Bellamkonda to dub Arul
Bellamkonda Suresh is one producer who is over enthusiastic when it comes to buying remake rights like actor Raja Sekhar. They have so much confidence in other language films that they buy the rights even before the film is release. Raja Sekhar bought the remake rights of 'Anjaneyam' film when it was under production. That film bombed at box office and Raja Sekhar lost some money as he could not remake/dub in Telugu. Likewise, Bellamkonda bought the remake rights of Arul when he was remaking Swamy in Telugu as Lakshmi Narasimha as Arul too had the same hero and director of Swamy (Vikram in the direction of Hari). Unfortunately Arul turned out to be a box office turkey. Now Bellamkonda Suresh is contemplating on dubbing that film and releasing it in Telugu. Bellamkonda is currently producing 'Autograph' (Tamil film remake) with Ravi Teja as hero in the direction of cinematographer S Gopal Reddy.

Veeru K's Thrill with Ruthika
Veeru K - encouraged by the good openings for his latest spicy male flick 'Xtra' - announced that he would be making film titled 'Thrill' with Ruthika as hero. Like Xtra, this film too would be a male flick with four boys drooling over Ruthika. Veeru K - along with cast and crew - would be visiting various parts of states on Vijaya Yatra and 4 suitable guys would be selected from the crowds who attend this Vijaya Yatra.

29th June 2004

Gharshana remake in Hindi
Venkatesh's starrer Gharshana, which is a Telugu remake of Tamil blockbuster 'Kakha Kakha' is going to be remade in Hindi very soon. Siva Raju and Venkatraju would be remaking this film in Hindi on Geeta Chitra International banner in the direction of Gowtam. They would be choosing the hero and heroine very soon.

Rajendra Prasad's film
Anji Seenu - who directed 'Janaki Weds Sriram' would be directing a film with Rajendra Prasad as hero. Preeti Jingyani and Malavika would be playing female leads. Ghantadi Krishna provides music and Gangotri Srinivas pens dialogues. D Srikar Reddy would be producing this film. This film's shooting would start on 22nd July 2004.

Varsham in China Film Festival
Prabhas's blockbuster Varsham joined the league of Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammai and Nenunnanu by getting selected as a nominee for China Film Festival 2004.

Bhumika with Gopichand
Bhumika Chawla is signed up as a heroine for a film starring Gopichand as hero. Chandra Siddardha who directed films like Inscrutable Americans and Appudappudu would be directing this film.

Arya's 50 days celebrated
50 days of Allu Arjun's blockbuster Arya was celebrated at a function organized in Sudarshan35mm today. Hero Allu Arjun dedicated the success of Arya to Chiranjeevi's fans. This function was attended by Dil Raju, Sukumar, Siva Balaji, Devi Charan, Sirish & Lakshman.

Bhuma Nagi Reddy on faction films
Audio of Sana Yadi Reddy's latest film 'Abhimani' was released by Dr. Rama Naidu yesterday. TDP leader Bhuma Nagi Reddy was invited as a guest. While speaking in the function Bhum Nagi Reddy expressed his disappointment over how factionist is shown in recent films. He clarifies that lots of factionists escape death by shielding behind women, because nobody kills in Rayalaseema when women are around. But in the films, they show factionists killing women. Bhuma Nagi Reddy said that films should show the human face of factionists.

Malliswari's charity show
A charity show is being held for Malliswari film on 26th June in Loehmann Twin Cinemas, Virginia at 1:30 pm. The money colleted through this event would be contributed to AP Chief Minister's Farmers Fund. Siri Chitra USA distributors are planning to hold a series of charities for the same cause.

Telugu films in film festivals
The days are over for art films to get selected for film festivals. Two of recent Telugu commercial hits - Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammai and Nenunnanu - are selected for China film festival which would be held in the months of August and September 2004.

7/G Brindavan Colony audio released
Audio of 7/G Brindavan Colony - the launch vehicle of AM Ratnam's son Ravi Krishna as hero - was held in a variety style in a city bus yesterday. City bus plays a vital role in this film hence the function was arranged in a bus which traveled and stopped at a few bus stops. A song was released at each bus stop. Sri Raghava (Selva Raghavan - director of Run fame) directed this film. AM Ratnam produces it. This film is due for the release in July 2004.

Rohit in Shankar Dada
Rohit would be playing the role of cancer patient in Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS. This role has a quite a weight attached to it. Chiranjeevi is expected to be back from London today or tomorrow. The next schedule would go to floors from 27th June 2004. This film is expected to release in the month of August 2004.

Sumanth in Suresh Productions
Dr. Rama Naidu has signed Sumanth as hero for one of his future productions on Suresh banner. Dasaradh (of Santosham fame) would be directing this film. Regular shooting of this film would start on 1st August 2004. This film is expected to hit the marquee by this year end.

