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Proud moment for Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodkar

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Proud moment for Mahesh Babu and Namrata Shirodkar

Superstar Mahesh Babu has achieved a number of records and accolades in his illustrious career making his fans proud time and again. Mahesh’s father Superstar Krishna has time and again spoken on how proud he is of Mahesh’s achievements.

Now it looks like it’s the time for Mahesh’s son Gautham to shine and make his father proud. Both Mahesh and Namrata Shirodkar are private people and keep their kids away from the media eyes. This time though, they have made an exception.

Namrata on social media posted that Gautham’s achievement in competitive swimming. He is now amongst the top 8 competitive swimmers in ‘Telangana State Swimming’ for his age group.

“Swimming professionally since 2018, Gautam has comfortably achieved his position amongst the top 8 competitive swimmers In Telangana State Swimming for his age group. He has adapted to the sport organically, thoroughly enjoying the hardwork, channeling the mentioned technique into speed and precision. He performs all the four – Butterfly Backstroke, Breaststroke & Freestyle with ease and grace. His favorite being endurance freestyle where he swam a continuous 5kms within 3hours,” posted the proud mother along with a video of Gautham swimming.

Samantha ready to join pan India film

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Samantha ready to join pan India film

Samantha is on cloud nine right now. The actress received great accolades for her performance as Raji in the web series Family Man 2. It is being reported that after the success of the web series, she has also been approached by Netflix.

Samantha, who was last seen on the big screen in the 2020 release Jaanu will play the titular role in the upcoming Gunasekhar film Shaakuntalam. The movie was launched amidst great fanfare earlier this year and major portions were also filmed. However, with Gunasekhar testing Covid positive and corona second wave canceled the shoot entirely.

Now we hear that the shooting will start soon and Samantha will be joining the regular shoot of the film from the end of July. Shaakuntalam will also feature Dev Mohan, Aditi Balan, and Mohan Babu in key roles. The movie will be bankrolled by Dil Raju and it will be a pan-India film

Business revision for Tollywood biggies

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Business revision for Tollywood biggies

The pandemic for sure has dampened the plans for a lot of Tollywood biggies in more ways than one. It has disrupted the shooting schedules of some and has delayed releases of some. Adding to that, the recent government order by the Andhra Pradesh government has also put producers and distributors in two minds.

After the 1st wave of Covid, producers had closed massive deals on their movies thinking things will get better now. The box-office success of many movies that released after first wave gave further boost to their belief.

But now the second wave has dampened a lot of these deals. It can be said that the covid second wave hit the industry much harder. Now the situation is entirely different in Tollywood. The lack of clarity over ticket prices in Andhra Pradesh is giving sleepless nights to producers and distributors.

Buzz is that the deals of a number of Tollywood biggies like Acharya and Radhe Shyam might be revised considering the present situations.

Allu Arjun trying to make it a pan India film

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Allu Arjun trying to make it a pan India film

Icon Star Allu Arjun is riding on a career-high. After the humungous success of his last year’s Ala Vaikunthapurramlo, he will be next seen in Sukumar’s Pushpa. Pushpa has generated massive positive buzz right from the day it was announced. Pushpa’s teaser which was released on Allu Arjun’s birthday was well received and took the expectations to another level.

Pushpa will be Allu Arjun’s first pan-India film and will release in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi simultaneously world over. The Icon Star wants to maintain the same momentum and wants to continue with big projects.

This is the reason he is pushing his next film Icon also to be a pan India film. He has made his intentions clear to director Venu Sriram and the film’s producers. The actor has suggested that Icon also be a multi-lingual release and must be made on a grand scale.

Icon will release after Pushpa Part One. The ‘Ala Vaikunthapurramlo’ actor wants the makers to cash in on the first part’s buzz so that the Pushpa second part gets even bigger and grander canvas.

Nithiin makes another surprise signing

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Nithiin makes another surprise signing

Nithiin is on a signing spree. The actor already had two releases this year in form of Check and Rangde. While both the films failed at the box office, he immediately made an announcement of his next film Maestro, a remake of Hindi superhit Andhadhun. Apart from this, he has also signed a film with Vakkantham Vamsi and also has a Powerpeta scheduled for a release later this year.

Amidst these series of films, reports are coming out that he has signed another film. Popular editor SR Sekhar will direct this film. Sekhar had earlier worked as an editor on Nithiin’s Lie and also worked on movies like Business Man and Temper.

