Tollywood Kaburlu

Credits: 

Banner: Sumanth Arts 

Cast: Venkatesh, Soundarya, Anjala Zaveri, MS Narayana, Suresh, Kota, Ali, Babu Mohan, Ahuthi Prasad, Raghunatha Reddy, Prema (Goddess), Bhupinder Singh 

Music: Mani Sharma 

Lyrics: Jonnavitula and Veturi (Okati Rendu Moodu) 

Cinematography: S. Gopal Reddy 

Editing: Tata Suresh 

Art Direction: Sabu Cyril 

Fights: Peter Hein, Kanal Kannan

Choreography: DKS Babu, G Kala, Ahmed Khan, Saroj Khan, Brinda,

Sound Mixing: Madhusudhan Reddy 

VFX: Kartik Dayanand Boddapati and VS Elangovan 

Dialogues: Jonnavitula Ramalingeswara Rao 

Story: Sumanth Arts Productions 

Screenplay - Direction: Kodi Ramakrishna 

Producer: MS Raju 

Release Date: January 14th, 2001 

Interesting Facts: 

After Devi movie, Venky is good friend of MS Raju and he recently got a huge hit and decided to make an ambitious movie and they settled on Deviputrudu and put Kodi Ramakrishna as the director. This combo already scored a super hit in Satruvu in 1990. They kept the same technical team S Gopal Reddy camera, Suresh Tara editing, but changed Mani Sharma as music director since he was number 1 at the time. Raj Koti did the music for Satruvu. Movie also had Kota and this movie does as well. 

"I preferred my hero Venkatesh for the project conceptualized Devi Putrudu. It is a film which could only be made with directors like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. The story of the film was wonderful and I became emotional and started that project. After starting the project I realized the depth, duration and budget. Then we realized that it would take 10 years to make. Hence we wound up the film and released it. The film became a flop and my position was back to square one. I had to compensate my buyers, my finances and my ego, very dearly".[9] - MS Raju

Filmed in Dwaraka, Mumbai, and other sets I believe. 

All 3 movies composed by Mani Sharma all time record and all the albums for all 3 movies became superheats. But after the movie nobody heard the songs again. Its still a record I think no dmusic director has ever done or will do tbh. Recently can only think of Thaman Business vs Bodyguard Sankranthi 2012 it released and both movies had music by him. 

It was made with a record budget of 14 crores back then which in todays conversion is about 140 crores in present day. 

Mrugaraju, Deviputrudu occupied majority screens and Narasimha Naidu released in 14 screen very limited screens and later became Industry HIT. 

Movie released and got flop talk but then it got good traction on TV later and appreciated it. People were particularly turned how in 2001 with limited technology Kodi Ramakrishna made those graphics. 

Jagadamba Theater, Vizag 38 Days RUN

Closing Gross : 19,73,006/

Hyderabad-Sandhya70 MM -54 days

100 days theaters 

Vijayawada – Alankar A/c – 130

Guntur – Naaz

Writing/Direction:

The film scores points for it’s attempt. The movie is extremely unique and scary but also very good in terms of ambition and making something new and also the whole mythology and rituals aspect like the poojari explaining to Soundaraya or that element about the box and the destruction it can cause. All of this causes intrigue and suspense. For that reason alone its become a cult movie. But the writing could have been a lot better.

Direction by Kodi Ramakrishna is amazing. He was a visionary when it came to fantasy genre and this movie is actually stunning in certain portions especially the VFX in 2001 when that range technology in India was not developed yet, the little girl going to space scene, the green helmet, the kumkuma from the sadhu, the whirlpool scene, the ghost scene, box opening scene, and climax scene and then the signs changing after Venky gets left alone. And the movie is actually very scary haha. Mix of BGM and content with ghosts, rituals and all of that stuff. The direction gets 100//100 but the writing isn’t good so the execution is a missed attempt for sure. Nonetheless the effort and attempt itself we must appreciate it. 

Credits 

Banner: Super Good Movies 

Cast: Akkineni Nagarjuna, Simran, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandham, Sivaji Raja, Sudhakar, Ali, Mallijarkuna Rao, Ramaprabha, Tanikella Bharani, Surya, Ponnambalam, 

Music: S.A. Rajkumar 

Cinematography: Shyam K Naidu 

Art Direction: N/A 

Editing: Hari Nandamuri 

Lyrics: Sirivennela, ES Murthy, Chandrabose, Pothole Ravikiran, Suddala Ashok Teja 

Fights: Kanal Kannan 

Choreography: Lawrence, Prema, Raju Sundaram

Original Story: Ezhil remake of Thulladha Manama Thulium 

Dialogues: Madhuri Raja 

Screenplay - Direction: VR Prathap 

Producer: RB Choudhary 

Release Date: April 5th, 2000 

Interesting Facts: RB Choudary the original producer of the Tamil version produced the Telugu version as well. Simran reprised her role and SA Rajkumar as the music director who also did the Tamil version. 

