Nizam, Andhra, Ceded etc. used to be the major money minting areas for Telugu Films in the past but in the last few years, Overseas Market for Telugu Films boomed to unexpected level.
Year 2015 just rocked for Telugu films. Starting from big films like Baahubali and Srimanthudu, even medium Budgeted films like Bhale Bhale Magadivoy and Kumari 21F, many content based Movies have performed exceedingly well in Overseas, especially at US Box Office.
Baahubali remained the king as expected with collections of over $7.5 million. From Telugu version itself the fantasy film collected close to $6.5 million. This proves how strong Telugu market in Overseas is. Next come Superstar Mahesh Babu’s biggest hit of his career, ‘Srimanthudu’. The king of overseas fetched unbelievable collections of close to $2.9 million.
Surprisingly, Bhale Bhale Magadivoy beat TriVikram and Bunny’s high budget ‘S/o Satyamurthy’ to get 3rd place with collections of over $1.4 million. Totally 10 Films have crossed $250,000 with Sukumar’s production venture ‘Kumari 21F’ at 10th place with over $253,000 collections.
2016 is expected to be much bigger.