Rana’s Film Cancelled

It is heard that the subject of heroine has led to a controversy that ended up to the cancellation of a film. It is known news that the noted director Selvaraghavan alias Sri Raghava who is familiar to the Telugu audience through his films such as ‘7G Brindavan Colony’ ‘Aadavari Maatalaku Ardhaale Verule’ ‘Yuganiki Okkadu’ was all set to take off with a film having Daggubati Rana as the hero. Even Rana has mentioned about this venture to the media a few times.

Rana reportedly stated that except the heroine the story, other cast and crew, budget, locations etc have been finalized and once the heroine is finalized, the film will go to the sets. At that point, it was also mentioned that since the apt heroine who can suit the height of Rana was yet to be found, hence the delay was happening for starting the shooting.

However, sources from Ramanaidu studio reveal that due to the stubborn stand from Sri Raghava that Colors Swathi is the best choice as the heroine for this bilingual seems to have resulted in him losing the project. The film nagar buzz is that having paired with Nani in ‘Ashta Chemma’, with Kamal Kamaraju in ‘Kalavaramaye Madhilo’  and currently pairing with the out of form Sumanth, Rana tried to convince Selvaraghavan in many ways that their project needs some one else other than Swathy.

However, it seems that Sri Raghava made it clear that the character was made keeping Swathi in mind and was adamant on it. Since there was no other alternative, the sources say that Rana backed off from the project. It is known grapevine that Sri Raghava is crazy about the ‘Colors’ baby. Apparently, she was the first choice for ‘7G Brindavan Colony’ but since the director was not that well known during that time, Swathi said no.

It seems that she was again roped in as the leading lady for ‘AMAV’ as well but then objection was raised as she would look like a little mouse beside victory Venkatesh. That is why Sri Raghava created a second character for ‘Colors’ girl and took Trisha as the lead heroine. Even the project with Vikram was due to have Swathi as the heroine but then the film got shelved. In this backdrop, Sri Raghava’s dreams to take Swathi as the heroine for Rana have remained as a dream but not become a reality.