The only way for a hero to succeed back then was to either choose a "faction" movie or dress in khakis. That was the super-successful formula of the 1990s, and the police uniform gave performers like sai kumar and balakrishna a fresh lease on life as leading men. But it appears that things have altered considerably since then.

Ram's The Warrior, Sudheer Babu's The Hunt, Naresh's Ugram, and naga Chaitanya's Custody are just a few of the recent superflops in tollywood that have been utter box office failures. One thing unites all of these films: they all include police uniforms. Even youthful heroes like kiran Abbavaram, who created the game Metre in which he plays a police officer, were unable to do miracles. tollywood is now puzzled by the audience's rejection of films with cops as the major characters these days.

Of course, tollywood has overdone the police characters in many of its productions; we have seen nice policemen, terrible cops, cunning cops, and hilarious cops on screen. These police roles won't work till and until the movie's idea is powerful, like it was in films like vikramarkudu and Temper. Otherwise, it should be polished and interesting like Raviteja's krack movie even if there isn't a plot. Otherwise, the moment for police roles has long passed, and our authors and filmmakers have run out of ideas for fresh police tales.


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