Fidaa movie was Rejected By Top Three Heroes?

During the promotions of his upcoming production venture 'Fidaa', Dil Raju has revealed that the love story was earlier turned down by three heroes.

Dil Raju revealed that they had earlier narrated the story of Fidaa to three heroes. 'They all liked it but refrained from signing the film as they felt they may not be the right ones to essay the lead role. Later, I decided to go with an upcoming hero and that's how Varun Tej came on board,' Raju added.

Although Dil Raju didn't reveal who those three heroes are, Sekhar Kammula has on more than one occasion divulged that Mahesh Babu was the first one to listen and appreciate the story of Fidaa. 

Talking about Fidaa, Raju added that it's a simple story with a lot of emotional moments that family audiences and youth will surely like. 'Sekhar Kammula doesn't write great stories, he assembles great moments,' Raju said about the sensible director in one sentence.

He also praised Sai Pallavi for the commitment she had shown in learning Telangana slang for Fidaa. 

Dil Raju Didn't Understand Climax, But Happy With Output?

General talk in the Telugu film industry is that Dil Raju doesn't compromise about his production ventures, and involves in every department of film making, especially story and direction. He just doesn't leave it to director after finalizing the script. He regularly monitors the progress, suggests changes and even resorts to reshoots if he doesn't like the output, notwithstanding how big a star the director is.

To the surprise of everyone, Dil Raju himself is now claiming that 'Fidaa' is his least involved film. Calling it a "100pc Sekhar Kammula film", the successful producer said that he wasn't present during most of the shooting of 'Fidaa'.

Narrating one instance, Raju said that he didn't understand the climax of 'Fidaa' when he read the scene paper. He however didn't confront Kammula feeling that the sensible director may take offence. He let the 'Happy Days' director make the film exactly how he had envisioned it. This is probably the first time Raju gave full freedom to a director. 

On a concluding note, Raju said that he was more than happy when he watched the final output conceived by Kammula.

Is It Indirect Counter To Bunny,Varun?

It looks like Mega Prince Varun Tej fired a storm at Stylish Star Allu Arjun during the pre-release event of Fidaa on Monday evening.

Ever since the 'Cheppanu Brother' episode of Bunny hit headlines, Pawan Kalyan fans were quite furious over the actor and he had to deliver an explanation later. In fact, that controversy had put other Mega Stars in a highly compulsion zone. As a result, other actors in family Sai Dharam Tej and Varun are not missing out any opportunity to speak about Powerstar and Megastar.

At the pre-release event of his upcoming film Fidaa, Varun said, 'If we (Mega actors) are standing on this stage today, it is all because of Pedhanana (Chiranjeevi) and Babai (Pawan Kalyan). Their hard work has put us where we are now. So, I will never miss a chance to speak about them. On a bigger stage like this, particularly.'

Varun further said, 'not everyone will like to listen us speak about them all the time, but we will never stop remembering them.' The film's producer Dil Raju also recalled his moments with Megastar Chiranjeevi on the stage.

Fidaa, directed by Shekar Kammula and produced by Dil Raju, has Premam fame Sai Pallavi as female lead. Touted as youth-ful romantic entertainer, the film is scheduled for release on 21st July.

Dil Raju: This is The Reason Why We Have Selected Varun For Fidaa

"Anand, Manchi Coffee Lanti Cinema" is quite a popular tag line ever since Sekhar Kammula has come up with his iconic Anand movie. Breaking all the existing formulaic notions, this talented director derived a new-age slow narrative technique and impressed audiences. But it's long back we've seen such a wonderful emotional film.

After scoring many flops, finally, Sekhar Kammula is back to his favourite genre and subject and is coming up with "Fidaa" now. If we have to talk about this film, then we need to believe what producer Dil Raju says. "If Anand is a coffee-like film, Fidaa will be a Kushi (Pawan Kalyan Kushi) like film. For every star hero, a love story done during the start of their career will work big time. Whether it is Suswagatham or Tholiprema in Pawan's case or Arya in Allu Arjun's case, love stories work. That's the reason we've selected Varun Tej for Fidaa and it worked superbly", he said. 

