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Southern cinema: Popular dialogues, songs inspire film titles

A film's title is the first step in grabbing a viewer's attention much before it hits the screens. And more attention is guaranteed when a popular film dialogue or a line from a chartbuster song becomes the title of a movie. That's just what a slew of southern filmmakers are doing. Over 10 upcoming southern films have titles that are associated with popular dialogues and hit songs from past movies. In Telugu, the titles of films such as "Oka Laila Kosam", "Oohalu Gusagusaladea, "Ra Ra Krishnayya", "Nee Jathaga Nenundali", "Kiraak", "Govindudu Andarivadele", "Gallo Telinattunde" and "Dikkulu Chudaku Ramayya" were all based on chartbuster numbers. Akkineni Naga Chaitanya-starrer "Oka Laila Kosam" was inspired from a hit song of the same name from his late grandfather Akkineni Nageswara Rao's film "Raamudu Kaadu Krishnudu". In fact, the song was also remixed for the ...