Tollywood Kaburlu

1. High time to actually take my career off the ground. Can only talk big for so long, met a producer and we are talking so we will see what happens. 
2. Started a new job and no time to be honest and takes a lot of time out of the day 
3. The real reason is basically loss of interest in Telugu cinema. I remember having a conversation with Pranav before we did our 150th episode for Malliswari and he told me he’s losing interest. I thought he was joking and I was like I could never, but turns out he was 100% right and I have lost interest as well. TFI’s banisas and fans will do their best to continue watching but the overall interest has waned. Reason being nobody is making movies anymore, it’s all brain rot to satisfy their fans and lack of commercial directors as well evolving of what people call commercial cinema has changed but main thing is there is no writing, and there is no passion 
4. I realized that having the nostalgia about telugu cinema is actually dangerous because it’s affecting my mental health and making me wonder why nobody can make good movies anymore but the truth is Telugu cinema is finished and that time is over 
5. We made two episodes last year and we explained why things suck right now and It’s basically the same or has gotten worse. 
6. Nowadays cant even have expectations anymore so in reality its just the current state of telugu movies. When you dont like anything, what’s the point of watching 
7. Its become a toxic relationship so why would you want to stay in one? It’s not giving anything in return and only making you feel bad. Such is the current state of telugu cinema 
8. I neither have interest to rewatch old Telugu movies or even talk about new ones. There are many other podcasts that review current telugu movies that I advise you to listen to them instead. 
9. Perhaps I will meet you all on the small screen or big screen someday. But for the time being and likely, this podcast is over. Thanks for listening and all the memories and time. I really appreciate it. 

Credits

Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies 

Cast: Megastar Chiranjeevi, Soundarya, Anjala Zhaveri, Prakash Raj, MAster Teja Sajja, Authi Prasad, Bramanandham, MS Narayana, Brahmaji, Venu Madhav, Bandla Ganesh, Dhulipala Sitarama Sastry 

Music: Mani Sharma 

Cinematography: Chota K Naidu 

Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao 

Art Direction: Thota Tharani 

Fights: Vijayan 

Lyrics: Veturi & Chandrabose 

Choreography: Saroj Khan, Raghava Lawrence, Raju Sundaram 

Costume Design: Manish Malhotra 

Producer: C. Aswini Dutt 

Release date: August 27th, 1998 

• First title of the movie was Kaalika, alternative title Kolkata, Kolkata Kalika since its Kolkata backdrop, hence he started the movie with Kali Matha title card and credits 
• Chiranjeevi was the one who put the title Choodalani Undi 

