Hits and Flops of 2009

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Tollywood’s film indusry went through up’s and down’s this year.The year approximately saw 125 movies, but the hits can be counted on finger tips.Some of the movies saw huge disasters while some were boxoffice hits.2009 can be declared as highest losses lowest hits year. Here is the review of hits and misses of 2009.

January

The year started with Krishna Vamsi’s Sasirekha Parinayam which was released on Jan 1’st starring Genelia and Tarun in the lead roles and Posani Krishna Murali’s Mental Krishna and Sivaji’s Indumati also released on the New year day . Sasirekha Parinayam was attracted to few categories of people. Mental Krishna although went through some controversies, it made some collections. Ram,Hansika, Sheela starrer Maska produced by M.S.Raju released for Pongal but remained as an average film, not reaching to its higher expectations. Allari Naresh’s fitting master also released for Pongal was an average film.

Anushka-Kodi Rama Krishna combo pack, Arundathi released a day later sankranthi created wonders and resulted in a sensational box-Office hit by breaking many top-heroes records. It collected Rs 30 crore and was the first hit of the year .The movies that were released later were small-budget movies with new cast and remained as flops. Totally, tollywood brought 20 movies in this month.

February

10 movies were released in this month while none remained as a hit. Siddhath-Tamannah starrer Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam(KIKK) is the only movie that brought an average talk in this month which is targeted towards family crowds. Nitin’s ‘Drona ‘ which  has come up with expectations bombed at the box-office. Incompetent direction and bad villain characterization are few reasons for the movie getting flop. Priyamani’s skimpiest bikini show did not help the movie in any way. Jagapatibabu’s Siddam and charmi’s 16days remained as flops.

March

March also brought 10 movies to the big screens. Many low-budget movies were released like Amma Rajashekar’s Bheebatsam, Charmi’s Manorama. Aakasamantha that was dubbed from the Tamil version released in this month. Aakasamantha is a different film made on relationships. Prakash Raj performance, entertaining first-half gained applauses from the family crowds in A centers

April

The much awaited film with large hype Prabhas starrer ‘Billa’ was released in this hot elections month. Prabhas made an attempt to attract the audience with his well toned and highly muscular body in the role of the don and his timing dialogues and stylish steps earned plus points to the movie. . Although movie did not reach to its higher expectations the movie remained as an average one. Jagapati babu’s Adineta which was released in this month remained as a below average movie. Only 5 movies were released in this month

May

The hot month saw 16 movies in tollywood. Nandamuri BalaKrishna’s Mitrudu has been released on the May Day .Although movie did not make any success BalaKrishna was shown in a new style. The movie lacked in commercial payoffs and there was no relevance to the title and the story. Jagapati babu’s Bangaru babu that was released on the same day failed to grab the family audience attention too. Ravi teja’s Kick released in the second week of the month resulted as a successful box-office hit of summer. Surrendar reddy, the action movies director proved himself with this movie as a comedy-entertainer too. Kick attracted all categories of audience and stood as one of the larger hits of 2009. Vishal, Sreya starrer ‘Pista’ which has come up with huge expectations also remained as a below average film. Manchu Manoj’s small budget movie Prayanam also released in the same month. The director tried out a new and different film with interesting premise, good music and class comedy. Prayanam has done well and had got back its revenues.

June

June totally saw 14 movies but none of them remained as a hit. Kavya’s diary,Ride, Current, Boni, Evaraina Eppudaina were released in this month. Nani, Tanish, Shweta Basu Prasad, Aksha starrer ‘Ride’ did a better job. Sumanth’s Boni with a debutant director washed out from an average list too. Sushanth, Sneha Ullal’s current has become a failure although the music was a bit success. Audience did not even notice the movies like Raja sekhar’s Na style veru, Varun Sandesh’s Evaraina Epudaina and Kavya’s diary .

July

The month started with Siddharth,Shamili starrer oye which has come up with high expectations but overall, stood as an average movie. Gopi Gopika Godavari that was released in the second week stood as an average movie.
Ram Charan , Rajamouli combo Magadheera released on 30^th July did wonders at the box office . Magadheera is the highest budgeted Telugu film and became the highest Tollywood grosser ever made. It crossed all south Indian records in collections and stood as 2nd biggest hit in India collecting share about 114 crores (including satellite rights), with a still run in theaters.

August

Nani, Madhavi latha starrer Snehithuda, Vikram’s Mallanna, Ravi teja’s Aanjaneyulu were few released movies in this month. Small budget movies with new cast were washed away due to the effect of Magadheera. Vikram’s Mallanna which came up with huge expectations and heavy budget ended up as a disaster. Sreya exposing with skimpiest costumes could not help the movie. Raviteja’s comedy entertainer ‘Anjaneyulu’ ended up with an average talk.

September

Star son Naga Chaitanya’s Josh was launched this month. Chaitanya received good applauses from the audience with his action and dialogue delivery. However, the movie did not make success. Gopichand, Trisha starrer ‘Sankham’ also was one of the disasters of the year. Nara Rohit’s debut movie ‘Banam’ brought some praises for the film-makers.

Kamal Haasan, Venkatesh’s Remake movie ‘Eenadu’ which was a hit movie in Hindi did not make success here due to reasons like characterizations and script changes from the original one. Ram, Kajal starrer Ganesh and Nitin, Ileana starrer Rechipo did not receive any success at the box-office.