From what I heard back in the day, movie was slow for people but it was a huge musical hit and slowly the movie picked up and just ran and ran and ran and became a blockbuster at the box office. 

First movie to collect 5 crores share in Nizam. 

It ran for 100 days in 61 centers, a record 125 days in 42 centers, and 175 days in 7 centers

Almost 50+ areas lo town records unna movie

Nizam Top1 ( Raja Top2)

Ceded Top2 (SSR Top1)

UA Top1 (SSR Top1)

Krishna Top4 

KONASEEMA RECORD in Amalapuram by collecting 14,67,184/- gross for 154 days in Deluxe theatre

1st 150 days run ever in Nellore

1st 50 lakhs grosser in Nellore

Devi theater ran for 155 days, only hero to have 4 movies to run for more than 20 weeks 

Annamayya - 176Days

Shiva - 155Days

NinnePelladtha - 189Days

Nuvvu Vasthavani - 155Days

Palasa Ravi Shankar theater ran for record 136 days 

Madanapalle Sai chitra lo regular ga 5 shows esaru appadu

Non stop housefulls paddayi ee movie ki 

Finally it collected 15 crores share at the box office becoming all time top 2 highest grossing movie after Kalisundam Raa. 

Writing/Direction:

The reason why this movie is illogical is it starts with Simran’s character’s intelligence. She has negative IQ. First things first, if you go blind does your brain stop working? No. But maybe in the case of this movie it does. I rewatched the movie to see if she knows what he sounds like and she does in that first scene. And she does. 

Let’s talk honestly 

 - If you disliked someone that much, wouldn’t you do everything in your power to know exactly what they look and sound like to stay away at all times? If she really hated him that much then how come she doesnt know that its him and recognize his voice. This is biggest logical flaw in the movie. Not only this movie I had same problem in Bodyguard. Now we are living in the world of AI which they used in MAD movie so it made sense but in that movie she just talks and then Venky has no idea its the same person and hes superseded to be best bodyguard in India. But he doesnt have a brain either 

Credits 

Banners: Haarika & Hassine Creations

Cast: Allu Arjun, Samantha, Adah Sharma, Nithya Menen, Prakash Raj, Upendra, Rajendra Prasad, Rao Ramesh, Ali, Brahmanandamm Sampath Raj, Vennela Kishore, Sree Vishnu, Chaitanya Krishna, Sneha & Sindhu Tolani etc

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Lyrics; Sirivennla Sitrama Sastry, Ramajogayya Sastry, Sri Mani, Devi Sri Prasad, 

Cinematography: Prasad Murella

Editor: Prawin Pudi

Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Ganesh, Sekhar, Jani, 

Production Design: S. Ravindar

Action: Peter Hein

Written and Directed: Trivikram

Producer: S. Radha Krishna (Chinababu)

Release date: 09 April, 2015

Interesting Facts:

Principal photography began on 19 September at a Hyderabad-based shopping mall. 

As with any Trivikram movie, a major portion takes place in a house set this time a house in Madurai so Art director Ravinder said In the film, the house was supposed to be near the Chennai seashore. We did find one but it was very congested, so we then chose to build a set in Hyderabad,”  “We brought big trees from Kadiyam village near Rajahmundry and wood from Delhi and other material from Chennai to build the house,” he says. The cost of this set was nearly Rs 1.5 crore which was, in fact, far less than what it would have cost the production house to go and shoot in Chennai. 

It collected 20 crores on opening day, Third highest of all time ever and on a pre release business of 54 crores it collected 52 crores finishing as above average at the box office with minimal losses. Allu Arjun became the first Telugu actor to score back to back 50 share movies iN telugu cinema history with Race Gurram and Son of Satyamurthy. 

Writing/Direction: Main story is Satyamiurthy dies and now Viraj’s family is in debt. He meets Paida Sambasiva Rao and then his life takes an unexpected turn and wants to marry Sameera but he tells him to get land documents from Devaraj Naidu. Then he meets Devaraj and finds himself in another situation. These 3 points are the main story. 

Subplots: 

Niece school fees 

Vennela Kishore John thing 

Adah Sharma wedding thing - actually Sree Vishnu getting his revenge on Allu Arjun for something he did 

Rao Ramesh and MS Narayana reunitung in family 

Devaraj Naidu - Veeraswamy Naidu faction fight - we dont; even know why they; e fighting its stretotpycal faction conflict in a movie. 