• Coming to Railway Station scene, Gunashekar wrote about a 20 page booklet like a novel to write the scene. More action, literally no dialogues. He said it was going to be like this and he learned to write scenes from DV Natasha Raju. He told Chiru garu and he laughed and said this is a scene for Pawan Kalyan like in Tholi Prema, why are you doing it with me, because its on you its like this, for him it would be different, but lastly he enjoyed it a lot 
• Then he told Chota K Naidu and he Las got very excited bhale undi. Coming to filming of it, Aswnini Dutt suggested Ramoji Film City train station. But Gunahsekar wanted live location Nampally Railway Station with live crowd and ambiance, Aswini Dutt got shocked, taking CHiru to Nampally scene. 
• Ramoji Film. City is fine, but it has to be realistic. Dutt felt it would be very difficult. They got permission but hoe would be control the crowd and then how are we going to film it become a huge challenge. 2-3 days they had a lot of discussions about it 
• Chota K Naidu and his team perfectly planned all the lighting and camera movements etc, got all the shots ready. 
• Filmed 3 days at NAmpally and then 1 day at Kachiguda was the plan. 
• Aswini Dutt acted as a latti master as well to control the crowd 
• Finally they completed Namapally scenes in 2 days with planning and then 1 day at Kachiguda 
• Choodalanu Undi is the first Telugu movie to be filmed in Kolkata, Kolkata apartment was done in Annapurna 7 acres 
• Yamaha Nagari - Raju Sundaram, Rama Chilakamma and Oh Maria done by legendary Saroj Khan 
• Regarding the inclusion of Hariharan, Udit Narayan, Shankar MAhadevan, it was collective decision between Gunashekar and Mani Sharma. He specifically told Mani Sharma that the sounds should be new, from Iliayaraja to AR Rahman and brought a new trend of introducing new singers, composing and engineering, told him the sound should be ultimate sound should be new for audience 
• Until then only dubbing songs heard Udit Narayan, Hariharan, and Shankar Mahadevan, nobody sang straight songs in Telugu 
• Automatically first choice is Balu garu for any song, but to take it to the next level we have to use new singers for the other songs, obviously for Rama Chilakamma Chiru and Aswnini Dutt opposed Udit Narayan for it, even balu wanted to sing it, but they objected, he got angry, and then they sang it with Udit Narayan sang it and the rest is history 
• Dialogues were written by Divakar Babu, he gave him a script book, he loved writing for Chiru and Soundarya scenes, Chiru did improvisation for all their poetic conversations
• Choodalani Undi collected 12.2 crores share and just missed industry hit status, ran for 100 days in 63 centers, all time record and first Telugu movie to run in more than 60 centers for 100 days, ran for 175 days and was the first South Indian film to be covered on India Today Delhi cover page, industry record and highest grossing South Indian fllm at that point in time 
• In JyothiChitra magazine, Chota Prasad journalist asked for the 20 pages and he put the first page with his handwriting and then JoythiChitra printed the rest 
• During the 100 days function in Vijayawada, Chiru bought the entire team gold chains 

Credits

Banner: NTR Arts

Cast: Kalyan Ram, Sindhu Tonali, Prakash Raj, Asish Vidyardhi, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Chandra Mohan, Surya, Ajay, Ramireddy, Chalapati Rao, Ahuti Prasad, GV Sudhakar, Raghu Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Devi Charan, Rajya Lakshmi, Pinky Sudeepa

Music: Mani Sharma

Dialogues: Marudhuri Raja

Lyrics: Chandrabose, Sai Sri Harsha, Chinni Charan & Bandaru Danayya

Cinematographer: C Ram Prasad

Art: P Narayana Reddy

Stunts: Stun Siva

Story - Screenplay - Direction: Surender Reddy

Producer: Janakiram Nandamuri

Theatrical release date: 7th May 2005

Interesting Facts

• After working as an assistant director for 9 years, Surender Reddy readied a story to make his debut as a director and through director Sagar met NTR. 
• The person who have appointment was Sagar’s apprentice VV Vinayak 
• NTR heard the story but he was fully busy but if possible let’s work together for next movie (kudirithe next movie cheddam) 
• Take this story to my brother Kalyan ram and so he met Kalyan Ram. As said before his first two movies flopped. With 3rd film have to get success at any cost. 
• Surender Reddy narrated the story for 15 minutes and Kalyan liked the story elements and said let’s do this film, please work on the script. Then he came back and told hi the full story and said I dont like it, then he took another 6 months to work on the script and then the final version came and he okayed the movie, 
• They already told it to Harikrishna garu, he said bagundi manchi break vasthadi, go ahead 
• When thinking of procure, if we do it another producers banner, this story shouldn’t have any limits, we should do what we like and start our own banner, sat with Harikrishna, Jananki Ram and NTR and finally they felt putting it on NTR name would be good and thus they started NTR arts banner. 
• Cast and crew ready and on November 15th, 2004 movie was launched at Annapurna Studios. 
• They wanted Prakash Raj for a small role but he didnt have dates then NTR gave reference and he did the movie 
• Annapurna Studios, Aluminum Factory, Shankarpalli Highway, Ramanaidu Cine Village, and Ramoji Film city shooting Motham ayypoyindi 
• March 25th, 2005 hit the gummadikaya. Budget was 8 crores. Then April 9th 2005 audio was launched 
• May 7th, 2006 with 72 prints movie was released. First scene audience were shocked, hero intro scene, heroine villains plan chesthe hero chamapadam, interval scene. 
• Reverse screenplay technique worked wonders and a lot of similar followed this same screenplay technique. 
• Kalyam Ram became a star, Surender Reddy became a star director, first hit on NTR banner Arts 
• After 3 weeks, increased to 100 prints 
• Ran for 50 days in 80 centers, 100 days in 46 centers and collected more than 20 crores gross 
• Bhadra, Narasimhudu and Andarivaadu released within 3 week gap of Athanokkade otherwise it would have collected more. 
• Remade in Tamil as Aathi with Thalapathy Vijay and Trisha 
• Ashsih Vidyarthi won Best Villain Filmfare award and Surender reddy won Best Debut Director Nandi Award 

