In an exclusive report found by a media house, it is revealed that Tollywood's big producer mafia controls 1672 theatres in Andhra Pradesh. This also happens to be the total count of theatres in this state.
Getting into details, small budgeted movies are unable to find theatres in Summer for their release. In the total 1672 theatres we have, a small movie needs a minimum of 100 theatres to survive its budget. Among these theatres, 1200 are in lease with Big Four of Telugu industry and it is impossible to get them for small films. The rest 472 theatres are not ready to screen small movies as they want to cash on season by releasing star heroes' films for a week at least. With the likes of Baadshah, Shadow, Greeku Veerudu, Balupu and Iddarammayilatho fixing their release dates, small movies have fallen into trouble, says a producer.
Varun Sandesh's Abbai Class Ammayi Mass, Navdeep's Vasool Raja, Jagapathi Babu's April Fool, Uday Kiran's Jai Sreeram, Tarakaratna's Vijetha, , Reshma's Love Cycle and Adhi's Sukumardu are said to be not finding theatres though their flicks are ready almost.
While the producers some small films are getting few screens, those theatre owners are said to be demanding huge rent per day. Only if the film becomes big hit, producer will be able to pay those rents. Fearing this rent system too, some producers are not releasing their films in summer. We have to see if government intervenes into this and solves their problems.
