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	Sakthi	Jr. NTR	Entertainer Fut
12	Apr 8th	Manchivadu	Tanish	Entertainer Fut
13	Apr 8th	Lokame Kotthaga	Shivaji	Entertainer Fut
14	Apr 14th	Theenmaar	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	Badrinaath	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	Mogudu	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	Ala Modalaindhi	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	Mr. Perfect	Prabhas	Entertainer Hit
8	May 6th	100% Love	Naga Chaitanya	Entertainer Hit
9	May 13th	Seema Tappakkai	Allari Naresh	Entertainer Hit
10	May 20th	Veera	Ravi Teja	Entertainer Hit
11	Aug 12th	Kandhireega	Ram	Entertainer Hit
12	Sep 23rd	Dookudu	Mahesh Babu	Entertainer Hit
13	Oct 6th	Oosaravelli	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	Panjaa	Pawan Kalyan	Entertainer Hit
20	Dec 22nd	Rajanna	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	Sri Rama Rajyam	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!!