The trend of technicians becoming artistes is rather rare in the Telugu Film Industry but somehow it has picked up in the recent years. Sometimes it has to do with the desire to face the camera and sometimes it is all about the situation...
Once you start a business or something on your own, you tend to have that itch to expand your presence and get into various other fields. This happens a lot in the cinema industry wherein singers become actors, directors become producers...
Speaking of remunerations, the big numbers always belong to the top range heroes, heroines, directors and to an extent, the music directors. The rest of the professionals in the cine circuit generally tend to get a little less....