The shooting of the Mahesh Babu starrer, Bharath Ane Nenu began yesterday amid a lot of expectations and interestingly, with the announcement, came its release date as well. According to the filmmakers, Bharath Ane Nenu will be out as a Sankaranthi release and hit the screens on January 11 next year.

Directed by Koratala Siva, the film is being bankrolled by DVV Entertainments. Kiara Advani has been roped in to play the female lead in the film which will have Mahesh Babu playing the role of the Chief Minister. Devi Sri Prasad has been roped in to compose music for this magnum opus while Ravi K Chandran will be cranking the camera.

Interestingly, Mahesh Babu’s upcoming film, SPYder, which is in the final stages of shooting, is yet to find a release date. Sources have it that the film may be released in August and that the filmmakers are aiming for the Independence Day weekend but that hasn’t been finalised yet. SPYder was initially slated for release on June 23 but the filmmakers had to postpone the release with its climax turning out to be similar to the Vijay Sethupathi starrer Kavan. When this was brought to the notice of the SPYder team, it was decided to change the climax and reshoot it. And this apparently had caused delay in its release.

SPYder is a bilingual that is being made in Telugu and Tamil simultaneously. The film is directed by AR Murugadoss and has Mahesh Babu and Rakul Preet Singh as the lead pair. With Harris Jayaraj composing music for SPYder, Santosh Sivan is wielding the camera and A Sreekar Prasad is editing it.

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