tollywood is the biggest film industry in india which produces large number of movies than any industry in india, so lets see top 10 ranked tollywood movies in International Movies Data Base(IMDB).
10. kshanam(imdb rating:7.9)
is a 2016 release, this is a thriller movie written and played lead role by Adivi sesh, this can be called a edge of the seat thriller.
casting and crew:
lead roles:adivisesh, adah sharma, anasuya bhardwaj, vennela kishore, satyam rajesh and satyadev kancharana.
director:ravikanth perepu, screenplay and story: adivi sesh ,produced by pvp cinema Music by Sricharan Pakala, Cinematography: Shaneil Deo, Edited by Arjun Shastri & Ravikanth Perepu.
story line: Rishi, an NRI, comes to India in search of his ex-lover Swetha's daughter, who was kidnapped by a gang of Nigerians. The police are uncooperative and there is no evidence to collaborate Swetha's version of events. How will Rishi unravel the mystery?story,screenplay and music and positive points which raised this movie to stand in top 10 telugu movies.
9. Vedam(imdb rating:7.9)
is a 2010 drama film written and directed by Radhakrishna jagarlamudi(krish), starring Allu arjun,manoj manchu, anushka setty,manoj bajpayee,saranya ponvanna, deeksha seth, lekha washington, and Siya Gautham. Broadly falling into the hyperlink cinema genre, the film was critically acclaimed, receiving several accolades including four filmfare awards (Best Movie, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress) .
The film was dubbed in Malayalam and Krish later remade the film in tamil as vaanam (2011), with silambarasan, bharath and prakash raj, while Anushka and Saranya reprised their roles. It was also dubbed in Hindi as "Antim Faisla" by Goldmines Telefilms.
story line:Cable Raju is a slum dweller who works as a cable operator; Saroja is a prostitute; Ramulu is a debt-ridden weaver from Sircilla; Vivek Chakravarthy is an upcoming rock star; Raheemuddin Qureshi is a Muslim from Old Basti in Hyderabad. The stories of these five characters are interwoven into one.
8.Athadu(imdb rating:8.0)
is a 2005 Indian Telugu action thriller film written and directed by trivikram srinivas. The film features an ensemble cast of mahesh babu, trisha krishnan, sonu sood, kota srinivas rao, sayaji shinde, nassar and prakash raj. The plot of this movie is based on the 1993 novel point of impact by stephen hunter. It was produced by D. Kishore and M. Ram Mohan under the jayabheri arts banner while actor murali mohan was the presenter of the film. Story, Screenplay and Dialogues were penned by Srinivas while sirivennalaseetharama sastri and Viswa penned the lyrics for the songs. The soundtrack was scored by mani sharma. k.v.guhan handled the cinematography of the film while sreekar prasad edited it. thota tharani was the art director of the film while peter hain was the stunt and fight choreographer.
The film went on to become one of the highest grossing Telugu films in and marked Mahesh Babu's career resurgence after a few unsuccessful films. It won 3 nandi awards and a filmfare awards south in best director category. The film was dubbed into tamil as Nandhu and in malayalam as Target. It was later remade in hindi as ek and in bengali as wanted starring jeet and srabanti. It was also dubbed into Polish for a release in Poland as a Poszukiwany (Seeking) thus becoming the first Telugu film released in poland. The film was also dubbed in Hindi as Cheetah – The Power of One and released through YouTube on 11 February 2013 by Goldmines Telefilms.
story line: To receive a sympathy vote, a crooked politician plans his own assassination attempt. Nandu is hired to merely wound the politician, but someone else pulls the trigger first. Framed for murder, Nandu flees and meets Pardhu, a man returning home after a long absence. The young man is killed in the police crossfire meant for Nandu. Nandu assumes Pardhu's identity and his new "cousin" has a romantic interest in him...
7. Bommarillu(imdb rating:8.0)
is a 2006 Indian telugu language romantic comedy film directed and co-written by bhaskar, and produced by dil raju. The film stars siddarth genelia D'souza, prakash raj and jayasudha. Following the film's box office success it was remade in tamil as santosh subramanyam (2008), in bengali as bhalosa bhalosa (2008) and in odia as dream girl (2009).
storyline:Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class man's daughter called Hasini. The film focuses on his realization that he has to stand on his own and come out of his father's protective shell- and try to succeed in love.
