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A glitzy and glamour-filled awards nite was held at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on November 30 by Santosham. Top stars like Mahesh Babu, Jagapati Babu flew in for the awards ceremony. Naturally, the crowds went berserk seeing Mahesh who has just bagged a hit with Athithi. The best movie was Bommarillu and the best actress was Genelia for the same film. Puri Jagannath was given the Best Director's award for Pokiri. Dr K L Narayana received the award as the Best Producer for Rakhi, from Dr D Ramanaidu. Amidst cheers and whistles, Mahesh said he was happy to get the award and thanked the magazine for giving it. He also said it was a great feeling to take it in Dubai amidst so many Telugu people. Mahesh also remembered his grandmother Durgamma who was a great admirer and supporter of his. Though she was no more, he said he always felt her presence. Not to forget Suresh Kondeti, he praised the efforts of the publisher in taking the awards out of the country to Middle East, which had a huge Telugu workforce. Jagapati Babu said that Mahesh was indeed a prince and added that he was the only actor in Telugu, who had the looks to make it in Bollywood and Hollywood. Other popular awards included -- the best dialogues writers' award went to the Paruchuri Brothers. Namrata Mahesh Babu gave the award to Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao. Best villain was Sai Kumar for Samanyudu and Roja gave away the award. Best choreographer's award went to Amma Rajasekhar for Yogi. The best male playback award went to S P Balasubramanyam for Sri Ramadasu. Mamata Mohandas was the best playback singer and Mumaith Khan got the award as the best dancer. Pulagam Chinnarayana got the Best PRO award for Pokiri, Devadasu, Pellaina Kottalo and Vikramarkudu. The audience got their share of entertainment too, with a huge line-up of programmes that included dance performances, skits and songs by top playback singers. Mamata Mohandas sang the Akaleste song from Shankar Dada MBBS. Then, there was Mumaith Khan doing all her popular item numbers. Paruchuri Brothers and Sai Kumar mesmerized the audience with their power-packed dialogues. Producer's association president Tammareddy Bharadwaja, directors' association president Sagar and secretary TVD Prasad all had words of praise for Suresh. D Suresh, Bharatam Raju, Selvamani were among the other guests present. Kondeti Suresh said he was very happy that for the first time a Telugu awards function was being held outside India and thanked the guests, artistes and film industry bigwigs and the audience for attending the awards nite and making it a success. The fifth anniversary issue of Santosham was released by Mahesh on the occasion.
Santosam awards presented
Sometimes these film awards function become pretty much predictable. A huge a list of celebrities. And each speaking on how they were happy to be there. The organizers too ensuring that each went back with at least an award in some category or the other. It all happened at the Santosam Awards last night. On a night when Venkatesh held the center stage, he was awarded the best actor for his performance in Sankranthi. Charmi walked away with the best actress award for her show in Anukokunda Oka Roju. Veteran director K Viswananth was awarded the lifetime achievement trophy. Chiranjeevi was voted the most popular actor by the fans. Alludu Ramaiah Award for best comedian went to M S Narayana. The most promising youngster awards went to Allu Arjun. Mohana Krishna Indraganti was the best director. Athadu was the best film. Venkatesh also launched the Video CD magazine of Santosham at the awards night, which coincided with the publication'?ÂÂ?s 4th anniversary. Actors Akash and Raja, actresses Kamna Jethmalani, Navaneet Kaur, Gowri Munjal, Poonam Bajwa, Abhinaya Sri and Ruthika were among the star performers of the night. The dance of disabled Kutti was another highlight of the night.
Twin events to fantasize by 'Santhosham'
The twin events of Presentation of Santhosham Film Awards 2008 and 6th anniversary of Santhosham Film Magazine will be celebrated at Hotel Novotel, HICC, Hitech City, Hyderabad on August 2nd this year. Since Monday gala arrangements are being made with contributions from Art Director Ashok for stage, Choreographer Amma Rajasekar for stage performance and Chakri will present a musical treat that night. Eminent personalities from Tollywood, Bollywood and Dubai are expected to participate in the event. Santhosham Film Magazine was started in October 2002, and the publishers instituted the Film Awards in the following year presented for 50 categories in cinema. Dr Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Chiranjeevi graced the inaugural function of the magazine. Santhosham has celebrated 5-anniversaries till date ' four of them were staged at Hyderabad and the 5th one at Dubai marking the launch of its UAE edition, carrying its presence to global level. The Managing Director & Editor of the magazine Suresh Kondeti has come a longway establishing strong relationship with film industry. He is recognized for a new trend in film journalism for bringing in Video Magazine. He is also known as a successful film maker, who made films like Premiste and Shock.
Mahesh Babu star power is enormous Says Santosh Sivan
Cinematographer-turned-Director Santosh Sivan is associated with Mahesh Babu's upcoming flick under AR Murugadoss direction. When asked to share his experience working with the Tollywood Superstar, Santosh Sivan says Energy & Excitement brought in with the sheer presence of Mahesh Babu on the sets is amazing. He feels the enormous Star Power of Prince will help explore new avenues. The Acclaimed Cameraman discloses they have been working since 20 days at a specially erected set at EVP World in Chennai. He is thrilled with the quality of output achieved so far and positive vibe in the sets. Combination scenes of Mahesh Babu and 'Pellichoopulu' fame Priyadarsi were shot in this schedule. Rakul Preet Singh would join the shoot in the next schedule.
Santoshi brings Ramayan magic to celluloid
Raj Kumar Santoshi and K Sera Sera join hands to recreate the immortal Ramayan as a spectacular film. It's a time to tell the world all the stories and which better one to begin with them; the greatest story of them all - The Ramayana. Declares Raj Kumar Santoshi, "It will be made in Hindi and English. We have already signed top creative talent from India. While the negotiations with the leading international technicians are underway." According to Parag Sanghwi of Ksera sera, "we are confident that Raj Kumar Santoshi's vision and skill will create a memorable cinematic spectacle that will delight audience across the world. Anjum Rajbali is scripting the epic, research on which began a year ago." Santoshi adds, "The idea behind mounting a celluloid version of Ramayan on such a huge scale is to make the definitive Indian film with universal appeal."
Santosh planning a sequel to 'Halo'
Celebrated cinematographer and director Santosh Sivan's appetite for making films with kids and animals in pivotal roles started off with his hugely acclaimed movie 'Halo' which told a story of a little girl named Sasha's search for her puppy after it gets lost in the metropolis of Mumbai. He continued this interest with his recent film 'Tahaan' which again had a child and a donkey in key roles and was about the journey the protagonist undertakes to find his missing donkey named Birbal. Now Mr.Sivan is planning a sequel to 'Halo' which was released in 1997. The idea to make a follow up was born after the film maker recently met all the kids who had acted in 'Halo' and Santosh Sivan began to think about making a film on the life of the kids 12 years after they came together. Santosh says that for 'Tahaan', it was easy to make the donkey do what he wanted as the child artiste Purav had bonded well with animal and it started responding to him and to obey to his orders.