This story is from May 8, 2015

Yash reunites with Raja Huli team

Yash reunites with Raja Huli team
Mahesh Rao will be directing Yash's new film being produced by K Manju. There was speculation that Tamil director Vijay Chander would direct the film. The film was supposed to be made in Kannada and Tamil, but due to non-availability of Yash's dates, Vijay Chander went ahead and made the film (Vaalu) in Tamil with Simbu in the lead. K Manju had to end up buying the rights of the Tamil film.
The shooting for the film will start in the last week of July, by which time Yash would have completed shooting for Masterpiece. But K Manju insists that it would not be a remake. “When I first heard the story, it was just the plot. We will only keep the gist of it and prepare an original screenplay for it. Just because I have purchased the remake rights it will not become a copy. After being become a copy. A made in Kannada I have no doubt that it will be remade in all other languages. So do not call it a remake of Vaalu. It will be as original as original films can be,“ he said. Mahesh Rao who made films like Dheemaku and Murali Meets Meera has been given the responsibility of directing the film. “Yash insisted that we should give the helm to a Kannada director. We listed a few young directors and decided on Mahesh. When Mahesh was informed he was surprised and promised that he will come up with a very good product.Everyone is enthusiastic about the project,“ says Manju. Another change Yash suggested was the producer! K Manju, the veteran of over 30 films will only be the executive producer of the film while his wife Lakshmi Manju Lakshmi Manju will be the official producer. “It was Yash's idea. He feels my wife is ill luckier than me. I e willluckier than me. I only execute the production,“ said Manju. Manju has earlier produced Raja Huli with Yash which was a big success at the box office. “I am confident that this film will be a bigger success and a better product. It will be a very big budget film and one of the biggest I have ever made. This film is very different from Raja Huli. There is no comparison. Except for working with Yash again, there are no other similarities,“ he says. SAMANTHA OR KAJAL
K Manju has plans to bring either Samantha or Kajal Agarwal as the leading lady for the project. “We have already had one round of talks with Samantha. It will be one of the two as we have to factor in many things like availability of dates and shooting schedules,“ said Manju. The title of the film has not yet been fixed and the film maker is toying with at least half a dozen of them. “It will be a collective decision.
Everyone from the Everyone from the hero to the director to the producer have to like it. Only when the whole team likes a title will it be liked by the audience. So we are taking time to finalise it. I will announce it within two weeks,“ said Manju. V Harikrishna has been roped in to score music and Manju says he has already started work on it.
Yash is riding on a huge wave of successful films in the last three years that started with Drama in 2012.
Since then Googly, Raja Huli, Gajakesari and Mr & Mrs Ramachari have turned out to be big hits. The last one is being counted as one of the biggest hits of all time in Sandalwood. It was expected that after Masterpiece Yash would be doing the film KGF. But K Manju has managed to get his dates Yash counts Manju as one of his favourite producers along with Jayanna Bhogendra. This will be Yash's 19th film. Meanwhile after a box office shattering performance in Karnataka, Yash's previous film Mr & Mrs Ramachari is now being screened in various cities of the USA. It is also planned for release in Australia and Singapore next.
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