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OG USA Premieres: Pre-Sales Hit 300K

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OG USA Premieres: Pre-Sales Hit 300K

Pawan Kalyan’s OG is displaying its big craze with advance bookings in America. The advance bookings opened just 2 days ago, and the film already crossed the $300K mark for premieres.

The film’s official distributor announced this update, much to exciting fans.

Pawan Kalyan’s OG becomes the fastest film ever to cross the $300K mark, with 4 weeks left to release.

The expectations were around $2.5M $3M for Premieres before bookings started, but with this astonishing movement, the expectations are at $3.5M, and it might even target Kalki Premieres ($3.9M) to set anall-time record if the same trend continues at the US BO.

Let us wait and watch where “They Call Him OG’ will end at North America.

North America $3M+ Premieres for Indian Films:

  • Kalki 2898 AD: $3.9M
  • RRR: $3.5M
  • Pushpa 2: $3.35M
  • Coolie: $3.04M

Coolie Hits 500 Cr Mark

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Coolie Hits 500 Cr Mark

Rajinikanth’s Coolie is joining the 500 Cr club today, making it the third film to cross 500 crores in the superstar’s career after 2 Point O and Jailer.

The film is also the second to achieve the feat for Lokesh Kangaraj after Leo. The director scores a hat trick of 400 Cr grossers with this action drama, along with two back-to-back 500 Cr grossers, carrying the biggest stats in Kollywood.

Coolie: 5th Film to join the 500 Cr Club for Kollywood

Coolie is the 5th film to join the 500 Cr club after 2 Point O, Ponniyin Selvan 1, Jailer, and Leo.

The film will also settle as the all-time 4th biggest grosser in Kollywood after 2 Point O, Jailer, and Leo.

With below-par WOM and reviews, the film crosses 500 Cr collections, and if it had received talk on par with Vikram, Coolie could have opened the 1000 Cr club for Kollywood, but it missed a golden chance.

Sundarakanda – Reviews Rock, Collections Shock

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Sundarakanda – Reviews Rock, Collections Shock

Nara Rohith’s Sundarakanda was released in theaters on Vinayaka Chavithi, August 27th, and despite having good reviews, the collections are poor.

With a lot of trust about the film, the team screened paid premieres before the release day, and their confidence was displayed in the content as well, with the film opening to unanimous positive reviews.

The WOM opens with decent to good, and as it is an entertainer and no other film is running with good collections, everyone expects Sundarakanda to do big at the box office.

Sundarakanda: Poor Collections With Positive Reviews

But surprisingly, the film is not even delivering reasonable numbers at the box office. Sundarakanda is failing to collect theater rents as well, which is shocking.

The pre-release buzz fails to connect with audiences, and Nara Rohit’s recent form as the lead hero also affects the film massively.

The team needs to do some promotions to reach the film to more audiences so that it can at least have some numbers on the weekend.

If the movie did not get any momentum on the weekend, then it will be a miserable failure even with positive reviews.

OG Should Target Bollywood

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OG Should Target Bollywood

Pawan Kalyan’s OG is already carrying a very big craze in Telugu markets like an event film. There is more promotional content coming from the team, and it should target Bollywood to get more numbers.

The USA advance sales of the film are sensational, as with 4 weeks left for release, the film has already reached almost the $300K mark in advance sales, and it is even set to target the record number of premieres for an Indian film.

Pawan Kalyan and the OG team need to do promotions for reach in Bollywood

The same craze will be there in all Telugu markets for the Sujeeth directorial, and the OG team now should focus on the Bollywood market as well. In Telugu, the regular promotional content and one big pre-release event are enough to get record openings. 

But in Hindi the team needs to do multiple promotional events, like interviews, attending TV shows, and other public events to get registered among the viewers. Even Pawan Kalyan needs to step out for this, as “They Call Him OG” has a great chance to work in Hindi markets as well due to its genre.

Pawan Kalyan’s OG has all the chances to become a Pan-Indian Blockbuster

As the film is made as a stylish gangster film, it will easily connect to Hindi audiences, and Sujeeth has already seen this with Saaho, which saw bigger numbers in Hindi markets, and Hindi audiences’ WOM was also better than Telugu for the film.

So, the OG team has to start aggressive promotions in Hindi as soon as possible. If the right amount of interest is created among audiences about the film, then the numbers will automatically fall into place.

OG: Probably, the last chance for Pawan Kalyan to score a Massive Industry Blockbuster

Certainly, Pawan Kalyan will not get a big chance like OG to deliver a pan-India blockbuster in the future, as he already announced his retirement from films as a hero after Ustaad Bhagat Singh.

UBS is a regional film that targets Telugu audiences, but OG has every chance to work for audiences across languages. Pawan Kalyan needs to deliver one massive industry blockbuster that his fans are eagerly anticipating.

Bigg Boss 9 Telugu Contestants Revealed

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Bigg Boss 9 Telugu Contestants Revealed

The much-awaited Bigg Boss Telugu 9 season, which will be hosted by Nagarjuna, is scheduled to debut on September 7th. The list of a few contestants of this show is doing the round in media now.

The Telugu viewers love this game show, as it promises an exciting mix of drama, entertainment, and surprising turns. The contestants list includes a controversial name from Andhra politics, Duvvada Madhuri, and the popular Telugu comedian Jabardasth Emanuel.

