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I am not talking about the Historcial Hero from Maharastra here but its the name of a Telugu movie which I watched today morning at Roxy Theatre Esplanade, with my senior Mr. M Anil Kumar and one of my super senior Bhanu Sir, from AIM, both belong to Andhra Pradesh. The actors whom I recognised were Prabash and Shreya. I have seen Prabash in Versham, his latest movie. I have seen Shreya also in other telugu movie but dont remember the names; she is a superstar in south, people have watched him in Jagjit Singh Video (Kahin door jab din dhal jayee…) also.

The movie (its was released 3-4, am not sure, years back but it was showcased today for one show here in Kolkata) is basically a action/thrillar; story based in the port of Vizag (Vishakhapattanam). A lady is leaving in Sri Lanka with her son and step son. Her son doesn’t like his step brother. Somehow they are forced with their community to leave from Sri Lanka and land to Vizag but they the step son got missing and the mother assumes that he is ded. The rest of the movie goes finding the mother and their reunion. This seems a typical old hindi movie story but its not like that. The hatrate of younger brother to his step brother (Later he proved to be Prabash) brings some turn in the story. Prabash can fight well with Sharks, can be comfertable underwater for several minutes, can kick a heavy guy several feet. Action scenes are just watchable; I must say they satisfy me while Hindi movies even most of the time Hollywood movies also leaves me in between. Shreya and Prabash meet in the Vizag DC office (where she is employed, it seems, from where she comes and where she goes after office; its upon your imagination) where Prabash goes in search of informaton about his lost mother.

I have been watching Telugu movies quit from long time, when I was in Hyderabad. I like their music (their orchestra is best, better than Bollywood), choreography and sets are very nice. Of course most of the Female lead Actors are from north India itself but native actresses are excellent. We can’t just ignore and term the Telugu movies as just another regional langauage movies because qualitywise they are qual to or may be better than Hindi movies. Of course they also produce ‘B’ grade movies where quality may be down; but compare with the movies made in other regional languages like in UP, Bihar, Chattisgarh, West Benal,… I can’t say about Punjabi movies because last time I saw a Punjabi movie, around 10 years ago when I was in school in Chandigarh. That time I didn’t found equivalent quality in them as Bollywood; now they may have improved themselves.

The Telugu movies do really good business. In the city Hyderabad itself there are around 200 cinema halls. People watch the movie in theatre; piracy, I didn’t found. VCDs are released offially much later. The reason is not the administration but the attitute of people who themselves deny for pirated CDs and prefer to whatch it out. And why not if they have luxury Multiplexes like PRASAD IMAX in the city. (only third of its kind in India).