This story is from December 29, 2022
Love stories are one of the most popular and successful movie genres in Indian cinema, and Indian movie makers are masters of this genre as they mix it up with other popular genres such as Mass, fantasy and thrillers so that it will be commercially viable and this has been happening for long in Tollywood. This year 2022 has seen lots of such hybrid romantic Telugu movies that come before the audience to have a look at how they fared at the box office this year…!
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This 2022 period romantic drama is written and directed by K. Radha Krishna Kumar and the film is jointly funded by UV creations along with T-series. The film stars Prabhas and Pooja Hegde in the lead roles. The film set in the 1970s in Italy revolves around Palmist Vikramaditya who is conflicted between destiny and his love Prerana.
The film is made with a whopping budget of Rs 300-350 crores but due to mixed reviews of its content, it could only get back half of it.
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Rana Daggbati, Sai Pallavi and Priyamani's period romantic action drama film written and directed by Venu Udugual is set in the Telangana region in the 1990s amidst the Naxalite movement that tells the story of Vennala (Sai Pallavi), a young woman who is in pursuit of her love with Ravi Shankar (Rana Daggubati) the Naxal leader.
the film is said to be made with a budget of "Rs 15 crores but could only retain 10-12 crores of it due to the film carrying positive to mixed reviews.
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'AAGMC' is a Telugu romantic drama film written and directed by Mohan Krishna Indraganti that is funded by Mythri Movie makers starring Sudheer Babu and Krithi Shetty. That tells the story of a movie director and his lady love and this was the third collaboration of the director MK Indraganti with Sudheer Babu the film is said to be a box-office dud despite it carrying good songs.
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'Thank you' is a romantic drama film written by BVS Ravi and directed by Vikram K Kumar starring Naga Chaitanya, Raashii Khanna and Malavika Nair in the lead roles. The film talks about being grateful and showing gratitude to someone who helps us reach where we are today. The film opened to mixed negative reviews and was a box-office bomb.
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AMJ is a 2022 Telugu language romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Tirumala Kishore and the film was funded by SLV cinemas that tell the story of strong-headed women and their bride match trials to Chiranjeevi (Sharwanand). The film received mixed to negative reviews for its content and it ended up as a commercial failure, in which Rashmika played the female lead.
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'Sita Ramam' is a Telugu period romance film written and directed by Hanu Raghavapudi with Dulquer Salmaan and Mrunal Thakur in the lead roles. The film set in the 1960s tells the story of Lieutenant Ram, an orphaned army officer serving at the Kashmir border, who gets anonymous love letters from Sita Mahalakshmi, post which Ram is on a mission to find Sita and proposes to his love. The film made with Rs 30 crores made a whopping Rs 91 crores emerging as one of the highest-grossing Telugu films of 2022.
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18 Pages is a Telugu romantic comedy film written by 'Pushpa' director Sukumar and it was directed by Palnati Surya Pratap, starring Nikhil Siddharth and Anupama Parameshwaran playing the lead roles.
The film talks about a techie who was betrayed by his girlfriend which pushes him into depression, he later finds a girl Nandhini and falls for her. The film too carried decent reviews for its light-hearted content and it is still in theatres now.
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