Most of the Tolloywood heroes are celebrating the New Year on a happy note as they managed to taste the success in 2006. Surprisingly the Hits and Flops are evenly distributed among all the stars. To add to this no Star except Jagapathi Babu has registered a couple of hits.
Megastar Chiranjeevi with Stalin, Victory Venkatesh with Lakshmi recorded hits without any flops are sitting easy at the top. Comedian turned Hero Sunil as Andala Ramudu and Lawrence with his Style registered their wins on the silver screen. Both of them have started their innings on Tolloywood with a victory.
Most of the big stars have an even year with one hit and one flop. Mahesh Babu has a block buster Pokiri and a flop Sinikudu. Nagarjuna started positively with Sri Ramadasu and ended the year with flop movie Boss to break his double hatrick after 6 consecutive hits. Energetic hero Siddartha’s Chukkallo Chandrudu as lover boy couldn’t get success, but he came with mega hit Bommarillu in the second half of the year. Thanks to Bhaskar for his clean entertainer. NTR and Pawan started badly with Ashok and Bangaram but the Rakhi and Annavaram emerged as late winner of 2006. NTR gave an exceptional performance in Rakhi and joined the race for best actor along with Nagarjuna. Mass hero Gopichand had a big hit with Ranam but failed to change his image with sentiment based Raraju. Sumanth had a decent flick with Sekhar Kammula’s Godavari but failed as Chinnodu. Sivaji failed to attract the mass with Sitaramudu but went back to basics to register a comedy winner Tata Birla Madyalo Lila.
Allu Arjun had an average flick year with Happy. One the other hand Jagapathi Babu lone hero with couple of hits Samanudu and Pellina Kothalo had ended his disastrous failure streak (of 12 films) mid of this year after suffering from 3 flops Sivakasi, Brahmastram and Gopi.
Few of the other heroes have failed more times than success. Raviteja has more to flip side with Shock and Khatarnak than success with Vikramarkudu. New entry Bharat with a hit 10th class and couple of flops Manodu and Maa Iddari Madhya, veteran Rajendra Prasad had taste of success with Bhagya Lakshmi Bumper Draw and flops with Sarada Saradaga and disastrous Iddaru Attala Muddula Alludu and finally Allari Naresh with decent Kitakitalu and flops with Party, Gopi and Roommates falls in the same category.
The stars who failed to taste the success this year are Bala Krishna with Veerabhadra rebel star Prabhas with Pornami, Kalyan Ram with Asadhyudu, Raja Sekhar with Raja Babu. Disappointing year for stars those tasted the failure more than once. Raja with Kokila and Mayabazarm, Arjun with Sivakasi and Ayya, Sharwanand with Veedhi and Amma Chappindi, Venu with Sri Krishna 2006 and illalu Priyuralu are in this list. Last and of course the least came from Srikanth who had whopping 5 releases Sarada Saradaga, Evandoi Sreevaru, Mayajalam, Sri Krishna 2006 and Adi Lakshmi and all of them toppled at Box Office.
If you want me to put in an order the list goes like Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh, Mahesh Babu, Nagarjuna, Siddartha, NTR, Pawan Kalyan, Gopichand, Sumanth, Sivaji, Allu Arjun, Jagapathi Babu, Raviteja, Rajendra Prasad, Bharat, Naresh, Bala Krishna, Prabhas, Kalyan Ram, Raja, Arjun, Venu and Srikanth.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Telugu Movie Review Of 2006
The year 2006 can be considered as lucky year for Tolloywood industry with as many as 20 successful ventures.
1. Pokiri, tops the list with 45 crores collections out of 12 crore budget. This went on to became the biggest hit of 75 years of Telugu cine industry ran 175 days in 63 centers and 100 days in 200 centers.
2. Stalin, a high profile Mega movie made of 16 crore created sensation by collecting 14, 24 and 30 crores in collections in first 3 weeks (cumulatively) but bogged down later to collect 38 crores overall. It celebrated the 50 days run in record 394 theatres. The pre release business of 35 crores made it non profitable for distributors and other buyers.
3. Bommarillu regarded as best entertainer for this year, director Bhaskar getting compliments from all sections of audience. This was screened with the budget of 6 crores but collected as much as 25 crores to become best bet for all stake holders in movie business. Eventually this was the best grosser in USA Telugu movies with 3 crore collections. The music for Bommarillu lulled every audience and kept Devi Sri at top spot.
4. Lakshmi surprised every body by running 100 days in 94 centers with out getting hit talk. This collections crossed 22 crores while 8 crore were collected in the first week itself out of 12 crore budget. The VVVinayak power matched for Venky in a big way.
5. Devdas started as average flick but went on to become a big hit crossing 175 days mark in 17 centers. The YVS magic with Ileana crossed the 20 crore mark in collections out of 7 crore investment.
6. Sri Ramadasu, lone devotional flick of this year was well received all A, B and C centers to collect around 20 crores out big budget of 12 crores. Movie successfully crossed 100 days mark in 67 centers to prove that the days of devotional movies are far from over. An exceptional performance by Nagarjuna made him front runner for Best Actor award race. K Raghavendra Rao proved why he has been great director for so long. The music by Keeravani was exceptional.
