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May 1st is an important day for all the workers worldwide and also the most important day for a group of movie lovers in Tamil Nadu. Thala Ajith, the heartthrob of many Tamil film lovers is celebrating his birthday today [May 1st]
Ajith Kumar, one of the hot and happening stars in Kollywood is celebrating his 41st birthday today. Thala is the star who was born on International Workers Day and stand as a living example of hard work and self confidence. Ajith started his industry journey 20 years ago and still positioned as an icon in Tamil cinema.
Thala has debuted into films in 1992 through Telugu film Prema Pustakam and never looked back in his career so far till latest Mankatha, which has re-set the box-office records. Ajith is now gearing up to release his upcoming action thriller Billa 2 being directed by Chakri Toleti. Yuvan composed Billa 2 music album that is being aired by Sony Music is available in stores from today, while the teasers already released are making vibes online.
Ajith will soon join with his Billa director Vishnuvardhan along with stars Nayantara and Arya. Next to this Ajith will be doing a movie under RS Infotainment banner after which Thala will join ace director Venkat Prabhu for their next.
Join a2zBoxOffice to wish Ajith long years of exciting life and continue to bring new laurels to his mounting career & reach new horizons.
The first look of Vijay, Kajal starrer Thuppaki was leaked on the internet earlier today. A R Murugadoss is directing this bilingual film which is simultaneously being shot in Tamil and Telugu. Santosh Sivan is the cinematographer and Harris Jayaraj is composing the music. Vijay is reportedly playing an encounter specialist in the film and most of it was shot in and around Mumbai and Pune. Interestingly, Santosh Sivan did a special photoshoot for the film for the first time in his career and the first look of the film has reportedly stunned Vijay’s fans. Earlier this year, Vijay, Jiiva, Sriram and Ileana starrer Nanban was dubbed in Telugu as Snehitudu, although it didn’t do too well. Thuppaki has enough fire power in its belly to impress even the Telugu audience, thanks to the presence of noted names like Kajal, A R Murugadoss, Santosh Sivan and Harris Jayaraj. But can Vijay find a breakthrough in the Telugu market like Vikram, Suriya and Karthi have managed in recent years? Lets wait and watch.
Kamal Haasan has always been at the forefront of using the latest technology available when it comes to his films. Now, we hear that he has joined Facebook to keep in touch with his fans. His spokesman, Nikil Murugan revealed, “Ulaganayagan launched his official Facebook. Send a request to maiam.mag@gmail.com from your fb search to know more news & connected.” Over the past few months, Kamal Haasan was busy filming for his upcoming trilingual film Vishwaroopam, which will soon release in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. He has played the lead role in the film apart from writing, directing and co-producing it. Prasad V Potluri has also co-produced the film on PVP Cinemas banner. Apart from Kamal Haasan, the film also stars Rahul Bose, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah and Sekhar Kapoor. The film is reportedly based on the theme of global terrorism. Vishwaroopam’s first look is already out on the web and it’s going to hit the screens later this year.
Ram Charan is right now in Mumbai shooting for his Bollywood debut Zanjeer. Charan is playing the role of a tough cop in this movie. His look from this film is officially not revealed yet. Here is a picture of Charan where he posed for camera on the sets of Zanjeer.
Charan is working out for hours at the gym to suit the role of a cop. Few sections of media are speculating that Charan will appear shirtless in this film. Priyanka Chopra is playing the female lead. Director Apoorva Lakhia is expecting this film to do well in Bollywood as well as in the southern circuit too.
Zanjeer might release during next summer. Ram Charan will soon return to Hyderabad and start fresh schedule for Vinayak’s film.
Even though away from Tollywood from a long time, Anuskha’s admirers in Tollywood remain the same. Apparently, the wait for this sexy actress to be seen on the big screen continues. However, anushka seems to be pretty impressed with one heroine from B-town who happens to be Vidya Balan. Yes, these days our Sweety is going gaga over Vidya’s achievement with two flicks viz. ‘The Dirty Picture’ and ‘Kahaani.’
‘She is daring enough to zero on those bold roles which are usually neglected by established actresses. Such inspiring performances by Vidya made me to try something different. In fact, I too have similar traits of Vidya to pick up challenging roles and excel in them,’ said anushka. Latest buzz is that, anushka has been approached to play the pregnant lady reprising Vidya’s character in Southern version of ‘Kahaani.’
Ram Gopal Varma, the name is considered the personification of pure talent and genius. At the same time, the name is also notorious for the least importance towards feelings like love. So it is natural that a man like Ramu would find it hard to show compassion towards certain things or individuals.
