Why Mad Rush To Announce Release Dates?

There has been a heavy rush among filmmakers to announce release dates and block the respective dates. This sudden and unprecedented demand is said to be due to release of the films in multiple languages. For instance, Allu Arjun’s Pushpa is slated for release in 5 languages including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. For a film to release in Hindi, one needs to lock the date in much advance. As there is a Independence Day week, makers of Pushpa have announced Aug 13th as the release date of the movie. This is to put a check to other big releases.

RRR has locked October 13th as the release ahead of Dasara festival season. Already, producer Boney Kapoor who announced his production Maidaan for Oct 15th release is crying foul over Rajamouli’s RRR. Since, RRR has backing of Karan Johar, the makers of RRR may not budge and change their release date.

It is buzzed that Dil Raju is planning to release Pawan Kalyan’s Vakeel Saab for April 9th. Nothing has been confirmed yet. On the other hand, Matinee Entertainments is looking at releasing Chiranjeevi’s Acharya on May 7th. February is also quite busy this time unlike before. Vaishnav Tej’s debut film Uppena is scheduled for Feb 12th release. Nithiin and Chandrasekhar Yeleti’s Check is going to hit screens on Feb 19th. Sundeep Kishan and Lavanya Tripathi’s A1 Express locked its release for Feb 26.

March 11th marks the releases of Sharwanand’s Sreekaram, Sree Vishnu’s Gaali Sampath, Jaathi Ratnalu. Nithiin’s Rang De is slated for release on March 26. Rana Daggubati’s Aranya (Haathi Mere Saathi) is clashing with Rang De. Rana’s other film Viraata Parvam is locked for April 30th release which is just a month gap.

Gopichand and Tamannah’s sports drama Seetimaarr is releasing on April 2nd. Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi-starrer Love Story is going to release on April 16th. Nani’s Tuck Jagadish will clash with Love Story. Prabhas and Pooja Hegde’s much awaited romantic story Radhey Shyam is initially planned to release on April 30. If Radhe Shyam misses April 30th, the film may have PAN India release in July this year.

Varun Tej’s boxing film Ghani is going to release on July 30. Anil Ravipudi’s F3 will release on August 27. Of course, August and October will see Allu Arjun’s Pushpa and NTR, Ram Charan’s RRR. So, 2021 is going to be a packed year as films jostling for space in cinemas. After a lull 2020, 2021 is going to be an eventful year for Tollywood.