Sunil to play lead role in Tanu weds Manu remake

We had earlier informed that Dil Raju is planning to remake the Bollywood recently released hit film Tanu weds Manu in Telugu version. The latest buzz in Tollywood is that Sunil will play the lead role in the film.

The producers are said to have approached Sunil and the comedian turned hero is said to have given green signal for the film. Dil Raju, Bujji and Tagore Madhu will jointly produce the movie under a new production house. Other details of the cast and crew of the film are yet to be finalized.

Dil Raju to produce Sunil’s Napolean

We had earlier reported that Sunil has signed a new film titled Napolean for the lead role. The film will be directed by a new director Koti and Deeksha Seth is playing the female lead in opposite Sunil.

Earlier, Napolean was supposed to be produced by Ganesh Indukuri under Sanvi productions. However, the latest reports say, Dil Raju is producing the film and Ganesh has stepped out. The movie is touted as a thriller with ample comedy and action. Napolean will start rolling its camera from second week of March.

KSD Appalraju Movie Review

Behind the Movie: Ramgopal Varma’s comeback Telugu film with Sunil in the lead is the continuous attention grabber from the moment it was launched. Being publicized as a satire on Tollywood, KSD Appalraju arrived today in theatres. Let us see, how strong was Varma’s Katha, Screenplay, Darsakathvam?  In the Movie: Appalraju (Sunil) is a die hard Telugu movie lover and an avid movie buff in Amalapuram living with only dream to direct a Telugu film and raise the standards of our Telugu cinema. Challenging his father Uppalraju (Chalapathi Rao), Appalraju arrives in Hyderabad landing up in Krishna Nagar.  In the very first meeting, Appalraju impresses film producer Rakhi (Raghu Babu) and his creative head Pushpanand (Harshavardhan) with the tragic, heroine oriented story of ‘Nayaki.’ With in no time, team of assistant directors Gogineni Venkata Ramana (MS Narayana), Rudra Veena (Tameem), Annamacharya (Suman Shetty) and Krishna (Colors Swathi) join director Appalraju.  Next task is to find right casting as famous heroine Kanishka (Sakshi Gulati), her love interest Babu Garu (Adarsh) agree to do the film and Mega Max head  Data Base (Krishna Bhagawan) agrees to finance the project. Calculations go wrong, Kanishka gets into a naughty quarrel with Babu Garu and they are separated disturbing the entire project. Time when financiers step back, Kanishka ropes in another top hero KT (Ajay), an opponent hero of Babu Garu and local goonda Sri Sailam (Brahmanandam) becomes financier and lyricist while Rahman Sharma (Ali) is the music director for ‘Nayaki.’ Bowing before all the demands of this big crew, Appalraju completes ‘Nayaki’ and gets it ready for release opposite Babu Garu’s film ‘Pranam Teestha’ which had the backing of media criminal No Brain EV (Raja Ravindra), top distributor Onti Kannu Gavarraju (Kota) and senior director Y. Venkat (Tanikella).  What happens next? Did Appalraju’s film ‘Nayaki’ win the Sankranthi race? Is Appalraju satisfied with the judgment of audience? form the climax. Values & Out of the Movie: Basic theme visualized by Ramgopal Varma is to showcase the inner troubles and hurdles in directing a movie, completing it in time and releasing it to win the appreciations of audience. Though the line was clear, Ramgopal Varma rolled out a senseless product that never looked appealing. Neither there was script nor was direction. Entire movie was a big mess with lengthy, boring, painful scenes. Not even for five minutes that audiences get involved into the story and get into the groove of Varma. It will be more apt to title this flick as ‘Pappularaju’ or ‘Thippalaraju’ or ‘Chippalaraju’ rather than ‘Appalraju.’ Neither there was conviction in story telling nor an element of genuineness in Varma’s effort. Audiences continuously drain their energies getting out from theatres dragging their feet with discontent. Especially comedy between Brahmi, Tanu Rai; episodes between Sunil, Harshavardhan, Colors Swathi; final cheap tricks of Babu Garu’s villain team to burn the negative of ‘Nayaki’ is such a low grade stuff which is never expected from an intellectual brain like RGV.  Every attempt by Sunil to save Appalraju was devastated by co-artists. He was the only artist in the film tried to play his character authentically. Special appearance of Raviteja is an absolute waste. Apparently RGV explained the core message of his film with voice over in the very first scene with Comedy Vs Tragedy dichotomy but there were no such strong points plotted in the entire movie.  Finally RGV seems to have not only insulted the tastes of Telugu audience by making tragedy ‘Nayaki’ treated as comedy flick but also sent a strong message to new directors entering into the field about the possible humiliations to face, is the one and only positive outcome of Appalraju. Strictly speaking Appalraju isn’t worth a flick to review, from the point of view of zero positive points in it. A person sitting besides me in theatre was happy to see the negatives of ‘Katha Screenplay Darsakathvam Appalraju’ thrown into fires (a scene in the pre-climax of movie). Such was the level of irritation of audience.      Performance wise Sakshi Gulati was red hot, ready to reveal everything before camera while Brahmanandam did over action with Tanu Rai and Venu Madhav. It was only in the first few minutes of second half that audiences get some entertainment from Brahmi’s rowdy den else Appalraju is a complete dud with no ‘Thala’ and no ‘Thoka.’ Neither dialogues from Nilesh nor the camera work of Sudhakar Yakkanti nor music from Koti are to save this. Production values of Kiran Kumar Koneru were also very poor.  The name of Ramgopal Varma may pull good openings on first day and negative mouth publicity may harm the film from matinee of first day or morning of second day. So BO success is an out of scope subject to think or discuss about.    Final Verdict: ‘C’ grade effort from ‘A’ grade director.                                                                                 Reviewed by Srivaas Source: Cinejosh.com

