“Things changed when we realised that we should work towards building a proper distribution circuit.” This included online ticketing and a focus on marketing and promotion campaigns that targeted the diaspora. “A Telugu film would be screened in run-down theatres run by desi communities,” Akella said. The screen count for Telugu films were also too low to merit shows at friendly locations and in convenient time slots. The diaspora was forced to watch pirated prints or rely on internet parlours, Akella added. Then it was even more of a struggle to convince theatre owners in America to give us theatres.” The Tamil industry would send prints 15 days in advance.

In the early 2000s, it was a struggle to convince producers to send prints abroad even two days before a film’s domestic release. “It took a long time for us to realise the potency of the overseas market. “When you compare it with Tamil cinema or Bollywood, Telugu cinema’s overseas market grew phenomenally only recently,” said Rajkumar Akella, the head of the Anti-Video Piracy Cell, Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce. Tagore Madhu, the producer of AR Murugadoss’s upcoming Spyder, is visiting studios in London and Russia to ensure the visual effects in the Mahesh Babu-starrer go down well with what he calls the “International Telugu” audience. The American market for Telugu films sometimes outstrips the local box office, and is sizable enough to encourage filmmakers to improve their production standards to meet the benchmarks set by Hollywood. The first film was screened on 250-300 screens, while the sequel got a whopping 1,000 screens. SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Beginning (2014) earned $8 million in North America and Canada, while the 2017 sequel raked in $20 million, Yarlagadda told Scroll.in. The large Telugu-speaking population in the US, mainly in the 35-40 age group, has contributed to this share.”Ī big-budget Telugu movie is distributed between 300 and 400 screens in the US, the same number as a Hindi release, according to the FICCI-Frames report.

If you find any error, don’t hesitate to comment below.According to the annual Indian Media and Entertainment Industry Report released by FICCI-Frames and KPMG India, “US contributes 85% of the overseas revenue and 5%-10% of the overall box-office collections. Disclaimer: This post is just to provide the Information to fans of the particular Telugu Hero or Celebrity.

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