The biggest festive season of the year, Diwali, has arrived and brought back with it, the magic of cinemas! The OTT domination days are slowly getting over and theatres are back in action with some much-awaited, big-ticket releases. This Diwali is especially significant for Bollywood, since movie theatres in Maharashtra were the last to receive a nod from the government. Albeit with 50% occupancy in the home state, Akshay Kumar‘s ‘Sooryavanshi‘ is expected to revive the movie business and see some massive box office numbers. The other major buzzing Diwali releases are two Tamil films, namely Rajinikanth’s ‘Annaatthe‘ and the Arya-Vishal starrer ‘Enemy’, that has brought forward an interesting observation.
This Diwali will see Non-Telugu films dominating the Tollywood box office. Although the Santosh Sobhan-Mehreen Pirzada film ‘Manchi Rojulu Vachayi’ is the only Telugu release this Diwali, the buzz surrounding it is nothing in comparison to the three above mentioned films. With ‘Sooryavanshi’ and the Telugu versions of ‘Annaatthe’ (titled ‘Peddanna’) and ‘Enemy’
hogging most of the screen count, there will be a storm of outside releases taking over Tollywood cinemas this festive season. In addition to these, Hollywood film ‘Eternals’ also joins the bandwagon.
Interestingly, the week after Diwali will see three Telugu films clashing at the box office on November 12. They are Anand Deverakonda‘s ‘Pushpaka Vimanam’, Kartikeya’s ‘Raja Vikramarka’ and the Naga Shourya-Ketika Sharma starrer ‘Lakshya’. It is quite astonishing to see three films pitted against each other the very next week, however, no film made use of the Diwali period. With some amount of planning and promotional activities, Diwali could have turned out a major grossing opportunity for one of the other big-ticket movies.