Chiranjeevi is currently basking in the success of Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu. The film is going strong at the box office and has also received praise from celebrities too. And now in the fresh report,
Chiranjeevi has finalised his next which will be announced soon. Adding more to the excitement, Anurag Kashyap is likely to play a key role in upcoming film.
According to 123 Telugu, Chiranjeevi will be teaming up with director Bobby for his next film. Reportedly, the film will be officially launched in February, with shooting to begin soon after. Anurag Kashyap will be seen in a key role in the film, the report claims.
Chiranjeevi’s Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu
Directed by Anil Ravipudi, Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu is a comedy-action drama released on January 12, just ahead of Sankranthi. The story follows Shankara Vara Prasad, a national security officer, who tries to protect his estranged wife and children while rebuilding his relationship with them after six years. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but its box office performance reflects strong fan support.
Anurag Kashyap Recalls Bombay Velvet Failure
In a recent interview with Screen, Kashyap revisited the post-release discussions surrounding the film’s poor performance and shared a reason offered by the studio’s research team that left him stunned. “The debacle of the film was such that when they did the research, the shocking thing was, people didn’t like Ranbir’s hair. They said that audiences got upset with Ranbir’s hair, because he had curled it up. And it was a choice that we all made; we designed it like that. And when I heard this, I was like, that’s the most absurd reason I can hear. One can say, ‘Oh, the film didn’t work for me,’ but coming up and saying hair didn’t work, and because of that it didn’t get an opening, and people didn’t go to see the film because they were put off by the hair, was absurd,” Anurag recalled.
The film featured Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in the lead, with Karan Johar playing a key role. It also included Kay Kay Menon, Manish Choudhary, Vivaan Shah, Siddhartha Basu, and a then relatively unknown Vicky Kaushal in supporting parts. Directed and co-produced by Kashyap, Bombay Velvet was based on historian Gyan Prakash’s book Mumbai Fables and was set against the backdrop of a transforming Bombay.
