Trisha’s presence makes the mob go unruly.

Trisha Gallery We have come across many stories where the presence of heroes and heroines create havoc when they appear in public places. One such incident happened recently at the Chennai Airport, and the cause was none other than the most wanted heroine of South India, Trisha Krishnan. Usually the directors prefer to shoot public places in the sets and many such scenes involving the airport have been shot at the Birla Planetorium, Guindy. One main reason why the directors prefer to shoot in the sets is that it is not an easy task to get the permission from the air port authorities, and secondly it also attracts a lot of crowd which becomes a security concern. But the ‘Abhiyum Naanum’ team prefers to be different. For a natural effect, the team decided to shoot a scene at the Chennai Airport. There is a scene in ‘Abhiyum Naanum’ where Trisha is pictured returning from a foreign country. On seeing Trisha shooting for this scene at the airport a huge crowd gathered to cheer their favorite heroine. This caused a major delay and inconvenience from around 10 pm to 6 am the following morning for the passengers, some of whom were even stranded. But the ‘Abhiyum Naanum’ team was hell bent on doing things its way and called for a pack up only after the required take was ok!

'King' begins shoot

The shooting of a film directed by Sreenu Vaitla and produced by Siva Prasada Reddy on the banner of Kamakshi Kala Movies was formally launched with a simple function at Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad on April 30, away from the publicity blitzkrieg. Akkineni Nageswara Rao gave the clap, while Smt Amala switched on the camera for the muhurat shot. 'King' is the title under consideration for the movie. Trisha is pairing up with Nagarjuna in this flick. Devisri Prasad is scoring music. Sources in Film Nagar say that the film would be a hilarious entertainer. Presently, Sreenu Vaitla is busy giving final touches for 'Ready' with Ram of Devadasu fame as hero. The regular shooting of 'King' is most likely to begin from May 20.

Trivikram-Mahesh combo begins shoot

Shooting of a film with Maheshbabu as hero and Trisha as heroine produced by Singanamala Ramesh under the direction of popular writer cum director Trivikram Srinivas was launched at Padmalaya Studios in Hyderabad on April 30. Super Star Krishna, Vijayanirmala attended the function as guests. It is worth mentioning here that the combination of Trivikram, Mahesh and Trisha in 'Athadu' had achieved a big hit. Hence the film is evoking high expectations. The regular shooting of the film is likely to begin in June.

Industry to lift ban on Asin

Albeit late south Indian actress Asin sent a letter to the Nadigar Sangam explaining why she could participate in the agitation. The Sangam had sent out letters demanding explanations from those who had not participated. Most had sent in their responses but Asin, who had been shooting in Mumbai for the Hindi ’Ghajini,’ sent in her explanation yesterday.

She mentioned that she had to participate for a function in Mumbai where she was a brand ambassador and hence could not participate in the hunger strike. The actress added that in future she would definitely participate in all programs organised by the Tamil film field and Nadigar Sangam. With this the ban seems to be totally lifted.

Sreesanth in telugu film

Cricketer Sreesanth had received many hindi film offers but he didn’t atke it up because of the long schedules. He was however okay working for a film that would not hinder his cricketing schedule.

The rumour doing the rounds is Sreesanth had okayed a telugu film in which four heroines will be working too. The producer of the film is not yet known but the story it is said to revolving around a cricketer’s life. Sreesanth being an excellent dancer the film will have it’s advantage.

Mohan Babu in Pandurangadu

Mohan Babau is yet again making a guest appearance in Pandurangadu. He will be playing a rishi’s role. If you recollect he worked in Yamadonga and also is working in Bujjigadu Made In Chennai. Recently some shots featuring him were picturised. He had earlier worked in K Raghavendra Rao’s Annamaiyya too.

Meera to be disowned by AMMA!

