Archive for May, 2007
Saashtaanga namaskaaralu
Oka actor’s birthday. Idhi ippati sangathi kaadhu. The producer arranged a party for him and his family in Madhapur. Actor went missing in the middle of the night from the party. That means birthday boy was absent but the show went on. The producer kept smiling, played a perfect host and even prostrated and took [...]
GGM choosthe Rajni film choosinattu untadhi
Sometimes when you don’t write a review for a film, some reviewers are in for some nuisance. So what they do is they lock their doors and go on an impromptu holiday, some take it light, some who don’t switch off their cells before hitting their bed bear the brunt from the director. Talking of [...]
Konni cinemalu anthe
If a film has some stuff in it, people will definitely watch it. Kaani cinema antha crap unte manam emi cheyyalem. Yes but there is something we can do is to pamper our ego’s. Theatre feeding for 100 or 400 days, imaginative advertising like some filmmakers resort to which is just temporary.
But small budget filmmakers [...]
Pilla kante talli baavundhi
Straight ga cheppalante heroine kanna heroine mummy baavundhi. These are the comments one tends to hear at press meets and at shooting spots. Genelia’s mum, Kamna Jethmalani’s mum, to an extent Trisha’s mommy and some more. Recently at actor Nagabhushanam’s grandson Bhushan’s shooting the mother of the lead artiste Tejaswini was the highlight. Poor ladies [...]
Sometimes being a cousin helps
Go to a studio with a dicta, first you are not allowed, second even if you are allowed…you can’t get to the heroine because they are celestial creatures, managers first - they do the screening who are you, which site/paper, what occasion you are here for, etc. etc. Usual ga birthdays ki, cinema release appude [...]
Shafi to work in Hindi cinema
Shafi is likely to act in a Hindi film to be directed by Ketan Mehta. The film deals and revolves around the life of painter Raja Ravi Verma and Randeep Hooda is playing the lead role.
Chandrababu Naidu’s son is getting married on 26th August.
Bheema’s release is postponed to the last week of June or the [...]
Bahiranganga kshamapana
At the Gundammagari Manavadu platinum disc function, the special invitees were K. Raghavendra Rao and Puri Jagannath. The director’s (KRR) birthday was held at that function too. On the occasion Puri said he once went to KRR during the making of Super and asked him why he doesn’t retire even after completing 100 films. ‘Haaiyga [...]
Actor gate-crashes at NTR’s party
‘He has the royalty of his grandfather and he spends like a king,’ says his friends. We are talking about NTR. Money is important to him but it is not as important as relationships; he values them and treasures them. Most of his charity has gone unnoticed and that’s the way it ought to be. [...]
Coffee, movies et al
Sridhar’s Coffee House Le Cafe Latte in Jubilee Hills is drawing scores of visitors. The word has spread that it’s urban, it’s chic and it’s cool. A graduate from a hotel management school in Ooty, Sridhar says he loves every aspect of film making and finally found his passion.. when struck upon the idea of [...]
Joruga husharuga…..SDZ
Cinema is releasing in June. Shooting is over barring five songs out of which three would be shot in India and two abroad. Dheeni kosam the unit is going to Australia on the 25th of this month and Chiru who generally works only six days a week and only during the days is spending the [...]
Spadework for the son
Brahmi…software engineer. That is what Brahmanandam is being referred to post-Pokiri. About his son Gowtham, he played hero in Pallakilo Pellikoothuru directed by Suchitra Chandrabose in the darsakatva paryavekshana of K. Raghavendra Rao, B.A. but the film was far from success. Of late Brahmi has been calling various producers enquiring if they would be interested in [...]
Hiccups
This is about Shivaji, sources in Chennai claim that, the actual reason for the delay in the movie release is not the post-production work but the business problem, which has not been done. The reason behind this they cite is that a ruling party politician’s son was reportedly interested in buying the rights of the [...]
We live for you, we die for you
Everyone here is a fan of some hero or the other. They read the trivia written about their heroes and carry tales to them. First sarigga chadavaru, excitement ekkuva and they carry the distorted version.
But this one I’ve heard of, takes the cake. Photos tiyyataaniki, banners kattadaniki he had collected from the hero’s fans in [...]
Two birds with one stone
This happened during the shooting of a crazy star who had gone to Dubai for the shooting of his film and was accompanied by his Man Friday (which people feel is a decent way to address, industry people refer to him as manager or mediator). These two people were joined by a hotshot in demand [...]
Cinema hit ayindhi, smile please
Dil Raju organised a press meet at his office today. Don’t ask the reason. He says, “Third week full avuthundi, repeat audience is coming, thanks to Harris Jayaraj for making the film a musical hit. Though there was a divided talk initially, it is inching towards a super hit.” The director echoed his feelings. In the [...]
Confusion lo Siddharth
Post Aata Siddharth is in a big confusion as to what kinda film he has to do as he is stuck in an image wrap as people who’ve seen Aata have commented that the mass look didn’t suit Siddhu a bit. Siddharth is cautious as doing class films continuously might get him success but wouldn’t [...]
So manam eppudu work chestunnam?
Our sources tell us that Ravi Teja has been reportedly been calling various directors Sukumar, Lawrence, Trivikram Srinivas and is lauding their work, their directorial capabilities, script and music sense and other factors. He is having long conversations over the phone which has confused the directors about Ravi Teja’s new found love and interest towards [...]
Ullasamga Utsahanga
Karunakaran the Tamil born director who has never directed a Tamil film has only one hit Tholi Prema to his credit but his films like Yuvakudu, Vasu, Balu, Happy though didn’t do well commercially were well appreciated.
Now to prove his mettle he is coming back and this time according to our sources will be reportedly [...]
A chat with Tarun, Rohit, Aakash and Sunil
The sun is beating through the huge sets erected by Megaa Supergood Films at the Necklace Road. To add to their woes, all the artistes except for Tarun, are dressed in synthetic designer wear and are waiting patiently for a break to be announced. The four young actors have crammed themselves in the caravan, they [...]