Whenever a heir from big families gets introduced into films, there will be a lot of hype and expectations around it and the heir should be able to carry the entire legacy of his family on his shoulders even with his first film. Sometimes they pass with distinction and sometimes they fail miserably. Akhil Akkineni who hails from the Akkineni family is one such heir who failed in his first attempt in the name of Akhil under the direction of V V Vinayak. He is now coming with a movie named Hello, Produced by none other than his father Akkineni Nagarjuna and directed by Vikram Kumar of Manam and 24 fame. This movie has got a very good and positive hype around it due to the various promotional activities by the team. Let’s see how it works on us as it is releasing into theatres today.

Story

Sreenu (Akhil Akkineni) is an orphan who lives in a park in Hyderabad. He happens to meet Junnu (Kalyani Priyadarshan) a very rich girl, near a Panipuri shop and they become very thick friends. Suddenly, Junnu’s father gets transferred to Delhi and this makes them part without their knowledge. While leaving Hyderabad, Junnu gives her father’s mobile number to Sreenu, writing it on a hundred rupee note. Sreenu loses it in a pick pocket and his search for the number and Junnu begins. How he become Avinash? How does he find Junnu? These questions form the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Akhil Akkineni has improved a lot compared to his debut. He is so good in action sequences an songs. Kalyani Priyadarshan is good and she looks beautiful. She has got a good launch with this movie. Ramya Krishna and Jagapathi Babu make a good pair in this movie. Praveen is good in a very limited role. Ajay is good. Anish Kuruvilla is nice. Child actors Mikhail Gandhi and the beautiful female child actor, did a very good job and their cuteness is an added advantage.

Writing Department

Story of this Hello is simple but interesting. Screenplay is written well which is fair enough to engage the audience for most of the movie. Dialogues are written well.

Technical Departments

Anup Rubens who is also the music director of Vikram Kumar’s Ishq and Manam, has composed some nice songs for his third collaboration. They are good and soothing to ears. He has done a fantastic work in composing background score and he made the movie more racy and emotional with his score. Cinematography by PS Vinod is superb and he gave some magical frames to this movie. Editing is fine. Stunts and action sequences are composed well. Production values are rich.

Highlights

Akhil Akkineni’s presence
Music by Anup Rubens
Stunt sequences
Cinematography by PS Vinod

Minus

Few lags in second half

Verdict

Hello is movie about a guy and a girl who part during childhood as a part of destiny and how they meet after 15 years. Destiny and coincidence plays a very big part in it. Director Vikram K Kumar has done a good job in writing this film and also translating it into visuals with the help of the team. His magic has not worked out like his previous movies but Hello surely has it’s magical moments. The way he connected logics with the screenplay is noteworthy but he missed a biggest logic (may be deliberately which is covered in a voice over of Akhil about the working of brain) which resulted in the happenings of entire first half. Hello is a movie which has some magical moments weaved around destiny and coincidence which works well with family audience.

Nagarjuna’s Next Movie With RGV launched today officially without any pooja ceremony, and the makers shot the first scene on Nagarjuna. RGV revealed Interesting Posters of the movie. The movie shooting started where Nagarjuna’s Siva movie started before 25 years in Annapurna Studios. The first scene shot on Nagarjuna in a specially erected chainset.

After 28 years, King Nag and maverick RGV united again to dictate new terms for Indian cinema as this new production from RGV’s Company.

Nagarjuna And RGV’s new movie regular shoot begins tomorrow at 10 am at Glass House, Annapurna Studios.

The film has set new technical benchmarks and stood an inspiration for many filmmakers to follow the modern path.

Ram Gopal Varma has clarified that Tabu is not acting in his movie. Speculations were rife that she was roped in as Nagarjuna’s wife in RGV’s movie. However, RGV says Tabu will not be in his movie. He also admitted that Big B is also not acting in the film.

He said that a younger heroine would act with Nagarjuna in his action drama. Nag will appear as a cop. The film will go to the sets on 20th November, and it is going to be a unique action drama.

It is heard that Nagarjuna doesn’t want to pair up with Tabu again even though their relationship and close friendship is known to all. RGV is now scouting for a young heroine for Nag.

Shakalaka Shankar is one of the popular comedians in Telugu film industry who entered the film industry with the popularity he gained through the comedy show Jabardasth. His latest film Raju Gari Gadhi 2 became a hit and the actor deserves to share the credit of the success but it seems that the actor is very unhappy. Shakalaka Shankar has skipped all the three film functions that took place regarding the movie so far.

The latest update we hear is that the actor’s scenes are chopped off in which he has given his career-best performance. Apparently, Nagarjuna informed the film unit to remove those scenes after feeling that it might disturb the flow of the film. Shankar who pinned a lot of hopes on these scenes has to disappoint in the end.

Nagarjuna confessed that he had two bottles of beer after getting the collection reports of his latest release Raju Gari Gadhi 2. He said he celebrated the success by having a beer.

