"Pawan Kalyan waited till 2 am..." | Karunakaran Exclusive Interview | 25 Years Of Tholi Prema

On the 25th anniversary of Tholi Prema, filmmaker Karunakaran reminisces the many joys of making the popular Telugu romance, his bonding with the film's star Pawan Kalyan, its themes and a lot more.
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[@deadshot-0-266]

Thank you dear Karunakaran. For giving us a timeless Classic. Tholiprema stays amongst the crown jewellery of Telugu Cinema

[@jagdishkumar-qb1rq]

I used to go on my bicycle to the nearest theatre to hear the sound of the movie while playing in..every day after school hours. That's a wonderful experience and beautiful memories of my childhood.. Thank you Karunakaran Sir.. for giving us such a cult classic. This story is an eternal love in the hearts of Telugu people.. తొలిప్రేమ ❤

[@satyareddy8139]

The anchor was so professional and had done a great ground work which resembles on the interview. The best anchor in recent times.all the best bro.

[@roopmca2010]

TholiPrema , It's one of the Ever Green Films..

[@issackancherla5087]

After a long time I saw the feeling of a good interview in Telugu. Thank you film companion south team. Expecting from a lot more like this and a good work from anchor.

[@ramvenkatsrikar]

♥️♥️♥️

[@raokasa4011]

Superb Sir Hats off to You and entire cast and crew 🙏

[@torontotharun]

As an aspiring Film Maker , these are my notes for future. I cherish every movie of Karunakaran Garu

[@justatravellingsoldier6255]

Pawan Kalyan, the phenomenon started with Tholi Prema. Rest all of his movies are simply side notes. Cult classic.

[@user-pk8ze6kc1b]

Most professional interviewer i personally ever saw in Telugu on KZbin channel who kept the flow to the context of the movie. Kudos brother. "***** Film companion *****" is THE BEST web channel which has a very professional interviewers who NEVER EVER ask junk, crap queries to the interviewee. I AM VERY VERY IMPRESSED BY THIS YOUNG LAD. keep up the good , neat ,clean ,etiquette driven interviews . " ALL THE BEST FILM COMPANION SOUTH".

[@bharath19886511]

He is my brother

[@saifullag.saifulla5032]

Best interview skills

[@itsaIOngSToRY]

❤karunakaran

[@Thecomper]

నేను ఖుషీ సినిమా రీరిలీజ్ అప్పుడు వెళ్ళలేదు కానీ తొలిప్రేమ మాత్రం 6:00 షోకి వెళ్ళాను. నాకు చాలా ఇష్టమైన సినిమా చెల్లి పెళ్లి చేసుకుని అత్తారింటికి వెళ్ళిపోయే అప్పుడు ఆఖరికి నువ్వుకూడా నన్ను వదిలేసి వెళ్లిపోతున్నా అన్నప్పుడు చెల్లే కాదు అందరికీ కళ్లెంబడి నీళ్ళు తిరుగుతాయి. ఆ వెంటనే ఎప్పుడూ తిట్టే తండ్రి దగ్గరకు తీసుకున్నప్పుడు, అన్నీ మంచి సీన్స్. వన్ సైడ్ లవర్ గా పవన్ కళ్యాణ్ నటన, హీరోయిన్ కోసం పడే తపన, వాళ్లిద్దరి మధ్య స్నేహం మెల్లిగా ప్రేమగా మారటం, చెల్లి సెంటిమెంట్, స్నేహితులు, పెదనాన్న, అమ్మానాన్న, సన్నివేశానికి తగ్గ కామెడీ అన్నీ సరిగ్గా కుదిరిన సినిమా.

[@SrikarChahasti]

Telugu cinema industry often fails to take care of talented storytellers, allowing opportunities for directors like Meher Ramesh and Nandini Reddy to work with stars like Chiranjeevi and Samantha, while deserving storytellers are overlooked and deprived of similar chances.

[@saisaran2670]

Nandini is enough for samatha both are mediocre

[@yesh_94]

Meher Ramesh is a waste guy

[@Chaitu.B]

Karunakar got enough opportunities,it’s his inability to give a good climax for couple of movies destroyed his career.Yuvakudu and Balu are some wonderful movies but bad climax spoiled the movies.

[@chandrak2080]

If hindi film industry has DDLJ, Telugu cinema has Tholiprema... #cult

[@akashbandi2090]

DDLJ Imdb rating: 8 Tholi Prema Imdb rating: 8.4

[@pratapr1515]

Bodi bokkemi kaadu….. Tholi Prema was just a hit movie….. Pawala fans athi thappa emi ledu…… Aawara, Gaali gaadu pani paata leni vaadu educated & high aspirations unna Ammayi ni love cheyyatam, paiga love kosam emanna chesthadanta adi undadu…. Aame higher studies ki velthe wait chesthadanta….. Adi cult entra?

[@chandrak2080]

@@pratapr1515 aithe DDLJ yenti pedda Nolan cinema han... Logiclu chudaku brother... Aaa time lo eee movie ki yentha craze undho... Ippudu too same... Same comment if any other hero had done d movie too...

[@drdinesh3465]

​@@pratapr1515eno packets baaga vaduthava bro 😂🙏🏻

[@OG____pspk]

Mujhe toh kushi pasand hai 🥰

[@kanakarajukale5999]

What a great director karukaran sir...mi kallu pattukoni thanks chepalani undi...what a film sir...

