Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Fate of Tollywood (2011) - Chaitanya Kumar Vummethala

We eagerly wait for the results and individual rankings after writing exams (in academics), similarly in the world of telugu cinema (tollywood) this is the time to assess who did the best and what actually happened in the entire game - last year (i.e., in 2011)!

My brief analysis on Tollywood 2011, goes like this: 
To quickly start - there were about 116 straight telugu movies released in 2011, in addition to 126 dubbing movies (from all other languages) being dumped in Andhra Pradesh. Don't surprise by looking at this number surpassing the actual number of straight movie releases (though it's pity, is very common in this industry).

While the budget and collections of a particular movie is always unknown to the end movie lover (audience), even I don't want to get deeper into it (I am also one of the end movie lover) rather would love to express my opinion on the main motive of the movie and its influence on the common audience, i.e., making money (at least recovering the investment) by entertaining movie lovers, which is the ultimate motive of the commercial cinema. 

Though the above numbers summing to 242 (116+126), I chose to rate only 88 flicks (combining both category of movie releases), 70 Straight and 18 Dubbed Movies (these 88 being properly populated and promoted by its makers and created some expectations on the movie). The rest of 154 Movies are not even eligible to spend time on! Even makers opted not to spend money to promote these movies (they are already aware that these flicks are not going to yield profits for them, so they opt to keep quite - instead of spending more money on such useless movies).



Note: In case (or) By mistake if I missed any of the useful / good movie, I am sorry and please inform me by writing a small comment under this post, so that I will include such movies in the below table and change the entire dashboard!

Thus, I have rated a particular movie as one among the following 6 Categories:

1. Entertainer Fut (Straight Telugu Movie - if the motive being entertaining common audience but failed to do so). Total 40 Movies, have proved as Entertainer Futs (considering only few among all the movies released - as mentioned above).
Sl.No.
Release Date
Movie Name
Hero / Director
Category
1
Jan 1st
Ila Chooda Okkasari
Rajendra Prasad
Entertainer Fut
2
Jan 12th
Parama Veera Chakra
NBK
Entertainer Fut
3
Jan 14th
Anaganaga O Dheerudu
Siddharth
Entertainer Fut
4
Jan 26th
Wanted
Gopichand
Entertainer Fut
5
Feb 18th
KSD Appalraju
Sunil / RGV
Entertainer Fut
6
Feb 25th
Bhale Mogudu Bhale Pellam
Rajendra Prasad
Entertainer Fut
7
Mar 2nd
Mangala
Charmi
Entertainer Fut
8
Mar 11th
Thimma Raju
Ali
Entertainer Fut
9
Mar 18th
Raaj
Sumanth
Entertainer Fut
10
Mar 25th
Chattam
Jagapathi Babu
Entertainer Fut
11
Apr 1st
Jr. NTR
Entertainer Fut
12
Apr 8th
Manchivadu
Tanish
Entertainer Fut
13
Apr 8th
Lokame Kotthaga
Shivaji
Entertainer Fut
14
Apr 14th
Pawan Kalyan
Entertainer Fut
15
Apr 29th
Nenu Naa Rakshasi
Rana
Entertainer Fut
16
May 27th
Dussasana
Srikanth
Entertainer Fut
17
May 27th
Vykunta Paali
Krishnudu
Entertainer Fut
18
Jun 4th
Maaro
Nithin
Entertainer Fut
19
Jun 10th
Allu Arjun
Entertainer Fut
20
Jun 25th
180
Siddharth
Entertainer Fut
21
Jul 1st
Brammigadi Katha
Varun Sandesh
Entertainer Fut
22
Jul 22nd
Kodipunju
Tanish
Entertainer Fut
23
Jul 22nd
Amayakudu
Krishnudu
Entertainer Fut
24
Aug 11th
Dhada
Naga Chaitanya
Entertainer Fut
25
Aug 19th
Mugguru
Navdeep
Entertainer Fut
26
Aug 26th
Money Money More Money
Chakravarthi
Entertainer Fut
27
Aug 26th
Daggaraga Dooramga
Sumanth
Entertainer Fut
28
Aug 26th
Keratam
Siddharth Rajkumar
Entertainer Fut
29
Sep 2nd
Naaku O Lover Vundhi
Krishnudu
Entertainer Fut
30
Sep 9th
Aakashamey Haddhu
Navdeep
Entertainer Fut
31
Sep 9th
Yemaindhi Naalo
Rajendra Prasad, Shivaji
Entertainer Fut
32
Sept 17th
Vara Prasad Potti Prasad
Srinivas Avasarala, Vijay
Entertainer Fut
33
Sept 30th
Madatha Khaaja
Allari Naresh
Entertainer Fut
34
Nov 4th
Gopichand, Tapsee
Entertainer Fut
35
Nov 18th
Veedu Theda
Nikhil
Entertainer Fut
36
Dec 1st
Bejawada
Naga Chaitanya
Entertainer Fut
37
Dec 1st
Sangharshana
Allari Naresh, Sasikumar
Entertainer Fut
38
Dec 16th
Nuvvekkadunte Nenakkadunta
Uday Kiran, Ashish Vidyarthi
Entertainer Fut
39
Dec 16th
Priyudu
Varun Sandesh
Entertainer Fut
40
Dec 29th
Kshetram
Jagapathi Babu
Entertainer Fut

