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Paritala
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>>>>Tirupati and its surroundings is the second place for films to be shot. First being Hyderabad

Tirupathi comes third after Hyderabd & Vizag in terms of the # of shootings. 80% of the telugu movies are either shot in hyd/vizag. Since FC is onwd by MohanBabu & Co. who hails from Tirupathi, they are cooking this up as did AndhraJyothy about vijawada real-estate bubbble a few monthds back.
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work avagane offliners pettu durga babai.

thxeeeeeeee
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Lagan made 10% of the collections what gadar ek prem katha made

>>Kaani naaku lagaan ee nachindi

• Anshu: the girl who acted in nag’s Manmadhudu was doing her 10std in London at that time.

>>Afridi ippudu kuda 19 years ee..

Nagarjuna never works after 6 pm. If there is night shoot he has to be informed 4 days earlier.

>> Re cheekata..

• The human brain is about 85% water.

>>Idiot mama ki kuda anthe na..

• Savithri, evergreen beauty of Telugu Screen, was born on December 6, 1936 at Chirravur in Guntur district.

>>Babri Ram mandir godava appudu ledu papam..

Aishwarya's first ever commercial was for Camlin pencils while in 9th grade.

>>9th grade lone pencils aa..


• Rekha is very fond of gardening and takes care of her plants personally. She finds gardening therapeutic.

>>Styish ga vuntayi anna maata amevi..

• Actress Laila started her career as a receptionist at a bar in Goa.

>>Anduke na kallu moosukoni navvutundi
• Pawan Kalyan is a pure vegetarian.

>>Andukena mokkalu penchu taadu..

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"LINUKULU or BONKULU"

naadaggara vunnayii,,, kaani ippudu work lo dobbinchukunanu
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avi gaaka sundarakanda (enky gaadi bomma kaadu) linklu anukunnva??

padaharu analu ave LINUKULU or BONKULU
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cj babai "emanna linklu vunte pampiyyi "

linklu ante avvenaa
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sadive opika ledu gaani nivas babai emanna linklu vunte pampiyyi
online lo vunna
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nivas babai maanci kasaks vunayaa
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Mari Candels Kakkavu Kada ...
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Dimple Kapadia has a fetish for candles. In fact, she runs a candle store in mumbai!


rajesh kanna meedha kopam vacchinappuddu ika candles ye dikku
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Kobe_bryant mama..nannu follow avuthunnava
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oopika vunte chadavandi
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Facts

• Lagan made 10% of the collections what gadar ek prem katha made

• Anshu: the girl who acted in nag’s Manmadhudu was doing her 10std in London at that time.

• The first Dada Saheb Phalke award was given to Devika Rani.

• Venkatesh did his MBA in los angeles

• No actor other than jagapathi babu and mohan babu were invited for sondarya’s wedding in B’lore

• Hema malini was about to get married to Jitendra when darmendra went and got her lover back et la Krishna in mahabaratha.

• Nanni, which stars Mahesh babu is directed by SJ surya (Kushi Fame) who acting as the hero in the tamil version of Nanni.

• Nagarjuna never works after 6 pm. If there is night shoot he has to be informed 4 days earlier.

• MS narayana’s first film with a lengthy role was Pedharayudhu

• There are another 4 grandsons of NTR who will be making a debut soon

• NTR is planning to build 4 avid theatres, one live dubbing, and a projection theatre also in madhapur.

• Manmathudu was shot wholly in Germany barring the scene of Effiel tower

• Mr.Srikar Prasad is the only editor who has won 8 national awards till date. He belongs to Hyderbad and this time won it for Mani rathnam’s Amrutham

• None of the films sponsored by pepsi have never been a hit barring one in tamil, till date

• Canning songs abroad is relatively cheaper than canning songs other states in India

• Shooting in Bombay is as expensive as shooting in London.

• Gracy Singh of Lagaan fame is hardly having any movies to act. There is no takers for her even in Hindi

• Director Ragavendra rao’s son is doing a Indian English movie “Morning Raga”

• Benz car is avoided by many in the film industry becos there is a common faith that it brings bad luck

• Amitabh wears a wig and has been so for the past 8 years even in real life. When not wearing a wig, he puts a cap.

• Chiranjeevi’s Tagore got delayed becos of the severe back problem which the megastar has.

• Nag’s Shivamani got delayed becos of the knee surgery nag underwent in London

• Superstar rajinikanth and pavan kalyan are the only two actors who sold there movies to an abnormal price in the history of south India. Incidentally both their films bombed.

• Vijayshanti who announced her retirement from movies recently has accepted another 2 movies.

