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Nani and Ritu Varma in Tuck Jagadish

Tough times for Tollywood again

Fear of COVID and rising maintenance costs are giving producers and buyers the jitters in the Telugu film industry

15 Apr 2021 7:33 PM

Rana Daggubati in Virata Parvam

Thick jungles Tollywood’s new canvas

Instead of palatial houses or swanky locales, Telugu filmmakers choose dense forests as their movies’ backdrop

03 Apr 2021 7:13 AM

jr ntr watch

Flamboyant stars

Going by their spending habits, it would seem Tollywood actors live a fabulous life

02 Apr 2021 6:38 AM

Uppena

Telugu filmmakers singing to Bollywood’s tunes

In their eagerness to recruit chartbuster-delivering names, are Tollywood producers ignoring local talent at huge cost?

27 Mar 2021 6:39 AM

Pawan Kalyan from Gopala Gopala

Tollywood turns holy?

Many new-age directors in Telugu cinema are thinking out of the box are redesigning devotional movies into social fantasies

21 Mar 2021 4:34 AM

Rakul Preet Singh

2-heroine roles, boon or bane?

The Telugu film industry is slowly seeing a surge in movies with two heroines. Is the trend hurting top actresses’ careers?

14 Mar 2021 11:19 PM

Anasuya special song

Tollywood actress dancing to special tunes

Even A-list actresses of the Telugu cinema industry are happy to do so-called ‘item numbers’ now

02 Mar 2021 6:16 AM

They are also appealing to the AP government to issue the GO to waive power bills of film theatres for three months from April to June. (DC Image: R.Pavan/file)

Theatre owners want 50% bar on seating to be lifted

They assured that they would comply with Covid-19 protocols and the SOPs drafted by the Centre and the AP government

27 Dec 2020 10:47 AM

Kovvuri Suresh Reddy

Showbiz entices a Forbes’

Founder of Creative Motors, Kovvuri Suresh Reddy is set to turn a filmmaker

02 Nov 2020 3:02 PM

Rakul Preet Singh on the movie sets

Novel ideas for dream merchants

Tollywood filmmakers are now eyeing polular Telugu books and novels in search for good content

27 Oct 2020 12:35 PM

Rakul Preet Singh. (File photo)

High Court asks Centre: What have you done about Rakul Preet's media gag plea?

The actress is seeking a ban on any reports linking her to Bollywood drugs

29 Sep 2020 1:35 PM

Miheeka Bajaj andd Rana Daggubati.

Rana Daggubati to marry Miheeka on August 8

Celebrations to be conducted as per coronavirus precautions

31 May 2020 8:59 AM

Actor Chiranjeevi (Twitter)

Superstar Chiranjeevi requests everyone to participate in 'Janata curfew'

Many celebrities have been coming forward to spread awarness about the importance of social-distancing amid coronavirus outbreak

21 Mar 2020 7:14 PM

Anushka Shetty: “To me, marriage is a very sacred space. I believe in the phenomenon of two people bonding together for the rest of their lives. I believe that relationship and marriage are spaces in which people can grow the most because if you are in a relationship you are constantly staying with that partner, and the bond evolves”

Anushka on love, life and Prabhas

In a candid chat, Anushka Shetty talks about her 15 years in showbiz, link-ups, marriage, and her 3-AM friend

15 Mar 2020 7:48 AM

Dil Raju

Dil Raju’s hush-hush marriage

The producer tied the knot for the second time on Tuesday.

26 Feb 2020 12:00 AM

Dil Raju

Love in the twilight years

There’s no age-bar for romantic love. Society cannot dictate at what age one should cease looking for a soulmate.

22 Feb 2020 12:00 AM

Sai Ronak and Preethi Asrani in Pressure Cooker.

Multiple composers in Pressure Cooker

Harshavardhan lauds director duo Sujai and Sushil Karampuri for their passion.

17 Feb 2020 12:50 AM

V.V Vinayak

V.V Vinayak’s debut film shelved?

First rushes of Seenayya didn’t measure up to expectations.

13 Feb 2020 6:54 AM

Dil Raju

Dil Raju to remarry?

It may be recalled that Dil Raju’s wife Anitha passed away a couple of years ago.

12 Feb 2020 12:05 AM

Venkatesh.

Tollywood 2019

The year 2019 has been good to the Telugu film industry, with some movies even earning box-office collections more than twice their budget.

30 Dec 2019 12:07 AM

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