CHIRUTHA Celebrates 50 Days In Empty Theaters
CHIRUTHA is celebrating 50 Days supposedly in 168 DIRECT CENTERS. Just look at the picture below and decide yourself the REAL STATUS of the movie and its supposed collections of Rs. 25.49 Crores in 50 days.
YES. Pictures do really speak a thousand words. If the above scenario is the condition of the 50 DAYS CELEBRATIONS IN MAIN THEATER SANDHYA 70mm in HYDERABAD, then imagine the plight of the other CLAIMED 168 DIRECT CENTERS. But always remember that this is not something exclusive to CHIRUTHA… Another FLOP ATHIDHI is currently facing the same situation. Even the HIT YAMADONGA is facing the same situation as soon as it crossed 50 days mark.
SO MY DEAR TELUGU AUDIENCE & FANS , when I say that Chirutha, Athidhi or Yamadonga are claiming fake records, I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s sentiment. It is just that I am making a sincere effort to make the audience realize that 50, 100, 150, 175 DAYS RECORDS ARE EXTINCT in Cinema worldwide. There are no such PHONY celebrations in Hollywood or even in Bollywood. If Hollywood is the world leader, Bollywood is India’s leader both Box-Office & Content wise. There is nothing wrong to learn something from others. I hope we will have more REAL HITS.
Audience’s IGNORANCE is Exploitative Film-Maker’s STRENGTH. Prove to them that Telugu Movie Goers are not “BAVILO KAPPALU.”
November 20th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Hahaha… Gr8 work Kalcha.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:03 am
hi kalchaa,its been a longtime just to say hi to you,busy with other works and writings.it requires more time to stomach all those comments of yours..take care
bablu
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
“If Hollywood is the world leader, Bollywood is India’s leader both Box-Office & Content wise. There is nothing wrong to learn something from others. I hope we will have more REAL HITS.”
hi kalcha,
i have always found your reviews good, except for the comment quoted above.
i agree that bollywood is better than tollywood box-office wise but not content-wise.
they get box-office collections(HITS) because of the hype they create before releasing a movie & large distributions. release a movie across a large number of theatres & make it run for a week will easily recover their movie costs. example for hype : movie stars making guest appearances at popular TV shows like indian idol saregamapa …, SRK & deepika padukone watching T20 and another report claiming MS Dhoni having a crush on OSO’s lead lady. c’mon man! if dhoni really admitted so, then that so called recorded video/audio would have been a lot more popular than TEHELKA tapes.
coming to content, their critically acclaimed cum box-office hit movies, Example black, are blatant copies of hollywood movies. i watch a lot of hindi movies. trust me. some movies content wise are good (may/may not be a box-office hit), but not as good as tollywood’s ‘Aarya’, ‘NVNV’, ‘Bommarillu’, ‘Anand’, ‘Happy Days’.
their last really good movie content wise was ‘Dil chata hai’.
ACTING : even bollywood has inherited stardom. sons/relatives of previously popular filmstars. ’starlings’ i would like to call them. tollywood’s starlings have shown that they have talent. Ex. ‘Allu arjun’, ‘Mahesh babu’. can’t say bollywood starlings’ lack talent with big names like ‘Abishek’, ‘hrithik’, ‘Saif Ali khan’. but they don’t have a movie which they can claim to be their STANDARD for their acting like ‘Allu arjun’ for ‘Aarya’.
FRESH TALENT : quite a few guys come to my mind in bollywood like ’shiney ahuja’, the guys in jhonny gaddar, Manorama six feet under. from TOLLYWOOD there is ’siddharth’, the freshfaces from ‘happy days’,who have got super-duper hits.
MUSIC : music is one area where i felt TOLLYWOOD is quite behind BOLLYWOOD with exception of devisriprasad whose background score is as good as his frontline songs. BOLLYWOOD simply outnumbers TOLLYWOOD in terms number of good & hit songs/singers. just switch between telugu and hindi FM stations. u’ll notice the difference.
BOLLYWOOD is not an outright leader mate. they get away with having a much larger population of viewers.
but one thing TOLLYWOOD can learn from BOLLYWOOD. SRK shed his stardom to work with NOTBIGNAMED directors in ‘main hoon na’, ‘chak de’. its high time TOLLYWOOD’s HUGE stars stop hanging onto their stardom for success and start actually giving some performances and chances to first time directors.
