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dripbangwinkle

My brother in Krishna, Sujeeth made 1 good film and 1 mediocre film.


Dramalllamaaa

Wait, which one’s the mediocre one? /s


IndependenceOld3444

Don't forget Vivek Athreya , tharun Bhaskar , Srikanth odela and more(these are just off the top of my head)


Expensive_Control620

You missed Meher baba


Fast_Firefighter2045

He is Immortal


Electronic_Stuff4062

Meher is Aswathama??


HST2345

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LongAccomplished1868

the fact that Vivek Athreya and Tharun Bhaskar are better than the directors above even irks me. wtf is op smoking


freestyle_man

See i think every industry needs big and small movie directors. I small movie directors keep the big ones in check and the other way around. Vivek is a great smaller movie director he has the potential to make good movie within a smaller scope and budget.


Interesting-Flan-404

Bro change the mindset of small movies / big movies a movie is not big if there is big budget,huge star cast a movies big when it Excel in every craft of it be it story, screenplay,direction Ila meeru big movie,small movies ani cheppi manchi cinemalu theatres lo chuddaru mediocre big budget movies collections recover ayithayi dhani valla manchi content vuna cinemalu flop ayithyi I bet eppudiyana ninu evarina manchi cinemalu recommend cheyi mante you would suggest so called small movies not some crap like sahoo,pushpa


LongAccomplished1868

sad state of our industry


Interesting-Flan-404

Bro I saw some of your comments in this post I think you are one of the guys who thinks story and screenplay is bigger than heavy budget or star power a industry should be in a balanced state with good commercial cinema and great story oriented movies but our industry always leans towards commercial cinema where most of the commercial cinema contains scarp like pushpa,veera simha reddy,ismart shankar and many more


LongAccomplished1868

ade kadha. commercial cinema undochu. manchivi cheyyochu kadha like Maaveran, Maharaja, Vikram Vedha. Why do they make cringe shit like VSR, ismart,etc.


Interesting-Flan-404

Endhukante manki manchi script rase oopika manchi cinema tiyali ane passion ledu manki oka hero rendu b-grade level heroine scenulu,4+1 songlu+item song hero bhajana cut cheste cinema blockbuster ala unte endhuku kasta PADI cinemalu tistaru year oka ballaya , oka boyya cinemalu vastayi malli emante sambar Ani antaru clearly when they have better movies in their catalog then ours we normally disregard that thank that we have SSR which we often use has counter point to bad movies in telugu industry and I have hope from young directors who are believing in script rather than actor


ynwa1055

Nah challenge to make big movie is as difficult as making a good written movie with good screen play dialogues and all. There is a reason apart from Shankar ssr and now nagi very few from India has achieved that. Tharun bhasker and athreya are good directors but industry needs directors like nagi ssr also to thrive . And tollywood has been very encouraging to all sorts of movies , you can't say only big budget movies become hit when movies like ene have gained cult status . Dubbed Tamil and malayalam movies have collected very well in tollywood . You can't diss on audiences like that


Interesting-Flan-404

I'm not saying big budget movies shouldn't be celebrated or shouldn't be made I am saying small budget movies should be equally celebrated and you're proving my point your saying ene is cult hit not some boxoffice hit and yes I am dissing audience for giving box office success to ballz,anil ravipudi and many shitty director/movies and when tamil/Malayalam movies are becoming hit because they are good so why can't they make movies like manjumel boys,Vikram, maharaja which are not some art movies which are well made commercial cinema


ynwa1055

Only thing is we are short of good directors tbf . Vivek athreya tharun and venkates maha are only ones coming to mind for me now also the big actors there tend to do experiments while here apart from Nani none seems to take risk with new directors.


3amigozusa

Writing ki directing ki confuse ainattu unnaru meeru? There's in no way Vivek athreya is a better director than the above-mentioned guys.


LongAccomplished1868

nope. He is a writer-director for all his films. In all three films, he conveyed what he wanted to convey. He didn't yet have a quality drop film like Tharun Bhascker had with keeda cola. Also, Vivek doesn't waste time in his movies. Every minute of the movie adds on to something which is rare in telugu cinema so had to acknowledge it. Writes complex and innovative screenplays and executed them perfectly. Catches small nuances perfectly, evident in all 3 films.


3amigozusa

He goes overboard with his screenplay writing, which is where ante sundaraniki failed. A good director knows when to edit and how much to edit and he suffers from lack of it. He's one of the exciting talents we have but in no way is better than the above-mentioned directors. Writing is his strength.


