Exclusive: Meet advocate-turned-actor Jayasri Rachakonda
Srivathsan Nadadhur
It’s not often you come across actors who discuss their limitations, innate fears and insecurities openly and also laugh about it as unabashedly...
Exclusive: Production designer-couple Ramakrishna and Monika on their work ethic, Uppena and Thalaivi
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
Production designers Ramakrishna and Monika discuss the challenges they faced during Uppena and the excitement that was in store for them when they...
Shalini Vadnikatti on life before Krishna and his Leela, the love for her family and coming to terms with her profession
Srivathsan Nadadhur
Actress Shalini Vadnikatti’s journey in Telugu films has been fraught with difficulties at every step, but the Bengaluru girl has been patient enough...
Exclusive: Producer Sunitha Tati, a boss lady who braved everything life threw at her
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Sunitha Tati is a woman in control. She is empowered, ebullient, positive and always takes life head-on. She began with a dream...
Exclusive: In conversation with Dinker Kalvala – Singing his way to success
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Dinker Kalvala made a splash with his maiden number Ninnala Lede, and thereafter sang hundred plus songs. He is a lead vocalist...
Exclusive: Nuvvila actor, dancer Haleem Khan helps the needy during COVID-19
Srivathsan Nadadhur
Actor, Kuchipudi dancer Haleem Khan has been straddling two distinct worlds in the creative space for many years now. While he’s made a...
Exclusive: Nandita Swetha on donning the khaki in IPC 376
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Ask Nandita Swetha if she is busy and the question sparks a guffaw. Who is busy now, tell me she says. “Lock...
Exclusive: Priyamani bounces back with a bang
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Priyamani was the centre of attention, especially in the Telugu film industry when The Family Man got talked about. The web series intruded...
Exclusive: In conversation with actor Padmajaa Lanka
Srivathsan Nadadhur
The supporting actors in a film are often its unsung heroes, those who lay a foundation for the story to be told, but...
Exclusive: In conversation with Manasa Namaha director Deepak Reddy
Srivathsan Nadadhur
Deepak Reddy is a household name in the Telugu film industry, having assisted filmmakers on several plum projects and being a key player...
Exclusive: Srikanth Nagothi on the unanimous appreciation for Bhanumathi and Ramakrishna
Y Sunita Chowdhary
It has been a great week for debutant Srikanth Nagothi. The director from Vijayawada had grown up in Hyderabad, hadn’t watched too...
Ma Ganga Nadi: An allusion to the purity of woman
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Bala Nageswar Rao, first time director, is coming out with Ma Ganga Nadi. On the occasion of the release of the trailer,...
Satish Vegesna reflects on his family’s love for films and the evolution of family dramas
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Satish Vegesna is lucky to belong to a family that loves cinema and considers it as an integral part of their lives....
Exclusive: Seetimaarr is fictional: Sampath Nandi
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Director Sampath Nandi is chilling out at his farm house in Chilkur, which is forty kilometres from his home. He posted a...
Exclusive: Siddhu Jonalagadda hopeful of ‘Krishna and his Leela’ giving a push to his career
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
Siddhu Jonalagadda has come a long way. He got his first breakthrough Praveen Sattaru and the same director gave him a push with...
Exclusive: Salony Luthra channelised her inner-Bhanumati for Bhanumati Ramakrishna
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Salony Luthra calls herself a reluctant actor and why not? She has not been a part of the masala films that release...
Exclusive: Bicchagadu producer Chadalavada Srinivasa Rao looks back at his eventful journey
Y Sunita Chowdhary
Producer Chadalavada Srinivasa Rao is familiar to many as a timber trader. Hailing from a huge joint family in Nellore, the sixty-year-old...
Exclusive: Sowcar Janaki’s life lessons in the hour of a pandemic
Y Sunita Chowdhary
While a lockdown is not something all enjoy, it doesn’t make much difference to Sowcar Janaki. She has been living in solitude...
Exclusive: All films ain’t an Interstellar: Sundeep Kishan
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
Sundeep Kishan lost eleven kilos in five months and wants to lose another three for Dennis Jeevan Kanukolanu’s first film in Telugu titled...
Exclusive: Dimple Hayathi: No more stereotypes
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
Ask Dimple Hayathi how she had treated the lock down, she says it has taken time to come to reality. For her it...
Exclusive: Payal: learning & unlearning in lockdown
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
Payal Rajput is looking chic and pretty after a hair cut. She cropped it short and says that’s how her hair actually is....
Exclusive: Sripathy Karri’s confident march
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
Achievement is a relative term, we meet a lot of wannabe directors who struggle for years together and yet they don’t make it....
Exclusive: Anasuya: A woman unstoppable
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
Anything that Anasuya does kicks up a storm. While she admits she has lot more negative people following her on her social...
Exclusive: Director Venkatesh Maha on the lockdown and his life before C/O Kancharapalem
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
The happiness and excitement in C/O Kancharapalem director Venkatesh Maha’s voice when we speak of his mother is palpable. The happiest moment that...
Exclusive: Lockdown diaries – Indraganti Mohan Krishna
Y. Sunita Chowdhary
Indraganti Mohan Krishna’s ‘V’ is ready. While it was going for the second round of the final mix, (which is just a...
Exclusive: Uppena director Buchi Babu Sana on his foray into films, equation with Sukumar
Y.Sunita Chowdhary
The director of Uppena, Buchi Babu Sana’s love for films comes from his genes. His mother was a big movie buff and would...
