Sridevi truly Empress of Indian cinema: Boney Kapoor
by IANS
Chennai: Producer Boney Kapoor said on Saturday that his wife cum-actor Sridevi truly deserves to be honored with the title 'Empress of Indian cinema', adding nobody else in the industry deserves the award more than her. "I think she truly deserves the award. She is most definitely an empress of Indian cinema. I don't think nobody else deserves the award more than her. I'm extremely happy for her," said Boney Kapoor, speaking at the TSR-TV9 national film awards. Kapoor himself won the 'Star Producer of the Millennium' award.

"I'm extremely grateful for this award. It's definitely an honor to be bestowed upon with such an award and I'm extremely happy about it," said Sridevi.

Instituted by T Subbarami Reddy (TSR) in collaboration with TV9, the TSR TV9 national film awards were honoring artists from Telugu industry for the year 2011-12. Members from Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam industries along with Bollywood were also honored under special jury awards. All awardees were handpicked by a committee comprising of veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao, lyricist C Narayana Reddy, legendary producer D Rama Naidu, singer P Suseela, actor politician Jayasudha and Shobana Kamineni, director of Apollo Hospitals Group.

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10:20 PM, Apr 20, 2013

Grandfather's win motivates Rana Daggubati
by IANS
The veteran producer, D Ramanaidu was named for the award on the eve of 64th Republic Day. ...  
12:25 PM, Jan 26, 2013

'Digitisation ensures bumper openings for films'
by IANS
Chennai: Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan Tuesday lauded digitisation of films and said it has changed the scenario by helping reach out to a wider audience and generating bumper openings at the box-office. "Today, films across all languages are able to generate bumper openings because of digitisation compared to films that were released through film reels many years ago... That could only be released in select theatres at the time of the...  
12:35 PM, Oct 17, 2012

South cinema is worth Rs 21,190 crore: Kamal Haasan
by IANS
Chennai: Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan on October 16 said that the south Indian film industry is worth Rs 21,190 crore and accounts to 65-70 percent of total movies produced in the country. "I may sound like I'm bragging, but it's true. National cinema resides in the south because filmmakers there are not restricted to one language. They have taken the effort to go beyond the borders," said Kamal at the opening...  
02:13 PM, Oct 16, 2012