The meteoric rise of director Trivikram Srinivas with two back-to-back hits 'Julayi' and 'Atharintiki..' could give some sleepless nights to SS Rajamouli and Srinu Vytla who are holding the top position in T-town with a series of blockbusters and also necessitate a debate, that who is the best entertainer among three most popular dream merchants.
Even though, T-town witnessed the emergence of some gen x directors, like Vamsi Paidipally, Harish Shankar, Sampath Nandi, Boyapati Srinu and Maruthi who showed few sparks but they need to deliver more hits, to lay claim for the top slot. So, lets see, on whom the crown of best entertainer sits pretty well. No doubt, Rajamouli stands taller among all directors, by exploring various genres like socio-fantasies like Magadheera and Eega, sports-centric movie (sye) and a laugh-riot (Maryada rammana) and now sets out to make a historical film 'Baahuballi', to have definite edge over his rivals, with his creative genius.
Whereas, Trivikram is not far behind in success rate, but one thing for sure, he likes to play if safe and doesn't take up novel plots or genres and likes to work around simple plots, but heavily relies on his inherent strength 'flair for comedy' and comes up with very powerful punch lines, to keep audience entertained. Giving these two a stiff completion- is Srinu Vytla, the master of humour-driven films like 'Dhookudu', 'Baadshah' who sometimes overlooks 'logic' and like to etch out lot of humour and accodomates loads of comedy characters into his script, (particularly Brahmanandam), but assures laugh-a-minute.
Even though, threesome have preferences over picking up 'plots' but they mostly rely on song-& dance routine, separate comedy tracks and other so-called ingredients, to engage audience for 3 hours. All of them can design powerful roles for stars and Rajamouli showed it with hits like 'Yamadonga' ( NTR), 'Chatrapathi (Prabhas) but later began to work with lesser known actors like Sunil, before returning to star-driven film 'Baahubali'. Whereas, Trivikram began the other way round, as he scored a hit with young actor Tarun (Nuvve Nuvve), before moving to the big league of stars Mahesh babu(Athadu), Pawan Kalyan (Jalsa) and Mahesh (Khaleja) but couldn't deliver hit with Chiranjeevi in 'Jai Chiranjeeva', since too much comedy on a big star, backfires at times, without a plot, that justifies their superstardom. Even Srinu Vytla, flip flopped with stars like Chiranjeevi (Andarivadu), but found his winning streak with Ravi Teja (Venky) flamboyance and then tastes sucess with Mahesh (Dookudu) and NTR. So he has developed a brand of his own for 'entertainment' and many directors are finding it easy to emulate his formula and love to tickle the pink bones of the viewers.
Whereas, Rajamouli graph has been almost steady for the last decade, but Trivikram became a comeback specialist since he had big flops inbetween to dent his progress, whereas Srinu's also had non money-spinners like 'Namo Venkatesa' but reached the top with one solid hit 'Dhookudu'. All of them capable of handling big stars and can inspire big stars to put in some good performance, as all of them are considered tough task masters. All of them draw inspiration from Hollywood movies like Eega (coackroach), Magadheera (Troy, Braveheart) and Julayi was inspired by 'Italian Job' and Srinu's 'Dhookudu' was rip off of 'Good Bye Lenin' but they are good re-working on these hired themes and make it believable, by sketching boy-next-door protoganists and their simplicity and good-heartedness eclipses the unbelievability factor, in hero's task accomplishment.
In terms of versality, Rajamouli leads the pack, but Trivikram and Srinu are easy to emulate and discovered the formula for success in T-town humuor-ridden star movies- and don't mind overlooking 'logic; to create magic, whereas Rajamouli is a stickler for perfection and doesn't like to compromise easily. So for now, Rajamouli, is entitled for the crown, but Trivikram-Srinu could also stake claim, by trying some different genres and catapult T-town to a different level and break the notion, that T-town can deliver only 'no brainer' stuff.
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