What happened on the early hours of March 8th, 2014 to the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. What are the most convincing conspiracy theories that we had heard.

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043 - The missing flight MH370

Sandy and Chaitu talk about the recent OTT releases: JathiRatnalu, Uppena and WildDog. And as usual followed by their 'Pichaapaati' (read it in telugu)

047 - JathiRatnalu,Uppena,WildDog,Sollu

Greatest inventions ever are discussed in this episode. Chaitu and Sandy talk about the things they feel are the most helpful inventions in their lives. Things like USB cable and a pressure cooker are also considered as their best inventions.

048 - Greatest Inventions

048 - Greatest inventions

Raju Peethala from Cricbuzz joins us to discuss about how online Cricket commentary works. Raju also co-hosts a sports podcast called Cricket Nagaram along with his friend Rahul. Sandy and Chaitu had so many interesting questions about the commentary and inside facts which were never explored before.

049 - Raju Peethala from Cricbuzz

Dokka Seethamma - She is an unsung hero who hails from Andhra Pradesh and had spent her most of her life serving food for poor people and travellers. In this episode let us learn about who she is and how come her photograph is still in a museum in England.

053 - Dokka Seethamma

Do you miss theatre watching experience since the pandemic? In this episode we compare the pros and cons of watching movies in OTT and Cinema theatres.

054 - OTT vs Theatre watching experience

Thaggedhele! Today we discuss about the stellar performance of Allu Arjun as Pushpa..PushpaRaj!

055 - Pushpa

Our customary episode of every end of the year is here. The top 3 telugu movies of 2021 in the categories of Best, Average and the Worst. Any guesses?

056 - 3 Top Telugu movies of 2021

In this episode we discuss about the events that led towards the second World War and the major highlights of the war. Who started it, Who were involved, Who won it, Who lost it?

057 - World War 2

In this episode we speak about the India's biggest blockbuster RRR directed by S S Rajamouli starring Ram Charan and Jr.NTR

058 - RRR

An unprepared episode is here. Pichapaati version of talk on various random topics happening in our lives. Mostly discussed about the cringe stuff that we consume on daily basis. Also spoke about Acharya movie, RadheShyam and KGF2. And also spoke about Telugu influencers we have today on various social media platforms.

059 - Maakishtamaina Cringe

After a gap we are back. This episode is about why we had to take a break.

060 - Chaitu Solo Travel

060 - Chaitu solo travel

In this episode, we talk about the history of Pizza, our favorite Pizzas and how did it became such a commercial success in every country.

061 - Pizza Pichi

In this episode we talk about our top 3 picks of Telugu movies of 2022 in different categories like Worst, Average, Best movies. Also introducing new categories this year like Best Director, Best Music Director, Best Actress and Best Actor

062 - 3 Top Telugu movies of 2022

Back after a long gap with our first episode in 2023. It is about BholaaShankar. We try to find the reasons why this movie failed. Is it because of miscalculations made by the director Meher Ramesh or is it about the choices that are being made by Chiranjeevi after his comeback. We also touch up a little bit on movies like Bro and Jailer.

064 - Ayyo Bholaa

It is all about the Indian Blockbuster of the year, Animal. We discussed about what went well and what went bad about this movie. How did Sandeep Reddy Vanga threw away into the trash about the notions everyone had about making a movie. Will this be a resurgence of new age film making in India?

063 - Animal

The resurrection of Prabhas after three back to back flops is here. In this episode we discussed about how Salaar initially seemed to be heading towards a disaster but then how Prashanth Neel uses Prabhas to head this move towards a blockbuster.

064 - Salaar Ceasefire

065 - Salaar Ceasefire

In this episode we talk about our top 3 picks of Telugu movies of 2023 in different categories like Worst, Average, Best movies. Also introducing new categories this year like Best Song, Best Dubbed Movie, Best Meme of the year

066 - 3 Top Telugu movies of 2023

All about how excited are we about Sankranthi 2024 movies. Especially after watching the trailer of Guntur Kaaram, we are recording this episode immediately to share our excitement with you. We have also discussed the recent comments from ManiSharma to offer him chances to make music along with Thaman. Also more about the other Sankrathi movies like Saindhav, Naa Saami Ranga and Hanuman.

067 - Guntur Kaaram hype, Manisharma, Sankranthi 2024

The very first episode from the new podcast channel - "The Tollywood Project". Sandy & Chaitu discuss about the latest movies Chi La Sou, Goodachari, Srinivasa Kalyanam, Geetha Govindam. Also they discuss about the curious case of Saaho's release.

001 - Pilot - Pichaapaati

As usual Chaitu and Sandy have many topics to discuss in this episode. They are devastated by the affect of floods in Kerala. So they talk about the help being offered by Tollywood celebrities and how Actor Navdeep has become a helping hand in crisis situations. 

They dive into discussing the movie of the week "Geetha Govindam". What is good and what is bad? Why Rahul Ramakrishna is such a revelation in telugu cinema.How did the Star power of Vijay Deverakonda helped this movie?

Sandy has mixed feelings on the teaser of Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy and let us listen to what wondered and bothered him about the teaser.

