Kushi 
          with 160 prints
          
          
As 
          Pawan Kalyan is making his moves at a snail pace in making the next 
          film, the buyers are not sitting idle by waiting for his next film. 
          The producer AM Ratnam is planning to rerelease Kushi with big Hungama 
          again this summer with 160 prints in 160 theaters on 19th of April. 
          The buyers of Vizag, Nizam, Guntur, Ceded and Nellore had a meeting 
          last month to decide about it and fixed 19th April as the D Day. For 
          the first time in the history of Telugu cinema, a film is going for 
          second release with a huge number of 160 prints. We have to wait and 
          see if Kushi would attract the audience and milk the box office or become 
          a stale product with almost all the people watched it once in the last 
          year.
        Jayam 
          shooting at a brisk pace
          
          
 
          The shooting of Jayam is going on at a brisk pace in Pootalapatti Railway 
          station in Chittoor district from 28th March 2002 onwards. Teja is planning 
          to picture a couple of songs in train on Nitin and Sadaf in the direction 
          of choreographer Shankar. Right now, they are canning a train chasing 
          sequence in the supervision of Horseman Babu. After 15 days work, the 
          unit would move to Talakona forest. The shooting of this film would 
          be completed in the month of May. RP Patnaik has composed 14 songs for 
          this film. Three songs are already been pictured. Sameer Reddy handles 
          camera. Songs are penned by Kula Sekhar. Shankar edits the film. Jayam 
          is being produced by Teja on 'Chitram Movies' banner.
          
           'Santhi 
          Nivasam' as feature film
          
          
'Santhi 
          Nivasam', the mega serial on E TV, is being produced as feature film 
          now. We have seen novels being converted in to films. Now for the first 
          time in Telugu field, a television serial is being remade into feature 
          film for the big screen. This feature film will have the same cast and 
          crew who worked for serial. Two units are simultaneously working on 
          this project from 1st April to 19th April 2002. It would be completing 
          shooting by 19th April. The postproduction activities too will take 
          place simultaneously. Sunil Varma and VS Reddy would direct this film 
          jointly. Ranganath, Sameer. Harsha Vardhan, Rajeev Kanakala, L Jhansi, 
          S Sravani consists of the main cast. Sri Lekha provides music. Story, 
          Screenplay and direction supervision for 'Santhi Nivasam' is provided 
          by K Raghavendra Rao. Ramoji Rao is the producer.
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