He confessed at the success meet of the movie held at Annapurna Studios, “I am so happy that the film has been received well by all. My fans, in particular, are proud of the movie’s success. Seeing happiness on their faces, I had two beers and biryani to celebrate the success.”

He seemed to have doubts about the movie’s success before the release as he had teamed up with his daughter-in-law Samantha. There were reports earlier that he had doubts over the capabilities of the movie’s director Ohmkar. Now that the film has received good openings, he confessed this.​

There is not even an instance where the sequel or a movie which came with the same title with two in the end is successful in Telugu. Aarya and some other came like that and were disappointments to makers as well as audience. Rajugari Gadhi was a success to its buyers because of the horror comedy genre and for the laughs it served to the audience. Ohmkaar who directed that movie retained the title and made it a second part with Nagarjuna Akkineni and Samantha Akkineni as the leads produced by PVP Cinema and Matinee Entertainments. It is also said to be the remake of Malayalam super hit Pretham. Let’s see how it works on us as it is releasing today in theatres.

Story

Ashwin Kumar (Ashwin) and his two friends (Vennela Kishore and Praveen) together buy a resort to do business. When their business is running good they happens to know about a ghost in that resort through Nisha (Seerat Kapoor). They try to solve it with the help of a church father (Naresh) they know and it fails miserably and their fear of that ghost increases more. Church father takes them to Rudra (Nagarjuna Akkineni), who is a mentalist and who is one of the best in the world in his profession and Ashwin and his friends seek his help. He comes to resort with them and he confronts a powerful girl’s soul which is seeking for revenge. How Rudra solve the problem? What is the story of that girl forms the rest of the story.

Cast and Performance

Nagarjuna Akkineni as Rudra, a topmost mentalist who tries to solve the mystery of the ghost is superb. He made his role, very believable and he is apt for his role. Samantha Akkineni as Amrutha is the best of the movie. She mesmerized and has taken the movie to another level with her performance. Seerat Kapoor as Suhanisa is good. Vennela Kishore and Praveen are humorous. Ashwin is good. Naresh as church father is nice. Rao Ramesh as father of Samantha is superb. All other actors did according to their given roles.

Writing Department

Story line of the movie is simple and good but the screenplay is written with huge amount of emotions in second half which connects well with family audience and dialogues are good.

Technical Departments

Music composed by S S Thaman is nice. He is in a great form now a days and is giving the best background score as compared to any other music directors. His background score for the emotional sequences has taken the movie to another level. Cinematography by R Diwakaran is superb. Editing is fine. Art department did a fine job and production values are rich and apt.

Highlights

Samantha Akkineni as Amrutha
Nagarjuna Akkineni
Emotional story of Amrutha
Music by S S Thaman

Minus

Beginning of the movie

Verdict

Rajugari gadhi 2 is a movie which revolves around a mentalist who solves the mystery of a girl named Amrutha. Nagarjuna Akkineni has everything in his mind to solve the mystery and Amrutha has everything to lose and has her reason to take her life. Director Ohmkar has done good job in handling the sensitive emotions and he got a nice output from his team of writers and executed it in a fine way. Although the beginning of the movie is routine and it takes a whole first half to introduce the very few characters and the actual story starts in the second half of the movie, the emotions in the second half covers it all because of the superb acting by Samantha Akkineni. To sum up, Rajugari Gadhi 2 breaks the jinx around sequels and becomes a winner.

Akkineni Nagarjuna and Samantha’s most awaited film Raju Gari Gadhi 2 film finally hit the screens today. However, the makers have conducted the press meet yesterday.

Speaking at the press meet, Nag reacted to some questions pertaining to the recent marriage between Naga Chaitanya and Samantha. Reacting to the question when will be the wedding reception, Akkineni Nagarjuna said in a hilarious manner that the marriage has happened recently. There is no hurry, let them decide the dates, Nagarjuna said. Let them enjoy the wedding and all others, let them free for some days, Nagarjuna added.

In the same event, Samantha also shared her experience while shooting for Raju Gari Gadhi 2 and also thanked media for warm wishes.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu is now officially married to Naga Chaitanya, son of Nagarjuna Akkineni. Only yesterday, Samantha changed her surname to Akkineni on Instagram thus becoming Samantha Akkineni! Obviously, it was a big deal for fans. And now, fans are going gaga over Samantha’s look for her FIRST press meet post her marriage to Naga Chaitanya.

She was present at the press meet for Raju Gari Gadhi 2 along with the cast and crew. Fans can’t stop gushing about her glow and her look post marriage. She has always looked stunning, but this time her appearance was extra special for obvious reasons. She was all smiles at the meet.

