The Telugu drama or Telugu theatre (Drama in the Telugu language) is one of the most popular Art forms in India. There are many social and mythological plays performed by many eminent artists and have enthralled the audience from time to time with their magnificent performance. One of the interesting feature is the dialogue delivery by the actors. Where as its visual language is not much familiar than that of any other regional theatres.
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The interesting feature in Telugu theatre is the main roles are casted by two persons and named as "okatava (first)" "rendo (the second)", for example okatava krishnudu (first krishna), rendava krishnudu (second krishna). Most of the performances start at late nights and will continue till early mornings.
The other most important feature in the Telugu theatre is "Parishid Play". These Parishid plays have taken place for the improvements in Telugu theatre and leads to a realistic movement rather than the normal epic stories happened before that time. It is also consider that there were more than 66 parishids are which has started from different places in Andhra Pradesh. Parishid history started from 1929 and it served merely as platform of at which established actors, dramatists, and patrons met for an annual festival. Popular plays were performed and useful lectures on important topics of theatre art delivered. The parishid also established a realistic movement of Telugu theatre. As against the existing tradition of musical plays i.e. padya natakam, it pleaded for socially relevant theatre. To achieve this, it held annual competitions regarded as a touch stone of artistic excellence, insisting that only social or one-act drama within the previous five years was eligible to participate and that women should enact female roles. The time factor of 1hr is also another important factor in these parishid plays.
" Prasna" a play directed by Murali Basa at University of Hyderabad, written by Gollapudi Maruthi Rao