October

Krishna vamsi’s Mahatma released on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti went through few controversies. Although Gandhiji orientation was a plus point, the making standards were diluted; it did not receive an expected success. Allari Naresh, Kamna Jetmalani starrer Bendu Appa Rao RMP had showed its potential in receiving success at box office. SaiRam shankar’s ‘Bumper Offer also remained as an average movie’ while Kalyan Ram’s Jayeebhava with higher expectations bombed at the box office. Puri – Prabhas combo “Ek Niranjan” also failed to reach the expectations of the audience.

However, the movie earned Rs 12 crore collections in the opening week.

November

Sequel movies Village lo Vinayakudu and Aarya2 were released in this month. Village lo vinayakudu received good collections from the family viewers of A centers. Allu Arjun’s Arya-2 although got a divide talk in the beginning, made some good collections at the box-office.Srikanth’s ‘A aa E ee ‘varun sandesh’s kurradu remained as disasters at box-office.

December

Ravi babu’s Amaravathy was released in this month. The director has a sentiment of releasing his movies in the month of December; However sentiment did not work this time. Ravi Babu has got a good script and all ingredients that required for a perfect thriller in the movie. But he couldn’t get the desired results at the end. Saleem which was 23 crores budget movie with huge expectations remained as a disaster at the box-office. The director, Y.V.S chowdary seems to have concentrated more on the budget and heroine rather than the story. Jagapati babu’s pravarakhyudu and Genelia starrer katha also did not meet the expectations. Kasko and Gentle man that were released on the eve of Christmas also failed at the box-office.

Here are some of the movies released in the year, 2009 that were expected high among the audience.

S.NO	Movie	Cast	Released        Month	Status
1	SasiRekha Parinayam	Tarun,Genelia	January	Average
2	Mental Krishna	Posani Krishna murali , Satya Krishna	January	Below average
3	Maska	Ram, Hansika	January	Average
4	Arundhati	Anushka, Deepak	January	Box-Office hit
5	Konchem Istam Konchem Kastam	Siddhath, Tamannah	February	Average
6	Siddham	Jagapati babu, Sindu menon	February	Below Average
7	16 DAYS	Aravind,Charmi	February	Below Average
8	Drona	Nitin, Priyamani	February	Below Average
9	Mestri	Dasari Narayan Rao	March	Below Average
10	Aakasamantha	Prakash Raj, Trisha	March	Above Average
11	Billa	Prabhas, Anushka,Namitha	April	Above Average
12	Adhinetha	Jagapati Babu, Hamsa nandini ,Shraddha das	April	Below Average
13	Vedokaade	Surya, Tamannah	May	Average
14	Bangaru Babu	Jagapathi Babu, Meera Jasmine	May	Below Average
15	Mitrudu	Bala Krishna, Priyamani	May	Below Average
16	Kick	Ravi Teja, Ileana	May	Box-Office hit
17	Ananthapuram 1980	Jai, Swathi		Below Average
18	Prayanam	Manchu Manoj, Harika	May	Average
19	Pista	Vishal, Sreya	May	Below Average
20	Ride	Tanish,Nani,swetha basu prasad,aksha	June	Above Average
21	Kavya’s diary	Manjula, Charmi	June	Below Average
22	Naa style veru	Raja shekhar, Bhumika	June	Below Average
23	Boni	Sumanth, kirthi karabanda	June	Below Average
24	Current	Sushant, Sneha Ullal	June	Average
25	Evaraina Epudaina	Varun Sandesh, Vimala Raman	June	Below Average
26	Oye	Siddharth,Shamili	July	Above Average
	Gopi Gopika Godavari	Venu,Kamalini Mukherjee	July	Average
27	Magadheera	Ram Cheran Tej, Kajal	July	Box-Office hit
28	Snehithuda	Nani Madhavi latha	August	Average
29	Anjaneyulu	Ravi teja , Nayanatara	August	Below Average
30	Mallanna	Vikram, Sreya	August	Below Average
31	Josh	Naga Chaitanya, Kartheeka	September	Below Average
32	Sankham	Gopichand, Trisha	September	Below Average
33	Baanam	Nara Rohit, Vedika	September	Average
34	Eenadu	Venkateh, Kamal Haasan	September	Average
35	Ganesh	Ram, Kajal	September	Below Average
36	Mahatma	Srikanth, Bhavana	October	Average
37	Bendu Apparao	Allari Naresh, Kamna Jatmalani	October	Hit
38	Jayeebhava	Kalyan Ram, Hansika	October	Below Average
39	Ekniranjan	Prabhas, Kangana Ranaut	October	Average
40	Village lo Vinayakudu	Krishnudu, Saranya	November	Average
41	A aa e ee	Srikanth, Meera jasmine, Sada	November	Below Average
42	2012	John cusack, Amanda peet	November	Hit
43	Kurradu	Varun Sandesh, Neha	November	Below Average
44	Arya2	Allu Arjun, Kajal	November	Above Average
45	Pravarakhyudu	Jagapathi babu, Priyamani	December	Below Average
46	Katha	Arun,Genelia	December	Average
47	Avatar	Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana	December	Box-Office Hit
48	Saleem	Manchu Vishnu,Ileana	December	Below Average
49	Gentle man	Posani Krishna Murali,Aarthi agarwal	December	Below Average