A R Rahman confirmed for Ram Charan film - Tollywood Shocked

Tollywood is wondering how A R Rahman has agreed to score music for Ram Charan film directed by Buchi Babu. Rahman during his early days did compose music for Telugu films and even Producer Subbrami Reddy offered him a house in midst of Hyderabad to stay and compose music. Two things kept Rahman away from Hyderabad. One was his comfort zone in Chennai and that his wife too did not like him to be away from Chennai. In fact they had bought houses in USA and UK , but finally settled down in Chennai. The second reason was that Rahman experienced difficulty in getting the right lyricists and that his Tamil films dubbed into Telugu was criticized for the poor lyrics. Along with this was a resistance from Telugu music composers to the entry of Rahman. A story that did the rounds was that Chiranjeevi was keen to act in a Rahman musical. He asked the director to get Rahman. After some weeks the Director played out some songs that were composed by Rahman. Chiranjeevi was all praise. The director burst the bubble. All of them were composed by Raj Koti. Incidentally Raj Koti never misses an opportunity to say that ARR was his disciple at one time. Businesswise ARR amount for one film is four times the amount that the likes of Thaman or DSP charges for a Telugu film. ARR Telugu dubbed films were mostly by Mani Ratnam who has a fan following in Telugu States. If one were to take RC 16 , Buchi Babu is unknown to Tamil viewers and post RRR, Ram Charan has a visibility in Tamil Nadu. Those in the know says that like Mani Ratnam, only S S Rajamouli can carry Rahman music across language barriers. It was said that Shankar whose combo with Rahman worked many times had sounded ARR for Game Changer but dropped it as Dil Raju felt that the music tracks would not come on time and that it would push up the budget and audio companies would not pay big as they see it as a Ram Charan’s Telugu outing with Shankar. Venkata Satish Kilaru is producing the film, which will be presented by the famous production house Mythri Movie Makers. The film is co-produced by Vriddhi Cinemas and Sukumar Writings banners. What made ARR commit RC 16 ? Did Producers agree to pay his fees that he demands or was the subject so interesting that he took a cut ? Was it that Thaman has come to Tamil with Varisu ? With more Tamil actors like Vijay- Rajinikanth- Sivakarthikeyan – Suriya getting into Tamil- Telugu bilingual, and that Anirudh entering Telugu with Leo’s dubbed version and Jailor being a big hit in Telugu States, it is a wise move from ARR.

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.