Legendary Telugu actress Nirmalamma, who successfully acted in more than 800 films, passed away on Thursday at her residence in Hyderabad. She was 89. The actress, who was suffering from age-related ailments, breathed her last in her sleep, her family members said.
Nirmalamma, who has been an integral part of Telugu film for more than five decades, was born as Rajamani at Machilipatnam, Krishna district and started her career in 1950 with Telugu film Garudagarvabhangam at age 16.
Having acted in about 800 films, including some in Tamil, this gifted actress got recognition as a natural artist who immortalized hundreds of mother and grandmother characters of all the leading heroes, including Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh. Her portrayal of grandmother in Chiranjeevi's' Gang Leader was much appreciated by audience.
She received numerous awards, including Nandi Awards, Filmfare and Sitara Awards for her performance and contribution to the industry. Her noted films are Garuda Garvabhangam, Sitarama Raju, Manushulu Maarali, Premaku Swagatham, Shankarabharam, Yamagola, Padiharella Vayassu, Shubhasankalpam, Apadbandhavudu, Swathimythyam and many more.
After acting in Chiranjeevi starrer Sneham Kosam (1999), Nirmalamma almost stopped acting in movies. However, she made a rare public appearance as part of the celebrations of 75 years of Telugu Cinema (Telugu Cinema Vajrotsavalu) in 2007. Expressing deep sorrow over the demise of Nirmalamma, Chiranjeevi, who is on a road show in Kurnool district, said she was a natural actress. Several other film personalities also condoled her death. (more...)
Nirmalamma is no more
Doctorate for Jaya Sudha
Yesteryear heroine turned character artist Jaya Sudha would soon been known as Doctor Jaya Sudha. The BR Ambedkar Open University had decided to confer the honorary doctorate D. Litt on Jaya Sudha for her contribution to the society.
The award will be conferred on her at the convocation to be held on February 21. Jaya Sudha is now a politician. She joined the congress party recently. (more...)
Will Priyamani's bikini do any good for Nithin?
Priyamani’s bikini act in the forthcoming Nithin’s ‘Drona’ is the hottest topic in tinsel town. The heroine debuted to Tollywood with ‘Evare Athadu’ sharing screen space with Vallabhaneni, son of KS Rama Rao, directed by Bhanu Shankar.
The Tamil girl had a bad opening with the dud and again made a comeback with Madan’s ‘Pellaina Kothalo’ starring Jagapathi Babu. The movie gave her a big break in Telugu cinema followed by the super hit ‘Yamadonga’ (NTR) directed by SS Rajamouli.
‘Drona’ is the latest which will hit screens tomorrow on 20th February. Nithin is near starvation for a hit and is troubled by his previous duds. Even though, the movie has a good script, screenplay and action stunts, the film makers seem to be betting high on the glamour part. Riveting stills of Priyamani’s rain dance was a trail for her main bikini act in the movie.
Will Priyamani’s bikini drive Nithin towards the road to ‘El Dorado’? Just wait for a day and watch out for the review on ‘Drona’ to see if Priyamani saved Nithin! (more...)
Vishnu -Veronica wedding to be a real stunner!
Marriages of film personalities are top attention-grabbers, but the upcoming marriage of Dr. Mohan Babu’s son Vishnu and Y.S. Sudheekar Reddy’s daughter Veronica will be a stunner! One look at the marriage invitation is enough to convince anyone that this marriage will be one of the grandest events of Tollywood this year. In fact, it will inspire you to get married (again if you are already married). Encased in an exquisitely designed golden green purse adorned with a glittering stone, the invitation is printed in beautiful calligraphy replete with Shakespearean quotes; the entire setup is encased in a beautiful golden-green box.
Manchu Vishnu Vardhan and Veronica have been going steady for quite some time and their decision to marry has been gladly accepted by their families. Their mutual love is very well reflected by their choice of Shakespearean quote from As you Like It.
For people of Andhra Pradesh, this is an important and happy event that calls for celebrations, as Manchu Vishnu is one of their favourite heroes (his debut movie Vishnu was a massive hit) and Veronica is their celebrated Chief Minister’s (Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy) niece. (more...)
Sneha to go for makeover
A year ago, Sneha had her hands full in Telugu. Things have changed now. She doesn’t have a single film in her kitty at present. With all her recent films – Pandurangadu, Nee Sukhame Ne Kortunna, etc, bombed at the Box-office, no producer and director is willing to take her in their films. Desperate to get back to Tollywood, she wants to go for complete makeover.
Although she has transformed to action-oriented movies in Tamil, she is not getting enough remuneration there. Tamil film producers have cut down the remunerations of stars, so Sneha is desperate to make comeback in Telugu where money is paid handsomely. This time this homely beauty wants to go bold and has sent the message that she is game for sexy roles. Are Telugu producers listening? (more...)
Accident at Magadheera shooting
A minor accident took place at the shooting of Ram Charan Tej starrar Magadheera here in Hyderabad. Raja Mouli is directing this film for Geetha Arts. The unit was supposed to shot an action sequence on Ram Charan Tej.
Action choreographer Peter Haynes was practicing few stunts, when the accident happened. It is said that Peter Haynes was injured and immedialty shifted to Kamineni Hospitals. Latter it is said that he was shifted to NIMS hospital. (more...)
