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Sankranthi had been a competing arena for movies since decades in the Telugu film industry. Sankranthi being a very important festival in the southern parts of the country, movie makers are always keen to make cash out of the festive mood of the season. As usual, there were quite a few films that competed for their share in this Sankranthi. Interestingly, there was not even a single high-budget film released this Sankranthi and the competition was completely among the smaller movies. Among them, Arundathi was least expected to make it to the top but this is what happened.

After movies like Mental Krishna and Sashirakha Parniayam disappointing at the box office, Maska seemed to be the  winner this year but that weas only till Arundhathi arrived. Arundhati had been receiving extremely positive reviews and is also considered by some, as one of the best movies, Tollywood has ever made. This movie banked on the graphic effects and the quality of these graphic works equalled those seen in some of the top notch Hollywood flicks. Not just the graphics but the movie boasts of a taut plot with unexpected twists which keep the audience on his feet through out the movie.

Now, it is more than clear that this years blockbuster is Arundhati and is almost impossible for any other movie to surpass Arundhati. A word of caution! Do not go for the pirated prints, at least for this movie. The movie is to be seen for the graphics and sound effects and thus should be seen in a good theater.

Sumanth hails from one of the most successful families in the Tollywood. He is the grand son of veteran actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Unfortunately, he could not keep up to the reputation of his family as he could not deliver a single hit barring Satyam. He has been in the industry for almost a decade now and has nine movies to his credit, but not a single successful venture.

Sumanth decided to take a break before he comes out with his next movie. He seems to determined to make it big this time and has done some ground work before starting off with a new one. His next movie is named ‘Boni’ and the film is completed and due for release. For unknown reasons, the release of the movie is being delayed, though the production is complete.

This movie is being produced by famous music director, Ramana Gogula who started his own production house, ‘Green Mangoes’. Lets wish all thebest for Sumanth and Ramana.

Ram Charan Teja created wonders with his debut film Chirutha which was very successful at the box office. His second movie, yet to be named, had been attracting a lot of attention since then, and is expected to beat the first one. The movie is being directed SS Rajamouli and is based on the concept of re-incarnations.

However, the huge attention from the public has caused a few hitches in the production phase for this film. As the movie is being shot in Rajasthan, a few clips were released and put up in YouTube which shocked the entire film unit. These are not videos shot using some ‘cell camera’ but are actual footages shot by the crew. The film unit deliberately put this aside and did not make it a big issue.

Now, after the shoot was completed, during the editing phase, it was reported that a 500 foot long reel was missing when the entire reel was in transit. This again irked the film unit as it is evident in both the cases that someone within the crew is resorting to this. The lost reel can be reshot in two hours according to the director. However, this time the crew has decided to take a serious step and has registered a missing complaint with the police who are investigating into the incident.

Udaya Bhanu has been in the industry for quite some time (over a decade) and has been a very successful anchor. Though she had been in the limelight for quite some time she is still the same old vibrant Udaya Bhanu with loads of energy and it is a fact that the TRP ratings go high whenever Udaya Bhanu is seen on the screen.

Udaya Bhanu was different from her colleagues for the image she has acquired over the years. Though she had done some ‘girlish’ roles, she is more known for her ‘rough and tough’ image especially because of the programs like ‘Saahasam Cheyyara Dhimbaka’ which she hosted. But that is not all of Udaya Bhanu. She has got a hidden side of her character - a pretty emotional side.

Off late, Bhanu has been hosting a program called ‘Rela Rela’ which focusses on showcasing the rural and traditional culture of Andhra. In one of the episodes, there was a dance and song performance by few participants about the problems faced by the rural folklore and it was reported that Udaya Bhanu broke into tears on seeing this performance. “It was so heart touching that I could not control my emotions”, said Udaya Bhanu

The Government of Andhra Pradesh announced the winners of the prestigious Nandi Awards for 2007. These awards will be presented to the winners in the last of week of February, the venue and the exact date yet to be decided.