6.Arjun reddy(imdb rating: 8.0)
is a 2017 Indian telugu language coming of age black comedy drama film written and directed by sandeep reddy vanga, produced by Pranay Reddy Vanga for Bhadrakali Pictures.
The film stars vijay devarakonda, shalini pandey and rahul ramakrishna in the lead roles. The soundtrack is composed by radhan and background score is done by Harshavardan "Ramee" Rameshwar. The film was released on 25 August 2017.this film is a gamem changer in tollywood film industry after shiva movie.this was also became controversial because of its bold scenes and foul language used in movie.
story line:When his girlfriend is forced to marry another man, a troubled young surgeon begins to self-destruct.
story line may be short but the movie runtime is 3hours 2minutes after alot of cuts. the uncut movie's runtime is 3hours 40minutes which is not yet available but uncensored version is available at amazon primevideo. arjun reddy is a medico who so aggresive, he falls in love with shalini his junior, due to family issues shalini gets married to another guy, then he gets depressed and addicted to alcohol, drugs and what not. due to this he gets sued, fired from hospital and his doctor license gets suspended for 5years. and then how he meets shalini and what happened atlast should be watched in the movie.
5.Nuvvu naku nachav (imdb rating:8.1)
is a telugu romantic comedy film produced by sravanthi ravi kishore on sri sravanthi movies banner, directed by k.vijay bhaskar. Starring venkatesh, arti agarwal in the lead roles and music composed by koti. The film is recorded as Blockbuster at box-office.The movie was remade into Kannada as gowramma Starring upendra, ramya; into Tamil as vaseegar starring vijay and Bengali as majnu, directed by rajib, starring hiran and shrabanti. This movie was excellently directed by K.Vijaya Bhaskar which changed the fate of Telugu cinema and it stood highest grosser in venkatesh daggubati career. The Telugu version has garnered the state nandi award and akkineni award for best home viewing feature film.
story line:Venakteswarlu alias Venky (Venkatesh) comes to the house of Murthy (Prakash Raj) on recommendation of his father Sekhar (Chandra Mohan) who is a childhood friend of Murthy. Nandini alias Nandu (Arti Agarwal) is the daughter of Murthy. Venky enters that place when Nandu is about to get engaged to a software professional from the USA. Soon, Venky bonds with everyone from Murthy's family. Murthy helps Venky secure a job. The relationship between Venky and Nandu starts with hatred and turns into friendship. Nandu confesses her love for Venky to him. Venky, who does not want to spoil the relationship between their parents, decides to leave the house. But Murthy goes to the railway station and talks to Venky, which causes Venky to return. On his return, Nandu stops speaking to him. When Venky accompanies Nandu and Pinky (Nandu's cousin) to Nandu's friend Asha's wedding, sparks fly between them.Even though Venky also is in love with Nandu, he does not express it and pretends to not have ...
4. Bahubali2 :the conclusion (imdb rating: 8.1)
is a telugu indian historcial epic film directed by S.S. rajamouli The film was produced by tollywood studio arka media works. It is the continuation of bahubali:the beginning, taking place before and after the events of that film. It was originally made in telugu and tamil and dubbed into hindi, malayalam, german, french, japanese and englishThe film stars major actors from Tollywood industry with prabhas, anushka setty, rana dagubbati and sathyaraj in lead roles. Initially, both parts were produced on a joint budget of ₹250 crore (₹2.5 billion) but the budget of the second part was later increased.
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion was premiered at the british film institute, and is the inaugural feature film at the 39th moscow international film festival. The Conclusion was theatrically released over 9000 screens worldwide on 28 April 2017.Baahubali 2 was the first Telugu film to be released in 4K High Definition format. It is estimated that close to 200 screens were upgraded to 4K projectors before the release date of the movie.
