Veturi Sundararama Murthy Passed Away - Died of Heart Attack

  

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Veturi Sundararama Murthy (29 January 1936 - 22 May 2010) (popularly known as Veturi) is a Telug poet more popular for his film songs. He is a disciple of the legendary Viswanatha Satyanarayna.

Early life

Veturi was born in kolluru near Tenali located in Guntur district in AP, in a Telugu Brahmin family.

Career

While working as a journalist, Veturi got his first break in movies through Dr.K.Viswanath. Later, he would go on to pen hundreds of songs. NT Rama Rao, the legendary actor of Telugu movies, did a number of movies with him.

He worked as journalist for prominent magazines like Andhra Patrika and Andhra Prabha before becoming a lyricist. Veturi wrote a large variety of songs ranging from classic poetry to the folk and mass ones. He is also the second lyricist from Telugu film indurstry to win the National Film Award for Best Lyrics for the song Raalipoye puvva neeku ragaalenduke from the Movie Maathrudevobhava in the year 1994. However, he gave back the award since Telugu was not recognized as an ancient language.

Veturi is a relative of the late Sri Veturi Prabhakara Sastri.

The great lyricist died of heart attack in Care Hospitals, Hyderabad on 22nd May 2010.

Mani Ratnam to be honoured at Venice Film Festival

Acclaimed Indian director Mani Ratnam will be honoured with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the Venice Film Festival to be held in September.
 
Announcing this at Cannes, just before the launch of Mani Ratnam’s film ’Raavan’, Venice Film Festival director Marco Muller said: "Mani Ratnam is one of the greatest innovators in contemporary Indian cinema. He helped introduce the auteur concept to contemporary Bollywood. We are very proud to honour the work of the great Indian director Mani Ratnam."
 
Both the Hindi and Tamil versions will be screened at Venice Film Festival.
 
"Mani Ratnam used to make movies only in his native tongue Tamil, but has been one of the handful of filmmakers to successfully reach out to the all-India market," Muller said.
 
In recent years the award has been given to filmmakers Takeshi Kitano, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnes Warda and Sylvester Stallone.
 
’Raavan’ tells the story of a bandit leader who kidnaps the wife of a policeman who killed his sister. The film stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram. The music has been composed by A.R. Rahman. (IANS)

Surender Reddy has decided to tie the nuptial knot on May 28th

Tollywood Talented Director Surender Reddy of movies such as Athanokkade,Ashok,athidi,but the recent blockbuster movie ‘Kick’.Surender Reddy has decided to tie the nuptial knot on May 28th.
 
The marriage will be held in the early hours of May 28 at Shilpa Kala Vedika, Hyderabad.
 
Surender Reddy was in news for signing up Mahesh Babu for a new movie titled Mr. Perfect.
 
movienews9.blogspot.com, wishes the director all the very best with his married life and we hope he gives more hits.

Aakash’s "Aaha Entha Andam" Releasing on May 14

Anadam movie fame hero Aakash and heroine Nicole’s action-based romantic entertainer "Aaha Entha Andam" is releasing on May 14.This movie is directed by T M Jayamurugan and produced by M V Ramaswamy. Music is composed by Jeevan Thomas.

Sai Kumar introducing his son as Hero

Dubbing king and Dialogue star Sai Kumar introducing his son as hero in Tollywood. Sai Kumar’s son Aadi introducing under direction of K. Vijaya Bhaskar. Vijaya Bhaskar who delivered hits like Mallishwari, Nuvvu Naaku Nachchavu and Manmadhudu in past. Atchi Reddy is producing a new film by launching a new banner, ‘Max India Productions’.
 

Although Sai Kumar earlier planned a grand launch for his son but is not launching him on a grand scale. Sai Kumar is now keeping this news of his son’s debut as low profile.
 

Tollywood Heroes started practice at Hyderabad

Movie Artistes Association (MAA) is organizing Tollywood T-20 cricket matches on June 13 to raise funds for the construction of its own building and to help poor artists. Tollywood heroes started practice at Hyderabad in LB Stadium.
 

Heroes Tarun, Tarakaratna, Aryan Rajesh, Srikanth and Prabhas and many more had seen doing Practice. The competition would be between 4 Teams. Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh are the Captains of 4 Teams. Rhythm events is organizing this matches. Matches are telecasted in Set Max on June 13th.

Tollywood Star Cricket on June 13

Movie Artist Association (MAA) has finally announced that Tollywood Star cricket will takes on June 13th at Lal Bahadur stadium in Hyderabad. There will be four teams which will be playing under Balakrishna, Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh and Nagarjuna’s captaincy. The program will starts at 10am and it will continue till 11pm apart from cricket there is lots of entertainment programs also will takes place during that event.
 

Main motto behind the event is to have a own building for Movie Artistes Association and to help the poor Artistes for their financial needs.
 
There will be team selection on May 15th on lottery basis in the presence of media. And on May 30th, there will be dress code launching program. Which also will be a small size event.

