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Media and people’s focus will be always on star celebrities and when enjoys the super stardom of Megastar Chiranjeevi then the attention is inevitable. Right from his superhit ‘Khaidi’ which made him Tollywood’s action hero and angry young man, his fan base multiplied and media started following his every move very closely and even started analysing each and every step. Over the last five years Chiru has been accused of giving a raw deal to his brothers Nagababu and Pawan Kalyan. Many stories emanated about his not so amicable relationships with Power Star Pawan Kalyan and to a lesser extent Naga Babu.

Some say Chiru did not try to bring up his brothers even when he was ruling the Industry. Many feel that he did not try to help his brother Nagababu who tried his best to shine as a hero. Chiru did not even fulfill Nagababu’s dream of watching his son Varun Tej making his tollywood debut while he started taking keen interest on his son Ram Charan Teja’s every move. Much has been written about Chiranjeevi’s rivalry with Pawan Kalyan. When he did not turn up for Panjaa audio launch it became the hot topic of discussion and Chiru’s silence did not make things any better. It was written that Pawan didnot approve Chiru merging his PRP with Congress. Some even said that Chiru did not help Pawan when his film ‘naraju’ bombed miserably at box office.

However what one doesn’t know is Chiru gave many chances, offers and he himself gave bulk dates to his brother Naga Babu to utlilise it to perfection. However Nagababu failed to use it and now Chiru is helping him in Varun Tej’s debut. As for Pawan Kalyan,also Chiru’s close aides reveal that everything is fine between them.

Mentality of movie lovers is hard to dissect. Many give lectures about the falling standards of tollywood film making and the films that are coming and rave about the creativity of other regions. They cite out the creativity of directors like Shankar, Murugadoss or music directors Ilayaraja, Rahman and Harris Jeyaraj or actors like Dhanush, Surya, Vikram’s penchant for performing unique roles. However when a good film comes in tollywood like Sri Rama Rajyam or message oriented flick ‘Onamalu’ one bother to watch them. Most of them wait for the word of mouth and make list of movies and wait patiently when small screen screen them during festivals or on special occasions, which was not the case in other languages.

When films like Sri Rama Rajyam fail to get awards at film festivals, they find fault with organizers little realizing the fact that organizers and jury awarded Sri Rama Rajyam the best film award in all its functions and it was movie lovers who voted for ‘Dookudu’. So basically movie lovers should realize that fault lies with them rather than with the organizers of the award functions or film makers. Many were surprised to find empty theaters greeting Sri Rama Rajyam shows even when the film makers announced various sops for school students. The same was the case with Onamalu. Unless until movie lovers encourage these kind of films, film makers keep making films keeping in view of B-C class centers where masses watch films repeatedly for their respective heroes.

Tollywood movie lovers and general public were aghast when national awards for 2011 were announced. Many critics and people expected two or three national awards including the best film award. However they were shell shocked to find ‘Dirty Picture’ sweeping the awards while the jury decided not to announce any award under telugu films category. Many people criticised the jury members for their decision and some even attached motives to them. Many felt that awards can be manged using political influence and monetary benefits, what so ever it may be.

When Bapu and Balakrishna announced to make ‘Sri Rama Rajyam’ many expected a film on the lines of superhit ‘Lavakusa’. True, they made a film which won the hearts of many. A careful analysis from jury point of view was that Bapu made innumerous films on Ramayana. Mythological movie lovers expected a new magical flick from him but he presented them graphical wonder. The film ‘Sri Rama Rajyam’ was fully loaded with graphics and gives us a feeling that the film is just a remake of hit ‘Lavakusa’ with little bit of changes in the script which are there for everyone to see.Balakrishna just underwent the movements and acting expressions of his dad NTR and didnot try to do anything new.

Members of the Jury for National awards will surely take all these facts into consideration before finalising awards. Already ‘Lavakusa’ won n number of awards are many film festivals and it will be not fair to shower the remake film with many more awards.

