The Telugu film industry is slowly rising by producing the most number of films from April to March (2013-2014), 2012-13 saw domination of Kollywood in producing number of films, this year saw the shifting of gears slowly with Tollywood taking the higher steps, with Bollywood taking up the 3rd spot.
Accounts of releases
Total film released this year in India is a whooping 1966 in which 349 came from Telugu, Tamil produced 326 and Hindi with 263. Last year Total films produced were 1724 in which Tamil, Telugu and Hindi produced 292, 280 and 255 respectively.
The year saw Telugu film industry facing losses at box-office, but the positive thing from this is that the amount of films that are made shows a fascinating wind of passion and taste in filmmaking from both new and old filmmakers.
Rise of Indie Cinema
With the rise of digitalization, indie films are coming out in good numbers, which do promise us a wide range of experimental and commercial films which will bring a fresh air to film lovers. A little peek on the statistics will make a better picture of how the new technology is making its fair run of film industry. Celluloid is now on change with a new wave which brings great hope and demand from the Indian cinema.
A total of 188 films were made in celluloid this year compared to 744 of last year, with 1778 digital films made this year compared to 980 of last year. Digital film has produced 798 films more to that of last year and slow shifting of change again from celluloid to digital film making is making it easy for producing film now. While producing 334 compared to 187 digital films this year, digitalization in cinema is something that you can neglect.
Big budget vs Indie films
Telugu films which were known for big budget, high commercial entertainment, which is always tough for an upcoming fresh face filmmaker to make his own movie now have a wide option to make his own dream projects with rise of digital film making. With the big budget films with all those leading top heroes assuring no success as we have seen through time, digital technology has brought more brilliant minds to film making. New films bringing and experimenting with new ideas and brave genres we are now going through the real new generation or new wave of Indian Cinema. Most films have received rave reviews both from critics and audience like Ship of Thesus, B.A PASS and Tasher Desh making up for a few examples. With India being the largest producer of films per year in the world it’s great news for Tollywood that they have topped the Indian Cinema and it is of great importance as we can see a lot of promising directors and genres coming into Tollywood cinema.
We can see that digital film technology has revolutionized Indian Cinema and the quality of good films that are being made has significantly increased compared to the previous years.