• Jayasudha, the glamour queen of yesterdays has converted to Christianity

• Tarun was supposed to marry a upcoming actress but was discouraged from doing so after the intervention of his parents

• Allu Arjun’s Father producer Allu Arvind was an actor once.

• Gangotri starring allu Arjun has crossed Indra’s collections in few areas

• Tirupati and its surroundings is the second place for films to be shot. First being Hyderabad

• Mother Teresa's real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

• Nagarjuna's Son Akhil has taken part in an international race in Malaysia

• The human brain is about 85% water.

• Disneyland opened in 1955.

• The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.

• Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

• Rajanikanth supported BJP candidates faced complete rout in TN

• The first movie in South Indian languages is Bhisma Katha produced in Telugu during the first decade of 20th Century.

• Father of Telugu Cinema is Raghupati Venkatapathi Naidu garu

• The length of first telugu film Bhishma Katha was 2,117 ft

• Soundarya is the staunch devotee of Lord Nagendra.She took nominal remunaration for Swetha Naagu.

• Anjali Devi's debut movie was Gollabhaama in 1947. She played a vamp role

• Original name of T Rajender’s son Chimpu (Simbu in Telugu) is Silambarasan.

• LV Prasad's birth place is Somavarappaadu in West Godavari district.

• The film Harischandra was directed by P Pullaiah in 1935.

• Vara Lakshmi played the child artiste in "BalaYogin" in 1936.

• P Leela was music director for the movie "Chinnari Papalu" in 1968.

• Comedian Raja Babu made his debut with "Samajam" produced by another Comedian Relangi in 1960.

• ‘Maa Inti Mahalakshmi’ was the first film made at Saradhi Studios in Hyderabad.

• The yesteryear hit "Pandanti Kaapuram" was produced by the reel-villain and character artiste M Prabhakar Reddy.

• Veteran director Vitalacharya was born at Udipi in Karnataka and worked as a caretaker of animals with a circus company.

• Rabindranath Tagore wrote his first play at the scenic Devbagh Island in the Arabian Sea, 18 km off Karwar-Goa Sector.

• Founder of AVM Studio was MV Meyyappa Chettiyar.

• B Saroja Devi played the heroine for NTR in Panduranga Mahathyam released in 1957.

• Director KS Prakasa Rao (KRR's father) worked as an Insurance agent in Vijayawada in early 1940s.

• Bhanumathi Rama Krishna was the first singer of Thyagaraja Keerthana in "Vara Vikrayam" released in 1939.

• Savithri, evergreen beauty of Telugu Screen, was born on December 6, 1936 at Chirravur in Guntur district.

• "Alam Ara" was the first Indian movie released in 1931.

• Maruthi Talkies was the first theatre in Andhra Pradesh built in 1921 in Vijayawada.

• First Telugu film magazine was "Telugu Talkie".

• Playback singer Janaki started her career with AVM Studios in 1956.

• P Suseela received Best Singer National Award from Govt. of India in 1969.

• Pakinti Ammayi" starring Relangi and Savitri was remake of a Bengali film " Parshar Barri".

• Soundharya's original name is "Somya".

• Ramanaidu's banner Suresh productions was started way back in 1964, that is 37years ago.

• Aishwarya's first ever commercial was for Camlin pencils while in 9th grade.

• 80 direct films and 80 dubbing films released in the year 2000

• Chiranjeevi 's 9 films continuously played for 100 days in Kakinada from Hitler to 10th being Daddy including Sri manjunadha a dub.

• P Suseela received Best Singer National Award from Govt. of India in 1969.

• The film Harischandra was directed by P Pullaiah in 1935.

• Shivaji Ganesan's original name was Viluppuram Chinnaiah Ganesan

• Guduri Seetaram is the father of folk lyrics on Telugu screen.

• Between 1931 and 1999, India produced over 30,000 films, which is a world record. The first actor to be paid a lakh of rupees as acting fee was Chandramohan in 1934 for Amrit Manthan, but he died a pauper

• Oldtimer Nadira in her heydays had every conceivable car, a Rolls Royce, a Mercedes and the works. She always had at least three cars at the same time and changed them every six months when she tired of them.

• Amitabh Bachchan loves snacking on Bourbon biscuits and cashew nuts.

• M F Hussain first started his career as a painter of film hoardings. Actress Durga Khote was portrayed in his first hoarding.

• Rekha is very fond of gardening and takes care of her plants personally. She finds gardening therapeutic.

• Meena Kumari has six fingers on her left hand. She preferred that it never be seen in any of her scenes and would take great care to ensure that.

• Hit of Assembly Rowdy made Mohan Babu the Collection King of Tollywood.

