It has been 25 years since Powerstar Pawan Kalyan’s ‘Tholi Prema’ released and it is one of the most iconic love stories made it Tollywood. Interestingly, it was Karunakaran’s first movie as a director. He went onto make movies like ‘Happy’, ‘Darling’, ‘Vasu’, ‘Endukante Premanta’, ‘Ullasanga Utsahanga’ and others. Though some of them were hits, none of them could create the magic ‘Tholi Prema’ did.
Talking about the film on its silver jubilee, Karunakaran revealed an interesting trivia about Amitabh Bachchan being tensed and irritated while looking at the climax of the movie. He said, “The climax of Tholi Prema generates tremendous tension among the audience as the hero refrains from expressing his love until the end. While watching the climax, Amitabh ji became irritated and impulsively tossed his car keys at the TV screen due to the hero’s delayed confession.”
He added, “Jaya Bachchan ji, who was viewing the film alongside him, expressed her delight and applauded when the heroine returned.” Pawan Kalyan’s film which came out in 1998 was dubbed in Tamil as well and it was remade in Kannada as ‘Preethsu Thappenilla’ in 2000 and in Hindi as ‘Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai’ in 2001. As we know, Karunakaran is yet to announce his next movie after a failure like ‘Tej I Love You’.
Amitabh Bachchan is currently working on ‘Project K’ which features Prabhas and Deepika Padukone playing the lead roles. Kamal Hassan is also a part of the film which is being directed by Nag Ashwin. He has a bunch of commitments in Hindi as well. On the other hand, Pawan Kalyan is working on ‘OG’, ‘Bro’ which is releasing on 28th July and ‘Ustaad Bhagat Singh’ simultaneously.
