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Dil Raju is the producer for Nag's next film. This will be directed by Tamil director Radha Mohan of Akashamantha will direct the film. It is confirmed and Nag has signed on dotted lines for Dil Raju.

This film will go on sets from December 2009. Meanwhile Nag will be completing the film D Siva Prasad Reddy in the direction of debutant Kiran.

And Dil Raju is making quite a number of big films- NTR's Brindhavanam, a film with Prabhas and a film with Nag.

After a day later Chiru staged agitation followed by Dharna in Kakinada against Reliance on Gas exploration and state share issue, Rajamandry MP Vundlavally Arun Kumar and Minister Vatti Vasanth Kumar met with Chiru today in Assembly chambers and explained him about the gas row.

It is heard that Aruun Kumar explained Chiru how TDP neglected the gas exploration in KG Basin and How YSR Government is bargaining with the central government to get maximum profit to the state.

It is worth mentioning that Chiranjeevi has taken up an agitation on the natural gas issue in a big way and there was a good response from the people for his “maha dharna” at Etimoga in East Godavari district a couple of days ago.

Telugu Mahila president R K Roja, who met Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Sunday evening, is learnt to have got an assurance from YSR that she would get back all the expenditure incurred by her in the elections.

According to sources, Roja told YSR that she had spent huge amount, to the tune of Rs 10 crore from her own pocket, to contest the elections and the TDP had not given her a single rupee. The Chief Minister, instantaneously responded saying that: “Don’t worry. You will get back the entire amount.” He instructed his advisor K V P Ramachandra Rao to look into the matter.

Roja prefers to join the Congress before the arrival of the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Tirupati on September 5, so that she could take part the public meeting the next day. A close aide of Roja said she is now repenting for not quitting the TDP before the elections. “Though she got offer from the Congress many times, she declined as she strongly believed that she would be supported by all the cadres in the constituency (Chandragiri). But, Chandrababu himself played the game and saw that our leader got defeated,” he alleged.

Praja Rajyam Party president Chiranjeevi is playing a double game in strongly attacking the Telugu Desam party president N Chandrababu Naidu, while refraining from criticising the Congress in the K-G basin gas issue.

This was stated by TDP politburo member Yanamala Ramakrishnudu. Taking objections to Chiranjeevi’s comment that Naidu had no vision in the gas exploration and that he had failed to demand for the state's share in gas exploration in K-G basin, Yanamala said the PRP president had no proper understanding on the issue.

He said during the TD regime the exploration of gas in KG basin had just begun and so, the question of demanding for state's royalty did not arise then. More over, the TD demanded the companies involved in exploring gas for state's share and an agreement to that affect was also entered in 2000.

Referring to Chiranjeevi's demand for allocation of 50 per cent share for the state in the gas being explored in KG basin, the TD leader questioned the very knowledge of the PRP president on the issue and asked with what criteria he was making such demand.

He found fault with Chiranjeevi for being highly critical of the TDP while failing to expose the failures of the Congress on the issue.

Mahesh Babu has finally signed yet another project, this time with director Sreenu Vytla.

Sreenu Vytla who has good track record with Dhee, Ready, King has narrated a wonderful entertaining script to Mahesh Babu and Mahesh accepted to work with Vytla.

This film will go on floors from February 2010.

On the other hand, Mahesh Babu and Trivikram film shoot is progressing in Hyderabad and this film unit will move to Rajsthan on 10th September for 25 days long schedule.

The stage is set for the arrival of ‘Yuva Natasamrat’ Akkineni Nagachaitanya and it is a universal fact that his father happens to be Akkineni Nagarjuna. But interestingly, his mother who was away from the media attention finally came to share her thoughts.

She is none other than Lakshmi, ex-wife of Nag and sister of victory Venkatesh. Currently residing in Chennai, Lakshmi got to share her thoughts about Chaitu. She said he has only looks of father but his heart is like that of her brother Venkatesh.

All this and more was given to the Sakshi paper interview. Lakshmi also said that Chaitu had many options to pursue but since he wanted to become an actor, she said do as he wished and has given her blessings. However, many felt that she had conveyed a message between the lines when she said about the looks and heart of Chaitu.

Chocolate hero Madhavan starred in bi-lingual “13B” which was a big hit in Hindi and Tamil. The horror flick gave the audience the much needed relief from the typical commercial masalas. The remake rights of the flick has been bought by Ravi Babu and sources claim that even a popular Hollywood production company has shown interest in the remake. Now, according to sources

Madhavan is working on the sequel for the movie and right now, the groundwork for the remake seems to be shaping up pretty well. We have to wait and see if the sequel does the same magic similar to the original. Meanwhile, Madhavan is getting ready with his Telugu thriller “Nenu, Thanu, Aame”.

When it comes to matters related to the legendary NTR and his movies, it always has got a lot of significance and importance to the Telugu audience. Now, did you know that the only actor to have acted with NTR in the maximum number of his movies happens to be none other than Kaikala Satyanarayana.

Both NTR and Satyanarayana have teamed up as hero-villain, brothers, friends etc. No wonder then that Satyanarayana has been bestowed with the title of ‘Navarasa Natana Sarvabhowma’ which is a rather unique and hard one to earn. Though he has reduced his presence on the screen, it is heard that many movie makers still approach Satyanarayana.

It was with great hype and hoopla that the film ‘Bheeshma’ was announced but then it now looks like the project may have just encountered few hiccups. Apparently, the film was due for take off and this is being directed by Ramesh Varma of ‘Ride’ fame while Bellamkonda Suresh is the producer. However, reports have arrived that not much activity has been happening on this project.

On the other hand, sources close to yuvaratna Nandamuri Balakrishna say that everything is fine and currently the ground work is going on so a formal announcement would soon be made on the launch. This would be a relief to the NBK fans.

Well, before you get confused what this is about, let us clear the air for you. We are talking about the Hindi version of the blockbuster hit ‘Arundhati’ which is being made by our very own Shyam Prasad Reddy while the director of the film happens to be Rahul Nambiar.

The announcement was made quite a while ago and since then, many have been waiting to see when this project will hit the floors. Meanwhile, sources reveal that the makers have been doing ground work as to who would be the right choice for the role played by the voluptuous beauty Anushka in Telugu. Many say that this would be a trendsetter if things go as per plan in Bollywood.

Though she has been able to score a big hit with her debut movies in Telugu and Tamil, the big eyed sweet girl Swathi could not repeat the magic with her recent venture ‘Kalavaramaye Madilo’. So now, many are waiting to see what she is going to come up with.

Meanwhile, sources reveal that Swathi has already signed up for another Tamil venture and this one also would be seeing her in a rather performance driven role. Incidentally, the audience says that they would want to see this sweet starlet in more of bubbly and happy roles and not with any sad scenes. Though there is no question on Swathi’s talent, it now remains to be seen whether she can choose her projects rightly or not.