Highlights and Sidelights of 'Lion' Audio

Natasimham Nandamuri Balakrishna's 'Lion' movie's audio launch was held on Thursday, April 9 at Shilpakala Vedika of Hyderabad. Highlights and sidelights of this audio launch are as follows.

HIGHLIGHTS:

* AP CM Chandrababu Naidu graced the occasion as a chief guest. Apart from a galaxy of stars, numerous politicians made their presence felt and they include Deputy CMs Nimmakayala Chinarajappa, KE Krishna Murthy, Revanth Reddy, Paritala Sunitha, Baburao, Jayasudha and others. 

* Anasuya and Ali have done the job of anchoring. 

* All the guests wished the movie would run 100 days. Revanth Reddy uttered 'Legend' dialogues of Balakrishna.

* An AV on late NTR was unveiled by Balakrishna.

* Theatrical trailer was launched by Boyapati Srinu.

* Chandrababu Naidu launched the audio CDs and gave them away to Balakrishna and others. Addressing to the gathering, CBN said, " No hero has such a great following that Balakrishna has. All movies of his with 'Simham' titles have gone hits. I believe that 'Lion' would create a history in tollywood. I wish to attend one year celebrations of this movie."

* Balakrishna said, " Dad( NTR) never ran after time.Instead time ran after him. I too. Ramarao garu is my inspiration. There are many powerful dialogues in 'Lion' movie and I wish you will enjoy them."

SIDELIGHTS:

* Since many politicians attended to the event, it appeared like a political event. 

* As usually Balakrishna spoke with brisk pace with limited number of full stops and commas in his speech.

* No politician has delivered an attractive speech except Revanth Reddy.

* Chandrababu Naidu appeared to have told many lies on the state's development and on Balakrishna.