Baahubali 2 released to positive reviews from critics and surpassed the 2014 Hindi film pk to briefly become the highest grossing indian film, collecting approximately ₹800 crore (US$120 million) worldwide within just six days of its release. It became the first ever Indian film to gross over 1000croresINR(usa$160 million) in all languages, doing so in just ten days .Within India, it set many films records, becoming the highest grossing film in hindi language as well as in its original Telugu and Tamil languages. Currently, it stands as the highest grossing film in india and the second highest grossing indian film worldwide. The film sold an estimated 105 million tickets (10.5 crore) during its box office run, one of the highest footfalls for any film in India .The film has garnered the telstra people's choice award at the 2017 indian film festival of melbourne.
story line:When Shiva, the son of Bahubali, learns about his heritage, he begins to look for answers. His story is juxtaposed with past events that unfolded in the Mahishmati Kingdom.
this movie deals with the flashback of mahendra bahuabli about his father amarendra bahubali, how gets in love with kuntala kingdom's king sister devasena, ballaladeva plays mind game and he become king of mahishmathi where bahubali becomes army general of mahishmati kingdom. how bahubali got killed and why kattappa killed bahubali?what happens to mahendra bahubali? watch the movie and get answers.
3. Aha na pellanta(imdb rating :8.1)
is a 1987 Telugu-language comedy film , produced by D.ramanaidu on suresh productions banner and directed by jandhyala. Starring rajendra prasad, rajani in the lead roles and music composed by ramesh naidu. The film is based on the novel Adivishnu's novel Satyam Gaari Illu.The film's title is the title of a song from the hit Telugu film mayabazar. The original song and its video from mayabazar play during the opening credits. It marks the debut of popular comedian brahmanandam. The film recorded as Industry Hit at the box office.
story line:Krishnamurthy (Rajendra Prasad) is the only son of industrialist Satyanarayana (Nutan Prasad). He wants his son to get married to a girl whom he has chosen because of his bitter experience with love marriage. Before selecting the bride, Satyanaryana has a big list of conditions which need to be fulfilled before he finalizes the bride for his son. But Krishnamurthy falls in love with Padma (Rajini). After lot of tussle, both father & son enter into an understanding that if Krishnamurthy convinces Padma's father Lakshmipathy (Kota Srinivas Rao) without using his father's name by 31st December, than Satyanarayana will allow his to get married to Padma. Otherwise, he has to obey his father and marry the girl chosen by him.
2. Sagara sangamam(imdb rating:8.1)
is a 1983 telugu musical dance film directed by k.viswantath and produced by Edida nageswar rao, starring kamal hassan,jayaprada, sarath babu, S.p sailaja and chakri toleti. Upon release, the film received positive reviews and became a box office hit. The film has received two national film awards, three filmfare awards south, and the nandi award for best feature film (Bronze). The film is listed among CNN-IBN's list of hundred greatest Indian films of all time
The film was dubbed into tamil and malayalam and released as salangai oli and Sagara Sangamam respectively. kamal hassan had lent his voice for all three versions. The film was screened at the international film festival of india in 1984, retrospective in 2011 and Celebrating Dance in Indian cinema section in 2014. The film was dubbed into Russian, and was screened at the moscow international film festival, asia pacific film festival, and AISFM film festival.
story line:Balakrishna (Kamal) is an economically poor multi-talented dancer, adept at Bharata Natyam, Kathakali, Kuchipudi etc.. and his dream is to perform at an All-India level competition. Madhavi (Jayaprada), a rich girl notices his talent and helps in getting him an opportunity to perform in an all-India competition. As he is all set to relaise his dream, his ageing mother passes away which denies the fulfillment of his dream. Slowly, he gets closer to Madhavi and the day he wishes to propose to her, he realises that she is already married and her husband left her. Now the husband wants to re-unite with her which forces him to sacrifice his love. Years pass by and he turns into a drunkard. Meanwhile Madhavi loses her husband. She comes to know of Balakrishna who the doctors say is going to die soon. So she takes care of his medical needs and requests Balakrishna to teach dance to her daughter. The movie ends with Madhavi's daughter becoming a great dancer and the death of Balakrishna .
