Telugu cinema (Tollywood) is a South Indian film industry based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. The Telugu

language film industry, being the second largest film industry in India, in terms of market capitalization and

infrastructure, holds a memorandum of understanding with Motion Picture Association of America to combat video

piracy. As per the CBFC report of 2010, the industry stood third in India, in terms of films produced yearly.

Tollywood holds the Guinness World Record for the largest film production facility in the world. tollywood official

website is apfilmchamber com.

The success of Alam Ara made Irani to diversify into regional language productions in Telugu and Tamil the same year. It was Ardeshir Irani's associate Hanumantha Muniappa Reddy who directed Bhakta Prahalada and was released six weeks ahead of the first Tamil Talkie, Kalidas that Reddy himself directed with a mixed cast of Telugu, Tamil and Hindi actors. Bhakta Prahlada had an all-Telugu starcast featuring Munipalle Subbiah as Hiranyakasipa and Surabhi Kamalabai as Leelavathy. Both the films were made in Bombay. By 1936, the mass appeal of film allowed directors to move away from religious and mythological themes. That year, under the direction of Krithiventi Nageswara Rao, Prema Vijayam, a film focusing on social issues, was released. Its success prompted the production of dozens of other immensely successful 'social films', notably 1939's Vandemataram and Maala Pilla. Touching on societal problems like the status of Untouchables and the practice of giving dowry, Telugu films increasingly focused on contemporary living: twenty-nine of the ninety-six films released between 1937 and 1947 had social themes.

September 15, 1931 saw the release of the first Telugu talkie Bhakta Prahalada in Crown in Kakinada, Maruthi in Vijayawada, Gaiety in Madras and Minerva in Machlipatnam. Just a few months earlier, on March 14, 1931, the first Indian talkie film, Alam Ara was released at Majestic Cinema, Bombay and in other parts of the country including Maruthi Talkies, Vijayawada. People thronged the cinema halls where it was exhibited. With its box office success the country's first black marketeering in cinema tickets began with a four anna (a quarter of a rupee) ticket getting sold for Rs. 4 or 5! Another doyen, C. Pullaiah after gaining experience in the cinematic art, purchased a second hand movie camera in 1924 in Bombay returned to native Kakinada with an intention to make films in Andhra soil. He shot a thousand feet silent film, Markandeya, with himself cast as Yama and made the film with so many indigenous methods and projected the film on a white washed wall in his house to the amazement of his friends through the very same camera with which he shot the film. He used to call cinema as Goda Meedi Bomma. It was C. Pullaiah who gave Telugu cinema's first super duper hit, Lavakusa (1934) starring Parupalli Subbarao and Sriranjani (Sr.). It was his second feature film.

Below are list of websites which provides news about tollywood movies, images, events, songs,photos of all telugu cinemas

[http://www.teluguportals.com]

http://www.way2sites.com

http://www.way2banks.com.

http://123telugu.com

The Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce has been established in the year 1979 in Hyderabad, the capital city of

Andhra Pradesh, with a view to facilitate services to all sections of film industry such as Studios, Out-door

units, Film producers, Distributors and Exhibitors who are spread-over through out the State and it has been

recognized by the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh as the sole representative body of the film industry in the State.