Devdas - new film of Upendra

Muniratna, Upendra and Kokila Sadhu during Devdas launch

Recent success of Raktha Kanneeru of Upendra inspired him and the film troupe to venture into one more big budget, high expectation film Devdas. Film was launched on Saturday under the banners of Vrushabhadri Productions of Munirathna. Devdas is based on well-known novel of Bengali writer Sharath Chandra. Kokila Sadhu is directing the film with music. This is not the first film based on this novel. Is already been filmed six times in Telugu, Bengali, whats more even in Hindi starring Sharuk Khan. Kannada version of Devdas will be the seventh film.

Upendra

Though the Hindi version of Sanjay Leela Bansali made big news in Indian film history, Upendra was impressed by Nageshwar Rao's performance in Telugu version. He wants to give new interpretation to this film through unique dialogue styles and acting. He wants to watch all related movies and read the novel so that he can excel and give much more than expected. His intension is to make justice to that wonderful novel. Devdas is purely based on making and performance. So the responsibility is on the shoulders of the hero and the director. Caution has to be taken in all aspects including costumes to choosing right heroine, as this will be compared with rest of the films done earlier in other languages. Cast selection is still on for apt people. Parvathi, Chandramukhi and Chunnilal are the lead characters apart from Devdas.

Like Raktha Kanneeru, even in Devdas, Upendra wants to give the punch through dialogues. Liquor, Shayiry and ghazals go together very well. So he refers to Pankaj Udhas. Uppi's Kokila Sadhu

creative juice is already gurgling and the finger twitching started. After film `A' Upendra once again acting in drunkard role here. His fans who liked 'A' may like this film too. Character of Devdas is not that of a sot. His is an immortal love. There is lots of scope for sentiment and emotional touchy performance. Memory of Hindi version of Devdas is still fresh in everyone's mind. So people will certainly expect similar or better movie from Uppi. But the film troupe is completely denying that they are not going to base this on Hindi version at all. However, the effectiveness of the film will be decided after its release on Sept. 18th, which happens to be Uppi's birthday too! We wish the troupe a very good luck.