1.Maya bazar(imdb rating:8.2)
is a 1957 Indian epic fantasy film directed by Kadiri venkata reddy. It was produced by B.nagi reddy and Aluri chakrapani under their banner, vijaya vahini studios. The film was shot in both telugu and tamil with the same title, but with a few differences in the cast. The story is an adaptation of the folk tale,sasirekha parinayam, which in turn is based on the epic mahabaratha. It revolves around the roles of Krishna(N.T.Ramarao) and ghatotkacha(S.V ranga rao), as they try to reunite arjuna's son abhimanyu (Telugu: Akkineni nageswar rao, Tamil: gemini ganesan) with his love, balarama's daughter (savitri). The Telugu version features gummadi venkateswar rao, mukkamula, ramana reddy, and relangi venkata ramaiah in supporting roles, with D.balasubramainam R.balasubramaniam, V. M. Ezhumalai, and K.A.Thangavelu playing those parts in the Tamil version.
The first mythological film produced by their studio, Mayabazar marked a milestone for Nagi Reddy and Chakrapani. In addition to the technical crew, 400 studio workers – including light men, carpenters, and painters – participated in the development of the film. Director Reddy was meticulous with the pre-production and casting phases, which took nearly a year to complete. Though Rama Rao was initially reluctant to play the lead role, his portrayal of Krishna received acclaim and yielded more offers to reprise the same role in several unrelated films. The soundtrack features twelve songs, with most of the musical score composed by ghantasala. Telugu lyrics were written by pingali nagendra rao and Tamil lyrics were written by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass. Four of the songs were composed by s.rajeshwar rao prior to his unexplained departure from the project. One of them was accompanied by the first illusion of moonlight in Indian cinema, shot by cinematographer Marcus bartley.
Mayabazar had a final film-reel length of 5,888 metres (19,318 ft). The film's Telugu version was released on 27 March 1957; the Tamil version was released two weeks later, on 12 April. Both were critically and commercially successful, with a theatrical run of 100 days in 24 theatres, and it became a silver jubilee film. Mayabazar was also dubbed into kannada. The film is considered a landmark in both Telugu and Tamil cinema, with praise for its cast and technical aspects, despite the limitations of technology at the time. Mayabazar was screened at the public gardens in hyderabad for its 50th anniversary on 7 April 2007. raavi kondala rao novelized the film's script based on Venkata Reddy's screenplay. A May 2013 CNN-NEWS poll selected Mayabazar as the greatest Indian film of all time.
Mayabazar became the first Telugu film to be digitally remastered and colourised, at an estimated cost of ₹75 million (valued at about US$1.7 million in 2010), after Hyderabad-based company Goldstone Technologies acquired world neagtive rights to fourteen films including that of Mayabazar in late November 2007. The updated version was released on 30 January 2010 in 45 theatres in andhra pradesh. It was a commercial success that generated mostly positive reviews, one critic only expressing a preference for the original.
story line:The story revolves around the characters in the Hindu Epic "The Mahabharata" and is set in Dwaraka, the hometown of Lord Krishna (NTR). Arjuna's son Abhimanyu(ANR) falls in love with Balarama's daughter Sasirekha(Savitri). When the Pandava's lose their kingdom in the infamous game of dice to the Kaurava's, Balarama promises his daughters hand to Duryodhana's son, there by breaking the promise made to Subhadra(Abhimanu's mother and Balarama's sister). The rest of the movie is how Bhima's son Ghatotkacha(SVR) helps the lovers unite with his magic.
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10. kshanam(imdb rating:7.9)
casting and crew:
lead roles:adivisesh, adah sharma, anasuya bhardwaj, vennela kishore, satyam rajesh and satyadev kancharana.
director:ravikanth perepu, screenplay and story: adivi sesh ,produced by pvp cinema Music by Sricharan Pakala, Cinematography: Shaneil Deo, Edited by Arjun Shastri & Ravikanth Perepu.
story line: Rishi, an NRI, comes to India in search of his ex-lover Swetha's daughter, who was kidnapped by a gang of Nigerians. The police are uncooperative and there is no evidence to collaborate Swetha's version of events. How will Rishi unravel the mystery?story,screenplay and music and positive points which raised this movie to stand in top 10 telugu movies.
9. Vedam(imdb rating:7.9)
The film was dubbed in Malayalam and Krish later remade the film in tamil as vaanam (2011), with silambarasan, bharath and prakash raj, while Anushka and Saranya reprised their roles. It was also dubbed in Hindi as "Antim Faisla" by Goldmines Telefilms.
story line:Cable Raju is a slum dweller who works as a cable operator; Saroja is a prostitute; Ramulu is a debt-ridden weaver from Sircilla; Vivek Chakravarthy is an upcoming rock star; Raheemuddin Qureshi is a Muslim from Old Basti in Hyderabad. The stories of these five characters are interwoven into one.
