When #ChiruOdela project was announced last year, it came as a surprise that Natural star Nani was associating with it at the production level. While the excitement is still yet to die down, Nani and his boy Odela are up to something with the project if the latest Nani interview is anything to go by. “If people start thinking about the larger-than-life persona of Chiranjeevi garu, they will stop understanding why we relate to him so much. For example, during my childhood when I loved Chiranjeevi garu’s films, he embodied the character he played. He made us cry, smile. And there were obviously those exciting fights and all. But the point here is the relatability. I genuinely feel nowadays we do not understand the power of relatability. We do action films, we do big spectacles and a lot of focus is on the technique, scale and set pieces but when you relate to the people on screen and when you see them doing action, it works ten times better. It used to happen with our films during childhood. We used to forget about everything and we used to be in awe.
“Now a days we’ll check the phone and we’ll say we like this scene and have this conversation. I genuinely feel we should bring that back. Chiranjeevi garu has a larger-than-life image but let’s remind everyone why we really love him. Lots of people say that Chiranjeevi garu means action, this and that. He is not that. He is someone who is a member of our family. And we forgot that. We are really focusing on something else. Now, Srikanth's madness with Chiranjeevi garu will be a great combination. We are trying to crack something like that. So that will be interesting. It’s an extremely proud moment for me to be able to do that with Srikanth. I never thought I would produce a film with an actor of Chiranjeevi garu’s stature. It happened unexpectedly. Also, it’s a big responsibility. Hope we do our best,” the actor said.
Set to go to floors sometime next year, #ChiruOdela project will be produced by Sudhakar Cherukuri while Nani will be presenting it under his Unanimous Productions.
