Bobby Audio through Gemini TV program

Every season has a style and fad of celebrating things in Telugu films. The latest fad of releasing audio is through a program called 'Aata Kavala.. Paata kavala' from Gemini TV. It started with the release of 'Sontham' audio a couple of months back. Then RP and Usha virtually unveiled Gemini's audio a couple of week ago through the same program. This time, even RK Associates is planning to release audio of Bobby virtually through this Gemini TV program on 6th of this month (which falls on Sunday). The audio would hit stands on 7th of October. So there would not be any audio function for Bobby this time. Mani Sharma provides music.

Smita's live performance in Gulf

Pop singer Smita has been invited to perform at Dubai, Qatar and Kuwait. She is leaving for Dubai on the 29th of May 2002. This is her second performance outside the country. The first performance was in USA at TANA in Philadalphia last year. After her return on the 3rd of June, she will be proceeding to Calcutta and Bangladesh for similar shows.

Indra audio on 6th June

Mani Sharma has given six scintillating tunes for Chiranjeevi's latest offing Indra. One of the songs includes a melodious song written on the holy city Varanasi. Veturi pens the lyrics and Hariharan sings that song. The unit of Indra is traveling to Switzerland to can songs on 16th of this month. Climax of Indra would be shot in the month of June. This film is expected to hit the marquee in the 3rd week of July. Sonali Bendre and Arti Agrawal are paired up with Chiranjeevi in this film.

Santosham audio release on 14th April 2002 in Vijayawada

Audio release of Nagarjuna's film 'Santosham' would be celebrated in popular style in Vijayawada amidst the cheers of the fans and public. Layola college ground is chosen as the open-air auditorium for the mega event. RP Patnaik is going to conduct a musical night on that occasion. He will perform all his popular songs along with Santosham songs. Santosham sports six songs and two theme music bits. Incidentally, this is first opportunity RP Patnaik has got to do music for a big hero. Sreya and Gracy Singh are paired up with Nagarjuna in this film. Prabhudeva makes special appearance. Nagarjuna, Prabhudeva, Gracy Singh, Sreya, Brahmanandam, Kota, Sunil, Pruthvi, LB Sriram, Ahuti Prasad and Paruchuri Brothers would grace the audio function on 14th April.

Vasu audio on 20th March 2002

Audio cassettes and CDs of Venky's latest offing 'Vasu' (the voice of youth) would be released by Aditya Audio in a public function to be held in Hyderabad on 20th of March 2002. There would be six songs in the film composed by Harris Jayaraj (of Cheli fame). Harris Jayaraj has taken this music love story as a challenging issue as it makes him inroads into straight Telugu music field. Venky plays the role of Vasu, who aspires to become a musician with the help of heroine Bhumika Chawla. The shooting of entire film is complete except for a song to be canned on Bhumika Chawla and Venky in Annapurna studios in the month end. This film is getting ready for the release as Ugadi special on 12th of April 2002.

'Pop Therapy' by Smita on ETV

Pop singer Smita, has signed up with ETV for a unique show called "Pop Therapy" which will aired on ETV every Sunday between 8 to 8.30 PM. An attractive set has been created at Sarathi Studios for the shooting of this programme. This is a unique show hosted by Smita. Anyone can talk to Smita through letters or e-mails and express their feelings about friendship, love, music etc etc. Smita will reply to these mails and play a pop song of their choice. More details regarding the show can be obtained from www.eenadu.net and by clicking "Pop Therapy".

2 lakhs of units sold out for Takakri Donga

Mahesh Babu's 'Takkri Donga' audio, which was released yesterday, is selling like hot cakes. Mani Sharma's thumping music is the added attraction as the racks in audio shops emptied by evening on Monday. The delighted audio maker Sai Vasu told idlebrain.com that this is the kind of craze only Chiranjeevi audio generates. The expectations in this film soaring new heights every day. According to insiders, what is there in audio is just a tip of iceberg. The real thrill comes out in terms of rerecording and DTS effect when we watch this film on the big screen. The audio producer has got repeat orders on the day one and he is sending second set of audio pack to all the shops across AP.

Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Asha Bhosle

Playback singer Asha Bhosle has been selected for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2000. The award carries a cash price of Rs 200,000, a shawl and a swarna kamal [golden lotus], an official announcement said on Thursday. The award was instituted in 1969 to commemorate the outstanding contribution to the Indian film industry of the late Dadasaheb Phalke, the country's first filmmaker. President K R Narayanan will give away the prestigious award at Rashtrapati Bhavan later this year. In Telugu, Dr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao received this award in the past.

Snehamante Idera audio on 6th of October

Audio of Nagarjuna-Bhumika Chawla combination film 'Snehamante Idera' is going to be released on 6th of October. This film is expected to hit marquee on 26th of this month as Vijaya Dasami special. Shiva Shankar, who has given melodious music for Priyamaina Neeku, did score music for Snehamante Idera. Sumanth and Pratyusha are also acting in this film. RB Chowdary is producing this successful Tamil remake on Supergood films banner. Aditya music is releasing the audio albums. Bala Sekharan of 'Priyamaina Neeku' fame is directing this film.

Nuvvu Naaku Nachav platinum disk function

The music of Nuvvu Naaku Nachav is acting like a slow poison as the release date of the film is approached. The net savvy producer Sravanti Ravi Kishore, who does not want to be left behind on the cyber front, informed idlebrain.com to mention about the official web site http://www.nachchav.com to the visitors of idlebrain.com. In the platinum disk audio function held by Aditya Music, the unit of 'Nuvvu Naaku Nachav' celebrated the selling of 3 lakhs of albums. Koti has given music. Venkatesh, who is back from his month long USA trip looked refreshing in the function. This film is slated for released tomorrow (6th September 2001).

Varma's Deyyam tune for PTKK

Talk about recycling! In the earlier article we have talked about the songs of Prema Katha being recycled into Varma's Hindi films Jungle and Ryar Tune Kya Kiya (PTKK). Here is another revelation. The title tune of Varma's horror film 'Deyyam' is used to tune the title song of 'Pyar Tune Kya Kiya'. This tune underlines the psyche of the neurotic character played by Urmila in that film. Is Verma running out of good tunes or is he having narcissism with his past works?

5 lakhs of Kushi albums sold

Aditya Music Company that is come to existence way back in 1991 has recorded and sold more than 700 albums so far. Kushi, the latest offing from Aditya Music has sold more than 5 lakhs of album so far. Aditya has organized a triple platinum disk function at Sandhya 70 mm in Hyderabad on 13th May 2001. Kushi is the highest selling album from Aditya so far. According to unofficial sources, Nuvve Kavali audio is the most sold album in Telugu Cinema industry so far. It has sold more than 10 lakhs copies so far. In Kushi audio, no single singer was repeated in the songs, which added enormous freshness, which came as a welcoming change from Pawan Kalyan who has monotonous tone of Ramana Gogula for his past two films.

Varma lifts Prema Katha songs

There are a few films in Telugu where the songs created a rage and the film turned out to be a damp squib. Prema katha is one of them. But the director of this film, tried to give these tunes a second chance to be an integral part of a hit film. One of these songs is 'Hungama' song, which is used in Jungle's Tiger Ranch song. The second one is 'Devudu Karunistadani' which is translated and used in the recently released varma's film 'Pyar Tune kaya Kiya'. This song comes in the second half of the film between Fardeen khan and Sonali Kulakarni. For the starters, 'Pyar Tune Kya Kiya' is a free make of Hollywood flick 'Fatal Attraction'.

Koti lifts two tunes for Nuvve Kavali

Talk about the plagiarism. In the last week, we talked about SA Raj Kumar. Lets take on Koti this week. We do aware that Koti got a new lease of life after the staggering hit of Nuvve Kavali film and audio. But the dark secret of the audio is that the most popular tunes 'Anaganaga Akasam Vundi' and 'Shukriya Shukriya' are lifted from it's Malayalam original 'Niram'. Jesudas sang these two songs in original and Telugu music director Vidya Sagar gave the music for that film. It's ironic that our Telugu directors are unable to get the right tunes from the Telugu indigenous music directors and these people are proving their prowess in other languages. The latest Telugu direct film for which Vidya Sagar scored music was Chakri's Suri.

