Gautham Menon Advice to his Fans

Noted director Gautham Menon is always known for making sharp comments on certain things. Whether it comes to bashing heroes and calling producers, he sometimes slipped into controversies. And this time, he has shocked everyone by asking them to not watch two of his films during this lockdown period where everyone is in self-isolation at their houses.

Taking to social media, actually, the Ye Maya Chesave filmmaker released a video advisory where he spoke about staying home and staying safe. In this video, the director stated that most of his films actually have heroes travelling to some other places and doing things, and watching them might trigger audiences with similar thoughts. “Especially don’t watch Ajith’s Enthavaadu gani and Naga Chaitanya’s Saahasam Swaasaga Saagipo as they involve heroes doing lots of travelling. They might make people break the lockdown and come outside” he says.

Well, most of Gautham Menon’s films have this touch of heroes going to different places. In Ye Maya Chesave, the hero goes from Hyderabad to Kerala, while Raghavan travels from India to the USA to catch criminals. His upcoming Dhruva Natachitram has a set of lead actors going all around the world for a mission. So we have to see how audiences take up his advice.

Corona positive cases in the country

The Corona positive cases in the country are on the rise over the last couple of days which is a cause of concern. In the last 24 hours, 1553 people have infected with Corona and 36 people have died.

The total Corona cases in India stand at 17,615 while the death count is 559. So far 2,854 people have recovered from the virus.

In Telangana, the cases count has crossed 800 mark and currently the figure stands at 858 while there are 650 odd active cases.

However in a good news, Manipur state has become the first state in India to become a Corona free place. Earlier two cases were reported in the state and they have recovered from the virus. Manipur CM officially declared the state as Corona free and thanked the police and health care department for their work.

Tamil Super Star Ajith Planning For A Bollywood Film

It is evident that Tamil Director Vishnuvardhan of ‘Panjaa’ fame is venturing into Bollywood with a film titles ‘Sher Shah’ a biopic based on Vikram Batra. The film stars Siddharth Malhotra in the lead role as Vikram and Karan Johar is producing the film under his Dharma Productions banner.

Now, the latest buzz in Kollywood is that Vishnuvardhan has approached his favourite actor Thala Ajith for a key role in the film. Vishnu has collaborated with Ajith for films ‘Billa’ and ‘Arrambham’

It is said that Ajith will be seen as the Army man and a mentor to Siddharth in the film. If the reports are true then Bollywood is going witness Ajith’s screen presence yet again after 2012 cameo in English Vinglish starring Sridevi Boney Kapoor.

Earlier Ajith Kumar has acted in the 2001 film Asoka alongside Shah Rukh Khan in the direction of ace Cinmatographer Santosh Sivan. Ajith is currently filming for his next film ‘Valimai’ under the direction of H Vinoth of ‘Khaki’ fame.

Jr NTR Upcoming film With Trivikram

Now as the lockdown isin its second phase, The prior plan may not work for either RRR makers or Trivikram’s Unit. Few Tollywood Sources reveal that the film NTR#30 is in jeopardy and may not go on floors this year. The reason is obviously the left over portions of ‘RRR’ and Rajamouli may take good time to can the said portions.

The postponement ws not well received by Guruji and thus he is in plans not to wait for Jr NTR and wants to make a small movie like ‘A AA’ and release it to save his good time!

The movie team has reportedly registered an interesting Title ‘Ayinanu Poyi Ravale Hasthinaku’ and is said to be a political entertainer. Sources even say that this film is loosely based on Chiranjeevi’s yester year hit ‘Manthrigari Viyyankudu’. NTR fans are already celebrating the news and eagerly waiting for the film.

Now the latest news making rounds in Tollywood is, Director Trivikram is considering Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt for an important role of a Politician. Guruji is busy writing good lines for this star. It is evident that Sanjay Dutt is playing the baddie in ‘KGF2’ which would make him popular yet again after the release and thus wants to cash in the new found craze for this Bollywood veteran.

Guruji has even plans of casting Jhanvi Kapoor and Pooja Hegde in this political pot boiler. It is evident that Trivikram has impressed all with ‘Aravinda Sametha’ without having his trade mark comic and punch dialogues! The Tollywood believed that Trivikram is pushing his boundaries and thus wants this film with Jr NTR as a Pan Indian film

Ram Charan Entry into Bollywood

Megapower Star Ram Charan made a solid entry into Bollywood with Zanjeer film. This film didn’t perform well, and it brought a bad name for all other actors involved in this.

After this failure, he stayed away from the Bollywood. Now, with the RRR film, he is again testing his luck at the B-Town. Naturally, Rajamouli’s film makes the actors famous across the country. With this, Ram Charan will surely get noticed and becomes famous again.