Meera Jasmine, the mercurial actress is to be issued a show cause notice by Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA). All top Malayalam stars like Mammootty, Mohanlal, and Dileep have insisted that action be taken against her “for not giving dates to Twenty:20, a film being produced by AMMA”! Meera Jasmine is one actress whom everybody in Malayalam film industry loves to hate. They all say-“Whenever Meera wants something, she will cuddle up to you and get it. But the moment you ask her for a favour, she looks through you.” Dileep who is producing Twenty:20, for AMMA in which 67 artists are involved had asked Meera for eight days of her call sheet. Dileep was shocked when she told him that she is too busy doing films in three languages in south, and can’t find time to do the film. Dileep is reported to have told her that she is not as busy as Nayanthara, the “Queen of South India”, who found time and did an item song in the film for five days! This made Meera see red and from then she refused to take any call from AMMA. Mohanlal and Mammootty who are definitely more busy than Meera, found time to act in the film. They also feel that she has an “attitude problem”, and in the past she has made critical comments about them. Now Bhavana will replace Meera in the film. But what has irked AMMA the most is that after saying she has no dates, Meera has gone and given director Kamal bulk dates for his Minnaminikootam! Recently on the sets of Inathe Chintavishyam, she made the unit wait, for four hours during the shoot of a song. Mohanlal, Sathyan Anthikad planned to shoot the song early in the morning at 6 am in a botanical garden near Theni, but the production manager reported that “Madam was sleeping in her room”. When Meera finally came to the location around 10 am, she tried to ease the tension by asking the unit members the name of the flowers at the botanical garden. She went up to Mohanlal, who was upset by her late arrival and asked him the name of a particular flower. Meera - Lal etta ithu entho poova? (what is the name of this flower?) Mohanlal - Ithu kshamayude poo aanu mole..(This is called Patience flower dear!) His cryptic reply made the entire unit burst into a laugh, on the last day of the shoot reports moviebuzz.

Genelia to do Bommarillu in Hindi

Genelia is all set to create a new record! She will be playing Haasini's character that she played in Bommarillu in Hindi too.

She has already done the same role in Tamil (Santosh Subramanyam) recently and won accolades too. You could not imagine any other actress in that role.

Producer Boney Kapoor has acquired the remake rights of Bommarillu for Hindi and is remaking it under the direction of Anees Bazmi. The film will begin shortly.

Harman Baweja who makes debut in Love 2050 (yet to be released) is playing the lead role. Genelia confirms the news. "Yes, I have signed the film and will be shooting for it shortly," she told us.

Great going, Genelia!

Parugu Movie Review Parugu photos

Jeevi rating: 3/5
Punchline: subbalakshmi lechipoyindi
Genre: Love
Type: Straight
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations

Cast: Allu Arjun, Sheila, Prakash Raj, Poonam Bajwa, Jayasudha, Subbaraju, Jayaprakash Reddy, Sunil, Chitram Seenu, Srinivasa Reddy, Jeeva, Ragini, Delhi Rajeswari etc

Dialogues: BVS Ravi
Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: Vijay K. Chakravarthy
Art: Anand Sai
Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Ananth Sriram, Chandrabose
Co-Producers: Sirish-Laxman
Presenter: Smt. Anitha
Producer: Raju
Story, Screenplay & Direction: Bhaskar
Release date: 1 Mayl 2008

Review

Story

Neelakanta (Prakash Raj) is a powerful man in his village who doesn’t believe in love marriages. He has two daughters. His elder daughter Subbalakshmi (Poonam Bajwa) elopes with a guy called Babu from a lower class on the night of her arranged marriage. Neelakanta men kidnap all the friends of Babu. Krishna (Allu Arjun) – a happy go lucky guy from Hyderabad – is one among them. Krishna likes a girl called Meena (Sheila) who happens to be the younger daughter of Neelakanta. The rest of the story is all about whether Krishna elopes with Meena or convinces Neelakanta to marry her.

Artists Performance

Allu Arjun: Allu Arjun is pretty excellent in the first half as the characterization in the first half is vibrant and needs loads of energy. He carried the entire first half on his shoulders. His steps in 'elagelaga' song are really cool. He excelled in the emotional scenes in the second half.

Others: Sheila is average in the film. A better looking girl would have added value to the film. Her character is also poorly etched. The comedy by friends gang is good, especially that of Sunil. Prakash Raj is good as the possessive father of girls. Sahaja Nati Jayasudha is pretty good as usual in the limited role given to her as the lovely mother of hero. Poonam Bajwa is adequate. Subbaraju is good.

Technical Departments:

Story - screenplay - direction: The basic story line is an interesting one. The way director penned screenplay in the first half is good. The interval block is nice. But it is extremely difficult to write screenplay for the second half and director seems to have faltered in the second half. There is ambiguity and a bit of confusion towards the climax and director settled for a tweaked version of DDLJ climax. Direction of the film is good in the first half. But he could not effectively translate the emotions on the screen in the second half. Bhaskar should have worked more on the characterizations. There is no individuality to the character of heroine as she behaves just the way hero wants her to. The characterization of Prakash Raj character is bit confusing in the second half.

