Okay looks like it’s the season of heavy budget films in Tollywood.
First it was Baahubali, Rajamouli’s mega project which is being made with a budget of Rs 150 crores and now veteran film-maker Dasari Narayana Rao is said to have said, of course, off the record to friends that he is planning to make a mega film with a budget of Rs 400 crores.
Yes, apparently, that’s the figure he has in mind. Well, that immediately leads to the next question – so what is the subject for such a huge budget?
Since Tollywood cannot and will not compete with Hollywood to make science fiction films, they tend to pick mythology or historicals when they decide to make mega budget films.
Apparently, Dasari plans to make a film based on Mahabharatha for Rs 400 crores. Well, that sounds interesting as an idea but it does not stop there.
His whole idea is to make four parts each costing Rs 100 crores. As for the finances, Dasari reveals that some international film production corporates are ready to invest on his project.
However, if one looks at the career of Dasari, one can say that he is truly a maker of small films. Despite giving some blockbusters with NTR and ANR, he would make small films simultaneously and he would also make hits out of them.
He always fought for the cause of interesting small films that would get the audiences to the theatres.
Even after he stopped directing films, he makes it a point to attend the functions of small film-makers and talks in support of them. He had told on many occasions that there is no industry without small films.
In fact, thanks to his small films, some of which he starred in and some of which he made with others, Dasari went on to make the maximum number of films vis-à-vis his contemporaries. Even his last film Errabassu belongs to this category.
Given this backdrop, wonder which production house will come forward to invest on Dasari? Will his dream project materialize ever? In an industry that is ever changing, only time will tell if he can pull off his dream project.
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