Credits 

Banner: RR MovieMakers

Cast: Ravi Teja, Ileana, Shyam, Brahmanandam, Kota, Venu Madhav, Sayaji Shinde, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Ali, Benerjee, Chalapati Rao

Music: Thaman S
Cinematography: Rasool Ellore
Art: Narayana Reddy
Stunts: Vijay
Editing: Gowtam Raju

Interesting Facts 

Agenda 

1) First watch and impressions

2) How your liking towards it grew towards the movie. 

3) Songs and Technicalities - very brief 

4) Writing and Direction 

5) Favorite Scenes and Dialogues 

6) why it will always be a classic 

Banner: Supergood Films

Cast: Venkatesh, Arti Agarwal, Sneha, Srikanth, Siva Balaji, Sarvanand, Sangeeta, Rathi, Sarada, Chandra Mohan, Tanikella Bharani, Raghunatha Reddy, Sudhakar, Rallapally,

Story: Lingaswamy

Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers

Lyrics: ES Murthy, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Sirivennela & Bhaskarabhatla

Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Suchitra and Nobel

Art: Kumar

Music: SA Raj Kumar

Editing: Nandamuri Hari

Cinematography: B Bala Murugan

Screenplay, direction: Muppalaneni Siva

Producer: RB Chowdary

Theatrical release date: 18th February 2005

Interesting Facts 

Did a movie called Dost, it didnt work he went into depression the first idea he got was title called Sankranthi, A Tamil movie called Anandam, Venkatesh showed it to him and asked him hows it, chala baguntadi babu but other commitments dooram ayyindi 

But central point haunted him, 4 brothers melodrama what if a kodalu doesnt come, the whole drama, climax pasibidda. Also put the title because the movie has so many people in it, picture pandagala vathavarnan, Amma thinne bojanam bore kottadu

First Srikanth said he wouldn’t do the movie, 4 brothers yemi undi, Im doing Radha Gopalam with bapu garu as main hero, Super Good banner convinced him to do the movie and forced him actually 

First they thought of Vadde Naveen, but bhagavanthudu vere sankalpam undi ee movie ninnu chepisthundi 

For pedda kodalu, we felt Sneha would be a good fit because she has this seriousness and she acts with her eyes 

This was Sharwanands film successful film, he did two movies with Venkatesh this and same brother role in Lakshmi 

They actually filmed the movie in Bhadrachalam and did the wedding scenes in a wedding function hall 

For the climax, they wanted a location where you can fix Dashavatharalu in a lake, executive producer Vakada Appa Rao took him to Chennai, he said all the actors are from there as all the actors are from there, they went to Marina Beach, this is the climax song, due to the wind and water they’ll feel ibbandi and we have to do all these things we have to put muggulu etc how can we do it in the beach, then where else will you do it, if its Hyderabad then forget about it. Then he got a phone call one fine morning if you want to do it in Hyderabad, immediately he got reminded of the big lake in ICRSAT, there’s ways water there and lot of greenery and they fixed the Davastharalu, Thota Tharani worked as art director for that song and Suchitra Chandrabose was the choreographer 

That morning Venkatesh got a call at 7:30 AM, they said theres a tsunami in Chennai and Marina Beach and the all the boats came onto the main road, if you walk 2 KMS but it came onto the read, and they had to do it on that day call sheet prakaram all they had all the cast dates and they had been there that day, then it would have been scary. 

