This Sankranti season, we have witnessed an epic clash between Mythri Movie Makers and Dil Raju. The renowned production house had two big releases during the same season namely ‘Veera Simha Reddy’ and ‘Waltair Veerayya’. Despite releasing at the same time, both movies turned out to be hits and created a unique record for Mythri Movie Makers. They even entered the distribution field this time and ended up being successful.
On the other hand, Dil Raju produced ‘Varisu’ with Thalapathy Vijay and it was dubbed as ‘Vaarasudu’ in Telugu. He used all his influence and tried to block theatres from the two big releases and allotted a huge number of screens to his dubbing film. He even made a lot of controversial comments which garnered a lot of attention. Despite all this, Dil Raju’s film failed to get a positive response from the audience and ended up being a failure. It made Mythri Movie Makers as the clear winners of the Pongal season.
Latest reports suggest that Dil Raju and Mythri Movie Makers are expected to lock horns with each other during the next year’s Sankranti season too. If reports are to be believed, the team of ‘Pushpa – The Rule’ is aiming at a Sankranti release in 2024. As we know, Sukumar is the director and Mythri Movie Makers are bankrolling it. Grapevine suggests that they are going for an own release in the Nizam area and will collaborate with a third party and release the Hindi version by themselves as well.
On the other hand, Dil Raju is looking to release his pan-Indian project #RC15 during the same season. Directed by legendary filmmaker Shankar, Ram Charan is the lead actor while Kiara Advani is the heroine. It is one of the biggest movies in Charan’s and Dil Raju’s careers and the expectations are massive on this movie. If everything goes as planned, we may witness Allu Arjun and Charan’s clash at the box office. Let us wait and see which big shot producer wins this battle.