Telugu Tejam: A Tribute to Legend NTR

NTR fans celebrate Rakhee

The film Rakhee with Young Tiger NT Ramarao in the lead is getting tremendous publicity. The audio of the film was released in a different way recently. Directed by Krishna Vamsi, with NTR, Ileana and Charmme in the lead, the film has sister sentiment in its story.

After the release of the audio, the publicity of the film has taken a novel stride. The fans of NTR are celebrating functions across the State and they are utilising the girls schools and women's colleges for the purpose of publicity.

Distribution of Rakhees and receiving Rakhees from girls formed part of the publicity. Moreover, there was good coverage of such functions in the television media on such functions.

The girls are also praising NTR for doing a film with sister sentiment, which is very rare in films. The fans are sending a message across the State that each brother should be like a Rakhee.

The film, which had high expectations, is all set for release on December 22. One had to wait and watch how far the film would reach these expectations.

Audio’s fight to finish

Sainikudu and Khatarnak results are already out. The only big films left are Rakhi, Annavaram, Yogi etc. the audios are already out and the only audio left is Desamuduru.

This might come out on December 24th. Chakri has scored music for the film. Once it’s out we can have a fair idea as to whose film is placed where atleast in the music field. Since Maharadhi’s audio was out long time back the competition is between Ananvaram and Rakhi. The music in both the film is good but we will know the result only after the film releases in a couple of days.

Teja’s hopes on Laxmi Kalyanam

Teja changed tracks after Chitram, Nuvvu Nenu and Jayam. His experiments failed and now after a longtime one says he is coming up with Laxmi Kalyanam with Kalyanram which is on the lines of Jayam.

The film is based on a village backdrop with a surrounding wedding mood. He has introduced Kajal and hopes his discovery will herald a new beginning for him.

Six heroines in NTR film

Student No 1 and Simhadri were the films that Rajamouli directed for NTR. Now after along time the duo will be working in Yamadonga.

It’s a socio fantasy film and Mohan Babu is playing the role of Yama in the movie. While that is a bonus another interesting news is that there are six heroines in the film. While there are three main heroines another three young ladies will be roped in for Rambha Urvasi and Menaka’s roles. Rajamouli is on a success streak.

Okka Magadu - One and Only Shooting started yesterday

Okka Magadu regular shooting was started yesterday in Padmalya Studios, Hyderabad on 18th December. A song is being Picturised between Balakrishna and Anushka and another song will be picturised in the December and the talky portion of the movie will begin from January 2007.

Manisarma is composing the scores. On 28th April Movie will be released. Simran, Anuska, Nisha Kothari are the heroines of this Crazy Movie.

EVV to tickle you again

After Kitakitalu, EVV Satyanarayana is coming again with yet another comedy film with his son Allari Naresh as the hero. The film Atthili Satti LKG will commence shooting from the new year day onwards. Atthili Satti is a character taken from Vikramarkudu and EVV says the film is a wholesome entertainer. LKG is the tagline which means the degree of the character in the film

source : andhracafe.com

Sankranti – a time of testing for Tollywood

The Telugu film industry is sitting on a ticking time bomb - a slew of films slated for release this month and the first half of the next are worth a staggering Rs. 100 crores. Already in the dumps with several big films crashing at the box office suffering from creative bankruptcy, buyers are on the edge while the industry bigwigs keep their stables intact selling the films outright.

Beginning December 14, several films are set to hit the marquee till Sankranthi. Ravi Teja’s “Khatarnaak” has come up with a big disappointment.

NTR Junior's litmus test `Rakhi', Pawan Kalyan's elusive search for a hit in several years `Annavaram', Allu Arjun's `Desamudhuru' in the direction of Hong Kong films-inspired Puri Jagannadh, Prabhas' `Yogi' and last but not the least, Balakrishna's `Maharadhi', whose release has been curiously postponed a couple of times now.

The films were bought for staggering prices, all put together are about Rs. 90 crores to Rs. 100 crores. But, given the formula-driven and cliché-ridden productions, experts point out that half of the films might bomb miserably unless they have something substantial to offer to the discerning viewers. If huge investments are a minus propelled by astronomical prices of big stars and budgets, lack of substance is an albatross that has brought most of the Telugu films released this year, crashing down. Industry watchers say distributors took a beating with Chiranjeevi's `Stalin', Nagarjuna's `Boss' and Mahesh Babu's `Sainikudu', all of which failed to reach the expectations of viewers, despite good openings. On the contrary, it is the small budget films that are making waves bringing happiness to distributors and viewers. Sunil's `Andala Ramudu' is said to have collected four times the investment. Jagapathi Babu's `Samanyudu', which started on a low key, has picked up considerably given its good content, proving yet again that hype, hoopla and fancy stars can only kill a film.

Against this backdrop, a lot hinges on these yet-to-be-released films. Their success is crucial for the industry to make a turnaround after one of its most disastrous years and more importantly for filmmakers to win back the buyers' confidence.

source: filimchamber.com

Crazy Combination back for an Hat trick

After two successive hits of Student no.1 and Simhadhri, the crazy combination Jr.Ntr and S.S.Rajamouli was back with Yamadonga.

