In 2011, Bollywood churned out 206 films, while Telugu films stood at 192, with Tamil following with 185
Ever since the days of the movies, the Telugu film industry has generally been considered as second only to the Hindi industry. After Bollywood, tinsel town here has always been in the forefront, not just in the number of films produced, but in its technical excellence too.
On an average, an estimated 150 films are produced annually, with about a 100 more thrown in with films ‘dubbed' from Tamil, Hindi and English predominantly, year after year.
In its latest report, the Central Board of Film Certification certified that the Tamil film industry that was number two in the country after Bollywood, during the year 2008 and 2010 was overtaken by Telugu films.
In 2011, while Bollywood churned out 206 films, the number of Telugu films stood at 192, with Tamil following at 185. In 2010, the Tamil industry saw 202 films hitting screens, while only 181 Telugu movies were made. This being the case as far as the numbers go, the trends of ‘hits' keep changing and while big budget films loaded with the routine commercial elements mostly attract attention at the box office, their smaller, lesser-privileged counterparts draw the spotlight on themselves every now and then solely on the strength of their story and screenplay.
The year 2012 started with the Mahesh ‘Prince' Babu-starrer ‘Businessman' turning out to be a runaway hit, closely followed by ‘Victory' Venkatesh in ‘Bodyguard'. Of the about dozen films to hit the screens this year, these two big budget movies can easily be termed the biggest grosser. On the other end of the spectrum is ‘Ee Rojullo', a small film that was recently released and virtually re-wrote history. Patronised by movie-goers the way it was, it had the makers laughing all the way to the bank.
‘Lovely', that falls under the ‘small film' category did have a more-than-modest budget but went on to do fairly well, as did films like ‘SMS', ‘Love Failure' and ‘Ishq' in what is typically termed ‘more than average', in the industry. An enormous ‘disappointment' though, was Ramcharan Tej's ‘Racha' that failed to elicit the desired response.
Big films
The summer has a slew of really big films lined up including ‘Damarukam', ‘Adhinayakudu', ‘Gabbar Singh', ‘Dharuvu' and ‘Dammu', all with big cast and crew names and of course, ones where the producers has not spared any expense and has gone along with the directors in toto.
Keywords: Telugu Cinema, Tollywood, cinema collections
A mute and amputated heroine loves and marries a deaf and psychotic hero. They both die in the end. That makes a critically acclaimed and commercially successful Damil film !
Telugu movies are of such poor quality, aimed mostly at the front benchers, with the same formula - bad acting, plenty of money thrown around for garrish sets, terrible music and bad choreography.
Tamil music for the most part, with the most talented crop of musicians around is absolutely sublime....
its a blunder to say racha is super hit.it doesnt even come under the hits category.it doesnt value my money
Oh Not again Hindu Paper is making mockery of itself. with Journos like these people
with no knowledge about telugu film industry writing articles.
I agree with the fact that telugu movies overtook tamil movies only in number.
To all you guys calling telugu films are better than tamil films, if you watch only telugu movies all your life , then yes it is what the best you can find! whoever says that ur movies are better in technical aspects plz, do u know how many of ur cinematographer and editors are from tamil industry? check your stats with Indian movies entering International film festivals, you will realise the contribution of Tamil films. It is just your hypocrisy stopping you to accept another film industry is better. Please grow over it! Improve your ideas by watching better movies (some english and tamil movies).
yes.. racha was super hit .. it got good response in all areas around andhra. how can you give a false statement like this. and more over in any aspect telugu films are far better than a tamil movie. wake up "HINDU"
how can you say racha did not good response. do you have any knowledge about telugu movies ? this movie which is termed as the biggest hit of 2012. how can you say it did not good response? how come bodyguard which is average to below average has become suddenly biggest grosser
Sir, I think you need to revisit the telugu film statics released this year as there are some discrepancies in judging the movies on your own terms. And also telugu films are far better in technical aspects than tamil ones. I would also like to correct the title saying it as Telugu movies overtake tamil films in all aspects.
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