After all it is to be a fitting tribute to one of the major motion picture centres of India, Telugucinema, which turned 75 this year.
But, the three-day extravaganza to be held at HI-TEC convention centre on January 26, 27 and 28 is out of bounds for the common cine goer who with their hard earned monies and immense passion fuelled its growth for a seven full decades.
Three top stars are said to be presenting a show on stunts in Telugufilms, including a "laser karate show" - whatever it is! There will also be dances and dramas by international artistes including old films screenings, and interactive seminars and felicitations to veteran film personalities.
Organised by the Film Analytical and Appreciation Society (FAAS), a wing of the city-based Integrated Telugu Cultural and Literary Association, it will be an occasion to recollect, analyse and review the progress and changes made by Telugucinema'stalkie era until today, said FAAS secretary K.Dharma Rao here on Monday.
A talk on `75 years of Telugucinema and its changing phases' by S.V.Ramarao, felicitations to actors, directors, producers who made a mark in the field with excellence awards will be the highlights of the programme.
The excellence awards were named after late actors, directors and producers who immortalised their contribution to the filed of cinema by their exceptional talent, he said.
As the world cinema already crossed its century, we thought it better to also give its backdrop only to make you understand that how much the world cinema influenced us to be what we are today.
One should be proud that the Telugu Talkie is as old as the Hindi and 25 years younger to world cinema.
In fact Telugucinema's Silver Jubilee and also its Golden Jubilee too were celebrated earlier, during which time lots of publications came into existence recalling what had happened during previous years in the cinema and how it progressed, where it failed and where it was set right.
Telugu is a Dravidian language, related to Kannada, Malayalam, and Tamil, all of which are national languages of India.
Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and a bit in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Chhattisgarh in India, but it is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates where there are large numbers of Telugu-speaking expatriates.
The dialects of Telugu identified by Ethnologue are Berad, Dasari, Dommara, Golari, Kamathi, Komtao, Konda-Reddi, Madiga Salewari, padmasali, Telangana, Telugu, Vadaga, Vadari, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, Rayalaseema, Nellore and Guntur.
Sometimes, the term Tollywood is also used to refer to the Bengali cinema industry as a mix of Tollygunge + Hollywood.
Between 100 and 150 Telugu Tollywood films are released each year.
This is because Tollywood is the second biggest movie market in India after Bollywood [[1], [2] and the work there is closely monitored by the big names in Hindi film industry who are on the lookout for storylines to remake and fresh talent be it actors or technicians.
Telugucinema has raised to a great heights in the comedy, for the past one decade and now it can claim No:1 position even in the world (ie hollywood, bollywood,kollywood considered).
Telugu Actor rajendra prasad dedicated his career entirely to comedy roles and gave a new definition to comedy.
Unfortunately our telugucinema field is passing through a difficult and bad situation or phase because we lost all character actors who noursihed our cinema field for decades and brought up to this level and who filled 9 rasas.
Unlike last year, Telugu audiences are yet to give their verdict in favour of a dubbed film.
N.T. Rama Rao, the famous Telugufilm actor popularly known as NTR, founded the TDP in 1982 and created a record of sorts by winning a landslide majority and forming the government in nine months.
Almost the entire Telugufilm industry as well as stars from other southern states and Bollywood were on hand late Sunday at the tribute to Chiranjeevi, who recently won the Padma Bhushan award, at the packed Gacchibowli stadium here.
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Telugucinema has no actresses from Andhra Pradesh to fill a top heroine's slot for a very long time, forcing the industry to import its heroines from other cities.
That is one of the important demands of Telugucinema at present," says Charmi, a Punjabi girl who has come to Hyderabad from Mumbai.
Another fact is that families in Andhra Pradesh are still largely traditional and do not like their daughters to be associated with the glamorous world of cinema.
Later during the ending ceremony organizers introduced Time Capsule box which will be opened in 2032 for 100 years of TeluguCinema, and asked all the industry people to put their messages/visions in that, which will be opened in 100 years function.
Today he is one actor who is in the top bracket in Telugucinema, to defy the viscid word called 'image'.
And the trend continued with block busters such as 'Preminchukundam raa', 'Premante dera', 'Raja' which is the biggest hit in 70 years of TeluguCinema and 'Seenu'.
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Medikonda Amarchand is producing a film with Udaykiran, Kiriti in the lead.
Tammareddy Bharadwaja released the audio of BANK (Telugu version), a multi-lingual movie, with Jackie Shroff, Raghuvaran, Abbas and Archana playing the lead roles.
elugu cinema celebrated its Vajrotsavalu -- 75 year anniversary -- in grand fashion, complete with glitz, glamour and some glitches too. Spread over almost three days at the Hyderabad Convention Centre, this mega extravaganza included numerous film personalities being felicitated amidst several cultural programmes.
The guests at the inaugural function included Governor of the State Shri Rameshwar Thakur, Shri Ambareesh and Shri T Subba Rami Reddy, while SP Balasubramaniam compered the opening programme.
This is the first time that all the stars in the Telugu industry came together -- multi-starrers are not a feature of the Telugu industry.
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