Nitya Menon - bava story 

Brahmanandham story 

With all of these things going on at once, its so difficult to write a perfect script and entertain audiences and do setups and payoffs for all these subplots within the script. Trivikram tried, but as a result the writing gets bogged down and to be honest there’s actually too much going on in this movie. Because Triviram is a very experienced writer he held it together but even a master like him you can tell something is off. 

The movie mainly runs on dialogues and situations. There are no elevations, mass dialogues, warnings, etc. So this is actually the closest Trivikram has come to making a pure drama. 

There are commercial elements in there but the action doesnt necessarily feel blended seamlessly, the comedy is almost non existent, the romantic track isn’t convincing at all why would Sameera fall for Viraj they have 0 chemistry to be honest. And basically none of them work except the drama and situations created for the characters. 

Technicalities:

Songs by BGM are CLASSIC RAA AYYA. Each and every song is a classic. Lyrics deserves special mention and maturity is realizing Chal Chalo Chalo is the best song in the album. Seethakalam also banger and then Sirivennela mass in Come to the Party. Super Machi shook all of India and still does. If you ask me this is a way better album that Attarintiki Daredi. Its more varied and songs are more catchy for sure. 

BGM is also very good and is apt for each situations. 

Cinematography by Prasad Murella is AMAZING.

Credits

Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations

Cast: Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Prakash Raj, Anjali, Samantha, Rao Ramesh, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Tanikella Bharani, Murali Mohan, Ravi Babu, Ahuti Prasad, Jayasudha, Rohini Hattangadi, Rajitha, Abhinaya, Ramaprabha, 

Songs: Micky J Meyer
Background Score: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: KV Guhan
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Lyrics: Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry & Anantha Sriram
Art Direction: AS Prakash
Dialogues: Ganesh Patro & Srikanth Addala
Story - Screenplay -  Direction: Sreekanth Addala
Producer: Dil Raju
Release date: 11 January 2013

Agenda:

1) Context and How your liking towards it grew

2) Characters

3) Songs & Lyrics, Cinematography, Art Direction, and Editing

4) Relatable scenes and situations from the movie - Connect with our Experiences 

5) Impact, Takeaways and Closing Thoughts

Credits

Banner: Creative Commercials 

Cast: Venkatesh, Meena, Nasser, Brahmanandham, Sujatha, Allu Ramalingaiah, Vinod, Prasanna Kumar, Maharshi Raghava, Kallu Chidambaram, and others

Music: Ilaiyaraaja

Cinematography: K Ravindra Babu 

Editing: Krishnamurthy - Siva 

Art Direction: A. Chanti 

Dialogues: G. Satyamurthy 

Original Story: P Vasu 

Screenplay - Direction: Ravi Raja Pinisetty 

Producer: K.S. Rama Rao 

Release Date: January 10th, 1992 

Writing/Direction: Probably have to credit P Vasu here as he wrote the original story. I dont have the knowledge of the olden days but its a typical thing where its a poor guy falls in love with rich girl but their family doesnt approve of it. Eventually they have to fight to win for their love. 

Here they took two incredibly innocent characters and it made all the difference to the treatment. Screenplay by Ravi raja Pinisetty is amazing. 

Movie has 3 themes that we need to talk about

So many examples but Chanti asks what it means when a mogga visiri poovu avvadam anamaata, he actually thinks its a flower becoming bigger, then there’s that scene where he ties the knot not knowing how a marriage works. 

Also beautiful set up and payoff for that scene: one scene where the pain manishi asks Chanti to ask when Brahmi will tie to the knot to her and starts talking to her about the various threads in the village but doesnt understand the manga sutra and then at interval does the same when the pichodu comes and unknowingly ties to know and marries Nandini 

3) Fear: Nandini is afraid of her brothers but finally gets the courage to stand up to them in the climax whereas Chanti is always afraid of what they will do to him if he does something wrong or if they find out what Nandini has been doing to him. 

Using these two characters, they build conflict in each and every scene and it;s so brilliantly done. Their chemistry is also heart warming to see. 

But more than anything, Especially the character of Chanti. So likable and so lovable that if anything happens to him you feel like saying no don’t beat up Chanti. Especially in interval Venky acting brings tears to your eyes. Such an innocent guy they beat him up and you’re like no same reaction as Nandini. 

Direction by Ravi Raja Pinisetty is masterpiece. With amazing emotion in each every scene, there’s a certain intensity and most of all suspense in the movie like what will happen next as it keeps going. 

