Tollywood goes Kdrama

[dangermousie]

Want some step/quasi-siblings in love with each other, masala style?



(Those pants!)

Be like me and get Athidhi, a Telugu movie with Mahesh Babu and Amrita Rao.

I just bought a copy because it was (a) super-cheap and (b) the plot the plot the plot! Are we sure kdrama guys didn't move to Tollywood?

Because the story is apparently about a poor 10-yr-old kid who gets quasi-adopted by parents of well-off little girl. Said parents then get murdered somewhat later and everyone believes the adopted son did it. So he goes to jail for a good long while and quasi-sister declares her undying hatred of him. 15 or so years later he's out of jail and meets, saves, and falls for a pretty girl about his age. She falls back for him.

Suprise!

I give you one guess who she is!

LOL.

I am going to love the OTT of it all.

ETA: I've read about this movie somewhere and it's driving me insane trying to figure out the name. Two lovers, meet at some temple which is where the climax is where they are supposed to meet for the last time.

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I think your recent glee has got me interested: what it Tollywood????

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, you are going to be sorry you asked :)

Remember Indian movies they used to show in USSR? Tollywood is a relative of that. Unlike Bollywood movies (synonymous with Indian movies in other parts of the world) and which are centered in Bombay/Mumbai and are made in Hindi, Tollywood is movie industry centered in the south Indian state of Andhara Pradesh and made in the Telugu language.

India is unique in having a number of thriving regional movie industries - Bollywood is by far the most popular/big but there are is a large number of others - India has over 10 active regional movie industries.

The amount of movies they make, the quality, and foreign availability or even popularity within India waries.

Tollywood movies, together with Tamil language Kollywood movies (based in Tamil Nadu. My favorite Indian director is a Tamil one who also makes Bollywood movies - sometimes making two versions of the same movie simultaneously) are the most popular/well-known/good quality of these regional industries.

Tollywood makes around 150 movies a year - overwhelming majority of them masala style - a little bit of everything with a love story and some violence.

There is a certain amount of crossover - e.g. Bollywood has recently remade a Tollywood hit Pokiri into a hit of its own, some actors act in more than one industry etc.

I have recently discovered Tollywood (I've been watching Bollywood for a decade or so but have recently been going off it) and I really enjoy the movies - Bollywood is very Westernized now - horribly skinny ladies, less fun, etc - it's often like watching an inferior copy of a Hollywood movie and why would I do that? But Tollywood/Kollywood etc aren't yet Westerninzed at all.

[ambergold.livejournal.com]

Two lovers, meet at some temple which is where the climax is where they are supposed to meet for the last time. it's not the absolute last time they meet but it's certainly a climax - do you mean Veer-Zaara? the cover has the temple on it, google it

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Nope< not VZ even though that is one of my faves. It is a Telugu movie.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Aw, that one looks cute. Where do you find it?

Is Tollywood a whole different thing just because of the district they're made, or is there something different in how the movies are made? Because these really look like normal Bollywood movies to me, just with different people.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Can find the whole thing on youtube in good quality with english subs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_7u-XViD18&feature=PlayList&p=6D1C83479F607DC2&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

It's very very similar to Bollywood - the fact that it's made in a different language with diff stars is by far the biggest difference.

The main differences other than that is that it's not very Westernized - it's like watching a Bollywood movie from 1960s-1990s. Nowadays Bollywood movies are doing their best to become Westernized (skinnying up their actresses, trying to do a linear narrative structure in one genre, having music as sung over as opposed to musical numbers, set overseas a lot).

[main-hoon-emily.livejournal.com]

I feel like I know what movie that is, but I can't think of the name. I'll try to remember it and get back to you.

Athidi is good except poor Mahesh Babu looks like he had the flu or something while they were filming. It's one of my favorites of his movies, anyway.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw a vid of a song and the guy looked rough! The picturization was amazing, however!

[main-hoon-emily.livejournal.com]

I think I've found the movie you're looking for. Is it Mr. and Mrs. Sailaja Krishnamurthy?

This is the Netflix synopsis: This tale of romance follows atheist Krishna Murthy (Sivaji) and religious Sailaja (Laila), two strangers on a train destined to fall in love. Krishna travels to Annavaram to visit his aunt, while Sailaja's trip is to seek a holy blessing. The two end up sharing the same berth on the train but soon become separated. Recognizing that a passion has been sparked between them despite their differences, each sets out to find other.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oooh, maybe! Thank you!