Screenwriters often come under fire for churning out routine stories and the infatuation with commercial cinema doesn’t seem to fade away anytime soon in Telugu film industry. In 2011, I met Gopi Mohan and Kona Venkat, two of the most popular writers in Telugu film industry today to get a gist of what it takes [...]
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It’s so fast that you can fire 140 characters in a single shot. So powerful that more than a lakh can read the message within seconds. And so open that every tweet is a potential headline in newspapers and websites. Twitter has indeed arrived in Telugu cinema. The good part is that a lot of [...]
Posted in Film Essays Tags: celebs, criticism, Film Journalism, Flash Mob, Gossips, Newspapers, Privacy, telugu film industry, Troll, twitter, Websites No Comments »The session on “Superhits : Do they need a big budget?” brought out some valid points about the art of filmmaking and marketing them. It was hard to note down every detail which the panelists spoke. Quite frankly, when you have Abbas Tyrewala giving gyaan at the speed of light, all you can do is [...]
Before you begin to consider various possibilities of what T-T stands for, allow me to address your confusion. The T-T match I am talking is about two of the biggest ‘Ts which were at loggerheads for most part of December,2009. Telangana and Telugu Film Industry a.k.a Tollywood. The post is about the chronology of events [...]
Posted in Films, Movies Tags: Allu Arjun, Arya-2, film shootings, JACs, Magadheera, Mahesh Babu, Mohan Babu, Ram Charan, Telangana, telugu film industry, Telugu Films, TRS 5 Comments »2009 will be a memorable year for Telugu Film Industry for various reasons. Two films, Arundhati and Magadheera rocked the box office and brought the much needed attention to the potential outreach of Telugu Cinema. However, we shouldn’t forget that more than 90% of the film released this year have failed to break even or [...]
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Telugu Cinema : To Review or not to…
Before you come to a conclusion what the post is about, allow me to clear the mystery behind that title. The post isn’t about why Telugu film criticism is unethical, it more about the current scenario especially regarding the web content and its influence. I have been writing about Telugu cinema for over a year [...]