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Dear Gower Ramesh,
As always, I am really thankful to guys/gals like U who can receive criticism or reality of our movies and stars in a constructive way…
Dear Anonymous (Bablu),
Yeah I remember U buddy. And I take Ur comments as constructive. Thanx again… Come visit us more often…
Dear Anonymous,
First of all, I am extremely happy that U have come up with some positive thoughts on our cinema. This positivity with a little pinch of salt from guys/gals like me can take us to greater heights. When I say U and I, I mean everyone one of us that love Telugu cinema. Opinions might differ between us, but at the end of the day we both want the best for and from TELUGU CINEMA. My effort through this site is to start some constructive thoughts which might at least act as catalysts to spruce up our cinema to compete with the best in the world.
It would have been much better if U post comments with at least Ur name. That’ll give us a friendly atmosphere when we discuss something. At this site U will always find healthy discussion as I do not encourage hatred among star fans. But my effort is to make average movie buff who doesn’t have exposure to the outside work except for an odd BHUTALAKOTA (UNDERWORLD in English) and the like.
Now, my thoughts on Ur thoughts… When U started with ARYA and ANAND… U went back to 2004. When U mentioned BOMMARILLU, U went back to 2006. And when U mentioned HAPPY DAYS, U came to the present. I didn’t get Ur NVNV. Altogether, 4-5 movies in 4 years. During these 4 years, at least 400 movies have released in Telugu. What about the rest of them?
Coming to Bollywood, I will differ with U again and say that it has far more variety than Tollywood as of now. Past glory doesn’t take us far. In just 2006 alone, Bollywood had…
1. RANG DE BASANTI (Blockbuster, slightly flawed but largely a great movie)
2. OMKARA (Flawless, Great adaptation of Othello. How many would acknowledge the inspiration. And it was not even set in the similar circumstances)
3. DON (Not as charming as the original DON… but highly intelligent than the original DON. Superb script. But also had many copied shots from an array of English movies like the chase sequence from Bourne Identity)
4. SHOOTOUT AT LOKHANDWALA (Based on a true story and is in fact very well made though not great.)
5. BLACK FRIDAY (In one word SUPERB. Though it had minor glitches, it was a great movie which was adapted from a book which was based on a true incident)
O.k. I will stop at that. 2006 had many more hits in Bollywood. And I have not even mentioned LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI, DHOOM 2 and KRRISH which were blockbusters. But personally I don’t fancy them. LRMB was not as sincere or as well scripted as Munnabhai MBBS.
Although our opinions differ, I think we both want quality in our Telugu cinema and that is a positive thing…
Hope to C U more often…
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:15 am
hi kalcha,
NVNV - nuvvu vastaanante neenu vadantaana.
did not feel like adding that to the list of movies mentioned because it was a remake of maine pyaar kiya. but sidhu’s performance and devi sri prasad’s music was loved by everyone including non-telugu audience here.
u were right about me mentioning a film from each year.
me just look at quality more than quantity. and every year TOLLYWOOD produces atleast 1 film that is simply unexpected and unparalleled. me donot want the other 400 films per year to be an average hit but just 5 extremely brilliant movies per year, which is possible considering the potential TOLLYWOOD has. only thing is that the focus has to shift from blockbuster movies to proper movies. especially the focus of BIG stars and starlings who can act.
me stay outside AP so me got to watch all those BOLLYWOOD movies u mentioned except for ‘black friday’. me considered all those but i felt they fell a touch short when compared to the TOLLYWOOD movies mentioned, except of course for ‘dil chahta hai’, ‘Munnabhai MBBS’.
me did not have a good opinion of TOLLYWOOD till me came to AP to do engineering and saw the movies mentioned and a few others.
me no fan of any star, new or old. me just a fan of a movie that is good, irrespective of star image.
November 23rd, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Dear ANUSH,
Great to hear from guys/gals like U man… Some great thoughts there…
Keep coming and Keep Rocking…
November 24th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Hey Kallu….. awesome job ra…. I am sure no one would have dare to show the empty theaters of an ‘upcoming’ starlet’s in their web site especially in TOLLYWOOD. I appreciate your sincere efforts to present an impartial picture of telugu cinema… keep going… call me some time