Summer 2026 in Telugu cinema: Where are the big films?

With big-budget Telugu films such as Nani-starrer The Paradise, Ram Charan and Janhvi Kapoor’s Peddi, and Akhil Akkineni’s Lenin postponing their releases, citing longer production and post production timelines for their ambitious projects, the onus is on small and medium budget films to keep theatres afloat this summer.

Among the recent releases, Adivi Sesh’s Dacoit and Sharwanand’s Bikercontinue to hold fort in theatres.Naga Shaurya’s much-delayed Bad Boy Karthik, the ETV Win-backed Thiruveer starrer Papam Prathap and Kiran Abbavaram’s Thimmarajupalli released last week but the footfalls have not been encouraging.