Telugu star Gopichand’s next, titled Chanakya, will be with Kollywood director Thiru. The film will be bankrolled by Ramabrahmam Sunkara and presented by Kishore Garikipati, Ajay Sunkara and Abhishek Agarwal under the AK Entertainments banner. The makers of this film not only revealed that title but also its logo recently.
Mehreen Pirzada has been roped in to play the female lead in this flick. Sources in the know say that Bollywood star Zarine Khan will be signed up for a role but there is no confirmation on it yet. The technical crew of Chanakya includes Vishal Chandrasekar for music, Vetri Palaniswamy for cinematography and Stunt Silva for stunt choreography. Reports are that more than 50 per cent of the shooting has been completed and the remaining will be done in a couple of months.
Gopichand’s last film release was Pantham which did not fare well at the box office. Pantham marked the directorial debut of screen writer K. Chakravarthy Reddy who was also in charge of the story. The director had worked as the screen writer in films such as Balupu, Power and Jai Lava Kusa. Bobby Kolli had penned the screenplay while the dialogues were written by Ramesh Reddy.
Sharing the screen space with Gopichand as his heroine was Mehreen Pirzada and those in the supporting cast included Hamsa Nandini, Sampath Raj, Jayaprakash Reddy, Sayaji Shinde, Pavitra Lokesh, Srinivasa Reddy, Ajay and Prudhviraj. The film was bankrolled by KK Radhamohan under his banner Sri Sathya Sai Arts. Gopi Sunder was the music composer for this flick with Prasad Murella being the cinematographer and Prawin Pudi as the editor.
Pantham was an action entertainer and it was Gopichand’s 25th film. He had an intense role to play in it but unfortunately failed to strike a chord with the audiences.
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