Tollywood Hits and Flops 2012

2012 Telugu Hits

Mahesh Babu has started off the year with Businessman and being the immediate release after Dookudu, it earned superb openings for Pongal 2012. Siddharth’s debut production movie Love Failure made with a shoestring budget has brought him enough profits while he tasted a good success after a long time. On the other hand, Nithin who was undergoing rough phase of his career has got back his lost glory with romantic comedy Ishq while it’s the same case with Manchu Vishnu who earned success with Dhenikaina Ready. Actor Sunil scored a hit with comedy entertainer Poolarangadu in which he also flaunted six-pack abs that left many in a surprise.

The mega fans are quite happy this year with their stars scoring not less than hits at BO. While Ram Charan scored a commercial hit with Racha that garnered 45 crores plus collection figure, it’s Power Star Pawan Kalyan who took the Box-Office by storm with Gabbar Singh that has also made Harish Shankar a top-league director and the film ending up as second highest grosser of Telugu Cinema industry. Immediately after Gabbar Singh, Allu Arjun-Trivikram’s Julayi managed to entertain also getting into the list of one of the top grossers of 2012 as well as highest grosser in Allu Arjun career by making more than 42 Crores. Star director Rajamouli’s Eega lived up to the expectations and gave Telugu audiences a new experience also being Box-Office blockbuster at US box Office as well.

Low Budget winners

The year saw a bouquet of small-budget films that ended up as miraculous hits. The profits are huge for Maruthi directed Ee Rojullo and Bus Stop considering its low budget. Siddharth-Amala Paul Love Failure also falls under low budget genre. Yet another surprising hit of the year is Oka Romantic Crime Katha directed by Sunil Kumar Reddy. Ravi Babu’s directed Avunu horror thriller also made good sum, thanks to actress Poorna’s impressive acting skills.

Experiments & Critical-acclaims 2012

Star director Rajamouli’s graphical extravaganza Eega impressed tech-savvy. His big-budget experimentation was worth a watch for its brilliant execution and a great narration and audiences made it one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. It even turned a huge hit in Kollywood.  Nagarjuna has shed his stylish image and has chosen devotion flick Shiridi Sai directed by Raghavendra Rao that brought him good critical acclaims. Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum that carried powerful theme has attracted many for its meaningful dialogues. Balasubramanyam’s Midhunam earned good praises and the theaters were even being increased. Yeto Vellipoyindi Manasu by Gautham Menon also got good acclaims from critics.

Highly expected yet Failed!!!


Ravi Teja had witnessed quite a number of disasters this year in the form of Nippu, Devudu Chesina Manushulu and the latest one Sarocharu. His Daruvu also failed at the Box-Office this year. Bala Krishna’s Adhinayakudu and Srimannarayana failed to set the cash registers ringing. Prabhas Rebel was one of the most expected films of the year and it garnered superb openings at the Box-Office but due to its whopping budget of over 40 Crores, the film had bite the dust and it has later landed in controversy as well with producers complaining on director Lawrence and the latter was asked to pay 2.5 crores. Manchu Manoj’s UKUP and Mr.Nookayya brought huge losses to producers. Ram-Karunakaran’s Endhukante Premanta shot in the beautiful lavish locales with a huge budget turned out to one of the disasters of the year. Nagarjuna’s Damarukam turned out to biggest grosser of his career but at the end the film failed due to its heavy budget.

Dubbed films- Not a good year


2012 witnessed nearly 100 dubbed films from Tamil, Hindi, Hollywood but neither of them managed to make their mark despite few Super Stars (Vijay, Ajith, Karthi, Suriya, Dhanush)  films hitting the screens. Vijay’s Snehithudu, Karthi’s Shakuni, Dhanush’s 3, Ajith’s David Billa, Jeeva starrer Mask, Brothers starring Suriya, Gajaraju, Nirantharam Nee Oohale were few of the Kollywood big-budget Tamil films dubbed in Telugu but  none of them turned out to be hits though Thuppakki and Brothers resulted as average grossers.

This is one of the good years Tollywood had in terms of the success ratethough few controversial issues set them back. The young actors and stars managed to bag huge openings with their craze that had helped the producers in the revenues and Tollywood is expected to reach new level in the coming years with big films, along with multistarrers to look forward in 2013.

