Mega hero Sai Dharam Tej is currently working on a movie titled ‘Virupaksha’. Due to his accident, he was forced to take a long break in order to recover and this is going to be his first film in the last two years. ‘Virupaksha’ is going to hit the screens on the 21st of April in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi languages.
According to the trade reports, the Telugu theatrical rights of this movie have been sold for 22 crores. This is the highest pre-release theatrical business in Telugu for SDT’s film and it is a huge record for him. This is just for the Telugu states and Praveen who is a distributor from West Godavari bought it.
Sai Dharam Tej’s ‘Prathi Roju Pandage’, ‘Solo Lifey So Better’ and ‘Republic’ were good hits. Sukumar is the writer and co-producer for this movie which enhances the market value. Reports claim that the movie is getting fancy offers from other regions too. There are still satellite and digital rights to be considered. It is well known that Netflix bought the digital streaming rights.
‘Virupaksha’ is a horror thriller that is a new genre for Sai Dharam and Karthik Varma Dandu is the director of this movie. He is Sukumar’s student and the ‘Pushpa’ director himself penned the story and screenplay. BVSN Prasad produced this film under the SVCC banner. Samyuktha Menon is the heroine while Sai Chand, Brahmaji, Rajiv Kanakala, Ajay, Sunil and others play key roles.