9 Telugu Movies That Started On A High Note But Eventually Got Shelved

The Hollywood flick which was planned on a large scale was in buzz for quite some time and we even got to see some first look posters from the movie. The movie looked all great with Chiru making his Hollywood entry, but for reasons unknown the movie vaporized into thin air. The Telugu version of the movie was supposed to be directed by Suresh Krishna failed to see the light.

Chiranjeevi and RGV are new personalities to each other. During the 90s when Ramu was taking the Indian cinema by storm, he had planned a movie with Chiranjeevi. They went ahead with shooting some portions as well. But, in due course of time, the movie was not to be seen anywhere. Here is a proof of their movie, where a song was picturized on Chiru and Urmila, but it got shelved.

It was for the first time that director Vamsi was roping in a biggie for his movie. The director who otherwise hooks up with lesser known stars and experiments with his stories and narration chose Venkatesh for a movie, but unfortunately this movie got shelved for reasons unknown.

Remaking the epic ‘Nartanasala’ was Balayya’s dream project. The movie was even launched, but the sudden demise of Soundarya, who was roped in to play Draupadi’s role, had to be altered. Many times there were rumours that Balayya would resume the movie’s shooting with Nayantara or Nithya Menen, but finally he confirmed that he would not be reviving his dream project any time soon. And thus the movie remains shelved till date.

The movie was in supposed to be an adaption of Malayalam ‘Niram’ which was also simultaneously made into Telugu as ‘Nuvve Kavali’. Unfortunately, this movie had to be shelved, as ‘Nuvve Kavali’ that was made on the same lines already received great response from the public and proceeding with this movie would only be duplication of the same. The makers then went ahead with ‘Kushi’ with the same director SJ Surya. 

This was A M Ratnam’s second venture with Pawan Kalyan that got shelved. The movie was announced on a grand scale with Pawan Kalyan eying to direct this so seemed social-drama. After a few years, we realized that this movie actually didn’t shape up in the first place.

Chiranjeevi and Singeetham Srinivas Rao planned a movie together. Major portions of the movie was even completed, but it is said that since Chiru wasn’t satisfied with the final output of the movie, they had to alter their plans by shelving this movie.

The movie directed by RGV starring Rajashekar and Swathi Dikshit was almost complete. They even released the trailer. But, from some reliable sources it was learnt that RGV faced issues with the copyrights for this script. The court therefore had to put the movie on hold till the issue was settled between the parties. Here you can have a look at the movie’s trailer.

After ‘Magadheera’, since ‘Orange’ didn’t give the Mega hero his needed run at the box office, there was a lot discussion around which movie Charan would pick next. ‘Merupu’ finally took off, but soon for reasons unknown, this was replaced with ‘Racha’ and ironically ‘Merupu’ which means a spark, failed to ignite.