Telugu Bytes

• Trailer impressions
• Vijay Deverakonda's performance
• Story
• Scene-by-scene review
• Rahul Ramakrishna's performance
• About the director Sandeep
• Negatives about the film
• Impact on society

Ravi and Praveen talk about the upcoming final week of Bigg Boss Telugu Season 1.

• Pre-show movie chatter
  • Spyder
  • Arjun Reddy
• How we got our first jobs / internships
• First day at work
• First week at work
• Projects
• Managers
• Lessons learnt
• Women in tech

• State of consumer tech
• Is the mobile war over?
• State of VR
• State of AR
• What is Apple doing with AR?
• Tablets vs desktops
• WWDC and Apple's latest product announcements
• iPad Pro
• iMac Pro
• HomePod and AirPods
• The next iPhone - what's coming

Ravi and Sasi discuss their obsession about latest reality TV star and Tamil Nadu heartthrob - Oviya Helen. Please make sure you check the "Links" for references during the podcast.

• Introduction
• Interest in Bigboss tamil and when it started
• Oviya’s Intro from hosts
• Discussion about Oviya’s good and bad qualities
• A brief overview of other characters:
  • Gayathri
  • Sakthi
  • Julie
  • Snehan
  • Arav
• Isolation of Oviya in the house
• Oviya and Arav’s love
• Snehan support for Oviya
• Oviya’s Exit and Kamal’s reaction
• Winner guesses

Links

• Oviya Helen - The Heartthrob: http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/bigg-boss-tamil-how-oviya-helen-became-the-premiere-seasons-most-sensational-contestant-3884305.html/amp
• Oviya’s upcoming Telugu movie (Idi Naa Love Story): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIJ10ZMWzKA
• Neenga Shutup Pannunga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGjtndc4Gfk
• Oviya Tribute Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHbwM1TtX0E
• Shakti threatens to slap Oviya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddWQtic3t1I
• Snehan brings Kamal to tears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFKLtYGLM8
• Oviya final interview with Kamal: https://youtu.be/MtbZWoAU8lI?t=5m10s
• Oviya Anthem for Oviya Army: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRriRknyoM0
• Big Boss Tamil Memes
• • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwtgbJPrg5s
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7LVH4TpWQ
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKlJWZlsJfg
  • https://www.instagram.com/p/BXbdJHAlGNL/

Aravind & Ravi reminisce about their tennis memories and wrap up with Wimbledon 2017 hot takes.

• Childhood memories about Tennis
• Ravi's Federer fanaticism
• Aravind's Nadal fandom
• Federer vs Nadal
• Nadal vs. Djokovic: Here We Are Again, My Friend
• The General Joy Of Roger Federer, Wimbledon Champion Once Again
• Roger Federer As Religious Experience

Still not done with Baahubali? Here's Part 2 of our mega-review where we talk about our issues with the film, some thought experiments, some trivia and end with collections and records.

• Rate Telugu Bytes on Apple (iTunes) Podcasts - link
• Issues with the film
  • Plot contrivances and characters
  • Pacing issues
  • Bit songs
  • VFX
  • Interval card and ending
• Thought experiments
  • What if it was just one big film?
  • Director's cut
  • Blu-Ray release
• Trivia
  • Things we noticed
• Reviewing the Reviews
  • Indian reviews
  • International reviews
  • Talk among family and friends
• Trade talk
  • Collections
  • Records
  • Precedents

Can't get enough of Baahubali? Here's Part 1 of our mega-review where we talk about our favorite moments, the plot, characters, performances and technical aspects of Baahubali 2 - the toast of India right now.

• Our rating
• Movie watching experience
• Favorite moments in the film
  • Scene-by-scene commentary
• Characters of Baahubali 2
  • Amarendra Baahubali
  • Devasena
  • Sivagami
  • Bhalladeva
  • Kattappa
• Performances
• Technical aspects
  • Cinematography
  • Music and Background Score
  • VFX
  • Production design
  • Screenplay and Direction

Watch out for Part 2 where we talk about our issues with the film, what if Baahubali was a single film and of course, the trade talk - collections and records.

Praveen and Ravi talk about origins of AI, recent advancements in AI and its impact on society.

• Bill Nye Saves The World Episode 3 - Machines Take Over the World: https://www.netflix.com/title/80117748
• The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence: https://stratechery.com/2017/the-arrival-of-artificial-intelligence/
• How Aristotle Created the Computer: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/aristotle-computer/518697/
• Subbarao Kambhampati - President of AAAI: http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/

• Acclaim for Part 1

• Part 2 delay
• 
Trailer release
  • 
Trailer reactions
  • 
VFX
Glitches
  • 
Story clues from the trailer
• 
WKKB?