Audio of Venkatesh's latest film Sankranthi was released at a function arranged in Rama Naidu studios on the night of 20th January 2005. Sarath Kumar, K Raghavendra Rao and D Rama Naidu were invited as guests.

Music director SA Raj Kumar said Sankranthi is his 150th film as music director in his career. His 100th film Nuvvu Vastavani went on to become a big hit. This film is 24th film with Super Good films and 45th Telugu film. He scored music for Suryavamsam, Kalisundam Raa, Raja and Vasantham for Venkatesh and all those films went on to become blockbusters

Sarada is reentering field after a log gap. Her last film was Anthapuram. Siva worked with Srikanth for Gilligajjalu and Taj Mahal. This is his 3rd film with him. 

Vasantham is the first Indian movie to be filmed in Turkey. Ela Vachenamma was filmed in Capadoccia which is made from Cliffs and Andala Srimathiki was filmed in Pammakulae which is famous for its hot springs. You can see the same location in Ninne Naa in Salute movie and then Nena Nenaa in Nippu movie. 

Movie was a Blockbuster at the box office, collected 18 crores share and ran for 50 days in 177 centers and 100 days in 68 centers. 

Credits 

Banner: Sri Ranjith Movies

Cast: Nani, Nitya Menon, Sneha Ullal, Kriti Karbandha, Chaitanya Krishna, Pragati, CVL, Pragati, Rohini, Uppalapati Narayana Rao, Mirchi Hemanth, Raja Valluru, Pinky, Rhea etc.

Music: Kalyani Malik

Art Direction: Dharmendra

Audio was launched on November 15th, 2010 

Finally movie released on January 21st 2011 and became a blockbuster at the box office collecting 10 crores share. 

Ran for 50 days in 54 centers and 100 days in 27 centers   

Writing/Direction

3 best scenes in diverting audiences perception are 

Also the brilliance in writing is something like a subplot about Nani being gay is setup in a changing room in a store where one guy sees him and then when Nani goes to meet Sneha Ullal’s father, the same guy sees him and calls him out for it leading to their wedding being cancelled.

The reason why this movie still works in present day is due to the fact that the 3 scenes will always be relevant no matter the generation change

These are beautiful scenes and extremely relevant. Also loved in pre climax when Nithya Menon, her dad gives a little smile and tells her to go 

That being said, 2nd half felt extremely repetitive.

Literally entire 2nd half, Nithya comes to visit, misunderstands Gautham and this keeps happening every 2 minutes. Felt much slower than the first half for sure. 

Also felt they didnt need to kill Rohini. She could have been kept alive and also felt out of place. 

I guess despite the so called “lag” in 2nd half, climax makes up for everything tying things together with final twist coming out to Ashish Vidyarthi that he kidnapped the wrong guy and actually let the jeep go and this is brilliantly done in a set up and pay off. 

You have an extremely similar type of set up and pay off in Venkatadri Express where hero helps eloped couple and gets them married and that girl his brother is supposed to marry. 

Climax is hilarious with Thagubothu Ramesh and his antics. Like he asks to call DSP Ramchandra Victory Venkatesh Gharshana lmaooo. 

Movie ends on a nice note with them finally uniting in a funny climax. 

Basically very lightened breezy entertainer which Telugu cinema is missing a lot of. Especially situational comedy and just comedy in general. 

