Hyderabad: Tollywood actor Nikhil Siddharth is the latest to fall into the hands of Hyderabad's traffic cops who have taken the latest drive against drunken driving in all earnestness. The young actor of Happy Days fame was caught driving his Skoda Laura, his girl friend by his side, and reportedly high on spirits. Siddharth had recently returned from shooting for his forthcoming film from Pattaya, Thailand. On Friday night, after...
03:47:24 PM Nov 13, 2011
New Delhi: To keep tabs on the increasing number of dubbed films, which are giving stiff competition to Telugu films in the State, the Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce (APFCC) has decided to impose restrictions for 'saving' the Telugu film industry. The APFCC gave the nod to the proposals put forward by the Telugu Film Producers' Council at their meeting in the city on Monday. Members from the Producers'...
06:34:21 PM Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: Brave princes, coy maidens, cunning spirits and demons and demigods, inhabiting not just terra firma, but the heavens and the netherworld as well. Riding on seamless imagination and extraordinary visual effects, Tollywood's landscape is riddled with all this and more. And if you thought this was just a passing fancy, then think again. In the last couple of years, there have been a string of fantasy-based movies like...
06:37:06 PM Oct 31, 2011
Hyderabad: The AP branch of the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam has accused a Kannada film director of attempting to make a Telugu film Swami Sathyananda, allegedly defaming Swami Nithyananda. Madan Patel directed and produced Sathyananda, a film in Kannada, based on the life of Swami Nithyananda, which according to Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam, was derogatory. The director, along with the lead actor Ravi Chetan, were sued by Swami Nithyananda for a sum of Rs...
01:43:19 PM Oct 16, 2011
Cast: Nani, Hari Priya, Indu Madhavi, Rao Ramesh, Nagineedu, Srini Avasarala, M.S. Narayana, Vennela Kishore Director: Ashok G. 'Pilla Zamindar' starts off well with some breezy comedy sequences and takes off in the middle of the first half. The first half is a racy entertainer which is enjoyable but in the second half the film treads in a totally different path with a lot of forced sentimental sequences. Director Ashok...
06:47:22 PM Oct 15, 2011
Mumbai: He may one of the biggest stars in the South, with his 'Dookudu' reportedly getting the biggest opening in the US after the Aamir Khan starrer '3 Idiots', but Mahesh Babu has surprisingly not let the success get the better of him. "'Pokkiri' (remade with Salman Khan as 'Wanted') was released two years ago. It was a huge hit. Then I got stuck in that image and my movies...
05:44:42 PM Oct 12, 2011
Cast: Jr NTR, Tamannaah, Prakash Raj, Payal Ghosh, Thanikella Bharani Direction: Surender Reddy When a big star like Jr NTR, whose terrific screen presence is a major attraction for his fans, teams up with a stylish and successful director like Surendar Reddy, one expects a lot of fireworks. Alas, 'Oosaravelli' fails to live up to the expectations, and one can blame a weak script for this debacle. The story moves...
06:07:54 PM Oct 08, 2011
Hyderabad: A case against Tollywood actor Akkineni Nagarjuna has been booked on Saturday for allegedly abusing a woman freelancer. Inspector K Narasinga Rao said the freelancer of an English daily met Nagarjuna for an interview on his forthcoming film. He gave her an appointment on September 29. During the interview, he picked an argument with her alleging she had given false news about him in her earlier article. The complainant...
12:37:55 PM Oct 06, 2011
Hyderabad: Film: 'Madatha Kaja'; Cast: Allari Naresh, Sneha Ullal, Jayaprakash Reddy, Ali, Dharmavarapu Subramanya and Vennela Kishore; Director: Sitarama Raju; Producer: K.K. Radha Mohan; Music: Vasanth; Rating: ** Telugu film makers are weaving the same type of stories and remixing the content of films already released. They end up making silly movies, but yet complain that well made films do not run. 'Madatha Kaja' featuring Allari Naresh in the lead...
08:35:38 PM Oct 02, 2011
Hyderabad: Leading Telugu actor Nagarjuna was on Saturday booked on charges of abusing a woman scribe and for criminal intimidation, police said. The Jubilee Hills Police registered a case against Akkineni Nagarjuna, based on a complaint filed by Y Sunita Chowdhary, who alleged that the actor had used "filthy and vulgar" language against her and had even threatened to kill her when she met him during the film shooting of...
11:29:42 AM Oct 02, 2011
Hyderabad: Film: 'Dookudu'; Cast: Cast: Mahesh Babu, Samantha Prabhu, Parvathy Melton, Sonu Sood, Sonia, Brahmanandam, Vennela Kishore, M.S. Narayana, Kota Sreenivasa Rao, Dharmaavarapu Subramanyam, Shaaji Shinde and Nazar; Director: Sreenu Vaitlaa; Writer: Gop Mohan; Producer: G. Ramesh Babu; Camera: K.V. Guhan; Music: S.S. Thaman; Rating: *** 1/2 'Dookudu' was much awaited because of the two big names of the Telugu film industry associated with it - Mahesh Babu and director...
08:29:56 PM Sep 25, 2011
Even as directors and male leads are capitalising on experimenting with genres for a while now, the Telugu film industry is understood to be reviving the times gone by, an era that acquainted the audience with a series of period, socio-fantasy and spiritual scripts. The constellation of new releases queued up in the near future would only exemplify the swing in Tollywood. 'King' Nagarjuna is heading the race with four...
08:06:00 PM Sep 09, 2011
The release of King Nagarjuna's ongoing periodical film 'Rajanna' has been put off from September 30 to October 13. The makers decided to defer the release date since the flick is yet to finish its patch work and a song. This prestigious production of director Vijayendra Prasad has the veteran actor portray the role of freedom fighter Hanumanthu, father of writer Ashok Teja. Sneha is the lead lady. Nag himself...
07:22:54 PM Sep 09, 2011
Kajal Agarwal, who has acted in 'Naan Mahan Alla' and 'Maaveeran' and is currently filming for 'Maatran' opposite Suriya in K V Anand's direction, is fuming for the latest issue of a magazine has a topless picture of the actress! However, the svelte beauty claims that the image is a photoshopped one. "It is a distorted picture. Yes, I shot for the magazine, but not in this way. I used...
11:56:25 AM Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: A fan who committed suicide citing actor Chiranjeevi's indecision about entering politics, may have helped the "distraught" Telugu film star make up his mind, according to a leaked embassy cable made public by WikiLeaks. The March 5, 2008 cable that was published August 8, 2011 said Chiranjeevi was toying with the idea of floating his own political party at that time. "With an enormous and dedicated fan base...
05:46:01 PM Sep 06, 2011
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