7. Andala Ramudu was a surprise package from Sunil to become super hit with 18 crores collections was made of just 4 crores. Sunil dance and performance are very well received by the audience.
8. Vikramarkudu, Rajamouli’s winning streak continues with Super Hit with 50 days in 156 centers and 100 days in 51 centers. The collection received were around 18 crores for a budget of 11 crore is satisfying.
9. Ranam, hatrick movie for Gopi Chand after Andhrudu and Yagnam ran 100 days in 24 centers. The collections of 12 crores for movie of 5 crores were exceptional. The debutant director Amma Rajasekhar grabbed everybody’s attention with this flick.
10. Style, second movie for director cum hero Lawrence had a great run in theatres with 100 days in 30 centers, proved the substance in him. The choreography and dance were arguably the best of Telugu film industry deserves the victory. On business front it crossed the 10 crore mark for the 5 crore budget.
11. Among the other successful ventures were Happy, 10th Class, Kitakitalu, Godavari, Samanyudu, Tata Birla Madyalo Lila, Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw and Pellaina Kothalo.
12. Rakhi and Annavaram released late in December already grabbed decent talk. Details are awaited in a couple of months.
13. This year was a disaster for dubbing flicks. 5 of top movies were of dubbing movies in 2005 (Chandramukhi, Gajini, Aparichitudu, Premiste and Manmadha). While only one movie managed to cross the 1 crore mark is Pandem Kodi with 3 crore (of 1 crore investment on rights). Event the disastrous Tamil movies were dubbed into Telugu and had to bite the dust. While Krrish and Dhoom did managed to get the acceptance from Telugu audience.
1. Pokiri, tops the list with 45 crores collections out of 12 crore budget. This went on to became the biggest hit of 75 years of Telugu cine industry ran 175 days in 63 centers and 100 days in 200 centers.
2. Stalin, a high profile Mega movie made of 16 crore created sensation by collecting 14, 24 and 30 crores in collections in first 3 weeks (cumulatively) but bogged down later to collect 38 crores overall. It celebrated the 50 days run in record 394 theatres. The pre release business of 35 crores made it non profitable for distributors and other buyers.
3. Bommarillu regarded as best entertainer for this year, director Bhaskar getting compliments from all sections of audience. This was screened with the budget of 6 crores but collected as much as 25 crores to become best bet for all stake holders in movie business. Eventually this was the best grosser in USA Telugu movies with 3 crore collections. The music for Bommarillu lulled every audience and kept Devi Sri at top spot.
4. Lakshmi surprised every body by running 100 days in 94 centers with out getting hit talk. This collections crossed 22 crores while 8 crore were collected in the first week itself out of 12 crore budget. The VVVinayak power matched for Venky in a big way.
5. Devdas started as average flick but went on to become a big hit crossing 175 days mark in 17 centers. The YVS magic with Ileana crossed the 20 crore mark in collections out of 7 crore investment.
6. Sri Ramadasu, lone devotional flick of this year was well received all A, B and C centers to collect around 20 crores out big budget of 12 crores. Movie successfully crossed 100 days mark in 67 centers to prove that the days of devotional movies are far from over. An exceptional performance by Nagarjuna made him front runner for Best Actor award race. K Raghavendra Rao proved why he has been great director for so long. The music by Keeravani was exceptional.
7. Andala Ramudu was a surprise package from Sunil to become super hit with 18 crores collections was made of just 4 crores. Sunil dance and performance are very well received by the audience.
8. Vikramarkudu, Rajamouli’s winning streak continues with Super Hit with 50 days in 156 centers and 100 days in 51 centers. The collection received were around 18 crores for a budget of 11 crore is satisfying.
9. Ranam, hatrick movie for Gopi Chand after Andhrudu and Yagnam ran 100 days in 24 centers. The collections of 12 crores for movie of 5 crores were exceptional. The debutant director Amma Rajasekhar grabbed everybody’s attention with this flick.
10. Style, second movie for director cum hero Lawrence had a great run in theatres with 100 days in 30 centers, proved the substance in him. The choreography and dance were arguably the best of Telugu film industry deserves the victory. On business front it crossed the 10 crore mark for the 5 crore budget.
11. Among the other successful ventures were Happy, 10th Class, Kitakitalu, Godavari, Samanyudu, Tata Birla Madyalo Lila, Bhagyalakshmi Bumper Draw and Pellaina Kothalo.
12. Rakhi and Annavaram released late in December already grabbed decent talk. Details are awaited in a couple of months.
13. This year was a disaster for dubbing flicks. 5 of top movies were of dubbing movies in 2005 (Chandramukhi, Gajini, Aparichitudu, Premiste and Manmadha). While only one movie managed to cross the 1 crore mark is Pandem Kodi with 3 crore (of 1 crore investment on rights). Event the disastrous Tamil movies were dubbed into Telugu and had to bite the dust. While Krrish and Dhoom did managed to get the acceptance from Telugu audience.
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