December 21, 2012 came and went. The sun rose on December 22. We didn’t get Yugantham —we got a hangover and a few dozen terrible movies. But in the vast, colorful ocean of Tollywood, these films are not forgotten. They are a testament to the Telugu film industry's ability to take any global trend (zombies, vampires, doomsday) and spin it into a masala entertainer with a moral: Even if the world ends, the hero will save your mother’s mangalsutram .
Enter the hero, a lorry driver. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn he is the reincarnation of a Rishi who has the power to chant the Moola Mantra that can stop the rogue planet. 2012 Yugantham Telugu Movies
This film had a different tone. Directed by the late great comedian M. S. Narayana, Yugantham was a satirical horror-comedy that used the doomsday prophecy as a backdrop for a story about greedy land sharks and ghostly revenge. December 21, 2012 came and went