There are lots of who say 2024 is certainly the yr of Telugu cinema contemplating the humongous success of Pushpa 2: The Rule and Kalki 2898 AD. Nonetheless, maverick filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has an attention-grabbing tackle the identical. In an interplay for his YouTube channel, RGV mentioned, “Actually, I don’t assume we should join the rise with a single yr. A movie’s course of takes 4-5 years from ideation, inception, and execution, proper? Additionally, we made round 150 Telugu movies, and just one or two makes the reduce. What concerning the others?”
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Apparently, Ram Gopal Varma additionally spoke concerning the true affect of the SS Rajamouli model of movies. “In truth, I’d go on to say that your complete Telugu cinema can not take the total credit score. It’s one man… SS Rajamouli. He might have been from Tamil cinema or Malayalam, and even Gujarati. It’s only a coincidence that he’s from Telugu cinema. Properly, he made Baahubali, and set an necessary benchmark,” mentioned RGV, including, “Baahubali wasn’t simply concerning the grandeur, but in addition about making filmmakers consider that budgets could possibly be recovered.”
The filmmaker additionally identified that there have been many movies that attempted to copy the success of Baahubali, however they hardly delivered comparable outcomes. “Baahubali additionally proved that folks wouldn’t flip as much as theatres if the big-ticket movies didn’t have nice manufacturing values. But it surely wasn’t sufficient if movies simply had massive visuals, nice vfx, lavish units, and so on… After Baahubali, many individuals tried to do comparable movies, nevertheless it ended up badly proper,” mentioned RGV, including that the Baahubali makers took a leap of religion as a result of Rajamouli proved his credentials with Magadheera.
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“Filmmakers began to consider that in the event that they spent sufficient cash on making a terrific film, they will get better the prices. That confidence was given by Rajamouli,” signed off Ram Gopal Varma.
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