Superstar Mahesh Babu was supposed to team up with legendary director Mani Ratnam on couple of occasions, but it misfired. Once they were actually trying to make Mahabharata kind film, but Mahesh gave up due to the intense body workout regiment that’s killing his handsomeness. Later Mani bounced a script that needs Mahesh and Nagarjuna on board, and that got stalled at early stages.
Finally Mani Ratnam has found relief as this script is said to be going on floors but not with Mahesh and Nagarjuna. Though this maverick director tried to cast in Ram Charan and Bunny, which didn’t materialised due to Charan not liking the script.
We hear that young heroes Karthi and Dulquer Salman have give nod for the film now. This will be second multi-starrer for Karthi after his ongoing film with Nagarjuna, while for Dulquer this second venture with Mani post “OK Bangaram”.
Only if this Karthi-Dulquer starrer comes out, we will know why Mani Ratnam’s choices Mahesh and Nagarjuna have rejected to star in the script. Meanwhile, Mahesh is busy with wrapping final parts of Srimanthudu, while Nag and Karthi are shooting for their Dost (tentative title) in Paris and Dulquer is taking part in the shoots of his next Malayalam film.