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Reminiscence of Venkatesa70mm, Hyderabad

Venkatesa 70MM is one of the most reputed theaters of Hyderabad, which had many super hits to its credit for over two decades witnessing a legion of super hits. Started with Akkineni Nageswara Rao's film Jai Jawaan in February 1970, it had created many milestones among 70 mm theaters as far as Telugu film running are concerned. Some examples are:

1. The first direct 50 days Telugu film in a 70mm theater in Andhra Pradesh is Dashing hero Krishna's daring cowboy film "Mosagallaku Mosagadu" (1971).
2. The first direct 100 days Telugu film in a 70mm theater in Andhra Pradesh is He-Man Shobhan's mythological classic "Sampoorna Ramayanam"(1972).
3. The first direct 175 days Telugu film in a 70mm theater in Andhra Pradesh is Legend NTR's sensational super hit film "Adavi Ramudu" (1977).
4. The highest running for a White&Black Telugu film in a 70mm theater (98 days) in Andhra Pradesh is He-Man Shobhan's award winning film "Kaalam Maarindi" (1972)
5. Dr. NTR's Adavi ramudu was houseful for 47 days and that was a record for a long time in Hyderabad. This film collected 12.5 lakhs rupees in this theater in its total run. No other film prior to that collected at least half of that amount. This is the first Telugu film to collect one million rupees in a single theater.

Below is the list of all Silver Jubilee, 100 days and 50 days movies of top heroes that were exhibited in Alankar

S. No.	Year	Movie Name	Hero(es)	Days
Silver Jubilees
1	1977	Adavi Ramudu	NT Ramarao	176
100 days Movies
1	1974	Khaidi Babai	Shobhan Babu	125
2	1984	Illalu Priyuralu	Shobhan Babu	113
3	1981	Illalu	Shobhan Babu	111
4	1972	Sampoorna Ramayanam	Shobhan Babu	105
5	1975	Devudu Chesina Pelli	Shobhan Babu	104
6	1976	Iddaru Iddare	Shobhan Babu	99
7	1972	Kalam Maarindi (Black & White)	Shobhan Babu	98
8	1977	Yamagola	NT Ramarao	126
50 days Movies
1	1973	Jeevitham (Black & White)	Shobhan Babu	55
2	1973	Doctor Babu	Shobhan Babu	61
3	1975	Babu	Shobhan Babu	70
4	1976	Monagadu	Shobhan Babu	78
5	1979	Kaarthika Deepam	Shobhan Babu	93
6	1979	Judagaadu	Shobhan Babu	78
7	1980	Kodalosthunnaru Jagratha	Shobhan Babu	72
8	1981	Jeevitha Ratham	Shobhan Babu	50
9	1982	Prema Murthulu	Shobhan Babu	51
10	1983	Mugguru Monagallu	Shobhan Babu	57
11	1985	Devalayam	Shobhan Babu	65
12	1982	Vamsa Gouravam	Shobhan Babu	49
13	1990	Doshi Nirdoshi	Shobhan Babu	49
14	1981	Oriki Monagadu	Krishna	85
15	1975	Cheekati velugulu	Krishna	70
16	1986	Khaidi Rudraiah	Krishna	63
17	1971	Mosagallaku Mosagadu	Krishna	50
18	1980	Aatagadu	NT Ramarao	57
19	1975	Eduru Leni Manishi	NT Ramarao	56
20	1978	Simhabaludu	NT Ramarao	56
21	1998	Daddy daddy	A Nageswara Rao	57
22	1973	Andala Ramudu	A Nageswara Rao	50
23	1987	President gaari abbayi	Balakrishna	50

Though this theater has hits of all heroes and even small films also, this theater proved very lucky for He-Man Shobhan almost whenever his films were released in this theater. He-Man Shobhan has created many 70mm state records in Hyderabad Venkatesa 70mm. Some of them are:

1. Total number of releases - 33
2. Number of films which had minimum respectable run - 30
3. All 25-color films, which were released in Venkatesa 70 mm, had minimum respectable run, which is a record for any hero in any 70mm theater throughout the state.
4. Number of films which had a 49-day run - 20
5. He-Man has one white and black film (Kaalam Maarindi) and one color film (Sampoorna Ramayanam) both of which had 98 days run in a single 70 mm theater that too in a single year (Venkatesa 70mm in 1972). No other hero had, at least, 60 days in a single 70mm theater even in different years also.
6. Before Slab, He-Man is the only hero to have 16 direct 50 days (no other hero has half of that number throughout the state in a single 70mm theater).
7. Before Slab and during Slab, He-Man is the only hero to have 113 days direct running (Before Slab Khaidi Babayi - 125 days; During Slab - Illalu-Priyuralu - 113 days).

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