Generation Wars

We had heard about World War and Cold War, It’s time for us to watch out for a new war “G-War 2010” (abbrevation for Generation WarJ) in Tollwood industry.Yes this year 2010 is about to witness movies from the stars belonging to same family competing with each other.

As we know that Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Venkatesh and Balakrishna were prominent stars in Tollywood till now or may be till yesterday.Now we have new set of stars in the form of their successors.Now that their Children are ready with their movies when Father’s are still in the race, we are about to see the release clashes of the movies from these two generations.


Beginning this year, we had the release Namo “Venkatesh”a, which did an average business, thanks to the Pongal season and the family image Venkatesh carries.Now we are going to witness one more movie from the same family.Leader, the launchpad of Daggubati Rana (He is named after his grandfather RamaNaidu -The first Letters of the name Ra and Na) is about to release on the eve of Shivarathri.Movie is directed by Sekhar Kammula.This hatrick director has a niche for himself in class audience.Movie focuses about the role of youth in Politics. Apt to current Political situation prevailing in our state added to the festival celebrations, this movie is no doubt the most awaiting one of the season.


But the challenge is RaNa is competing with his Uncle Nagarjuna whose movie ‘Kedi’ is releasing just a day later.Kedi is directed by debutant Kiran and has sexy Mamatha mohan das filling the other half.Movie deals about Car robberies,Gambling etc and it has many bollywood actors playing prominent roles. Said to be shot lavishly, Kedi too have good chances to win the BoxOffice collections.

Following it we have the release of Nagachaitanya’s second movie ‘Yem Maaya chesaave’.Being directed by acclaimed director Goutam menon and music provided by Osacr and Grammy award winner Maestro ARRahman.Audio is released recently and incidentally this is first release after Rahman receiving the Oscar.Story is about Assistant director falling in love.Kannada beauty Samantha is making her debut in telugu.Movie is shot in beautiful locations across USA,Kerala and Chennai.Crew is very confident about the result.Movie is simultaneously made in tamil as “Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya” with Simbhu and Trisha in lead .

Might be a mere Co-incidence, we had a release of yesteryears everlasting classic Mayabazaar this week.Movie has the senior Akkineni as loverboy Abhimanyu .It’s an altogether amazing experience watching the marvellous treasure in color. It’s a sweet tribute to wonderful stars.

Similarly we have three releases from Nandamuri family too covering all three generations.While Jr NTR’s Adhurs is declared the winner of the sankranthi battle followed by Mayabazar that has Viswavikyatha Natasaarvabhouma NTR too became a grand success. Then we have Balakrishna’s new movie Simha which initially is aimed for Pongal is pushed to summer. With the presence of hot Nayantara, Voluptuous Namitha and cute SnehaUllal providing the glamour quotient, direction being handled by Boyapati sreenu who delivered Bhadra and Tulasi, the movie has reasonable expectations considering the poor track record of balayya.
So it’s like stars of three generations have their releases simultaneously.It was never before in Tollywood history.

This is not the end of these wars.We had 4 releases this year from Mega family too spanning 2 generations.As Chiru said adieu to movies,Pawan kalyan is leading the team. His latest movie Puli might see the light this summer. Directed by SJ Surya and Music is by ARRahman once again, Movie shows the story of strict police officer.Nikisha patel is being introduced as the lead,while Shriya is doing an item.The super hit combination of hero-director duo has surely raised the expectations of Mega Fans.
We have two releases from Allu Arjun this year, One is Varudu directed by technically brilliant director Gunasekhar.The movie has 20 real time families as part of cast and the recently released posters raised many eyebrows.Second Movie of his is again a much awaited multistarrer Vedam.Movie is directed by Krishh who delivered critically acclaimed Gamyam.Anushka and Manchu Manoj are the other lead characters.
RamcharanTeja who delivered Stupendous hit ‘Magadheera’ last year will conclude the year with his movie “Orange” directed by Bomarillu Bhasker.Genelia is his co-star. Ramcharan acting as a Playboy in the movie has a chance to romance 3 more beauties.Rumours say that movie is roughly on the lines of Ranbir’s Bachna Ye hasino..

Was it not Lot of info and at the same time interesting.Does it remind you of an episode of Ramayana where Lava and Kusa dare to face their Dad Lord SreeRama.
Anyways these sort of clashes will definitely effect the collections and the period of Run of those movies if gap between their release is less.On the flipside, its an opportunity for each family to play multiple innings and definitely whoever wins will bring the success home.Lets see which Family scores more…

Wish you all happy Sivaraatri