Akkineni Trio’s forthcoming film “Manam” making video. ANR, Nagarjuna and Naga Chaitanya playing the main lead roles. Vikram Kumar is the director.

The speculations can end now; the much planned project in talks with Mani Ratnam directing Nagarjuna and Mahesh Babu together seems to have been confirmed by Suhasini Maniratnam; and none other than Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be making a grand come back after her sabbatical.

Suhasini confirmed in a recent interview with a regional channel in Tamil that the project bringing the super trio is very much in action, and that the shooting for this project will commence from June this year.

The surprise factor added to this project is actress Shruti Haasan, who will be cast as a second female lead opposite Mahesh.

The lady Maniratnam further confirmed that the film will be an action thriller adventure made in the lines of Hollywood’s Bourne series and Mission Impossible. Planned to be made as a Telugu Tamil bilingual, the film is a super delight for the fans.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan shares a long standing work relationship with Mani Ratnam; she was often his favourite leading lady who played some great roles in movies like Guru, Iruvar and Raavan.

This will also mark a great return for the gorgeous diva who was off the acting grid, blissful in her maternity sabbatical with daughter Aaradhya Bachchan.

Welcome back, Aishwarya!!

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It’s not always that you get to catch a glimpse of your favourite stars…up, close and personal.

And if is a matter of their childhood pictures, you dont get to see them at all!

Well, Chitramala has paid heed to this fact and compiled the childhood pictures of some famous Tollywood stars.

Enjoy!

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With the Lok Sabha elections fast approaching, everybody right from your gully’s Chaiwala to the sitting MLA of your constituency is looking to cash in on the election fever.

Not to be left behind, mana Tollywood is the latest clan to join the bandwagon. With virtually all poll surveys predicting Narendra Modi as the potential Prime Minister of the country, Tollywood isn’t far behind in chanting the hymns of ‘NaMo NaMo !’.

Krishnam Raju initiated the procession when he joined Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in January early this year. He was followed by Jeevitha Rajshekhar who too joined in recently.

And now with the inception of ‘Jana Sena’, Pawan kalyan seems to be extending an olive branch towards Narendra Modi too. His recent meeting with the BJP honcho has sparked off strong rumours of a potential alliance between the two parties. Backing Modi, Pawan Kalyan had said that the Gujarat CM was the right man for the job.

Akkineni Nagarjuna was the last Tollywood actor looking to hop on the NaMo bandwagon. The star is also likely to seek a Lok Sabha ticket for his wife Amla. For last few days, political and film circles were abuzz with speculations that the actress-turned-activist is keen to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Vijayawada.

Specualtions are rife that Brahmanandam too is intending to join BJP and use his popularity to fulfill his political ambitions.

Rumour has it that Mohan Babu would be meeting Narendra Modi soon to discuss various political avenues.

With large number of Tollywood personalities chanting the NaMo mantra, it has to be seen how far this fever takes the country ahead!

The Lok Sabha polls are scheduled to be held in April and May and the results are to be announced on May 16.

Akkineni Nagarjuna, who is to host the popular gaming show Kaun Banega Crorepati in Telugu, demanded a whopping 3 crores plus to anchor 40 episodes. Going by the star quotient in hand, the channel obviously had no qualms to agreeing to the same.The show, whose pre -production works have started, will go live upon the completion of first set of episodes. It is a known fact that Sony TV had acquired as much as 30 percent stake in MAA TV Networks.

This will be the first time for Nag to host a program on small television and KBC in Telugu would be a deserving start, given the kind of stardom he has with the masses.

The ‘Manmadhudu’ of Telugu Cinema will be seen in a promising role in his next home production Manam directed by Vikram Kumar. The film stars Late legendary ANR, Naga Chaitanya, Shriya Saran and Samantha in prominent roles.