Chaitu is excited about a movie that is based on a place from his hometown Vizag. C/o Kancherapalem a new age telugu movie which is going to release on September 7th. Listen to him about what he got to say about it!

002 - SyeRaaNarasimhaReddy ki Sye Sye!

This is a very special episode as part of Powerstar Pawan Kalyan 's birthday on September 2nd. An honest conversation between two fans of Pawan Kalyan. Chaitu & Sandy explore the sine wave form of situations they face as Pawan Kalyan fans.

003 - The Sine Wave of a Pawan Kalyan fan

In this episode our host Chaitu dissects the latest movie "Care of Kancharapalem" . What is good and not so good about this gem of a movie. Also our hosts share a lighter moment on the popular troll FASAK. 

They also get into some serious discussion about the recent Telangana assembly dissolution. And some tidbits about few upcoming interesting episodes.

SPOILER ALERT!

004 - Care of Kancharapalem

As promised in the last episode, we are back with a special episode on BiggBoss Telugu. This time it is not just our regular hosts but there are three guests who are joining us to discuss the second season of this trending show. Prashy, Phani and Sai are here with us and they get into the skin of the show to explain what is happening around in this house of tremors. It is just the part 1 of our episode and there is more about the phenomenon of Kaushal Army in the part 2.

005 - Bigg Boss 2 Telugu Vishleshana - Part 1

The continuation of our previous episode on the BiggBoss Telugu season 2. Our special guests share many interesting things in this part 2 including the rise of Kaushal Army, why do many girls hate Kaushal, which contestant has profited from this season, which contestant got affected negatively with this show, how fair is the voting process, Is Actor Nani a better host, who would be the host for the next season. 

A small tidbit on our upcoming surprise episode.

006 - Bigg Boss 2 Telugu Vishleshana - Part 2

Sandy and Chaitu have so many questions on how come Japanese people are madly in love with Baahubali and Telugu cinema. We have Mr.Tapas and Ms. Marina from Japan joining us for this special episode on the phenomenon of Baahubali in Japan. They reveal many unknown things about the love of Telugu language by Japanese people and how they see Baahubali movie and relate their lives with it.
01:18 - Craze of Baahubali in Japan that our hosts have come across
05:00 - Conversation begins with our guests from Japan
11:10 - How were Tapas and Marina introduced to Indian cinema
14:14 - Why are Japanese madly in love with Baahubali
19:18 - About Professor Keiko Yamada 's supervision of Japanese subtitles
23:00 - Why is Baahubali MANGAtic, KABUKItic. What are they?
27:00 - About "ZEKKYO JYOEI" the Screaming screening in Japan
28:50 - Craze of Actor Subbaraju - Kumara Verma
32:53 - Tapas and Marina sing Mahishmathi Anthem for us
38:50 - Tapas explains why Japanese people love Telugu language and Rajamouli
41:40 - Marina talks about Magadheera in Japan
52:00 - Screening of Baahubali in Mito Film Festival
57:05 - Marina plays the court room dialogue from Baahubali 2
01:01:40 - Impression of the VFX in Baahubali
01:13:48 - How are Japanese people drawing inspiration from Baahubali movie

Music bits of Baahubali soundtrack are copyrighted by Lahari Music , T-Series.

007 - SPECIAL-Baahubali by Japanese

Our hosts discuss about the movie Aravindha Sametha Veera Raghava. They discuss about the good and the bad moments in the movie. Do they think Trivikram is back? Did NTR impress them? Why Thaman was amazing? Nagababu as a factionist "LOL" !??  Check it out yourself

008 - Aravindha Sametha

2018 has been a great year for Telugu cinema. It has seen new age movies becoming successful with audience embracing this change. This year Tollywood has witnessed highly talented debut directors like Rahul Sankrityan of 'Taxiwala' or Maha Venkatesh of 'Care of Kancharapalem'. In this episode Chaitu and Sandy made a list of Top 5 Telugu movies of 2018 in the following four categories: 5 Worst movies, 5 underrated movies, 5 overrated movies and 5 best movies. These are purely personal opinions of our hosts and not a collective opinion of the general audience.

013 - 5 Top Telugu movies of 2018

Fascination towards old telugu movies drove us to make this episode on the classic blockbuster of all time - MayaBazar. Sandy feels this movie deserves a place among the top 5 all time best telugu movies ever made. A multistarrer having N T Ramarao, S V RangaRao, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Savithri alone explains the magnanimity of this movie. Marcus Bartley's cinematography is a magic till today. It still surprises many movie goers about how few sequences in this movie were shot during the ages where computers never existed. We discuss many fun facts about this movie like why NTR was not the first choice as Sri Krishna, how S V Rangarao dominates the whole show. Enjoy the show.

029 - Mayabazar

Sandy and Chaitu discuss about Sid Sriram's popularity in Telugu contemporary music. Also the controversy about not encouraging regional talent. We also have our favorite picks from Sid's songs. Listen to this episode about our take on it.

034 - Sid Sriram

The Tollywood Project is a podcast started by a bunch of Telugu guys sharing our views on the latest happenings in our Telugu world. We are more interested to speak about the movies and also general current happenings in our Telugu states. You can tweet us at twitter.com/telugupodcast

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