He is said to have donned the role of a music director in King
film and the runtime of his role is said to be around 30
minutes. King is all set to release on 24 of December.

Ticket rates increased
Good news to the December big flicks like Neninthe and King.
The Government has passed GO today evening to increase the
ticket rate of upper stalls to Rs. 50/- and Rs. 35/- for A/C
and non-A/C theaters respectively. These rates will be in
effect from 19 December 2008 onwards. This ticket rate is going
to help Neninthe and King films immensely.

Geeta Krishna to direct a thriller
Geeta Krishna (of Kokila fame) has not been directing any films
in the past one decade. He is planning to direct a suspense
thriller in the first half of 2009. He is going to produce it
on his own banner. More details later.

17th December 2008

Maska audio on 21 December
Music of Ram’s latest film Maska will be launched by Aditya
music on 21 December. The album will be available in the mark
on 24 December. Chakri composed music. Kandikonda penned lyrics
for all the six songs. Hansika Motwani and Sheila are doing
female leads. B Gopal directs this mass masala film. Shoot of
talkie part of the film is complete. Maska will be released on
14 January 2009.

Vishnu becomes a fighter
Actor Vishnu Manchu has taken membership in AP Fighters
Association. Tammareddy Bharadwaja gave the membership to
Vishnu on behalf of the union. Speaking on this eve Vishnu said
that he has tremendous respect to the profession of fights and
he personally like stunts a lot. He promised that he would chip
in some help in organizing seminars and workshops about action
choreography by flying in Hollywood technicians.

Three releases this week
This week is witnessing releases of big film Neninthe and small
films Nachavule and Chedugudu. Neninthe is expected to be a
hard hitting film about film industry. Puri Jagan – Ravi Teja’s
Neninthe is releasing on 18th December. Ravi Babu’s Nachavule
is made with new faces on Ramoji Rao’s Usha Kiron Movies
banner. Nachavule is releasing on 19th December. Actor Bhanu
Chandar’s son Jayanth’s debut film Chedugudu is also releasing
on 19 December.

16th December 2008

Feminists fume at Neninthe
Feminists and female politicians raised their objection on the
poster publicity of Puri Jagan’s latest film Neninthe. Women
activist Sandhya, politicians Nannapaneni Raja Kumari and Ganga
Bhavani strongly objected to scantly clad heroine being
projected in poster designs. Their protest comes in the wake of
eve-teasing and atrocities against women. The more they
protest, the more it is going to help the publicity of 18
December release Neninthe.

Will ticket hike GO be issued?
YSR announced that he would be issuing a GO (Government Order)
which will allow the exhibitors to hike the ticket price up to
Rs. 50/- for upper stalls. However, the GO is not released so
far. Neninthe – a big film- is all set to release on 18
December. And Neninthe is unlikely to receive this benefit. We
have to wait and see if this GO will be released before
Nagarjuna King’s release (24 December). A movie that is capable
of collecting 10 crores in the first week will collected only 7
crores if the prices are not hiked.

Ashta Chemma Bhargavi murdered
Actress Bhargavi (Ashta Chemma fame) died at her residence
(behind cancer hospital in Banjara Hills) today. Her dead body
is found along with that of Bujji (supposed to be her
husband/lover). There are injuries (eight knife marks) on the
body of Bhargavi. But there is no sign of any injury on Bujji’s
body. A poison bottle was found at the crime scene. A suicide
notes was found. Cops are suspecting that Bujji has murdered
Bhargavi before consuming poison. (detailed article here).