A list of films produced by the Tollywood (Telugu language film industry) based in Hyderabad in the year 2008.

Telugu Cinema refers to the Telugu film industry. The industry is the largest in India in terms of number of movies made in a year and also in terms of infrastructure. It has the highest number of cinema halls in India. The IMAX theater in Hyderabad has a few world records to its credit. The industry has a few Guinness records for the most films directed by male and female directors, the most number of films produced by a person and also for having the largest film studio in the world

Industry

(1 crore = 10,000,000 rupees, approximately US$ 225,124 on Dec 06, 2006.)

The Telugu movie industry, the largest film Industry in India, is based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India.

Currently, about 250 Telugu movies are released every year with approximately 3 releases every week. Just like any other film industry, the Telugu movie industry produces all genres of movies. In 2005, the annual turnover reached Rs. 2.3 Billion ($52 Million), with Rs. 700 million coming from the ticket sales itself. Popular movies tend to open during the three festive/holiday seasons of the region: Sankranti, Summer, and Dusshera. In 2004, the industry made around Rs. 1.5 Billion (150 Crores) during the Sankranthi season. There are at least three TV channels that are dedicated exclusively to feature programs related to Telugu movies.

Below is a chart of box office collections of Telugu Film Industry with figures in millions of Indian Rupees.

Year——Telucu Cinema Box Office
1980———-819
1985———-1,526
1990———-3,333
1995———-7,985
2000———-14,011
2005———-23,044

The Telugu film industry accounts for 1% of the gross domestic product of Andhra Pradesh

Budgets

(1 crore = 10,000,000 rupee, approximately US$230,000 or €190,000 on May 11, 2005.)

The budgets for Telugu movies typically range between 7-15 crores per film. Pre-lease revenues for popular films can range between 12-20 crores per film and post-release business for these movies can be around 25-40 crores depending on the success of the movie. Popular actors like Megastar Chiranjeevi,Nandamuri Balakrishna,Akkineni Nagarjuna, Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Pawan Kalyan, and Jr.NTR are some of the highest paid actors in Telucu Cinema. Singers: Telugu film industry has the repute of producing many singers like Ghantasala and S.P.Bala Subramanyam. S.P.B holds the record singing maximum number of songs (39000 songs approximately)

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Nagarjuna Akkineni - Telugu Actor

Nagarjuna, son of the Ever Green Hero Akkineni Negeswara Rao, needs no introduction. Nag’s foray into films is an act of passion. Vikram(1986), his debutante film (a Telugu remake of Hindi Hero), made a splash at the hearts of youth. Being just 4 films old he proved that he can match his father’s image as a tragedy king with a lovely film called ‘Majnu’. He developed the strategy of inducting debutante directors to his films with Sankeerthana. Though this musical saga did not sustain at box-office, Nag has gone a step ahead as an actor.

He paired up with his legendry father Sr Akkineni to produce ‘Collectorgari Abbai’. But it was the Midas touch of Aswini Dutt that proved Nag’s Box-office credentials. For the first time he paired up with Sridevi, who has done innumerable films with Nag’s father Nageswara Rao, in the film ‘Akhari Poratam’ that ran for 100 days in 12 centers.

It was ‘Geetanjali’ that has taken Nag’s image as a romantic hero to new heights. Deft direction by Manirathnam and crafty camera work by PC Sriram added to necessary gloss to the romantic image of nag. If you think Geetanjali is a big hit. You are in a soup. Because the box-office magnitude of ‘Geetanjali’ appears minuscule compared to the stormy film that followed which has taken all the youth’s heart away. ‘Shiva’ gave Nag much needed action Hero image and Nag made inroads into the hearts of students. Ultimate winner of ‘Shiva’ is none but Ram Gopal Varma, a raw director. It was the Nag’s risky decision to employ a video operator as the director for his home production that did the trick. All the scorning critics who criticized Nag for his decision to choose Varma during the production of film are silenced by it’s stupendous success.

Fueled by the success of Shiva, Nag made a grand entry into Hindi filmdom with the remake of ‘Shiva’. If you think Nag is fond of Shiva just because it changed the pace of his cine career, you are mistaken. This film has also got him Amala, his soul mate.

After the storm of Shiva, there was a period lull for sometime. Again Nag stormed with ‘President gari pellam’ brough him the imageof mass hero. And his heavy box office romancing continued till Hello Brother. Hello Brother showed the stamina of Nag at box office by running in 28 centers. His comic antics are best exploited by the director EVV. With this film Nag’s portfolio of acting is enriched with a rich ingredient called comedy.

Again the period of lull continued for few years till he spotted another creative director in making, Krishna Vamsi. Nag paired up with Vamsi to produce one of the biggest Telugu romantic blockbusters, ‘Ninne Pelladatha’. After this film Nag faced the biggest challenge in his cine career. That is to act as Annamayya, the legendary singer/poet of Medieval times. And Nag came out flying colors. Talk about the result. It ran for 100 days in 42 centers. He has become a household demigod with his presence of ‘Annamayya’.

Every good thing in life comes with a few sacrifices. He wanted to get rid of sacred ‘Annamayya’ image and wanted people to accept him as a romantic hero. He produced a string of romantic films later. All of them disappointed him at box-office and he went through the same kind of lull he had after ‘Shiva’ and ‘Hello Brother’. All his fans waited in an unabated breathlessness for him to produce a film of Shiva magnitude. And Nag did not disappointed them. He came up with the blockbuster of the year, Nuvvu Vastavani. The super good film’s caption for this film, ‘We don’t break records … we create records’, seems to be very appropriate for Nag. Nagarjuna then did a hattrick by coming up with an Azad action film with patriotic tinge followed by a cameo in ‘Ninne Premista’. This hattrick gave way to another lean patch which was broken by the stupendous hit of Santosham.

Nag is called as the celluloid scientist. He is best talent spotter around. To his credit he blooded Geetha Krishna, Ram Gopal Varma, Uppalapati Narayana Rao, Praveen Gandhi, VR Pratap and Jonnalagadda srinivasa Rao, Dasarath. He offered ‘Ninne Pelladatha’ to a new comer Krishna Vamsi just by looking at a 5 minute rushes of ‘Gulabi’. Nag will be known as the person who changed the mindset of industry with his creative thinking. He encouraged the new technology in his films. And others followed him. Nagarjuna is never after the number game and did not encourage the culture dragging movies for 50 days and 100 days for the sake of records and false prestige.

He delivered two consecutive hits in the form of Santosham and Manmadhudu in tha last year and he is coming up with ‘Shivamani 98480 22338′ this year.

We, at idlebrain.com, wish Nagarjuna a momentous birthday today on 29th of August 2003. Long live Nagarjuna.

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