Our Star Heroes have been the market enablers and builders for many years. Even though there are many legends who helped for the growth of TFI, NTR-ANR became poster boys because for their films people used to form queues at theaters and their charm still did not wear off.
Next generation stars Krishna and Sobhan Babu continued doing minimum 5 films per year to keep the Industry flourishing and Chiranjeevi until 1995 did 3 per year.
After Gangleader, Gharana Mogudu as his film budgets have increased to major heights, he had to slow down and analyse. Also for three years he had no hits and Bigg Boss, designed on Basha style narration failed big time.
Rikshavodu came as final nail for Chiranjeevi to take a break and he came back after an year gap with Hitler. That gap became a huge talking point to everyone as he never did so.
From then on, he sticked to one film an year policy and major star heroes like Nag, Venkatesh, Balakrishna also did follow the same eventually but they did two per year till 2005-06.
But young star heroes like Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, Jr. NTR, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun decided to stick to one film per year and now, they are incredibly increasing the gap to more than 15 months.
Prabhas's Saaho will release 28 months after his Baahubali-2 released. Jr. NTR and Ram Charan will not have releases in 2019 after their previous films. Ram Charan had a release, Vinaya Vidheya Rama but releasing for Sankranthi is technically like releasing in the last year, only, again, Technically!
Mahesh is coming in 12 months with Maharshi but his next is a mystery. The discussion about when it will start and who will direct is still going on. Allu Arjun's next is announced but he did not start working on it, even though it is already past 10 months, since his last release.
Seems like the tier-2 stars have to hold the fort more and more for TFI in coming years as Top stars are turning over-cautious every day!
Next generation stars Krishna and Sobhan Babu continued doing minimum 5 films per year to keep the Industry flourishing and Chiranjeevi until 1995 did 3 per year.
After Gangleader, Gharana Mogudu as his film budgets have increased to major heights, he had to slow down and analyse. Also for three years he had no hits and Bigg Boss, designed on Basha style narration failed big time.
Rikshavodu came as final nail for Chiranjeevi to take a break and he came back after an year gap with Hitler. That gap became a huge talking point to everyone as he never did so.
From then on, he sticked to one film an year policy and major star heroes like Nag, Venkatesh, Balakrishna also did follow the same eventually but they did two per year till 2005-06.
But young star heroes like Prabhas, Mahesh Babu, Jr. NTR, Ram Charan, Allu Arjun decided to stick to one film per year and now, they are incredibly increasing the gap to more than 15 months.
Prabhas's Saaho will release 28 months after his Baahubali-2 released. Jr. NTR and Ram Charan will not have releases in 2019 after their previous films. Ram Charan had a release, Vinaya Vidheya Rama but releasing for Sankranthi is technically like releasing in the last year, only, again, Technically!
Mahesh is coming in 12 months with Maharshi but his next is a mystery. The discussion about when it will start and who will direct is still going on. Allu Arjun's next is announced but he did not start working on it, even though it is already past 10 months, since his last release.
Seems like the tier-2 stars have to hold the fort more and more for TFI in coming years as Top stars are turning over-cautious every day!