Devi Vara Prasad's Grand Daughter acts with Chiru in Mrigaraju

Baby Akhila, who is playing a vital role in Mrigaraju is none but the grand daughter of Devi Varapara Prasad, the producer of the film. She is making her dubute with this film. The entire story of this film revolves around her.

This film needed a setting in which a bridge joins two hills. The producer is busy identifying two adjacent hills in India so that he can construct a bridge for shoot. Sanghvi is playing a tribal girl as Nagababu is playing the role of a 'koya dora'. Prakash Raj is playing the role of Chiru father. If everything goes well, this film is slated for Sankranthi 2000 release.

Balayya's next film to start on 31st July

Balayya's film with Sridevi Arts will start on 31st July 2000. Arun Prasad is going to direct this film. Shooting of this film will start with a song picturization on Balayya, Anjala Jhaveri and Shilpa Shetty. The lyrics of song goes like this ... 'Choli Choli Chekkera Choli ... Chumma Immandoi'. This song is penned by Vennelakanti and sung by Balu, Chitra and Radhika in the music direction of Mani Sharma.

On the box-office front, Goppinti alludu is created the record in Telugu films by getting released with 38 DTS prints. This film is released with 117 prints in 151 centers.

Nag to another film for Supergood films

Supergood films seems to have dumped Venky and hogged on to Nag this year. After doing a super hit film 'Nuvvu Vastavani', Supergood films roped in Nag to do a cameo role with a song in 'Ninne Premista', a film for Srikanth and Soundarya. This film is slated for 31st of August.

According to the grapevine, Nag seems to have heard a story of the Tamil film Supergood films is starting and got impressed with it and gave a nod to Supergood films to remake it with him. This story is having a village backdrop. This film will start after the Tamil version is release. We can expect this film to go on floors in Jan 2001.

Shooting progress of Chinna

The latest schedule of Chinna, a film by Dasari for his son Arun Kumar is over on 25th July. With this 30% of talkie is over. Next schedule will start on 10th August. Arun Kumar is playing a role of youngster with national outlook. Dasari is introducing a Bombay heroine called 'Akanksha' in this film. Dasari is playing a special role. A big hero (Mohan Babu?) will play a vital role in this film. AVS and Brahmanandam too are playing guest roles. We have to wait and see if Arun Kumar succeeds wooing the viewers after two disasters in the form of 'Greeku Veerudu' and 'Pellivaramandi'.

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