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FILM AWARDS in Tollywood including NANDI AWARDS have always been all over the place with their selection process. They are 99% of the times INFLUENCED. And I don’t think that it will be any different with AP CINEGOERS ASSOCIATION 37th FILM AWARDS too. But the audiences need to be informed no matter what I think… Right?

So, here you go:

BEST ACTOR: NTR (RAKHI)

BEST ACTRESS: CHARMEE (RAKHI) - DON’T YOU GENUINELY FEEL RIDICULOUS ABOUT THIS AWARD. WHERE IS GENILIA OF BOMMARILLU MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BEST DIRECTOR: PURI JAGANNATH (POKIRI)

BEST FILM: BOMMARILLU

BEST VILLAIN: SAI KUMAR (SAMANYUDU)

BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR: DEVI SRI PRASAD (BOMMARILLU)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: BAPU, RAMANA and JAYASUDHA

SPECIAL FELICITATION: SHYAM BENEGAL

THE AWARDS ARE GONNA BE PRESENTED SOMETIME IN DECEMBER AT LALITHA KALA THORANAM.

NTR is enacting KANTRI and started dancing on 24th, October. The film has started regular shoot and a song with a troupe of dancers is being shot on location at Aluminium factory in Hyderabad.

The film is being Produced by Aswinidutt in his own banner Vyjayanthi Movies. A new director MEHER RAMESH is working for this movie. Meher Ramesh is new to Telugu but not to Films. He directed 2 Films in Kannada. The film has music by Mani Sharma and stars Hansika Motwani in the lead role.

DIL RAJU and NTR are teaming up for a new movie. The movie is being directed by a new director MAHADEV. In fact, Mahadev is a protege of S S Raja Mouli. And also NTR himself introduced Mahadev to Dil Raju… It is learnt that Dil Raju was impressed by Mahadev’s story narration. The movie will be launched in January, 2008. Both Dil Raju and NTR tasted success after a long time with HAPPY DAYS and YAMADONGA respectively.

YAMADONGAs 50 Days Celebrations got postponed as the Coastal Andhra region where they were supposed to be held is suffering heavy rainfall. The ceremony was earlier scheduled to be held on 14th October in Guntur.

So, the producers of the film informed the media that the ceremony will be conducted later. “As the rains are pouring down heavily, we felt this is not the right time to celebrate. So we have postponed it,” producers said.

As always I’ve got something to say here… Everyone knows… and if they don’t they need to know that YAMADONGA is the biggest blockbuster of the year so far… BUT, fans got to understand that movie market economics have changed a lot over the years… We are not living in the era of NTR and ANR anymore… In those times, there was much less competition with just a few movies releasing per annum. And as most of them were well made with a lot of patience, there were many 50, 100, 150, 175 and even 365 days functions. But in the present scenario, as it is already a practice in Hollywood, movie business is not about number of days but about the GROSS and NET numbers in the BANK ACCOUNTS. So, every big budget movie releases with maximum number of prints in maximum number of theaters so that, with in the first week the entire CHAIN (Producer, Distributors, Exhibitors and the like) makes handsome profits. So in the end it is just FAN pressure that keeps them running after… say a period of four weeks. Fans too need to change with the times … They should PUBLICIZE the BOX-OFFICE figures which really matter as it is in Hollywood and shun these RIDICULOUS and LAUGHABLE records (50, 100, 150, 175 Days in SO-AND-SO Number of Centers) —KALCHA