Credits

Banner: RR Moviemakers

Cast: Ravi Teja, Shriya, Anjana Sukhani, Srihari, Mahesh Manjrekar, Brahmanandam, Ali,Yashpal Sharma, Sayaji Shinde, Kasi Viswanath, Venu Madhav, Brahmaji, Sudha, Surekha etc

Music: Mani Sharma
Cinematography: Sameer Reddy
Editing: Gowtam Raju Rao
Screenplay - dialogues: Kona Venkat
Art: AS Prakash
Fights: Stun Siva - Ram Lakshman
Story - screenplay - direction: Gopichand Malineni
Producer: Venkat
Release date: 6 August 2010

Context: Watched it in 2010 or 11 on YouTube, liked it then watched it again during lockdown in 2020 and loved it so entertaining then washed it again with my mom after a few months again in 2020, then wanted to see how it holds up now. In the 4 times ive watched it, everything has stayed the same. Movie has fantastic rewatch value and is every entertaining. 

Interesting Facts:

(Gopichand Malineli) I am from Boddularivaripalem near Ongole. I am born and studied till 10th class in that village. I have completed by graduation in VR College, Nellore. I was attracted to film industry since I was a kid and I came to Hyderabad to fulfil my dreams.

I have joined the producer Mahendra (AA Arts) and worked for a Srihari film called ‘Police’. Later on I assisted in five of Srihari’s films. Then I joined EVV for Chala Bagundi film and did a few films with him. 

My next break came with Seenu Vaitla’s Venky. I have worked for Andarivadu and Dhee as well. 

Then I joined AR Murugadoss and worked for Stalin and Ghajini (Hindi). I also assisted Srivas (Lakshyam) and Meher Ramesh (Kantri and Billa). He used to be very active when he was assistant director and then working with Prabhas In Malaysia on Billa, Prabhas asked him if he had any story and told him to narrate it to him. First point of Donu Seenu gave him 5 mins narration, he was developing the story at that time and Prabhas said bagundi Darling we will do it but then when they got back to India he was already committed to Ek Niranjan so chance missed.  

Then the story went to hero Gopichand and he asked if he had any story, he was supposed to do it and Gopichand Malinenli was still developing the script and the producer was supposed to be Dil Raju but at time he has started Brindavanam movie and he wanted to change banners, but Gopcihand said he wanted to do it only on Dil Raju’s banner. 

Then Raviteja garu had heard about the story. Amitabh Bachchan, entertaining hero characterization, even when he told Dil Raju the story, Dil Raju felt the same. 

Project was set in a week and due to Raviteja working with them for Kick, project was finalized on RR Movie Makers banner. 

January 25th, 2010 movie muhurtham happened Ravi Teja’s latest movie Don Seenu was launched at Rama Naidu studios today morning. NTR sounded the clapboard, D Rama Naidu switched on the camera and VV Vinayak directed the first shot.

Huge star cast was set with Sayaji Shinde, Srihari, intitally Trisha was cast as the lead but replaced with Shriya who returned to Telugu cinema after 5 years. Ajana Sukhani was cast as other heroine. 

Filming occurred in Hyderabad and Switerzerland even though they say it’s Germany. 

July 23rd, 2010 audio was launched at Taj Deccan Hotel. D Ramanidu garu released first cassette.

And then on August 6th, 2010 movie released and got hit talk and grossed 15 crores share at the box office and was a hit. 

Movie ran for 50 days and 100 days. What more could you want from a debut movie?

Gopichand got good name as a new commercial director and of course would go onto to direct Venkatesh next in Bodyguard, then Balupu, Padnaga Chesko, Winner, Krack, and Veera Simha Reddy. 

Credits

Banner: Amigos Creations

Cast: Raja, Kamaline Mukherjee, Anish Kuruvilla, Satya, Baby Bakita, Master Abhijit, Chandana, Gururaj, Bharat, Ali, Patel, Pruthvi, Meenakshi, Gopi

Music: KM Radha Krishnan

Lyrics: Veturi

Camera: Vijay C Kumar

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Choreography: Nixon & Sekhar Kammula

Art: Kishore Chowksi

Production Manager: Arvind Kumar

Story - Dialogues - Screenplay - Direction: Sekhar Kammula

Executive Producer and Chief Assistant Director: Anish Kuruvilla 

Producer: Amigos Creations & NFDC

Theatrical release date: 15th October 2004

Interesting Facts: 

