Venkatesh who is considered as one of the top 4 (Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna & Venkatesh) in 90’s and 2000’s has been sticking to his strengths of family movies and content films. His unique comedy timing has made him very dear to all of Telugu movie lovers. His fantastic work in F2 is an example of his powerhouse-comedy-timing. F2 turned out to be a biggest grosser in his career. He followed it up with another commercial hit Venky Mama.
Later he has accepted two remakes. One is Narappa - a remake of Dhanush’s hard-hitting Tamil film ‘Asuran’. Another is Telugu remake of Malayalam film ‘Drushyam2’. Venkatesh has also acted in Telugu version of part 1 of this franchise ‘Drushyam’. The original Drushyam 2 was also released on OTT during pandemic and became an instant success with glowing reviews.
Incidentally Venky is the only one among top 4 heroes whose films are released in OTT as both his films in 2021 (Narappa & Drushyam) are released in OTT (one during pandemic and one after pandemic) However, his much anticipated F2 film will hit theatres during Siva Rathri of 2022 on February 25.
The reason for Dhrusyam 2 to be put on OTT despite theatres having 100% occupancy in both states and USA having the capacity to give $1 Million dollar revenue (love Story made $1M in US) is that the original film was also directly released in OTT and everybody have access to it. Same was the case with Narappa as the original film was available on OTT.
