Flop After Flop: This Genre is Scaring Tollywood!

If one could notice, the most interesting aspect is that Tollywood is continuously failing to deliver a blockbuster film in this genre. We are talking about the popular spy-agent genre where Hollywood churns out a good number of films all the time, and most of them end up being blockbusters. Here in the Telugu industry, we have seen a hattrick of flops in this genre.

While Akhil’s Agent and Nikhil’s Spy are the biggest disappointments, the latest to join this gang of unaccepted movies is none other than Varun Tej’s Gandeevadari Arjuna. This Praveen Sattaru directorial fell flat right from the word go and known themes like medical waste discharge and action sequences shot in London haven’t worked in its favour.

The film might end up a big embarrassment for the director after his previous film which also falls in the same category, “The Ghost”. Except for Adivi Sesh’s Goodachari, none scored a hit in the spy-agent genre, where the protagonist’s main target will be to save the world.

After the unsuccessful show of Agent, Spy and Arjuna, surely Tollywood will be scared to take up this genre for a couple of years at the least. Though Bollywood has recently scored a mega blockbuster in the same genre with SRK’s Pathaan, and even previous outings like Ek Tha Tiger, War, Baby and others doing well, they have at least a 50% success rate if we consider the flop films of John Abraham and others in the same genre. One wonders when would Telugu industry score a successful film in this genre.