Virupaksha Puts Extra Pressure on Maruthi

The horror genre is not considered to be a box office-friendly genre in Tollywood. Moreover, such films get an A certificate which keeps families at bay and takes away a major chunk of the revenue. But Virupaksha has done great business in its first weekend and is on course to be a hit.

More than the twists or performances, Virupaksha’s technical values have contributed a lot to its success. The sound design, the camerawork, and the background score succeeded in a big way in giving the audience of watching an atmospheric mystic thriller.

Now, Maruthi, who delivered a disaster Pakka Commercial, is coming up with a film with Prabhas. Unlike Virupaksha, which was a serious, no-nonsense horror film, this Maruthi film is going to be a horror comedy.

With Virupaksha, the Telugu audience has experienced a horror film with terrific technical values. So Maruthi has the task of coming up with a film that has better effects and technical values than Virupaksha. He has to take the audience experience to the next level and can’t afford a technically mediocre film which invoves some vfx work.

Maruthi isn’t exactly a tech-savvy director, but for the Prabhas film, he has to up his ante and hone his skills as a director to extract some exceptional work from his technical team.

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