Investing an amount Rs fifty crore for a movie is not a big issue these days in Tollywood. They can release a movie dubbed in Hindi or sell the story to the Hindi producers.
They can also sell it to the OTT. It will be run in the theatres in Telugu states first. So the Telugu producers are taking all the risks these days. So they are investing huge amounts for the regular and medium actors also.
The heroes with minimum guarantees can get a lot of investment very easily. But big heroes are taking a remuneration of around fifty to seventy crore these days.
NTR has given seventy days to Koratala Shiva for fifty-five crore. Kushi star Pawan Kalyan has given two months to Trivikrma Srinivas for seventy crores. That is the demand with the capability of recovery from the Hindi market and also OTT.
In the name of Pan India release big producers like Mythir Movie Makers are ready to invest more than a hundred crore for the movies. Pushpa two is going to be the biggest movie in the country to be released by next year.
RRR and KGF are minting crores of money from the Cine fans. The beginning was from the Baahubali times. Good movies with great publicity are making money for the producers left and right.