• Superstar Krishna canned vital scenes in his movie "Simhasanam" at Mungilpattu and Kotala areas in Chittoor District.

• Karunamayudu, starring Vijaychander as Jeasus Christ, was dubbed into the Brazilian in 1981.

• Son of Kaikala Sathyanarayana was arrested on charges of drunken driving leading to the death of a scooterist last week

• Athreya made his debut as lyricist in the film Deeksha (1951).

• Ritu is Mahima Choudhary's real name. Since Subhash Ghai has a penchant for the alphabet 'M', he insisted that she change it for her debut film Pardes.

• Late Priya Rajvansh is the only Indian artiste till date to pass out of the Royal Academy of Drama, London. Her picture hangs there in the Hall of Fame.

• Film Actress Seema made her debut in the Film Angadi Bomma.

• Popular Director Mrinalini Sen directed only 1 film in telugu Oka Voori katha

• The Popular Film House Jagapathi Art Productions made only one movie with NT Rama Rao. The Film is entitiled Rama Krishnulu

• NT Rama Rao's Sahasavantudu is the first Telugu Movie to be produced outside India and Nepal

• Chiru's first movie is Pranam Khareedu. But Punadi Rallu was released first. Actually chiranjeevi acted in this movie, because his friend who was to do that role had not turned up to the shooting

• Jai Ma Kali... is a song from Sri Raja Rajeswari in which Saharshranama of the Lordess were referred.. This is the first time that the Sahasranamavali has been featured in a film.

• Dongalaveta is a telugu remake of Vinod Khanna and Vidhya Sinha. The Telugu version is played by Krishna and Jayasudha

• Chiranjeevi's debue film was Pranam Khareedu released in 1978. Reshma Roy was his first heroiene. She was actually an Oriyya actress. The film is produced by Kranthi Kumar.

• Mallepoolu was a remake of the Hindi film Pyasa.

• Kashmira Shah is the only actress in Bollywood whom Salman Khan refers to as his sister.

• The nickname of Allu Arjun is Bunny.

• Backdrop of Nagireddy’s Malliswari was during Vijayanagara ruler Krishnadevaraya time.

• Birth place of legendary playback singer Ghantasala is Chowtupalli in Krishna district.

• Crab is the favorite dish of Tollywood’s new sexini Meghana Naidu.

• ANR’s “Devadasu” celebrated its golden jubilee twice – in 1953 and 1974.

• Sharuk Khan’ movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Lejayenge (DDL) completed 450 weeks run in Marata theatre in Mumbai.

• Mahima Chaudhary has a shoe fetish. She spends most of her free time shopping for shoes. During one such shopping stint, she actually picked up a dozen pairs of the same variety in every colour available.

• Urmila Matondkar played the role of a small boy in Shashi Kapoor's Kalyug. Rekha played her mother in the film.

• Radhika was born in Srilanka, studied at London, started her acting carrier in Tamil and has acted in other language movies also.

• Rajaiya was the original name of Illayaraja

• Chiranjeevi had his schooling at Ponnuru.

• Actress B Saroja Devi has strong sentiments of “Saturday” and “Lord Hanuman”.

• It took nine years to prepare script for NTR’s yesteryears blockbuster “Srirama Pattabhishekam”

• Popular lyricist Athreya was born on May 7, which is the same for Nobel Laureate and poet Rabindranath Tagore.

• NTR donned the role of Lord Krishna in 14 films.

• Ghantasala visited Madras in 1944 to become an actor.

• For the first time Lord Rama’s role was played by CSR in “Ramadasu”, released in 1933.

• First glamour hero of Telugu Screen was CH Narayana Rao.

• Zeenat Aman got dressed up as a village girl with a burnt face and landed up at Raj Kapoor's office when he was finalising his heroine for Satyam Shivam Sundaram. He was so impressed with her dedication that he signed her immediately.

• Abhishek Bachchan never travels without a copy of the 'Granth Saheb', the holy book of the Sikhs. His grandmother, Mrs Teji Bachchan is a Sikh by religion.

• The real name of Kumar Sanu is Kedar Bhattacharya

• Shilpa Shetty has a penchant for Ganeshas. She has more than one thousand Ganeshas in her house.

• Mahima choudary's real name is ritu. Subash ghai kept her name as "mahima" while the shooting of the movie "pardes".

• Aishwarya's Pepsi advertisment with Aamir Khan was shot in one night during the infamous Bombay riots.

• Bimal Roy won the largest number of Filmfare awards for Best Director, seven with two hat-tricks thrown in for good measure. He has also won four awards for the best producer.

