![Waltair Veerayya vs Veera Simha Reddy: Distributors request producers of Chiranjeevi and Nandamuri Balakrishna films to shift one movie away from Sankranti [Exclusive]](https://st1.bollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FotoJet-6.jpg "Waltair Veerayya vs Veera Simha Reddy: Distributors request producers of Chiranjeevi and Nandamuri Balakrishna films to shift one movie away from Sankranti [Exclusive]")
The festival of Sankranti is always a big holiday weekend for the Tamil and Telugu film industry, and true to form, as many as three Telugu movies and one Tamil film, will be clashing next year in January during the weekend. While the Tamil movie, Varisu, is much safer due to lack of competition hitherto in its local market, the three Telugu films, Waltair Veerayya, Veera Simha Reddy and Adipurush, would be locked in a neck-and-neck battle, which could eventually end up hurting all their box office business. As such, the distributors have extended a special request to Mythri Movie Makers, the producers of both the Chiranjeevi and Nandamuri Balakrishna movies.
Will Waltair Veerayya or Veera Simha Reddy shift its release?
An entertainment news source close to both films has exclusively apprised BollywoodLife that a bunch of distributors within Telugu cinema circles have implored the makers of both Waltair Veerayya and Veera Simha Reddy to release only one of the movies for Sankranti, or else the holiday weekend will get too cramped with Adipurush also being in the fray, and they fear that each film could eat into each other's business, causing all three to suffer. They're hoping better sense would prevail, given that Mythri Movie Makers are producing the Chiranjeevi starrer as also the Nandamuri Balakrishna starrer, coupled with the fact that most exhibitors also share the distributors concerns.
Chiranjeevi movie Waltair Veerayya teaser
Nandamuri Balakrishna not keen to budge
Among other reports, it seems that those close to Balayya have advised him to not budge from Sankranti as they feel Veera Simha Reddy is carrying more buzz, plus he's going through a rejuvenated purple patch at the box office, whereas Megastar Chiru has hit a pretty rough phase.
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Russel D'Silva
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