Gone are the days when 1-8, 8-1, next change routines were mistaken to be wizardry in choreography….
Gone are the days when the rainbow faded in inferiority complex after seeing the attire of the lead pair….
Gone are the days when the Kalyaana Kattaas ofTirupati (The place designated for free tonsuring) thought they needed more just to satisfy the local demand for wigs..
Yes. Telugu movie industry, or Tollywood as it is referred to, has turned the tables around in thumping fashion.
My journey with Tollywood has not been for more than two weeks now, but I have seen close to four movies now…. Even Chiranjeevi would not have done this...You might ask…. “Why the hell do you choose to take such a big risk in life”… As most things in life, this was also an accident….
But that is besides the point. These movies have taken me by surprise. They are slick, with pretty good production quality, a bit more contemporary, and, the best part was, I did not press the Forward button when the songs were playing. The second half of the movie is paced much better when compared to the first half, and this is something I miss so badly in Bolly wood movies.
Again this might be not be true universally, as every movie industry has its own shareof B and C movies, the genre of Junior NTRs, Mithun Chakravarty and Pandiarajans are omnipresent.
Not that I am the greatest critic on earth, and maybe the only reason why I prefer Telugu movies, could be bcos for a change, I prefer another regional language movie to an English flick, but like everything else written in this blog, these are solely my views!
And just at a macro level, 3 of the Pongal releases in Tamil were remakes of Gult movies.. Vijay’s biggest hit was a Gult remake, and also leading ladies of Kollywod, have drifted their attention to Tollywood, like they use to eye Bollywood earlier…
If you are not able to understand the sudden change in this movie buff…………………………Is there some Telugu girl who is reading this, deeply impressed? ;)
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