Arundathi satellite not being sold even for 7 crores
Arundathi which is slowly becoming the higgest grosser of telugu film industry is giving its producer Shyam Prasad Reddy a fortune for his life. He has retained all the film rights with him and is not selling any of the rights to anyone. Infact Shyam Prasad Reddy is not ready to sell the satellite rights of Arundathi film even when he is being offered an whoophing amount of 7 crores.
Actually the story of Arundathi satellite rights started three years back when Shyam Prasad sold them for 1 crore to a famous person in telugu film industry. He then bought the rights back from that person for 1 crore 35 lakhs just before 5 days of movie release. He paid extra 35 lakhs because the other person was only ready to sell the rights for a profit of 35 lakhs after a lot of discussions. After the movie released and made phenomenal success, the same famous film personality asked for satellite rights and offered 7 crores for which Shyam said no and retained the rights. Such is the belief of producer on his movie. (more...)
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Happy Birthday to Sadha
Sadha debuted to cinema with the superhit ‘Jayam’ opposite Nithin which was again remade in Tamil with the same title starring Ravi in the lead. She played the role of a naïve and young village girl with ease that appeased the audience in entirety. Her famous dialogue to this date remains the ‘Poya…Poo’ from ‘Jayam’. ‘Jayam’ was also the debut film for Nithin and Gopichand played the villain role in the role. All the three artists garnered attention from the film goers for their slick acting skills.
She also won the Best Newcomer Filmfare Award for the film which gave her a break in the career. ‘Mona Lisa’ was her first Kannada film following which she did films like ‘Avunannaa Kaadannaa’, ‘Chukkallo Chandrudu’, ‘Leela Mahal Center’, ‘Classmates’, ‘Naaga’, ‘Veerabhadra’, ‘Takkari’ in Telugu. She has shared screen space with many top stars of Tollywood including Balakrishna, NTR, Nithin, Siddharth, Vikram and Ajith. In ‘Shankar Dada Zindabad’, she did a cameo with megastar Chiranjeevi.
Other films including ‘Ethiree’, ‘Priyasakhi’, ‘Unnale Unnale’ in Tamil and ‘Mohini’ in Kannada adds to her credit.
Shankar’s ‘Aparchithudu’ starring Vikram and Sadha in the lead was the biggest hit in her career which was a remake of the Tamil ‘Anniyam’. Sadha exhibited a captivating performance in the role of an egoistic girl in ‘Nevalle Nevalle’ which still lingers in the minds of the audience. She has also ventured into Bollywood with ‘Khalbali’ and ‘Dil to Deewana Hai’ that are in post production stage now. (more...)
Ramcharan Tej’s call for young talents
‘Young Indians’ group of Indian Business School organized a two day National Conference 2009 which commenced on 14th February, Saturday. The inaugural day witnessed a big list of experts and celebrities from different areas including Social rights forum, TV, Cinema, Civil Services, Sports, and so on… The prominent people addressed the young crowd and expressed their views about the changes which are mandatory to take place within 15 years for a brighter future.
On behalf of cinema industry, Ram Charan Tej, during the function addressed the congregation. The young star during the inspiring speech said, “In present days, talented persons are getting recognized in film industry. Music composer AR Rahman has now attained a global recognition and is making India proud. Albeit our films are made for entertainment, audiences have embraced creative and motivating films like ‘Chak De India’ and ‘Tare Zameen Par’ which has no star promotion nor commercialism. It reflects audiences matured taste for entertainment and with the 15 years to come, our talents will sure shine bright going places worldwide.” (more...)
KCR daughter Kavita arrested
TRS president K.Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter Kavitha was arrested by Nampalli police for staging a dharna at on going film fare awards at Telugu Laitha kala thoranam. Kavita, has formed an organisation named ‘Telangana Jagruthi’, under which she and her followers staged a dharna in protest of giving award to popular TV anchor Jhansi They have alleged that she is trying to create joke out of using Telangana accent, which hurts Telangana people.
Kavita who is eyeing for higher goals in the politics, now a day is actively participating in staging dharna, agitating for some cause. Today, she and her followers were arrested by the police for their attempt to disrupt the awards function.
Although her father KCR doesn’t interact directly with her organisation, he apparently trying to promote his daughter Kavita as his successor, as his only son studying in America has shown no interest in the politics. After all political parties are considered as own a property of the founders and ultimately their kin and kith has to thrown it. People don’t need an example for this, as they are aware that all the political parties in India are following the same tradition. Then how can we expect that KCR is an exception for this?
Best wishes to political apprentice Kavita. (more...)
Pawan kalyan retards Rajashekar
The sharp remarks made by Dr. Rajashekar through his latest released film ‘Satyameva Jayathe’ on Mega brothers draws the attention of Praja Rajyam party leaders and Yuvarajyam president Pawan kalyan.
Responding to the remarks made against them, ‘it’s most unfortunate that a senior hero like Dr.Rajashekar misuse his film to make comments against us. We are aware that he intentionally scripted those dialogues to gain the attention of the people, which he badly needs now for the success of the film. People are wise enough to reject such a bad trend in the entertainment media. They are paying us to entertain them, and coming to theatres not to watch the political intentions of us.’
‘Many such films came earlier had been promptly rejected by the people. I pity Dr.Rajashekar for failing frequently in his career. He disparately putting all his efforts to make a hit film, as all his recent films fails at box office. I think that’s why he tries to add some flavour to his film by making some remarks against us, which may draw attention of the people and bring them to theatres to watch his film’ said Pawan kalyan. (more...)