Pooja for this crazy movie Yamadonga was held today ( i.e 14 th December) in the office of S.S.Rajamouli, Even Ntr can't attend this pooja, Regular shooting of this movie will start from 27th december.

Mamata mohandas was announced as a heroine for this movie, and another heroine have to be selected.

Mohanbabu is acting as a Yamudu and Brahmanandam is acting as a Chitragupthudu and Naresh is acting as Naaradhudu and M.M.Keeravani is composing the music for this film.

Victory Venkatesh turns 47 today

HE is the one of the four top hero's of the telugu film industry, and one of the versatile hero who attracted family audience and one and only hero who had high success rate,and turned his surname as Victory , He is none other than our Venkatesh - Victory "V"enkatesh,He celebrates 47th birthday. So small story on him.

Venkatesh was born in Karamchedu on 13th December 1960. He made debut as hero with a runaway hit called Kaliyuga Pandavulu on 14th August 1986.

Venkatesh balanced his career by choosing class, mass and family films in right proportions. He experimented and won the laurels most of the times. Five Nandi awards as best actor for Kaliyuga Pandavulu, Swarnakamalam, Dharmachakram, Ganesh and Kalisundam Raa would stand as testimony to it. Chanti film turned out to be milestone in the career of Venkatesh. His Kalisundam Raa created records at box office. Venkatesh's Raja is a fine example of massive success a class film, film achieve with right hero in it.


Venkatesh has a fine spiritual orientation. He is a great devotee of Ramana Maharshi. He visits spiritual abodes whenever he find sometime. With the help of spirituality he could balance his personal life and professional life.

Mahesh's Athidhi

After Sainikudu the Mahesh Babu's next film title is Athidi, Surendra Reddy the director of Ashok and Athanokkadey will direct this movie. The movie will begin from 20th January in New Delhi.Krishna enterprises of Ramesh Bahu is producing the film.

The film is titled as Athidhi- a three letter title . Mahesh babu's earlier all three letter films Okkadu, Athadu, Pokiri have done good business at box office.

Surendra Reddy directed two movies earlier ( Ashok and Athanokkadey ), Athanokkadey was Big hit but Ashok was an average flick, let's hope 3rd "A"thidi will be Big Hit for Surendra Reddy.

Okka Magadu's next Project Panduranga Mahatyam

Panduranga Mahatyam the classic of telugu film which was acted and produced by Natasarvaboma Sr.NTR in the year 1957, after long period the film is going to be remake in the combination of K.Raghavendra rao and Balakrishna, the movie was finalised and the script work was going on at present and the shooting may start in the summer of 2007 after the completion of Okka Magadu.

Highlight of this movie is K.Raghavendra rao and Balakrishna are teaming after 15years.

Aishwarya Rai Exposed Her 'Back' Asset

Aishwarya Rai is known for her conservativeness and recently rocked with skimpiest dresses in the film 'Dhoom2'.

But going further beyond, she exposed her back drenched in water for the English film 'Last Legion'. Here is the capture from the trailer of the film that was recently released.

Sources say that the film 'Last Legion' showcases a few nude scenes of Aishwarya Rai as well. We can also guess that Aish would escape from her fans saying that those nude scenes are made out of dupe (best way found by our heroines these days).

To sum up, the most popular Indian beauty has gone Hollywood with hot appeal.

Lastlegion Trailer

Lakshmi Kalyanam on Jan25th

Lakshmi Kalyanam the Kalyanram and kajal starer and directed by teja and produced by Mahendra and movie has completed the shooting and at present dubbing work was going on, in January 1st week they are planning to release the audio Music of this film was composed by R.P.Patnaik, and they are planning to release the movie on 25th January.

Stay tuned for the latest updates.........

Maharadhi Release on January11th

Maharadhi the balakrishnas latest Movie which was directed by P.Vasu
( chandhramukhi ) fame was Planning to realease on january 11th, the heroines of this movie is Meera Jasmine,Sneha,Navneet kaur, The songs of this film is already a big hit in the market.

Stay tuned for the latest updates........

5 Best directors of Tollywood

Direction is definitely a creative job and needs mutli-talent to drive the workforce. Director is like a captain to the ship as many quoted before. He/she is also like a family's head. If head of the family is exemplary, survival of the family becomes bed of roses. As you see, Tollywood adds a new director every other day to its kitty. Though the volume of additions is more, deterioration is also relatively high. 'Success' is the only term that decides the fate of director in the industry most of the times. But 'Quality' is another factor that keeps a few directors alive despite they deliver duds occasionally. Every successful director has his own merits and demerits. Here is an attempt to highlight the Top5 directors of Tollywood in the present era.

Sekhar Kammula:

A software engineer turned director, Sekhar had seen many obstacles while making his debut National award winning film "Dollar Dreams". His passion to movie making didn't pave him a grand entry into the industry. Sekhar, in no time, realized that movie making wasn't that easy despite having interest. He made his first film in a shoe string budget of 20 lacks that was his heard-earned money. He went through many hurdles before releasing it and only to his realization movie didn't fare well at the box-office as expected. Having a naval idea is different and molding it into a watch-able fete is totally another art of making cinema.

