4th August 2005

After a month of rigarous shooting schedule, the USA talkie part of the film, "Vennela" is completed. This new age film from 4th dimension films, with star actors like Raja, Sharwanand, Parvati Melton , Ravi Varma and the everlasting comedian Bramhanandam,including other local and international talent, is now about to embark on the songs portion of the movie. "I finally found the role that I have been searching for a long while, I am really happy to get a role like this" mentioned Bramhanandam.

Choreographers, Raguram Master, Gayatri Raguram arrived in Michigan, they were taken aback by the amount of work and dedication put forth by the Vennela cast and crew."I was concerned with how ambitious the shooting schedule was, but when I saw what they had already done, I knew it would be easy." Raghuram Master was refferring to the completed talkie part which sometimes led to shooting for days straight through. The cast, as always was extremely professional, never complaining and always turning in excellent work, even going as to perform a lot of their own stunts. "The entire cast and crew has given up lot ,completely trusted the film and wroked hard hoping the movie to be sucessful, as god always says do your best and I will take care of the rest" Said Raja. Director Deva Katta explains, "I knew we had a tight schedule, thats why I hand picked the cast and crew, they are the best, and I had every confidence that they would do it."

Talking about the songs "Our music Director Mahesh Shankar has done an outstanding job in delivering a trend setting album. There are 8 songs in total out of which 6 will be shot in USA and two In India" quoted Director Deva Katta.

The songs shooting started on August 1st and will continue on till august 18th. India's most renowned choregpher Raju sundaram is going to join the production on august 6th to choreograph some key songs in the movie. After finishing USA part, the production is going to move to India and start their India schedule on Sept 1st.

The movie production has taken Detroit by storm, with grabbing attention from local media and lot's of local filmmakers. It was nice to notice on the last day of the talkie part, that a major hollywood production house came onto the set searching for talent.

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