Brave princes, coy maidens, cunning spirits and demons and demigods, inhabiting not just terra firma, but the heavens and the netherworld as well. Riding on seamless imagination and extraordinary visual effects, Tollywood's landscape is riddled with all this and more. And if you thought this was just a passing fancy, then think again.In the last couple of years, there have been a string of fantasy-based movies like 'Yamadonga', 'Arundhati', 'Magadheera', 'Anaganaga O Dheerudu', 'Shakti' and 'Badrinath', to name a few. And, going by the box office collections, it seems the Telugu audience is lapping it all up.
Even now, socio-fantasies are the flavour of Tollywood. Take SS Rajamouli's (director of the super hit 'Yamadonga' and 'Magadheera') latest movie 'Eega' (Fly), which is attracting attention as much for the name as for the genre. Speculation is rife that the movie has been inspired by the Hollywood hit 'The Fly'. But Samantha, the film's heroine, hastens to clarify that it has nothing to do with the sci-fi adventure. "Sure there is an element of fantasy. I mean I talk to an invisible person in the film," she says.
Even now, socio-fantasies are the flavour of Tollywood. Take SS Rajamouli's (director of the super hit 'Yamadonga' and 'Magadheera') latest movie 'Eega' (Fly), which is attracting attention as much for the name as for the genre. Speculation is rife that the movie has been inspired by the Hollywood hit 'The Fly'. But Samantha, the film's heroine, hastens to clarify that it has nothing to do with the sci-fi adventure. "Sure there is an element of fantasy. I mean I talk to an invisible person in the film," she says.