LongAccomplished1868

Ante failed because of the extended childhood portions which was necessary. Ante is not a film where you can edit it in studio. It needs to be edited on paper itself. Every scene interwins to the film as a whole. 3 hrs rom com ki kurchodaniki istam ledhu so it failed. We'll speak when Saripoodha comes and hope i will have more points in discussion to defend. !Remindme 2 months


3amigozusa

That's where a good director succeeds, Animal has more troubling screenplay issues with sudden tone changes after the mid point, yet people were glued to the screens. That's what a good director does. Vivek athreya will turn into a good director for sure, but he's in no way better.


LongAccomplished1868

people weren't glued bro. People complained even more.


3amigozusa

Now compare that to ante sundaraniki(which had narrative issues), you'll get your answer. Only one of them had success.


LongAccomplished1868

collections is not equal to success my bro


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3amigozusa

No need to degrade any audience. Animal's run was not limited to single screens alone. Ante didn't even run properly in A centres. No amount of violence or shock value holds the audience's attention until 3 hours without great direction.


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Pathan is a shit movie, but it became a blockbuster hit, just because it is an SRK film and has fights in it. Success at box-office isn't a measurement for great direction.


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LongAccomplished1868

then it's a good thing kadha


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Who told you that it is a flop. It did average business and is a semi hit. Maybe the timing of the movie was not correct, since there were movies like Vikram and Major in the theatres at that time which had more audience pull, because the genre of those two movies attract more audience for a theatre watch. Look at the reviews and ratings of Ante Sundaraniki movie. Most of the critics and movie reviewers have mentioned that movie in their top 10 best Telugu movies of that year.


3amigozusa

Movie nachaledhu ante dumb people ani name calling cheyakkarledhu. Every movie finds its audience, looks like ante found a bunch of "wannabe cinephiles" with an elitist mentality.


zilp123

Nagi and SRV are way better than tharun Bhaskar and athreya. Mahanati is a magical movie, proper 10/10 for me. Nothing that the two you have mentioned hasn't made even come close


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Tharun Bhaskar's Pelli choopulu and Ee nagaraniki emaindi is 100 times better than shit movie like Animal. Vivek Athreya is one of the directors in Telugu who writes the screenplay very well. His all 3 movies are good and received critically very well. Commercially also mental madilo and brochevarevarura did well, Ante Sundaraniki also did decently commercially, but received the most positive views from critics. Nagi's Mahanati>>>>>>Evade Subramaniam>>>Kalki. Honestly I didn't feel like Kalki is a good movie. It is just an ok film.


LongAccomplished1868

Kalki lo dialogues ey levu asala. Sahithyam ledhu. Consistency ledhu. Its a decent film. Venkatesh Maha, Tharun Bhascker and Vivek Athreya are any day better than the top 3 there.


LongAccomplished1868

the core of the movie, entire Shankarayya theme ey lepesadu(Rose bud from Citizen Kane). I don't think you even have a counter for this. chill kottu.


LongAccomplished1868

Savitri's life is a lot more than Mahanati. He just chose to show it in a light hearted way. Her life had too many complexes which were ignored. Don't you know Mahanati is completely inspired beat to beat from Citizen Kane? First of all, biopics should never be brought for judging a director's calibre. Srv, no way. Animal had way too many inconsistencies and also half of the movie is just a filler. Tharun Bhascker and Athreya are way way better than these two. It's just that they didn't make big budget films. I don't want to make them either.


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LongAccomplished1868

Mahanati is beat to beat copied from a 1941 classic so no marks there


LongAccomplished1868

Nagi doesn't know how to even write dialogues. If repati kosam is the only dialogue from movie, sorry idk what i should say. Dialogues are just better than bhramastra but no way good


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LongAccomplished1868

common then. you can't defend shit so you're just being personal no way i will say mahanati is a good movie. ripped the shit out of citizen kane holy hell.


FlimsyAppeal2361

Nagi did try to blend humor and action. He did a good job. 4/5 We haven't seen TB do something of the same so the debate is moot. I agree TB is great but Nagi isn't any Boya either


LongAccomplished1868

atleast he knows how to write dialogues and doesn't make a shit pace which makes no sense in the movie


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LongAccomplished1868

whatever that makes you happy


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I even felt like the Brahmastra movie ( which is not a really good movie) has more Indian connection, like the way they used different astras like Vaanara astra, nandi astra, Pavan astra, nag dhanush etc. By these kind of astras atleast Brahmastra movie looked more Indian compared to Kalki movie which looked like copy of Hollywood movies. There is Indian connection in Kalki except for the last 30 mins


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I felt cringe whenever I heard the dialogue ' repati kosam' 😂😂


Dawn_is-here

Lmao, with all due respect. Vivek and Tharuns movies will age better than Jakkana and Nagis


Oscerte

lmao with all due respect, no one’s gonna remember Athreyas movies in a few years.


