Golconda High School - Marching Strongly Into Its 2nd Week, Promos

Yesterday, being Sunday, the GHS team took off on a tour to theatres to promote the movie and interact with the audiences in the theatres. The viewership picked up sharply over the weekend with the highly positive word of mouth publicity and almost all theatres were full. I watched the movie at Prasad's on both days (yesterday with Jayesh Ranjan, Chamundi, Vidyuth, Reetika and Ram Gedela) and it was full both days.

But going back to the promo tour during the day - the entire GHS team came together with their coach Sumanth, Mohana Krishna Indraganti the director, and Sagar, Prasad and I joined them. We set off first to Vijayalakshmi at LB Nagar which was packed, and then to Rajdhani at Dilsukhnagar which was full house again. Sumanth, Santosh (Gautam), Srinivas Sai (Siddhanth), Lalith (Rajinder Singh), Suraj (Vikas) and Mohana Krishna spoke and interacted with the audience. A brief stopover for lunch and then we went to Sri Mayuri at X roads and Satyam at Ameerpet, a giant of a theatre before breaking up for a while. The reception was amazing as the audiences instantly identified the characters and called out for Gautam, Siddhanth, Rajinder, Ramesh and roared with approval when they came on stage. A youngster who met Mohan at Sri Mayuri spoke knowledgeably about cinema, said that this movie actually took  out all the flaws that Chak De had, and also about how Miracle,if made in this game would have been like this movie. All this in about two minutes. Very interesting. The team then proceeded to Arjun at Kukatpally while I went to join my freinds to view the movie - again.


Met a student from Aurora Business School, a designer I remember, who had come to view the movie as well with her friends. I was hoping to meet them after the movie but they appeared to have liked it. A couple of people actually stopped and asked me if I 'starred' in the movie and I said, yes, I bowled a couple of balls in the movie. I did not ever think that those few seconds on screen would be noticed so it was, in a way, my first recognition for being an actor. A first!!

But the theatre was full, my friends were appreciative of the effort, which made the effort well worth it. And for the nth time in a row, I watched the movie without missing a moment (save the beginning when I had to wait for Ram). I wanted to get back into the theatre to watch what was happening next, wanted to watch every frame despite having watched it nine times in the past ten or eleven days. And it only seems to get better for me. Honestly. I am looking for the first signs of boredom after so much exposure to it, but I was actually hurrying in to watch the movie after the interval. Reetika who understands Telugu only in bits and pieces was completely drawn into the movie and the drama and was very effusive in her praise. Good!