8.Athadu(imdb rating:8.0)
is a 2005 Indian Telugu action thriller film written and directed by trivikram srinivas. The film features an ensemble cast of mahesh babu, trisha krishnan, sonu sood, kota srinivas rao, sayaji shinde, nassar and prakash raj. The plot of this movie is based on the 1993 novel point of impact by stephen hunter. It was produced by D. Kishore and M. Ram Mohan under the jayabheri arts banner while actor murali mohan was the presenter of the film. Story, Screenplay and Dialogues were penned by Srinivas while sirivennalaseetharama sastri and Viswa penned the lyrics for the songs. The soundtrack was scored by mani sharma. k.v.guhan handled the cinematography of the film while sreekar prasad edited it. thota tharani was the art director of the film while peter hain was the stunt and fight choreographer.
The film went on to become one of the highest grossing Telugu films in and marked Mahesh Babu's career resurgence after a few unsuccessful films. It won 3 nandi awards and a filmfare awards south in best director category. The film was dubbed into tamil as Nandhu and in malayalam as Target. It was later remade in hindi as ek and in bengali as wanted starring jeet and srabanti. It was also dubbed into Polish for a release in Poland as a Poszukiwany (Seeking) thus becoming the first Telugu film released in poland. The film was also dubbed in Hindi as Cheetah – The Power of One and released through YouTube on 11 February 2013 by Goldmines Telefilms.
story line: To receive a sympathy vote, a crooked politician plans his own assassination attempt. Nandu is hired to merely wound the politician, but someone else pulls the trigger first. Framed for murder, Nandu flees and meets Pardhu, a man returning home after a long absence. The young man is killed in the police crossfire meant for Nandu. Nandu assumes Pardhu's identity and his new "cousin" has a romantic interest in him...
7. Bommarillu(imdb rating:8.0)
storyline:Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class man's daughter called Hasini. The film focuses on his realization that he has to stand on his own and come out of his father's protective shell- and try to succeed in love.
6.Arjun reddy(imdb rating: 8.0)
is a 2017 Indian telugu language coming of age black comedy drama film written and directed by sandeep reddy vanga, produced by Pranay Reddy Vanga for Bhadrakali Pictures.
The film stars vijay devarakonda, shalini pandey and rahul ramakrishna in the lead roles. The soundtrack is composed by radhan and background score is done by Harshavardan "Ramee" Rameshwar. The film was released on 25 August 2017.this film is a gamem changer in tollywood film industry after shiva movie.this was also became controversial because of its bold scenes and foul language used in movie.
story line:When his girlfriend is forced to marry another man, a troubled young surgeon begins to self-destruct.
story line may be short but the movie runtime is 3hours 2minutes after alot of cuts. the uncut movie's runtime is 3hours 40minutes which is not yet available but uncensored version is available at amazon primevideo. arjun reddy is a medico who so aggresive, he falls in love with shalini his junior, due to family issues shalini gets married to another guy, then he gets depressed and addicted to alcohol, drugs and what not. due to this he gets sued, fired from hospital and his doctor license gets suspended for 5years. and then how he meets shalini and what happened atlast should be watched in the movie.
5.Nuvvu naku nachav (imdb rating:8.1)
is a telugu romantic comedy film produced by sravanthi ravi kishore on sri sravanthi movies banner, directed by k.vijay bhaskar. Starring venkatesh, arti agarwal in the lead roles and music composed by koti. The film is recorded as Blockbuster at box-office.The movie was remade into Kannada as gowramma Starring upendra, ramya; into Tamil as vaseegar starring vijay and Bengali as majnu, directed by rajib, starring hiran and shrabanti. This movie was excellently directed by K.Vijaya Bhaskar which changed the fate of Telugu cinema and it stood highest grosser in venkatesh daggubati career. The Telugu version has garnered the state nandi award and akkineni award for best home viewing feature film.
