The Dasara festive season is over and Tollywood is gearing up for Diwali crackers at the box-office. In the meantime, several small budget films like Swati-Naveen Chandra’s Tripura, Tamil star Dhanush’s Mariyaan and young music director GV Prakash Kumar’s Trisha Leda Nayanthara will be testing their luck this week.

While Tripura is a horror drama, Maryaan is an emotional love saga. On the other hand, Trisha Leda Nayanthara is an overdose of adult content in the name of message to youths. The film was a huge success in Tamil but was secretly panned by critics for its excessive double meaning dialogues and sleaze.

What’s even more startling is that the Telugu makers are promoting the film as the ‘worst ever love story in the history of Tollywood’. With the taglines like ‘Love is injurious to health’ and ‘Get ready virgins’, the makers seem to be sure about whom they are targeting.

Whether the Tollywood audiences are ready to accept such a bold film after coming fresh off meaningful films like Baahubali, Srimanthudu and Kanche etc will be revealed in a few days.

Universal Hero Kamal Hassan’s Cheekati Rajyam will have its audio launch event tomorrow in Hyderabad. Kamal Hassan and the entire movie unit will be flying to Hyderabad for the event which will begin the promotions of the movie ahead of the movie release on 12th of this month.

Cheekati Rajyam is releasing two days late from its Tamil version, Thoonga Vanam. The movie is also releasing on the second day of Akhil releasing which will pose a big challenge for it. So good promotions are necessary for the movie.

Trisha is pairing up with Kamal Hassan for the second time in her career after Manmadha Banam. The bilingual film is being produced by Kamal Hassan himself on his RajKamal Films International banner. The movie is reportedly heavily inspired from a French film.

Finally the makers of Akkineni Akhil’s debut movie, Akhil have confirmed that their movie is releasing on November 11th as Diwali special. In the pursuit of getting a holiday for the movie, the makers have now risked the movie prospects in Overseas.

The movie is releasing on a Wednesday and the Premieres in Overseas will be screened on Tuesday which is a working day. Normally Overseas audience will be extremely busy with their jobs on working days and will not come to the theaters.

This working day release may hurt the movie in Overseas now. Also the weekend is far away. If the talk and reviews are bad or if the piracy is out, the movie may not do well even in the weekend. Hence this date is not so good for the Overseas business.