Allu Sirish comments about ‘Simha’ collections

Allu Arjun’s brother Allu Sirish, who is active on Twitter, has updated the news in Twitter about the NBK’s Simha movie collections of first day in Guntur.
 
“Simha openings are fantastic. The first day share for the film in Guntur is 61 lakhs, while ‘Magadheera’ netted 66 lakhs, ‘Jalsa’ engrossed 57 lakhs, ‘Adhurs’ recorded 54 lakhs and ‘Stalin’ received 47 lakhs”, Twitted Allu Sirish.

Six big budget movies were stopped by Producer’s Council

AP Producer’s council had an urgent meeting on yesterday to discuss the ways for reducing the production costs of movies. The council has taken a bold step by by putting a break to six big films that are about to start its shootings soon.
 

The films that are stopped :Venkatesh’s Nagamalli (remake of Apta Rakshaka), Ram Charan – Dharani’s film, Ram – Surender Reddy’s flick, Sumanth – Colors Swathi movie, Dil Raju – Prabhas and Suresh Babu’s another film.
 
The producer’s council also has taken decision about the huge remuneration of the stars also.

Tollywood Heroes Remuneration restricted to 3.5 Crores

Tollywood producers met yesterday to discuss about raising expenditure of making movie, budget costs and remuneration of stars. Committee discussed about the huge budget of Telugu films, which causes the producers to loss and also about the Stars huge remuneration.
 

The committee suggested that main hero remuneration shouldn’t exceed Rs3.5 crs for film and the shoot of every film should be completed in 45 days. Now Telugu heroes are taking Rs5 crs to 12 Crores depends on their fame and popularity.

Young India's CD auctioned out for Rs. 2 lakhs

Dasari Narayana rao’s 149th film with 81 new faces titled "Young India" audio has been released into market recently in a new marketing strategy.The first audio CD that was auctioned was sold out for Rs. 2 lakhs.
 
He has launched 2 lakh CDs and Cassettes into the market which was priced Rs.9.98 per CD. He has told the distributors to sell the each CD for Rs. 5 only. Due to the low price of the CD, the 2 lakh copies have been sold out like hot cakes across the state. The director is now planning to get 1 lakh copies of audio more from Mumbai. These new copies will be released in the market shortly.

Prasthanam Movie Review

What is all about?
 

Prasthanam movie is all about the emotional family drama with a political background. This movie is mainly aimed for intellectual people rather than family audiences.
 

Plot:
 

Peddaayana (Balaiah) is a powerful politician in Maanikonda village in Krishna District.His son Keshava (Ravi Prakash) also in politics and gets killed by his father’s political rivals.Lokanatham Naidu (Saikumar) is a henchman to Peddayana.Peddayana makes Loki (Sai Kumar) to take the place of his son in the party.Loki even marries Keshava’s widow wife Savitri, who already had a son Mitra (Sharwanand) and daughter (Surekha Vani). As time passes on their family moves to Vijayawada and Loki becomes four times MLA of his Assembly and Saikumar, Savithri blessed with a son Chinna (Sundeep).The children grows, Mitra follows in the footsteps of Loki and this makes Chinna furious with jealousy. He becomes a psycho and he becomes a big trouble for Sai kumar.When elections get near Baasi Reddy (Jeeva) and Bangaru Naidu (Jaya Prakash Reddy) rivals of Loki make a hideous plot. Loki’s own son chinna makes a major disturbance in the family. After Mitra finds some truth ,What happens from then on takes the story.
 

Actors:
 

Sharwanand has done a wonderful job for his role after Gamyam.
 

Newcomer Sandeep Kishan that steals the show as the bad boy with his nagative performance.
 

Heroine Ruby wasteful characters not much to perform.
 

Sai Kumar’s dialogues were intense and powerful and these are the additional essence for movie success.
 

Surekha Vani, Jeeva and Jayprakash Reddy are as usual they did their best to their roles.
 

What are good?
 

The movie has good storyline, powerful dialogues were mind blowing, the script was impressive.
 

What went wrong?
 

Less comedy
 

Heroine character is less that to not much to perform
 

Second half lengthy
 

Songs
 

Verdict:
 
It is a good movie to watch for who are all interested about serious films and it might disappoint family audiences. The film first half goes off very well and second half goes slow and lengthy.
 

Movies that are slated for release this month

The following films are slated for release this month.
 
1. Mounaragam (Tanish, Madhurima, Suhasini) on 8th April.
 
2. Betting Bangarraju (Allari Naresh, Nidhi) on 9th April.
 
3. Prasthanam (Sharwanand, Ruby) on 16th April.
 
4. Simha (NBK, Nayanatara, Sneha Ullal, Namitha) on 30th April.
 
5. Andari Banduvaya (Sharwanand, Padma Priya) on 9th April.
 
6. Darling (Prabhas, Kajal) on April 23rd.
 
7. Golimar (Gopichand, Roja) on April 28th.
 
8. Burudi (Aryan Rajesh, Aishwarya) on April 30th.
 
9. Prince (Vivek Oberoi, Aruna Shields, Nandana Sen, Niroo Singh & Sanjay Kapoor) on 9th April.
 
10.Police Police (Prudhviraj, Sriram, Kamalini Mukharjee, Sanjana) on 9th April.