story line:Venakteswarlu alias Venky (Venkatesh) comes to the house of Murthy (Prakash Raj) on recommendation of his father Sekhar (Chandra Mohan) who is a childhood friend of Murthy. Nandini alias Nandu (Arti Agarwal) is the daughter of Murthy. Venky enters that place when Nandu is about to get engaged to a software professional from the USA. Soon, Venky bonds with everyone from Murthy's family. Murthy helps Venky secure a job. The relationship between Venky and Nandu starts with hatred and turns into friendship. Nandu confesses her love for Venky to him. Venky, who does not want to spoil the relationship between their parents, decides to leave the house. But Murthy goes to the railway station and talks to Venky, which causes Venky to return. On his return, Nandu stops speaking to him. When Venky accompanies Nandu and Pinky (Nandu's cousin) to Nandu's friend Asha's wedding, sparks fly between them.Even though Venky also is in love with Nandu, he does not express it and pretends to not have ...
4. Bahubali2 :the conclusion (imdb rating: 8.1)
is a telugu indian historcial epic film directed by S.S. rajamouli The film was produced by tollywood studio arka media works. It is the continuation of bahubali:the beginning, taking place before and after the events of that film. It was originally made in telugu and tamil and dubbed into hindi, malayalam, german, french, japanese and englishThe film stars major actors from Tollywood industry with prabhas, anushka setty, rana dagubbati and sathyaraj in lead roles. Initially, both parts were produced on a joint budget of ₹250 crore (₹2.5 billion) but the budget of the second part was later increased.
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion was premiered at the british film institute, and is the inaugural feature film at the 39th moscow international film festival. The Conclusion was theatrically released over 9000 screens worldwide on 28 April 2017.Baahubali 2 was the first Telugu film to be released in 4K High Definition format. It is estimated that close to 200 screens were upgraded to 4K projectors before the release date of the movie.
Baahubali 2 released to positive reviews from critics and surpassed the 2014 Hindi film pk to briefly become the highest grossing indian film, collecting approximately ₹800 crore (US$120 million) worldwide within just six days of its release. It became the first ever Indian film to gross over 1000croresINR(usa$160 million) in all languages, doing so in just ten days .Within India, it set many films records, becoming the highest grossing film in hindi language as well as in its original Telugu and Tamil languages. Currently, it stands as the highest grossing film in india and the second highest grossing indian film worldwide. The film sold an estimated 105 million tickets (10.5 crore) during its box office run, one of the highest footfalls for any film in India .The film has garnered the telstra people's choice award at the 2017 indian film festival of melbourne.
story line:When Shiva, the son of Bahubali, learns about his heritage, he begins to look for answers. His story is juxtaposed with past events that unfolded in the Mahishmati Kingdom.
this movie deals with the flashback of mahendra bahuabli about his father amarendra bahubali, how gets in love with kuntala kingdom's king sister devasena, ballaladeva plays mind game and he become king of mahishmathi where bahubali becomes army general of mahishmati kingdom. how bahubali got killed and why kattappa killed bahubali?what happens to mahendra bahubali? watch the movie and get answers.
3. Aha na pellanta(imdb rating :8.1)
story line:Krishnamurthy (Rajendra Prasad) is the only son of industrialist Satyanarayana (Nutan Prasad). He wants his son to get married to a girl whom he has chosen because of his bitter experience with love marriage. Before selecting the bride, Satyanaryana has a big list of conditions which need to be fulfilled before he finalizes the bride for his son. But Krishnamurthy falls in love with Padma (Rajini). After lot of tussle, both father & son enter into an understanding that if Krishnamurthy convinces Padma's father Lakshmipathy (Kota Srinivas Rao) without using his father's name by 31st December, than Satyanarayana will allow his to get married to Padma. Otherwise, he has to obey his father and marry the girl chosen by him.
