October 5th will mark the 25th anniversary of Ram Gopal Varma’s finest creation ever, Akkineni Nagarjuna starrer ‘Shiva’. Spending a bomb on the old negative print, Annapurna Studios has digitally restored ‘Siva’ to a finest quality as stored ‘film’ degrades in time with scratches and dust all over.
And another thing is that digitally restored ‘Sanakarabaranam’, carved by master craftsman K Viswanath is also releasing, not in Telugu but its Tamil dubbed version on October 2nd. These two are like golden movies that will hit silver screen alongside Charan – Vamsi’s ‘Govindudu Andarivadele’.
However, Supriya Allagadda from Annapurna Studios confirmed that there is no such re-release planned for ‘Siva’ though there is popular demand. Also Sankarabaranam’s Tamil version will not be releasing in Telugu states. That means, these golden flicks will be a treat for a later time but not at the moment.