Vinayak wants to remake DVSK with NTR
VV Vinayak said in a recent interview to a film magazine that he would like to direct a remake of old classic Daana Veena Soora Karna with NTR Jr. as hero. He is scouting for an able producer. It's rather an odd proposition to make a mythological for a director like VV Vinayak who proved as a faction specialist with bomb blasts and convoys of TATA Safaris with his films so far.

Swamy in July
Hari Krishna is playing the role of a rice mill owner in a village for 'Swamy' film which is being produced by RK Bhagawan and C kalyan. 'Swamy' story is all about how he fights with law and system when his twin sisters are killed in suspicious circumstances. VR Pratap directs this film. Talkie part of this film is completed. Meena is paired up with Hari Krishna in this film. There is an item song with Hari Krishna and Asha Saini as well. Posani Krishna Murali provides story and dialogues. 'Swamy' would be releasing in the month of July 2004.

16th June 2004

Plagued by plagiarism accusations
A new writer Krishnamurthy who had no proven credentials in Telugu film industry has recently accused that his story are being plagiarized and made into movies as Simhadri, Samba and Sri Anjaneyam. He has filed a case against these filmmakers on the charged of plagiarism. Earlier story writer GS Rao made it to the news that Vijayendra Prasad plagiarized his story and used it for Simhadri. This issue was settled amicably and title credits and remuneration was given to GS Rao at the last moment for Simhadri. Later of Simhadri hero NTR encouraged GS Rao by taking his story for Samba film. We have to wait and see how credible the accusations made by Krishnamurthy are.

Mafia spreads tentacles in Telugu film industry
The Bollywood mafia that is known for extortions and kidnapping is slowly spreading its tentacles in Film Nagar, Hyderabad now. In a recent shootout case in Jubilee hills where 3 henchmen of Chota Rajan were killed by police, it is evident that they came to Film Nagar and rented a space out there to get classified information about the riches made by film personalities and how to nab money through extortion from them.

Shankar Dada MBBS audio in July
Audio of Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS would be released in the month of July 2004. Devi Sri Prasad scored music for this film. Sonali Bendre, Srikanth and Paresh Rawal play other important roles. Gemini Film Circuit is simultaneously producing Telugu (Shankar Dada MBBS) and Tamil (Vasool Raja MBBS) versions. Kamal, Sneha, Prabhu and Prakash Raj play the main roles in Tamil version. Gemini Film Circuit is planning for simultaneous release in both Telugu and Tamil on the same day in the month of August 2004.

Children film Deeksha launched
Film Development Corporation gives subsidy to children films to the tune of 35 lakhs during various stages of film maker and after film's release. Sankari Arts is producing a film titled 'Deeksha' with debutant director Siva. Suman plays a martial arts teacher as master Sravan plays martial arts student. Hari Prasad and Kinnera do other roles. Raghu provides camera and Ravi Kumar scores music.

11th June 2004

Sirivennela special DVD
Here is good news for all Sirivennela's fans. An exclusive DVD comprising all lovely lyrical gems of Sirivennela is produced by KAD. This 1st volume of DVD is titled as 'Devudu Karunistadani' (Moods of Sirivennela - Volume - 1). KAD has produced this DVD in association with CC Reddy - the CEO of Visu Consultants. This DVD also comes with video comments from celebrities like Keeravani, MS Raju, Sravanthi Ravi Kishore, Vijaya Bhaskar, Krishna Vamsi and Trivikram who worked with Sirivennela for the songs. This Sirivennela special DVD would hit the market very soon.

Anand's release in July
The post production of Sekhar Kammula's (of Dollar Dreams) second film 'Anand' is going on now. Raja and Kamalinee Mukherjee are playing main leads. Audio of Anand would be released by Aditya Music on 25th of June. 'Anand' would be released 3 weeks from then. This film is being co-produced by National Film Development Corporation.

3rd June 2004

Okkadu sweeps Filmfare awards
Okkadu bagged the main four awards of Filmfare Telugu region for the year of 2003. Okkadu got the best film, best actor, best director and best music director awards. The awards would be presented to the winners on 12th June in Chennai. Here is the complete list of winners

S. No	Category	Winner	Film
1	Best Film	Okkadu	Okkadu(MS Raju)
2	Best Actor	Mahesh Babu	Okkadu
3	Best Actress	Asin	Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammai
4	Best Director	Guna Sekhar	Okkadu
5	Best Music Director	Mani Sharma	Okkadu
6	Best Comedian	Ali	Amma Nanna O Tamil Ammai
7	Best Supporting Actor	Prakash Raj	Tagore
8	Best Villain	Pawan Malhotra	Aithe

Chiranjeevi to run for Olympics 2004
Chiranjeevi is one among to 30 torchbearers who would be participating in worldwide Olympic Torch relay on 10th July at New Delhi. The other celebrities from film industry who run along with Chiranjeevi are Aamir Khan and Bipasha Basu. Another Telugu guy Madhukar Nekkanti - a local cricket play who acted as hero in an unfinished film 'Apuroompam - would also be running along with Chiranjeevi. Coca Cola has nominated these actors as their brand ambassadors as Coca Cola is sponsoring Olympics 2004 at Athens.

