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Here are some of facts and figures

When you say south indian movies, it is always Tamil cinema which comes to any body’s mind

Bollywood is the largest film industry in India by all means – No of movies produced, distribution including global market and revenue generation.

Kollywood, the Tamil industry is the second largest.
by all means.

Telugu industry is always third. Telugu cinema was never ahead of Tamil industry by any means. Never in the history

In 2011, 107 Hindi Movies were released. 123 Tamil movies were released & 101 Telugu movies were released. Which means, in 2011, Tamil cinema is ahead of even bollywood interms of No of movies produced.

Talking about the creativity, quality, popularity of heroes, Telugu cinema is way behind Tamil.

Out of 101 Telugu movies, 19 movies were dubbed from Tamil. Which means 20% of Telugu movies are dubbed from Tamil. That means Telugu cinema depends on Tamil movies for 20% of its revenue.
This trend is there for a very long time now

This shows the popularity of Tamil heroes even in AP

Tamil heroes are so popular and powerful that they discuss and decide the Telugu dubbing rights at the time of discussion of the Tamil movie project itself.

Tamil movies dubbed into Telugu rule the roost in AP. AP govt increased the entertainment tax for dubbed movies from 25% to 50%. Still they could not stop the success of Tamil movies dubbed into Telugu

Not a single movie of any language was dubbed into Tamil. This shows the strength of Tamil cinema

Coming to the popularity of Heroes, when you say south indian Heroes, It is Rajanikanth & Kamal hassan who are always in the first 2 positions. No one can come any where near them. These 2 positions will remain same for ever.

Chiranjeevi & Nagarjuna were managing to hold on to 3rd & 4th position till a few years back. Now even that is gone to Tamil Heores like Surya.
Telugu Heroes Number will start from No 6, because, first 5 positions are held by Tamil heroes

Telugu movies are no where near Tamil movies in global popularity.

Enthiran went global, whereas Magadheera did not cross Andhra border.

Top 10 Tamil heroes are popular accross the globle whereas except for Chiranjeevi & Nagarjuna No telugu heroes are known out side Andhra.

Telugu heroes are Andhra heroes, where as Tamil heroes are global heroes.

Telugu cinema survives purely on movies dubbed from other languages. in 2011 out of 101 Telugu movies released 29 movies from other languages (19 from Tamil, 4 from Malayalam, 4 from Kannada & 2 from Hindi)

Most of the other Telugu movies are remakes.

Telugu cinema will always be way behind Tamil Cinema.