‘Leader’s first week collections from Nizam

 The latest news is that ‘Leader’ has collected Rs.1.72 crores in first week alone from Nizam territory. AVM Productions produced this film and Geetha Arts bought the complete rights for this film. Rana’s performance, Shekar Kammula’s direction and dialogues have struck the right chord with people. The film is doing considerably well in the A-centres across the state. The lead females in the movie Richa Gangopadhyay and Priya Anand also made their debut in Tollywood.

‘Leader’ Premiere show tonight in Hyderabad

Shekar Kammula’s latest film ‘Leader’ is just a day away from its grand worldwide release. Rana is making his debut with this film. AVM Studios is producing the film. Richa Gangopadhyay and Priya Anand are also making their debut in Telugu with this film. The film will have its premiere in Hyderabad in Prasad’s IMAX Theater later tonight. Several bigies and members from film industry are expected to come for the premiere.

‘Leader’ Releasing Tomorrow

The much-awaited Rana Daggubati starrer and Shekar Kammula’s branded film "Leader" will be hitting screens tomorrow on Februray 19, 2010.The prestigious AVM film production is making this film. Tagore Madhu has obtained the rights for the film distribution in Andhra region.Music is scored by Mickey J Mayer.The film stars debutants Richa Gangopadhyay and Priya Anand as heroines. Suman and Suhasini Mani Ratnam played special roles.
 
This movie subject directly relates to politics. It is learnt that Director Sekhar kammula want to show the people how a leader should be and what qualities he should have to be a leader. The current political scenario of the state certainly needs an eye opening film like Leader.

‘Leader’ logo Shirts Launched officially

The ‘LEADER’ collection was officially launched at the Hallmark stores on Valentine’s Day. Director Sekhar Kammula and lead heroine Richa Gangopadhyay presented the ‘Leader’ collection of Shirts, T Shirts, and Scarves.
 
Reasonably priced and available in a variety of colors the ‘Leader’ collection is available at all Hallmark and Landmark stores across the state. Richa bought the first shirt and scarf for as a valentine’s gift. Sekhar Kammula encouraged everyone to buy these shirts and support the Leadership spirit.

Leader is in Trouble

Sekhar Kammula’s forthcoming ’Leader’ starring RaNa is all set to hit the screens on 19th of February. But the film is in trouble with the logo not the story or title. The title design of Leader is facing this legal trouble.
 

Mr. Ramana Murthy, hailing from Vizag runs a daily Newspaper (Evening edition) with same title ’ Leader’, which is similar to the movie logo.
 
Mr. Ramanamurthy has issued legal notices to RaNa, Director Shekar Kammual and AVM for using this tile without his permission.

Leader Release Postponed Again!

Daggubati Rana’s debut film ‘Leader’ movie which was slated for a release on Feb 11th is now postponed to Feb19th due to the distribution problems. Allu Aravind’s Geeta Arts has bought the rights of ‘Leader’ film all over A.P except Vizag and Ceeded areas.

The movie is directed by the hat-trick director Shekar Kammula and is produced by M.Saravanan, M.S.Guhan, Aruna Guhan and Aparna Guhan under the AVM Productions banner. This is 174th film for AVM Productions. Mickey J Meyer has composed the music and Thota Tharani is the art director and production designer. Richa Gangopadhya and Priya Anand, new comers, are starring as heroines.

Geetha Arts Acquires 'Leader' Rights in AP

The mega banner ‘Geeta arts’ seems to be going high these days. Geeta Arts that has bagged the several big budget films rights has now bought the rights of Daggubati Rana’s ‘Leader’ film. The banner has earlier acquired Avatar which is a biggest hit, Pawan Kalyan’s ‘Komaram Puli’ and Mahesh-Trivikram’s latest film.

According to sources, Geetha Arts has made this deal with AVM Productions and Suresh Productions for an undisclosed amount. If sources are to be believed, the mega banner has asked the producers of the film, AVM productions to postpone the film’s release so that the film would be promoted highly and will be able to release in best theatres in the state. Taking all these issues into consideration, the final date of its release will be informed soon.

‘Leader’ In Copy Right Controversy

Shekar Kammula’s directorial ‘Leader’ with Rana as a debutant is landed with copy right controversy. Writer Shiva, who works in film industry, claimed that the basic idea behind the story of Leader is his own and he also filed a complaint in writers association against director Shekar Kammula and has demanded a compensation of Rs.25lakhs.

On the other way Shekar Kammula refused with his statement and said, “ I need not to lift somebody else story to make my film. I still have number of concepts in my brain for my future projects. If, I agree to pay even a single rupee it proves that I really copied his story “.

”While the ongoing Andhra-Telangana agitations are severely affecting the film industry, this kind of claims will further ruin the producers,” he added.

Leader movie is made with 17 Crore Budget

 

Sekhar Kammula’s leader with RaNa is all set to release on 11th of February. As for inside sources says that the film is made with huge budget of Rs17 Crores and the film took 200 days shoot to complete. It is a huge amount for new hero’s film.
 
Kota Srinivasa Rao, Suhasini, Tanikella Bharani, Subbaraju, Ahuti Prasad, Gollapudi Maruti Rao, Suman, Harshavardhan and Rao Ramesh are in other roles. Mickey J. Meyer is composing the music.