The winners are as follows:

Best movie: Mee Sreyobhilashi

Best Actor: Venkatesh (for AMAV)

Best Actress: Charmi (for Mantra)

Best Director: Krishna Vamsi (for Chandamama)

Best Guest Role: Jagapathi Babu

Best Character role: Aahuthi Prasad

Best Music Director: Mikki J. Mayor

Best Singer: Karthik (for Happydays)

Special Jury Award: Ram Charan Teja

Allu Ramalingaiah Award: Uttej

Venu Thottempudi who made his debut into Tollywood with the film ‘Swayamvaram’, had a few successes in the initial stages of his career but could not deliver any hits in the later stages. Off late, he never even had a decent entry at the box office and all his films turned out to be disasters. This tallest hero of Tollywood has now taken some time before venturing into another project to analyze what is going wrong with his films.

The ‘tall hero’ as now decided to team up with the ‘Real hero’ to taste the success. Wondering who this real hero is? It is none other than the Kannad Superstar Upendra who has a decent following in the Telugu film industry. Off late, Upendra also lost his charm and had many flops in the Kannad Industry. So these two guys who are facing a slump in their career decided to team up and work together and it is learnt from reliable sources that Upendra has come up with a novel story and is very confident that this movie would give a break to their career.

Do you remember the hot beauty Neha Sharma with sexy looks who made her debut into the Telugu Film industry with the movie ‘Chirutha’ in which she was paired opposite Charan Tej. Though the movie was a huge success, Neha was no where seen in the industry. It is not because she was not offered any movie, but because she was very picky about her projects. A few days back it was reported that she is being roped in for VV Vinayak’s next project and will be paired against Jr. NTR. However, this did not finalize and Vinayak chose a different girl.

Finally Neha has signed a film in which she will act opposite Varun Sandesh (HappyDays fame). Varun Sandesh is acting in a film being directed by Sandeep Gunnam which is a remake of a Tamil film called Polladhavan and which is being produced by Gemini Kiran. The search for the heroine of this movie ended at Neha Sharma it has been officially announced that Neha Sharma has signed this movie.

The first big release in 2009 ‘Koncham Ishtamga Koncham Kashtamga’ film unit has released the audio of this film yesterday on a grand scale. The movie is slated to be released on the 14th of January for Sankranthi. Unexpectedly, the film unit has decided to launch the audio on a grand scale as this would also serve as publicity for the movie which is to be released to the theaters very soon.

The function was held at DurgamCharuvu, Hyderabad amidst many Tollywood biggies which included heroes like Venkatesh, Jr. NTR and Gopichand. The music of this movie is directed by Bollywood trio Shankar Ehsaan Loy who made their debut into Telugu Film industry with this film. The trio was present at the event. Others present to grace the event are Suresh Babu, Chadrabose, Venumadhav etc.

Interestingly, everyone spoke less about the music of the movie or the music directors and more about the producer of this movie, ‘Bujji’. Bujji is known to have good contacts in the industry which is the reason why he could so many biggies to attend this event and as expected, Bujji dominated the speeches given by everyone.

The audio is now available across the state and has been receiving good reviews for some of the refreshing scores. Let us see how the movie will fare at the box office.

Manchu Vishuvardhan Babu was married a few months back and also celebrated his birthday two  months back. Being newly wed, he took a considerably long break from the movies and is currently shooting for a film named ‘Saleem’.

This movie is being shot in certain locations in Thailand and this being an action film, certain fight sequences are being shot in Thailand. Both Vishnu and Manoj are known to be reluctant to use dupes in the action stunts and in this line, Vishnu had decided to perform a stunt where in he needs to jump from a car onto a moving bike.

Unfortunately things went wrong and the entire stunt setup ended up as a major accident. It is said that Vishnu was too lucky to have escaped from a major accident with very minor injuries. However, the other stunt masters who participated in this stunt are very badly injured and some of them are in a ‘critical’ state. Hope all the stunt masters recover soon!

A few years back, news readers were only men who are professional journalists with good vocal abilities. However, glamor has become an integral part of anything and everything and news channels are no exception. With more and more news channels popping up, it has become very important for the news channels to devise new ways to attract the audience and the most obvious way is to have some attractive female news readers.

TV9 has been the front in this aspect with a set of beautiful ladies who also posses good vocal abilities as its news readers. Now TV9 has gone a step ahead and recruited a person from the Bengali film industry as a news reader. Anchor Pratyusha who can be seen in most of the TV programs belongs to a family related to Bengali Cinema. She is the sister of popular Bengali actress Sayali Bhagat.

So, in the near future, probably we can see some of the Tollywood beauties as news readers or program anchors.