All Time Top 10 Grossing Telugu (Tollywood) Movies
Ram Charan’s 2nd Movie,Directed By SS Rajamouli was Made with a budget of 39cr,Magadheera was one of the fastest grosser to reach 51 cr in 3 weeks with flat rates,Magadheera final share world wide was 78 cr,but it later released in Tamil where it grossed a whooping 7cr and in Malayalam grossing 3cr taking its total worlwide share of 89cr, The movie released in 2009 and still its records are untouched in many aspects. Magadheera ran in 50 days in 302 centers and completed 1000 days recently in one theatre.
GabbarSingh made with a budged of 28 cr ,released on May 11th and created a box office Tsunami at overseas and it swiped of all opening records in 81 years of Telugu Cinema at AP,in three weeks the movie grossed 63.40cr without flat rates,It is also treated as Pawan Kalyan’s Comeback after many average and Below average flicks post Kushi/Jalsa.The movie is still going super strong every where especially in Overseas where its Doing too good business comparative Bollywood star movies and it may occupy no 1 position in this list soon.
Super Star Mahesh Babu’s Dookudu is a pride of Telugu Cinema being one of the first movie to gross 1 Million $ at overseas that to by a weekend.Made with a budget of 38 cr,Directed by Sreenu Vyatila,and the best marketing Strategy by 14reels,the movie grossed 54cr Share worldwide by 50 days including 11cr in Overseas alone,Though the movie recieved lot of Criticism being a Plagiarized,and the makers were blamed for projecting the movie with Fake records,Audience recieved the movie well and Thanks to Brahmanandam and MS Narayana’s Comedy tracks which were the Heart of the movie.The movie ran for 50 days in 256centers(highest in Mahesh babu’s Carrer) and 100 days in 31 direct centers.
Racha was made with a budget of 28 cr,Starring Ram Charan and Tammana the movie’s Pre Release talks where very poor which was a boon to the movie,Audience went to the movie with No Expectations and though the movie has pretty average content it grossed good thanks to Tammana’s glamour factor and Remix of Sizziling hot rain song Vana Vana Veluvaye which added the required boost to the movie,Racha grossed around 48cr in AP alone without flat rates and its Tamil and Malyalam versions did a good Business of 7cr taking the total to 56cr.Racha completed its 50 days in over 140 centers,127 in AP alone,The movie is still running with a good pace towards 100 days in all major centers,But the business is more or less closed.
Mahesh Babu’s Pokiri directed by Puri Jaganath was a Industry Hit,it released with no buzz but swiped of every existing records and made Mahesh Babu a Super Star,the movie also received several awards and was critically acclaimed,Pokiri grossed a record share of 39-40cr in 2006.the movie also ran in 222 centers for 50 days and 212 in 100 days which was a record then.
Arundathi written and directed by Kodi Ramakrishna, starring Anushka and Sonu Sood in the lead. The film was released on 16 January 2009 to positive reviews and emerged as a commercial blockbuster Collecting 32cr in AP and another 6cr from dubbed version which released a year later.It fetched many awards and remains one of the golden feather of TFI.
Pawan Kalyan’s Jalsa was the first movie which was released with 320 prints in 1000 theatres in TFI,The audio rights were sold to Aditya Music for 90 lakhs,the highest for a Telugu film till date.The music has been topping the charts since its release.Made with a mere budget of 25cr it went on collecting 34cr share worldwide.Trivikram’s Dialouges with Pawan Kalyan’s Style made fans go crazy over the movie. Jalsa was the blockbuster hit of the year 2008 and it ran 50 days in over 258 centers(highest in Pawan Kalyan’s carrer) and 100 days in over 25 centers.
Indra directed by B. Gopal. It stars Chiranjeevi, Sonali Bendre, and Arti Agarwal.The film released in 258 screens,including 223 in Andhra Pradesh,30 in Karnataka,3 in Orissa and 15 in USA(Highest till then),Chiranjeevi won Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award and Nandi Best Actor Award.It had a 50-day run in 151 centres,It had a 100-day run in 122 centres,It had a 175-day run in 32 centres including a 227-day run in Satyam theatre, Adoni.The Final share is 33cr and is a Industry Hit
Brindavanam starring Jr NTR, Kajal Agarwal and Samantha,Directed by Vamsi Paidipally, who had previously directed Munna, which also produced by Dil Raju.Music by S S Taman was a good hit and the movie though with average content and a Free make of Bavagaru Bagunara and Gudumba Shankar in parts was received well by family audience and grossed over 30cr share in its full run.The movie ran for 50 days in over 142 direct centers.
Simahdri has Jr. NTR playing the lead role and Bhoomika, Ankitha, and Nassar playing the supporting roles. S. S. Rajamouli directed the film. It is the biggest hit in Jr. NTR’s career.NTR achieved this feat at the age of 17 which is to be kept in mind.His dances were amazing and Masses of AP went crazy over the movie
It had a successful 50-days run in 188 centers and a 100-days run in 150 centers.It ran for 175 days in 52 direct centers including 3 centers in shifts.Simhadri collected a record share of 27.5 cr and missed the indsutry hit just by a margin.
The list is suceeded by Yamadonga with 27cr Worldwide share, Mahesh’s Business Man with 27cr worldwide share, Ballaya Babu’s Simha with 26.5cr world wide share, Allu Arjun’s Badrinath with 26cr worldwide share, Prabhas’s Mr Perfect with 25 cr....
All the figures mentioned above are Shares(Gross-Tax+Theatre Rents)
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