Now the talk is that Ram Charan doesn’t wants to sign the film hurriedly. He wants to see what kind of response he will get first with RRR by playing a waiting game.

On the other hand, NTR has already made plans for entering the Bollywood. Once he gets good offers, he will surely try his luck in Bollywood.

Vijay Sethupathi was expected to play the villain’s role in ‘Pushpa’

As we know Tamil star hero Vijay Sethupathi was expected to play the villain’s role in Sukumar and Allu Arjun’s upcoming film ‘Pushpa‘. Sethupathi’s name was attached to the film right from the beginning and everything was going great till the film was planned only in Telugu. The problems started to arise when this project became pan Indian.

As per sources, Vijay Sethupathi is willing to play a negative role in all the languages except in Tamil. As he is a star hero in Kollywood, he is reluctant to play the antagonist’s role and asked to makers to find another guy in replace him in Tamil.

A film made in five languages will become even more difficult if the makers have to shoot it with different actors. It takes a lot of time and money to do that. So, the makers are in search of a suitable actor that can fit the bill and is willing to play the role in all the languages as per sources. News is that they are looking for popular Hindi actors so that it would benefit its Bollywood prospects.

‘Pushpa’ is a film which runs on a backdrop of red sanders smuggling in Chittoor district. Allu Arjun will be seen as a lorry driver and Rashmika is the heroine in this flick.

Chiranjeevi’s Producer worrying About His Film

Megastar who is doing movies only for his home banner has agreed to partner with Producer Niranjan Reddy as per the prior commitment of the Director Koratala Siva.

Producer of the film is said to be worrying a lot these days and he is not sure if he could meet the release by this year end. He said the film has completed its 40% shoot and was stalled now due to the Corona lockdown.

The amateur Producer has started the project with utmost fan fare and his situation is said to be worse now. The interest on the money borrowed from financiers is mounting up and this situation of lockdown doesn’t seem to end. He can’t share his pressure with either Megastar or his son and just venting his grief with Director Koratala who is too worried man these days.

‘Aacharya’ stars Ram Charan in a pivotal role and Kajal Aggarwal is the leading lady. The movie was scheduled to hit the screens by August this year but due to Corona impact, the movie’s release date is further deferred and would come to the screens in the year end or next year.

COVID-19 positive cases in Andhra Pradesh

In what it could be shocker, 31 fresh COVID-19 positive were reported in Andhra Pradesh which takes the toll of the positive cases in the state to 603 creating many concerns and fear among the public.

Out of these 31 new COVID-19 cases, Krishna district reported 18 cases while Kurnool. Nellore, Prakasham and East Godavari districts reported 5,3, 2 and 2 cases respectively.

West Godavari district has reported one positive case of novel coronavirus, while Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts managed to still report zero COVID-19 cases till now.

As of today, 15 patients have succumbed to the dreaded COVID-19 in the state. Talking about the districts with the most positive cases Guntur, Kurnool, and Krishna District tops the list.

Corona Deaths In INDIA

There is a fluctuation of Corona positive cases in the country. One day the cases count is going above 1000 and another day, the count is coming down below 1000. In the last 24 hours, 991 new positive cases are confirmed and 43 people have died. The total deaths of the virus stand at 480.

Another shocking in the new cases is 20 Indian navy personnel have been tested positive of the virus and all of them are sent to Asvini hospital in Mumbai. Also the Indian Army has reported Corona cases. Eight people were tested positive and of the eight, two are doctors and one nursing assistant.

Meanwhile in Odisha, not even a single case has been reported in the last three days. So far 1991 people have recovered from Corona virus all over the country.

Is Ileana Doing the Film With Power Star?

Very recently Powerstar Pawan Kalyan‘s first combination with Trivikram Srinivas has completed 12 years of its release. Goa beauty Ileana had pair with Pawan in the movie and their pair looked fresh. Now we hear that Ileana is likely to get a role in Pawan’s comeback film ‘Vakeel Saab.’

As we know Pawan is playing the role of an advocate in the movie, a lady needs opposite to him. There were reports that Bollywood beauty Jacqueline Fernandez has been approached for the role but the producers of ‘Vakeel Saab’ did not confirm anything.

More over Jacqueline is quite expensive compared to Ileana while the Goa beauty is familiar to Telugu audience than ‘Bad Boy’ girl. So the makers are giving a second thought and are in talks with Ileana.

Post the lockdown, the shooting of ‘Vakeel Saab’ will resume and makers want to release the film as early as possible.Sriram Venu is directing the film which is a remake of Bollywood film ‘Pink.’

