Malayalam Superstar Mohanlal’s latest flick Aaraattu released on 18th February and got very good response. B. Unnikrishnan directed the massy entertainer under RD Illuminations in association with Hippi prime motion pictures and MPM group. The movie has lot of references from few movies that attracted audience. Few references from Mohanlal movies made his fans to go crazy in theatres. AR Rahman cameo also came out well in the movie.
The fans are delighted for Mohanlal’s powerful performance. After few content driven films, Mohanlal came up with mass entertainer that his fans are waiting for. Even Telugu people started enjoying Malayalam films after the introduction of OTT. And Especially Mohanlal’s movies fare well with Telugu audience as well. Aaraattu is ready to stream on Amazon Prime from 20th March.
SS Rajamouli’s RRR censor formalities were completed earlier today. The details are out and as expected, this is going to be a long film! At a runtime of 3 hours and 6 Minutes 54 seconds, RRR is all set to be the lengthiest movie of the director’s career.
The movie has received a U/A rating with minute cuts and now all eyes are set on the release on 25th March. The RRR censor talk also has been quite positive much to the relief of many. The trio of Rajamouli, Jr NTR, and Ram Charan are busy with the promotions and back-to-back interviews and events. The team will travel to Dubai and then will get back to India for events in Delhi, Jaipur, Bangalore, Kolkata, Varanasi before heading back to Hyderabad.
Rajamouli is quite confident of RRR’s success. Infact, the director has gone on record saying this is the best movie of his career. Predicting the performance of the film at the box office, the ace director said that RRR will be bigger and better than Baahubali 1 as well as Baahubali 2. This statement from the filmmaker has heightened the expectations from fans to a great extent.
Director Rajamouli met AP Cinematography Minister Perni Nani on 15 March and appealed for the ticket price hike for his upcoming film RRR. This film is slated to release on 25th March. The film also stars leading heroes of Tollywood, Jr. NTR and Ram Charan produced by D.V.V. Danayya with a massive budget. But no exact details of the budget project came up till now.
But AP Cinematography Minister, Perni Nani has given a clarity on the budget of the film. He said that RRR team had given him a report stating the budget as 336 crores without the remuneration of both heroes and director, SS Rajamouli. He went on to say that the budget’s details are being verified and the price for the ticket hike will be decided after the verification process.
Well it looks like there is no confirmation yet on the ticket price hike for RRR. Radhe Shyam which released on March 11 had only an additional Rs.25 hike with the already revised ticket prices. Now, RRR team badly wants the ticket prices to be at Rs.300 for atleast 10 days or for two weeks. Let’s wait and see what happens.
K.S. Ramarao produced many notable movies under creative commercials banner. The renowned producer conducted a press meet today to clarify rumours on Film Nagar cultural centre in Visakhapatnam. He said that he read a news article mentioning that was removed from Film Nagar cultural centre president’s post. He denied the rumours through this press meet.
While talking about relationship between film industry and Government, he said that he believes that government will always do good for film industry. When he was asked to comment on ticket rates issue, the senior producer said that no where we in the world any government has involved in ticket prices matter. Only Andhra Pradesh government is doing this and he said that he don’t understand the intention of government on this. He also told that if you take any country that produces cinema, no producer or industry went to government and discuss about prices.
K.S. Ramarao also said that if the same thing continues producers have to cut the budget for the films. He commented that it is just a bit relief that the tickets prices are increased little bit.
After the success of Pushpa, Stylish Star Allu Arjun does not want to take any risk. He has even cancelled the Icon project and Boyapati Srinu’s film also. He is still looking into all the combinations. He wants to do a film with a star director after Pushpa : The Rule. This director must have a Pan-Indian reputation and film must also be a commercial genre.
Allu Arjun was just a regional hero once. He used to enjoy the popularity in Hindi through his dubbed films on YouTube. Films like Sarrainodu and DJ received millions of views. But he never concentrated on Hindi market. He continued only as a Telugu Hero. But with Pushpa becoming even a hit in Hindi made him think to concentrate seriously on this market. Prabhas who once was also a regional hero became an overnight sensation with Bahubali. Allu Arjun too wants to repeat the same magic.
Allu Arjun is currently doing the sequel of Pushpa and he is upcoming film is not yet finalized. He recently even met Sanjay Leela Bhansali at his office. It is also rumored that he might do a film with Rajamouli. But he is taking more care about his next project.
RRR – The biggest multi starrer of Tollywood is about to hit the screens. So the fans of NTR and Ram charan are gearing up for celebrations. For a big star’s movie release we see a lot of banners, cutouts, garlands, posters at theatres. What if the movie has two stars, the theatres will be filled completely with them. For a multi starrer the fans of two heroes will compete each other in showing their love towards their hero. The same thing is happening with RRR.
NTR fans started their celebrations few days back and the airplane banner by US NTR fans have gone viral. Now it is Ramcharan fans’ turn and they come up with very good idea of displaying the video of Ram Charan at Times Square, New York. The video featuring only Ram Charan’s episodes from RRR and they mentioned Jai Charan. Even NTR airplane banner has Jai NTR on it. So Ram Charan fans tried to give a strong counter to NTR fans with massive celebrations at USA.
