For his highly-anticipated comeback 150th movie, Megastar Chiranjeevi painstakingly waited for more than a year scouting for the perfect script. After no filmmaker managed to impress Chiru with a riveting story, the Megastar chose to remake Kaththi. Following the blockbuster success of Khaidi No.150, Chiru is raring to kick-start his next movie in Surender Reddy’s direction. The movie will be launched in March and Charan will produce it. The latest buzz is that director Surender Reddy and Paruchuri Brothers are working on two scripts for Chiru’s 151st film. Chiru will take a final call on the script in a few weeks. Paruchuri Brothers are reportedly penning Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy’s story. More clarity will emerge in the coming days.
Now that the comeback film of Chiranjeevi is a huge hit, the mega clan is busy shaping up his 151st project. As Chiru is busy shooting for Meelo Evaru Koteswarudu, Parchuri brothers and director Surender Reddy are busy with the script work for the film. Post the success of Khaidi, there has been a huge responsibility on Chiru’s shoulders to deliver once again. Keeping this criterion in mind, the think tank of mega compound are working on the script night and day. To be produced by Ram Charan, the female lead of the film is yet to be finalized.
Senior hero Srikanth is a huge Megastar Chiranjeevi fan and he also acted alongside Chiru in the Super hit Shankar Dada series. Srikanth’s ATM role is a huge hit with fans. Now, while there has been a huge suspense surrounding Megastar’s 151st film, which will be directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Ram Charan, it was Srikanth himself who broke the suspense on a TV show. Srikanth, along with a news channel crew visited the descendants of the first Telugu freedom fighter Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy in Uyyalawada recently and revealed that Chiru will be enacting the role of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy in his much-awaited 151st movie. Srikanth further enquired about Uyyalawada’s heroics and his family members were more than happy to help him with all the information. Chiru151 is expected to kick-start this summer.
From the past few weeks, there have been several reports that Chiranjeevi will be playing the historical character of Uyyalawada Nrasimha Reddy in his next film which is in its pre-production stages. Sources close to us reveal that the project is on and the script work is being currently readied. Chiru will be seen in a historical character of Uyyalwada who was the first Telugu freedom fighter in India. Paruchuri brothers and Surender Reddy are working together on this project and an official confirmation will be out soon.
The stalwarts of Telugu film industry Chiranjeevi and Balakrishna locked horns with each other this Sankranthi with their prestigious 150th and 100th movies respectively. Both the actors are now gearing up to kick-start their next movies. Chiranjeevi’s 151st movie will be directed by Surender Reddy and it’s been titled Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, after the first freedom fighter from the Telugu land. On the other hand, Balayya has just launched his 101st project in Puri Jagannadh’s direction. The latest update is that senior producer C Kalyan has registered Jayasimha title with the Film Chamber. Industrywallahs are buzzing with speculations that this title is for his ambitious movie with Balakrishna, directed by KS Ravikumar. This movie is expected to be launched this summer.