Telugu Bytes
A podcast in Telugu about technology, programming, music, movies, life in the Bay Area and other stuff. Find us at telugubytes.com and twitter.com/telugubytes.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 85
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
066 - Smart Home Tech Roundup
Dhruv and Ravi get together to do a quick round up on the state of affairs of Smart home technology
- Smart homes and voice assistants
- Thermostats
- Doorbells
- Smart locks
- Home Security Systems
- Solar Pow…
065 - Bigg Boss 4 Telugu
Praveen and Ravi talk about the final week of Bigg Boss 4
- COVID and Bigg Boss 4
- Comparison with previous seasons
- Contestants: Sohel, Akhil, Monal, Abhijeet
- Hosting
064 - Conversation with Praveena Paruchuri about UMUR and Producing Films
Praveena Paruchuri, the award-winning producer of Care of Kancharapalem and UMUR, talks to us about her journey into film production, experiences of producing UMUR, COVID-19 and its effects on film p…
063 - Conversation with Maha about UMUR and CoK
Maha, the director of Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya joins us (yes!) to do a deep-dive into the making of UMUR. We talk about:
- The plot points that interested us
- Our questions about the film
- Working w…
062 - Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya
Dhruv and Aravind review Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya, Maha’s second film after the masterpiece Care of Kancherapalem.
- Story
- Changes from Original
- Screenplay and characters
- Performances
- Cinematograph…
061 - COVIDa Covinda
Dhruv and Ravi get together and talk about:
- COVID-19, their initial thoughts
- Rise of cases
- Coming to terms with it
- Changes to lifestyle
- COVID and Telugu Film Industry
- COVID and software industry
- CO…
060 - 10x Engineer: Interview with Chandra Kuchi - Part 1
Dhruv ponders what a “10x engineer” really means, and interviews Chandra Kuchi, a friend of the show and Dhruv’s ex-colleague about 10x engineering aka good software engineering. They talk about mot…
059 - K. Rishi Kumar
You all will be as confused as we are at the end of this episode on what this is supposed to be. But we assure you that it is going to be fun.
058 - Naveen Polishetty
Aravind & Ravi dissect Naveen Polishetty's powerhouse performance in his debut Telugu movie -"Agent Sai Srinivas Athreya"
- TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pkux2P7cnA
- Deleted scenes: https:…
057 - Tech we are Thankful for
As Thanksgiving approaches, Ravi and Dhruv talk about the tech they are thankful for in..... 2018. In typical Telugu Bytes fashion, we recorded this episode in 2018 but only managed to release it no…
056 - Indian Cricket in 2019
Praveen and Dhruv get together and talk about Indian Cricket in 2019 - test dominance, the bowling attack, WC 2019 and more.
- India tour of Australia and NZ
- WC 2019
- Ashes
- Indian Test Team
- Bowling at…
055 - Care of Kancharapalem
- Themes explored in the film
- Screenplay
- Ending
- Characters
- Music and Background Score
- Editing
- Production design
- Direction
- Looking forward
054 - Millennial Summer Nostalgia
Aravind and Ravi reminisce about their childhood summer vacations
053 - WWDC 2019: Everything for Everyone
Dhruv and Ravi recap WWDC 2019 and their dashed hopes
- The new glorious monitor and the sticker shock
- Mac Pro - the machine we want, but not we need
- iOS - Dark mode, nuff said
- iPadOS - "Poorthiga mac…
052 - KGF: An Ode to Mass Entertainers
[The podcast is full of spoilers, please avoid if you haven't watched the movie yet]
- Spidy and Ravi start with how they got introduced to KGF
- Spidy and Ravi discuss their top 4 scenes
- The first fig…
051 - Jersey (Telugu Movie)
[Spoiler Alert: Please watch the movie before listening to the episode because we discuss the story and scenes in detail] Aravind & Ravi analyze Nani's latest blockbuster Jersey
050 - Aravinda Sametha Rangasthalam
- Our 50th episode! 🎉#TB50
- Ram Charan and NTR come together for #RRR with Rajamouli
- Ram Charan & Sukumar's Rangasthalam - our review
- Performances
- Suku'mark' scenes
- Other departments
- NTR & Trivikram…
049 - Indian Cricket in 2018
Praveen and Dhruv get together to talk about the state of Indian cricket in 2018, review recent tours and player performances and look forward to World Cup 2019.
- Ongoing India-WI series
- End of the r…
048 - Srinivasa Kalyanam Movie (2018)
Aravind and Ravi couldn't wait to get their thoughts in about their latest favorite Telugu movie
Note:
- We think you will be able to enjoy this episode irrespective of if you watched the movie or not…
047 - Apple 2018 Recap
Dhruv goes over everything that happened in the Apple world since he & Ravi got together in 2017.
- iOS 12
- WatchOS 5
- Mojave
- iPhone X/Xs/Xr
- HomePod
- New Macs
- Watch Series 4