Ram Charan - Shankar film title fixed - Suriya in Sita Ramam director next

Hanu Raghavapudi, who has received critical acclaim, struggled to achieve commercial success until he directed the film Sita Ramam, which starred Dulquer Salmaan and Mrunal Thakur and finally became a commercial hit. Recently, Hanu Raghavapudi approached Tamil superstar Suriya, who has a Pan-India image, with an impressive storyline that Suriya approved of. This move by Hanu Raghavapudi follows a trend of Tamil stars collaborating with Telugu directors, such as Vijay Thalapathy working with Vamshi Paidipally for Vaarasudu/Varisu and Dhanush achieving success with SIR/Vaathi by teaming up with Venky Atluri, as well as signing on for a film with Sekhar Kammula. Now, Suriya is joining this bandwagon, and he and Hanu Raghavapudi's high-budgeted multi-lingual film will be multi starrer and bankrolled by Mythri Movie Makers, who have a good relationship with the Chiru family and have asked Hanu Raghavapudi to pitch the story to Ram Charan. Additionally, Suriya has a good rapport with Chiru-Allu Aravind.

 Shankar is currently directing an upcoming film featuring Ram Charan, which has now been given the title "CEO - Chief Electoral Officer". The film is set for a pan-India release and the team believes that the title will work well across all languages. The official announcement of the title will be made on March 27th, which happens to be Ram Charan's birthday. The movie is being produced by Dil Raju and Shirish under the banner of Sri Venkateswara Creations and will be released in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi. Alongside Ram Charan, the film also stars Srikanth, Sunil, Anjali and SJ Suryah in pivotal roles.

Ram Charan himself has stated that his character in next film directed by Buch Baba Sana will be groundbreaking and surpass even his fan-favorite role of Chitti Babu in "Rangasthalam". He has also shared that shooting for the project will commence in September 2023 and expressed confidence that the film will appeal to Western audiences as well.

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The RRR producer, Danayya, was not present at the Oscars or involved in the Oscar campaign due to his lack of interest in spending money on it. Despite this, he expressed his pride in the RRR team and added that he was not invited to the Oscars by the RRR team and kept in the dark. It was revealed that Rajamouli's family and Baahubali producer, Shobu Yarlagadda, had funded the Oscar campaign expenses. Furthermore, Ram Charan claimed in an interview with India Today that he had expressed his willingness to perform the Naatu Naatu song at the Oscars but never received a call. This was revealed after the Oscar producers disclosed that Ram Charan and NTR Jr had declined the opportunity to perform the song. RC fans say that it was NTR Jr who spoiled the golden opportunity to perform on a global stage.

Vijay Devarakonda's Liger only hope for Telegu filmdom- Tamil directors bad for Telegu heroes

 

Will Liger save Tollywood ? Tamil directors a curse for Telegu heroes ? . These questions are popping up as Tollywood like Bollywood is caught in a quagmire. Good content films that are praised by critics are disasters at box office , recent case being Gargi of Sai Pallavi. Here again a film like Major and Vikram to a certain extent raised some buzz but of no use. Close to 400 theaters in Andhra are partially shut (open only for weekends). Now entire theater – distributor groups have only one word and that is Liger of Vijay Devaraknda. It is releasing on August 22^nd.

When the industry is in a bad shape with multiple flops every week, many superstitions gain credibility. Take the case of Acharya . Megastar Chiranjeevi film bombs and there was a talk that any hero who comes soon after doing a SSR film will give a dud. Ram Charan was a pivotal player in Acharya. Now after disastrous flop or rather a washout of The Warrior, the talk is that no Tamil director has with a Telegu hero given a hit. In fact it has been disasters. The Warrior was directed by Linguswamy and Ram Pothneni was the hero.

Why Liger is seen as a winner? One is that Vijay Devarakonda is a youth hero and director Puri Jagganath is a considered a ` mass’  director. The buzz on this film never died down despite a two year of film making and addition of International boxing champ Tyson added to the hype. Already there is a great expectation for the trailor releasing on July 22^nd. Vijay plays a chaiwallah in Mumbai who goes on to fight Mike Tyson at MMA championship at Las Vegas.

Let’s move to Tamil directors and Telegu heroes. The men who believe in this sentiment that Tamil directors are bad medicine for Telegu heroes, point out a recent flop of Prince Mahesh Babu’s Spyder directed by A R Murugadoss. Vijay Devarakonda’s NOTA directed by Anand Shankar and Nani’s Jenda Pai Kapiraju by Samuthrakanni. All the three heroes were doing excellent at box office till they did these films. Now Ram after Red and I smart was a bankable hero. Banking on Linguswamy, Ram kept Vizag and Nizam areas. All of them have been washouts.

So will Shankar directed RC 15 go the same way or beak the jinx ?..  Shankar did only one non Tamil film and that was remake of Gentleman in Hindi with Anil Kapoor , It was a dud. Dulquar Salman with Sita Raman and  Ravi Teja ( who has a bad run in box office) with Ramarao On Duty and Naga Chaitanaya's Thank You  is coming in a few days. Nobody expects any miracles from them.