Director Parasuram shot to limelight with the hit movie Geetha Govindam, which had Vijay Devarakonda in the lead. The film was bankrolled by Geetha Arts and its success paved way for the director to make another film for the same production house.
But things took a new twist now with the director announcing officially that he will be directing Naga Chaitanya next and the venture will be bankrolled by 14 Reels Plus. Incidentally, the production house recently produced the Varun Tej starrer Gaddalakonda Ganesh, which turned out to be a hit.
Gaddalakonda Ganesh is the remake of the hit Tamil movie Jigarthanda that was written and directed by Karthik Subburaj. The film had Varun Tej reprising the role done by Bobby Simha in Tamil and Atharva in the role done by Siddharth in the original. Gaddalakonda Ganesh was bankrolled by Ram Achanta and Gopi Achanta under their banner. On the technical front, Mickey J Meyer composed music for this flick with Ayanaka Bose handling the camera and Chota K Prasad doing the edits.
Meanwhile, Naga Chaitanya is busy with the upcoming Shekar Kammula directorial. Expectations on this Naga Chaitanya-Sai Pallavi starrer has been rising high ever since its announcement. While the title of this film has not been announced officially, reports surface that it has been titled Love Story. However, there is no confirmation on it yet. Also, there were speculations that the director was planning it as Valentine’s Day release but now sources in the know have confirmed that it will be out at the theatres on April 2.
In this film, Naga Chaitanya plays a Hyderabadi youngster and will be speaking the Telangana dialect, which is another first in his career. He underwent special training to get his accent perfect, we hear.
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