TOLLYWOOD- Gossips & NEWS

Kajal Aggarwal bags Kamal's film?

Kajal Aggarwal has been climbing her career ladder fast with hit films with stars like Karthi, Suriya, and Vijay in Kollywood. She has been starring opposite some of the top-ranking heroesin Kollywood and Tollywood. Looks like the pretty actress who is working Vijay for the second time in 'Jilla' is now all set to move over to the bigger league.

The latest buzz is that Kajal Agarwal has bagged the offer to share the screen space with Kamal Haasan in the film produced by Lingusamy's Tirupati Brothers. The interesting aspect of the film is that Thuppakki heroine will not only get to star with the legendary actor but also be directed by him.

Lingusamy had recently confirmed that Kamal Haasan and he are teaming up for a project, which will commence from October this year. This will be Kamal's next film after Viswaroopam 2and that Kamal will direct this film and also act in it.

Prabhas is the highest paid actor in Tollywood?

If the sources are to be believed, Prabhas is being paid Rs 20 crore for the period drama Bahubali. If that is indeed true, it would make him the highest paid actor in Tollywood.

Sources close to the actor say, Prabhas is not very particular about the remuneration and what matters to him most is the script, the production team and the quality of the product and brush aside the figure as mere speculation.

As per the Trade Pundits, Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu and Jr NTR are the only actors being paid in excess of Rs10 crore per movie.

There is no denying, that popularity of Prabhas has grown immensely in the past two years. His last release Mirchi went on to be a huge success establishing him as one of the biggest crowd pullers in the industry.

Source: gulte.com

Nara Rohit in a crime drama

Actor Nara Rohit is all set to show a whole new side of him in his new film, Shankara. Director Tatineni Satyaprakash reveals,"This film will definitely be an interesting one in his career, performance-wise. He plays a college student, who unknowingly becomes part of a crime which changes his life completely." While Regina Cassandra plays the leading lady, John Vijay is making his Tollywood debut as a villian. The movie is said to be a remake of the hit Tamil film, Mouna Guru.

"It is a challenging project for me and I am confident that this film will be a big hit in Nara Rohit's career," adds Satyaprakash. Interestingly, this will be the third remake in Tatineni Satya's career. In the past, he had directed Siva Manasulo Shruti and Bheemli Kabaddi Jattu, which were also remakes of Tamil films.

Ravi Teja to hum in his next film

Ravi Teja is all set to join the likes of Mahesh Babu and Pawan Kalyan very soon. The actor famous for his witty dialogues, in particular his unique style in dialogue delivery will soon be lending his voice for a song. Yes, its true, we will be hearing Ravi Teja sing in his upcoming movie Balupu.

We have heard many actor in Tollywood singing in their movies. Chiranjeevi in Master, Nagarjuna isSeethaiah, Jr NTR in Adurs, Yamadonga and Kantri, Nithin in Ishq, Siddharth in Love Failure, Mahesh Babu in Businessman and now it is Ravi Teja's turn to sing in his movie Balupu.

It was actually the director Gopichand Mallineni and composer Thaman's idea to make Ravi Teja sing. The actor obliged immediately when he heard this. Ravi Teja will be singing for the first time in this movie. The director and composer felt that the peppy lyrics of the song will be much more interesting if Ravi Teja would sing it.

The fans of Ravi Teja will have something more to look forward to in this movie along with some guaranteed entertainment. We will have to wait for the movie to see if the movie will be successful in delivering the expectations that tag along a Ravi Teja's movie or not.

Singam 2 to release as Singam in Telugu

Suriya, Anushka and Hansika are teaming up for Singam 2, which is being released as Singam in Telugu. The prequel film Singam has hit the screens in Tollywood with the title Yamudu and turned out to be a grand hit.

The producers of the film have finalized Singam title for the Telugu version. Hari is wielding the megaphone for the movie and Anjali has appeared in a special song. The shooting schedules of the film have been completed and the first look teaser trailer will be unveiled shortly. Devi Sri Prasad composed the musical scores for the movie.

How difficult it is to shoot a film in 3D –Allari Naresh

Allari Naresh starrer Action 3D is slated for June 7th release and the hero pinned a lot of hopes on this project. The film is directed by Anil Sunkara. The film is touted to be a India’s first 3D comedy film.

In a recent interview, Allari Naresh revealed how difficult it is to shoot a film in 3D and for one action shot, he had to do a mindblowing 78 retakes! ” Since the 3D camera doesn’t have a zoom in option, we have to be at three feet distance from the camera to get the desired close up shot. For one of the action shots, I had to do 78 retakes. I had to jump six feet in the air to land a punch that’ll end exactly 3 feet from the camera. I had to shoot from 8 pm to 6 am for a single shot,” he revealed.

The film features Shyaam, Vaibhav, Raju Sundaram, Neelam Upadhyaya, Sneha Ullal, Sheena, Kamna Jethmalani and Ritu Barmecha. Sudeep is playing a prominent role. Music of the film has been scored by Bappa-Bappi Lahari and S S Thaman has composed the background score.