Bollywood senior Actor in Jr NTR and Trivikram Srinivas’ upcoming film

Rumours on film and cast often increase our expectations on the project. The latest rumour is that Bollywood versatile actor Sanjay Dutt has signed to play the antagonist or even a key role in Jr NTR and Trivikram Srinivas’ upcoming film rumored to be titled as Ayinanu Poyi Ravale Hastinaku.

This project was announced a couple of months back and surprisingly, nothing more than the project has been announced. There have been rumours on Rashmika Mandanna playing the leading lady. And now, the latest rumours about Sanjay Dutt being part of the film.

There have been some reports on social media that the actor has already signed the dotted line. But neither the actor, nor the makers, have made it official yet or have confirmed the news.

It would be nice if someone like Sanjay Dutt is part of a film because he would bring more weight to the script, and demand to the film. So let us wait and see what the actual truth is.

As of now, Tarak has RRR also in his kitty, and we are afraid that this multi-starrer project might get delayed further more due to lockdown. Also, we learnt that the Young Tiger and co-star Ram Charan are prepping up from homes itself to give their best to the film.

Naga Chaitanya is pinning good hopes on his next film “Love Story”

Hero Naga Chaitanya is pinning good hopes on his next film “Love Story” which is being carved by Sekhar Kammula. While the film missed out its release date due to the countrywide lockdown, Chay wants to ensure that he will have a great lineup of films later on.

But the unexpected twist came from director Parasuram who has started his next with Chay but dumped into the middle after he got a call from Mahesh Babu. And then, many wondered if Chay’s “Nageswara Rao” with Parasuram is permanently called off. Reports are now coming that they are not going to shelve this project as this happens to be an interesting love story.

Reportedly Chay and Parasruam will team up after the director wraps up Mahesh’s film, and Chay finishes a movie with Nandini Reddy. This will easily take 8 months of time, so later on, they will be regrouping to deliver Nageswara Rao to the audiences. Only after that compromise is made, actually producers of Nageswara Rao has opened doors for Parasuram to do his film with Mahesh, they say.

Remake Of Tollywood actress Samantha’s Movie

Whether Nandini Reddy condemns the rumour or not, there is a talk that heroine Samantha is going through a lot of scripts during this lockdown time at home. Recently it has come out that senior director Singeetam approached her for a biopic on Bangalore based activist Nagaratnamma on the silver screen.

Reports are coming out that another Kannada movie has impressed Samantha a lot and she’s currently watching the film. We hear that a noted Telugu producer took Kannada film “Dia” to her, which is available on Amazon Prime Video right now. This film is a love story of an introvert girl and how her life changed after falling in love with a guy. Though its pretty slow film, it keeps audiences engaged.

Already Samantha has dome films like U-Turn, Oh Baby and Jaanu in recent times, which are remakes only. Among them, only Oh Baby worked for her due to the comedy factor while the serious thriller and verbose love story failed to click, before ending up as disasters. So, is she game for another remake now?

Some say that she might not take up the movie as a heroine, but might produce it. Anyway, we have to see if the production house gives up clarity on this.

Pawan Kalyan jumps in as a lawyer to get the order in favour of the girl

Pawan Kalyan’s Vakeel Saab is actually targetting a May release, but going by the current situation that date is impossible to reach. Because of Covid-19 related lockdown, already shootings got halted and might resume only a couple of months later. If shootings resume, say in June, what’s the pending work related to Vakeel Saab, ala Pink remake?

According to sources, Vakeel Saab has almost 20 days work to wrap though it is all related to a single location only. They have to shoot the stunning court sequences where the four girls get questioned by the judiciary and how Pawan Kalyan jumps in as a lawyer to get the order in favour of the girl. This is the major portion of the film and they have to shoot it at a set erected in Annapurna Studios.

At the same time, as Pawan is going through the changed version of Pink (the Tamil version), he has to shoot some romantic sequences with a heroine (Shruti Haasan walked out of this) and a song should be finished at a house. So it might take almost 30 days to wrap these two pending things, such that Vakeel Saab will be ready.

Amitabh Bachchan has arranged food coupons to Telugu film workers

In this lockdown, the celebrities are actively motivating people to stick to their homes and be free from getting contained of Corona virus. A few days back India’s Superstar Amitabh Bachchan came up with a concept video involving all the star heroes of respective languages. With this video Big B stated that Indian film industry is one family.

Not just saying in words, Big B proved with this action too. Amitabh Bachchan has arranged 12,000 food coupons of Rs 1,500 each to the daily wage Telugu film workers which make the value worth Rs 1.80 crore. Revealing with this Megastar Chiranjeevi thanked Big B for his kind gesture and timely help. These coupons can be redeemed at Big Bazar stores.

