Neeraja Kona’s Telusu Kada Trailer Sparks Big Buzz

Hyderabad, October 13: You can tell when someone’s found their lane. There’s no noise, no show-off confidence just a kind of quiet that says, I know what I’m doing. That’s what you sense around Neeraja Kona right now. Her film, Telusu Kada, releases this Diwali. The trailer dropped a few days ago, and people haven’t stopped talking about it. Not because it’s loud or shocking, but because it isn’t. It’s just still. That’s not something you often see in Telugu love stories anymore.

From Wardrobes To Words

For years, Neeraja was the name behind the look of Allu Arjun, Samantha, Nithiin, and Nani. If a costume felt right on them, chances are she designed it. Now she’s traded fabric for film stock. “I’ve loved writing since school,” she said to The Times of India. “Costume design was my film school.” It makes sense when you hear it. She’s been standing inches away from performances for years, reading faces, moods, silence, all the small things directors often miss. And now, she’s using that eye to tell her own story.

The Trailer Feels Like A Memory

The Telusu Kada trailer isn’t built to shock or please. It just unfolds. Siddhu Jonnalagadda looks stripped of his usual swagger. Raashii Khanna seems to carry her role like a bruise that never heals. Srinidhi Shetty, who barely speaks in the trailer, says more in her pauses than most characters do in monologues.

India Today called it “a fresh take on modern relationships.” Fair. But it’s also more than that it’s what happens when someone who’s seen too much of the surface finally decides to dig underneath.

What The Film’s Really About

The title translates roughly to You know, right? It’s the kind of line you say to someone when you’re out of explanations. Neeraja told Telugu360 the film is about “understanding and control” that push and pull that defines most relationships, whether anyone admits it or not.

Telugu Times says the film runs 2 hours and 16 minutes and carries a U/A certificate. It hits theatres on October 17, right in the middle of the Diwali rush. A risky move, but maybe that’s the point. She’s not chasing box office thunder.

Neeraja believes the film will “elevate Siddhu’s stardom,” according to 123Telugu.com. Watching him in the trailer, you can see why she thinks so. He looks like someone playing himself for the first time, no masks, no safety net.

A Changing Industry, A New Voice

Something’s been shifting quietly in Telugu cinema. The big-ticket spectacles still roar, but between them, smaller, truer films have been carving their space. Tharun Bhascker, Vivek Athreya,and Venu Udugula are storytellers with roots in real emotion.

Neeraja’s film feels like it belongs in that line, only gentler. There’s no rush to prove anything. Her lens is unmistakably her own detailed, intuitive, a little vulnerable.

You don’t see many women directing in Telugu, and fewer still doing it without preaching about it. She isn’t selling feminism here; she’s just being herself. That alone feels revolutionary.

The Quiet Courage Of A Debut

What makes Telusu Kada interesting isn’t the plot; it’s the intention. It doesn’t want to be a “big” film. It wants to feel honest. In an industry built on spectacle, that’s a brave place to start.

The music is soft, the color palette almost faded. The trailer ends not with a cliffhanger, but a question, and that feels deliberate. Love doesn’t always explode; sometimes it just fades, and Neeraja seems to get that. Even if the film doesn’t break records, it might stay with people, especially those who’ve been through love that didn’t need fixing, just understanding.

Full Circle

When you think about it, Neeraja’s journey feels like stitching a fabric inside out. She started by dressing stories; now she’s writing them. The instinct’s the same observe, match tone, find truth in texture.

You get the sense she isn’t in a hurry for validation. The film looks deeply personal, almost like something she had to make before she could move on. Maybe that’s what makes Telusu Kada worth watching. It doesn’t scream for attention. It just waits quietly, confidently, to be understood.

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Ayesha Khan

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