Best Movie and Director of Tollywood (2011): Opinion Poll

As per my earlier posts - below is the opinion poll for electing the best movie and the best director of tollywood for the year 2011. I believe that the movie will become best only with its director, so I chose to put both the electives in a single option. 

Note: I opted out the best producer poll, due to varied reasons!

Best Movie & Director of Tollywood (2011): Opinion Poll

Results - Top Heroes of Tollywood (2011)

Based on the statistics and results of the Survey conducted on my blog last month, I am awarding the top heroes of tollywood (2011) as below:

Best Crazy Hero (2011) - Pawan Kalyan

Best Popular Hero (2011) - Mahesh Babu

Best Entertaining Heroes (2011) - Allari Naresh, Ravi Teja & Prabhas

and finally 
The Best (Top) Hero of Tollywood (2011) is  

Tollywood Top Heroes of 2011 - Opinion Poll

I chose 1 among the below 11 Heroes as an eligible Top Hero of Tollywood (for 2011) but I am also willing to take all of your opinions - before announcing my view on this. So my dear friends, please vote for the deserving hero for the top position - hero of the year, 2011 (Tollywood).

Who is the Best Hero (2011) of Tollywood in your view?

Based on your response rate, I will also post the list of best directors, movies, songs, music directors, best comedians, best supporting artist etc., (of 2011 in Tollywood)! So please keep visiting this space and encourage me - for more surveys & opinion polls on Tollywood.

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Birth Day Wishes to Padma Shri Kamal Hassan - The Greatest Hero of Indian Cinema

Actor Kamal Hassan has turned 57 on November 7, 2011 (today). The multi-faceted star has been in the film industry for over 50 years and has delivered some remarkable performances in both Bollywood and Tollywood movies.

Kamal Hassan is currently involved in his home production, Viswaroopam. Considered to be one of the leading method actors in Indian cinema, Kamal Hassan has won several film awards, including four National awards and numerous industry awards. He is known for having starred in the largest number of films that were Oscar entries from India.

In 1990, he was awarded the Padma Shri for his contributions to Indian cinema. Kamal Hassan is also a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Sathyabama University. In 2009, he became one of very few Indian actors to have completed 50 years in cinema.

More about the legendary Kamal Hassan:

Sharing my experience of watching Rangam Movie on DVD...

Yesterday, before coming to the office I have started watching the movie Rangam. Heard high about it and also believed it for the following reasons:

1) The Dubbed Movie Ran for 100 days in A.P. (These days even Big Budget Telugu Movies are also rarely happened to run 100 days). Its a real achievement!

2) Music by Harris Jayaraj - 2 songs in my top ten songs list, which I daily enjoy are from Rangam - (Ee Manchullo.... & Enduko Emo...) - even lyrics of these songs are meaningful and music is mesmerizing!

3) A powerful and griping story with excellent twists.

4) Screenplay is one of the best among the recent releases.

5) All the actors are involved in the movie completely and every audience enjoyed it thoroughly.

6) Production Values in the Movie! Picturization of Songs is a Real Visual Feast to every viewer..


In a hurry to coming to the office, I had to pause the movie for a long break of over 15 hours (Just after watching 45 Minutes of run time of the movie). Strucked in the office until 2:30 AM this morning due to the heavy rain and also because of a mistake by my regular cab driver..

After watching for 45 Mins, I always wanted to finish the movie at the earliest. But had to wait until I return from office, however reached home at 3.30 AM this morning and resumed the movie without any second thought (I had to reduce the volume and remove the home theatre connection - due to the time factor). Screenplay of the movie is absolutely great, it may be the background music or the music for songs - truly mesmerizing - great job by Harris Jayaraj! Narration of the story is too good, Director never did a mistake and actors never took a chance.. a complete team work. Interval Bang is amazing, what a super script!

Lack of sound effects is letting me down... but don't want to wait even a single minute, second half of the movie is little disappointing due to the dubbing work. It involves lot of emotion which should be carried by the actors (they did a decent job, but dubbing is dubbing - I missed the feel, for example each and every dialogue in the movie Leader - requires lot of emotion, which is a very challenging task for both director and an actor) and the lip synchronization with the dialogue is crucial.


Anyways if it was a straight telugu movie then, Director K.V. Anand would have done a fabulous job.... Getting into the movie once again, apart from a very few illogical and unconvincing scenes, the theme of the movie is superb.

I wanted to see these kind of movies (political/social genre movies) in telugu also very soon..

So called BIG Heroes of Tollywood - Please accept my request and listen to scripts like Rangam. I loved the way, the entire team of RANGAM worked on the project to produce this output.

Rangam is a 2011 Indian Tamil dubbed Telugu political thriller film directed by K. V. Anand starring Jeeva, Ajmal Ameer, newcomer Karthika Nair and Piaa Bajpai. The film was released on May to mostly positive reviews. The film is being remade into Hindi with Akshay Kumar depicting the role of Jeeva and Karthika Nair reprising her role.

Slowly turning into 29, while watching my favourite movie for 28 times

Being a long weekend (Monday, 4th July 2011 is American Independence Day - Holiday) these 3 days I have covered few of Chiranjeevi's Old Movies (80's & 90's) and yesterday evening Chatrapathi followed by my all time favourite - Athadu (28th time, I have started this movie late in the night, when I am slowly crossing 28). It took 4 hours for me to complete it, one can guess I was getting numerous phone calls in between (Wishes). Out of my surprise, my cousins even arranged a cake cut party and we had a blast exactly at the interval time of the movie (Athadu). Even after the party, my job was to continue receiving phone calls and had to take a long interval break of about 1 hour, to resume the movie!!

While watching this movie and the previous one (Athadu & Chatrapathi), I can clearly see that difference and the improvement in film making from early 80's to present!! Do not know if many observe the title cards with same attention as movies or not, but I strongly feel that one should remember & visualize every technician's effort in the movie while enjoying the scenes, sounds/music and the entire visual feast - apart from the front-end artist.

Ofcourse it is the actor/actress who portrays the actual role play, but it is the director who do the complete interpretation of a written script, using their vision and creativity, along with organizational and technical skills, to deliver a complete motion picture.

As I told before, I started the weekend watching old movies and can clearly see n number of flaws in Legendary Directors' so called Hits! and Failed to catch atleast a weak scene in the above mentioned 2 Movies - Chatrapathi & Athadu! Hats off to both the captains......Every aspect of these two movies were made exceptionally good with utmost care, whether it may be in selection of cast, crew, script and grip on the subject, commitment from every technician including music director, cinematographer, choreographer, stunt master, editor & so on...

"The movie is a product from a team and the film director plays a major role in it".

With this I just wanted to suggest young directors to watch perfect movies n times and learn how to do movies....which will surely help every stakeholder of the movie!

There are other movies as well such as Ithey, Vedam, Ala Modalaindi etc., which are well made, so please friends share your views on best movies by posting comments to this blog :)