Praveen and Ravi talk about the final week of Bigg Boss 4

• COVID and Bigg Boss 4
• Comparison with previous seasons
• Contestants: Sohel, Akhil, Monal, Abhijeet
• Hosting

Praveena Paruchuri, the award-winning producer of Care of Kancharapalem and UMUR, talks to us about her journey into film production, experiences of producing UMUR, COVID-19 and its effects on film production and distribution. We talk about:

• Her journey from being a doctor in NYC to a Telugu film producer
• Her take on what the job of a producer is
• Challenges faced in film production
• Experiences with UMUR
• Releasing UMUR on Netflix
• COVID-19 and the shift to OTT platforms

This was a very entertaining and informative conversation. Hope you like it! 

Maha, the director of Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya joins us (yes!) to do a deep-dive into the making of UMUR. We talk about:

• The plot points that interested us
• Our questions about the film
• Working with the cast and technicians
• Sound Design and Mixing
• Theatrical experience vs. OTT
• Reviews, Criticism and Memes
• The Genesis of Care of Kancherapalem
• Films that we like

This was an absolutely delightful conversation. Hope you love it!

Dhruv and Aravind review Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya, Maha’s second film after the masterpiece Care of Kancherapalem.

• Story
• Changes from Original
• Screenplay and characters
• Performances
• Cinematography, Editing, Production Design
• Sound Design
• Production and Direction

Dhruv and Ravi get together and talk about:

• COVID-19, their initial thoughts
• Rise of cases
• Coming to terms with it
• Changes to lifestyle
• COVID and Telugu Film Industry
• COVID and software industry
• COVID and kids

Dhruv ponders what a “10x engineer” really means, and interviews Chandra Kuchi, a friend of the show and Dhruv’s ex-colleague about 10x engineering aka good software engineering. They talk about motivation, communicating with the team and other teams, focus and dealing with interrupts, work ethic, communicating your efforts and much more.

You all will be as confused as we are at the end of this episode on what this is supposed to be. But we assure you that it is going to be fun.

Aravind & Ravi dissect Naveen Polishetty's powerhouse performance in his debut Telugu movie -"Agent Sai Srinivas Athreya"

• TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pkux2P7cnA
• Deleted scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On6ZQhjAHmU

As Thanksgiving approaches, Ravi and Dhruv talk about the tech they are thankful for in..... 2018. In typical Telugu Bytes fashion, we recorded this episode in 2018 but only managed to release it now. However, we still think it holds up pretty well - we talk about phones, cameras, headphones and a lot more. Happy Thanksgiving!

Praveen and Dhruv get together and talk about Indian Cricket in 2019 - test dominance, the bowling attack, WC 2019 and more.

• India tour of Australia and NZ
• WC 2019
• Ashes
• Indian Test Team
• Bowling attack
• Dhoni
• Shastri
• Ganguly