These days heroines in the Telugu film industry get paid anything between six and ten lakh per film based on their looks and talent. Guess what Kajal got for her first film Lakshmi Kalyanam? Sources cite the Agarwal girl got paid two lakh. She is not very close to getting two crore, but staying in the industry for so long, maintaining her figure is quite a feat. About her acting skills? Let us get it straight, the industry doesn’t need talented heroines for commercial films, all they need is fair skin and someone who can expose.
The term used is glamorous. If your film is successful and you are glamorous, your place here is guaranteed. Now, for the first film Navdeep got paid 11 thousand rupees (for Jai) and Uday Kiran too got paid the same amount (11 thousand). That is what director Teja does, he thinks that since a break is being given as a hero and a heroine, they need not expect more financially. Uday Kiran for a long time kept telling the media that he got paid Rs 90 thousand for his first film.
