It was an opening when the ‘muhurat’ shot was canned. But, everything about this seemingly-routine event in tinsel town was different. It is common practice that the first shot is directed by someone not connected with the project, but in this case the film’s director himself directed the brief scene.
That was the scene at an independent house in Prashashan Nagar of Jubilee Hills on Wednesday morning at the ‘muhurat’ of actor Pawan Kalyan’s next film with producer Sharrath Marar of Northstar Entertainment. Very sketchy details were let out on the occasion which was almost a private affair with the exception of just a few media persons.
The story of an untitled film is being described as one that will basically be a ‘love story of a faction leader’, leading people to recall the one-liner of ‘Guns, Guts and Love’ that came with the actor’s last release, ‘Sardaar Gabbar Singh’. So could this be guns, guts and love of a different kind?
Director S.J. Suryah who also has visualised the screenplay, laughed it off.
This is the third project that Pawan Kalyan and S.J. Suryah are working together, after the runaway hit ‘Kushi’, that released on April 27, 2001 and ‘Puli’ (September 10, 2010). The former had Bhumika cast opposite the lead star and was a trilingual - Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.
Asked about the shooting schedules, Sharrath Marar said pre-production work was on and that the first schedule would be canned in June.
While the clap was given by a producer Sudhakar Reddy, the camera was switched on by the film’s Editor Gautham Raju. Akula Siva has been working on the story and dialogues with Suryah for the past four months.
Music director Anup Rubens has already composed the notes for two songs and Director of Photography Soundar Rajan is already firming up locales for the shoot. Action sequences are being put together by the twins Ram-Lakshman, while Brahma Kadali is an art director.
