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Santhosham Awards for 2008

The Santhosham Awards were held on Friday 21st August. There were many awards given but here are the main ones.

Best Film: Jalsa
Best Actor: Bala Krishna (Pandurangadu)
Best Actress: Ileana (Jalsa)
Best Director: Trivikram (Jalsa)
Best Screenplay: Krish (Gamyam)
Best Music director: Devi Sri Prasad (Jalsa)
Best dialogue writer: Kona Venkat (Ready)
Best cinematographer: Chota K Naidu (Kotha Bangaru Lokam)
Best Villain: JD Chakravarthy (Homam)
Best comedy actor: Brahmanandam (King)

You can view the full list here.

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.

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.

Srav's Awards for 2009

Best Movie: Gamyam
2nd Best Movie: Ready

Best actor: Prabhas (Bujjigadu)
Best actress: Genelia (Ready)
Best Director: Srinu Vaitla (Ready)
Best Dialogues: Trivikram Srinivas (Jalsa)
Best Music Director: Mickey J. Meyer (Kotta Bangaru Lokam)
Best Lyricist: Sirivennela (Kotta Bangaru Lokam)
Best Supporting Actor: Srihari (King)
Best Comedian: Bramhanadam (Ready)

Jalsa 2nd Trailer

This is the second trailer of the upcoming Jalsa,


BTW the movie is expected to release tomorrow in 1000 theaters around the world. Trade analysts are expecting this movie to hopefully break the streak of flops this year. Only two films have become commercially successful this year, Gamyam and Krishna. If this movie gets good or very good talk we could see some records broken, even those of Pokiri. Lets all wait and see. I will be opening a discussion forum tomorrow on this site, so people who have watched the film can post their reviews. So visit tomorrow.

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!