RGV announces a film with Akhil

As we reported earlier, Ram Gopal Varma will be directing a movie with Akhil in the lead role. The said movie was officially announced by the maverick maker through series of tweets. RGV is currently filming ‘Officer’, a gangster-cop drama set in Mumbai, with Nagarjuna as lead actor. After the release of ‘Officer’, RGV will start directing Akhil. This will be Akhil’s fourth flick.

The director said Nagarjuna would be producing his next directorial with Akhil as hero. RGV tweeted, “Just love the circle of life @iamnagarjuna produced my debut #Shiva and now after some 25 years I produced Nagarjuna’s #Officer and now in a full circle Nagarjuna is producing @AkhilAkkineni8 ‘s film with me as director.” Akhil’s third film is being directed by Venky Atluri of ‘Tholi Prema’ and the film was recently launched.

RGV also promised Nagarjuna that he would make Akhil a better actor. He tweeted, “Hey @iamnagarjuna ,inspite of all the positives I am hoping to take care of @AkhilAkkineni8 ‘s few deficiencies as a director and much more than that I am really hoping that u will take care of my directorial deficiencies as a producer the way u so took care of them in #Shiva.”

Jalapathy Gudelli

Jalapathy Gudelli is the editor and chief critic of Telugucinema.com. He has been writing film reviews since 2002. A post-graduate in Journalism from Osmania University, he also studied Film Appreciation at FTII, Pune. He can usually be found on Twitter talking about the film he just watched or updating film news as they develop. You can follow him on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JalapathyG

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