List of profitable Telugu Movies released in 2012

From the pool of around 100 straight Telugu movies released in 2012, the below three tables shows the three categories of movies brought profits to the makers (I have  prepared this list by analyzing and collecting information from various sources and through personal observation of the actual business happened in the industry)....

So lets have a look at these 30 movies (out of around 100, i.e., 30% of total) those turned successful in bringing profits not only to the producers of the respective movies but also to the numerous stake holders including all the members of the industry, those who are directly or indirectly depending on "a Good Movie".

Eega-Julayi-Devudu Chesina Manushulu-July Releases

First post of my 29th year is on "July month movie releases", lets see if my birth month gets a super success for all the three big movie makers...

Co-incidentally, all the three movies are directed by tollywood big & sharp directors (who have already proved their caliber with their previous projects), lets discuss about these 3 movies now:

To start with, SS Rajamouli's "Eega" - Releasing on 6th July 2012 - which has an only drawback, that is a wafer thin story line (already revealed through the trailer) with a graphical treat (that has actually taken a very long time to complete the production work). Positives of this movie include, reputed director and his creative ability in shaping the project, beautiful Samantha as a full length heroine etc., Finally the movie is getting released in multiple languages all over the world is a great benefit for the makers. With this project, one can estimate the range of this director.. Wait for another 2 days from now!!

Tollywood Hungama this Summer (2012)

This year would be the biggest summer (in terms of making business) for Tollywood! With movies like Ram Charan's Racha, NTR Jr.'s Dhammu, Pawan Kalyan's Gabbar Singh & Rajamouli's Eega geared-up for release, industry will surely make a big money this summer (by the end of June).

Each of these four projects have been made with extreme care by the entire cast and crew (especially the lead actors/directors) of the respective projects for the following reasons: - 

Summer 2012 - Telugu Cinema Releases

Starting from early to late summer 2012 (i.e., March 2nd half to June end) there are about one and a half dozen promising telugu movie releases in the list. But what is the sequence and how are the release dates inter-connected is the biggest question to the common audience.

Racha which was planned for late Feb 2012 release is postponed to March (initially) and now moved to April releases (This calendar date may further move to May, if the makers are intended to release the movie with all the songs, due to the fact that Charan is now fracture injured). 


Same is the case with proposed Sankranthi release movie, Adhinayakudu (which is struggling to release)!! 

If all goes well then the most probable summer releases are:


March 2012
Nuvva Nena 
Ee Rojullo
Lovely 
Naa Ishtam
Facebook
Neeku Naaku Dash Dash




April 2012
Adhinayakudu
Racha
Dhammu
Endukante Premanta
Eega




May 2012
Dharuvu
Gabbar Singh
Uu Kodathara Ulikki Padathara 
Yeto Vellipoindi Manasu




June 2012
Rebel
Autonagar Surya
Damarukam
Devudu Chesina Manushulu

Results: Best Movie and Director of Tollywood (2011)

Based on the opinion poll conducted on my blog earlier this month, the results on the Best Movie and Best Director of Tollywood (2011) are announced!!


The Best Movie is Ala Modalaindi & the Best Director is Nandini Reddy.

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).

Promising Telugu Movie Releases this season

After 2 back to back Sankranti Hits (Businessman & Bodyguard) Tollywood is now awaiting for yet another blockbuster of the industry b4 this summer end. But what are the movies queued up for release this season, which director wants to prove his/her mettle in the industry and who is that super star? 

Already few movies have given way to the above 2 Biggies and moved out of Sankranti Race, but now everything is set and got readied! Amidst of huge competition a big list of promising movies are awaiting to hit the screens, and the respective heroes are keen to showcase their power at the box-office while proving their caliber on silver screen!!


Lets have a look at this list below: - 

Pawan Kalyan - Puri Jagannadh movie will release in 2012

While answering to one of the prisoner's (power star fan) questions in Cherlapally Jail at Hyderabad on 26th January, 2012 (during his sympathy visit), tollywood ace director - Puri Jagannadh has briefly explained his trials of making a movie with Pawan Kalyan (after his debut hit Badri) with the scripts such as Idiot, ANOTA, Pokiri & Golimaar, but failed to materialize any one of these projects with Kalyan due to various reasons. However he confirmed that there will be a Pawan Kalyan Movie Release (under his direction) this year and also promised that he will be showing him the movie either outside or inside the jail.

   

Inspite of 3 Successive Flops, 3 Crazy Projects are Awaiting...

Generally, craze for any hero in the film industry builds with his immediate previous projects (HITS)... But one man is contradicting this formula and standing against it ...he is none other than Power Star Pawan Kalyan! 

His Komaram Puli released with usual hype, but failed to pull crowds to the theatres; Pawan opted Love Aajkal remake "Theenmaar" again the movie failed in collecting monies; Even his Panjaa failed to shake the box office and could not entertain his fans and all the movie lovers.... so total 3 flops in a row!

Now is the time for him to realize and show his power to the box office, but how? Currently Power Star is working with young director "Harish Shankar" for his Gabbar Singh, but Whats next??