Teja and Nitin donate 2 lakhs for CM fund
Director Teja and actor Nitin jointly donated an amount of Rs 2 lakhs for the 'Free Electricity' scheme of Chief Minister YS Raja Sekhara Reddy. Director Teja has started this trend of donating for 'Free Power' from film industry. We need to wait and see if any other film celebrities come forward to emulate it.

TVD Prasad's son as hero
Veteran Telugu film producer TVD Prasad's son is making his debut as hero through a film titled 'Valliddaru Okkate'. Renuka Menon - who made her debut in Anandamanandamaye is doing the female lead. Jonnalagadda Srinivasa Rao directed this film. Vandemataram scored music. Shooting of this film is completed. This film would hit marquee very soon.

2nd June 2004

Trivikram-Mahesh film starts today
Trivikram's second directorial venture with Mahesh Babu and Trisha in the main leads went to floors today. The first schedule would take place for 9 days. Speaking to idlebrain.com immediately after the release Malliswari, Trivikram said that his film with Mahesh Babu is a mass film. But the mass episodes would be dealt with realistic touch. This film is being produced on Jayabheri banner by Kishore and Murali Mohan.

Trivikram story okayed by Chiranjeevi
The deadly duo of K Vijaya Bhaskar (director) and Trivikram (story-dialogue writer) have given a hearing of the story to Chiranjeevi recently. Chiranjeevi is said to have give a go-ahead to this storyline and asked this duo to work on the complete script. C Aswini Dutt would produce this film on Vyjayanthi movies banner. Vijaya Bhaskar and Trivikram are working on this script currently. And this film would take off when Trivikram completes the film which he is directing with Mahesh as hero.

Ravi Teja film started
Ravi Teja's new film in the direction of Sobhan was started at Palakollu. Charmy is playing female lead. Sobhan (of Varsham fame) directs this film. Krishna Kishore - son of producer KC Sekhara Babu - is producing this film on Vijaya Bala productions banner. Raja Ravindra is the executive producer of this film. Sri scores music.

1st June 2004

10-15 crore 1st week share for MBBS
It is reliably learnt that Chiranjeevi's Shankar Dada MBBS is going to have unprecedented release with highest number of prints in highest number of theaters. In certain areas, this film is being sold for the amount which was equivalent to the highest share collected so far in that area. For Ceded area, Shankar Dada is sold for 4.5 crores for Hari Yadav of Devi Film Distributors. It is also learnt that Maruthi Movies from Nizam is doing a Chiranjeevi's film first time in the form of 'Shankar Dada MBBS' by paying never-before amount of 6.4 crores. Maruthi Movie distributors are planning to release Shankar Dada MBBS in Nizam alone with 100 prints. With this kind of crazy release, Shankar Dada MBBS is expected to collect a share of anywhere between Rs 10 crores to Rs 15 crores in the first week itself if it generates good talk.

Balayya to celebrate birthday with his fans
Bala Krishna- who is undergoing medication after an injury in Jodhpur few months back - is planning to celebrate his birthday on 10th June with his fans. Bala Krishna does not have the habit of celebrating birthdays. But, this time around he wants to make sure that his fans does should not feel gloom of having no Balayya summer release by celebrating his birthday with them.

Samba on 9th June
NTR's mass flick Samba is all set for the release on 9th June 2004. This film has the backdrop of Kanchi (a holy shrine in Tamil Nadu). For Simhadri he had Kerala backdrop. For Andhrawala, he had Mumbai backdrop. Samba film also has an episode canned in Amritsir (Punjab). Bhumika Chawla and Genelia are playing female leads. VV Vinayak directs this film. Kona Venkat penned dialogues. Mani Sharma scored music. GS Rao provided storyline. Kodali Nani (MLA) produces this film on Kodali Movies banner.

Manoj as Donga, Sada as Dongadi
Manchu Manoj is making his debut as hero with a film titled 'Donga Dongadi'. This film is a remake of 'Thiruda Thrudi'. Sada is paired up with Manoj. Subramanyam Siva is directing this film. NV Prasad and Sanam Naga Ashok Kumar produce this film on Sai Deva Productions banner. Dina provides music. Shooting of this film is completed. Audio would be expected in June and movie would hit marquee in the month of July 2004.

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