2. Sagara sangamam(imdb rating:8.1)
The film was dubbed into tamil and malayalam and released as salangai oli and Sagara Sangamam respectively. kamal hassan had lent his voice for all three versions. The film was screened at the international film festival of india in 1984, retrospective in 2011 and Celebrating Dance in Indian cinema section in 2014. The film was dubbed into Russian, and was screened at the moscow international film festival, asia pacific film festival, and AISFM film festival.
story line:Balakrishna (Kamal) is an economically poor multi-talented dancer, adept at Bharata Natyam, Kathakali, Kuchipudi etc.. and his dream is to perform at an All-India level competition. Madhavi (Jayaprada), a rich girl notices his talent and helps in getting him an opportunity to perform in an all-India competition. As he is all set to relaise his dream, his ageing mother passes away which denies the fulfillment of his dream. Slowly, he gets closer to Madhavi and the day he wishes to propose to her, he realises that she is already married and her husband left her. Now the husband wants to re-unite with her which forces him to sacrifice his love. Years pass by and he turns into a drunkard. Meanwhile Madhavi loses her husband. She comes to know of Balakrishna who the doctors say is going to die soon. So she takes care of his medical needs and requests Balakrishna to teach dance to her daughter. The movie ends with Madhavi's daughter becoming a great dancer and the death of Balakrishna .
1.Maya bazar(imdb rating:8.2)
is a 1957 Indian epic fantasy film directed by Kadiri venkata reddy. It was produced by B.nagi reddy and Aluri chakrapani under their banner, vijaya vahini studios. The film was shot in both telugu and tamil with the same title, but with a few differences in the cast. The story is an adaptation of the folk tale,sasirekha parinayam, which in turn is based on the epic mahabaratha. It revolves around the roles of Krishna(N.T.Ramarao) and ghatotkacha(S.V ranga rao), as they try to reunite arjuna's son abhimanyu (Telugu: Akkineni nageswar rao, Tamil: gemini ganesan) with his love, balarama's daughter (savitri). The Telugu version features gummadi venkateswar rao, mukkamula, ramana reddy, and relangi venkata ramaiah in supporting roles, with D.balasubramainam R.balasubramaniam, V. M. Ezhumalai, and K.A.Thangavelu playing those parts in the Tamil version.
The first mythological film produced by their studio, Mayabazar marked a milestone for Nagi Reddy and Chakrapani. In addition to the technical crew, 400 studio workers – including light men, carpenters, and painters – participated in the development of the film. Director Reddy was meticulous with the pre-production and casting phases, which took nearly a year to complete. Though Rama Rao was initially reluctant to play the lead role, his portrayal of Krishna received acclaim and yielded more offers to reprise the same role in several unrelated films. The soundtrack features twelve songs, with most of the musical score composed by ghantasala. Telugu lyrics were written by pingali nagendra rao and Tamil lyrics were written by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass. Four of the songs were composed by s.rajeshwar rao prior to his unexplained departure from the project. One of them was accompanied by the first illusion of moonlight in Indian cinema, shot by cinematographer Marcus bartley.
Mayabazar had a final film-reel length of 5,888 metres (19,318 ft). The film's Telugu version was released on 27 March 1957; the Tamil version was released two weeks later, on 12 April. Both were critically and commercially successful, with a theatrical run of 100 days in 24 theatres, and it became a silver jubilee film. Mayabazar was also dubbed into kannada. The film is considered a landmark in both Telugu and Tamil cinema, with praise for its cast and technical aspects, despite the limitations of technology at the time. Mayabazar was screened at the public gardens in hyderabad for its 50th anniversary on 7 April 2007. raavi kondala rao novelized the film's script based on Venkata Reddy's screenplay. A May 2013 CNN-NEWS poll selected Mayabazar as the greatest Indian film of all time.
Mayabazar became the first Telugu film to be digitally remastered and colourised, at an estimated cost of ₹75 million (valued at about US$1.7 million in 2010), after Hyderabad-based company Goldstone Technologies acquired world neagtive rights to fourteen films including that of Mayabazar in late November 2007. The updated version was released on 30 January 2010 in 45 theatres in andhra pradesh. It was a commercial success that generated mostly positive reviews, one critic only expressing a preference for the original.
story line:The story revolves around the characters in the Hindu Epic "The Mahabharata" and is set in Dwaraka, the hometown of Lord Krishna (NTR). Arjuna's son Abhimanyu(ANR) falls in love with Balarama's daughter Sasirekha(Savitri). When the Pandava's lose their kingdom in the infamous game of dice to the Kaurava's, Balarama promises his daughters hand to Duryodhana's son, there by breaking the promise made to Subhadra(Abhimanu's mother and Balarama's sister). The rest of the movie is how Bhima's son Ghatotkacha(SVR) helps the lovers unite with his magic.
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