Tollywood witnessing massive disasters in this year, A big lesson to trade

Hits or flops are common in the industry. While the quality of films usually decides its fate. Off late, the trade is also deciding whether the film will just be a box office failure or a monstrous disaster. Due to heavy pre-release business, several films are not even recovering 1/4th or 1/5th. Here are some Tollywood films this year that faced severe box-office crushing and couldn’t justify their big budgets and trade numbers.

1. Shaakuntalam: According to the makers the movie was made on a whooping budget of 75Cr. Unfortunately, the movie did not even collect 7Cr share theatrically
   
2. Agent: The budget is said to be close to Rs 100Crs and this Akhil Akkineni starter ended up with single digit closing share
   
3. Ramabanam: It was the biggest budget film in Gopichand’s career with around Rs 40Cr budget. Due to routine presentation and outdated story, the film ended up with just Rs 4Cr closing share
   
4. Custody: This Naga Chaitanya starrer was made on a big budget of around Rs 35Cr and ended up with just Rs 5Cr share
   
5. Bhola Shankar: The biggest disaster of the year so far, this film starring Megastar Chiranjeevi was made on a Rs 150Cr budget and ended up with a 30Cr closing share marking the second disaster for producer Anil Sunkara in 2023 after Agent.
   
6. Gandeevadhari Arjuna: The latest entrant into the big-budget low-returns club, this movie was made on around Rs 45Cr+ budget and has not managed any interest from the audience. The film will now theatrically close under Rs 4 Cr

Tollywood Producers and buyers need to be very calculative at least from now. The production costs due to unnecessary delays and actor’s remunerations are shooting up and as we have seen this year, this is a recipe for sure shot disaster if the content of the film is not good.