CINEME CINEMA
Anil Kumar Sunkara
1)VAJRAM
STRR:Nagarjuna and Roja
Dir:SV krishne reddy
Response:A movie that requires to be
forgotten soon.SVK fails in all aspects
as a director and music director.Viswanath
gives some good appearance in vain.
2)DHARMA CHAKRAM
STRR:Venkatesh,Ramya and Prema
Dir:Suresh krishna
Response:A different movie in the career of
Venkatesh which makes him a strong contender
for best actor award.Music by MM Sreelekha is
very good.The picturising of songs in Canada
was just amazing.Inspite of a weak story line
Sureshkrishna kept audience under his grip.
The role of Ramyakrishna is nominal.
3)PELLI SANDADI
STRR:Srikanth,ravali and Deepthi Batnagar
Dir:Raghavendrarao
Response:Once again Raghavendrarao proved
to be the best.Rated to gross above Allari
Priyudu.taking the story line of HAHK the
SouthIndian showman made it again keeping
the viewers spell bound.All songs are just
superb.
4)SAMPRADAYAM
STRR:Krishna,Indraja
Dir:SV Krishna Reddy
Response:A consolation for SVK after his
VAJRAM.The story line is good mixed with
some good dialogues.A perfect movie for
the Superstar who lives to his image.Songs
were OK.
5)MUMMY MEE AYANA VACHADU
STRR:RajendraPrasad,Indraja
Dir:K.Ajay kumar
Response:A Rajendra brand movie.Nothing special
but fine for timepass.
6)VAMSANIKOKKADU
STRR:Balkrishna,Ramyakrishna,Aamani
Dir:Sarath
Response:The first best grosser of 96.The story is
very good with equally good performances by BK and
Satyanarayana.Music is equally good .It is a good break
for Sarath who came in the line of top directors.For BK
it is really a good movie at good time.
7)SOGGADI PELLAM
STRR:Mohanbabu,Ramyakrishna
Dir:Muthyala Subbayya
Response:Another hit for the Collection King.
A sentiment movie in which Ramyakrishna too
acted.Mohanbabu proves to be a versatile actor
once again.
Kuppam Kumar
Hi there everyone. After a recent visit to India, I felt I shd respond to this
mail.
Here are the box office response to the following movies:
VAjram,Dharma Chakram flopped badly.
Pelli Sandhadi is a hit. No info on Soggaadi Pellam.
Sampradhayam is below average (The film is having these collections because of the title and krishna-sankranthi sentiment. ( He has given 3 hits in a row for 3 sankraanthis)
Vamsaani kokkadu is average
Anil Kumar Sunkara (asun...@cne.gmu.edu) wrote:
: HERE ARE ALL THE NEW MOVIES RELEASED IN 1996
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>Sampradhayam is below average (The film is having these collections
because of the title and krishna-sankranthi sentiment. ( He has given 3
hits in a row for 3 sankraanthis)
Number One, Amma Donga and what was the third one ?
>Vamsaani kokkadu is average
By Average, do you mean that the movie broke even ?
Like No profit and No Gain ?
>Kumar, Kuppam Sudheer
Bhimaraju Kalidindi
Chandrasekharam Puligandla
: >Vamsaani kokkadu is average
: >Kumar, Kuppam Sudheer
: Bhimaraju Kalidindi
The third movie was PACCHANI SAMSARAM (actually it was the first of the
series of three hits) which was released in the year 1993 (directed by
Thammareddy Bharadwaj) and in fact it was the movie which resurrected
Krishna's career after a string of flops.
Anil Kumar Sunkara
THIS MOVIE IS A DISASTROUS FLOP.IT NOT EVEN GROSSED 2.5 CRORES .
THE MOVIES OF CHIRANJEEVI THAT GROSSED THE 6 CRORE MARK ARE:
1)GANG LEADER(JUST BELOW 6 CRORES)
2)GHARANA MOGUDU
3)ALLUDA MAJAKA.