These are the celebrities said to be confirmed for Bigg Boss 9 Season

  1. Jabardast Emanuel
  2. Duvvada Madhuri
  3. Tanuja Gowda (Serial Actress)
  4. Bharani Shankar (Serial Actor)
  5. Ramya (Alekhya Chitti Pickles)
  6. Shrasti Verma (Dance choreogrpaher)

This season will also have commoners as contestants and there is a special process to select them. In order to assess the common contenders’ emotional depth, cerebral acuity, and physical prowess, the Bigg Boss pre-show Agnipariksha, or “Big before the Biggest,” was introduced. 

The pre-show is hosted by anchor Sreemukhi and features a panel of judges that includes previous Bigg Boss contestants Abijeet, Bindu Madhavi, and Navdeep. The judges use green flags to indicate approval and red flags to indicate rejection as the selection process progresses through levels.

Sai Abhyankkar’s Start Is Underwhelming

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Sai Abhyankkar’s Start Is Underwhelming

Sai Abhyankkar, the young music composer, rose to fame with the grand success of independent songs and became a sensation within a few days. A lot was expected from him with entry into movies, but his start is underwhelming in movies.

The young music composer received multiple offers, including big-budget films, and without even a film released in theaters, he has 7 films in the lineup, which says how big he got.He is also composing the music for the much-hyped Allu Arjun-Atlee film.

So, there were huge expectations on this young music director, and his 1st single is out now, i.e., Pradeep Ranganathan’s Dude in both Telugu and Tamil.

But the song failed to reach the expectations, as the listeners did not like it and felt that the music, visuals, lyrics, and vocals were completely out of sync. The majority opinion is that the song is a big mess. 

Boom Boom – First Single from Pradeep Ranganathan’s Dude

Sai Abhyankkar did not get the expected result for his first song in films, and he needs to come up with chartbusters to live up to the hype and expectations on him. As of now, the first single of Dude is not a great start for him, according to the early responses from audiences.

Dude vs LIK – Only One Film This Diwali

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Dude vs LIK – Only One Film This Diwali

Pradeep Ranganathan’s upcoming two films, LIK and Dude, have been announced for Diwali release, and there was a report that both films will arrive on the same day. But Pradeep Ranganathan confirms that only one film will be released this Diwali.

A few days ago, both films’ teams started promotions with the festival release tag. Lately the LIK (Love Insurance Kompany) team released a teaser, and Dude released its first single.

With this, audiences expected that they would witness a surprise clash on Diwali, as both films feature the same hero. But Pradeep Ranganathan officially confirms that only one film will arrive this Diwali.

Pradeep Ranganathan – Vignesh Shivan’s LIK First Punch

LIK, as per the plan, has to release first, but due to some financial issues, the movie’s progress was delayed. Now, if they are able to sort the issues, then it will be the only film that is likely to arrive for Diwali, or else Dude will be released in its place.

Lokah Builds a Strong Franchise

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Lokah Builds a Strong Franchise

Dulquer Salman comes up with Lokah Chapter One: Chandra, the first film of the Wayfarer Cinematic Universe. The film stars Kalyani Priyadarshan in the lead role, and it opens with a sensational response from audiences and builds the way for a strong franchise. 

The film’s collections are getting increased with every show, and even though it is a female-lead film, it is dominating Mohanlal’s Hridaya Pooravam in ticket bookings due to the extraordinary WOM.

The film is releasing tomorrow in Telugu as Kotha Lokah, with Sithara Entertainments taking care of the Telugu states’ theatrical release.

Lokah – Wayfarer Cinematic Universe’s Sucess Can Take Malayalam Film Industry Into The Bigger Picture

Lokah’s success paves the way for a strong franchise. Because if the first part turns out to be a big success, then definitely it will increase the hype for the next films from the universe.

Now franchises are working huge in Indian cinema, and if this part 1 reaches other language audiences, then it will go much bigger, starting a solid cinematic universe from Malayalam cinema.

The buzz already started that Tovino Thomas will play the lead in the 2nd part, and it will be much bigger than the first part.

Ragada Re-Release Disaster

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Ragada Re-Release Disaster

Ragada is getting re-released tomorrow on the occasion of Nagarjuna’s birthday; everyone expected this would work well, but shockingly it gets a disastrous response.

Not only regular audiences, but even the fans also did not show interest in watching the film, and as a result, many shows that were scheduled for tomorrow have been cancelled because of poor bookings.

Shocking Response for Nagarjuna’s Ragada Re-Release

Nowadays all the re-releases are not working at the box office. Recently, on Chiranjeevi’s birthday, Stalin was re-released, which also failed hugely.

Now, Nagarjuna’s Ragada re-release became a disaster as it received an even lower response than expected.

The month of August marked three major re-releases of Mahesh Babu, Chiranjeevi, and Nagarjuna. While Athadu failed to meet the massive expectations, the other two films failed to get even a decent response. 

Lokesh Kanagaraj Pairs Up with Mirna Menon?

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Lokesh Kanagaraj Pairs Up with Mirna Menon?

Director Lokesh Kanagaraj is all set to make his debut as a lead hero with a film directed by Arun Matheswaran. The latest news is that he pairs up with Mirna Menon.

The film’s pre-production work is going on currently, and it is being said that the team is discussing with Mirna Menon to pair up against Lokesh Kanagaraj in this action drama. She was previously seen in Jailer as Rajinikanth’s daughter-in-law.

Lokesh Kanagaraj to romance Mirna Menon in his Hero-Debut Film: Shoot to start this year-end

Produced by Sun Pictures, this film will go on floors this year-end, and the Kaithi director also took part in some training to play a lead hero. 

As said above, it is an action film, and Lokesh will be excited to show up on screen as a lead hero and enthrall his fans, who are disappointed with his recent directorial, Coolie, starring Rajinikanth.

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