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With the rise of the Telangana separatist movement in 2009, Tollywood was thrown into turmoil as those who demanded a state for the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh interrupted movie shootings and stopped screeningsĪs they insisted that the top actors support their cause. Rao’s footsteps by running for office in Andhra Pradesh and winning, thereby intertwining politics and Tollywood. Rama Rao, a Telugu language film star and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. Party in 1983 and sweep the state elections that made him the chief minister. Rao could successfully oppose the Congress Party, led by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, within nine months of founding the Telugu Desam Rama Rao, a superstar who predominantly played mythological roles in black-and-white In its 75 years of history, Tollywood has produced culture-shaping movie stars, whose manic appeal climaxed with the icon of late N.T. Glamour and popularity of a handful of stars as valid substitute for content, style and creativity.” “A common worldview of Telugu filmmakers makes them believe that if you can choke the supply of good movies and repeatedly feed audiences with trite, it will eventually work,” he said. As a result, producers are pushed into making compromises on all other aspects. Movie stars, whose salaries have been rising steadily. Most investment into movies goes toward paying
Bharadwaj said Tollywood’s prospects won’t change until fundamentals change. The biggest problem in the industry is the lack of good scripts, he said. Near-monopoly of a handful of businessmen, who control studios, production, distribution and theater-screens, butĪre not passionate about movies as an art, has created this drought for a hit.” Small-budget movies by debutant directors don’t get screened. Bharadwaj, himself a movie a producer, cited a long list of reasons for the industry’s failures: “No good scripts, repeat of boring plot formulas, rehash of hits from other languages, an insipid mash Eight out of 10 movies are a flop, he said, and the remaining barely recover their investments. In 2013, accumulated losses have exceeded 4 billion rupees, or $64.6 million, said Tammareddyīharadwaj, chairman of the Andhra Pradesh Film Chambers of Commerce, the regional movie-maker’s guild. It is not unusual for fans to worship stars, washing their statues with milk and making offerings of flowers, incense stick and camphor, rituals usually reserved for Hindu gods.”ĭespite Tollywood’s prolific output and its passionate fans, the industry is facing its worst financial slump in a decade. Is an urban legend dating decades ago when after a cyclone, people did not turn up at a relief camp for food and water packets and instead queued up at a local movie theater, whose owners threw open a show for free. Population like Mumbai, Chennai or Bengaluru, as well as in American cities like New York, New Jersey and Chicago.īollywood fans are known for their love of movies, but Tollywood fans are in another category altogether. “Telugu movie fans are crazy,” said Sridhar Sattiraju, a Tollywood analyst. Unlike Bollywood, whose reach is pan-India, Tollywood screenings are linguistically limited to one state, Andhra Pradesh, though a few screenings occur in Indian cities with a big Telugu HYDERABAD, Andhra Pradesh - Bollywood, the movie-making machine based in Mumbai, may be the best-known Indian film industry globally, but farther south in Andhra Pradesh, there is another that churns out moreįilms each year and has a more intensely devoted following, so much that entertainment is inextricably linked with the state’s turbulent politics.īased in Hyderabad, the Telugu-language film sector, also known as Tollywood, releases an average of 135 to 150 titles annually, at times topping over 160, more than the average of 100 to 110 coming out He starred in one of the few hits Tollywood had this year.
Pawan Kalyan, a Telugu language film actor at his residence in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, on Dec.
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