The buyers of Bigboss are totally washed out.As the result there are no
buyers for Riksavodu,which is released a week lately due to the lack of
buyers.The film was later distrubuted in many areas on percentage basis
and was released a week later than the given date.
ACCORDING TO CHIRANJEEVI'S FANS APART FROM NORMAL PEOPLE RIKSHAVODU IS
THE WORST MOVIE IN THE CAREER OF CHIRANJEEVI. In the collections point
of view.The first week collections were 78% in Apsara ,Vijayawada.this
shows the fate of the movie ,which was released in the days where there
is no other new movie.It is already taken away in all the A and B
centers,So the point of hit or average does not appear.It is a
disastrous flop in all A centers and B centers.It is not yet released in
C centers.
SOGGADI PELLAM:This is one more hit for Mohan babu,who has the credit of
having the movie that grossed the highest amount(PEDA RAYUDU) in the
history of Telugu film industry.It is the first hit for Muthyala
Subbayya after a long time.
DHARMA CHAKRAM:As expected this movie is a hit in A centers and having
mixed response in B centers.
Here is another interesting item regarding RIKSAVODU.It will never gross
3 crores in the coming 10 years.Leave the grossing of 4.2 crores in the
first week(Gharana mogudu ,the biggest hit of Chiranjeevi grossed
10crores in 100 days according to its producer.Can any one imagine the
worst movie of Chiranjeevi grossing 4.2crores in first week.If all the
theatres in AP where RIKSHAVODU is released are full it would have
grossed around 1.1crores)
VAMSANIKOKKADU:This movie is running house fulls in the sixth week in
all the theatres it is released.It is supposed to be the highest grosser
of all the movies so far released in 1996.
ORAY RIKSHA:This movie of R.Narayanamurthy is considered to be a hit in
Telengana areas where it is successfully running and an average movie in
other areas.This is directed by Dasari.
Thanks,
Anil.
Anil K. Sunkara
Kuppam Kumar
: In <4fbiks$6...@lsi.lsil.com> skumar@sk65 (Kuppam Kumar) writes:
: >
: >
: >Sampradhayam is below average (The film is having these collections
: because of the title and krishna-sankranthi sentiment. ( He has given 3
: hits in a row for 3 sankraanthis)
: Number One, Amma Donga and what was the third one ?
Pachchani Kaapuram, if I am not mistaken.
: >Vamsaani kokkadu is average
: By Average, do you mean that the movie broke even ?
: Like No profit and No Gain ?
No. The box-office ratings, which I read in Superhit are like this:\
1. SuperHit - 3:1 returns for investment
2. Hit - 2:1
3. Above average 1.75 : 1
4. Average 1.25:1
5. Below Average 1:1
6. Flop , loss obviously
7. Utter flop , toatl wash out.
Now again, this varies from hero to hero. Also, sometimes u anticipate to make
a 2:1 atleast on a big hero's movie. In that case if u make only say 1.25:1, u will still consider it a loss. This is because of the interest rates the producers pay to the financiers. This happens only for big heroes, as the buyers pay at the muhurtham of the movie. So the interest accrues right from the date of
commencement of production.
A recent example for this is Big Boss. Obviously it got its investment in the first 3 weeks (6 crores), but could not sustain, hence it was considered the
biggest flop for chiru in recent times as the returns were the lowest ever.
somefacts if are interested :
Rikshavodu is above average in 'A' centers and a hit in B & C centers. Its first week gross is 4.2 crores.
More news:
Sooggadi Pellam is a flop(the result was attributed to Muthyalaa subbaiah, as he was known to be a flop director).
: >Kumar, Kuppam Sudheer
: Bhimaraju Kalidindi
Kuppam Kumar
For your kind information,
I was in India and that too in vijayawada. during the first 20 days of
rikshavodu. My brother has the details of the collections for all the
theaters in the vij area. The housefull broke in Apsara on the 25th day or so
that too for the noon show, which clearly disproves the fact that it had 78%
in the first week in apsara. BTW, rikshavodu had 100% in the first week in both
apsara and vekateswara deluxe which is opposite to apsara(near neighbour).
