Telugu Bytes

On its tenth anniversary, Ravi, Aravind and Dhruv do a scene-by-scene review of the Puri-Mahesh blockbuster and even try to derive some life lessons from the film.

• Our quick take on the film
  • Ravi
  • Aravind
  • Dhruv
• Flashback to 2006
• • Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIwjSBIW4w
  • Experience watching the film for the first time
  • Subsequent viewings
  • The pre-climax twist
  • Google movie summary https://www.google.com/search?q=pokiri
• Fights in the film
  • Shed fight
  • MMTS fight
• One-liners of the film
• The character of Pandugadu - life lessons
• The character of Pasupathy
• Den scene
• Shootout scene
• Basketball court scene
• Pandu - Shruthi love thread
• Confrontation scenes between Pandu and Pasupathy
• Gang wars
• Management lessons from the henchman Guru
• Ali Bhai
• Pasha's satires on media
• Twist and the big reveal
• Climax
• Comedy scenes

In this episode, Dhruv, Praveen & Aravind get together & chat about their cricketing memories, favorite matches, upcoming T20 cricket world cup in India, current Indian team & their chances, and players around the world to watch out.

Links

• Playing Cricket and my Eternal Damnation by Dhruv

On our 25th episode, Ravi and Dhruv look back at what went well and what didn't.

• Flashback
• Looking back at the flashback
• Inception
• Our Frequency
• Inspirations and lessons learnt from them
• State of podcasting in India and future
• Our strengths
• Our new strategy
• Introducing our new hosts
• What didn't go well
  • Q & A format
  • Incoherence
  • Lack of scripts and preparation
• What went well
  • The name "Telugu Bytes"
  • Rise in recording quality
  • Expansion
• Favorite Episodes
  • Ravi - Nannaku Prematho
  • Dhruv - Programming Interviews
• What to look forward to
  • 50 episodes by EOY
  • Emphasis on quality
  • Emphasis on consistency and regularity

Aravind is back from India after a long trip and shares his thoughts on the weather, philanthropy, education, IT and everything else happening in India.

• Teach for India
• Folllow Tarun Cherukuri on Facebook
• Hindu coverage of Tarun

Dhruv and Aravind try to follow follow follow follow Sukumar's latest thriller Nannaku Prematho. This episode is full of spoilers.

• Spoiler Alert
• Sukumar's 3 Cs - Concept, Creativity and.. we'll talk about the third later.
• Dhruv's take
• AK's take
• 3 kinds of moviegoers and how Sukumar impresses them
• 3 lead roles and how they performed
• Supporting cast and crew
• 3 roles of Sukumar - story, screenplay and direction - how he did
• 3 favorite scenes in the film of ours
• The third C is *---*---*---*
• Complaints about the film
• Looking forward

Ravi laments about too many JavaScript frameworks, Praveen tries to make sense of all this and bring some sanity.

• History of Javascript
• HTML, CSS and Javascript - How all of them work together?
• Gmail history and pioneers of AJAX
• Advent of JQuery
• MVC pattern
• Different JavaScript MVC frameworks
  • BackboneJS
  • ReactJS
  • AngularJS
• Facebook reverses MobileWeb approach
• Praveen concludes that lack of diversity in client side languages forced developers to bootstrap various Server side paradigms as JS frameworks

Dhruv Vemula and 'Spidy' Sri Atluru talk about the best Telugu and English films they've seen in 2015, and the worst ones..

• Telugu films including Baahubali, Srimanthudu, Bhale Bhale Magadivoy, Bruce Lee, Akhil etc.
• English films including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Jurassic World, Mad Max, Star Wars etc.
• Other good films we might have missed

We have a second guest after Spidy at Telugubytes. In this episode, Ravi talks to Praveen, longtime listener of Telugubytes, Software Engineer at Uber & Paypal about his career as Software Engineer and how he got started.

• Praveen and Ravi reminisce about their early days of grad school
• Praveen explains how he prepared and what it takes to succeed in interviews.
• Experience at Uber versus Paypal
• Ondemand economy and its implications on future

Follow us at Twitter for updates about the show - @telugubytes, You can also follow the hosts at: @gummadi, @praveengorthy, @dhruvtv

With iOS9, the discussion on web ads and ad-blockers has gone mainstream. In this episode, Dhruv and Ravi have a discussion on the topic.

• Origin of web ads
• Newspaper ads and TV ads
• Ad Networks
• Google and Facebook
• Ad-Blocking in Firefox and Chrome
• iOS 9 content blockers
• Native ads
• Facebook Instant Articles
• Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

We discuss the success of Baahubali and discuss if it can change the way Telugu films are produced and marketed.

• Ticket prices and the "range" of Telugu films
• Baahubali's production and financing
• Remunerations of Telugu film stars
• Collections and fan wars