Reportedly, Nithiin was impressed with Sekhar’s narration and immediately okayed the film. The film will go on floors once the actor wraps up Vakkantham Vamsi’s project. With so many projects lined up, this year for sure is going to be the busiest of Nithiin’s career.

AP CM puts film industry in deep trouble

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AP CM puts film industry in deep trouble

Looks like the troubles for the Telugu film industry are not going to end soon. With theatres opening and film shootings resuming, it was expected that life will finally get to normal. However, the producers and exhibitors might continue to face issues even with normalcy restored.

Reportedly, AP CM Jaganmohan Reddy has asked his aides to not approach him on the issue of ticket rate slabs that he had earlier imposed.

It all started when a new GO was issued on 8th April, that directed theatres across AP regarding the prices of the tickets. As per the directives, theatres situated in Municipal Corporation, Municipality, Nagar Panchayat, and Gram Panchayat each have been given a slab for ticket prices as per the theatre class. This created a lot of trouble for the movies.

The Chief Minister is quite firm on this move and reportedly not willing to go back on the price rates. This decision has put the producers and exhibitors in a spot of bother as they will be already operating at 50% occupancy leading to low returns.

Love Story producer about the movie release

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Love Story producer about the movie release

Sekhar Kammula’s Love Story is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. The romantic drama starring Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi was set to release in April but got postponed due to the Covid second wave.

Now with theatres opening, there are chances of a new release date being announced soon. However, the producers have clarified that the movie will be only releasing under completely normals situations.

According to Sunil Narang, the film’s producer ” The film won’t be releasing anytime soon even if theatres were to be permitted to operate at 50% capacity from July 1.”

“It’s not viable to screen if theaters reopen with only 3 shows per day. So, we will think about releasing only after the night curfew is lifted. I think things will return to normalcy only after July second week,” he added.

The movie has generated great buzz with Pavan Ch’s compositions turning out to be chartbusters. This will be the second movie in Sai Pallavi and Sekhar Kammula’s combo after 2017 superhit ‘Fidaa’.

Tamannah to host a cookery show?

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Tamannah to host a cookery show?

Tamannah has been focussing majorly on OTT platforms and small screen of late. Post her OTT debut with web series 11th Hour, she was seen in another web series November Story. Both these web series failed to impress the audience. However, critics applauded Tamannah’s performance.

Now it is being reported that the actress will be soon seen on small screen with a cookery show which will be on the lines of Masterchef. Kannada star Kiccha Sudeep will be hosting the Kannada version of the reality show.

The show will be made in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada with film stars from the respective languages hosting it. It was earlier rumoured that Venkatesh would be hosting the Telugu versions.

Tamannah has a bunch of releases lined up and will be next seen in films like Seetimarr, F3, Maestro and Gurthunda Seetakalam.

Rajinikanth travels to the USA with special permissions

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Rajinikanth travels to the USA with special permissions

Superstar Rajinikanth has sought special permission from the government to allow him to travel to USA for a medical checkup. He was scheduled to be in the USA for medical attention. However, with the pandemic causing travel restrictions all over, he had to push his plan.

Rajinikanth will now be traveling in a special chartered flight that can carry 14 people. He will be accompanied by some of his family members. Rajini’s son-in-law Dhanush is already in the USA shooting for his upcoming Hollywood debut.

Rajinikanth was recently in Hyderabad shooting for his upcoming film Annaatthe. The action drama directed by Siruthai Siva also stars Nayanthara, Meena, and Keerthy Suresh in key roles. 

It was during this film that Rajinikanth had to be hospitalized earlier due to blood pressure fluctuations. The movie shoot was stalled for a while as 4 members of the crew had tested Covid positive. Annaatthe’s 60% of shoot has been completed and will release towards the year-end. Recently Jagapathy Babu joined the shoot and few crucial sequences were shot on him.

Telangana theatres to open very soon

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Telangana theatres to open very soon

The global pandemic has caused a massive dent in the plans of filmmakers. The film industry has been one of the worst affected ones due to the present situations. Just when we thought Tollywood was getting back onto its feet, the second wave stuck leading to closures of the AP and Telangana theatres once again. The industry is now planning to get back on its feet with shootings resuming soon.

As per the latest reports, Telangana theatres are all set to reopen soon. According to sources, exhibitors have decided to reopen theaters with 50% occupancy from 1st July. Andhra Pradesh has already reopened certain theatres with Vizag’s Jagadamba theatre being the first to open doors.

Theatres will take all safety precautions and will follow necessary social distancing protocols on opening.

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