It's heard that the hero will cry will many scenes during the climax of the film and that will work at box office. Sekhar Kammula is exuding confidence that he has a blockbuster content in hand. He went on saying that he wrote exam already and knows the result as well, and just waiting for the audience to find it out. 

These are the days where films that have family-audience appealing content are working at the box office. So in a way, Fidaa might attract film lovers to a large extent, but there is a problem too. Audiences are not liking 'lag' in the content these days and Sekhar is popular for such dragging. Hope he took care of everything to make Fidaa a Kushi for Varun Tej!!

Sekhar Kammula re-shooting just 3 weeks before the release?

Director Sekhar Kammula's latest movie is "Fidaa" which has Varun Tej and Sai Pallavi in the leads. While the trailer of the film looked smooth and suave, what is little worrying is the way our director will blend these characters without any trace of his previous films. 

According to the grapevine, Fidaa team is still shooting and all of a sudden they claimed that today is the last shooting day for the film. With the film set for July 21st release, wonder what is Sekhar Kammula shooting just 3 weeks before the release while he has plenty of time earlier. Reports are coming that producer Dil Raju suggested some changes in the film's second half and Sekhar is busy shooting them on Varun Tej and other actors.

Though reshoots are not a new thing, neither a wrong thing, they should have confirmed the release and all after locking the final version of the film, says mega fans. As this film is coming after disasters like Loafer and Mister, fans don't want to hear anything other than positive about Fidaa movie. 

On the brighter side, Fidaa's Vachinde song is enthralling masses for its language, words and visuals. It looks like Sai Pallavi will be a stunning revelation once the film releases, while Varun Tej is trying to stick only to his class-side.

Varun Tej Slams TV Channels

Central government did hungama when PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik won medals at Rio Olympics. Many private and also government channels telecasted the games which Indian players played and also other prominent games, but no TV channel including Doordarshan is telecasting Paralympics. Apparently, this has bothered mega hero Varun Tej.

'Shame that no TV channel in India is telecasting the #Paralympics. Forget the private channels, but what about Doordarshan founded by our government?' stated Varun Tej.

Entire national and local media telecasted various programs lauding the medalists for few days, but focus is far less on the ongoing Paralympics and the winners. Is this the respect we are giving for gold medalist Mariyappan Thangavelu and bronze medalist Varun Singh Bhati. 

The TV channels want high TRP ratings, whereas Paralympics are not at all money-spinners according to their calculations. But, the fact is the winners created interest over the ongoing mega sports event and are searching for next games India is participating in.

Few state and central governments were in hurry to announce crores of rewards for the Rio Olympics, congratulating the winners is the best thing the political biggies could do so far the Paralympics winners. 

At Least Can He Become Lucky For Puri?

Dashing director Puri Jagannadh is in need of a super hit right now. Out of his 3 films released last year, two films 'Loafer' and 'Jyothi Lakshmi' turned as disasters. He is currently working on Kalyan Ram's 'Ism'. Though there was news that he would work with NTR and Mahesh, reports reveal that he would be working with budding hero Naga Shourya.

From the past few years, young heroes remained unlucky for Puri. Most of his films like 'Nenu Naa Rakshasi' with Rana, 'Loafer' with Varun failed at the box-office. The only exception was 'Heart Attack' starring Nithin. On the other hand, Naga Shourya too tried to get the mass hero image by selecting some action oriented scripts. But, he too failed miserably. Known for giving a complete mass makeover to heroes, Puri is trying to get the script right for Shourya's film.

Hope their film hits the bull's eye and gives the much needed success and mass image for Puri Jagannadh and Naga Shourya respectively. 

Mega Hero proves no ego between his rivals!

Proving the differences and egos between stars of different families as a myth among audience, the younger generations actors are making quite a good number of praises and positive comments about their contemporary star heroes. The latest of mega heroes, Varun Tej left a comment on Tarak's Janatha Garage trailer, praising director Koratala Siva for classy hero characterization and Tarak for fitting in it the best. 

