New Trend In Tollywood: Father-Daughter Sentiment

For years, Tollywood’s commercial formula mostly revolved around mass elevations, action blocks, punch dialogues, and larger-than-life heroism. But now, there seems to be a visible shift happening. With the audience outrightly rejecting formulaic template movies, surely Tollywood filmmakers are reinventing their stories. Emotions are slowly taking center stage again and Tollywood is already cooking stories, even for star heroes, in the same pattern.

Many senior stars and mass heroes are now moving towards emotional dramas, especially stories built around father-daughter relationships. Chiranjeevi’s #Mega158 is already carrying strong buzz for its father-daughter emotional angle. Anaswara Rajan is playing the role of his daughter, and this cements that. Instead of going completely loud and commercial like in previous movies, Chiranjeevi is now opting for content-centric commercial movies.

Balakrishna’s NBK112, being directed by Koratala Siva, is also expected to be one such father-daughter film only. And in his 111th movie, it is a brothers kind of script as Gopichand Malineni has already cast Manchu Manoj in the role. Then comes Ravi Teja’s Irumudi, which perhaps carries the most surprising shift among all these projects. The film is said to be a highly emotional father-daughter ride with devotional elements. For an actor mostly known for energetic commercial masala films, this is a new route for sure. The film is eyeing an August release.

Even Suriya’s upcoming films like Viswanath and Sons is also focusing on father-daughter relationship only, while addressing the divorced man’s love life with a young heroine.

Instead of ultra-stylish commercial packaging, many filmmakers are now designing stories with vintage looks, rooted emotions, and family sentiments. However, the trend might continue only if these emotional dramas land properly.