Direction by Nandini Reddy is superb. This is easily her best film and remains her best film. The writing is excellent and as mentioned before the perception changing in some scenes is so well done throughout the movie. The screenplay is very engaging despite some slower moments in the 2nd half. But an extremely well executed and repeat value rom com for sure. 

Interesting Facts

- I was disappointed after Jagadam's flop. That is when Rajamouli came to me and told me not to get disappointed by the result. He asked me to stick to my conviction and moviemaking style. His advice gave me lot of confidence. It was Bhogavally Prasad who fed me for an year after the flop of Jagadam. Bunny okayed the project without knowing about the story. Allu Arjun supported me a lot before starting the project though he troubled me after the start of shoot. I would like to thank the producers Aditya Babu and Bhogvally Prasad."

- Music of Allu Arjun's latest movie 'Arya 2' was launched on the night of 1st November in Rock Heights, Madhapur. SS Rajamouli, Nagababu, VV Vinayak, Dil Raju, KL Narayana, Maganti Babu, seenu Vytla, Meher Ramesh, Krish, Varun Sandesh, Aryan Rajesh, Prabhas, Gangaraju Gunnam, Gemini Kiran, Arjuna Raju, KC Sekhara Babu, RD Rajasekhar etc attended the funtion along with the cast and crewmembers.

Arya 2 was released in 1000 screens worldwide.

Allu Arjun has got unprecedented craze in Kerala with Arya movie. Since Arya, the dubbing rights of all Allu Arjun’s movies are selling for high prices for Kerala. His latest movie Arya 2 got dubbed into Telugu and made a mind-boggling pre-release business around 2 crores.

Arya 2 is going to hit the screens in Kerala on 5 February in over 100 screens. Divya Pictures Palakkad is releasing Arya 2 in Kerala and it is expected to bring heavy openings. 

Stylish Star Allu Arjun’s ‘Arya-2’ is turning out to be a massive hit. Though the film started with a dull talk on day 1, it started accelerating from day 2 so much so that it collected a huge share of about 16 crores in the first week. The film’s collection in Nizam area totaled to 4.10 crores while it aggregated about 1 crore in Vizag.

In mass areas like Guntur, the collection went up to 8 crores, which is second highest of the year after ‘Magadheera.’ But the film had a major setback in the Nizam area where Allu Arjun has a strong hold. The 2-day bandh in the region showed a significant effect on the collections.

Dil Raju, the distributor of the film in Nizam area incurred a huge loss of about one and half crore for 2 days.

Nizam - 6.5 crores - screening stopped (KCR Fasting break chesina roju and Bandh valla First week lo 1/12 days Nizam shows bandh, also 1st weekend December 5th 3 shows, (sat day) December 6th all shows (Sunday) Dec7th all shows (Monday) all are canceled 

Nizam Distributor Dil Raju who shared the rights along with Producer for 5.5 crores already recovered but estimated loss of profit 4-5 crores in Nizam region only. Nizam area is one of the strong hold of Allu Arjun and the move had faced severe breaks even in first 10 days when the movie going with packed houses.

Overseas Collections, Audio Rights, Satellite Rights, And Kerala Rights (95 lakhs not included) All are about 7 crores 

This year Arundathi, Magadheera and Kick, the 3 movies are crossed 25 crores mark. Aarya 2 is the forth one in the path of 25crores of theatrical share.

But still movie incurred 5 crores loss. 

Sources: 