Condoms in Kangana Ranaut Hand Bag

Kangana Ranaut is one of the sexiest actress of Bollywood and South Indian Film industry. The tall actresses with superb talent have always been in part of controversies in her life. This time, our Bollywood bureau has reported something very interesting.
It was Kangana’s birthday yesterday and she had hosted a private party to very near and dear group of friends. Drinks were flowing in and after a while, the birthday girl was said to be on a high. Later, she disappeared for quite a while and then came back.
During the time of leaving, Kangana’s handbag dropped and got opened. Packets of condom fell out of it. Those who were around were wondering what the condoms were doing in her handbag and whether this had something to do with the brief absence in between the party. Only the birthday baby can explain

Maro Charitra theatres list in Hyderabad

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Nandi Awards 2010 | Nandi Awards 2010 Results

Nandi Awards 2010 were presented for the movies released in year 2008. Telugu movie industries prestigious awards Nandi awards are to be annunced today in Lakhmi Kala Vedika Hyderabad. Obviously Arundathi swept most of the awards. Other notable movies are Gamyam, Neninthe, Nachavule, Ready. Chief minister Rosaiah presented the awards to the winners.
 
Nandi Natakotsavam Awards is also given every year by the Andhra Pradesh government for social, mythological and poetic Dramas.
 
Best Actor : Ravi Teja (Nenu Intha)
 
Best Actress : Swathi (Ashta Chema)
 
Best Comedian : Brahmanandam
 
Best Film : Gamyam
 
Best Villain : Sonu Sudh (Arundhathi)

NTR National Award for Jamuna

For her services to the film industry,Veteran actress Jamuna got the NTR National Film Award for the year 2008. Yester year actor and director Vijaya Nirmala will be honoured with the Raghupathi Venkaiah Film Award.Director KB Tilak got the BN Reddy Film National Award, while well-known producer and Prasad Labs owner A Ramesh Prasad got the Nagireddy and Chakrapani National Film Award.
 

These awards will be presented at the Nandi Awards- 2008 ceremony to be held at Lalitha Kalathoranam on March 16 on the occasion of Telugu New YearUgadi. Chief Minister K Rosaiah will be coming as chief guest to this function and he will felicitate actress Jamuna. A five-member committee led by film producer G Adisheshagiri Rao presented the list of winners of the prestigious national awards to Chief Minister K Rosaiah at his camp office.
 

Ranjitha speaks about sex video with Nityananda

Ranjitha, who was caught in the sex video scandal with Nityananda has finally offered an explanation. The actress was reported as telling a magazine that she was merely doing the daily chores as a disciple of Nithyananda and some lewd scenes were added to it.
 
Reacting to reports that she had connived with Lenin to create the CD to milk money from Nithyananda, Rajitha said that there was no truth in it. She added that the truth will be revealed by Nithyananda in a few days.

Gautham on Ye Maya Chesave Hindi Remake

Director Gautham menon’s latest released "Ye Maya Chesave" movie turning out to be a huge hit,Gowtham Menon already has offers to make the film in Hindi.
 
However, the director is cautious as his first Bollywood flick Rehna Hai Terre Dil Mein (which was remake of his debut film Cheli starring Reema Sen and Madhavan) did not turn out to be a box office success. The director also revealed that if at all he plans to make Ye Maya Chesave in Hindi, he would produce under his home production.

Film personalities panic as I-T raids actor Ganesh

The income-tax department raided the residence of Tollywood actor-producer Ganesh and a hotelier who owns the Our Place restaurant in the city on Thursday.
 
Sources confirmed that the I-T department seized unaccounted cash amounting to Rs 8 lakh from the restaurant owner during the raid.Ganesh has acted in more than 30 Telugu movies as a comedian and produced a movie Anjaneyulu starring Nayanatara and Ravi Teja. This actor-turned producer is likely to produce another movie soon with Pavan Kalyan in the lead.The income-tax officials raided his residence at Jubilee Hills at 4 pm.The raids went on until 9.30 pm. Income tax officials locked the main gate of his residence preventing the media from entering the house.
 
Sources confirmed that I-T department conducted raids at Ganesh’s farm house at Shadnagar in Mahbubnagar district at the same time and is believed to have seized a few property documents from there.During the raids, Ganesh came to the balcony of his residence and said, “Only God knows if someone is deliberately doing this to me.”The raids shocked the actors and film makers in the Telugu film industry.
 
In the recent past, there have not been any income tax raids on the film personalities in Tollywood.Therefore, I-T raids on Ganesh, there was panic among actors in the Telugu film industry.Meanwhile, the income tax officials refused to give any information on the raids and the amount seized at Ganesh’s residence.(DC)