• Dimple Kapadia has a fetish for candles. In fact, she runs a candle store in mumbai!

• Did you know, that the legendary comedian Johny Walker was actually a bus conductor, spotted by actor guru dutt who signed him for his voice for the song "tel malish" & the rest is history !!!

• Vyjayantimala was the original choice for Nirupa Roys role in Deewar (1975). Rajesh Khanna and Navin Nischol were to play Vijay and Ravi.

• In 1964, Tamil director Sridhar had thrown Hema Malini out of her first film, saying she had no star appeal.

• Sazaa-e-Kalaapani directed by Priyadarshan was the first film to use five languages - Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English.

• Kamal hasan comes from the family of well acclaimed criminal lawyers

• Most of Rakesh Roshan films start with the letter K as he feels that this letter brings him good luck.

• Hrithik Roshan has 2 joint thumbs in his right hand.

• All Tamil mega stars are non Tamilans.Rajnikant is Maharastrian, MGR is a Malayali,Prabhudeva is from Karnataka,Arjun from Karnataka!!

• Ash is very much into Vaastu and Feng-Shui.A water body in one corner, a wind-chime in another, her new house has all the elements in mind

• Mother India was the first Hindi movie to be nominated for the Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category.

• Director K A Abbas directed the first Indo-Soviet film, Pardesi.

• R.D. Burman once used the sound of a bamboo whistle with a balloon tied to it for a song in the movie Abdullah

• Johnny Lever's real name is Badruddin Qazi. While working at Hindustan Lever, he participated in a function where his stand-up comedy and mimicry became such a hit that the union leader there christened him 'Johnny Lever'.

• Lata Mangeshkar's passion, other than singing is painting and she is also an expert in the art of applying make-up and an avid photographer.

• Believe it or not, but Amitabh is a great fan of Brazilian soccer players. His favorite however is Rudd Gullit. He also has a fondness for golf.

• Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was the highest grossing title in UK UCI cinemas. It grossed £1.6 million from only 20 cinemas

• Not many people know that Telugu film veteran S V Ranga Rao was nominated for Best Character Actor for OSCARS for his role in the movie 'Pandava Vanavasam'

• Alam Ara was the first Indian talkie movie.

• The beauteous Madhubala was originally supposed to do Vyjayanthimala's role in Naya Daur. But her father flatly refused to let her leave for outdoor shoots. B R Chopra replaced her and it led to an acrimonious court case.

• Dev Anand Previously used to work for the British postal services against revolutionaries by checking mails for containing anti-british letters

• Raj Kapor used to work as a sweeper boy and clapper boy

• Kaho Naa Pyar Hai will be added to the Guiness Book of World Records 2002 edition for winning the most number of awards for a movie. Kaho Naa Pyar Hai won a total of 92 awards!!!

• Amitabh gave up his job as a freight broker for the shipping firm Bird and Company to become an actor.

• Amir Khan’s wife Reena and ShahRukh’s wife Gauri share the same birthday, October 8th

• Both Sridevi And Juhi Chawla’s daughters’ name is Jhanvi

• Jeetendra's real name is Ravi Kapoor.

• Did you know that Hindi cinema's first music composer was Jaddan Bai, better known for being Nargis's mother.

• Did you know that Mani Rathnam is an alumni of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies for his MBA

• Three greatest singers of bollywood died in their 50s - Mukesh(53), Kishore Kumar(58), Mohammad Rafi(55)

• Veteran actor Sanjeev Kumar remained a lifelong bachelor.

• Zeenat Aman was born in Germany, studied in Los Angeles. She was Miss Asia and her father was a film writer

• Sholay was released after 75% cuts by the censor. In other words, the original movie had 3 times more violence than the released version.

• Not many people know that Jaya Bhaduri (Bachchan) began her acting career with a small role in Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar in 1963.

• Did you'll know that Rajnikant's real name is Shivajirao Gaekwad. He is a Maharashtrian from Bangalore and was a bus conductor before joining films. He makes it a point to speak in Marathi with his Marathi co-stars.

• Govinda's prized possession is the saree he bought his late mom Nirmala Devi with his first signing amount.

• Between 1931 and 1999, India produced over 300,000 films, which is a world record

• In 1953, there were no Filmfare Awards for the Best Playback Singer and for the Best Lyricist.

• Hiralal Sen made the first Indian narrative film - Pundalik

• Swayamvaram (Tamil) was shot in just twenty-four hours! It started on April 5,1999 at 7 am and ended at 7 am on April 6. It had thirty-eight actors and actresses and was directed by thirteen directors

• Did you know Manmohan Desai has made the maximum number of films on 'Lost and Found' theme?