Both run in parallel, as a creative director one has to see it that they are blended well at one point of time. Otherwise, successful movie will never be shaped up. By learning lessons from his first failure, Sekhar didn't repeat the same mistake in his second directorial venture called "Anand", a low budget movie. `Anand' did its best to his career. Having megastar's film `SankarDada MBBS' in the opposition, `Anand' was released without expectations and
created history in running and winning awards. `Anand' proved the caliber and the metal of Sekhar as a director. It had brought the freshness into story telling and style of narration.

He had just delivered again with his latest flick `Godavari' what he had promised us. It was a feel good entertainer with loads of fun movements and beautiful characters traveling with you all the way. He is very clear in what he is doing. His intentions are very bold and clear that he is not after any commercial gimmicks. He, for sure, will go to places with his sensibility in narrating scripts and confidence in breaking the rules for good.

Strengths: Character buildup, touching screenplay, decent narration, clean entertainers

Weaknesses: Bit slow in narration


Chandrashekar Yeleti


Fondly called as Chandu is another director with lots of creativity. His first film 'Ayithe' proved that "Anni cienma lu okala vundav". The kidnap drama by a youth of 4 for the survival of fittest was executed with high standards by Chandu. Every young director wants to touch either a love story or a faction based voilent story, but chandu wanted to be odd man out. He seems to have no belief in package formulaes.

His second film was, 'Anukokunda oka roju', ,a crime thriller. It deals with how and why the younger generation trap themselves into serious problems and kill their own life. Chandu still needs to deliver a big commercial hit. But, he says no room for compramise. Though his first 2 movies weren't such a big hit, Chandu had become household in metropolitan areas for his creative work, novel thoughts and perfect execution. If he sticks to his style, sure he will deliver good quality movies in future too.

Strengths: Novel thoughts, tight screenplay, perfect execution

Weakness: Not so commercial, Yet to attract other than metropolitan audience


Trivikram


A writer tunred director who had weilded the megaphone for the first time with 'Nuvve.Nuvve' was not a big hit. But Trivikram was famous for his witty narration and one liners. He had given new pattern to the comedy genre movies. Trivikram characters do also speak philosophy and behave highly emotional at times. His style of picturizing scenes have a pleasant feel, mostly sharp, crispy and avoid any dull moments. His recent flick 'Athadu' with Mahesh Babu altogether presented a different person in Trivikram for his technical briliance in its making.

Inspite of whatever serious subject he deals with it, he makes you laugh in parallel is his biggest strength. His contribution towards success few of the industry biggest hits like Nuvve kaavali, Nuvvu Naaku Nachav, Manmadhudu, Chirunavvutho is noticeable. He seems to be focusing more in directing rather providing scripts to other directors. Hope he continues to provide the healthy entertainers for the newer generations.

Strengths: Hero characterization, Excellent comedy timing, making commericially viable themes, decent execution

Weakness: Giving abrupt endings, Delaying projects, Confusing/irritating audience with hero's mental attitude

S.S. Rajamouli


Struck the chords with 'Simhadri', that was a sensational hit in 2003. This protege of Raghavendrarao established as an hotshot director with the stupendous sucess of Student No1 and Simhadri, both had given lease of life to Jr.NTR.Rajmouli never tasted any failure among 5 films he completed yet. He is considered the most reliable director in Tollywood today.Rajmouli movies do not boast off good story and technical values except the powerful package.

He knows how to take it to the audienceirrespect of whatever story line it is, whatever backdrop it has. His target audience are definitely masses and youth who just care the emotional presentation and racy moments in the movie. All his movies have plenty of room for excessive voilence, which is something he needs to shed out a bit.

Strengths: Package presentation, elevating hero characterization to heights

Weakness: Portraying lot of voilence, repeating same revenge dramas


V V Vinayak


Another successful director who has the potential to deal with stars. Most of his movies had big stars in lead. He was well noticed with his first movie 'Aadi', a blockbuster. After watching his
directorial capabilities, Balakrishna offered him 'Chennakesava Reddy'. Though it wasn't run as expected, didn't do damage to Vinayak's career.

He had done youthful film called 'Dil' that established Raju a highly successful producer today in industry. It's a dream for any upcoming director to handle Megstar's movie. Vinayak is considered lucky to have directed 'Tagore' for chiranjeevi. This movie had set records and won hearts of millions. Though it was a remake of 'Ramana' a moderate offbeat film, Vinayak had given new look to the original by keeping Megastar's image in mind.

Then, he did Samba with NTR, Bunny with Allu arjun to taste the moderate success. His latest flick 'Lakshmi' with venkatesh brought back the glory lost by Venkatesh in masses. Initially started off as an average flick, went onto stand as a biggest grocer in Venky's career and 2006 films.

Strengths: Package presentation, elevating hero characterization to heights, Comfortable dealing with the image of stars

Weakness: Portraying lot of voilence, repeating same revenge dramas, bad selection of songs.