Screen Talk: Free films at platinum Tollywood

Several Bollywood and southern stars will glitter at the three-day Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of Telugu film industry in Hyderabad. Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, veterans Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Rekha and the new brigade of Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen are set to steal the show. The organisers are also trying to rope in Abhishek Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Amir Khan among several others.

Several dancers from Bollywood will also enthral the audience at the celebrations scheduled from January 26 to 28 at the Hyderabad International Conventional Centre near Hitec City. The event will cost Rs 6 crore. Screening of the best films of the 75-year old Telugu cinema was launched with the blockbuster Maya Bazar at People’s Plaza in Hyderabad and Tenneti Park in Visakhapatnam. Entry to these places is free.

Chairman of State Film Development Corporation G. Adiseshagiri Rao on Sunday launched special website of the celebrations- www.teluguchalanachitravajrotsav.com while former union minister Krishnam Raju released the celebration logo.

A host of film personalities from Tamil, Malayalee and Kannada film industries will also take part in the celebrations. Tamil superstars Rajanikant and Kamal Hasan, Mammutti and Mohanlal from the Malayalam screen and Anantanag from Kannada are to name a few.