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Gowtham Menon with Mahesh and Naga Chaitanya

Gowtham Menon will be directing Mahesh Babu's next film, but it isn't the first one that was proposed. The first one is a youthful love story which will now be made with Naga Chaitanya. Indira Productions will produce this one as well. Mahesh's film will be an action subject. Naga Chaitanya's film will begin after Josh has released.

Meanwhile, Trivikram's Varudu is still going and is expected to release for Sankranthi next year. This is almost a make or break situation for Mahesh as he is going to appear on screen after more than 2 years! It is heard that Mahesh is playing the role of a cab driver in Varudu.

More than one movie at once

The stars of Tollywood are now taking a different approach to their careers and are doing more than one movie at a time. In the past, top heroes were only doing one film per year and this was really hurting Tollywood especially if those films were unsuccessful. Doing more than one film at a time not only increases the number of big releases in a calendar year but also gives stars the chance to be more successful. For example, if one film is unsuccessful they can bounce back right away with another film within the same year. Allari Naresh has been doing this for the last few years, although most of his films are average or below average, since he does so many films he is branded as a successful hero.

Currently heroes that are doing or have signed onto more than one film are:

• Prabhas: He is doing Puri Jagannath's Ek Niranjan and Karunakaran's film simultaneously.
• Venkatesh: He is doing Eenadu with Kamal Haasan, and Srinu Vaitla's Namo Venkatesha.
• Balakrishna: He has signed onto three films, Bheeshma directed by Ramesh Verma of Ride fame, Boyapati Srinu's film and another film is in the pipeline.
• Mahesh: He is currently doing Trivikram's Varudu, but has signed onto Goutham Menon's film which is said to start in August.
• Ravi Teja: He always signs onto his next film before his present film is released. He has Anjaneyulu lined up, and has signed a project with Krishna Vamsi and has a few others in the pipeline.
• NTR: He is currently doing VV Vinayak's film, but he has signed onto Dil Raju's Brindavanam directed by Vamsi Paidipalli (Of Munna), Nalamalapu Bujji's MLA, and is also going to do Meher Ramesh's next film produced by Aswini Dutt.
• Allu Arjun: He has Arya 2 lined up for release, and has signed on Krish's Vedham and Gunasekhar's next film which he will do simultaneuosly. He also might have VV Vinayak's next film after these two.

So it seems that a lot of our stars have their hands full of films for a while.

My Most Awaited Film Results

Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam - Above Average to Hit
Oye - Just released, hard to say
Billa - Below Average to Average
Kick - Super Hit
Boni - Flop

The remaining are yet to release, but these are the movies I am waiting for most:

Magadheera (Audio review tomorrow)
Mahesh Babu/Trivikram movie (may not be this year)
Arya 2 - Allu Arjun
Komaram Pulli - Pawan Kalyan
Naga Chaitanya first film
Venkatesh/Srinu Vaitla film
NTR/VV Vinayak Film

Most Awaited Films of 2009

Films to look forward to this year:

• Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam - Siddharth, Tamanna (Already released)
• Magadheera - Ram Charan Teja
• Billa - Prabhas
• Komaram Pulli - Pawan Kalyan
• Arya 2 - Allu Arjun
• Oye - Siddharth
• Mahesh Babu/Trivikram movie (may not be this year)
• Kick - Ravi Teja, Ileana
• Boni - Sumanth
• Naga Chaitanya first film
• Venkatesh/Srinu Vaitla film
• NTR/VV Vinayak Film

And many, many more.

Mahesh and NTR in movie?

There is a rumor doing the rounds that Mahesh and NTR are going to be acting in the same movie. Now that would really set the box office on fire no matter how good the movie is. These two are the leading heroes in the younger generation and if this film does materialize and does well then it will no doubt start a trend of multistarers. But it will definitely be tough to get a script that accommodates for the star status of both actors. Even though both actors are very talented they are not very similar to each other in terms of their acting styles, which could be a good or bad thing. We are just speculating at the moment as it is only a rumor, lets see what happens if it is actually announced.

Mahesh's new movie almost confirmed

Finally! It seems Mahesh will be doing a movie in the direction of Trivikram Srinivas next. It may be called Varudu. Ileana will be the female lead and Genelia may also be roped in as the second heroine. It is also likely that Mahesh's favorite Mani Sharma will score the music for this film. So it is good to hear that he has finalized a project. It is likely to go to floors in April after the release of Trivikram's Jalsa. They are planning to release it this year, but Trivikram is known to be a perfectionist and it is more than likely that it will release next year.

Meanwhile, there is a rumor that famous Hollywood production house Warner Bros. is going to venture into Telugu cinema and produce a movie with Mahesh in it. It is going to be the next movie after this one. It will be directed by Rajamouli and is going be a very high budget venture.

What is Mahesh doing these days?

Mahesh Babu is yet to sign on to do a new film after the release of Athidi. There was a lot of speculation on what he was going to do next. First it was said that he was going to do a film titled Mirchi, which was going to be directed by Jasti Hemambar. There was also a rumor that Ileana had signed on to act in this film. But this film hasn't seem to materialize.

Then it was said that he would act in Hare Rama Hare Krishna produced by MS Raju and directed by Trivikram Srinivas. But that also didn't materialize.

It seemed that every big and small director had a script for Mahesh. Other directors names that were mentioned were: Sekhar Kammula, SS Rajamouli, Goutham, Srivaas (Lakshyam) and even Shankar.

Recently a fresh rumor was spread that Mahesh's next movie was with VV Vinayak. But that rumor has been proven to be false with official conformation that VV Vinayak will be doing that film with Jr NTR.

It was however, confirmed that SS Rajamouli will be doing a film with Mahesh but only after he finished his film with Ram Charan which will be earlier next year. So what is Mahesh doing? Only he knows exactly!