• Did you know Ambitabh Bachan's character was named 'Vijay' in totally 17 movies?

• The earliest attempts at providing synchronised sound in India were made by Madan Theatres. In 1929 it exhibited the first talking picture in India, Universal's Melody of love at Elphinstone in Calcutta

• Madhuri who plays Chandramukhi had to dance in a ghaghra that weighed almost 30 kgs. Despite her best efforts it was not possible, so the outfit had to be replaced by a lightet one weighing 16 kilos.

• Did you know Kamal Hassan at the age of four won the President's Gold Medal for his first movie Kalathur Kannama?

• Baburao Painter introduced artificial lighting and replaced curtains with 3-D backgrounds.

• B V Joshi, one of the early camerapersons, created a sensation by using reflectors to direct available light

• Did you know that Chandidas directed by Debaki Bose(1932) was the first film to use background music to enhance emotions.

• Actress Laila started her career as a receptionist at a bar in Goa.

• Of the Ten world famous diamonds, nine are cut and polished in India.

• Did you know that Anmol Moti was the first underwater film of India!

• In 'Sooryavansham'(Hindi) the voices for Jaya Sudha and Saundarya belong to Rekha

• Dev Anand, a short, sweet name that fits the suave actor to the hilt -- Guess what his full name is? Dev Dutt Pishorimal Anand

• "Bollywood" is the world’s most prolific cinema industry - with a thousand feature films in 1985.

• Vibrant Talent Manoj Bajpai of the "Bhiku Mhatre" fame failed several screen tests before finally getting a break in filmdom !!

• Believe it or not, but Amitabh is a great fan of Brazilian soccer players. His favorite however is Rudd Gullit. He also has a fondness for golf.

• Hindi films have played a greater role than the Government of India in establishing Hindi as the national language of India.

• In a poll conducted in India, Amitabh Bachchan proved to be more widely known than even Mahatma Gandhi.

• The Indian film industry produces more films than any other country in the world and the films sell in more than 50 countries around the world.

• Though India has the largest film industry in the world, only two commercial films have made it to Oscar nominations. Mother India and Lagaan.

• Late actress Savitri was once an addict to horse races.

• Famed movie “Malapilla” was dedicated to the erstwhile Maharaja of Travancore, a social reformer who first allowed temple entry to the Dalits.

• Actress Aamani has good liking for Pani-Poori.

• NTR’s “Sambha” ran for 100 days in Sholapur in Maharashtra.

• Actress Bhanupriya is a staunch devotee of Matha Amruthanandamayi.

• For exit of each director, there has cropped up three new faces. This is present trend in Tollywood. (Eenadu)

• Legendary playback singer Ghantasala’s favorite place is Vizianagaram

• NTR and Gummadi did de-glamorous roles in “Thodu Dongalu”.

• Actress Vaheda Rehman’s birthplace is Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu.

• NTR toured Rayalaseema districts by length and breadth in 1952. He led a group of stage artistes to collect donations for the victims of drought that year.

• During the Indo-Pak war (1964-65) Telugu movie artistes collected donations for the families of martyred Jawans under “NTR Defense Fund”.

• NTR & ANR jointly organized relief operations during the Diviseema tragedy in 1979.

• Vandemataram Srinivas who sang Tsunami theme song termed the devastation as a Cyclone.

• Sania Mirza is the first Indian to win the Grand Slam.

• Film shooting came to a halt in Kashmir valley two decades ago due to extremism. It paved away for the Indian producers reaching out to European locations.

• Amitabh has a big mole on his right knee.

• Pawan Kalyan is a pure vegetarian.

• Director SV Krishna Reddy will not begin anything without consulting an astrologer.

• Anjali Devi declined an offer in Bollywood while doing the movie "Seetharama Kalyanam".

• Graphics in "Anji" movie were done in London.

• Prabhu Deva married a dancer Ramlath seven years ago and is father of two kids.

• Kongara Jaggaiah was the first Parliamentarian from the Telugu film industry.

• The lion from a circus company which acted in "Adavi Ramudu" (with NTR) died in 1980.

• Singapore remained the best foreign location for Tamil industry till the 90s.

• Famed comedian Rajababu died of livercirosis.

• R. Narayana Murthy, a multifaceted personality of Red films, does not have a car.

• Krishna Vamsi shelved something from his remuneration for completion of "Chakram".

• About 2000 junior artistes were taken to can the battle scene in Krishna starrer "Kurukshetram."

• After the Tsunami, Andaman & Nicobar islands were struck with earthquakes six times, besides tremors more than two dozen times..

• Superstar Krishna's favourite movie is Clint Eastwood's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".