Though the previous generation heroes Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna appeared as professional rivals, their personal relationship is not the same. They are very good friends and the same goes with Allu Arjun, NTR and Ram Charan. Unlike the times earlier, young heroes are complementing each other when it's worth, which indeed gave no reason to their respective fans to fight. 

Mahesh Babu, Rana, Prabhas, Charan and Bunny's tweets and wishes for other heroes brought a fantastic atmosphere so far and the latest genuine appreciation tweet from Varun Tej brought Mega and Nandamuri heroes a bit closer. 

There were rumors about Sai Dharam Tej and Kalyan Ram's multistarrer, it would be a rejoicing time for both fans, if the project materializes. Anyway, it is good to watch Varun tej comment about Tarak's Janatha Garage trailer, just as a movie buff like many others who immensely liked the cut with perfect blend of emotions and content with much sense.

Varun Tej in Gazini kind Thriller!

Varun Tej is in full swing by lining up 3 films at a time. After Sreenu Vytla's 'Mister' and Sekhar Kammula's 'Fida', news is that he will join hands with 'Karthikeya' fame director Chandoo Mondeti.

After 'Karthikeya', Chandoo is working on the remake of 'Premam' starring Naga Chaitanya and Shruti Hassan. As this film is going to be winded up soon, he is working on his next film's script. Reports say that he narrated a thriller to Varun Tej which impressed him so much. In this film, Varun will be reportedly suffering with 'Left hand alien syndrome'.

The official announcement will be heard soon and we need to see how Varun impresses with this 'Ghazini' kind of film where the hero suffers with a peculiar ailment.

Kanche looks in true Hollywood style

All those who saw the trailer of Varun Tej’s Kanche were in for a huge shock. The stunning visuals in the film left the viewers spellbound as never in the history of Tollywood a film which is set during the world war 2 was attempted.

Right from the dialogues to Varun’s screen presence, everything looked picture perfect. All the credit should definitely go to director Krish for bringing us a unique film which has a soul within.

Varun Tej too surprised the audience with his looks and it is commendable for an young actor like him to okay an experimental and hard hitting film like Kanche.

Kanche looks in true Hollywood style and has raised superb expectations for the viewers. Slated to release on October 2nd, this film has undoubtedly raised the standards of Telugu filmindustry.

Mahesh took 2 days where as young hero took one year

For one year, they are literally sitting on the story, roping in huge changes and corrections. This is what happened with director Srikanth Addala's "Mukunda" that features debuting mega hero Varun Tej and Miss India finalist Pooja Hegde in the leads. As the revelation comes that changes are made to the initial story penned by Srikanth, let's get deeper into this to find out who changed and why. 

In the case of Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, director Srikanth has given narration to Mahesh Babu for 20 minutes and within 2 days the actor agreed to be on board. Looking at this happening, it is surprising to see for a newcomer like Varun Tej it took almost a year to finalize Addala's story. They say that SVSC is written by this director for years and it went through all sorts of script doctoring and cross checking. 

But Mukunda is fresh and it required that treatment just to make the output better. We have that Nagababu and Allu Arvind are the guides for these changes. While Srikanth's story is all about a village and a youth's desire, these two mega biggies brought the much needed commercial aspects to it. 'Had it not been Mahesh and Venky, SVSC result would have toppled. So mega bosses have took this extra care for Mukunda', a source said..

Sweet memories: VarunTej,Cherry, chiru

In the above picture, the boy standing in between Megastar Chiranjeevi and Mega Power Star Ram Charan is non other than  Mega Brother Naga Babu's Son, Varun Tej. The picture is taken on the shooting location of Magadheera when Bangaru Kodi Petta Song was canned. It is known that Chiranjeevi played a little cameo in the film. Varun Tej was there at the shooting spot to watch the film shoot. Incidentally, that was the last filmy appearance of Chiranjeevi before he forayed in to Politics. Needless to say, his fans are eagerly waiting for his re-entry with his 150th film.  