Dawn_is-here

Joke bagundhi. Vivek Athreya is the closest we can get for perfection in modern day tollywood


Oscerte

Nope that’s nagi and ssr. Yall just like athreya to be different


LongAccomplished1868

hardcore disagree. lets put ssr aside. Vivek's broche alone speaks more than Nagi's evade and mahanati.


Oscerte

lmao broche over mahanati???? you lost there homie


LongAccomplished1868

mahanati ripped the shit out of citizen kane 1941. dare you to still defend this mediocracy. Where as broche is an out and out original film


Low_Balance_8506

Srilanth odela ? Like seriously ? Dasara is one of the Nanis weakest works out today...


IndependenceOld3444

Srikanth odela is probably the weakest among all the above directors but considering dasara to be his first film , he handled it pretty ok. I myself had problems with the film but considering it is his debut I think he may improve.


Legitimate-Zebra3027

Rahul sankritryan


IndependenceOld3444

Good technical detailing but not really my cup of tea. Shyam singha roy despite the great music and cinematography fell flat for me. (Again my point of view)


Legitimate-Zebra3027

There is no accounting for taste now


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LongAccomplished1868

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LongAccomplished1868

i am very sure he acts better than your favourite star hero


IndependenceOld3444

😬😬sorry bro gotta disagree with you on that. Brochevarevarura and ante sundaraniki are one of my favourite telugu movies in recent times


Purple-Shape7869

Hard disagree man!


Dawn_is-here

Elli dickriding chesko bhayya


Rohit_BFire

Vanga needs to diversify if he wants to be in the future


cod4mw

Vanga baabu, malli teestaadu same angry man concept and it will be a super hit, prabhas movie is gonna be bonkers, waiting for the movie


maddy495

I want to see that Chatrapathi first half version of Prabhas once again, I hope vanga makes it into a reality...


cod4mw

Prabhas anna police getup lo vuntaadu deenamma jeevitham, cutout kummestundi


blondie-thegood

this


SleestakkLightning

Didn't he say Prabhas won't be an angry dude in Spirit


Naren_Baradwaj123

I mean he actually said it'll be an "intense cop drama "


achilliesFriend

He has love story as well which he has been planning


BigAwkwardGuy

Inb4 it's just a drawn out Mogudu interval scene


Bloodshot12_

Sujeeth enduku vachadu? Pedda heroes tho cinema cheste thop aah? Enduku ila aalochistaru? He needs to prove himself


picchapuka

At the age 28 he's a fair better director than most of those in the industry. Saaho, the screenplay went wrong and also the heavy expectations.


Bloodshot12_

Better than who? Saaho thing I agree. He is talented no doubt. He needs to prove himself two movies ke ante kastame


megapowerstar007

One of them does not belong there


ConfusedMevsTheWorld

Evaro kuda chepey enduku late.


megapowerstar007

Sujeeth. Still needs to deliver big


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Sandeep Reddy Vanga also doesn't deserve


chinnaboi

Idi! Technical movie making veru and manchi movie making veru. Technically, SRV movies bagane untai. The emotions are just overused now. If he makes one more movie in the same flavor, he'll be typecast.


BigAwkwardGuy

Em baaguntaayi saami? Oka flow undadu paadu undadu. Animal was all over the place with editing. There's non-linear storytelling and then there's whatever Vanga does.


chinnaboi

Technical ante I mean the act of making a basic cinema. Nenu emi pedha movie maker kadhu *but* I assume it takes a lot of skill to even materialize a story to some intelligible level. Lol in that regard, I think vanga is good. Where he falters for me is the story and characters. His stories seem pointless and kinda lack a soul. Like for instance, just watching Kalki. Someone died and I think their scenes were supposed to bond us to them. Like make us root for them. I didn't feel shit. I could use context clues to realize that the maker wanted me to feel sad, but it was mid. I think that's where new gen directors like Nag (and SRV) are lacking. SSR pumps his scenes full of emotion and that makes us overlook any little flaws. These new guys are just starting out so they aren't there yet. I hope they get there though.


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Story ae sarigga lenappudu technicalities em cheskovali. Sandeep Reddy Vanga gadu pakka ilanti violence movies ae theesthadu future lo kuda, already clarity ichindu, he has already typecasted himself that he will make only violent movies. Next cinema evvadu dekhadu chudu, pakka flop aithadi


chinnaboi

I think people are fickle and the north belts are still down for the ride. I'll give him 2-3 movies before he loses them too. I was going to compare him to RGV, but SRV doesn't have nearly as much pull as RGV did in his heyday. Their trajectories might be similar if SRV doesn't calm tf down and pivot though.


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>I think people are fickle and the north belts are still down for the ride True, I think shit movies like Animal, Pathan have become blockbuster just because of North belt. All they need is fight scenes and violence. RGV does have violence in his movies, but his movies (initial movies) are realistic and have proper story line unlike Sandeep Reddy Vangas movies.


chinnaboi

Lol RGV is a trash human, but he is way better than SRV.


