Tollywood Kaburlu

Tollywood Kaburlu

Andariki Namaskaram! Welcome to Tollywood Kaburlu, a weekly Telugu movie podcast hosted by Teja Rao, an aspiring actor and screenwriter in USA with new episodes every Monday. Our podcast mainly revisits old Telugu movies and assesses their rewatch value in present day. In addition, we occasionally review new Telugu movies and talk about Telugu music. Hope you enjoy listening to the nostalgia blast! Email us your feedback and requests at Tollywoodkaburlu1@gmail.com Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQpxAc1vvnfBykdF3qRXLw

Episodes

September 13, 2025 39 mins
  1. High time to actually take my career off the ground. Can only talk big for so long, met a producer and we are talking so we will see what happens. 
  2. Started a new job and no time to be honest and takes a lot of time out of the day 
  3. The real reason is basically loss of interest in Telugu cinema. I remember having a conversation with Pranav before we did our 150th episode for Malliswari and he told me he’s losing interest. I thought...
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Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies 

Cast: Megastar Chiranjeevi, Soundarya, Anjala Zhaveri, Prakash Raj, MAster Teja Sajja, Authi Prasad, Bramanandham, MS Narayana, Brahmaji, Venu Madhav, Bandla Ganesh, Dhulipala Sitarama Sastry 

Music: Mani Sharma 

Cinematography: Chota K Naidu 

Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao 

Art Direction: Thota Tharani 

Fights: Vijayan 

Lyrics: Veturi & Chandrabose 

Choreography: Saroj Khan, Raghava Lawrence, Raju...

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Banner: NTR Arts

Cast: Kalyan Ram, Sindhu Tonali, Prakash Raj, Asish Vidyardhi, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Chandra Mohan, Surya, Ajay, Ramireddy, Chalapati Rao, Ahuti Prasad, GV Sudhakar, Raghu Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Devi Charan, Rajya Lakshmi, Pinky Sudeepa

Music: Mani Sharma

Dialogues: Marudhuri Raja

Lyrics: Chandrabose, Sai Sri Harsha, Chinni Charan & Bandaru Danayya

Cinematographer: C Ram Prasad

Art: P Narayana Re...

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Banner: RR MovieMakers

Cast: Ravi Teja, Ileana, Shyam, Brahmanandam, Kota, Venu Madhav, Sayaji Shinde, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Ali, Benerjee, Chalapati Rao

Music: Thaman S
Cinematography: Rasool Ellore
Art: Narayana Reddy
Stunts: Vijay
Editing: Gowtam Raju Screenplay - direction: Surender Reddy Producer: RR Venkat Release date: May 8th, 2009


Interesting Facts 

  • Director Surender Reddy first movie blockbus...
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Banner: Supergood Films

Cast: Venkatesh, Arti Agarwal, Sneha, Srikanth, Siva Balaji, Sarvanand, Sangeeta, Rathi, Sarada, Chandra Mohan, Tanikella Bharani, Raghunatha Reddy, Sudhakar, Rallapally,

Story: Lingaswamy

Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers

Lyrics: ES Murthy, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Sirivennela & Bhaskarabhatla

Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Suchitra and Nobel

Art: Kumar

Music: SA Raj Kumar

Editing: Nandamuri Hari

Cinematography: ...

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Banner: Sri Ranjith Movies

Cast: Nani, Nitya Menon, Sneha Ullal, Kriti Karbandha, Chaitanya Krishna, Pragati, CVL, Pragati, Rohini, Uppalapati Narayana Rao, Mirchi Hemanth, Raja Valluru, Pinky, Rhea etc.

Music: Kalyani Malik
Cinematography: Arjun Jena

Art Direction: Dharmendra
Editor: Marthand K Venkatesh
Dialogues: Lakshmi Bhoopal
Executive producer: Vivekananda Kuchibhotla
Story - screenplay - direct...

