The market that varun Tej garnered from successes like fidaa and gaddalakonda ganesh was severely eroded by his back-to-back disasters, ghani and Operation Valentine. With everyone's eyes on Matka, varun is hoping that this will be the pivotal moment in his career, similar to how kgf changed Yash's.
On november 14, Matka will be released, competing with Suriya's much awaited pan-Indian adventure Kanguva. Even if Matka's preview seems promising, the movie still needs more hype to take on a juggernaut like Kanguva. Matka, directed by Karuna Kumar, is said to be based on true stories. The movie centers on the emergence of Matka, a type of gambling that in the 1960s spread across the country.
Kanguva, on the other hand, is an ambitious pan-Indian endeavor that is hailed as Suriya's largest undertaking to date. Produced with one of the largest budgets in tamil cinema history, the movie has generated a great deal of anticipation, especially among tamil viewers, and telugu moviegoers have high hopes as well. With excellent word-of-mouth and Kanguva's enormous potential, Matka will have a difficult time standing apart. To survive the anticipated box office tsunami that Kanguva is slated to unleash, particularly in the telugu states, varun Tej's picture needs really strong material.