What are the contributions of Telugu cinema to the Indian film industry?

 Telugu cinema has contributed a lot to Indian film industry. It has also given outsiders who are not Teluguites a career in the film industry . Let's look at some of its contribution :

• First Mythological movie

The 1957 movie was the first Mythological movie in Indian cinema and it was a trend setter movie in Indian cinema. It can be termed as a movie which is way ahead of its time.

• Career for other language people

Actors like Siddharth has got more hits in Telugu cinema than in Tamil cinema. In one of his interviews he tells that wherever he goes he introduces himself as a Telugu actor.

Prakash Raj is known more for his work in Telugu film industry than for his work in Kannada film industry.

Most of the heroines in Telugu film industry in the 21st century are outsiders. Most of the high budget movies in Telugu which are released in multiple languages will feature other language people too.

So overall Telugu film industry has always welcomed outsiders and treated them just like a native.

• Remakes

The 2002 film Jayam was remade into Tamil and the actor was since then called Jayam Ravi.

Tamil actor Vijay has a lot of remake movies from Telugu:

Ghilli remade from okkadu

Aathi from Athanokkade

Pokkiri from pokkiri

Vaseegara from Nuvvu Naaku Nacchavu

Badri from Thammudu

Hindi film industry in the past 20 years has been making a lot of remakes which are originally made in Telugu:

Salman Khan's

Wanted is a remake of Telugu film Pokiri.

Ready is a remake of Telugu film of the same name. This movie has been remade into other languages too.

Shahid Kapoor's

Kabir Singh is a remake of Telugu film Arjun Reddy. He is also set to make a remake of another Telugu film called jersey.

Akshay Kumar's

Rowdy Rathore is a remake of Telugu film Vikramaarkudu.

Ajay Devgan's

Son of Sardaar is a remake of Telugu film Maryaada Ramana.This movie was remade into 5 languages.

There are many more such movies and this list is huge.

• Singers

Both SPB and Janaki were singers in other South Indian languages and have sung a lot of songs in those languages too.

and last but not the least is Baahubali which was amongst the highest grossed Indian movies and it disproved the common belief of people that regional languages cannot make it into the highest grossed Indian movies.

So this is an overall glimpse of Telugu cinema though there is a lot more to talk.

How did Shankar Nag's contributions, like Malgudi Days and Sanket Studios, shape the Kannada film industry and its move to Bangalore?

Firstly Shankar Nag(1954–1990) and Anant Nag (1948 - present) weren't Kannadigas their mother tongue was Konkani, so Konkanis. They were just born and brought up in Karnataka ( Nagarakatte , Uttar Kannada district I believe).

Later grew up in Mumbai. Shankar Nag was a bank employee in Mumbai.

Shankar Nag decided to direct Malgudi days in Hindi not Kannada. He knew Kannada market was weak back then compared to Bollywood and the film industry was not popular outside Karnataka.

Shankar Nag’s biggest contribution to Karnataka was establishing sanket studios in Bangalore ,the former capital of Karnataka, Now Mandya is the capital of Karnataka and biggest city in Karnataka). Sanket studios now isn't active. However it didn't shape kannada film land.

Shankar Nag's memorial kannada movies were Janma Janmada Anubandha (1980) and Accident (1984). Both these movies were ahead of their time and were good scripts.

Even if Shankar Nag was alive I don't think he would have saved Kannada film industry.