Credits

Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions

Cast: Venkatesh, Charmme, Nayana Tara, Sunil, Sayaji Shinde, Pradeep Rawat, Rajiv Kanakala, Sarvanand, Sameer, Sanjay, Baljeet, Sudha, Venu Madhav, Telangana Sakuntala, Revathy, LB Sriram, Master Teja, Brahamanandham

Music: Ramana Gogula

Background Music: Mani Sharma

Story - Dialogues: Akula Siva

Cinematography: Chota K Naidu

Art Direction: Chinna 

Editing: Gowtam Raju

Lyrics: Chandrabose, Kulasekhar & Vishwa

Fx supervision: RaNa daggubati

Screenplay - direction: VV Vinayak

Producer: Nallamalupu Bujji

Release date: 14th January 2006

Interesting Facts: 

Credits

Banner: Sri Sravanthi Movies 

Cast: Venkatesh, Aarti Agarwal, Prakash Raj, Chandramohan, Bramanandham, Sunil, Sudeepa Pinky, Asha Saini, Sudha, Babloo Prithviraj, Tanikella Bharani, Babu Mohan, Mallikarjuna Rao, MS Narayana, Shiju, Hema, Bandla Ganesh, Giridhar, 

Music: Koti 

Cinematography: K Ravindra Babu 

Editing: A Sreekar Prasad 

Art Direction: Ranga Peketi  

Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry & Bhuvanachandra (O Priyathama) 

Story - Dialogues: Trivikram Srinivas 

Screenplay - Direction: K Vijaya Bhaskar 

Producer: Sravanthi Ravi Kishore 

Release Date: September 6th, 2001 

Interesting Facts 

Agenda

1) Context and First Impressions

2) How your liking towards it grew

3) Music and Technicalities

4) Writing/Direction

5) Favorite Scenes/Dialogues

6) Why it will always be a classic

Banner: Sri Sai Ganesh Productions

Cast: Ram, Hansika Motwani, Aksha, Swati (SA), Sonu Sood, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Chandra Mohan, Brahmanandam, MS Narayana, Fish Venkat, Raghu Babu, Dharmavarapu, Dil Ramesh, Brahmaji, Pragati, Hema, Rama Prabha etc

Music: S Thaman

Co Writer and Dialogues: Anil Ravipudi

Interesting Facts: 

This film was initially announced in October 2009 with Ravi Teja playing the lead role and with Krishna Vamsi as director, with the producer announcing the film as a partly fantasy venture.[4] The film progressed in pre-production with Tamannaah Bhatia and Sneha Ullal being considered to portray the heroine role, whilst the fantasy elements in the original script were removed.[5] 

Around that time cinematographer Santosh Srinivas was looking to become a director and landed in Bellamkonda camp. They worked on this script and he made the necessary changes to it. 

In April 2010, it was revealed that the producer and Ravi Teja had fallen out and he was replaced by Ram.[6] 

Coming to hero Ram he said “As I said before, due to certain bad experiences, after ‘Ganesh’, I felt that I should not do movies with new directors. So I took a pretty period of 7 months to go through various scripts, 17 to be precise to short list the right script.  Finally it was a story of Santosh Srinivas which compelled me to jump into the project. 

The filming began in October 2010 with Ram and Hansika Motwani, whilst actress Swati Reddy shot scenes the following month.[7] Ram stated on his Twitter account that the film had three female lead roles, and suggested that Nisha Aggarwal was signed on.

During the first schedule, events on the set of the film became the reason for the Telugu film industry strikes of 2010 after Telugu film fighters attacked Tamil film technicians in Chennai on the sets of the film in December 2009.[8][9] Enraged by this, producers called for a bandh the next day. However, film workers declared a strike immediately after that for an indefinite period. The crisis affected the whole film industry and no films were shot in Andhra Pradesh during late December and early January during negotiations.[10]

After filming had resumed, the original music director Chakri was replaced by S. Thaman in March 2011.

Filming was done in Hyderabad Hi tech City, Ramlji Film City and Kokapet MArayadam Ramanna house set which was modified to reflect Warangal backdrop and Switzerland. 

Finally shooting finished and they launched audio on Kandireega's audio was launched at Taj Deccan in Hyderabad on 14 July 2011. Venkatesh was the chief guest at the audio launch. Audio became a super hit. 

August 12th, 2011 movie released amidst heavy competition with Dhada and became a super hit.

Collected 22 crores share at the box office, becoming the highest grossing movie in Ram’s career at that point in time and completed 50 days on September 30th, 2011 and then 100 days on November 18th, 2011. 

Breakthrough for Aksha Pardasani in Telugu who would go onto appear in Bengal Tiger, Dictator and Radha.