Hanu Raghavapudi is a happy man. I came here to make films; I couldn’t sit idle after making one film,” he says, settling down to talk in his Jubilee Hills office. In fact, Hanu had first offered Andala Rakshasi to Nani, but the actor felt he wouldn’t befit the story. “Nani is a terrific performer; he’s an actor, not just …
The Telugu film industry has unabashedly dipped into the cauldron of stories offered by Rayalaseema, rife with faction wars. In the Hindupur-Anantapur belt, Balakrishna is the uncrowned king and the protagonist, Krishna, has ‘Jai Balayya’ tattooed on his forearm and a punch dialogue is his mobile ringtone. There’s another thread to the story involving ACP Srikanth and his three children, …
