April Goes Sour For Tollywood?

Have the tables turned for Tollywood?

After a decent first quarter, the second quarter has begun on a rather sour note for the Telugu industry. Most of the fresh releases have tanked at the box office, and even the likes of Siddhu Jonnalagadda couldn’t save Tollywood from embarrassment.

Siddhu, who had raised expectations with the surprise blockbuster Tillu Square, decided to try his luck with Jack, a spy comedy co-starring Vaishnavi Chaitanya Vaishnavi Chaitanya is a famous Indian TV and movi >> Read More... , Prakash Raj Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Praka >> Read More... etc. Directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar Bhaskar is well-known for his movie Bommarillu. Th >> Read More... , the movie was made on a decent budget of 35 crores. However, the opening weekend has been far from impressive, as the movie earned barely 5.55 crores, in far contrast to Siddu’s Tillu Square, which had an opening weekend collection of a whopping 33.9 crores in the opening weekend.

Things didn’t look great for Pradeep Machiraju He was born on 23rd of October in Amalapuram, east >> Read More... either. The actor hoped to impress the audiences with Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi, which was directed by the director duo of Nitin-Bharath. The movie was made on a low budget of 8 crores. Yet, it failed to even breach the 1 crore mark, with an opening weekend collection of just 83 lakh rupees.