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Interesting Facts

- I was disappointed after Jagadam's flop. That is when Rajamouli came to me and told me not to get disappointed by the result. He asked me to stick to my conviction and moviemaking style. His advice gave me lot of confidence. It was Bhogavally Prasad who fed me for an year after the flop of Jagadam. Bunny okayed the project without knowing about the story. Allu Arjun supported me a lot before starting the project...

Best Movies 

  1. Lucky Bhaskar
  2. Committee Kurrolu
  3. 35 Chinna Katha Kaadhu
  4. Kalki
  5. Saripodha Saanivaram


Worst Movies 

1. Guntur Kaaram

2. Pushpa 2 The Rule

3. Devara

4. Family Star

5. Saindhav

6. Naa Saami Ranga

7. Tillu Sqaure  

8. Hanuman

9. Gaami

10. Gangs of Godavari

11. Swag

12. Mathu Vadalara 2

13. Mr Bachchan

14. Viswam 

15. KA

Best Telugu Songs of 2024 

1. Neeli Meghamulalo from 35 Chinna Katha Kaadh...

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Banners: GA 2 & UV Creations

Cast: Nani, Lavanya Tripathi, Murali Sharma, Vennela Kishore, Ajay, Praveen, Srinivasa Reddy, Naresh, Vikram Savyasachi, Bhadram, Sitara, Satya Krishnan etc.

Cinematography: Nizar Shafi

Editor: Uddhav SB

Music: Gopi Sunder

Lyrics: Ramajagoayya Sastry, Sri Mani, Bhaskar Batla

Art: Ramana Vanka

Story, screenplay, dialogues & Direction: Maruthi

Producer: Bunny Vas $ VAmsi Pramod 

Release da...

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EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING!!!! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED

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Banner: Mythri Movie Makers

Cast: Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Rao Ramesh, Jagapathi Babu, Sunil, Dhananjay, Ajay, Jagadeesh Pratap, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Tarak Ponappa, Sritej, Shamukh, Pavani Kamaram, Adithya Menon, Kalpalatha, Saurabh Sachdeva, Mime Gopi, Aadukalam Naren, Bindu Chandramouli, Brahmaji, Dayanand ...

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Banner: Mythri Movie Makers

Cast: Allu Arjun, Rashmika Mandanna, Fahadh Faasil, Rao Ramesh, Sunil, Dhananjay, Ajay Ghosh, Ajay, Jagadeesh Pratap, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Shatru, Brahmaji, Mime Gopi, Shammukh, Kalpalatha, Dayanand Reddy, Raj Tirandasu, Samantha (SA) 

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Cinematography: Mirosław Kuba Brożek

Editing: Karthik Srinivas

Dialogues: Srikanth Vissa 

Sound Design: Rasool Pookutty

Production Design: Ra...

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Banner: AVM Productions

Cast: Rana Daggubati, Richa Gangopadhyay, Priya Anand, Kota Sreenivasa Rao, Suman, Suhasini, Subbaraju, Harsha Vardhan, Tanikella Bharani, Rao Ramesh, Ahuti Prasad, Narsing Yadav and Udaya Bhanu (SA)

Music: Mikey J Meyer
Cinematography: Vijay C Kumar
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Art Direction: Thota Tharani
Story - screenplay - dialogues - director: Sekhar Kammula
Producer: MS Guhan
Release date: 19 February 2...

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Banner: VMC


Cast: NTR, Bhumika Chawla, Ankita, Seeta, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Brahmanandam, Nasar, Mukesh Rushi, Sarad Saxena, Rahul Dev, Rajan P Dev, Chalapati Rao, Bhanu Chandar, Surya, Hari, Venu Madhav, Rallapalli, GV, Kallu Chidambaram, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Subbaraya Sharma, Pardhasaradhi, Sangeeta, Hema, Ramya Sri, Sravani, Ragini, Master Sandeep, Master Mahendra


Story: Vijayendra Prasad

Dialogues: Viswanath, Rath...