I know that some people cannot believe some facts. I can give you the
theatre wise collection in just Nazam for rikshavodu for the first week. I got
it with me from India. It came in superhit. I hope I have not lost it. Nizam
is just 1/5 of total collections of rikshavodu. The first week gross in
Nizam is 80 lakhs. That blows of the pits 1.1 crores straight away.
The time when Gang leader, GM were released the prices were really low and also
the theater release range for chiru was not that high. It increased with
gm.
Peadraayudu, is the highest grosser in the telugu film industry (20 crores)
but with inflation it still did not beat GM.
I had this argument with some one earlier indicating that I can get the stats.
I do have them. Peadraayudu ran gfor 100 days in 37 theaters far less compared
to GM ( 65 theaters). the no. of theaters for 200 days are 2. Out of which
one of them is theater in Madanapalli or so and is owned by mohanbabu himself.
I doubt if pedaraayudu grossed more than chanti with inflation taken into
account. Chanti grossed over 9 crores and is next to gm at that time.
In vijayawada, the record is still jvas, 207 days followed by shiva 205 days
.
Ofcourse the movies compared are the recent ones. Old movies as many know
used to run for 52 weeks very easily.
If u want a theater listing for pedaraayudu, I can post it.
Alluda majaaka ran for 100 days in 27 theaters. Grossed 14 crores.
I still repeat that sooggadi pellam and dharmachakram are flops.
In fact, one other thing is that, during the gang leader season, every chiru
movie grossed more that 7 crores. Now a days, 6 crores is child's play for
chiru movies.
Bigboss, did have that initial. Without that much guarantee no one
buys a chiru movie. Inspite of being a miserable flop, it ran for 40 days in
vijayawada. That really shows the range of chiru's pull.
As for the statement that rikshavodu did not have buyers for the first week.
Check out superhit afetr the first week week of its release. It reported the
ap collections as 4.2 crores in over 250 theaters. In fact, it gave area wise
split like Nizam, Ceeded, andhra etc etc
AHad it not been sold, it wld not have made this kind of money.
BTW, these are some of the prices for chiru movies area wise,
Nizam 1.5 crores , chiru gets the rights and distributes thru geetha arts.
Ceeded 2 crores most of the parts take fixed hire, especially chittoor.
Krishna 30-40 lakhs
Guntur 50-60 lakhs
Vizag 25 lakhs
East & West 60 lakhs
Also there are some other areas including out of the state karnaataka.
It can easily get another 50 lakhs. Plus u have audio, video, then tamil,
hindi rights etc.
Overall in ap alone its sold for more than 6 crores. However, I did not list
all the areas.
I think I shd list the following fact published in Jyothi chitra.
This shd enlighten some of my friends about how our movie industry
has become a crores market than the B.C lakhs market.
Nag has signed a movie with Sushmita sen, music by Ar Rahman produced by
Kumjumon (producer of tamil gentleman and premikudu.
Cost of tye movie unknown. sushmita gets 1 crore. Nag gets his usual 75
lakhs.
This movie is already sold in tamil for 5 crores, 4 crores in telugu
and supposedly 1.5 crores in all the 6 major territories of the hindi area.
That makes a total of 18 crores. Hoe does this figure sound?
The movie is being made in tamil (Rakshakan). Rakshakudu in telugu (dubbed)
and may be rakshak (dubbed) in hindi.
One more interesting thing. Vajram is a big flop. But it still grossed 45
lakhs in the first week in Nizam alone.
BTW, Vamsanikokkadu is slated to just manage a 50 + run in Raj in vijayawada.
Does that tell something!!!!!
Kumar
Anil Kumar Sunkara (asun...@cne.gmu.edu) wrote:
: THIS IS IN REFERENCE TO THE NEWS ABOUT BIG BOSS.
: Anil K. Sunkara
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Chandrasekharam Puligandla
: For your kind information,