2. Entertainer Hit (Straight Telugu Movie - if the motive is to entertain and succeeded in exciting common audience with the whole content in it). Totaling to 20 Entertainer Hit Movies in 2011, which brought profits to Producers (important section for the industry):
Sl.No.
Release Date
Movie Name
Hero / Director
Category
1
Jan 13th
Mirapakaya
Ravi Teja
Entertainer Hit
2
Jan 15th
Golkonda High School
Sumanth
Entertainer Hit
3
Jan 21st
Nani / Nandini Reddy
Entertainer Hit
4
Feb 18th
LBW (Life B4 Wedding)
Siddhu
Entertainer Hit
5
Feb 25th
Prema Kavali
Aadhi / Vijaya Bhaskar
Entertainer Hit
6
Mar 2nd
Aha Na Pellanta
Allari Naresh
Entertainer Hit
7
Apr 22nd
Prabhas
Entertainer Hit
8
May 6th
Naga Chaitanya
Entertainer Hit
9
May 13th
Seema Tappakkai
Allari Naresh
Entertainer Hit
10
May 20th
Veera
Ravi Teja
Entertainer Hit
11
Aug 12th
Ram
Entertainer Hit
12
Sep 23rd
Mahesh Babu
Entertainer Hit
13
Oct 6th
Jr. NTR
Entertainer Hit
14
Oct 14th
Pilla Jamindhaar
Nani
Entertainer Hit
15
Nov 3rd
Nuvvila
Avinash, Ajay
Entertainer Hit
16
Nov 11th
Oh My Friend
Siddharth
Entertainer Hit
17
Nov 11th
Its My Love Story
Arvind Krishna
Entertainer Hit
18
Nov 25th
Solo
Nara Rohit
Entertainer Hit
19
Dec 9th
Pawan Kalyan
Entertainer Hit
20
Dec 22nd
Nagarjuna
Entertainer Hit

3. Experimental Fut (Straight Telugu Movie - if the motive being exciting audience with an experiment and failing in it). 5 Movies in this category failed miserably!
Sl.No.
Release Date
Movie Name
Hero / Director
Category
1
Mar 18th
Dongala Mutah
Ravi Teja / RGV
Experimental Fut
2
Jun 24th
Nagaram Nidhrapothunnavela
Jagapathi Babu
Experimental Fut
3
Jul 16th
Key
Jagapathi Babu
Experimental Fut
4
Sep 16th
Poru Telangana
RNarayana Murthy
Experimental Fut
5
Dec 30th
Inkennaallu
Rafi
Experimental Fut

4. Experimental Hit (Straight Telugu Movie - if the motive being exciting audience with an experiment and succeeding in it). Only 5 Movies fall in this category being met expectations!
Sl.No.
Release Date
Movie Name
Hero / Director
Category
1
Feb 4th
Jai Bolo Telangana
Jagapathi Babu
Experimental Hit
2
Feb 11th
Gaganam
Nagarjuna
Experimental Hit
3
Mar 25th
Ganga Puthrulu
Subbaraju
Experimental Hit
4
Jul 1st
Virodhi
Srikanth
Experimental Hit
5
Nov 17th
NBK
Experimental Hit

5. Dubbed Fut (If the dubbed movie failed in entertaining/educating audience) 11 Movies in this category - failed to reach expectations!
Sl.No.
Release Date
Movie Name
Hero / Director
Category
1
Feb 18th
Erra Gulabilu
Sameera Reddy/Gautam Menon
Dubbed Fut
2
Mar 25th
Puli Veta
Vijay
Dubbed Fut
3
Jun 17th
Vaadu Veedu
Arya, Vishal
Dubbed Fut
4
Jul 22nd
ATM
Prithvi Raj
Dubbed Fut
5
Aug 25th
Prema Khaidi
Vidharth, Amala Paul
Dubbed Fut
6
Sept 9th
Gambler
Ajith, Arjun
Dubbed Fut
7
Sept 16th
Vachaadu Gelichaadu
Jeeva, Tapsee
Dubbed Fut
8
Oct 26th
RaOne
SRK
Dubbed Fut
9
Oct 26th
7th Sense
Surya
Dubbed Fut
10
Dec 23rd
Don2
SRK
Dubbed Fut
11
Dec 30th
Veedinthey
Vikram
Dubbed Fut

6. Dubbed Hit (If the dubbed movie succeeded in entertaining/educating audience), Only these 7 Dubbed Movies have succeeded in entertaining both audience and distributors / exhibitors.
Sl.No.
Release Date
Movie Name
Hero / Director
Category
1
May 13th
Rangam
Jeeva, Ajmal
Dubbed Hit
2
Jul 15th
Naanna
Vikram
Dubbed Hit
3
Jul 15th
Kanchana
Lawrence
Dubbed Hit
4
Jul 29th
Sega
Nani, Karthik
Dubbed Hit
5
Aug 5th
Naa Peru Siva
Karthi
Dubbed Hit
6
Aug 19th
Urumi
Arya, Prithvi Raj, Prabhu Deva
Dubbed Hit
7
Dec 2nd
The Dirty Picture
Vidya Balan, Naseer, Emraan
Dubbed Hit

Based on this analysis, Heroes and their ratings have also been done, which will shortly follows - keep visiting this space for rankings for Heroes and Heroines!!



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