momentum post-interval and Venkatesh with his flashes of brilliance keeps you glued till the [...]
Brooke Shields, Kamal Hassan at Aata audio
Aata audio went off in style with mouth-watering tiffineelu. Suresh Babu turned up late and as usual Paruchuri brothers did their on and off lauding job and compared Ileana to Brooke Shields. I just can’t forget the Narasimhudu speech. The brothers duo gave and the way they waxed eloquent on Sameera Reddy. Our old man [...]