“Amit ji @SrBachchan has arranged 12000 Corona Relief Coupons of Rs1500 each to be distributed to the Daily wage Film workers in Telugu States from the proceeds of #Family.A BIG THANK YOU to ‘BIG B’ for this wonderful initiative,” tweeted Chiru.

No words for Big B’s huge support in this crisis time. Take a bow!

Karnataka’s former CM Kumaraswamy Son Nikhil ‘s wedding

Son of Karnataka’s former CM Kumaraswamy and grandson of former Prime Minister Deve Gowda, Nikhil Kumaraswamy’s wedding took place in a grand way at Gowda’s farmhouse in Ramanagara about 28 km from Bengaluru city. Nikhil Gowda has tied the knot with Revathi, the grandniece of a former minister.

Although it’s a high-profile wedding ceremony between two politically significant families, HD Kumaraswamy claimed that there were no guests other than the family members and close relatives of the groom and bride. It was a traditional wedding ceremony following all Hindi rituals. Priests have performed the wedding ceremony and family members have blessed the newly married couple.

While the families of the couple claim that they have taken strict measures in the wake of Corona Virus pandemic and all the attendees were screened properly, social media and several media reports pointed that the social distance rule has been flouted. The pictures of wedding circulated online indicate that the social distance of 4 feet was not followed. And this has become hot discussion in political and media circles.

Initially, the families have decided to organize the grand wedding in Bengaluru itself. Despite the lockdown Kumaraswamy had refused to postpone the wedding. Since Bengaluru is in Red Zone and considered as Covid-19 hotspot, finally, the familieshave changed the venue to Ramanagara, the Assembly constituency of Kumaraswamy. In a video message to his followers and party leaders on Thursday, Kumaraswamy appealed them to stay away from wedding. He promised to organize a bigger event at a later date.

It can be noted that Nikhil Gowda had made his debut with Jaguar movie which had multi-lingual release including in Telugu, Hindi and Kannada. However, the film failed to deliver at the Box Office. He eventually turned into politician. Nikhil Gowda had unsuccessfully contested for Mandya Lok Sabha where his family has stronghold politically where he was lost to independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh.

Corona positive cases in INDIA

The Corona positive cases are not slowing down in the country. The other day, the new cases count went below 1000 after two consecutive days but again in the last 24 hours, 1007 new cases are confirmed and the total number of cases stands at 13,387 while the active cases are 11,201.

Also in the last 24 hours, 23 people have died while the death count is 437 and 1749 people have recovered from all over India.

Coming to the Telugu states, Telangana has reported 700 cases while Andhra Pradesh has confirmed 572 new cases. Since yesterday 38 cases are registered and in this Kurnool district has posted 13 cases, six in Nellore, five each in Anantapur and Chittoor, four each in Guntur and Krishna while Kadapa district has confirmed one case.

CM KCR wants to implement the lockdown more seriously

Though the Central Government has extended the lockdown to contain Corona, it has also decided to ease the restrictions a bit in areas that have no known Covid 19 positive cases. This is intended mainly to kickstart some economic activity in the country.

However, Telangana CM KCR seems to have different ideas about the new guidelines issued by the Centre. These guidelines are to come into force from April 20. According to highly placed sources, KCR has decided not to implement these guidelines and implement the lockdown more strictly. He is said to be of the opinion that if any laxity is given at this stage, it would be counter productive. So, he wants to implement the lockdown more seriously even in non-containment areas.

The State Government is also unhappy at the non-inclusion of Suryapet in the containment zone. Despite the fact that it has recorded 20 new Crona positive cases, it has not been included. Hence KCR wants to implement lockdown rules to the T. If sources are to be believed, KCR is likely to issue a key statement on Friday in this respect.

Chay Akkineni Upcoming Projects

Chay Akkineni is making some really crazy choices in his career for the last few years. He is now doing a film called Love Story in the direction of Shekhar Kammula.

The latest we hear from the film circles is that Chay will next work with Mohana Krishna Indraganti. They both were supposed to collaborate for a long time now but somehow things did not happen.

The talk is that noted producer, Sahu Garapati is producing this film. An official confirmation is yet to be made in this regard.

Kajal Aggarwal donation to Corona Crisis Charity

It is well-known that the entire Telugu film industry has come forward to help the film workers during this Corona lockdown times. Under the supervision of Megastar Chiranjeevi, the donations are being collected on the name of Corona Crisis Charity.

After many star heroes and techniques, the latest one to join the list is none other than star heroine Kajal Aggarwal. As per the reports, she donated Rs 2 lakhs to Corona Crisis Charity for the welfare of film workers.

We hope other star heroines also follow Kajal’s footsteps in the coming days and help for the cause.