Music: Music by Mani Sharma is good. Mani Sharma gave Hollywood texture to the background music (especially the instruments used). Picturization of the songs is pretty good. Allu Arjun's costumes would have been taken care of in 'parugulu teeyake pasidaana' song though the song is supposed to be whacky. The steps Allu Arjun did for 'elagelaga' are excellent.

Other departments: There is not much scope for witty dialogues in the film. But BVS Ravi managed to tickle your funny bones in the first half. Some of the dialogues are natural. Cinematography by Vijay K Chakravarthy is good. The graphics work done to the film should have been better. Artwork by Anand Sai is appropriate. Editing is adequate. Production values by Dil Raju are excellent.


Analysis: First half is good and entertaining with nice ambiance. The movie's tempo goes down as soon as the gang shifts to Hyderabad in the second half. The climax of the film appears little hesitant and ambiguous. The plus points of the film are energetic performance by Allu Arjun and well made first half. On the flip side, the emotions in the second half don't work and the movie lacks soul. We have to wait and see how this film fares at box office.

Kantri in 1000 theatres!

Tollywood is getting ready with some cool flicks for summer. And guess how many theatres are being roped in for the releases?

There’s Parugu, Kantri and Pandurangadu - the big-budget movies that are getting released in over a thousand theatres! KRR also plans to release Pandurangadu in a thousand other theatres.

Kantri, starring Jr. NTR and the teen sensation Hansika, may be delayed due to post production work and also non-availability of theatres. In all probability Kantri will be released on May 9.

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Priya Mani with Nitin

Priya Mani has been looking for offers desperately for some time. She acted in films like Pellaina Kotthalo, Toss, Bhayya, etc. She also acted in Yamadonga opposite Jr. NTR. But it was another co-star from the film, Mamata Mohandas, who has bagged more offers than Priya Mani.

Priya Mani also made a statement some time back that she would only act with young heroes. This has also resulted in her not getting many new offers.

She has now bagged a role opposite Nitin in a new film to be made by T.V. Kumar, a newcomer who will direct this film. Kelly Dorjee and Dr. Sivakumar will play special roles in the film.

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How many for Rajni?

Rajinikanth, the demi-god of Kollywood, is speculated as romancing five heroines in his latest film, Kucheludu.

Nayanatara’s his leading lady but he will also be boogeying with four other heroines for a song that will be shot at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad.

Mamta Mohandas is one name finalized and Sneha is in the running.

The film's shooting is making headway at the special set erected in RFC. Directed by P. Vasu, the film will be shot simultaneously in Tamil and Telugu. Jagapathi Babu will be part of the Telugu version, while Pasupathi will appear in Tamil.

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Mamta Mohandas in Tollywood

Actress Mamta Mohandas is playing the role of heroine in Aata. The movie has Bommarillu fame Siddhardha as the hero. M.S.Raju was the one who stood firm to cast Mamta in this movie. He was the one who introduced Reema Sen, Bhoomika and Charmi. This actress is also busy in Tamil and Malayalam. She lives in Bangalore and is a well trained actress and a wonderful dancer. In Malluwood she has acted with top heroes like, Mammootty, Jayaram and Suresh Gopi. At the moment she has a movie in Tamil with G.K.Reddy's son Vishal. Tollywood is gearing up to welcome Mamta in a grand way.

'Parugu' in theatres from tomorrow!

View Parugu Gallery The film 'Parugu' sees Allu Arjun and Sheela playing the romantic lead. The film is directed Bhaskar and produced by Dil Raju. Recently the hero of the film inaugurated a website named www.paruguthemovie.com. The team came up with this site exclusively for updating the audiences about the latest developments taking place concerning this film. The movie lovers can log on to the site and share their view regarding the film with the team. There was also a press meet that was held yesterday, April 29, 2008 where the producer of the film confirmed that the film will hit theatres tomorrow May 1, 2008. 'Parugu' was scanned by the censor board recently and it passed with a clean chit of U certificate from the censors. Allu Arjun, speaking during the press meet said that he had wanted to do an entertainer from the time he saw 'Bommarillu', and that wish has been fulfilled with this film. He has also stated that his character in this film is sure to standout and the film would entertain all the section of audience. 'Parugu' is being brought out by Sri Venkateshwara Cine Creations banner and the director is the film is hopeful that this film will be as successful as 'Bommarillu'. The main cast of the film includes Allu Arjun, Sheela, Prakash Raj, Sunil, 'Chitram' Sinu, Dhanraj, Srinivas Reddy and Poonam Bhajwa among others. Enjoy the film going to the theatres and not on pirated cds.