  • Is Sivagami involved?
  • 
Why the Krishna lullaby?
  • 
Who does Kattappa owe fealty to?
  • (Learnt a new word - fealty, thanks to Spidy!)
• 
Book: The Rise of Sivagami

• Undue emphasis on WKKB by makers

• Songs
  • 
Hamsa Nava
  • 
Dandalayya
• 
More drama in Part 2?
• 
Trade Predictions
  • 
Spidy: 1000cr
  • 
Success in China
  • 
Premiere show ticket pricing

• Marketing

  • Audio release function

  • Social media

  • Memes

  • Books and Comics

  • Merchandise
  • 
Facebook stickers

  • Emojifi stickers

• Virtual Reality

  • Sword of Baahubali

  • AMD Partnership

• What is this episode about? Nothing
• Telugu Bytes Quarterly Report
  • Website revamp
  • Recent episodes
  • Tharun Bhasker’s feedback
  • Backstories
  • Who are our audience? An analysis
• Logo Refresh
  • History of our logo
  • Saawan’s design
  • Our take
• Recent movies
  • PK’s movies and Katamarayudu
• Programming Interviews - Part 3?
  • Dhruv’s recent job change
  • Why?
  • What he’ll be working on
  • Interview Prep
    • String questions
    • Dynamic Programming
    • Graphs
    • System Design!
      • LeetCode
• Communication Skills
  • At workplace
  • Brilliant jerks
  • Coding vs. communication skills
• Immigration woes
  • H1-B visa
  • I-94 document

Ravi sits down with Tarun Cherukuri, his childhood friend and CEO of INDUS Action, for two part interview. In the second part, they talk about:

• Tarun's experience at his first job in Unilever
• Experiences which turned him to social service
• Life at Teach for India
• Experience at Harvard
• Starting and Leading IndusAction

If you haven't listened yet, please listen 032 - Interview with Tarun (Part 1)

Links

• INDUS Action: https://www.indusaction.org/project-team
• Tarun Cherukuri: https://in.linkedin.com/in/taruncherukuri
• Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarunch
• Tarun goes to Harvard: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/vijayawada-youth-bags-harvard-kennedy-schools-emerging-global-leader-award/article7187565.ece

Ravi sits down with Tarun Cherukuri, his childhood friend and CEO of INDUS Action, for two part interview.

• Their experiences at VPS, Vijayawada
• His passion for sports and Badminton
• His experiences at BITS Pilani
• Interviewing and landing a job

(Continued in Part 2)

Links

• INDUS Action: https://www.indusaction.org/project-team
• Tarun Cherukuri: https://in.linkedin.com/in/taruncherukuri
• Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tarunch
• Tarun goes to Harvard: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/vijayawada-youth-bags-harvard-kennedy-schools-emerging-global-leader-award/article7187565.ece

After almost an year later, Aravind and Ravi get back to discuss one of their favorite topic - trips to India. They talk about Ravi's recent trip to India and his experiences.

• Follow up
• Air India (SFO to Delhi)
• Progress in Vijayawada
• Temples in Tirupati and Thanjavur
• Staying in Chennai 
• Sankranthi Movies
• Next episode guest!

Dhruv and Aravind talk about the 2016 Telugu rom-com/coming-of-age film Pelli Choopulu.

• Our take on the film
  • Dhruv
  • Aravind
• Success of the film
  • Budget
  • Run in the USA
  • Indie films and distribution models
• Thoughts on the film
  • Story
  • Screenplay
  • Characterizations
  • Treatment
  • Dialogues
  • The Telangana dialect
  • Tharun Bhasker's idlebrain postmortem
• Thoughts on acting
  
  • Vijay Deverakonda
  • Ritu Verma
  • Priyadarshi
  • Anish Kuruvilla
  • Nandu
  • Kedar Shankar
• The crew
  • Cinematography (Nagesh Banell)
  • Production design (Latha Naidu)
  • Sound (Tapeloop)
  • Music (Vivek Sagar)
  • Director (Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam)
• Other indie films
  • Vasham, the first crowd-funded film in Telugu
  • Info
  • Trailer

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Ravi & Aravind ponder over how software release process has evolved last decade

• Instagram Release Process
• Jenkins 2.0 Here

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this episode are ours and do not represent those of our employers.

On its tenth anniversary, Ravi, Aravind and Dhruv do a scene-by-scene review of the Puri-Mahesh blockbuster and even try to derive some life lessons from the film.

• Our quick take on the film
  • Ravi
  • Aravind
  • Dhruv
• Flashback to 2006
• • Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIwjSBIW4w
  • Experience watching the film for the first time
  • Subsequent viewings
  • The pre-climax twist 
  • Google movie summary https://www.google.com/search?q=pokiri
• Fights in the film
  • Shed fight
  • MMTS fight
• One-liners of the film
• The character of Pandugadu - life lessons
• The character of Pasupathy
• Den scene
• Shootout scene
• Basketball court scene
• Pandu - Shruthi love thread
• Confrontation scenes between Pandu and Pasupathy
• Gang wars
• Management lessons from the henchman Guru
• Ali Bhai
• Pasha's satires on media
• Twist and the big reveal
• Climax
• Comedy scenes

In this episode, Dhruv, Praveen & Aravind get together & chat about their cricketing memories, favorite matches, upcoming T20 cricket world cup in India, current Indian team & their chances, and players around the world to watch out.

Links

• Playing Cricket and my Eternal Damnation by Dhruv

On our 25th episode, Ravi and Dhruv look back at what went well and what didn't.

• Flashback
• Looking back at the flashback
• Inception
• Our Frequency
• Inspirations and lessons learnt from them
• State of podcasting in India and future
• Our strengths
• Our new strategy
• Introducing our new hosts
• What didn't go well
  • Q & A format
  • Incoherence
  • Lack of scripts and preparation
• What went well
  • The name "Telugu Bytes" 
  • Rise in recording quality
  • Expansion
• Favorite Episodes
  • Ravi - Nannaku Prematho
  • Dhruv - Programming Interviews
• What to look forward to
  • 50 episodes by EOY
  • Emphasis on quality
  • Emphasis on consistency and regularity