Sundeep Kishan will be playing the lead role in the biopic of late Tollywood actor Uday Kiran. Debut director Chandu will be helming the project, which will be based on the life of the actor who took his own life in 2014. Uday Kiran’s first three films, Chitram (2000), Nuvvu Nenu (2001) and Manasantha Nuvve (2001), were smash hits, which earned him the title ‘hat-trick hero’.

On getting to play Uday Kiran in the biopic, Sundeep Kishan said in an interview to Cinema Express that he connected to the role almost immediately after the narration. The actor added that he will be looking into the full-bound script soon and after a detailed narration will take a call on whether to bankroll the biopic under his own banner.

Sundeep added in the interview, “Uday Kiran was a typical Telugu boy-next-door actor and his story makes for an interesting film. I watched his journey in the industry. There is no need to delve into any controversy as there was so much drama in his life. We just need to depict it properly.”

In 2001, Uday Kiran won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu for the film Nuvvu Nenu and became the youngest winner of the Filmfare best actor award after Kamal Haasan. However, the actor’s success spree was halted by a string of flops.

Sundeep Kishan’s next film release will be A1 Express, which is touted to be a sports drama. Incidentally, this is the star’s first sports drama. The first look poster showed Sundeep in a jersey that read A1, wielding a hockey stick and facing a packed stadium. The film is directed by Dennis Jeevan Kanukolanu, who is making his debut, and is bankrolled by TG Vishwa Prasad, Abhishek Agarwal, Sundeep Kishan and Daya Pannem under the banner People Media Factory, Abhishek Agarwal Arts and Venkatadri Talkies. Hiphop Tamizha has been roped in to compose the tunes for this flick.

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