MAA T20 Tollywood Trophy Press Meet

The Movie Artists Association (MAA) has been organizing various programmes to raise funds to help the poor workers in the film industry and for the development of Tollywood industry. In this process this time the association decided to organize a T20 cricket match involving all film stars from Tollywood. This T20 Tollywood Trophy will be held on June 13th at Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad. To announce this, a press meet was arranged by MAA members. Murali Mohan, Balakrishna, Siddharth, Sushanth, Tarun, Ahuti Prasad, Sivaji Raja, Gautham Raju, Rhythm Vishnu etc., attended the press meet.

Murali Mohan said, “This T20 Tollywood Trophy will be at par with IPL matches. So far all of us in Telugu film industry joined hands together for any good cause. Likewise this time also the entire Tollywood is coming forward to make this event a grand success. In the past we held two such cricket matches in 2003 and 2005. The funds we collect through this cricket match will be used to construct a building for MAA. This apart, we are also planning to help the poor artists. Right now the main problem in the film industry is the piracy. To create this awareness among general public we are going to take a rally on June 13th in the stadium. We are also planning to kill the piracy by following certain rules. Like the producers of small films should release the CDs and DVDs within one month of its release and the producers of big films within 3 months of its release. We will let you know more details about it shortly.”

Balakrishna said, “There are altogether four teams and they will be lead by Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Venkatesh and myself. Two matches will be held in the morning and two in the evening. Rhythm Company which organized the star cricket matches earlier, this time also will take the responsibility of organizing it and the broadcasters will be the same as for IPL matches. These cricket matches will be seriously played by all four teams giving tough fight. The teams will be formed on 15th and will unveil the cricket dress codes on May 30th. On June 13th we are also going to arrange 24 cameras. The cricket match will be held along with cultural programmes on that day from morning 9 AM to evening 11 PM.”