https://www.ragalahari.com/article/1376/arya-2-collections-till-date

https://www.greatandhra.com/movies/gossip/arya2-loss-rs-5-crores-17795

Best Movies 

Worst Movies 

1. Guntur Kaaram

2. Pushpa 2 The Rule

3. Devara

4. Family Star

5. Saindhav

6. Naa Saami Ranga

7. Tillu Sqaure  

8. Hanuman

9. Gaami

10. Gangs of Godavari

11. Swag

12. Mathu Vadalara 2

13. Mr Bachchan

14. Viswam 

15. KA

Best Telugu Songs of 2024 

1. Neeli Meghamulalo from 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu 

2. Mawa Enthaina from Guntur Kaaram 

3. Chuttmalle from Devara 

4. Tappa Tappa from Manamey 

5. Ullasam from Saripodha Saanivaram 

6. Garam Garam from Saripoda Saanivaram 

7. Srimathi Garu from Lucky Bhaskar 

8. Nijama Kaala from Lucky Bhaskar 

9. Lucky Bhaskar Title from Lucky Bhaskar 

10. Kalki Theme from Kalki 

11. Radhika from Tillu Square 

12. Godard Gattupaina from Sankranthiki Vasthunam 

13. Shivam from Gaami 

14. Aa Rojullo from Committee Kurollu 

15. Prema Gaaradi from Committee Kurollu 

16. Nandananana from The Family Star 

17. Madhurame Kadha from The Family Star 

18. Anuvananuvu from Om Bheem Bush 

19. Amma Song from Guntur Kaaram 

20) Nallanchu Tellacheera 

21) Meenu from Sankranthiki Vasthunam 

WORST TELUGU SONGS OF 2024 

1. Kurchi Madhapetti from Guntur Kaaram 

2. Peelings from Pushpa 2 

3. Sooseki from Pushpa 2 

4. Kissik from Pushpa 2 

5. Fear song from Devara 

6. Daavudi from Devara 

7. Ayudha Pooja from Devara 

8. Steppamaar from ISmart 2 

9. YOLO from Kanguva 

10. Kalyani Vacha Vacha from Family Star 

11. Entire Saindhav album 

12. Entire Naa Saami Ranga album 

13. Entire Eagle album 

14. Motha Mogipodhi from Gangs of Godavari 

15. Ika Naa Maate from Manamey 

16. Bhairava Anthem from Kalki 

17. Gunguru Gunguru from Viswam 

18. Raa Macha Macha Raa from Game Changer 

19. Jaragandi from Game Changer 

20. Nanna Hyranaa from Game Changer 

21. Maar Muntha Chod Chintha from  Imsart 2 

22. One More Time from Robinhood

2024 Tollywood Review 

Hero of the Year - Allu Arjun for Pushpa 2 

Best Actor - Allu Arjun for Pushpa 2 

Special mention - Dulquer Salmaan for Lucky Bhaskar and Mahesh Babu for Guntur Kaaram 

Best Actress - Nivetha Thomas for 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu 

Special mention - Rashmika for Pushpa 2 

Best Supporting Actor - Amitabh Bachchan in Kalki 

Best Picture: Lucky Bhaskar 

Best Director: Venky Atluri for Lucky Bhaskar 

Best Supporting Actress - N/A 

Best Music Director - N/A 

Song Of the Year - Neeli Meghamulalo from 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu 

Best Cinematography - Djordje Stolijikovic for Kalki or Kuba for Pushpa 2 

Worst director - Trivikram Srinivas for Guntur Kaaram, Koratala Siva for Devara and Sukumar for Pushpa 2 

Special mention - Parasuram Petla for Family Star 

Worst movie: Guntur Kaaram, Family Star, Pushpa 2, Devara, Gaami, Saindhav, Naa Saami Ranga, Gangs of Godavari, 

Most overrated movie: Hanuman 

Surprise of the year: Lucky Bhaskar 

Best Singer: Srikrishna for Mawa Enthaina 

Best Singer Female: Shreya Ghoshal for Sooseki

2025 Preview 

Credits

Banners: GA 2 & UV Creations

Cast: Nani, Lavanya Tripathi, Murali Sharma, Vennela Kishore, Ajay, Praveen, Srinivasa Reddy, Naresh, Vikram Savyasachi, Bhadram, Sitara, Satya Krishnan etc.

