Rajni to be in the city for 'Star night'

Tollywood actors hope to rake in atleast Rs 3.5 crore through the 'Starnight' event which being organised by Movie Artistes Association to raise funds for the recent flood victims. Sources from the association confirmed that actors Dharmendra, Jitendra, Rajesh Khanna Tamil superstar Rajnikanth, actors Vijayakanth, Vikram, Suriya , Sarath Kumar and others will be apart of the event.

Big B Amitabh Bacchan is also likely to participate in the event. Most of the actors in Telugu film industry will perform on the stage atstar night event. Rehearsals for the event is on and about 14 music directors will also perform on the stage at this event which will be held at Gachibowli stadium on November 7. That apart, there is also aspecial skit in which about 80 artistes will perform for more than onehour. Actors on Monday, also released a musical album dedicated to the victims, as a curtain raiser to this event.


Actors said that they hope to raise at least Rs 3.5 crore which will be handed over to the Chief Minister K Rosaiah at the event. Movie Artistes association informed that anyone who wish to contribute more than Rs 5 lakh will be allowed to hand over the cheque to the Chief Minister directly on the stage at the event.


"The highest denomination of the tickets will be Rs 1 lakh on which two will be permitted. The rest are Rs 10,000 and Rs 1,000. We are notgiving any complimentary tickets as the net proceedings are going tothe CM relief fund. Even the actors who are not performing should buy the ticket to enter the premises" said actor Maharshi, the joint secretary,Movie artistes association.


Apart from Tollywood stars, actors from Kannada, Hindi and Tamil film industries too will perform at the event."We have spoken to the actors from other film industries. They will not only perform but also handover their contribution to the Chief Minister's relief fund at the event. From Tollywood, all of us are practising since the past several days for this event. I am trying to ropein as many sponsors as possible for this event, so that we spend less onthe event and give most of the collected money to the Chief Minister" said actor Nandamuri Balakrishna, who is the executive chairman of the committee that is monitoring the arrangements for the 'star night'.


All the film shootings have been cancelled for three days from thisThursday to ensure all the actors reharse for the show.