The competition is good as far as it is healthy. In the olden days for multistarrer movies, there are lot of incidents of damaging property and fighting each other. But now we are seeing healthy competition which is good for the industry. Let’s enjoy the euphoria of RRR.
Powerstar fans are waiting for Harish Shankar and Pawan Kalyan combo for a long time. When they came together with Gabbar Singh, it became a sensation. After that biggest hit another movie in their combo is inevitable. But that didn’t happen for ten years. Now the combo is back after a decade and fans want their Gabbar Singh back. Mythri movie makers bankrolled the project titled Bhavadeeyudu Baghat Singh by bring back the combo.
Latest news is that the lead actress for the film is locked and a Bollywood ace actor has roped into the project. Pooja Hegde in her prime time now is reportedly signed the project. The actress worked under Harish Shankar before for two films, DJ and Gaddalakonda Ganesh. Director trying to get her again for the third time.
Bollywood actor Pankaj Tripathi known for his roles in Mirzapur and Gangs of Wasseypur is said to be signed the film. But there is another news floating around that Pankaj Tripathi has denied the news. Though the official confirmation is yet to come, Harish Shankar confirmed this in twitter with his replies for related tweets.
“The Kashmir Files” a Bollywood film written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Zee studios released on 11th March 2022. The film is making some noise from the date it was released. Everyone across the country is talking about the film. With excellent word of mouth, the film reached every corner. Extra screens and theatres have been added and are running successfully. Some state governments announced it to be tax-free. Assam government announced half day leave for its employees to watch the movie.
The Kashmir Files is having a sensational run at Box office. The film is heading towards some unbelievable numbers. The film’s OTT rights are bagged by ZEE5. At the time of the deal, the film has to release on OTT after 4 Weeks from the day of theatrical release. Now with the response across the country, the team approached ZEE5 and requested to postpone the OTT release for another 4 Weeks. The film will stream in the 1st week of May. So go and enjoy the intense drama in nearby theatres.
The announcement of Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja starring in Mega Star Chiranjeevi-Bobby movie has got everyone on their feet. Revi Teja and Chiranjeevi will be seen on screen together after a long time and this combination has given a major boost to both mega-fans as well as Ravi Teja fans.
Ravi Teja will reportedly have a 40-minute role in the film. It is not sure what character he will be playing in the film. But sources tell us that he will play the role of Chiranjeevi’s brother. Ravi Teja had earlier played Chiru’s brother in the 2000 film Annayya.
Meanwhile, Nivetha Pethuraj has been signed up as the lead opposite the Mass Maharaja. This will be the first time the duo will be sharing screen space. Ravi Teja currently has a bunch of projects in hand apart from the Chiranjeevi-Bobby movie. After the debacle of Khiladi, he has shifted his complete focus to Ramarao On Duty where he will be seen as a Deputy Collector.
Along with this, he will be seen in Dhamaka, Tiger Nageswara Rao, and Ravanasura. Coming to the Chiranjeevi-Bobby movie, the combination of Mass Maharaja and Mega Star is truly going to be a mass feast and will be filled with commercial elements.
Powerstar Pawan Kalyan and his love for remake movies is well known. 12 out of 25 movies are remakes and that tells how powerstar rely on remakes. Other than 25 films, the two films Shankar dada M.B.B.S and Shankar dada zindabad in which he appeared as cameo are also remakes.
He started his career with Akkada ammai ikkada abbai. It is a remake of Hindi hit Qayamat se qayamat tak. From then he is been doing remakes frequently and delivered hits. Even the Industry hit Kushi which brought him a lot of fans is also a remake of Tamil Kushi.
So if you observe the career graph of Pawan kalyan, it is evident that remakes play a very important role. The last two outings of powerstar are remakes as well. Now there are chances for him to get a hattrick release of remakes.
Pawan Kalyan’s Vakeel Saab and Bheemla Nayak are remakes of Pink and Ayyapanum Koshiyum. His next movie is supposed to be Hara Hara veera mallu. But the shoot is getting delayed Continuously.
Meanwhile Pawan Kalyan has signed another remake film Vinodhaya sitham. Tamil actor and director Samuthirakani is the director. The shoot of this film is going to start from April and And expected to end in 2 Months. There are high chances that this film is the next theatrical release from Pawan Kalyan and if it happens Pawan Kalyan will be 1st hero to release hattrick remake films.
The last time Pawan Kalyan scored a hit with an original film is Attarintiki Daaredi that released in 2013. Though many of his films are remakes, Pawan Kalyan always had his trademark mannerisms and acting style. His styling and screen presence attracted the younger section of audience. But now, many of his fans are not happy with him for doing remakes. They don’t like their hero to play a safe game by doing films which are already hits. So let’s see if it reaches powerstar and he comes with more originals than remakes.