Cinematography: Nizar Shafi

Editor: Uddhav SB

Music: Gopi Sunder

Lyrics: Ramajagoayya Sastry, Sri Mani, Bhaskar Batla

Art: Ramana Vanka

Story, screenplay, dialogues & Direction: Maruthi

Producer: Bunny Vas $ VAmsi Pramod 

Release date:  September 4th, 2015

Interesting Facts 

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING!!!! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED

Credits 

Banner: Mythri Movie Makers

Cast: Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Rao Ramesh, Jagapathi Babu, Sunil, Dhananjay, Ajay, Jagadeesh Pratap, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Tarak Ponappa, Sritej, Shamukh, Pavani Kamaram, Adithya Menon, Kalpalatha, Saurabh Sachdeva, Mime Gopi, Aadukalam Naren, Bindu Chandramouli, Brahmaji, Dayanand Reddy 

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Additional BGM: Sam CS

Cinematography: Mirosław Kuba Brożek

Editing: Navin Nooli 

Dialogues: Srikanth Vissa 

Sound Design: Rasool Pookutty

Costume Design: Deepali Noor - Sheetal Sharma

Production Design: Rama Krishna and Monika

Fights: Peter Hein, "Dragon" Prakash, Kecha, Navakanth

Story - screenplay - Direction: Sukumar

Producers: Naveen Yerneni & Y Ravi Shankar 

Release date: December 5th, 2024

Context

Not much to say at all. It’s the sequel to Pushpa 1 and I didnt feel movie needed a sequel. But they released a teaser las year where is Pushpa which writer Srikanth Vissa said is all part of part 3 cause its not there in the movie. 

I had some hope that part 2 would be better than part 1 in terms of storytelling, elevations, and highs, and there are elevations and highs but done in the most cringe way possible. 

Trailer came and it wasnt good but had some hope that sometimes movies deceive the trailers. How bad the trailer is, movie is pretty much the same. 

Songs came out and its the worst ALBUM in Allu Arjuns career as well as Sukumar and DSP career. Amazing downfall from all 3 of them. 

Finally movie released and definitely have to say its bad. In no way I can call it good. It’s disappointing no doubt. Nt much of a difference between Guntur karma and Pushpa 2. Lead actor did their job, but everyone else especially director who is also the writer who all seem to be clueless once again colossally failed to their job. 

Interesting Facts

Not much to say man other than Jagapathi Babu joined the cast and then first look last year was done in Jathara get up leading everyone to praise them. 

Literally other than 1-2 scenes nothing was shot in real locations everything was done in sets. For item song they considered Sraddha Kapoor but apparently she asked for 8 crores and then they cast Sreeleela marking her first item song. 

For the Jathara episode they shot the Jathara episode for 35 days. We also did rehearsals for 15 days and they spend apparently 50-60 crores on this sequence alone. I think a set was built in RFC for it. 

Trailer came and half the shots in the trailer aren’t even there and back then there was talk after watching KGF 2, Sukumar reworked the script and added more things but after seeing everything there’s nothing in the movie and its just a bunch of random stuff. 

Finally DSP controversy where he was signed to do songs and BGM entire music but producers went behind his back and hired Sam CS to do 90% of the movies BGM. 

It’s also the first Telugu movie to release in 12,000 screens worldwide. 

Also the fact that to make a basic commercial movie, they took 3 years. Its a joke of a production. 

Also producers raised ticket prices and put it as 1200 and expected shows to be houseful. 

Acting

Allu Arjun is the only reason to watch the movie. AMAZING. The amp, swag, and attitude is amped up in 2nd part and voice modulation was very well done but gave irritation. In first part his slang was very good but in this part couldn’t understand half the dialogues due to him eating pan the entire movie in every scene. 

In Jathara sequence he’s sensational.acted with literally every part and muscle and full respect to performing that scene. It’s very effective due to his performance only. Also the rage that he has is very well captured throughout the movie especially in climax. 

He’s in almost every scene in the movie but whatever his motives and all were there in part 1, it’s not as effective and there’s no arc for his character diluting the performance.