There could be several reasons why you are unable to do a particular movie but if your justification is not strong enough in front of media, the whole thing goes into a different direction. Supreme Hero Sai Dharam Tej is currently going through a lea...
For a long time you have associated the name of the eccentric genius Ram Gopal Varma with the cult movies he made and created a new era of Indian cinema. Cut to the present, the only reason why you would remember RGV is due to his controversial tweet...
You can call it a coincidence or a word of advice from a well wisher but there are those times when you tend to see some big stars taking the route already followed by another star. Style Samrat Rajnikanth has always been a trend setter with his styl...
In case you are a member of the Tollywood circuit and want to make the most of it on international soil then you must ensure your name is in the list of invites for the many cultural gatherings that take place in the USA. Notable among them are two o...
You might be surprised to know this but then the pulse of the audience has become so unpredictable that even a film gets a good talk, you cannot rest till it reaches a magical figure at the box office. This requires constant publicity and push from t...
Words can never be sufficient to describe the legacy of the great N T Rama Rao. The way he has set benchmarks in Tollywood are tough to reach but they are certainly the reference point. And there are few heroes of this generation who still take that ...
What would be your career path once you become an actress? Ideally it would be to become a star heroine and once the age barrier is crossed, settle for character roles and elongate your innings. At no point would you want to take up another craft of ...
Quite often you would come across discussions revolving around star heroes and superstars but the discussion about heroines is restricted. This is more so in Tollywood because it is a hero driven industry. However, there have been exceptions in this ...
As a filmmaker, your focus would be to prove yourself in your local industry but there are also those filmmakers who have bigger goals. For most of the filmmakers based in the regional industries, making their presence felt in Bollywood is the ultima...
Just recently you would have come across an interview featuring the blockbuster producer Bandla Ganesh and unlike the rest of the film fraternity personnel who tend to be diplomatic, Ganesh went all guns blazing and came up with some interesting reve...
You can call your film as successful only when it has the ability to create some noise at the box office. Ultimately, collections decide the success quotient of a movie and normally, it is tough for the devotional movies to create that magic....
Though rationalists find creative works as less appealing, fact remains that to create something original, you need a special set of skills and the best part is, nothing ever goes waste. This has been proved once again by a talented filmmaker from To...
Your big challenge once you enter the film industry is to gain success and achieve stardom but your biggest challenge comes once you attain the success and need to sustain it. Many big names have fallen off the crest unable to maintain that consisten...
For some reason, a new issue is brewing between writers and filmmakers. Well, the original writers of the story are not getting their credit in movies. Sometime ago, the film 'A?Aa' was based on Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani's novel 'Meena'. It also cam...
While it is true that a good content, the right execution and intense promotion form the main elements to make a film successful, there is also a hidden component. It is called as the luck factor. Many films and actors failed to click due to bad luck...
Sometime ago you would have come across the talk from Filmnagar that Tollywood is going through a drought of creative and talented writers. At that point, Kona Venkat came and created a sensation. But given the demand, the supply was not sufficient....
The best way for you to gain revenues for your movie is to target one genre of audience, they are the family audience. However, it is not that easy to woo them. The good side is, if family audience comes in, the word of mouth spreads like wildfire....
In today's time, you can live without having food for a day or be awake without sleeping but you just cannot live without one thing, your mobile phone. The addiction to mobile phones has become so strong that people have started losing the human touc...
These days if your film becomes a success you can be rest assured that you would be approached for the remake rights by the neighbouring circuits. In the recent past, a good number of scripts from Tollywood were fortunate to click and get offers from...
What you see is what you know and that leads you to form impressions on individuals and situations. The same applies when you look at the film actors. But cinema is a collective product and there is a lot of effort that goes behind the screen as well...
As a star kid, you do have the privilege of getting an easy break but it also comes with a baggage called expectations. Unlike a new face with no background, a star kid is expected to deliver right from the start. This gets doubled if he is from a le...
Gone are the days when you can really categorize the on season and off season because almost every other Friday you get to see one promising release and that too with big heroes. Despite that, the summer season is considered the best for film busines...
Unlike the regular commodities, you know well that cinema is a collective product and the silver screen is one platform which showcases the talent of many artists. Normally, the limelight is hogged by the hero and heroine and to an extent few other a...
As a filmmaker you may have your own signature style but then you can never rule out of the possibility of finding similarities with another filmmaker who is rather senior to you. Such comparisons are usually drawn by the audience and the cine buffs....