Director Teja is known for delivering super hits like Chitram, Jayam and Nuvvu Nenu back to back, but then he lost his Midas touch somehow. From last 10 years, he’s busy making similar movies, and always comparisons happened with his past hit Jayam, and he’s upset with that. In a direct take, Teja tells what industry is doing and how people are looking at him with a crocodile eye.
‘When the whole of industry is making movies with same concept, same logic and Brahmandam in it, you rate it with 5 stars and 4 stars, and call it a blockbuster. But when I make something, and if just one shot is close to Jayam, you called it Jayam. I’m confused. But I’m determined enough to make a movie in the most loving way I want to’, said Teja, presiding at his latest movie ‘Hora Hori’ audio function. He has also given an example of what is happening in Tollywood.
Telugu makers have only two scripts to touch, and they are cooking the same from last 10 years and scoring blockbusters, accuses Teja, and asks not to look him down when everyone is saying the same thing. ‘We have only two stories. From Baasha, we love this Baabu garu story, where hero comes from a far place and lives a peasant life. Only during interval it is revealed that he’s a big shot with terrific background.
Or else we have another story where hero lives in villain’s house and none knows that hero is actually a lover of villain’s daughter. In the end a character like Brahmi comes up, but none believes what he says about hero. Almost all the films are with same story and they are tuing up blockbusters. But what’s the problem with Jayam movie shades in my movie then?’ asks Teja.
On a serious note he confirmed that Hora Hori is not a ‘Jayam’ but it is a different love story altogether. He has thrown a punch about his own film and his native Telugu hero too. ‘My heroine Daksha is a Maharashtrian but she dubbed Telugu herself.
Our main villain is an actor from Kaataka and he too dubbed on his own. But our very own Telugu hero Dileep hasn’t dubbed for his role’, he quips. There are some truths, but all that blame goes to writers, directors and their heroes only.
