The New top 4 of Tollywood

NTR, ANR, Krishna and Sobhan Babu are the first generation superstars of Telugu cinema. After them Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh stood pillars to the second generation. They are no longer young and strong enough to compete with the younger generation. So the new top four has evolved. Considering the current business craze of the heroes, here are the top four of Tollywood.

NTR, Charan, Mahesh and Pawan Kalyan are the current top four heroes of Tollywood. We are not discussing about who is number one and number two among these four. All these four heroes can do excellent pre release business and assure grand openings. No other hero is even close to these stars at this point. All these four have the star power to deliver industry hit at any given point.

They are beyond the commercial outcome of their films. A series of flops wouldn't bring their craze down. They can always bounce back and be on top with one film with decent content. It will be hard to decide who the current number 1 of Telugu cinema industry is. But there won't be any arguments over the given top four list unless they have weak knowledge about films.

Tollywood Star Heroes have 'Zero' knowledge: Director

Director Teja ('Chitram', 'Nuvvu Nenu', Jayam' fame) always speaks his mind and never minces the words. He launched an attack on the star heroes in the Industry for not attempting new stories and instead blaming the directors.

When asked him to react on 'Stars blaming directors for failing to come up innovative ideas, though they are ready to experiment', Teja replied,"If a director approaches the heroes with 100 punch dialogues, then the film will be okayed instantly. Our Heroes aren't having that much knowledge on the stories. In Telugu, no star is attempting a new story. If someone approaches them with a new story, they will not listen to it. For example: If we say that the delivery of a baby will be done using a vacuum cleaner in the climax, our heroes will walk away from the story sitting. 3 Idiots was done will the same concept and the film turned out superhit. I can't understand, what's the meaning of new story".

"Our heroes will say that they are open for new ideas, but they don't listen to them when a director approaches them. We are living in the comparitive terms. If films like 'Magadheera' and 'Businessman' turned superhit and got record collections last Friday, then heroes will ask the directors to tell similar stories. If someone tells a new story, they are apprehensive to do it," he added.