Young Rebel star Prabhas’s upcoming film 'Rebel' which is being directed by Raghava Lawrence is gearing up for release in December. The film’s first look is not shown officially till date and the makers are planning to reveal the first look and launch the publicity campaign on October 23, on the occasion of Prabhas birth day.
The movie is currently being shot in Hyderabad and next schedule of the movie will commence in Bangkok. Tamanna and Deesksha Seth are acting as the female lead and Thaman composing the music for this film. J Bhagwan and J Pulla Rao are producing this movie under the Sri Balaji Cine Media banner.
Dil Raju is producing a movie called 'Oh My Friend' directed by debutant director Venu Sri Ram with Siddarth in the main lead. The movie has completed its shooting and is currently under post production. News is that the title song of the movie was released on Radio Mirchi by Dil Raju and Venu Sri Ram.
Speaking on this occasion Dil Raju said that almost all the movies from our banner are musical hits and hope the same for Oh MY Friend. The movie has 5 songs and 1 bit song. The audio launch would take place in this month and the movie is planning to release in November.
Rahul Raj is scoring the music for this movie and he is new to Telugu Film Industry but not to music has already given music for 10 films in Malayalam and he has hands on experience for about 100 jingles for different ads. Shruti Haasan's acting as the female lead and Hansika is doing another female lead and Navadeep is playing an important role in this film. Vijay K Chakravarthi is the cinematographer.
Hansika made her Tollywood debut with Desamuduru and went on to act opposite young stars like Jr NTR, Prabhas and Ram.Hansika’s recent release Kandireega is a big hit and now Hansika has Okayed another film starring Manchu Vishnu vardhan Babu in his current film.
Vishnu is getting ready to work with director G.Nageswara Reddy, who is known for comedy entertainers. The movie is expected to be made as comedy entertainer like 'Dhee'. Kona Venkat has provided the story for this film.
Lakshmi Manchu is producing this film under Sri Lakshmi Prasanna pictures banner. The script work is in the final stages and movie will hit the sets in December. Further details will be announced soon.
It was stated that ‘Oosaravelli’ collected Rs 15 Cr plus on the first day (Thursday) of its release world wide. It has shown Rs 1.9 Crore as the collection on the first day in USA. But the official distribution sources from USA state that the film collected not more than Rs 40 lakh on the first day. The figure Rs 1.9 Cr was the amount for which the film was bought by distributors in USA but not the collection (!!)
On the other hand, the collections were projected that big to stand as the top-1 in Tollywood history. Counting the amounts collected by advance bookings (till Sunday), they announced the total first day collection worldwide was Rs 15 Cr plus.
It is true that hype matters for the success of the film in some cases. But in long run, this type of fake numbers may not help the success of the film in any way.
“Of course that would be a chance of lifetime. But at the same time I cannot go back on my commitments. That would be very unprofessional”. This is the tweet that came from Rajamouli on his twitter id. With this, he has indirectly confirmed that Chiranjeevi has asked him to direct his 150th film.
It is known news that Chiranjeevi has been chasing Rajamouli to direct his 150th film. Recently, he directly landed up at the shooting spot of ‘Eega’ and tried to bring pressure on Rajamouli. But after ‘Eega’ he has his project with Prabhas. That’s why Rajamouli made it clear that he cannot utilize the Rs 50 crores mega offer (without calculating the remuneration of Chiranjeevi and giving the first copy).
But to ensure that the megastar’s ego doesn’t get hurt, as soon as the news came out, he claimed all this news was false. But truth cannot be hidden so easily. So while condemning the news, Rajamouli has involuntarily confirmed the news through his tweet.
As it is, the Tollywood circuit has been suffering badly due to lack of fresh ideas and stories. As if that is not enough, they are now facing with another torture. This is the demand from the big stars and their fans to have ‘ferocious’ titles. So, more than working on the story and script, the makers are busy pulling their head trying to come up with ‘appropriate’ titles.
As a result, many films are currently on the floors without any title or a working title. Buzz is that nearly 30 plus films are like that. This ‘Title’ demand has become a torture for directors and producers. Earlier, there was a tug of war between NTR Jr and Ramcharan for ‘Rachcha’ and later, it went to Charan.
In the case of Pawan Kalyan’s movie, many names like Kaali, Shadow, Tilak made rounds before ‘Panjaa’ got confirmed. This ‘powerful’ title took a lot of discussion, as per sources. It is heard that a similar torture was experienced by Bellamkonda Suresh before zeroing on ‘Ganga-The Bodyguard’. He reportedly revealed how they had to rack their heads to come up with this title since ‘Tulasi’ and ‘Lakshmi’ worked for Venkatesh.
Ramcharan Tej from his end reportedly mentioned that a powerful title adds to a lot of hype. As for Mahesh Babu, the titles are decided based on the demand from fans who seek hard hitting titles. He maintained that they can’t take chances. However, Naga Chaitanya prefers not to focus on such things.
Recently, producer M L Kumar Chowdary revealed that he is having a tough time trying to fix a title for his new movie with Nandamuri Balakrishna. He has reportedly mentioned that getting a ‘powerful’ or ‘ferocious’ title for a star film is like winning half the battle. It is heard that once a list of titles are shortlisted, they are given to the star and his fans and based on their approval, the announcement is made.
In fact, despite of the average talk it got on the first day, the film is doing great than expected. Fans are saying that there is someone behind the killing of OOSARAVELLI's stamina.
Right from day one, some section of the audiences are branding this film as an average one, a close source of producer BVSN Prasad stated. Most of the fans of Jr.NTR are on belief that some opposition is publicizing about the movie in a negative way. Critics are saying that this is not true, as there is an element in the story that is pushing the film from being a super hit. They are saying that hardcore fans of Jr.NTR cannot digest the story, as it revolves around a girl. In all of director Surender Reddy's flicks, the central element is woven around the female protagonist only. This is not liked by the mass fans of Junior, while the film is scoring brownie points with class audiences.
Whatever may be the argument, whoever may be the killer is, the thing to be noticed is that OOSARAVELLI is a film of distinction, a noted director-cum-producer stated.
Dookudu which broke all records in its first week, continued breaking more records in second week at boxoffice. It collected around 49 Cr worth share, worldwide in two weeks, which is an all time record for Telugu Cinema, thus becoming the All-time 2nd Biggest within in two week itself by crossing previous mega blockbusters Pokiri & Robo full run Shares. Now with NTR’s Oosaravelli receiving average to below average response, we need to see how far Dookudu will reach towards All Time Highest Magadheera in coming weeks to reach to the TOP SLOT.
Here we are providing the break-up of two weeks shares of Dookudu
Area
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1st Week Share
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2nd Week Share
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Nizam
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8.52 Cr
|
3.70 Cr
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Ceded
|
5.01 Cr
|
2.00 Cr
|
Uttarandhra
|
1.90 Cr
|
0.90 Cr
|
Guntur
|
2.19 Cr
|
1.05 Cr
|
Krishna
|
1.60 Cr
|
0.78 Cr
|
E.Godavari
|
1.56 Cr
|
0.72 Cr
|
W.Godavari
|
1.36 Cr
|
0.66 Cr
|
Nellore
|
1.05 Cr
|
0.40 Cr
|
Overseas
|
8.05 Cr
|
2.15 Cr
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Other States
|
3.77 Cr
|
1.70 Cr
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Total
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35.01 Cr
|
14.06 Cr
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Total 2weeks: Share 49.07 Crores
Gross 70.15 Crores