On the other side, Varun Tej will be making his filmy debut on December 24th as his debut film, Mukundha releases then. Seethamma Vaakitlo Sirimalle Chettu fame Srikanth Addala is directing the film. The film has invoked good response in the trade and there are business offers for the film in the tune of 18 Crores across the World. We will have to see if he lives up to the reputation of Mega Family.

Varun Tej clears rumors on Baabai absense

Newcomer Varun Tej has finally kept full stop for the quest of cine lovers, as their minds are lingering with the doubts about Pawan Kalyan's absence at the audio launch of "Mukunda".

"Baabai hasn't turned up here but his blessings are with me. He's busy shooting for Gopala Gopala in Varanasi. Anyway he has sent me a message, wishing me luck", said VarunTej, talking about Powerstar Pawan Kalyan. Well, that keeps lid closed over the speculations doing rounds about Pawan's absence.

Sweet Memories of Chiru with Varun

As revealed by Megastar Chiranjeevi sometime back, upcoming mega hero Varun Tej happens to be the 'favorite' child in mega fraternity. Raving about his Greek-god looks, Chiru says that Varun is his personal favorite and the first ever lover-boy kind hero from their family.

Here in this picture, a young Varun Tej dressed in full hands tee and a jean is seen playfully closing his eyes while 'pedananna' Chiranjeevi is tenderly closing the kid's ears. This happened on the sets of 'Mugguru Monagallu', directed by K Raghavendra Rao way back in 1994 and produced by mega brother Nagababu. While donning that action-packed role of Prithvi (One of Chiru's triple action) in the film where he was seen ferocious with a twirled mustache, Chiru is taking rest between shots with his brother's cute son this way. 

Mega hero's first day?

For any hero, what will be the biggest day of his life? Undoubtedly it is the day where he will face the camera for the first time with a hope to live up to the legacy that is planted by Megastar Chiranjeevi.

This Monday (March 24th, 2014) is going to be the biggest ever day for debuting Mega hero Varun Tej. He is going to kick-start his action before the camera for the first time in his life. Yes, Varun is getting ready for the first schedule of his first feature film under the direction of talented Srikanth Addala and the shoot will take place in Cochin, Kerala. After bargaining sometime since Muhurat event took place, Varun spent comfortable time with the dialogue version of the script, to get himself penetrated into the character. Pooja Hegde will be playing his leading lady, while other noted star-cast of Tollywood joins him.

Touted to be a melodious love story set in the backdrop of East Godavari's scenic Konaseema, where director Srikanth hails from, Varun Tej is expecting to grab that lover-boy spot where Mega family heroes haven't created their mark yet. Let's wish him all the best folks!

All set for Varun Tej movie launch, Actress Khusboo escapes a mishap

All set for Varun Tej movie launch

Mega camp is gearing up to launch their next heir Mega brother, Naga Babu’s son Varun Tej soon. Varun’s movie which was supposed to be launched this January got postponed.

And the latest we hear from sources reliable say that the movie will be launched on February 27th at Annapurna Studios. Also sources say that Mega Star Chiranjeevi will grace the launching event on the day.

Srikanth Addala who shot to stardom after SVSC is directing the movie that has been titled Gollabhama. Mickey J Meyer will be rendering music for the movie. Other casting of the movie will be known soon. Nallamalupu Bujji and Tagore fame Madhu will jointly produce the movie!

Actress Khusboo escapes a mishap

Khushboo had had a great escape when the car she was travelling was hit by a bus. Sources say that the actress’ car was waiting at a traffic signal when suddenly an MTC bus hit the car from behind. The actress was lucky enough to escape unhurt but her car rear was badly damaged.

The actress immediately got down of her Audi and reprimanded the bus driver for being rash. It is learnt that she treats the car (it was her gift to husband) as very precious!

The actress has harped about the MTC drivers rash driving on her Twitter handle. She posted, “Wow watte crash…MTC crashes in 2 my car wen waiting at red light..boot lights n bumper gone for a six…let him off with an advice n warning. Thanks 4 the concern friends I am fine but heart bleeds as this Q5 is my gift to my hubby by me.”

