Every day at 5 a.m., hundreds of people gather in a nondescript lane behind Annapurna Studios in Hyderabad’s Krishna Nagar. They are junior artistes waiting for casting agents to take their pick. The chosen will have work for the day. For the rest, it is a choice between going home and finding other employment. Tollywood, as the Telugu film industry is called, is the second largest in the country after Hindi. In 2011 the Censor Board’s Hyderabad office certified 192 films. In additio