Deepavali saw mega budget releases in Bollywood with Om Shanti Om and Saawariya. But closer home in Tollywood, there haven€™t been any huge releases. We have had just one release on Deepavali and that is Tarun€™s Nava Vasantam. Incidentally, the film is the remake of…

Lots of hype has worked well for Mahesh Babu€™s Athidhi, as the film is a treat for all his fans. There is everything that one can expect from a Mahesh film -- plenty of well choreographed action with amazing visual effects and stunts, sentiment and…

Thulasi is everything and more of what one can expect from a commercial mass entertainer. It€™s bang on and packs in all the elements that make a film a box-office success. Director Srinu manages to throw in the right sentiments in the right proportions to…

It is quite surprising that almost all the films like 'Yamagola, Yamudiki Mogudu, Yamaleela and Pittala Dora' with 'Yama' concept were hits and blockbusters. Especially, senior artiste Kaikala Satyanarayana is well-known for playing that mythological character with utmost ease and a point to be noted…

Director Gautham is very good at moulding police subjects on the celluloid. He is also well-known among the Telugu audiences as he had directed 'Gharshana' with Victory Venkatesh as hero. It is no exaggeration to say that whenever the Tamil and Malayalam producers plan a…

Vishal, the young Tamil hero, is quite popular among the Andhra audiences with his dubbed films like 'Bharani, Pandemkodi and Pogaru' which were also proved hits in Telugu. In fact, he is a Telugu youth, but was brought up in Chennai and made his debut…

Though the sons of heroes and producers making their entry into the films is not new to the Telugu film industry, the debut appearance of Ram Charan is something different. While Balakrishna, Harikrishna, NT Rama Rao (junior) and for that matter Maheshbabu made their debut…

Shekhar Kammula made his debut into films with 'Dollar Dreams'. Later, he ventured into Telugu films and his first movie 'Anand' starring Raja and Kamalini Mukherjee, was a big hit as it was a different from routine film. As the tagline of the film suggested,…

Though Samudra is known to be a specialist in remakes, he failed to make it this time. Kalyanram, who had no notable hits in his career tried his hand as a producer and succeeded to get a blockbuster, 'Athanokkade' in the direction of Surender Reddy.…

Director Puri Jagannath tried to promote his brother Sairam Shankar as solo hero through '1-4-3' produced and directed by himself on the banner of Vaishno Academy. However, the film failed to make it big. Later, Sairam Shankar played small time roles in a couple of…