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The recent election scenario was a dramatic tale of twists and turns for the Telugu Desam party and just when people were thinking that it might well be losing its existence with key members walking away and joining the Praja Rajyam Party and Congress, they managed to bounce back and were also successful in forming a Grand Alliance (which didn’t work). Now, one episode has been the highlight of the election and that has been the presence of cine stalwarts and their campaigning. While on one end, there was megastar Chiranjeevi who jumped into active politics with his Praja Rajyam Party, the TDP roped in the Nandamuri big gun Balakrishna. After a lot of drama, even young tiger junior NTR joined the fray and that for a moment had spiked up the graphs of popularity for the TDP. Young tiger junior NTR has often been known for his high voltage emotional dialogues on the screen and they have enough ammunition to get the crowds to the theatres.
So he seems to have used something similar during the election canvassing when thousands gathered to have a look at him while he was rolling out his dialogues in full flow. The media projected him like a true successor to the legendary N T Rama Rao and in no time, junior became a demigod, thanks to the exaggeration from the news channels. Live coverages were provided to every speech of Junior NTR and experts started putting in high numbers for the Telugu Desam due to this. However, in no time, all those castles came down crashing to the ground once the election results were seen. The places where junior gave his speeches scored the least results for the Mahakootami and in no time, the same channels that termed him as the oxygen for TDP took the breath out of him and gave a realistic feel that reel life and real life are two different things. Even the likes of Balayya and Chiru failed to impress the crowds and it remains to be seen if folks like junior NTR, Balakrishna, Chiranjeevi have learnt their lessons from this or not.
Way back in the year 1983, the legendary N T Rama Rao created a landslide with his ‘Teluguvaadi Atma Gauravam’ concept but then it must be said that it was not only his charisma but also the resentment among the people over the languishing Congress government at that point of time. So if people like Chiru or Chandrababu expected that film glamour will fill their vote banks, then they have seen the outcome of it clearly now.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders, who received severe drubbing in the recent electios, are desperate to exploit the Telangana sentiment on silly pretexts.
Take for instance the statement of TRS legislator T Harish Rao. He says great injustice was meted out to the Telangana leaders in the cabinet expansion and allotment of portfolios. He forgot the point that as many as 15 ministers in the Cabinet are from Telangana and five out of six women ministers are from this region.
When it was pointed out to him, Harish Rao says it is grossly insufficient. He does not agree with the fact that the key portfolio of Home was given to a Telangana minister Sabita Indra Reddy. “What is home portfolio? The home minister is like a snake without fangs. The real power is with the Chief Minister,” he said. What about the portfolios of Medical and Health, Minor Industries, Information and Tourism etc. Are they not key portfolios?
Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has rewarded his “chellemma” Sabita Indra Reddy with Home portfolio, as she turned out to be his lucky mascot.
In a way, Sabita should consider herself very lucky, as Home minister is considered to be No. 2 in the cabinet. And she gained the credit of being the first woman home minister, which is no easy task.
Sabita, who earlier held the portfolio of mines and geology, helped YSR in several ways. Without taking aarthi from her, YSR does not take up any programme. Earlier, he launched all his programmes, including election campaigns and government programmes, only from Chevella. Even in the recent elections, he launched his election campaign from this place and that proved his “Chevella Chellemma” sentiment right: he became the first Congress chief minister in three decades to retain power.
No wonder, YSR gave her such a pleasant surprise!
While it may be that few of them have been disappointed over the defeat of megastar Chiranjeevi and his party during the elections, there is one community that had a blast over the result. They are the Kamma community and here is an incident that came to light recently.
It heard that as soon as the election results were announced, on May 18th one of the Kamma film celebrity organized for a grand private party and this happened with a theme of ‘Camp Fire’ and ‘Barbeque Chicken’. The whole clan was said to be rejoicing till the early hours of next morning on Chiru’s defeat.
Sources say that the party also saw some of the big Kamma heads taking part apart from the film crowds and so there was a major reunion happening out there. Those who heard this news also added that similar celebrations happened across few other anti-Chiru camps as well.
He is known as the media baron for all the Telugu people and he is also rated as one of the finest visionaries the country has ever seen. On the internal front, he is also seen as the king maker in Andhra Pradesh but right now, all this has not been going his way at all.
We are talking about the one and only Ramoji Rao and it must be said that the year 2008-09 has been a very bitter one. Ramoji has seen three big losses and that too back to back which has really dampened his spirits.
First in the list is the Margadarsi controversy with Rajahmundry MP Undavalli Arun Kumar becoming a nightmare for Ramoji. Then it was the issue for Ramoji with his son Suman and the relation was almost over before they patched up. Last but not the least, it is the loss of his most favorite party the Telugu Desam Party which has hit the nail on the head. Wonder what the future has in store for him.
When it comes to ETV Suman and his ventures, the publicity is maximum irrespective of the quality of his works. Now, he is all set to arrive with his new movie ‘Usha Parinayam’ and recently, the audio album release also took place. Now, a new offer is said to have been given here.
It is heard that there is a Scratch card with each CD and this will have a number, every day there will be a lucky draw and the winners can get upto Rs 10000 cash prize. So if you get lucky, you could buy the CD for Rs 25 but win a cash prize of Rs 10000.
As expected, this is a publicity exercise by Suman and the film is slated to hit the screens this week. While the response to the audio has been quite mixed, it is expected that this daily draw scheme will help bring in some extra mileage to the film. Let us see how this goes.
Hyderabad: Yuvarajyam president Pavan Kalyan is back to business nursing his star image as an actor after being neglected by the party which deliberated on the post-poll scenario during the last week.
The actor has been trying to catch up with his shooting schedules which got neglected due to his extensive campaigning to attract fresh voters across the state. The actor is busy with his next big-budget film “Puli”, directed by S J Surya.
According to some of the party leaders, the absence of the PRP youth wing chief, who was seen as the only firebrand leader in the party, at the meetings was proving to be a dampener.
Though several special invitees were called to the extended three-day political affairs committee meeting last week, the absence of the Yuvarajyam chief at the party’s re-structuring meet left tongues wagging.
“Pavan Kalyan is the only PRP leader who dared to show his fingers at corrupt Congress leaders and take an open stand against the ruling party. Since he has been staying aloof from party activities after the second phase of polling, several youth who plunged into active politics were looking for the Yuvarajyam leader for further directions,” said a senior PRP leader who did not want to be identified.
The last meeting, though unofficial, was chaired by the Yuvarajyam chief to discuss arrangements for the the Praja Vijayabheri two months ago.