Hope AD fill that gap for Pawan Kalyan?, Varun Tej! A Bullet To Be Fired

Hope AD fill that gap for Pawan Kalyan?

Attarintiki Daredi has fulfilled almost every wish of the Power Star's fans. The film went on to become the biggest hit of all time and has put Pawan Kalyan on the top. There is one thing that Pawan Kalyan couldn't achieve in sixteen years of his career. He is yet to bag a Nandi Award as the best actor.

Attarintiki Daredi has high chance to fulfill this as Pawan Kalyan's performance in this film is much talked about in the recent times. His outstanding performance in the climax scene has won hearts. Pawan will face competition from Mahesh Babu, who has done a wonderful job in SVSC.

Being a solo lead, Pawan Kalyan has the edge over Mahesh Babu. Although Pawan Kalyan isn't interested in awards, State's top award is something that any actor would cherish. If Attarintiki Daredi also fetches that award for Pawan Kalyan then it will remain the most memorable film for any Powerstar fan.





Varun Tej! A Bullet To Be Fired

Though Varun Tej confirmed his entry for the second time, it will take time for film fraternity to actually get satisfied with his entry news. Irrespective of all this buzz, here comes an insider talk which says that he is the most blazing mega hero one will see in the near future.

Mega brother Nagababu's son Varun Tej is all set to debut into tinsel town under the direction of talented Srikanth Addala very soon. Big discussions are happening at the moment about the calibre of this young hero whose success will up the pride of mega coterie. As Varun looks totally silent and cool all the time during some interactions with fans, many felt that he will become a soft-romantic hero in the likes of Siddharth. But those who are close to mega coterie are saying that Varun is full of energy and his dedication packed with commitment make him a high octane energetic hero for sure. Even during his training days in acting, it is heard that the young chap used to display tremendous intensity in his performances at Satyanand's acting classes.

Looks like Varun Tej is nothing but a bullet who is sitting on the top of a fully loaded gun. So once the trigger is pulled and the gun is fired, he will unleash with full sprint into Tollywood reaching avenues and shattering records. Let wish best of luck for the young hero.

Sentiment Predicts Yevadu is a blockbuster!, Varun showing determination already

Sentiment Predicts  Yevadu is a blockbuster!

Ram Charan's long awaited Yevadu is all set to enter the Pongal race. The film's release has been delayed for various reasons and it is finally coming for Pongal. Fans are a bit disappointed as the movie got delayed too much, which may affect the film's prospects at the box office. However, Yevadu is carrying encouraging reports from the film circles.

Besides that Yevadu is the seventh film of Ram Charan. This is not an ordinary number. Current top heroes Pawan, Mahesh and NTR had delivered blockbuster with their respective seventh movies. Pawan's Khushi's success is still talked about even after a decade. NTR's seventh film was Simhadri and it is the biggest blockbuster for the star so far. He is yet to score another big hit of Simhadri's magnitude.

Mahesh Babu's career turned with his seventh film Okkadu. Until then he was struggling to find superstardom and after Okkadu there is no looking back. Going by this sentiment Charan should get a memorable hit with Yevadu. However, he has tasted success too early in his career. None of the above mentioned heroes tasted a big hit like Magadheera early in their career. But Charan is right now in need of a big hit as his previous film Thoofan was a total washout.

Varun showing determination already..

Determination, and it should be another initial to the Mega family heroes. Starting from Chiranjeevi to Pawan Kalyan to Naga Babu to Ram Charan to Allu Arjun to now the latest sensation Varun Tej who is yet to make his mark with his debut into Tollywood. They all have first digested this before embarking into acting.

Varun Tej, who’s debuting is showing his commitment to master the art of speaking Telugu in the Godavari ascent. Coming from Mega camp surrounded by star heroes it is no surprise that young and handsome Varun is taking all steps to make his debut a remarkable one in Telugu cinema.