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Banner: Bhagyalakshmi Enterprises

Cast:

Nagarjuna Akkineni ... Prakash

Girija ... Geethanjali

Vijay Kumar ... Geethanjali's father

Vijayachander ... Prakash's father

Sumitra ... Prakash's mother

Radha Bai ... Geethanjali's grandmother

Dubbing Janaki ... Lakshmi

Muccherla Aruna ... Doctor

Shavukaru Janaki ... Vice Chancellor (Guest Appearance)

Other Cast: Sutti Velu, Chandramohan, 'Disco' Shanti, Silk Smitha (Guest), Padma,...

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Banner: First Frame Entertainments

Cast: Varun Tej, Pragya Jaiswal, Nikithan Dheer, Avasarala Srinivas, Gollapudi Maruti Rao, Showkar Janaki, Posani Krishna Murali, Satyam Rajesh etc.

Cinematography: Gnana Shekar VS

Editor: Suraj Jagtap & Rama Krishna Arram

Music: Chirrantan Bhatt

Art: Sahi Suresh

Dialogues: Sai Madhav Burra

Lyrics: Seetharama Sastry

Choreography: Brinda

Action: Venkat & David Khubua

Story - screen...

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Banner: Vyjayanthi Movies 

Cast: Nagarjuna, Sridevi, Pradesh Racal, Kota Srinivas Rao, Gummed, JV Somayajulu, Yamuna, Arun Govil, Sudhakar, G Gopal Reddy, Peketi Sivaram, Kallu Chidambaram, Uttej, Kadambari Kiran, Suryakantam, Annapurnamma, Siilk Smitha (SA)  

Music: Raj-Koti 

Lyrics: Veturi & Sirivennela
Dialogues: Jandhyala
Cinematography: S Gopal Reddy
Editing: Shankar 

Stunts:Babu
Art: B. Chalam
Story - Ganapathi R...

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Banner: Universal Media

Cast: Siddharth, Shamili, Krishnudu, Napoleon, Sunil, Ali, Master Bharat, Tanikella Bharani, Pradeep Rawat, Surekha Vani, Saptagiri, Rallpalli, 

Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Dialogues: Rajasimha
Cinematography: Vijay K Chakravarthy
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Stunts: Ram Lakshman
Art: Rajeevan
Story - screenplay - direction: Anand Ranga
Producer: DVV Danayya
Release date: 3 July 2009


Interesting Facts: ...

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Banner: Just Yellow
Cast: Sashank, Janardhan, Mohit, Abhishek, Narsing Yadav, Sivaji Raja & Sindhu Tolani
Music: Kalyani Malik
Photography: Senthil Kumar

Dialogues: Gunnam Gangaraju 

Editing: Sudhakar Reddy Sathi 

Art Direction: R Ravindar
Producer: Gangaraju Gunna,, Venkat Dega
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
Theatrical release date: 11th April 2003

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Banner: Lakshmi Productions

Cast: Ravi Teja, Sneha, Ashutosh Rana, Raasi (SA), Srinivasa Reddy, Chitram Seenu, Ramchandar, Tanikella Bharani, Delhi Sakuntala, Brahmanandam, AVS, Venu Gopal, Krishna Bhagavan, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Ahuti Prasad, Mallikharjuna Rao, Kaushal, Apoorva, Bharat, Sirisha, Suman (SA)

Dialogues: Kona Venkat

Lyrics: Sahiti

Music: Devi Sri Prasad

Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh

Cinematography: Prasad...

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Cast: Gopichand, Tapsee Pannu, Shakthi Kapoor, Suman, Ali, etc

Music: Sri

Camera: Shyam Dutt

Art: S Ramakrishna

Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswararao

Dialogues: K.K. Radha Krisha Kumar

Lyrics: Ananth Sriram

Fights: Selva

Story, screenplay & Direction: Chandra Sekhar Yeleti

Producer: BVSN Prasad

Release date: 12 July 2013


Movie collected 13.5 crores share and while it was a safe project for producer but small loss ventu...

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