It’s been near eight decades since the main Telugu talkie developed in Tollywood and the business appeared. On this day 85 years back, in 1932, the primary Telugu film Bhakta Prahlada got discharged.
The film was quite recently made on a financial plan of Rs 18,000 in those days and it just took 18 days to wrap up the shooting of the film. This motion picture has turned into a foundation of the Telugu silver screen industry. The film was helmed by H M Reddy, a pioneer in the business.
Notwithstanding, propelled by the story two other devotional movies were made amid a similar name in 1942 and 1967. In the last film, as a kid artiste, Roja Ramani repeated the part of Prahlada. She likewise won a National Award for her execution.
The release date of the main film in Tollywood, notwithstanding, had experienced a great deal of trials to really discover the date of the day when it really opened. Later on, in 2011, film analyst and senior writer, Dr Rentala Jayadeva, distributed his discoveries on the correct date of the discharge.
“In the wake of scouting for proof in libraries in Chennai, Andhra Pradesh and Mumbai, I at long last unearthed ‘The Bombay Government Gazette – Part I’ (page no.:313) dated February 4, 1932 at the National Film Archives, Pune, which had the dates of movies created and blue-penciled in Bombay. The edit date of Bhaktha Prahlada was given in it as January 22, 1932. he Bombay Chronicle conveyed a promotion on January 31, 1932 that the film would be discharged soon. Also, it was discharged on February 6, 1932 at Krishna Cinema on New Charlie Road, Bombay. The Times of India conveyed a survey of the film on an indistinguishable day of its discharge from see show was held before its discharge. In this way, it was discharged in Andhra and afterward on April 2, 1932 at the National Picture Palace (later renamed as Broadway Talkies), Madras. This plainly demonstrates Bhaktha Prahlada was discharged just in 1932,” expressed Jayadeva, as cited by The Hindu.
From that point forward, the film’s discharge was commended on February 6 and consequently denoting the beginning of Tollywood.