[@gopinathbalakrishnan7390]

Karunagaran nicely adapted to telugu film world after his growing up years in chennai film world

[@SivaKumar-xb7qo]

Chala rojula thatvatha manchi interview chusanu..thanks

[@jayalakshmichowdhary]

My favourite director ❤❤❤

[@narasayyamarellaveeradhive2559]

Cult raa Babu Cult Classic ఇది... కొట్టలేరు ఇంకా ఇలాంటి Class Love Story నీ... Ever Ever Green Cult Classic THOLI PREMA ❤

[@someoneunkown9190]

Tholiprema. Darling. Endhukante premanta Chinnadana nee kosam and nd many more.Thankk you sir

[@vidyasagar4142]

One of the best movie ever seen in my life which seeded strong impression on my mind about love at 8 years age when movie was released which ultimately turned my character to follow only pure love in my life ever❤❤❤ thanks a lot and gratitude for ever

[@Gisanalam391]

Happy Ullasanga utsanga Darling Endukante premanata Chinnadana neekosam

[@SaiKiran-xf5je]

Appreciate the interviewer, witnessed the respect towards director and the film as well.

[@suryapathaneni4012]

30:14 అమితాబ్ కార్ కీస్ విసిరేసిన టైం గురించి.

[@geetakrishna1540]

Khammam Raghava theatre lo 1998 lo 5 times watched. 😊

[@darkrow1295]

Amithab 30:12

[@leelasai1220]

Thanks bro

[@saiganesh3800]

Thankyou for saving many people's mbile data

[@theoptimist804]

Thanks bro

[@johnnywalker1459]

Thank u bro👍

[@mouliaarya5545]

Good anchoring bro... Manchi questions tiskunav... Chaala kothaga anipinchindi..

[@samsrinivas2944]

Anchor is very goood , his passion and added homework resonates through out

[@harishkumar-ty4yj]

సార్ ఇప్పటికీ మీరు ఈ మనసే సాంగ్ గురించి చెప్తుంటే..ఆ సాంగ్ ని తలుచుకుంటే ఆ ఫీల్ వేరే సార్..

[@satishvanka1]

Thank you Karunakaran garu.... Classic 👌👌

[@pavankohli6111]

Thank you Karunakaran sir for giving us such a wonderful classic film that stays forever in Telugu audience hearts. I became a fan of you from this film, such a wonderful it is. Anchor bro very detailed questions, amazing to watch.

[@rajakondamuri6079]

Karunakaran sir thanks for tholiprema👏👏

[@LEO_1369]

Nice interview remember old fresh memories

[@sivapaturu5784]

Tholiprema a cult classic ❤️

[@CS2K23]

Darling, Ullasamga utsahanga, Happy, Vasu, Tholiprema❤❤ Repeat value of his films ♾️ Waiting for a strong comeback

[@veera222]

Thank you bro n karunakar jii💙

[@SureshKumar-qh6pt]

Appreciate the host for his homework

[@saisaran2670]

21:30 27:50 29:00 39:33

[@chaikcharcha]

Great job Ram! This interview is Gold. Karunakaran seems to be a very down to earth, chilled out and superb guy in general! Hope he makes more movies in Telugu 😊

[@shivashankar7816]

Respect for anchor

[@thirumalababu9819]

Epic Interview 🙌🙌

[@jkalyan5075]

My director

[@shaik334]

Hey producers, Please plan with karunakaran for creating wonderful family movies....

[@harishkagana3538]

Thank you so much Ram ❤. And Karunakaran Sir 🥺♥️♥️♥️ we(PSPK fans) just love you. And Ram, I didn't notice time, while I was watching this interview. Once it was completed, I felt like arey apudey ayipoyinda, inkonchem sepu vuntey bagunnu ani anipinchindi😔.

[@smile4saravanan]

Thank you for the wonderful interview. Great Inspiration for all the aspiring film makers✨ God bless✨😊🙏🏻

[@kranthikiran8321]

Yemi chepali e rojulo cinemalo Content missing 💃💃💃 Anna meru yemi tiyakandi Tiste ladys tidtaru Ott best ippudu Daily cinemalu manchi food Office lo ammailtho chit chatlu Saripoindi hyderabadu

[@javastudy5627]

best middle class boy next to door love story

[@rudrangshusamanta]

Add English Subtitles

[@user-ht7jt2gr5j]

I like Toli Prema for Brother-Sister scenes. But, I like Darling movie even more. Kajal is on fire in that movie.

[@AdityaMaking]

Suuuuperrr Suuuuuperrrrrr karunakaran garu... chithakottaranthe..... aa times lo ee manase song asalu mamulu sentation kadu ... meeru adi edit chesi pawan gariki night 2 0 clock ki chupinchanu ani cheppadam Awesome. Beautifull Days tholiprema days...

[@vidyasagar4142]

❤❤❤

[@kalyankalapala24]

Many cult movies. Great Director.

[@ravikumarallu7710]

We need full interview about happy

[@sampathc7064]

This man himself is so positive and it reflects in his movies. Hit or flop all his movies are very endearing and feel good. ❤

[@user-vb9jy8bl3r]

Can someone timestamp to Amitabh Bachchan comment

[@sureshrao172]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@chaitanyakdk4621]

Beautiful Interview ❤

[@yourtv2711]

If you want to become a director or writer then just see interviews and pen and paper .. other things automatically come...come to industry with passion not for money..money will be nothing after success

[@sairampragallapati-kk3nl]

Background blur baagavekuva ayyindi, ayyi over focus ayyi distraction avutundi. Just a suggestion 😊

[@pradeepkumarburada1758]

Thumbnail 30:13

[@jagadeeshdeesh2387]

Arey interviewer macha story neeku telsu maku kadu let the sir speak

[@sravangantyada1329]

❤

[@Kalki_upulvan]

tholi prema manodi boipic aa ra

[@sh42326]

If the guest is expressive, Ram matram iraggodathadu

[@ramvenkatsrikar]

😁😁❤ ❤

[@naveenroy9793]

❤❤❤

[@gauthamnchitraju1918]

❤

[@rajuarya3458]

❤❤❤