She said that Chaitu is her best friend initially and turned husband now. And Sam said that she is blessed to have him in his life. She plays a brief yet pivotal role in the film. It’s also an avatar she has taken on before so that adds to the excitement. The film also stars her father-in-law Nagarjuna. The movie has hit theatres today. Samantha Akkineni will soon be seen in Ram Charan’s Rangasthalam 1985.​

Akkineni Nagarjuna’s upcoming horror comedy movie Raju Gari Gadhi 2 has completed its censor formalities, and it got U/A certificate from the censor board. The runtime of the movie locked for 124 minutes. The film will hit the big screens worldwide on 13th of this month.

Samantha is playing the main lead in this flick and another actress Seerat Kapoor is also acting in this flick. The film is being directed by Omhkar and produced PVP Cinema Matinee Entertainments banner.

Nagarjuna is currently busy with Naga Chaitanya and Samantha’s wedding celebrations, and soon he will join in the movie promotions.

Bigg Boss is the highest TRP generating TV shows on the small screen in Telugu right now. Week by week, the show is performing better and registering god numbers of TRP’s. The glamour of this TV show is none other than Jr NTR. Tarak is the host of the TV show, and he is successfully pulling the crowds to glue themselves to the TV sets. On the other side, the first season has come to an end, and the show organizers are planning to come up with a grand finale event on this Sunday.

There are many names that were heard to attend as a chief guest for the Bigg Boss finale event, but the buzz we are hearing right now is that King Nagarjuna will be making his appearance in the TV show as a chief guest. As of now, nothing is confirmed, and we are waiting for the complete details.

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A trailer of Nagarjuna’s ‘Raju Gari Gadhi 2’ will be released on September 20, on the occasion of legendary Akkineni Nageswara Rao’s birth anniversary.

The film’s motion poster was released recently. The film is gearing up for release on 13th October. PVP Cinema, Matinee Entertainment, and Oak Entertainments are jointly producing the film.

Samantha will be seen as a ghost and Seerat Kapoor as Nagarjuna’s lover. Being directed by Ohmkar, the film is sequel to ‘Raju Gari Gadhi’.

Of late, ace producer Dil Raju relying on good scripts rather high star cast of films. His latest films Shatamanam Bhavati and Fidaa received a huge applause from the audience. The selection of stories and their genres turned into Dil Raju’s favour.

Dil Raju has reportedly readied with another script titled Srinivasa Kalyanam written by director Satish Vegnesa. The story was reportedly narrated to King Nagarjuna, Supreme hero Sai Dharam Tej and Natural Star Nani. However, none of the stars has given nod for the film.

As per the latest reports, the story was narrated to Young Tiger NTR recently. Impressed with the script NTR reportedly gave his nod for the film. He assured that Dil Raju that he would be working for the project post-Trivikram’s film release. And NTR was offered a handsome package for the film. An official confirmation about the same is awaited.

Tamil Bigg Boss Show didn’t get much response though it was hosted by the Universal star Kamal Haasan. There were doubts on how the Telugu version will be received by the audience. Telugu version got mixed reviews in the beginning, but it slowly caught the craze.

Particularly Saturday and Sunday episodes when NTR will appear in the show are getting huge TRP. Telugu audience are mesmerized with the acting of Junior NTR on the small screen. His acting, his ease, grace, and style have attracted many people towards the show. Many celebrities are also appreciating the show and NTR. Recently,
Nagarjuna heaped praises on NTR.

He said, “I loved Tarak’s way of hosting Bigg Boss show. He is the same how I saw him in real life. His real character is visible in Bigg Boss.” Nagarjuna further said that NTR’s energy in Bigg Boss show is superb.

Bigg Boss show has achieved good TRPs by the end of one week, which itself is a great achievement.

Akkineni family is eagerly waiting to welcome Samantha into their family. Already there have been positive reports about her joining the family and the couple Chay and Samantha are also super excited. Nagarjuna seems to be ready with a surprise gift for his elder son, and it is surely going to be an interesting one.

Going by the latest reports, Nagarjuna is said to be constructing a new cottage for Naga Chaitanya and Samantha in Annapurna Studios exactly opposite to his cottage. Whenever there is shoot happening in their studios, Nagarjuna wanted both Sam and Chay to have their own space and hence is coming up with a construction with state of the art interior and exterior designs.

The marriage is going to take place in the first week of October.

Bollywood megastar is going to act in the prestigious project of Tollywood megastar Chiranjeevi’s 151st flick Sye Raa Narasimhareddy. It was speculated that a common friend has made this thing possible.

King Nagarjuna maintains healthy relationships with many bigwigs in and outside Industry, especially with the family of Bachchans. It’s due to that friendship, Amitabh Bachchan did a cameo in the movie Manam. Now the same friendship has helped the Megastar Chiru’s flick Sye Raa. It has been rumored that Chiru has asked the help of Nag to convince Amitabh to do a role in Sye Raa. It’s then Nag talked to Amitabh on phone and convinced him to hear the story.

Its then Chiru, Cherry, and director Surrender Reddy met Amitabh and narrated his role. Amitabh after hearing his role and the grandeur in the project has immediately given his nod. Mega fans are thanking Nag for his unconditional support.