It is learnt that Varun is attending top acting school in Mumbai and is getting hands on experience in filmy dances, fights and everything else needed to have a great debut into the industry as a hero.

Varun is also learning to Godavari accent as the story is based in the Godavari backdrop. Sreekanth Addala whose last has scored full marks (Can we say bonus too) for making a star hero like Mahesh speak in the Godavari ascent is taking all needed care to help Varun feel ease with dialogues.

All this pointing to one thing, Varun already passed criteria of becoming another star hero, a Mega Handsome hero, no?

Akkineni’s Hat-trick offer to Tamanna, Pawan kalyan will do supervision

Akkineni’s Hat-trick offer to Tamanna

Akkineni Family has special bonding with Tamanna Bhatia. Soon after “100% Love”, Tamanna achieved superb stardom in the industry. She got chance to work with the Mega Family heroes and later on, Tamanna stood in No.2 position in Tollywood after Kajal Agarwal.

When Tamanna has less films in hand, Akkineni family came forward to give one more opportunity to Tamanna. She acted in the film “Tadaka” with Naga Chaitanya. This film too got immense fame in the audience and expectations clouded on Tamanna and Naga Chaitanya.

Now, this pair is all set to taste hat-trick victory with the remake version of Punjabi film “Singh Vs Kaur”. Suresh Production is going to produce this venture and Tamanna is expected to build her track back again in Tollywood with the victory of this venture. Hope she achieves it!

Pawan kalyan will do supervision

Naga Babu seems to have gotten encouraged by the popularity his brothers Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan. He is aiming for a mega launch to his son Varun Tej.

Its learnt that Chiranjeevi gave green signal to the script for Varun Tej’s debut movie under Srikanth Addala’s direction. It is also learnt that the Power Star will have to give green signal to the dialogue version of Varun Tej’s film and the director is currently engaged in the same at his hometown.

Also Mega camp sources say that the Power Star will do the supervision of shoot of songs for the film, and we know that the title for the movie is confirmed as Golla Bhama. The movie will hit the shooting floors on the 1st day of January next year and Madhu (Tagore fame) and Nallamallapu Bujji will produce the class entertainer.  Mickey J Meyer would provide music for Golla Bhama and let us wait for more details of the movie.

Mega Vs Akkineni – fight for Jr Prince tag, New shade in Ram Gopal Varma

Mega Vs Akkineni – fight for Jr Prince tag

Mega Family and Akkineni Family are now having the most handsome guys in line for debut. Varun Teja from Mega Family and Akkineni Akhil from Akkineni Family are getting ready to hit the Tollywood box office in the coming years.

Mahesh is considered as the prince of Tollywood and the hero from one of these families can get the title of Junior Prince. Both these heroes are absolutely handsome and are having good craze in audience. “Who among these stars bags the title?” turned out to be a hot topic in the industry.

Chances are high for Varun Teja as his film is going to get released next year while Akhil’s debut is not yet confirmed. Varun Teja’s film under Srikanth Addala’s direction will hit the floors on January 1st, 2014. Heavy expectations are clouded on this venture. Lets see who wins the Jr.Prince tag.

New shade in Ram Gopal Varma

Controversial director Ram Gopal Varma is known for his serious face on the sets. Even though he looks absolutely serious on sets, he is stated to be a jovial person. His thinking style attracts several spectators and celebrities. Very few people saw him in anger emotion. Recently, the crew of “Satya – 2” saw him in that shade.

It is known that the film “Satya – 2” failed to impress audience to the peak. Responding on this, Ram Gopal Varma stated that the censor board official Dhanalakshmi delayed the release of this flick and hence the producer is facing financial issues. He further stated that he is going to register criminal case on Dhanalakshmi.

Few analysts are saying that Ram Gopal Varma rarely appears in this shade and he may register criminal case on Dhanalakshmi. On the other hand, few analysts are saying that RGV got immense publicity with this statement and it may help “Satya – 2” in increasing the collections further. This may halt RGV from registering criminal case on Dhanalakshmi.