Bakta Prahlada Four Anna Ticket sold for 4 Rs

September 15, 1931 saw the release of the first Telugu talkie Bhakta
Prahalada in Crown in Kakinada, Maruthi in Vijayawada, Gaiety in
Madras and Minerva in Machlipatnam. Just a few months earlier, on
March 14, 1931, the first Indian talkie film, Alam Ara was released at
Majestic Cinema, Bombay and in other parts of the country including
Maruthi Talkies, Vijayawada. People thronged the cinema halls where it
was exhibited. With its box office success the country's first black
marketeering in cinema tickets began with a four anna (a quarter of a
rupee) ticket getting sold for Rs. 4 or 5!
Actors:Venkata Subbaiah Munipalle, Surabhi Kamalabai,
under Bharat Movietone,Music by H R Padmanabha Sastry
Producer,Direction:H. M. Reddy
Editor R. Vittal Art by KA Sekhar
Mythological story of devotee NAARASIMHA Vishnu Prahlada,
Bhakta Prahlada - first telugu talkie movie made in 1931 under the krishna movies banner by H. M. Reddy, the father of telugu talkie movies.
Bhatka Prahlada - telugu movie made in 1942 under the Sobhanachal banner by Chitarapu Narayan Murthy.
Bhakta Prahlada - telugu movie made in 1967 under AVM productions again by Chirapu Narayan Murthy, starring S. V. Ranga Rao, Anjali and Roja Ramani.

Alamara paved way for telugu cinema

Success of Alam Ara made Irani to diversify into regional language
productions in Telugu and Tamil the same year. It was Ardeshir Irani's
associate Hanumantha Muniappa Reddy who directed Bhakta Prahalada and
was released six weeks ahead of the first Tamil Talkie, Kalidas that
Reddy himself directed with a mixed cast of Telugu, Tamil and Hindi
actors. Bhakta Prahlada had an all-Telugu starcast featuring Munipalle
Subbiah as Hiranyakasipa and Surabhi Kamalabai as Leelavathy. Both the
films were made in Bombay. By 1936, the mass appeal of film allowed
directors to move away from religious and mythological themes.
That year, under the direction of Krithiventi Nageswara Rao, Prema
Vijayam, a film focusing on social issues, was released. Its success
prompted the production of dozens of other immensely successful
'social films', notably 1939's Vandemataram and Maala Pilla. Touching
on societal problems like the status of Untouchables and the practice
of giving dowry, Telugu films increasingly focused on contemporary
living: twenty-nine of the ninety-six films released between 1937 and
1947 had social themes.
Director of Alam Ara Ardeshir Irani,once again gave a important gift to film industry by producing first colored Hindi feature film,Kisan Kanya but the color concept became popular after 1955.

Telugu Films pioneer Dhundiraj Govind Phalke

The efforts of pioneers like Dhundiraj Govind Phalke better known as Dadasaheb
Phalke who made India's first silent film Raja Harischandra (1913) and
R. G. Torney or our own Raghupathi Venkaiah, his son R.S. Prakash and
C. Pulliah who made cinema popular during the silent era taking film
rolls and projectors exhibiting films in nook and corner of the South?
Raghupathi Venkaiah hailed as father of Telugu cinema is the first
exhibitor in the South. He bought crono-megaphone, the first projector
equipped to reproduce `sound' by disk system and exhibited short reels
way back in 1910. He travelled all over the South and in Burma and
Ceylon. Venkaiah established Star of East studios known as glass
studio to produce silent films.

ANR and Savitri

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300 crore,3,000,000,000 rupees,collection in March 2010.

The Telugu cinema industry is based in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Chennai is used as a hub for both Tamil, Telugu cinema until the early 1990’s, due to its importance and significance as yesteryear’s capital of South India Madras State. Still many Telugu cinemas are shot in the traditional studios such as AVM.Now Hyderabad is the mordern hub of telugu film industry, while Chennai remains to be the Home of Tamil film industry. The Telugu film industry produces the most films every year in India, with about 275 films produced in 2008.[1] Popular movies tend to open during the three festive holiday seasons of the region: Sankranthi, Ugadi, and Dussera. In 2004, total revenue for the Sankranthi season was around Rs. 1.5 billion US$37 million, as of 17 July 2007 greater than that of the Hindi Film industry. There are a number of television channels especially news channels, highest number of channels in india, unlike seen in other states such as DD saptagiri, Maa, Sakshi, Gemini, Eenadu, ZEE Telugu, Teja, TV9, TV5, Mahaa, NTV, Studio N, Sitara, TV1, inews, Hmtv, Zee 24 gantalu, Maa music, Gemini music, ETV2, Gemini news, local tv, dg cable, Atv, Gcv, Kushi tv,RK News etc. dedicated exclusively to feature programs related to Telugu movies.

Currently, about 150 Telugu films are released every year with approximately 3 productions every week. Just like any other cinema industry, the Telugu film industry produces all genres of cinema. In 2005, the annual turnover reached Rs. 2,550 million ticket sales of 160 crores. Today Telugu films are distributed to various theatres around the world in countries such as the USA, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, and Australia. In the USA Telugu cinema has a huge revenue in the form of NRI's.

Birth of word TALKIE and 1'st talkie Film

Telugu film with audio or TALKIE FILM was Bhakta Prahlada, was produced by H.M. Reddi. This gave birth to word 'talkies', films with sound quickly grew in number and fanbase. In 1934, the industry saw its first major commercial success with Lavakusa. Directed by C. Pullaiah and starring Parupalli Subbarao and Sriranjani in lead roles, the film attracted unprecedented numbers of viewers to theaters and thrust the young film industry into mainstream culture