16 July 2024
Hyderabad

Anticipated tentpoles like Pushpa: The Rule, Prabhas’ next with Hanu Raghavapudi, NTR’s next with Prashanth Neel and Ram Charan’s next with Buchi Babu Sana aside, leading production house Mythri Movie Makers has green-lit brand new films with Ram Pothineni and Varun Tej for the remainder of the year. We have now learnt that they’ve added one more project to their kitty. According to sources, they will be collaborating with Love Today fame Pradeep Ranganathan for a Tamil-Telugu bilingual.

Pradeep, who began his feature film career as a director with Jayam Ravi-starrer successful comedy-drama Comali, subsequently wrote, directed and starred in Love Today, which besides doing gangbuster business in Tamil, went on to find love in Telugu as well, fetching him a new fan base here. So it comes as no surprise that Mythri, which wastes no time in latching on to new talent, is joining forces with the skilful filmmaker-actor for what will be their second venture in Tamil after Ajith Kumar-starrer Good Bad Ugly.

A source close to the development tells us, “Mythri’s project with Pradeep will be a hilarious and rip-roaring entertainer, which is in the wheelhouse of the latter. Sudha Kongara’s former assistant Keerthiswaran is making his directorial debut with the project, whose principal photography kicks off this September-October.”

Pradeep right now is occupied with Vignesh Sivan’s romantic-comedy Love Insurance Corporation and Ashwath Marimuthu’s Dragon.