SA Raj Kumar - turns the copy cat

SA Raj Kumar is the most sought after music director in Telugu cinema industry after Mani Sharma. But, unfortunately, he could not deliver goods for the producers other than RB Chowdary. And he is failing miserably to score fast paced music. Only Kalisundam Raa is an exception for which he has given racy hit tunes. When forced to give racy tunes, he is content in lifting tunes from Hindi films. The latest example is 'Akka Bavekkada'. Surprisingly, all the six songs in this film are the products of blatant plagiarism. The most astonishing thing about SA Raj Kumar is that producers are still thronging to him to get him score music for their films. Other talented music directors like RK Patnaik and Sri are waiting for the opportunities. But our producers are more interested in lifted insipid tunes by SA Raj Kumar than giving opportunities to the budding music talent of AP.

Kushi sells like hot cake

The proprietor of Vijaya Madhuri electronics in Ongole was beaming with smile when we visited his shop on last Sunday. Making a cool profit of Rs 12,000/- by selling 4000 cassettes (margin per piece being three rupees) of Kushi on last Friday was the smiling factor for him. It's not just in Ongole, the audio of Kushi was sold like hot cake all over Andhra and Umesh Gupta, the supreme of Aditya audio, declared that three lakhs of copies were sold on the day one. Incidentally, the Hindi song in that album became more popular than other numbers.

Murari triple platinum disk

Murari audio achieved the feat of selling 3 lakhs of albums. A triple platinum disk function was held at YuvRaj Theater in Vijayawada to celebrate this occasion. Supreme Audio and Sri Laxmi Pictures, who has taken the distribution of Murari in Krishna district, organized this function. Mahesh Babu has selected Mr. Satish as the winner of Muari Jeep among the 1.8 lakhs of participants. Mahesh Babu, Nandigam Rama Lingeswara Rao, Mani Sharma and Sivaji Raja attend this function. Krishna Vamsi, the director of the film, is conspicuously missing just like the 'Abhinandana Sabha' of the film.

Raja Vannemreddy turns singer with Akka Bavekkada

Raja Vannemreddy, who gave a blockbuster 'Kshemamga velli Labhamga Randi' and a blooper 'Choosoddam Randi' in the last year is directing a film for Taranga Subramanyan in which Chakri, Raasi and Asha Saini are playing main leads. This film is titled as 'Akka Bavekkada'. Kovai Sarala is playing the ambitious mom of Chakri. Another speciality of this film is going to be a copied version of 'mehabooba mehabooba' song of Hindi blockbuster Sholey. This song is going to be sung by the director Raja Vannemreddy. This film is supposed to belong to the genre of comedy of errors. Talkie part of this film would be completed by 14th of this month. The entire shooting would be over by 15th Feb 2001.

Balu gets a raw deal!

As the Sankrathi season is dawning upon Telugu cinema, the audio releases are happening at frantic pace. If we observe the audio of Devi Putrudu, Narasimha Naidu and Mrigaraju, we find Balu singing only three songs out of 18 songs. The most surprising thing is that for the first time Chiru has avoided a song by Balu in his 134 films career. Devi Putrudu sports two songs by Balu and Narasimha Naidu has one song by Balu. On the contrary the non-Telugu trio Shankar Mahadevan, Udit Narayan and Sukhvinder Singh sung at least a song each for this film. In an interview to idlebrain.com (to be appeared on this web site soon), Gudipoodi Srihari (a senior telugu cinema critic) mentioned that Udit Narayan is paid around 60,000/- per song. Sukhvinder Singh demands around Rs 20,000/- per song. Where SP Balu gets a paltry amount of Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000 per song. This is the situation of Telugu cinema songs in the new millennium. For Mrigaraju, Udit failed to utter the starting lyric 'Ele Elele' properly. We sincerely hope that Balu, Mano and other upcoming native Telugu singers strike back and get the Telugu cinema music the good old days!