The makers of Pushpa 2: The Rule announced that theirs had been the fastest Indian film to breach the ₹1,000-crore mark at the box office, within a week since its worldwide release on December 5, with premieres in the Telugu States on the night of December 4. This is the fourth Telugu film to have crossed the ₹1,000-crore mark, following Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), RRR (2022) and Kalki 2898 AD (2024). The other Indian films in the ₹1,000-crore club are the Hindi sports drama Dangal (2016), the Kannada action drama KGF: Chapter Two (2022), and the 2023 Hindi action entertainers Pathaan and Jawan .
The watershed moment for Telugu cinema began with SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali films. With that, the term ‘pan India cinema’ came into vogue, and a handful of Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam movies eyed similar box office receptions. Back in time Movies from the southern states have travelled far and wide even earlier, through dubbed versions and remakes.
Sureshbabu Daggubati, one of Telugu cinema’s veteran producers, recalls an early example — Chandralekha (1948): “The Tamil film (directed by S S Vasan) was considered to be an average grosser but the Hindi version (for which some scenes were reshot, with a few changes in the cast) was a big hit. Over the decades, several Telugu films such as Ramudu Bheemudu and Chanti were remade in other languages. Today, Telugu films dubbed in other languages are widely accepted.
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