Making of All Time Best Movies of Tollywood

I have about 750 popular telugu movies in my database, but I always fail to list the top 100 or top 50 or top 25 or top 10 or of that matter top 5 movies of all time, when some one questions me about the best of tollywood!...So I thought of taking all my blog visitors support in preparing this list!

I dont mind including even dubbed movies (such as Nayakudu, Police Story, Roja, Vichitra Sodharulu, Sivaji, Bhaarateeyudu etc.,) but my intension is to know public opinion on this, which would certainly help me in finalizing the list.

Few parameters that I wanted you to consider while preparing the list are:

1. Kindly share the top 10 Movies from the depth of your heart considering the final product, that has a great team work (irrespective of whether it has your favorite hero, director or technician)
2. Rank them according to the content, performances and basic idea of the movie
3. The movie might be of any genre / theme - we should consider only if it has done 100% justice to its theme or not.
4. "Only Musical Hits" such as Orange - cannot be included into the list.
5. Remember - Great contribution from every technician (Story, Dialogues, Direction, Music Direction, Cinematography etc.,) along with Excellent Performances by every actor and actress will help the project becoming a classic.
6. Kindly discuss about this topic with your movie loving parents / grand parents to know more about movies like Missamma, Badi Panthulu, Rangula Ratnam, Shaukaru, Gundammakatha, Sudigundalu etc., and share your views on telugu cinema of golden era.
7. Kindly share your thoughts with a single line - before including a particular movie to the list.

I would like to come up with a wonderful blog post called "The History of Telugu Cinema - Tollywood" very soon. This should inspire my blog readers to come up with more ideas.

Please write your opinions on the comment sections of this blog....expecting a good number of result for this meaningful cause (My intention is to provide a very good / quality list of telugu movies to movie lovers who would search for such list on Web, through my blogspot).

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!

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:

Small Movies Releasing this Quarter, Competing with Big Budget Movies

Dasara to Sankranthi - Non Stop Bonanza - Festival Season for Movie Lovers

Below list of 63 Movies Includes (this is just the number of scheduled releases, there might be another list of few other dubbing and low budget movies releasing in the Q4, 2011):

14-Big Budget Movies, 14-Low Budget Movies, 12-Dubbing Movies,  7-Medium Budget Movies, 6-Minimum Guarantee Movies, 5-Come Back Movies (for heros), 3-Long Waiting Movies & 2-Lady Oriented Movies. These are the most probable releases between Dasara & Sankranthi Holidays - So its a real feast to Movie Lovers!

That is, there are almost 100 Movies releasing - just in a short span of about 100 days. Let us wait and see how many movies will hit the screen with 100% Quality and how many movies will reach a 100 Day Mark!

All the Best - Tollywood!