Dr. Srihari and Raja’s new film has been launched yesterday at at Annapoorna Studios, Hyderabad. The director of the movie is Mallikarjun and the movie is coming under Nandi Arts banner. Mallikarjun has done the movie Abhimanyu earlier.

Other insights -
Music is by Mani Sharma.
Producer is Siva Kumar.
Stunts are by Ram Lakshman.
Story is by Bobby.

There was a huge crowd, mostly known to be fans of SriHari and they filled up the studio. Dr. Srihari told the media that Nuvvosthanante Nenoddantana, Mahanandi and Dhee were received extraordinarily by the public. They all were under his name. he said “I believe, the film is going to become a big hit on the lines of my previous films. Hero Raja is a talented artiste and I hope he will do the fine job. The movie is about the importance of education in villages”.
Mallikarjun said it was his privilege to direct a big star like Srihari.

Nagendra Babu loses weight for Posani Krishnamurali’s film

Nagendra Babu has lost good chunk of weight and is now slim. It is heard that he lost weight for Posani Krishnamurali’s film Aapada Mokkulavadu in which he is playing lead role. As per the sources, there is another film in planning with Nagendra Babu in the lead in which he will play a super cop. Sources maintained that Kondaveeti Simham is the title in consideration for the film.

The audio of the telugu movie Aggi which is the telugu version of the hindi movie Aag, was released yesterday at Taj Krishna in Hyderabad. It is directed by Ram Gopal Verma.Ram presented the first number to Amitabh Bachchan, who plays the notorious Gabbar Singh in this RGV version.

Others who were present at the ceremony were Nisha Kothari, Prashanth Raj, Sushant Singh, Jagapathi Babu, Ravi Teja, Jayasudha, JD Chakravarthy, Raghu, Money Tree (event organizers).

Audio release of Vijaya Dasami

The audio of Vijaya Dasami, a movie by Kalyan ram was released yesterday by Dr. D. Ramanaidu. And the movie is expected to be released in the 1st week of september i.e. nearly 6th of september.

The event included people like B. Gopal(director of the film), Saritha Srinivas(a fan, who bought a casette for Rs. 27000), hero Vishnu, Perarasu (producer of Tamil original Sivakasi), music director Srikanth Deva, Jayasudha, Saikumar, Ramaprabha, SunkuRamesh, Manyam Ramesh, cinematographer Ramprasad and E. Ranga Rao (producer of Vijaya Dasami).

Whats the Movie about?

Shivaji (Shankar prefers the spelling as Sivaji), the film, opens with thousands of crowds waiting outside a court hall. A man named Sivaji is brought to the court by CBI and Police officers. Fearing the public outrage, the police officers mask his face. Sivaji is sent to jail. In the prison, co-prisoner asks Sivaji what offence he did – murder, rape, filming pornography or running chit fund company and bankrupting it? Sivaji turns and shows his face – that is Rajnikant – and says “I tried making our country better.”

After the titles roll, it is shown that Sivaji (Rajnikant), a software analyst, returns to India from USA and wants to setup Sivaji Foundation with Rs 200 Crores. He also falls in love with traditional Telugu girl (Shriya) and wants to marry her. On the other hand, he meets another businessman Adiseshu (Suman) and seeks help from him in setting up colleges that provides free education and general hospitals. Fearing that Sivaji’s charity plan might hamper his business interests, Suman uses all the power to stop Sivaji’s plans. He conspires against him and makes him pauper. Out of jail, Sivaji hatches a plan to unearth all the black money of Suman and also from other business men and do it for good cause. The rest of the film is how Sivaji takes revenge on Adiseshu.

Rajnikant’s Shivaji is released on Friday. Then what’s his next film. The answer came with Shivaji’s film. His next film is Sultan. Along with Shivaji, Sultan’s first look and trailer was released.

But in Sultan, Rajni’s animated character plays the hero role instead of Rajnikant. It is being produced by Rajni’s daughter Soundarya Rajniakant. Adlabs presents it and slated for 2008 release.

For the first time, a Tamil film is releasing in Telugu and Tamil in Hyderabad with just one day gap. Shivaji is the first film to be screened in its two versions at Prasads Multiplex.

