Indian Regional Cinema

The Telegu Superstar Ram Charan Teja is working on a new love story called ‘Orange’. The film is being produced by the renowned Naga Babu under the banner of Anjana Productions. The film will be directed by the maverick director Bommarillu Bhaskar.

The actress Ananya, who played the role of Nallama in the film Nadodigal has bagged a new project in Mollywood. The talented actress will grace the screen in the upcoming Major Ravi film ‘Kandahar’. This movie is poised to be the biggest hit in the box office throughout India as it will have a huge star cast in the form of Big B Amitabh Bachchan, Mohanlal and Ganesh Venkatram.

It is a time for celebration as director Vinayan’s latest directorial venture Yakshiyum Njaanum is going to hit theatres tomorrow. Initially, he was denied permission to release the movie and was almost on the verge of shelving the project. However, the gain of the requisite permission has relieved him of the disturbing concerns.

Renowned Bengali movie director Prabhat Roy has signed two leading ladies Rituparna Sengupta and Raima Sen for his next venture titled Bhorer Alo. Interestingly, these two actresses play sisters again in this movie after Nishijapon by Sandip Ray.

Superstar Rajnikanth will be visiting Mumbai after 15 long years for the music release of his upcoming movie Robot. The Tamil audio was launched in Kuala Lumpur a couple of weeks ago, which happened to be a grand affair. Recently, the Telugu version The Robot too was launched at Hyderabad as superstars Chiranjeevi and Mohan Babu released the album.

The dance picturization for a song in the film Super took quite some time. It even extended the scheduled lunch break time. Actress Nayantara did not make her appearance in the media meet. She did not even permit media cameramen to get close to her.

Despite carrying favorable conditions to strike gold at box office, few films remain unreleased due to some constraints. Indeed, cinematographer Ravivarman’s debut directorial Moscowin Kaveri can be regarded as the best illustration. The film’s shooting was completed nearly a year ago and yet it is sealed inside the cans due to financial reasons.

Telugu movie Komaram Puli is again in the news and this time for the record-breaking success of its music. Sony BMG, which released the audio music album of the film, said that it has sold over 3 lakh audio CDs and about 6 lakh cassettes of the music within one month of its launch. This figure has set a new record in Tollywood music.

South Indian superstar Vikram has agreed to work in filmmaker Roshan Andrews’s next Malayalam flick for free. The Raavanan star wants to pay back to his audience for showing so much of affection to his movies.

Television actress Barkha Bisht is again going to shake her legs on an item number for a Bengali film titled Dui Prithibi. Recently, she was seen sizzling in an item number in Bollywood movie Rajneeti.

Kamal Haasan’s Manmadhan Ambu has completed 65% of the shooting in Venice. With few scenes and songs pending to be shot, producer Udhayanidhi Stalin is sure about releasing the film for Diwali. The other big ticket scheduled for Diwali release will be Vijay’s Kaval Kadhal.

One of the India’s most glamorous babes, Namitha, couldn’t find a perfect reason to rejoice as almost all her previous films had been a debacle at the box office.. But, the actress is now, on top of the world as her recent Telugu release ‘Simha’ has successfully completed 50 Days. The actress, who was in Mumbai for the past couple of months, is now flying back to Hyderabad for the success meet of the ‘Simha’ Team.