Romance Calling: Will Telugu Cinema live up to the name?

Let’s begin with a very sweet ‘ Manmadha Nama Samvatsara Ugadi Subhakankshalu’ to all Telugu people around the world and special wishes to M9News readers. Going by the name of this year, ‘Manmadha’ is the concept, which literally means ‘romantic year’. Let’s have a look at the Telugu films that can go by this concept this year.

More than 20 Telugu films hit screens till date and among them only Sharwanand and Nitya Menon starrer ‘Malli Malli Idhi Rani Roju’ can be called a full time romantic drama. And among the films that are getting ready for release, again another Nitya Menon’s film ‘Ok Bangaram’ directed by Mani Ratnam comes under romantic genre.

Though romance has taken precedence as a successful genre once in Tollywood once, the latest trend is action comedies, comedy thrillers, romantic comedies and horror comedies. Hence to watch pure love stories like Kamal Haasan’s ‘Maro Charitra’, Venkatesh’s ‘Prema’ or Nag’s ‘Ninne Pelladatha’ and ‘Geetanjali’ have become very rare in Tollywood.

Love and romance are universal languages of expression and a very powerful genre in literature and movies. Many new genres may come up with time, but audiences will always be ready for a pure entertaining romantic drama. Hopefully, this Manmadha Nama Samvatsaram Telugu Cinema will give more of pure love and romantic films and live up to the name of the year.