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Controversy · 18 Sept 2026
A French director watched Agnyaathavaasi in Paris. Then the copyright fight got worse
T-Series sent a rights notice before release. After watching the film, Largo Winch director Jérôme Salle publicly alleged copying and said a reported T-Series settlement did not resolve his own objection.
Careers · 18 Sept 2026
At 61, Balakrishna got the biggest opening of his career by going even bigger
Akhanda was Balakrishna and Boyapati Srinu's third mass collaboration. Instead of exhausting the formula, it produced a career-high opening and turned their pairing into something sequel-sized.
Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Before Pushpa went national, Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo showed how big Allu Arjun already was
Allu Arjun returned after roughly two years into a crowded Sankranti and produced the biggest hit of his career to that point. Pushpa expanded the map later; this was the commercial base it expanded from.
Controversy · 18 Sept 2026
Arjun Reddy was a gamble before it became a controversy machine
Before the remakes and arguments, Sandeep Reddy Vanga spent years trying to get the film made. Its success changed his trajectory and Vijay Deverakonda’s — while creating a debate that never really left.
Careers · 18 Sept 2026
Arundhati gave Telugu cinema a ₹70 crore answer to a simple question: can a woman carry the spectacle?
Anushka Shetty’s 2009 fantasy-horror did not merely succeed without a male superstar at the center. Its reported ₹70 crore worldwide run became a women-led Telugu benchmark that lasted for roughly sixteen years.Controversy · 18 Sept 2026
Ninety minutes of Attarintiki Daredi leaked before release. Then it became 2013’s biggest Telugu movie
A huge pre-release leak triggered a cyber-crime complaint, arrests and an accelerated theatrical launch. The film still became the year’s dominant Telugu release — without making the piracy harmless.
Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Dasara tested a new ceiling for Nani — and the box office moved it
Nani paired the biggest production of his career to that point with a first-time director. Dasara crossed a producer-announced ₹100 crore milestone and Genesis records ₹118.50 crore worldwide gross from Sacnilk for the theatrical run.
Business · 18 Sept 2026
Dookudu’s $1 million U.S. milestone was really a story about the market Telugu migrants built
Dookudu landed on American box-office radar in 2011, but the milestone had been years in the making: migration, better distribution, online ticketing and theatres learning that the Telugu diaspora was a real territory.
Craft · 18 Sept 2026
How do you direct a hero who is not on set? Rajamouli’s Eega problem
Eega’s premise was simple: a murdered man returns as a fly. Making the fly behave like a lead actor forced Rajamouli and his crew to rebuild how they shot, edited and reacted to a protagonist that did not physically exist.
Craft · 18 Sept 2026
Fidaa travelled because Sekhar Kammula refused to sand Telangana out of the romance
Bhanumathi’s home, dialect and refusal to migrate are not local colour around Fidaa’s love story. They are the reason the love story has a conflict at all.
Careers · 18 Sept 2026
Nagarjuna was unhappy with his own movies. So he chased Mani Ratnam on his morning walks
Before Geethanjali made him a romantic icon, Nagarjuna says he spent about a month persuading Mani Ratnam to work with him. The career turn began with dissatisfaction, not a box-office plan.
Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Hanu-Man cost ₹40 crore before marketing. Then the underdog crossed ₹300 crore
Prasanth Varma tried to make superhero-scale imagery without superhero-studio money. In a crowded Sankranti, the film turned that constraint into one of Telugu cinema’s most extreme modern box-office multipliers.
Careers · 18 Sept 2026
Krack was a comeback for Ravi Teja — and a test for theatres too
Ravi Teja arrived after a string of underperformers; theatres were operating under pandemic restrictions. Krack broke both kinds of pessimism and became one of early 2021’s theatrical confidence boosters.Controversy · 18 Sept 2026
Liger flopped. Then the fight over who should absorb the losses got uglier
After Liger collapsed theatrically, distributor Warangal Srinu reported a 65% investment loss. Compensation talks turned into protest plans, accusations, a police complaint and Puri Jagannadh’s request for protection.
Careers · 18 Sept 2026
Keerthy Suresh was not the obvious Savitri. That is what makes Mahanati’s casting story matter
Nag Ashwin later said Keerthy Suresh was not initially on anyone’s list for Savitri. The unconventional choice ended with the National Film Award for Best Actress.Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Pokiri didn’t make Mahesh Babu famous. It changed the size of his stardom
Mahesh Babu already had hits. Pokiri turned his cool restraint into a new mass-hero template, broke Telugu box-office records and created expectations he later said left him unsure what to do next.
Craft · 18 Sept 2026
Rangasthalam’s realism was engineered: how Sukumar rebuilt Ram Charan, sound and the village together
A partially deaf hero, a reconstructed 1980s village, Godavari voices and a camera designed to stay inside the action all served the same plan: make a giant star look like he belonged to one specific place.
Business · 18 Sept 2026
RRR had two launches: the box office and the West
RRR opened at blockbuster scale in India, then found an unexpectedly large second audience through international word of mouth, streaming and an awards run that ended with an Oscar for Naatu Naatu.
Controversy · 18 Sept 2026
The reported ₹2 crore ad Sai Pallavi said no to
Sai Pallavi confirmed she rejected a fairness-product endorsement and explained the decision through her own experience with colour insecurity. The reported ₹2 crore price tag made the refusal headline news.
Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Sankranthiki Vasthunam walked into an action-heavy Sankranti and the family comedy won
Venkatesh and Anil Ravipudi returned to a familiar entertainment register after Saindhav’s failure. The result was a genre outlier that beat louder Sankranti rivals and produced a ₹255.48 crore Genesis trade claim.
Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Uppena put three debuts at the center of a film — and trade reporting put it at ₹100 crore
A first-time director and two young leads entered a recovering theatrical market with experienced producers around them. The result became one of 2021’s clearest arguments that a star name was not required for blockbuster-scale Telugu demand.
Business · 18 Sept 2026
Vyjayanthi Movies turned 50 by making its biggest bet look nothing like its first generation
From star spectacles to Yevade Subramanyam, Mahanati and finally Kalki 2898 AD, the Dutt family’s banner survived by letting a second generation alter the scale and kind of risks it was willing to take.Business · 18 Sept 2026
Before ‘pan-India’ became a label, Baahubali 2 made the market behave that way
Rajamouli’s sequel did more than post enormous grosses: it showed that a Telugu-led film could become a top-tier Hindi-market and national theatrical event without being remade first.
Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Karthikeya 2 started with 50 Hindi shows. Then the audience kept asking for more
Nikhil Siddhartha said the Hindi release expanded from about 50 shows to roughly 4,000. The box-office story was not a giant launch — it was demand forcing the release wider.
Careers · 18 Sept 2026
Chiranjeevi had been gone for a decade. Khaidi No. 150 tested whether the crowd was still his
Chiranjeevi later admitted he wondered whether fans would still be waiting after his political stint. His 150th film turned that uncertainty into one of Telugu cinema’s biggest comeback events.
Craft · 18 Sept 2026
They kept calling Pelli Choopulu a ‘small film.’ Then it rewrote Tharun Bhascker’s life
Tharun Bhascker said the industry’s treatment of his sub-₹1 crore debut nearly destroyed his confidence. The film ran 50 days, travelled in the US and turned the insult ‘small film’ into a commercial argument.
Box office · 18 Sept 2026
Pushpa 2’s opening day came with two numbers — and both belong in the record
The film team said ₹294 crore worldwide; Sacnilk reported about ₹279 crore worldwide gross. The disagreement is exactly why Chitram should store box office as sourced claims, not one magic number.
Careers · 18 Sept 2026
Mrunal Thakur thought Sita Ramam would be her first and last Telugu film
Language difficulty nearly pushed Mrunal Thakur away from Telugu cinema. Instead, Sita Ramam gave her the repeat audience she said she had been missing — and led to more Telugu work.Careers · 18 Sept 2026
Jr NTR calls Temper the turning point. The films after it show what he meant
Temper gave Jr NTR a needed commercial break in 2015. More importantly, he later identified it himself as the point where his relationship with roles and career choices changed.
Buzz · 12 Sept 2026
Nani promises an adrenaline rush as The Paradise nears September 24
At the film's press meet, Nani and director Srikanth Odela framed The Paradise as a high-energy action drama driven by a mother-son story.
Music · 12 Sept 2026
Raj Tarun's Nee Parichayam crosses 10 million views
The first song from Tortoise has crossed the eight-figure mark, giving the Raj Tarun thriller an early burst of musical momentum.
Industry · 12 Sept 2026
Manchu Manoj's governor meeting sparks talk of film and sports ventures
Manchu Manoj and Mounika Bhuma Manchu met Himachal Pradesh Governor Kavinder Gupta, with cinema, sports and infrastructure reportedly on the agenda.
Release · 12 Sept 2026
Trivikram brings Hanuman Ansh to Telugu theatres on September 18
Fortune Four Cinemas will release the Neem Karoli Baba biographical drama in Telugu under Trivikram's presentation banner.
People · 12 Sept 2026
Vijay Deverakonda launches skincare label Unhype after a nine-month trial
The actor says he joined the brand as a co-founder and co-builder after using its products during development.
Music · 12 Sept 2026
Priyadarshi and Nagadurga step into the Srilatha melody from Idupu Kayitham
Suresh Bobbili composed the new song for the Telangana family drama, which the makers are targeting for a December theatrical release.
Streaming · 12 Sept 2026
Renu Desai returns to the screen in Kashi Majili, streaming September 13
The actor leads and wrote the story, screenplay and dialogue for the ETV Win web episode directed by Yamuna Kishore.
Buzz · 12 Sept 2026
Epic: First Semester team teases a sequel after opening-night response
Producer Suryadevara Naga Vamsi says a follow-up is being planned for the Anand Deverakonda and Vaishnavi Chaitanya romance.
Craft · 12 Sept 2026
New book dissects the architecture behind Sukumar's screenplays
Dr Praveen Yajjala's Screenplay Master - Sukumar studies the director's character psychology, structure and rooted storytelling.
Teaser · 12 Sept 2026
Ranabaali sets October 16 as Vijay Deverakonda-Rashmika period epic builds buzz
Rahul Sankrityan's film is set between 1854 and 1878, with its first teaser campaign leading into a Dasara theatrical release.
Release · 9 Sept 2026
Mahendragiri Varahi set for a September 11 theatrical release
Sumanth's spiritual mystery thriller is due in theatres September 11, with Aishwarya Rajesh in a lead role and Siddhu Jonnalagadda making a special appearance.
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Release date · 1 Sept 2026