Anyways, all those perceptions about him are getting cleared one by one. The latest we see is Ramu’s gesture which seems to have wiped the tears of Lakshmi Manchu. Apparently, the Manchu girl was expressing few bitter feelings about not being projected properly in her new movie ‘Department’.
Now, Ramu has released a song from the film titled as ‘Kammo’ and it has our lady dressed elegantly and shaking a leg. Buzz is that since Lakshmi was worried that she was not being projected maybe that’s why Ramu released this video. She is seen as Sanjay Dutt’s wife in the film.
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We have been discussing about NTR Junior's declining power of dances. Dammu movie proved that NTR is not the best anymore for whatever the reason be! NTR will have to come up with the best to compete with Allu Arjun, who is sitting pretty on top. Even Ram Charan fluid dance moves are setting the temperatures high.
At this point one more challenge is thrown at the young tiger. It is from the little yet energetic hero Ram. This hero is one of the best dancers in Tollywood now. He is putting in extra efforts like Bunny and is trying to introduce new dance moves to Telugu audience. In his upcoming film Endukante Premanta, Ram has done few sensational dances which would give any top dancer run for their money.
A slickly cut song teaser itself had many scintillating dance moves of Ram. He promises his fans a dance treat with this movie. It is high time for Tarak to realize the fact that his fans are going restless to see their matinee idol dancing like a live wire. Tarak, wake up before the competition gets tough and tougher.
Although critics and reviewers usually belittle mass films with poor ratings and adverse backbites, our Telugu audience always adored these kinds of flicks majority of times. When it comes to presence of big heroes like junior ntr or Ramcharan, obviously the success rate gets further brighter. Recent example of ‘Dammu’ throws more light on the strength of a Telugu mass masala film.
In spite of disheartening reviews and divided mouth talk reported on first day, now fresh reports from overseas, Nizam area and few centers in Coastal Andhra are proving of ‘Dammu’ being set to play a long innings creating new industry records. One of our close US trade sources was happy to share that, many of the exhibitors in overseas are getting near to breakeven with in the first week and ‘Dammu’ might even offer them profits. This is good news.
Coming to domestic market, we have heard of Dil Raju already added more theatres in Nizam area looking at the response from audience. As per our reports, same applies for theatres in Kakinada, Bhimavaram where housefuls have become quite common for ‘Dammu.’ So, Nandamuri Fans are flying their collars saying, ‘When it is junior ntr on the screen…who cares for reviews?’
A look at the recent audio releases and the films releasing makes you clear about one thing, films are made for fans. But experts say that there is a difference between fans and audiences. Here goes the story!
Filmmakers like Boyapati and Harish Shankar recently gave statements that they are making films keeping the taste of fans in view to match their expectations. Are these directors and their star heroes distancing from audiences with these statements is a big question now. If only Mahesh fans had watched 'Pokiri' and 'Dookudu', both could not garner huge collections. 'Businessman' failed to recreate magic, because the film is intended only for fans. 'Magadheera' became a big hit only due to the viewership of all heroes' fans but not just mega-fans. Irrespective of the mega-craze, 'Racha' is able to collect its investment back, but didn't turn up a trend setter.
Critics say that directors should change their mindsets to make movies for 'audience' but not just for 'fans'. With their fan-loving movies, industry will get work but it cannot get a page for itself in history. Till date, 2012 has not seen a proper movie that is loved by all sections of audiences. Let us see if any director could come up with a movie that everyone loves to watch!
The first religion of Tollywood is none other than 'cinema'. Now, there is a serious rise of the followers of this particular theme called 'Pawanism', making it the second largest religion of cine-folks.
From directors to actors to producers who worked with Powerstar Pawan Kalyan, it has become a habit to describe their hero as a God. If a couple of producers and directors say this, we can write off it as an exaggeration. What if, the whole of Tollywood's folks keep chanting the word 'Pawan', making 'Pawanism' the second religion of Telugu Cinema Industry. 'It is not because of his stardom, but due to his attitude and abnormal human qualities', felt a film critic. People like Raviteja and Ram rose to stardom only after imitating Pawan Kalyan in their initial movies. Others like Ganesh, Harish Shankar and Karunakaran got their break only after associating with him and hence they show that extreme courtesy. Top directors like Rajamouli, Sreenu Vytla and Trivikram die to make movies with Pawan, because of his extreme down to earth nature.
Even audiences love Pawan Kalyan from the bottom of their heart and that is the reason for his flop movies to recover the full investment. They say it is difficult to peel out the reasons behind this craze for Pawan, but his positive energy and helping nature are one of the facts that create vibrations in the hearts of his fans. Interestingly, this 'Pawanism' has fans of many heroes as its followers.
