The Telugu flick
Manam starred the three generations of the Akkineni family – the legendary Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Nagarjuna, and Naga Chaitanya, and Akhil Akkineni. It also happened to be the last feature film to star Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
A fantasy drama that was released in the year 2014,
Manam was directed by Vikram Kumar. According to the latest reports, Vikram Kumar has pitched a story to Nagarjuna with the title
Manam 2. Sources told
Deccan Chronicle, “Vikram has been regularly meeting Nagarjuna and on one occasion he narrated a story to suit him and his sons. Nagarjuna asked him to develop it and come with a full narration.”
However, the film will not be a sequel to
Manam, we hear. Besides getting Naga Chaitanya and Akhil Akkineni to play important roles in the film, the director also has crucial roles earmarked for actor Sumanth and Sushanth from the Akkineni clan.
Nagarjuna currently has two films -
Brahmastra in Hindi and
Wild Dog in Telugu. Directed by Ayan Mukherji, Brahmastra has Amitabh Bachchan in an important role with Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt as the lead pair. Shah Rukh Khan will be seen in a cameo in this flick. Pritam, Steel Banglez and Tanishk Bagchi are composing the tunes for this flick with V Manikandan and Patrick Duroux cranking the camera and editing by Akiv Ali and Manik Dawar. The shooting of Brahmastra began in Bulgaria and has been progressing well, with the team filming in various locations in Mumbai, Varanasi, Tel Aviv, Sofia and London.
Ashishor Solomon is making his debut as a director with
Wild Dog, which is produced by Matinee Entertainment. The technical crew of this flick includes Shaneil Deo for handling the cinematography, Kiran Kumar for penning the dialogues and David Ismalone for choreographing the action sequences.
Naga Chaitanya, on the other hand, has
Love Story needing his attention. This Sekhar Kammula directorial has Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi as the lead pair. Narayan Das K Narang and Puskur Ram Mohan Rao are bankrolling the project under their banner. We hear that
Love Story is a romantic tale of a boy and girl moving to the city from a village and what ensues further. Naga Chaitanya plays a Hyderabadi youngster and will be speaking the Telangana dialect, which is a first in his career. He underwent special training to get his accent perfect, we hear. Pavan, who studied at AR Rahman's KM Music Conservatory, is composing music for this flick.
Love Story will release on April 16.
Akhil Akkineni is currently awaiting the release of
Most Eligible Bachelor. Pooja Hegde plays the female lead in this entertainer directed by Bommarilu Bhaskar, with Aamani, Murali Sharma, Vennela Kishore, Jaya Prakash, Pragathi, Amit TiwarI, Eesha Rebba and others in the supporting cast. Gopi Sundar is composing the tunes for this flick with Pradeesh Varma cranking the camera and Marthand K Venkatesh doing the edits.
