Thalapathy Vijay and crazy director Lokesh Kanagaraj reunited after a successful film like ‘Master’ once again for a movie titled ‘Leo – Bloody Sweet’. With this film being a part of Lokesh Cinematic Universe, the movie is being made amidst humongous expectations. The movie is expected to hit the big screens on 19th October and the first song already became a chartbuster.
The buzz for ‘Leo’ is huge and it has a lot of craze in the Telugu states too. But it is going to face tough competition from two Telugu movies namely Ravi Teja’s ‘Tiger Nageswar Rao’ and Balakrishna’s ‘Bhagavanth Kesari’. Despite the heavy competition, the makers of ‘Leo’ are quoting huge rates for theatrical rights. Sources say that top production house Sithara Entertainments grabbed the rights for a whopping 18 crores.
Lokesh’s last film ‘Vikram’ was sold for a small amount to Nithiin and he got huge profits due to it. The expectations on ‘Leo’ are massive and this is the reason why the film went for a massive rate. But Sithara banner is already making a table profit as the team sold the Andhra rights for 9-10 crores and Ceeded for around 5 crores. They will be releasing it in Nizam in association with Dil Raju.
Lalith Kumar is the producer of this movie. Manoj Paramahamsa is the director of photography while the action is going to be composed by Anbariv. Philmon Raj is the editor while Sathees Kumar is the art director. Lokesh Kanagaraj, Rathna Kumar and Deeraj Vaidy are the dialogue writers. Anirudh is the music composer. The primary cast of this movie includes Thalapathy Vijay, Trisha, Sanjay Dutt, Priya Anand, Arjun and Mansoor Ali Khan.