Its Telugu version will release on Friday, June 15th while the Tamil version hits on Saturday (June 16th).

Recently many Tamil and Malayalam films are being screened for Tamilians and Malayalis settled or working in Hyderabad. But this is the first time that a Tamil film directly releasing.

Premiere show on 14th night. Here will be a premiere show on 14th night for a selected film personalities. Hitech 70 mm is the theatre to host premiere show.

Congress MP from Guntur to enter Film Industry

Rayapati Sambashiva Rao, Congress MP from Guntur and his friend Shivaramakrishna who is into real estate business are entering into film production. They have already got the dates of NTR and Mahesh Babu. Shivaramakrishna is planning to make his first film with Mahesh Babu. Sekhar Kammula might direct this.

Along with Mirchi (to be directed by Hemamber and produced by Durga Arts), this Rayapati’s film will go to the sets simultaneously delete.

Supergood Movies’s Poti shelved!

Supergood Movies is prestigious production company in South India. It has produced many hits. Till now, none of their films have been shelved. But for the first time, a Supergood film was forced to shelve. Supergood’s head honcho R B Chowdhary’s son Jeeva’s maiden straight Telugu film has been scrapped mid-way.

The film titled Poti was launched recently and it has finished first schedule. The film’s new director’s work is said to be below the mark that made Chowdhary to stop the film completely, sources told.
It stars Kajal as the heroine.

In this announcement press meet, Raja Sekhar said, “Today is 99th day of my hit flick Evadaithe Nakenti. I am announcing ‘Satyameva Jayathe’ project details today. This story deals about a group of officers. It is about how a sincere police officer faces the problems. I am involving myself in the script of this film. This film is not a remake of Khakhi. Swamy and Mohan who worked for Evadaithe Nakenti will pen dialogues for this film. Jeevitha will direct this film. I wanted to produce the film. But I don’t want to burden director Jeevitha with production headache. Producer Basheed gave me advance 5 years back. Satyameva Jayathe will be in the genre of Ankusam. We are going to release this film for Sankranthi 2008.”

Director Jeevitha said, “This is a high budget film. This film should be produced without any compromises. I was little afraid while doing my debut film Seshu. But Rajasekhar encouraged me. This time I am going to direct this film with full confidence. It is a multistarrer film with 4 heroes. One character will have negative shades and other three characters have positive shades. There will be three heroines. Regular shooting of this film starts in 2nd week of July.”

Producer Basheed said, “I always wanted to produce a film with Rajasekhar. Jeevitha has been working on this script for the past one year. It is an impressive subject. And I will not compromise on production values.”

The production is going to be on a very good and fast pace, and the shooting is going on in a few good places of Hyderabad. Mickey J Mayar is going to be the Music Director and about 18 days of work schedule is to be done yet. And the movie is expected to be released by the end of June.

The song “Chaltha Chaltha” was released by D.Ramanaidu and KS Ramarao. Prabhas and Rajeev Kanakala released the 2nd. song. The 3rd. song was released by NTR and SS Rajamouli. Korameenu (sung by actor Sunil) is released by Vijaya Bhaskar and B.Gopal for Karnataka region.

Nee Kosam song is released by Srinu Vaitla and Chalasani Ramesh for Tamilnadu area. Guchi Guchi song is released by Kodali Nani and Cheri for overseas region.

Munna

Dhil Raju is extremely satisfied and happy as the songs are on the top of the lists and he hopes the songs to be blockbustrs after the release of the film. Viswa wrote lyrics of 2 songs in the film. Director is prety much confident about the film and hopes a lot from this film.

Jagapati Babu after a couple of hits like Samanyudu and Pellaina Kothalo, has been selected by Director Dasarth to act with herione Bhumika Chawla for his next film. The name and thers are not decided yet. But these both characters are going to act opposite for the first time in tollywood. The director has a few great hits such as Santosham and is expecting a lot from this one.

Amma Rajasekhar to direct Nitin

Amma Rajasekhar (choreographer turned director) is very soon going to make his entry of 3rd. film working with actor Nitin. Earlier he directed Ranam with Gopichand and Mr. Khatarnak with Raviteja. The producer of the film is C.Kalyan.