TFI is always in the grips of big four or five influential families or people and entire industry is reeling in its grip unable to come out of their iron like clutches. However small film makers created a sensation in recent film chamber elections winning over the influential members. Since for the first time, elections were held under electronic voting system and none can find out who voted for which group, all the film makers who suffered at the hands of these influential people voted unitedly for Tammareddy Bharadwaj panel during the Film Chamber elections. Those who kept film producers and film makers under their grip and tampered film production experienced shock of their life.

For years these influential few have been increasing rents of theaters as per their whims and fancies and even allotted those theaters to people who support them and exacting revenge on others who opposed them. They might have done all this but couldn’t make people vote for them threatening or keeping them in house arrest. Tammareddy Bharadwaj’s panel’s victory brings in democracy to the functioning of the panel. However the victory of the panel did not come so easily. The opponents tried all means to defeat them.They tried to introduce new panel naming it as active panel and this hurt the feelings of many small film makers. Now a days film makers have become cashiers and for that matter even Suresh Movies banner stopped making films.

This time Daggubati Suresh Panel have taken this elections prestigiously and gave parties to even members though they don’t have any votes. Even on polling day they tried to make Ashok Kumar,(Suresh’s close relative) as President as he luckily won the elections. However Tammareddy Panel opposed their moves and Suresh panel reluctantly agreed Bharadwaj as the president. Any film nagar sources say small film makers are dead against D.Suresh ‘s high handed ways and the same reflected in election results. However just winning elections will not solve the problems of small film makers. They should bring change in the system and take all parties along with them.

When movie lovers happen to watch telugu films many feel that there is nothing new in the script or story line. A layman can predict what will happen next and just like a saying used to be there about serials, that even after watching it after few days back, one can predict the storyline, similar can be applied to films. None of the film scripts inspire any confidence in movie lovers.. One wonder whether heroes really hear the scripts or blindly sign projects going by the reputation of directors and film makers. Sometime back during Dammu audio release NTR said he rejected 9 scripts before finalizing the tenth one from Boyapati Srinu. But many commented what made him agree to that script too as the story was predictable and has noting innovative in it.

Many feel that heroes don’t watch other heroes films and just ask directors and film makers to ready a script on similar lines of a super hit flick from bollywood, kollywood or hollywood. Sometimes they implore him to prepare script similar to tollywood number one grossers. That was the reason why there won’t be any creativity or inattentiveness in 99% of tollywood films. While many innovative and creative films come from other regions, our movie lovers are left with singing praises of them as they can’t expect anything from them. Standard answers of all those present in the industry is if they think of making a creative or award winning film, viewers will not encourage them. Unless until heroes stop tampering with scripts and encourage novelty just like their counterparts in kollywood or bollywood, monotonous mass masala entertainers are common in tollywood.

Movie lovers after witnessing ‘Ukodatara Ulikkipadatara’ are left wondering are spirits going to rule tollywood silver screen. The film featured Balakrishna and Sonu Sood in roles of spirits fighting with each other in a greulling duel making viewers fix their eyes to the screens. Some more film are expected to come. They include hot malayalee beauty Priyamani who is coming in dual roles to terrify all as conjoint twins to exact revenge on evil doers. 

Lawrence who is currently busy with ‘Rebel’ is contemplating on making sequel for his superhit ‘Kanchana’, He stunned all playing a role which has three spirits inside it. Even Ukodatara Ulikkipadatara has some surprise elements like Sonu Sood’s spirit switching over from one person to another person. Film makers are smitten by spirits when Super Star Rajanikanth played with ‘Chandramukhi’ spirit in the superhit ‘Chandramukhi’. Later the same film maker tried to take Chandramukhi to new level with ‘Nagavalli’ with Victory Venkatesh.. 

Pretty lass Priyamani also came with ‘Kshetram’ last year. In between none can forget mangalore beauty Anushka’s ‘Arundhati’ which made her the super heroine of tollywood. Even before Arundhati’s spirit could come out of movie lovers, she came with ‘Panchakshari’. The thought of spirits will surely make movie lovers spine chill. One has to wait and watch how many spirits will spellbound movie lovers and enter success rings.