List of Telugu Movies Releasing in 2012

Starting with Mahesh Babu's - The Business Man, there are more than twenty five telugu movies (of big heroes) releasing this year, so if all goes well then - 2012 will not only bring smiles to the movie lovers and audience but also generates great revenue to the industry and yield profits to the actual business men.
Pawan Kalyan	Gabbar Singh (Harish Shankar)	Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu (Puri Jagannath)	Untitled (Trivikram) - just shooting will start.
Venkatesh	Bodyguard (Gopichand Malineni)	Seetamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (Srikanth Addala)	Shadow (Meher)
Mahesh Babu	Business Man (Puri Jagannath)	Seetamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (Srikanth Addala)	Untitled (Sukumar)
Ravi Teja	Nippu (Gunasekhar)	Dharuvu (Siva)	Kathi (Gunasekhar)
Naga Chaitanya	Auto Nagar Surya (Deva Katta)	Untitled (Ramesh Varma)
Nagarjuna	Damarukam (Srinivasa Reddy)	Shiridi Sai (K Raghavendra Rao)	Love Story (Dasaradh)
NBK	Adhinayakudu  (Paruchuri Murali)	Uu Kodathara? Ulikki Padathara? (Sekhar Raja)	Srimannarayana (Ravi Chavali)
NTR Jr.	Dhammu (Boyapati Seenu)	Baadshah (Seenu Vytla)	Dhenikaina Ready (Cameo)
Ram Charan Tej	Rachcha (Sampath Nandi)	Yevadu (Vamsi Paidipalli)	Naayak (VV Vinayak)
Prabhas	Rebel (Lawrence)	Varadhi (Koratala Shiva)
RANA	Naa Ishtam (Prakash Tholeti)	Krishnam Vande Jagathgurum (Krish)
Nani	Eega (SS Rajamouli)	Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu  (Gautham Menon)	Janda Pai Kapiraju (Samuthirakani)Paisa (Krishna Vamsi)
Sunil	Poolarangadu (Veerabrahmam)	Radha Krishnudu (Devi Prasad)	Sambarala Rambabu (Uday Shankar)
Allu Arjun	Julayi   (Trivikram)	Iddarammayilatho (Puri Jagannadh)
Ram	Endukante Premanta (Karunakaran)	Ongole Gitta (Bhaskar)

Click Read More to see the List of Movies releasing in 2012:

2 Biggies Out from Sankranthi Race & Change in Release Dates

Poolarangadu & Nippu are out of Sankranti Race!

Confirmed Releases are:

13th The Business Man (Mahesh Babu), 

14th Bodyguard (Venkatesh),
15th Nandeeswarudu (Tarak)

Click on Read More to see all January & February Releases!

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!

Sri Rama Rajyam is the not the movie for today's movie lovers

In 1963 Lava Kusha, a movie based on the story of Ramayana (Uttara Kanda) has released and became a huge hit. It ran for 100 days in all the 26 theatres, where the movie first released in. The movie further ran for 175 days in 16 theatres and collected mind blowing figures of about RS. 10 Million and stood as the blockbuster hit in the history of Tollywood. 

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Similarly, in 1982 NTR founded a political  party called TDP and formed the government with a highest majority just within a 9 months time frame.

A single reason for both the results were "the time and the then circumstances". Those days movie lovers just wanted to see their favorite hero on the celluloid with a believable story line combined with a bit of technical values coupled with minimum commercial elements in it. Similarly due to the then circumstances, people wanted to see their demi god (NTR) as the CM of the state and hence the result.

Sri Rama Rajyam is thus not the movie for today's movie lovers who expect lot more than the older movie lovers, and 2011 is definitely not 1963 to repeat the history. The story line is not suitable for youth and audience rather it is appropriate for few senior citizens who believe in Ramayana. Today's lifestyle has totally changed  the people's mindset and their ideologies, no one is ready to believe in morals and especially what actually depicted in Uttara Kanda (the worst episode of Ramayana).

No one would love to live without Father / Husband for the sake of False Prestige! Not at least today...

Sankranti Telugu Movies Festival

January 11th 2012 - The Business Man

January 12th 2012 - Bodyguard

January 13th 2012 - Nippu
January 14th 2012 - Poola Rangadu

Followed by the below 6 Movies in late January to February 2012:

Insights of Pawan Kalyan (About Twitter, Fans, Piracy & More)

Insights of Pawan Kalyan (About Panjaa)

Much awaited segment of the interview. Pawan Kalyan talking about his upcoming flick Panjaa. Pawan Kalyan tagged the movie as 'Stylish Action Entertainer' and stayed away from giving any further hints.

Insights of Pawan Kalyan (About Movies)

Insights of Pawan Kalyan (His Passions)

Superb Program by TV5 on Pawan Kalyan's Cineprasthaanam - Part5

Part 5 of Pawan Kalyan's Cineprasthaanam (Movie Journey)!

Superb Program by TV5 on Pawan Kalyan's Cineprasthaanam - Part4

Part 4 of Pawan Kalyan's Cineprasthaanam (Movie Journey)!