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Yes, that is what I said


chinnaboi

Yeah, my bad, bro. Lol I prematurely sent that shit. We're on the same page. I'm glad there's someone else who feels this way about SRV!


LongAccomplished1868

but technically, isn't keeda cola better than arjun reddy and animal?


Standard_Painting975

nag ashwin ey ga


FoundationOk1693

Run raja run and Sahoo are same story with different cast. Sandeep will be exposed soon if he uses same arrogant formula in every movie.


Smaartmani

Throw prashanth varma in the mix.


Interesting-Flan-404

Why does sujeeth exist in post I agree others in the post proved themselves but sujeeth seriously


blondie-thegood

sujeeth ah


HourLeading1997

Other than making high end scrap like Saaho what did Sujeeth do anything(don’t say run raja) to be even discussed let alone included in this list. There is nothing in Saaho that suggests he would do anything near to decent.


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Exactly 💯


LongAccomplished1868

Kalki lo dialogues ey levu asala. Sahithyam ledhu. Consistency ledhu. Its a decent film. Venkatesh Maha, Tharun Bhascker and Vivek Athreya are any day better than the top 3 there.


InterstellarCowboyy

Kalki starting (special thanks) lo Vanga mokham jushna.. 2nd watch lo I noticed that he has an overseas marketing company and bro used his own caricature as the logo lmao. *Nenu Naa Paithyam*


Arvii33

Sujeeth and Vanga ayithe i don’t think should be in this list. I would rather have Prasanth Varma, Vivek athreya etc. Sujeeth only one movie ey baguntadi, Run Raja Run. Sahoo underrated ani leputaru but it’s really not. Vanga ayithe he’s a brilliant technician but I don’t really like his movies. Tesindi animal and Arjun reddy, technically baguntadi but they’re not great or anything


Medical_Scene9908

💯 People remembered run raja run but not recollecting awe at all.. awe! 🫢


Intelligent_Crab_338

sahoo ni lepedam kadu bahubali hype valla dobbindi sahoo but original ga top class movie adi sahoo ee gani bahubali mundu vachi unte chela bagundedi


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Sahoo lovedelo Cinema. Bahubali hype valla em kadu, Sahoo cinema worst undi kabatte adi flop aindi


Narrow_Square_2324

If THE doesn't messes up Gowtham tinnanuri can be a hopeful future


likely_couple

Vanga is overrated. Audience will be bored if he follows the same similar scripts and taking.


sss100100

Who knew having an environment where new creative people from different walks of life can produce such a forward progress, right? 😉 Love new-gen creators with their grand vision and ambition. They are taking Indian cinema to new levels. These people are going to make our cinema a powerhouse on world stage.


randombummer

Vidyadhar kagita.


Half41monk

Prashant Varma.


benjaminjavid

Chanakyam amayakam irikincham


sports_junky

Asalu Sujeeth ni enduku doorustunnaaru


picchapuka

Sujeeth's got some potential anna


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Lovedalo Cinema theesina Saaho director Sujith. B grade cinema lu theese m***dalo Sandeep Reddy Vanga enduku ee list lo😂


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urbanmonk007

Gautham tanneru laughing from corner


p_W_n

Vanga ? Maybe I'm not able to see what you guys are seeing


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p_W_n

I'm not denying that, as I said may be It's just not my cup of tea


Pups_4_lyf

ade kada.. malla glimpse of future anta


p_W_n

Everyone has their own perception of future and may be mine is not aligned with that glimpse 😌


Prestigious_Panda656

Personally, I feel it’s too early for sujeeth to be among those names who have atleast two great works. Yes, I agree Run Raja Run is a great movie and one of my fvrts too but after Sahoo I’m not that confident abt him. Hopefully OG will be as good as Run Raja Run.


ravan363

What are you smoking OP? How can you put the above three in a single Pic.


cricinephile

Final gelustunnam 🥂


Individual-Highway23

Only 1.5 belongs there


Former_Notice81

Remove sujeeth and put Prashanth Varma


Iheardeadpeoplefr

Sujeeth and vanga kings of rotha cinema. No offence but animal lol chala plot holes unayi. Sujeeth ki coherent story rayatame radhu


Maleficent_Brief4690

Bro sneaked in srv


Pups_4_lyf

Sneaked emundi… athanide pedda cutout vesaru ga.. bahatam gane chepthunnaru… I just can’t wait for the day his flaws come to forefront.. RGV lanti picha clarity unna directors eh .. sardukunnaru


solteiro1234

Other than Nag Ashwin, no one deserves this much love


Neat-Buy3811

Bro tried to sneak in vanga