KSD Appalraju completes censor formalities

Ram Gopal Varma’s Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam Appalraju is gearing up for its release on 18^th February. In regard to this, the producer of the film has submitted the first copy of the movie to Censor Board and has received U/A certificate with no cuts. The film casts Sunil, Swathi, Sakshi Gulati in key roles.

KSD Appalraju is produced by Kiran Kumar Koneru and the movie is touted as a full-fledged situational comedy entertainer with regard to the hard hitting satires on Telugu film industry. KSDA has already created enough buzz with its trailers and brochure and teasers.

Let’s wait and see if the film clicks at the ticket windows and brings few smiles for the unit of Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam Appalraju.

Two more comedians joined in Dongala Muta’s team!

Ramgopal Varma’s recently launched "Dongala Muta" film third shooting is going on in Rock Castle hotel in Hyderabad. Now the latest news is that two more actors joined in that Dongala Muta’s team. Earlier the movie has only five actors Ravi Teja, Charmy, Brahmanandam, Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna and Prakashraj. Now two more actors Venu Madhav and Sunil have joined the cast of the film

KSD Appalraju Trailer Movie Promo

KSD Appalraju postponed to 10th February!

Ram Gopal Varma’s directorial Katha Screenplay Darsakathvam Appalaraju, which was slated for a release on 4^th February, is yet again postponed to 10^th February.  The postponement is due to the delay in post-production works as well as the release of Jai Bolo Telangana. Though KSDA also is a hottest project and has enough attention, Varma wisely took this decision as Jai Bolo Telangana grabs much attention in the Nizam area.

However, KSDA will now lock horns with Nagarjuna starrer Gaganam, releasing on 11^thFebruary. KSD Appalraju casts Sunil, Swathi, and Sakshi in the key roles. The movie is made with the hard hitting satires on film industry celebrities and media persons. KSDA has music by Koti and cinematography by Sudhakar Yakkanti

KSD Appalraju Movie Stills

KSD Appalraju brochure shocks biggies!

Controversial director Ram Gopal Varma’s Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam Appalraju is gearing up for its release on 12^th January.

Ram Gopal Varma has released the brochure of this film with few characters and their descriptions that has enough substance to create controversies. The brochure has shocked many, as the characters have close comparison to top celebrities related to Telugu Cinema.

Varma has adopted a new way of publicizing his films these days. Even before the film rolls on to floors, RGV creates some sort of controversies and grabs the media attention towards his film. Rakta Charitra, Bezawada Rowdeelu and now KSD Appalraju are the primary examples. Media exaggerates these controversial issues to a large extent and ultimately, Ramu is gaining free publicity for all his films.

But, will this negative publicity work in film’s success? Let’s wait and see.

Manchu Manoj to marry 'Appalraju'

Manchu Manoj wants to marry hero turned ace comedian who is also the hero of RGV's upcoming flick 'KSD Appalraju'. It may be a shocking one, but it's true and stated by Manoj himself. It is already known that Mohan Babu wants his son to get married to a girl from Vijayawada. Let us check the truth hiding behind this statement. Manoj is featured among the happening Film Stars of Telugu cinema published in a popular Hyderabad based magazine. While answering a question, Manoj stated that he wants to marry Sunil indeed if both are gays. The question is all about who is his best friend from the film industry. Though the answer looks stunning, it really emphasizes on the values given by Manoj for friendship. We hope, Sunil's wife and Manoj’s father would not misunderstand the young hero's answer.

KSD Appalraju Cast & Characters Movie stills

KSD-Appalaraju -Naa peru Srisailam song-Trailer

RGV’s KSD Appalraju – Emetti Penchare song promo

Those were the times when Ramgopal Varma worked on a comedy subject ‘Anaganaga Oka Roju’ which was of course creative one with full support from Urmila and JD Chakravarthy and even Sri’s music was an asset. After a long time, ‘KSDappalraju’ is considered the come back movie for Varma into Tollywood and this one is also a crude, comic satire.   With first two songs of the movie released into market, music lovers doubt whether Varma has lost his original touch. ‘Evadabba Soththu…’ and ‘Mayabazaar’ songs were orchestrated miserably and without Varma’s tag one can easily confer that this music belongs to a ‘B’ grade movie. None knows about the reason why Varma started eyeing on Tollywood again but for now real music lovers say that ‘KSD appalraju’ has become a laughing stock not only for satires on well known cine personalities but also for its cheap music. Varma should understand the fact that standards of Telugu cinema raised from the times of 'Anaganaga Oka Roju' to 'appalraju' and he fails to fit the bill at least with first two songs.

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KSD Appalraju Movie Stills