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Editorial (6th August 2000) - Friendship Day

Snehanikanna minna lokana ledu raa.... goes one of the popular Telugu songs.. and what's the date today ..August 6th..and wow it's Friendship Day. This day is so special for all of us because it is a day for those people who could change our lives so much..Yes!! Friends can influence us so much. We, at idlebrain.com wish all our viewers a very Happy Friendship Day. On this very special day we will try to analyze the various themes on friendship that Tollywood has produced over the years.We will see how trends changed in different generations.

In the early stages of Telugu cinema, we come across stories where there are two friends, one who is very rich and the other who is very poor, the rich guy likes the poor guy because of his sincerity, his dedication and his honesty. This kind of stories find their place not only in regular movies but also in evergreen mythological hits, who can forget the star performance of NTR as Duryodana Chakravarthy in Dana Veera Shura Karna and how he brushes aside all the obstacles and makes Karna a king giving highest regard to friendship. Other themes in those days were stories where there were two zamindars who were once great friends, split because of some small incident and how they became good friends again.

After that, the trend changed a bit and Tollywood produced movies on friendship wherein two great childhood friends grow up in two different environments, one becoming a sincere Police officer and the other a notorious but soft-hearted criminal, before the interval the criminal's identity is revealed and they split, and before the movie ends they become one again. We also see revenge-oriented friendship movies, in these kind of movies, a friend goes to arrest a criminal, but gets killed, the other friend somehow knows this and then goes to the villain and kills him fulfilling his vow.

In the latest generation, we come across a variety of friendship stories. We typically see in many films where the Hero and his naughty friends ( of the likes of Ali, Venu madhav, Ganesh etc) trying to tease the heroine and her friends and how the friends help the hero and the heroine getting close etc, we also see some new subjects like friendship between a boy and a girl, how the world misinterprets it and how they fall a prey to it. We also see movies wherein both the heroes fall for the same girl and how ultimately one sacrifices and the other one gets it etc etc

Whatever may be the trend, who ever may be the artistes, Telugu Movie lovers have always respected good friendship stories, let us hope that this will continue for many many years to come. Once again we, at idlebrain.com wish all our viewers a very Happy Friendship Day.

Ranganath Vanaparthy
Guest Editor
Idlebrain.com
6th August 2000

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