Here is the list of the films released with good expectations in 2012…

S.NO	Movie	Cast	Release Month	Status
1	Businessman	Mahesh Babu, Kajal	January	Super Hit
2	Bodyguard	Venkatesh, Trisha	January	Above Average
3	Nandeeswarudu	Tarakaratna, Sheena Shahabadi	January	Disaster
4	Dhoni	Prakash Raj	February	Below Average
5	SMS	Sudheer Babu, Regina	February	Average
6	Love Failure	Siddharth, Amala Paul	February	Above Average
7	Nippu	Ravi Teja, Deeksha Seth	February	Disaster
8	Poolarangadu	Sunil, Isha Chawla	February	Hit
9	Ishq	Nithin, Nithya Menon	February	Hit
10	Mr.Nookayya	Manchu Manoj, Sana Khan, Kriti Kharbanda	March	Average
11	Nuvva Nena	Allari Naresh, Sharwanand, Shriya Saran	March	Disaster
12	Naa Ishtam	Rana Daggubati, Genelia	March	Disaster
13	Ee Rojullo	Srinivas, Reshma	March	Super Hit
14	Lovely	Aadi, Shanvi	March	Above Average
15	Rachcha	Ram Charan, Tamannah	April	Super Hit
16	Neeku Naaku	Prince, Nanditha	April	Disaster
17	Disco	Nikhil, Pooja Bose	April	Disaster
18	Dammu	Jr.NTR, Trisha, Karthika	April	Above Average
19	Gabbar Singh	Pawan Kalyan, Shruti Haasan	May	Super hit
20	Daruvu	Ravi Teja, Tapsee	May	Below Average
21	Adhinayakudu	Bala Krishna, Lakshmi Rai	June	Above Average
22	Endhukante Premanta	Ram, Tamannah	June	Disaster
23	Oka Romantic Crime Katha	Nandam, Sai Anil, Gayatri, Divya Swapna	June	Hit
24	Mem Vayasaku Vacham	Tanish, Neethi Taylor	June	Average
25	All The Best	Srikanth, JD Chakravarthy,	June	Disaster
26	Eega	Nani, Samantha	July	Super hit
27	Tuneega Tuneega	Sumantha Ashwin, Rhea Chakraborthy	July	Disaster
28	UKUP	Manchu Manoj, Deeksha Seth	July	Below Average
29	Onamalu	Rajendra Prasad, Kalyani	July	Average
30	Julayi	Allu Arjun, Ileana	August	Super Hit
31	Andhala Rakshasi	Lavanya Tripathi, Naveen, Chandra, Rahul	August	Below Average
32	Devudu Chesina Manushulu	Ravi Teja, Ileana	August	Disaster
33	Sudigadu	Allari Naresh, Monal Gajjar	August	Super Hit
34	Srimannarayana	Bala Krishna, Parvati Melton, Isha Chawla	August	Below Average
35	Shiridi Sai	Nagarjuna	September	Above Average
36	Life Is Beautiful	Abhijeet, Sudhakar, Kaushik, Zara, Rashmi, Kavya, Shriya Saran, Anjala Zaveri, Amala Akkineni	September	Average
37	Vennela 1½	Chaitanya Krishna,Monal Gajjar	September	Disaster
38	Avunu	Ravi Babu, Poorna	September	Hit
39	Rebel	Prabhas, Tamannah	September	Average
40	Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu	Pawan Kalyan, Tamannah	October	Above Average
41	Dhenikaina Ready	Vishnu Manchu, Hansika	October	Hit
42	Bus Stop	Prince, Sri Divya	November	Hit
43	Dhamarukam	Nagarjuna, Anushka	November	Average
44	Routine Love Story	Sundeep Kishan, Regina	November	Above Average
45	Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum	Rana Daggubati, Nayanatara	November	Above Average
46	Devaraya	Srikanth, Vidisha, Meenaxi Dixit	December	Below Average
47	Yeto Vellipoindi Manasu	Nani, Samantha	December	Above Average
48	Yamaho Yama	Sai Ram Shankar, Parvati Melton	December	Disaster
49	Sarocharu	Ravi Teja, Kajal, Richa	December	Below Average
50	Midhunam	SP Balasubrahmanyam, Lakshmi	December	Above Average